In The PR Mail Bag This Week

It must be Comic-Con again, because I’m drowning in PR releases. So much so that I’ll just collect them here in one post for multiple marketing delights and information.

• Carter Jenkins (from Surface) will star opposite Ashley Tisdale in “Aliens in the Attic (2009)” (Fox/July 31, 2009) which follows a group of teens as they defend their vacation home in Michigan from aliens.

• Legendary comic book creator Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, together with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, announced the release of an all new original digital motion comic series, Time Jumper, available exclusively on the iTunes store,  beginning July 24, 2009. Natasha Henstridge (Species, Eli Stone) is one of the voice talents. (Isn’t a digital motion comic a cartoon?!)

• Warehouse 13 will be coming to the UK Sci-Fi Channel in September (is it SyFy in the UK yet?)

• Ooops too late: The Science and Entertainment Exchange will be joined by Discover Magazine in hosting a Thursday, July 23 at 6 p.m. discussion on the science behind science fiction at this year’s Comic-Con. Included Fringe writers. Any reports?

• This week in the Barnes & Noble Studio (www.BN.com/Studio), astronaut Buzz Aldrin touches down to discuss his new memoir Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home From the Moon.

• Stars of AMC’s highly anticipated mini-series “The Prisoner,” including Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, Thin Red Line, Pay It Forward), Jamie Campbell-Bower (Sweeney Todd, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) and Lennie James (“Jericho”) descend on Comic-Con 2009 for a panel event and exclusive sneak preview of the highly anticipated six-part series. “The Prisoner” panel, scheduled for Friday, July 24 at 11:30am, also features “The Prisoner” writer Bill Gallagher (Conviction, Clocking Off) and AMC’s Vlad Wolynetz, vice president of production, and will be moderated by producer and directorRobert Meyer Burnett. “The Prisoner,” a re-imagination of the 1960s cult classic created by the late Patrick McGoohan, premieres this November on AMC. (Not highly anticipated by me, because the original is too awesome to be remade.)