A scene from 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs'

The mishmash of 3-D footage we just saw in the hour before the New Moon panel didn’t amount to much until a reel from The Final Destination put a bloody cap on the presentation. The filmmakers and some of the cast from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs came and went in a flash, with a 3-D trailer that finally drew my attention to the movie. Interestingly enough, Andy Samberg got a better reception than Anna Faris. Then *poof* and they were gone.

Joe Dante just premiered 2 different sequences from The Hole, which is still without a studio — I thought he make a distributor announcement here.   At first, the reaction was minimal until a 5-minute clip in 2-D elicited screams and laughs from the crowd. I think it looks like a potentially worthwhile examination of childhood fear.

But really this brief presentation was about The Final Destination, which might have shown too much before its August 28th release. All I remember from the barrage of carnage was a young man’s back being pressed and separated through a chain-link fence (very Ghost Ship), a stray racing car tire obliterating a young gal’s head (you’ve seen this teased in the trailer), as well as Nick Zano’s character’s vision of his death. I’m still waiting for more from that car-wash scene. This really could be better than Final Destination 2.