Comic-Con 2011

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Just a two-hour drive from Los Angeles, the convention has become a major promotional date on Hollywood's calendar, as the studios push many of their biggest projects during the four-day event. A few days before the event kick off, workers, above, clad the Marriott Hotel in downtown San Diego with an ad for The Immortals, set for release in November.

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