If you caught the first season of NBC’s “Hannibal” this year, you know the series is every bit as dark and brutal as Thomas Harris’ “Red Dragon,” the 1981 novel that introduced renowned psychiatrist and cannibalistic psychopath Hannibal Lecter , and on which the show is based on.

Executive producer Bryan Fuller (“Pushing Daisies,” “Dead Like Me”) and star Hugh Dancy, who plays tormented profiler Will Graham, were on hand at SDCC this past week, presenting among many treats an unexpected gag-reel.

Enjoy:

The daily music performer lineup has been announced for Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare, a haunted Halloween attraction and live concert event taking place Oct. 10-Nov. 2 at the Fairplex in Pomona, CA.

Performing at the haunt will be artists representing a variety of musical genres: hard rock/heavy metal, alternative-rock, electronic dance and Latin. Zombie will headline the event’s closing night with special guests Eagles of Death Metal and Powerman 5000, the metal outfit fronted by Zombie’s brother, Spider.

Peep the lineup:

Thursday, October 10: 3OH!3, Wallpaper

Friday, October 11: Blood On The Dance Floor, HeavyGrinder

Saturday, October 12: Kottonmouth Kings, Twiztid, Blaze Ya Dead Homie

Sunday, October 13: Ozomatli, with special guest

Thursday, October 17: The Used, William Control

Friday, October 18: DJ Bl3nd, DirtyLoud, One More Time (Daft Punk Tribute)

Saturday, October 19: The Vandals, TSOL, The Dickies, Duane Peters

Sunday, October 20: pro-wrestling sensations Lucha Libre USA, Metalachi

Thursday, October 24: Emilie Autumn with special guest

Friday, October 25: Doctor P, Zomboy, Terravita, Evol Intent

Saturday, October 26: Motionless In White, Butcher Babies, Ghost Town

Sunday, October 27: Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, with special guest

Thursday, October 31: Andrew W.K., Mod Sun, Beware Of Darkness

Friday, November 1: MAJOR EDM HEADLINER, Dirtyphonics, Fei-Fei

Saturday, November 2: Rob Zombie, Eagles Of Death Metal, Powerman 5000, 45 Grave

Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare will feature bloodcurdling mazes based on three of Zombie’s horror films: Lords Of Salem Total Black Out, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto 3D and Haunt Of 1,000 Corpses. The haunt will also include outdoor screenings of classic horror films, food and booze, DJ and Monster Midway.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit GreatAmericanNightmare.com.

Lionsgate premiered at SDCC today its first full-length trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The sequel finds Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) embarking on her “Victor’s Tour” after winning Panem’s 74th annual Hunger Games, and prepping for the Quarter Quell games which will pit her against past winners.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) and co-stars Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Jena Malone, Amanda Plummer and Elizabeth Banks.

Games begin Nov. 22.

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A 30-second clip showcasing Michelle Rodriguez as rebel leader Shé in Robert Rodriguez’s star-studded sequel Machete Kills has gone online. The footage finds Rodriguez talking tacos, shooting a massive weapon and getting jiggly in a tight vest and booty shorts.

Machete Kills finds ex-federale Machete (Danny Trejo) recruited by the U.S. government to take down Mexico’s biggest drug cartel leader (Demián Bichir). The Open Road and Quickdraw Productions’ film swings into theaters on Oct. 4.

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Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment announced today at SDCC that pre-production has begun on a new superhero movie that will bring DC icons Superman and Batman together onscreen for the first time. Man of Steel director Zack Snyder is attached to helm the project from a script by David S. Goyer.

DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson said:

Superman and Batman together on the big screen is a dream come true for DC fans everywhere. All of us at DC Entertainment could not be more excited for Zack’s continuing vision for the DC Universe.

The new film will have Man of Steel actors Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane reprising their roles. Batman will be played by Ben Affleck, steps in for Christian Bale, who played the Caped Crusader in Warner Bros. recent Dark Knight trilogy, but opted out of playing the role in future projects.

Zack Snyder said:

I’m so excited to begin working again with Henry Cavill in the world we created, and I can’t wait to expand the DC Universe in this next chapter. Let’s face it, it’s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world.

Production on the Superman/Batman film is slated to begin in 2014 for a summer 2015 release.

Picturehouse is set to release Metallica Through the Never in IMAX 3D on Sept. 27 and expand it into theaters everywhere on Oct. 4. A full-length trailer for the Nimród Antal-directed film—a mix of concert film and narrative feature—was debuted at SDCC .

Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) toplines the film as a Metallica roadie sent to recover a mysterious item for the band in the midst of a sold-out show. An automobile accident strands him on the city streets where a violent and massive riot has broken out. Making matters worse: a horseman is out to kill him.

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Universal Pictures premiered today at Comic-Con a new extended red band trailer for Kick Ass 2, the Jeff Wadlow-directed sequel to Matthew Vaughn’s 2010 original about misfit costumed crime fighters with no special powers.

Reprising their Kick Ass roles in the sequel are Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit Girl, Clark Duke as Marty/Battle Guy, Christopher Mintz-Plasse s Red Mist/Mother Fucker and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Kick Ass.

New faces include Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes, John Leguizamo (The Happening) as Javier, Donald Faison (“Scrubs”) as Dr. Gravity, Morris Chestnut (The Call) as Sergeant Marcus Williams, Russian bodybuilder Olga Kurkulina as Mother Russia and sexy redhead Lindy Booth (Wrong Turn) as Night Bitch.

I’m rooting for this sequel, but the extended trailer makes Vaughn’s absence behind the camera pretty notable.

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AMC has set an Oct. 13 premiere date for season four of its zombie drama “The Walking Dead.” A four-minute-plus trailer played Comic-Con this afternoon during the show’s panel which included “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman, showrunner Scott Gimple and cast members Andrew Lincoln (Rick), Norman Reedus (Daryl), Danai Gurrira (Michonne), Steven Yeun (Glenn), Lauren Cohan (Maggie) and more.

Kirkman described the new season:

The world is getting worse, the people are getting more ragged and it’s gonna keep progressing if you can believe it.

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Universal Pictures premiered today at Comic-Con the red band trailer for Vin Diesel’s Riddick, the third entry in the David Twohy directed sci-fi franchise that includes 2000’s Pitch Black and 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick.

In theaters Sept. 6, the new sequel finds Riddick teaming up with the mercenaries hunting him down on a desert planet to fight against its alien creatures. “Battlestar Galactica’s” Katee Sackhoff plays one of the Nordic mercs eager to catch Riddick.

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Action star and former MMA fighter Gina Carano is teaming up with “Avengelyne” creator Rob Liefeld to produce a film adaptation of the 1995 comic for Carano to topline as the fallen angel cast to battle demons on earth as punishment for questioning God’s love of humans and because he’s kind of a stinker that way.

According to THR, the project will be in the vein of Sony Screen Gems’ Underworld franchise, starring Kate Beckinsale. Carano and Liefeld are set to look for a writer or a writer-director next week.

Carano made her acting debut in Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded 2011 action-drama Haywire. She co-stars alongside Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez in this year’s Fast & Furious 6 and will next be seen in Turistas director John Stockwell’s island-terror thriller In the Blood.