A panel for director Quentin Tarantino‘s second film in the western genre, The Hateful Eight, was held at San Diego Comic-Con.

During the panel, seven minutes of footage that introduced the characters were shown to the audience. Descriptions of the characters and more information shared during the panel can be found below, along with a new poster for the movie.

People were lining up as early as late Wednesday/early Thursday for the Star Wars panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2015, which was held at 5:30PM PST Friday evening. This was pretty unbelievable, as it was already known that they wouldn’t be showing any new trailers for the movie. Then again, this is Star Wars we’re talking about here.

As it turns out, committing that much time to waiting in line was worth it for many. In addition to seeing the cast live and in person and being shown an excellent behind-the-scenes video focusing on the incredible practical effects being used in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams invited the entire 6,500-person audience to a special concert of Star Wars music by San Diego Symphony nearby at Embarcadero Marina.

Those who attended the concert were given a glowing lightsaber to wave around joyously during the concert, and it was all wrapped up with a fireworks display. You can see some videos of the event below.

As part of today’s Game of Thrones panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2015, a mash-up video was shown looking at some of the many times that HBO’s hit series based on George R.R. Martin‘s “A Song of Ice and Fire” book series has been referenced in pop culture.

The video includes GoT showing up in many different series and sitcoms and animated shows and talk shows and more such as Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Simpsons, South Park, Sesame Street, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, How I Met Your Mother, Supernatural, Pretty Little Liars, Onion News Network, Bunheads, Parks and Recreation, Family Guy, New Girl, and the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, as well as another visit to the Game of Thrones musical for Red Nose Day.

You can see the mash-up of all of these titles celebrating Game of Thrones below.

The first full day of the Hall H festivities started off with its biggest panel of the day for Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II. The film franchise comes to its end later this year, after having grossed over $1 billion at the box office worldwide. The studio has done some brilliant marketing in the past, which is expected to continue until its release.

But today is one of the biggest days to promote the movie, and moderator Conan O’Brien was on hand to talk to director Francis Lawrence, producer Nina Jacobson, and film stars Willow Shields, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, and Jennifer Lawrence about the final half of the final chapter of the series. More on the story below.

For those at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con who won’t be spending your entire experience at [waiting in line for] Hall H, there is the Exhibit Hall, aka, the convention floor. And the only real way to get a feel of the floor and hopes of getting some exclusive merchandise is to make one mad dash to Preview Night, which is held on the Wednesday evening before the full start of the convention.

We’re here at SDCC once again this year and we have over a hundred photos from Preview Night of some very cool and very exciting pieces that can only be seen in conventions like these. From the people who bring us those highly detailed figures (Star Wars, Marvel, and more) at HotToys to the superhero suits you will see in Warner Bros.’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, we’ve got what you want to see.

Check out our 2015 SDCC Preview Night Photo Gallery here below, and be sure to keep it here at Geeks Of Doom all week for our on-site coverage of SDCC 2015.