If you missed the Comic-Con panel for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, you should know that it was everything you hoped it would be and more. Director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy presented an arsenal of geek goodness, including sneak peeks and cast appearances.

On hand were Resistance fighters John Boyega (Finn), Daisy Ridley (Rey), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron) and Dark Siders Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), Domhnall Gleeson (General Hux), and Gwendonline Christie (Captain Phasma). Special guests included Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, both of whom you’d expect to show up.

The big surprise was Harrison Ford, who spoke eloquently and just plain fucking cool when asked about returning to the Star Wars Saga.

Ford said:

It should have felt ridiculous. It was 30 years ago, and I sort of grew up! Here I was doing something that I did so long ago. But I can tell you that it felt great.

I wasn’t so sure it would, but the company was the right company. The director was the right director, Larry, you wrote us a wonderful story, and I was proud and grateful to once again be involved.

The original Star Wars that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life, and I was very, very grateful for the opportunity that I had in that film, and for the success of that film. So it’s great to be back.

The gang also brought with them a behind-the-scenes reel showcasing the film’s practical effects and mind-blowing sets. The clip also provides some amazing scene and character footage (flame-throwing stormtrooper anyone?) that will leave you grinning like the kid you still are!

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AMC has released the first full-length trailer for “Fear the Walking Dead,” its spinoff series to ratings juggernaut “The Walking Dead.” Written by “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman and showrunner Dave Erickson, the show is set in Los Angeles and serves as a prequel to the events of the “Walking Dead.”

The synopsis reads:

“Fear the Walking Dead” takes us back to the beginning of the zombie apocalypse – a time when the world was changing rapidly for reasons unknown, before anyone understood exactly what was happening, when life as everyone knew it was upended and altered in ways no one could have ever imagined.

“Fear the Walking Dead” premieres Aug. 23and it is gonna tear our face off!

Starz has released the first full-length trailer for its upcoming series “Ash Vs. Evil Dead.” The show is produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, reprising his role as antihero Ashley J. Williams. It premieres Oct. 31.

The trailer is insanely awesome, chockful of gore, freaky-looking beasts, ass-kicking, and Ash’s one-of-kind wit. It’s everything Evil Dead fans want.

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Campbell told Comic-Con:

We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for your incessant hounding. Nothing would please us more than to be able to bring this to you for years. This is not a fluff thing, this is not a hobby. They’re all taking it seriously.

“Ash Vs. Evil Dead” picks up 30-years after Ash’s last battle with the Deadites and finds the reluctant hero forced out of hiding to stop a new uprising he has inadvertently caused yet again.

Campbell said:

Ash in his prime was the wrong guy to save the world, now he’s 30 years older. I’m really worried for the world.

“Ash Vs. Evil Dead co-stars Lucy Lawless (“Spartacus”), Jill Marie Jones (”Sleepy Hollow”), Dana DeLorenzo (A Very Harold & Kumar #D Christmas), Mimi Rogers (The Rapture), and Ray Santiago (In Time).

Gramercy Pictures has released a red-band trailer for Blumhouse’s eagerly anticipated sequel Sinister 2, in theaters Aug. 21. Ciarán Foy (Citadel) directs from a script by original Sinister helmer Scott Derrickson and writing partner C. Robert Cargill.

Sinister 2 stars Shannyn Sossamon as a single mother of twin boys tormented by evil specter Bughuul. The trailer does a brilliant job of selling the film’s biggest strength: gruesome kills (did a gator just eat that guy). The kids, however, are as silly as ever. But, damn, if the murders aren’t enticing!

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Open Road has set an Aug. 4 DVD release date for SAW V director David Hackl’s Into the Grizzly Maze, previously titled Grizzly, Endangered and Red Machine.

The film stars Bob Thornton (”Fargo”), James Marsden (Straw Dogs), Thomas Jane (The Punisher), and stunners Piper Perabo (”Covert Affairs”) and Michaela McManus (”Vampire Diaries”).

Into the Grizzly Maze follows a deputy (Jane) as he searches for his missing wife (Perabo) in the Alaskan wilderness with the aid of his estranged brother (Marsden) and his girlfriend (McManus). Making matters more dire are the bloodthirsty bear stalking them and the wacko hunter (Thornton) trailing it.

Anchor Bay announced it has picked up distribution rights to Blumhouse and The Safran Company’s American remake of the controversial French psychological thriller, Martyrs. The company will release the film in theaters and VOD.

Released in 2008 to critical acclaim, Martyrs centers on Anna, a severely traumatized child abuse survivor abducted by a secret society convinced they can reach God by beating the living shit out of her for about an hour of the film’s duration.

The Goetz Brothers direct from a script by Vacancy scribe Mark L. Smith. “True Blood” alumna Bailey Noble (pictured) and “Pretty Little Liar” Troian Bellisario star.

If you’ve watched movies and TV shows about the apocalypse, you’ve probably thought two things: that kinda looks fun and you wouldn’t last a day. Deep down in your black and rotting heart, you know running around decaying and burning cities free to indulge in your darkest, most base desires sounds awesome.

BUT… you also know chances are more likely your leg will end up on someone’s looted Foreman’s grill, the main course for a roving band of cannibals. Yup… stick a fork in you; you’re done. The way we see it… the apocalypse would be a fun place to visit, not live.

Well, here’s your chance! Slipknot invites you to spend “13 Hours of the Apocalypse” at Knotfest, its annual heavy music festival. The event takes place Oct. 24 and 25 at the San Manuel Amphitheater and festival grounds in San Bernardino, CA.

Knotfest features 50 bands on five stages. Performers include metal gods Judas Priest and heavy-hitters Korn, Suicidal Tendencies, Body Count, Mastodon, Corrosion of Conformity, Trivium, Cannibal Corpse, The Sword, GWAR, Helmet and many more. Slipknot headline both nights with different sets.

Knotfest also includes carnival rides and attractions, including the Slipknot Museum, Massive Fire Hell Zone, Ring of Fire, Fighting Thunderdome, zipline, sideshow freak show and more. For complete festival details, visit the Knotfest website.

Early bird tickets go on sale Monday, June 29.

Dakota Fanning and Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”) have joined Guy Pearce in writer/director Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone. Fanning plays the film’s protagonist, a young woman running from her past and Pearce’s fearsome preacher. Harington portrays an outlaw who runs across her.

Principal photography on Brimstone has begun and shooting will take place in Romania, Spain and Germany. Fanning and Harington replace Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Robert Pattinson (Twilight Saga).

Fanning is coming off The Twilight Saga and has starred in notable thrillers Trapped, Hide and Seek, Push, Coraline, and War of the Worlds. Harington is coming off a devastating season of HBO’s brilliant and brutal “Game of Thrones.”

Your mother/daughter fantasies will run rampant when Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s new Fox anthology series “Scream Queens” premieres Sept. 22. “Angel” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” alumna Charisma Carpenter has been announced to play mom to tween pop music sensation Ariana Grande.

The horror-comedy runs 15 episodes and is set on a college campus plagued by a series of brutal murders on the 20th anniversary of a horrid event that befell a hopeful sorority pledge.

“Scream Queens” is toplined by iconic scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis and “American Horror Story” regular Emma Roberts. Co-stars include Lea Michele (”Glee”), Abigail Breslin (Maggie), Joe Manganiello (”True Blood”), and—this being a Ryan Murphy show—retards and celebrity cameos.

Ariana Grande plays Charisma's daughter!

Carpenter first broke hearts as high school teen-turned-vamp-killer Cordelia Chase on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and spinoff “Angel.” She went on to score roles on “Veronica Mars,” Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, and a string of indie horror culminating in this year’s Bound, a Fifty Shades of Grey inspired thriller from TheAsylum featuring a mind-blowing nude turn by Carpenter.

Grande is a Nickelodeon star. These days, she is best known for her terrible music.

MTV has released the first eight minutes of the pilot episode of its small screen adaptation of Wes Craven’s “Scream.” Former Disney star Bella Thorne (“Shake It Up”) steps in for Drew Barrymore and reenacts the slasher’s gruesome opening.

But… don’t expect any of the original’s humor. Forget the popcorn and the phone call and the movie trivia. This is by-the-numbers horror for today’s smart phone crowd. It’s not a total loss though. The new “Scream” mask looks menacing and Thorne’s tush is spectacular.

“Scream: The Series” premieres June 30.

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