FERRELL KICKS OFF COMIC-CON WITH ORANGE JUICE AND DOUGHNUTS
Funnyman WILL FERRELL opened this year’s (10) Comic-Con event in San Dieg o by bringing fans breakfast, dressed up as his cartoon character MEGAMIN D.
Donning blue face paint and a huge helmet, Ferrell took over the annual comic book exhibition in character.
But his gift of a box of doughnuts and a jug of orange juice clearly wa sn’t enough to go around.
He joked, "I didn’t think there would be so many of you." Ferrell’s Megamind co-stars Tina Fey and Jonah Hill joined him for the first-day press conference, but another castmate, Brad Pitt, was only the re in cardboard cut-out form.
The film’s director, Tom McGrath, joked that Pitt "had to watch the kid s" because his partner, Angelina Jolie, was also at Comic-Con.
Jolie, there to promote her new movie Salt, was the biggest draw of the opening day as thousands of film fans queued up for hours to see the sta r.
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