The unofficial rivalry between the two darlings of Hollywood’s prestige independent film world — A24 and Neon — descended on this year’s Comic Con convention of all places where the two mini-majors held back-to-back press conferences on Thursday and Page Six Hollywood was on hand for both.

In packed back-to-back panels Neon touted its alien survival flick, “Hope,” from Korean director Na Hong-jin, while A24 brought its Adria Arjona-led horror thriller “Onslaught.”

The “Hope” panel brought an uncharacteristic reverence to the convention center — likely because the film has already received critical acclaim following its premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

Director Na took part in a thoughtful conversation about the movie, which stars Michael Fassbender and Jung Ho-yeon, before showing two lengthy clips featuring extraterrestrial monsters, a high-octane car chase and lots of gunfire. At the audience Q&A, Na took a moment to shout out Fassbender: “That dude and I drank every single night. It was hard to keep up!”

A24 took a showier (and rowdier) route, enlisting “Clerks” alum and SDCC mainstay Kevin Smith to moderate a lively celeb-packed panel including Arjona, Drew Starkey, Rebecca Hall, Dan Stevens and director Adam Wingard.

Smith posed the question: “How do you get a movie like this made today? Because it’s not a sequel; it’s not a continuation of somebody else’s IP. You got super soldiers, but no Marvel s—t like that. I was sitting there watching, going, ‘Holy s—t! I’m watching a rare thing.’”

This being Comic-Con, one query from the crowd was about the film’s “color grading process,” to which Smith replied, “Wow! Excellent f–king question.”

One brave audience member asked a tough question regarding A24’s recent announcement that it had accepted a $75 million investment from Google to use the tech giant’s AI tool Deep Mind. The question was directed at Wingard: “How do you feel about A24’s decision to use AI to storyboard?”

He kept his response brief: “Next question!”