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- Lucca Comics and Games will host its 60th edition Oct. 28–Nov. 1 in the Tuscan town of Lucca, drawing more than 200,000 fans a day within its medieval ramparts.
- Lucca has set an all-time record for studio and streamer investment this year, with highlights including a sneak peek of Season 3 of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians."
- Kore-eda Hirokazu will travel to Lucca to discuss his adaptation of Fujimoto Tatsuki's manga "Look Back," which blends live-action realism with the manga creative process.
- Warner Bros. will stage an immersive "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" pavilion while Lucca also hosts a fan screening of "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping," based on Suzanne Collins' 2025 novel.
- CD Projekt Red will showcase "Cyberpunk 2077," the "Cyberpunk Edgerunners" animation, and "The Witcher" alongside its latest DLC, with "Alien: Isolation 2" creators and Square Enix's Yoshinori Kitase also confirmed.
- The 60th-anniversary "Lucca Legacy: A Comics and Games Story" exhibition in the 14th century Palazzo Guinigi will showcase archival work by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Lee Falk from the 1970s American comics wave that found a home in Lucca.
- Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman Animations, will be honored on Lucca's Walk of Fame ahead of the Italian premiere of "Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom."
Why it matters: Lucca has secured an all-time record of studio and streamer investment while hosting Riordan, Collins, Rowling, Kore-eda, CD Projekt Red, and Square Enix in a single five-day window — a guest list that signals Hollywood and major gaming publishers now treat the 60-year-old Tuscan festival as a priority European stop rather than a niche genre convention.
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