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Thursday’s San Diego Comic-Con kicked off with a presentation by DreamWorks Animation in the convention center’s hallowed Hall H.
Ferguson opened with a joke about how SDCC is the weekend all domestic cats dread as their owners dress up in weird costumes and leave them alone for the weekend. He also mentioned that he’s moderating the panel because he’s “frightened of Jeffrey Katzenberg” and of course due to his appearances in the How to Train Your Dragon films. He then introduced a trailer for the upcoming film Home.
First was the panel for Home with director Tim Johnson, and voice actor Jim Parsons (from The Big Bang Theory). Johnson mentioned that the film is still six months away from finishing and that he first began the project two and a half years ago upon reading the book the film’s based on, The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
How much would you be willing to pay for more Breaking Bad episodes? Any amount would sound reasonable at this point, but since the series has come to a close, it would seem futile to shell out money.
However, Jeffrey Katzenberg, head of DreamWorks Animation, was willing to pay up to $75 million for three more episodes of Breaking Bad. But that was before he knew how the series would come to an end.
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