(This article was written by Screen Rant guest contributor Ryan Connors).

As the crowd thinned out after the Kick-Ass panel (which really did kick-ass), only a few hundred hard-core fans remained for acclaimed Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s first Comic-Con appearance, promoting his vampire-romance Thirst.

Korean director Chan-wook Park’s latest film entitled Thirst has finally been given a U.S. release date by Focus Features, the studio which owns the U.S. distribution rights. The vampire horror-drama will open on July 31st, 2009, starting off its U.S. screenings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, before moving onto a wider release.