Creation Entertainment  Creation Entertainment is an American for-profit entertainment company located in Glendale, California, which produces fan conventions for fans of various films and television series, mainly in the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres. Creation Entertainment hosts about 20 conventions annually in various locations such as Chicago, Illinois; and Burbank, California. Creation was founded in 1971 by comic book fans Gary Berman and Adam Malin in New York City. Since then, it has organized over 2,300 conventions. Creation hosts the largest "Star Trek" convention in the world, which occurs annually during the summer in Las Vegas, Nevada; they previously produced Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors conventions. The company has the "official" convention rights for such properties as "Twilight", "Stargate SG-1", "Star Trek", and "". The company is also a licensee of merchandise for many genre television series, including "Star Trek", "The X-Files", "Xena", "Stargate SG-1", "Stargate Atlantis", "Lost" and "Supernatural", producing souvenir items such as T-shirts, hats, mugs, autographed items and calendars. Creation conventions consist of on-stage celebrity appearances, Q&A sessions, parties and cabaret performances featuring celebrities and charity auction breakfasts. Attendees may also purchase autographs and photo ops that allow fans to be photographed with celebrities. Creation collects additional money at their shows through limited-attendance functions not included in the ticket prices, including celebrity food functions, photo opportunities, and slower-paced autographing sessions. Over the years, hundreds of actors, directors, producers and writers have appeared at Creation Entertainment conventions to speak to and meet their fans. Comics guests who have appeared at Creation Conventions over the years include Stan Lee, Vaughn Bodé, Ralph Bakshi, Jenette Kahn, Michael Kaluta, Jeff Jones, Gil Kane, Steve Gerber, Nicola Cuti, Bob Smith, Alex Niño, Martin Pasko, Marv Wolfman, Jim Steranko, Howard Chaykin, Joe Staton, Jerry Iger, Len Wein, George Pérez, Frank Miller, John Byrne, Herb Trimpe, Gray Morrow, Bob Larkin, John Romita, Sr., John Romita, Jr., Gene Colan, Archie Goodwin, Rudy Nebres, Tom Yeates, Bob Wiacek, Terry Austin, Jim Shooter, and Chris Claremont. Media guests who have appeared at Creation Conventions over the years include Tom Savini, Robin Curtis, Frank Ashmore, Terrance Dicks, Lucy Lawless, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Lucas, Ron Howard, James Cameron, Vincent Price, Tim Conway, Carl Reiner, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Walter Koenig, James Doohan, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, David Prowse, Joe Dante, Nicholas Meyer, Patrick Stewart, William Gaines, Peter Jackson, Scott Bakula, Gillian Anderson, Chris Carter, Rob Zombie, Avery Brooks and Kate Mulgrew.