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In addition to the Rooster Fighter reveal, Viz Media's San Diego Comic-Con panel brought with it a new project that has the publisher teaming up with Shogakukan, Tsuburaya Productions and Marvel Comics. The new collab is Ultraman: Along Came a Spider , which sees Ultraman and Spider-Man teaming up for the first time. Shinji Oishi has the original story credit, Shigenobu Matsumoto is writing and Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris manga illustrator Tomo Hirokawa is handling the art. Ultraman: Along Came a Spider will kick off its serialization on August 14—both in comic shops and simultaneous with Japan via Viz Media's digital service Viz Manga—which is the same day the previously-announced Ultraman x Avengers series drops. You can see art for both below. Related: Rooster Fighter Anime Officially Announced Ultraman x Avengers is a four-issue mini-series with Kyle Higgins ( The Rise of Ultraman ) and Mat Groom ( The Trials of Ultraman ) writing.

Don’t Breathe and Blood Father to close genre fest; world premiere of the late Pascal Chaumeil’s last film; Brandon Cronenberg project in works-in-progress strand; genre Vr panel set.

The Fantasia International Film Festival’s (July 14 - August 3) 20th edition will close with Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe and Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, starring Mel Gibson.

In Don’t Breathe, three friends break into the house of a wealthy blind man with unexpected consequences.

The film is produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, along with Alvarez. Sony Pictures will release in North America in late August, 2016.

Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father will make its North American premiere as part of the festival’s closing night events and as the official closing film of the Action! Section.

The thriller, which first premiered at Cannes in May, stars Mel Gibson as an ex-con who reunites with his estranged 16-year old daughter to protect her from...