• Pulling out all the stops at the San Diego Comic-Con, Warner Bros. on Saturday rolled out stars and new footage from films including Aquaman and Wonder Woman 1984, which is less than a month into production. Jason Momoa, who stars as Aquaman, seemed to be as excited as those in the 6,500-seat audience, if not more so. "My heart is big and open," he said. "I'm really, really happy." Director James Wan introduced new footage in two trailers from the origin story, which hits theaters in December. "I wanted to create a superhero film that we've never quite seen before. I wanted our film to be more unique," Wan said. "My movie plays more like a science fiction fantasy film than a traditional superhero movie." Wonder Woman 1984 star Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins took a break from their Washington, D.C., shoot, which has 20 weeks of filming left to go, to tease brief footage from the highly anticipated follow-up to the groundbreaking superhero film. Jenkins also explained why she set the movie in the 1980s. "It was mankind at its best and worst," Jenkins said. "We see Wonder Woman in a period of time that is us at our most extreme. ... We thought it could go on forever, everything we were doing right then."
• Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Saturday evening was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space education foundation was a sponsor. Aldrin's absence from the Apollo Celebration Gala in Cape Canaveral, Fla., comes just a month after he sued two of his adult children and a former business manager, accusing them of misusing his credit cards, transferring money from an account and slandering him by saying he has dementia. Weeks before the lawsuit, Andrew and Jan Aldrin filed a petition claiming their 88-year-old father was suffering from memory loss, delusions, paranoia and confusion. In a statement Saturday, Aldrin alluded to the legal fight in explaining why he was not attending the gala. "While initially looking forward to it, due to the present course of events related to my space initiatives, also current legal matters linked to the ShareSpace Foundation, I have decided to not attend at this time," he said. Andrew and Jan Aldrin, as well as business manager Christina Korp, are on the foundation's board and attended the gala. Aldrin's oldest son, James, isn't involved in the legal fight. Buzz Aldrin, along with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, was part of the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon on July 20, 1969.
A Section on 07/23/2018