{"id":392968,"date":"2026-07-10T04:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392968\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:27:12","slug":"apple-tv-bringing-silo-experience-panels-featuring-widows-bay-matchbox-the-movie-more-to-san-diego-comic-con-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392968\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV Bringing Silo Experience, Panels Featuring “Widow’s Bay”, “Matchbox: The Movie”, More to San Diego Comic-Con 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Apple TV is heading back to San Diego Comic-Con, as revealed by Deadline<\/a>.\u00a0 The streamer is bringing a two-hour showcase packed with stars, filmmakers, and first looks at some of its biggest upcoming films and series, while also expanding beyond the convention center with an immersive Silo experience and a special sneak preview screening of Dark Matter\u2018s second season.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s Hall H panel will spotlight Matchbox: The Movie, the Emmy-nominated series Widow\u2019s Bay, Dark Matter, the upcoming Ryan Reynolds spy thriller Mayday, and Silo. Happy Sad Confused host Josh Horowitz will moderate.<\/p>\n

Outside the convention center, fans can step inside The Silo Experience, a multi-sensory activation inspired by the hit dystopian drama. Running Friday, July 24 \u2013 Sunday, July 26 at The Lot @ 1st & J, the free experience promises to transport visitors into the underground world of the series.<\/p>\n

Dark Matter fans can also get an early look at what\u2019s next with a special screening of the Season 2 premiere on Friday night. Stars Joel Edgerton and Dayo Okeniyi will be joined by creator Blake Crouch, executive producer Matt Tolmach, and writer\/executive producer Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry for the presentation.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the full schedule:<\/p>\n

Friday, July 24 \u2013 Sunday, July 26
11:00 AM \u2013 7:00 PM*
The Silo Experience
The Lot @ 1st & J, 450 2nd Ave, San Diego
Free and open to all SDCC attendees and the public
*hours subject to change<\/p>\n

Friday, July 24
10:00PM \u2013 11:00PM
Special Sneak Preview of\u00a0Dark Matter\u00a0Season\u00a02 \u2013 Room 6DE
Guests include star and executive producer\u00a0Joel Edgerton; cast member\u00a0Dayo Okeniyi;\u00a0author of the novel, creator, and executive producer\u00a0Blake Crouch;\u00a0writer and EP\u00a0Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry;\u00a0and EP\u00a0Matt Tolmach.<\/p>\n

Saturday, July 25
2:00PM \u2013 4:00PM
Apple TV Hall H Panel\u00a0<\/p>\n

Matchbox The Movie
Panelists:\u00a0John Cena, Jessica Biel, Arturo Castro, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris
Inspired by the Mattel toys, the Skydance co-production follows a group of friends since childhood who have their lives upended when undercover CIA agent Sean (John Cena), their long-absent former leader, returns to their small town and unwittingly gets them embroiled in a frantic international pursuit to save the world.\u00a0Alongside Cena, the film stars Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson,Teyonah Parris, Arturo Castro,\u00a0Corey Stoll, Bill Camp, Danai Gurira, and Golshifteh Faranhani.\u00a0Sam Hargrave directed and EP\u2019ed off a scrip by David Coggeshall. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger produce for Skydance, alongside Robbie Brenner and Ynon Kreiz through Mattel Films as well as Jules Daly. Patrick Newall and Elizabeth Bassin serve as EPs.\u00a0Matchbox: The Movie\u00a0drives onto Apple TV on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n

Widow\u2019s Bay
Panelists to be announced
In \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay,\u201d something lurks beneath the surface. Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is desperate to revive his struggling community. There\u2019s no Wi-Fi, spotty cellular reception and he must contend with superstitious locals who believe their island is cursed. He wants these people to respect him. They don\u2019t. They think he is soft and cowardly. And he is. But Loftis is determined to build a better future for his teenage son and turn the island into a tourist destination. Miraculously, he succeeds: tourists are finally coming. Unfortunately, the locals were right. After decades of calm, the old stories that seemed too ludicrous to be true start happening again. Series stars Kate O\u2019Flynn, Stephen Root, Kingston Rumi Southwick, Kevin Carroll and Dale Dickey. The supporting cast includes K Callan and Emmy Award-winner Jeff Hiller.\u00a0Katie Dippold created and showruns. Hiro Murai executive produces through his banner Chum Films alongside Carver Karaszewski, Claudia Shin and Rhys. Murai directed five episodes in the first season, with the other episodes in the season directed by Ti West, Sam Donovan and Andrew DeYoung. Season one is currently streaming on Apple TV.<\/p>\n

Dark Matter
Panelists\u00a0Blake Crouch, Matt Tolmach, Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Dayo Okeniyi\u00a0Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. In season one, the\u00a0series followed Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who \u2014 one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago \u2014 is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. Season two picks up with the Dessens as they settle into a quiet life in a world that finally seems safe until the unimaginable forces them to run once again. As Jason\u2019s obsession with the Box deepens, Daniela\u2019s (Jennifer Connelly) growing paranoia pushes her to the brink, threatening to tear their fragile stability apart. Elsewhere, Amanda (Alice Braga) and Ryan (Jimmi Simpson) join forces in a desperate attempt to find their way home. With Blair (Amanda Brugel) determined to stop him, while Leighton (Dayo Okeniyi) relentlessly chases his grand vision of creating a perfect world.<\/p>\n

Serie is produced for Apple TV by Sony Pictures TV. Crouch serves as creator, EP, showrunner and writer alongside executive producers Matt Tolmach, Richard Lederer, and Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry, who co-wrote every episode of season two with Crouch. In addition to starring, Edgerton and Connelly are EPs. Season 2 launches on August. 28 with its first episode with new episodes dropping weekly through Oct. 30.<\/p>\n

Mayday
Panelists: John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein.
Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh star in this spy thriller about a hotshot U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy \u201cAssassin\u201d Kelly (Reynolds) who is sent on a top-secret mission into Russian territory at the height of the Cold War. The operation implodes, leaving him stranded behind enemy lines. Discovered by Nikolai Ustinov (Branagh), a gruff ex-KGB agent with a penchant for American culture, Troy thinks he\u2019s toast until the two form an unlikely alliance. The cast also includes Marcin Dorocinski, Maria Bakalova, David Morse and more.\u00a0Apple Original Films and Skydance Media are producing. Pic is directed, written and produced by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Ellison, Goldberg and Granger produce for Skydance, alongside Maximum Effort\u2019s Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau. Reynolds and George Dewey, through Maximum Effort, along with John G. Scotti, serve as EPs. The movie lands on Apple TV on Sept. 4<\/p>\n

Silo
Panelists: Graham Yost, Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Tim Robbins, Ashley Zukerman, Jessica Henwick, Alexandria Riley.<\/p>\n

Season 3 reveals an origin story set centuries earlier, while continuing the saga of a dystopian society of 10,000 people living underground under mysterious circumstances. In the present, Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) survives her forced \u201ccleaning\u201d but returns with memory loss as the silo recovers from rebellion and faces a dangerous new threat. Meanwhile, in the \u201cBefore Times,\u201d journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) uncover a conspiracy that pulls them into a chain of events with catastrophic, irreversible consequences.\u00a0The cast also includes Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Alexandria Riley, Shane McRae, Remmie Milner, Rick Gomez, Billy Postlethwaite, and Clare Perkins. Season 3 additions alongside Zukerman and Henwick, are Laura Innes, Jessica Brown Findlay, Morven Christie, Reed Birney, and Matt Craven, with Colin Hanks set to recur, and Steve Zahn also set to return. Series is is produced by Apple Studios, EP\u2019s by Yost, Michael Dinner, Nina Jack, Joanna Thapa, Ferguson, Morten Tyldum, Howey, Amber Templemore, Fred Golan, R\u00e9mi Aubuchon and AMC Studios. Season 3 launched on July 3 with weekly episodes occurring through Friday, September 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV is heading back to San Diego Comic-Con, as revealed by Deadline.\u00a0 The streamer is bringing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[100,157346,157341,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-392968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-news","tag-offsite","tag-panels","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}