We’ve heard rumblings the last couple of weeks about a Guardians of the Galaxy movie as one of the next movies coming from Marvel Studios, but Saturday’s Marvel Studios panel at SDCC gave us an official confirmation.

The film will be released August 1st, 2014 and will feature the newest incarnation of the group. The team featured in the movie will be Starlord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Drax the Destroyer, and Gamorra.

You can see the very first image from Guardians of the Galaxy, a bit of concept art showing off the team (remember, this was just recently confirmed), above or below now.

The Warner Brothers/Legendary Pictures panel at SDCC featured a whole bunch of movies and news, and the first movies up was the new film from Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim. The panel was extra special right from the start, when the curtains pulled back for a couple of extra screens.

The extra screens in Hall H showed a lot of behind the scenes action from the film’s production. The film is described as a “Giant Robot versus Giant Monster” film, and totally lives up to that description. This is a sci-fi epic that is going to get people excited once they see some footage.

Just another surprise came during Marvel’s Iron Man 3 panel in Hall H today at the San Diego Comic-Con. Edgar Wright, director of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz, showed up at the panel to show off test footage that he had just completed for Ant-Man.

Wright has long been rumored to be working on an Ant-Man movie, just recently revealing that he was shooting a test reel, and that is just the project that he had to show off.

Continue reading for a description of the footage.

At the beginning of the Iron Man 3 panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2012, Marvel president Kevin Feige revealed the official titles, release dates, and logos for some of the Marvel Studios’ upcoming titles.

Feige revealed that the titles and release dates for Thor 2 and Captain America 2 would be Thor: The Dark World, arriving in theaters on November 8, 2013, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which will be released on April 4, 2014. [Update – see title cards here below.]

Director Peter Jackson revolutionized fantasy cinema with his epic adaptation of J. R.R. Tolkien‘s Lord of the Rings trilogy, a monumental task, in spite of the author’s insistence that it could never be filmed. Given the phenomenal success with which Jackson pulled that off, how well would he tackle Tolkien’s earlier saga of Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit? San Diego Comic-Con Hall H fans found out earlier today with the panel for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Moderator Chris Hardwick(The Nerdist podcast) kicked off the Warner Brothers/Legendary Pictures panel with a surprise, by pulling open curtains across the back of the hall to unveil projection screens double standard size, larger than I’d ever seen in Hall H history. Over these screens they displayed a collage of images from the film, which gave fans a hint to the epic scale of the panel to follow. Then, they screened a behind-the-scenes reel of footage documenting the exhaustive 266-day production shoot, including some of the amazing epic sets and characters of Tolkien’s Middle Earth.