'Avengers' Star Jeremy Renner To Attend Wizard World Comic Con Chicago August 23
Two-time
Academy Award® Nominee, Star of ‘The Hurt Locker,’ ‘The Bourne Legacy’
to Appear at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
ROSEMONT, Ill., June 18, 2015 – Two-time Academy Award® nominee
Jeremy Renner will make his Wizard World Comic Con debut in Chicago on Sunday, August 23. The star of blockbusters The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Hurt Locker, The Bourne Legacy
and
others, Renner will greet fans, sign autographs, pose for photo ops and
conduct an interactive fan Q&A panel in Wizard World's largest and
longest-running show.
In July, Renner will reprise his role as “William Brandt” in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. He is currently filming
Captain America: Civil War, after playing Clint Barton/Hawkeye in last month's release of second installment of The Avengers: Age of Ultron
.
His Academy Award® nominations have come as Best Actor for The Hurt Locker in 2008 and Best Supporting Actor for his role in
The Town two years later.
Renner joins an all-star celebrity lineup at Wizard World’s largest and longest-running show, August 20-23, which also includes Norman Reedus (“The Walking Dead,”
Boondock Saints), Nathan Fillion
(Serenity, “Castle”), Stephen Amell
(“Arrow”), Billie Piper (“Doctor Who”),
Burt Reynolds (Deliverance,
Boogie Nights), David Morrissey (“The Walking Dead,” “The Reaping”),
Ben McKenzie, (“Gotham,” “The O.C.”), Bruce Campbell
(The Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”) and WWE® Superstar
Undertaker®, Randy Orton®,
Sting™, Daniel Bryan® and Diva
Paige™and dozens of others.
Wizard
World Comic Con events bring together thousands of fans of all ages to
celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels,
cosplay, comics, television, sci-fi, toys, video gaming, gaming,
original art, collectibles, contests and more. The 15th of 26 events
currently scheduled on the 2015 Wizard World calendar, Chicago show
hours are Thursday, August 20, 3-8 p.m.; Friday, August 21, 12-7 p.m.;
Saturday, August 22, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, August 22, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wizard
World Comic Con Chicago, the Midwest’s largest pop culture convention,
is also the place for cosplay, with fans young and old showing off
their best costumes throughout the event. Fans dressed as every
imaginable character – and some never before dreamed – will roam the
convention floor and participate in the famed Wizard World Costume
Contest on Saturday night.
About Wizard World (OTCBB: WIZD)
Wizard World, Inc. (http://www.wizardworld.com
) produces Comic Cons and pop culture conventions across North America
that celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, television,
cosplay, comics, graphic novels, toys, video gaming, sci-fi, gaming,
original art, collectibles, contests and more. A first-class lineup of
topical programming takes place at each event, with celebrity Q&A's,
comics-themed sessions, costume contests, movie screenings, evening
parties and more. Wizard World has also launched CONtv, a digital media
channel in partnership with leading independent content distributor
Cinedigm™ (NASDAQ: CIDM), and ComicConBox™, a premium subscription-based
monthly box service. Fans can interact with Wizard World on Facebook,
Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and other social media services.
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