Judge Rules in Favor of Fox in Watchmen Suit December 27, 2008 1:01 am
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Bad news for Warner Bros. In a surprise, and early, ruling, Los Angeles court judge Gary A. Feess has ruled that because 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to the graphic novel in the late ’80s before shevling a planned film, they own a copyright interest in the Watchmen film and have the right to distribute the film themselves. Feess suggested that the studios work on a settlement or an appeal rather than going to trial.
Read more on this at New York Times.
Watchmen is currently scheduled to hit theaters on March 6, 2009, but this new development could certainly complicate things.
First 22 Minutes of Watchmen Seen + Court Trial Pushed Back December 17, 2008 3:49 pm
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Devin Faraci of CHUD got the opportunity to watch the first 22 minutes of Warner Bros.’ Watchmen over the weekend at Butt-Numb-A-Thon in Austin. Here’s what he had to say about the clip:
It will look and feel like a real movie.
That’s a weird thing to say, but there are lots of people out there who, having only seen the trailers released to the public, are jumping to the conclusion that Zack Snyder has made a Watchmen filled with speed ramping and flashy money shots. From what I’ve seen this isn’t even remotely true at all. The footage is stylish – well shot, with rich visuals and dynamic compositions – but it looked more like a modern take on a noir film than anything else. What I saw was moody, sometimes muted. Snyder allows his takes to be long, eschewing a quick cut style that many seem to think would rule the day in this film. The 22 minutes I saw didn’t feel like an action film at all.
Meanwhile, Variety is reporting that Los Angeles federal judge Gary Allen Feess has pushed back the Watchmen court trial two weeks to January 20, 2009.
Watchmen Comic-Con Footage Released Online December 9, 2008 8:14 pm
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Warner Bros.’ has released the Watchmen footage that was previewed at Comic-Con online. You can watch the clip–for free- on iTunes by clicking this link.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
Watchmen Video Journal #9 December 9, 2008 7:00 pm
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Warner Bros. has released a ninth video journal for Zack Snyder’s upcoming adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel Watchmen. Watch it embedded below.
You can watch the video in high-definition at Warner Bros.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
Watchmen Runtime Shortened December 3, 2008 9:21 pm
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Zack and Deborah Snyder, the husband and wife directing/producing team behind the film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen, told SCI FI Wire that the film’s final length hasn’t been approved yet, but it is getting shorter:
“We’re getting really close,” producer Deborah Snyder said in a telephone interview on Nov. 18. “We’re at two hours and 35 minutes.” Zack Snyder added: “The movie’s pretty long … compared to 300, which was an hour and 58 minutes. The director’s cut [of Watchmen] is about three hours and 10 minutes long. It has even more than the theatrical version, as far as the detail that gets even closer to the graphic novel.”
Snyder still plans to edit the Black Freighter material directly into Watchmen for a DVD (and likely Blu-ray) release:
“The Black Freighter version of the movie that we’re working on–which has the ins and outs of the Black Freighter comic book woven through it, with an animated version of the Black Freighter–will be about three hours and 40 minutes,” Zack said. “So there’s a huge epic version of Watchmen, which will probably come out after the movie’s theatrical release, for hardcore [fans].”
Click here to read more.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
New Watchmen Trailer Released November 13, 2008 7:56 pm
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The second theatrical trailer for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen has been released. Watch it below, or you can watch it in high definition via Yahoo! Movies.
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Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
Watchmen Trailer Online This Evening (Thursday, November 13th) November 13, 2008 6:07 pm
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A new trailer for Watchmen will debut online this Thursday, November 13th at 8pm ET on Yahoo! Movies. This is the same trailer, by the way, that will be attached to prints of Quantum of Solace this Friday.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
Watchmen Character Posters November 12, 2008 3:54 pm
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Warner Bros has released a new batch of character posters for Watchmen. As always, click to enlarge.
Source: Warner Bros
New Watchmen Poster November 11, 2008 2:31 pm
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Yahoo! Movies has premiered a new movie poster for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. As always, click to enlarge.
Synopsis
300’s Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ critically acclaimed comic book Watchmen to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film’s world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country’s last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). His investigation leads him to caution many of his other former costumed colleagues, including Dr. Manhattan, Night Owl (Patrick Wilson), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino), and her daughter, The Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman). Heralded for bringing the world of superheroes into the literary world, Watchmen gave the super-powered mythos a real-life grounding that had been missing in mainstream comics to that point. The film adaptation had languished in one form of development hell or another for years after the book’s release, with various directors on and off the project, including Terry Gilliam, David Hayter, and Darren Aronofsky, as well as Paul Greengrass, whose eventual dismissal stemmed from budget conflicts with the studio.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
New Watchmen Featurette November 11, 2008 2:26 pm
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There’s a new Watchmen featurette out titled “Girls Kick Ass” which takes a look at two girls from the film: Malin Akerman (Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Spectre II) and Carla Gugino (Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre). Watch the video below.
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Source: Myspace
Watchmen, Friday the 13th and Twilight Footage from SCREAM 2008 October 27, 2008 12:24 am
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The following footage was shown during last week’s SCREAM 2008 Awards on Spike TV. Watchmen was definitley the highlight. Man, I can’t wait for that film!
Watchmen (3/6/2009)
Friday the 13th (2/13/2009)
Twilight (11/21/2008)
“Watchmen” Ending Changed + New Poster October 26, 2008 10:35 pm
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Fans who got a chance to see the Watchmen test screening last week are starting to let loose with their thoughts (read some here), and while most of the buzz is high, some are a little concerned over how Zack Snyder’s ending varies from the one in the graphic novel. It is indeed true, and Kevin Smith, who has seen the film twice, confirmed it in an interview with Collider:
“It’s a little different. While it is a slight departure, it actually makes sense in the context of the story because it brings the characters back into it. It kind of makes the movie more about them by the end of it because of the switch they made. I would never say that Alan Moore fucked it up or something. I love the ending of the Watchmen comic book, but I think this ending works just as well.”
Meh, doesn’t sound like such a big deal. Directors/writers/whatever tend to like to changes things, make them their own, if you will. As long as the film turns out good, I have no problem with Snyder changing things up a bit.
Warner Bros. also released a new poster, which I’ve included below. Click to enlarge.
Source: Collider
SET “Watchmen” Covers September 1, 2008 11:46 pm
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Watchmen was featured on the magazine SET. Check out the four covers below.
Synopsis
300’s Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ critically acclaimed comic book Watchmen to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film’s world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country’s last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). His investigation leads him to caution many of his other former costumed colleagues, including Dr. Manhattan, Night Owl (Patrick Wilson), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino), and her daughter, The Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman). Heralded for bringing the world of superheroes into the literary world, Watchmen gave the super-powered mythos a real-life grounding that had been missing in mainstream comics to that point. The film adaptation had languished in one form of development hell or another for years after the book’s release, with various directors on and off the project, including Terry Gilliam, David Hayter, and Darren Aronofsky, as well as Paul Greengrass, whose eventual dismissal stemmed from budget conflicts with the studio.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
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Source: blogdosadovski
Kevin Smith: “Watchmen” is ‘F**king Astounding’ August 19, 2008 6:31 pm
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Kevin Smith (Zack and Miri Make A Porno) really likes Watchmen. The writer/director was recently given a private screening of the Zack Snyder film, based on the popular graphic novel, and wrote the following on his MySpace page:
“I saw Watchmen. It’s fucking astounding. The Non-Disclosure Agreement I signed prevents me from saying much, but I can spout the following with complete joygasmic enthusiasm: Snyder and Co. have pulled it off. Remember that feeling of watching Sin City on the big screen and being blown away by what a faithful translation of the source material it was, in terms of both content and visuals? Triple that, and you’ll come close to watching Watchmen. Even Alan Moore might be surprised at how close the movie is to the book. March can’t come soon enough.”
Synopsis
300’s Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ critically acclaimed comic book Watchmen to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film’s world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country’s last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). His investigation leads him to caution many of his other former costumed colleagues, including Dr. Manhattan, Night Owl (Patrick Wilson), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino), and her daughter, The Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman). Heralded for bringing the world of superheroes into the literary world, Watchmen gave the super-powered mythos a real-life grounding that had been missing in mainstream comics to that point. The film adaptation had languished in one form of development hell or another for years after the book’s release, with various directors on and off the project, including Terry Gilliam, David Hayter, and Darren Aronofsky, as well as Paul Greengrass, whose eventual dismissal stemmed from budget conflicts with the studio.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
“Watchmen” High-Res Posters + Photos August 1, 2008 12:14 pm
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Warner Bros. has released high-res versions of the character posters released at Comic-Con
Also, the movie’s featured on the cover of Empire Magazine (two covers, as pictured on the right) and within the latest issue are four new photos that I’ve also included. Check it all out after the jump.
Comic-Con 2008: Eight “Watchmen” Character Posters July 28, 2008 2:20 pm
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Warner Bros. released eight new character posters for Watchmen at Comic-Con. Check them out below. For higher resolution images head over to Omelete.
Comic-Con 2008: More On “Watchmen” and Zack Snyder July 26, 2008 1:20 pm
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Here are a few more details on the Watchmen film relayed via the various panels going on at Comic-Con.
- At the panel for Watchmen, Snyder expressed his love of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel and said this: “There are a lot of other graphic novels out there, but I would love to see Frank Miller’s Dark Knight made into a movie, but that’s just me.”
- He continued that line of thought while at the Entertainment Weekly Visionaries panel, where Frank Miller told Snyder: “You can do it anytime you want to Zack”. Snyder said he was making a note of Miller’s response.
Here’s a bit on the length/editing issue:
- Speaking at the Entertainment Weekly Visionaries session, Zack Snyder revealed that they’ve filmed the transitions featured in the graphic novel that take the main storyline into the Freighter comic and that though they won’t be part of the theatrical cut, they’ll show up in a future director’s cut (presumably on DVD).
- When asked about the running time debate, Snyder said the following: “I want to make the best movie I can. I want to put pressure on myself as a filmmaker and say, ‘What’s the coolest movie?’ And if the coolest movie is 3-hours long then that’s the coolest movie. I understand and respect my partners at Warner Bros. I want them to have financial success with the film. You know, when you look at it that way, they invested a lot of money into it, they want it to be good. But on the other hand, I would tell them that I think the very things they think are too long, or too violent, or too sexy are the very reasons to go to the movie.”
- Snyder also noted that since the film’s release, the graphic novel has moved up on the Amazon charts: “[The graphic novel] is #1 or #2 on Amazon right now, and that’s awesome. I think that if in the end the movie is a 3-hour advertisement for the book, then so be it. I succeeded.”
Rounding out the Watchmen coverage, Snyder responded to a question about the recently announced Watchmen videogames, assuring the audience that care will go in to making them:
We had quite a back and fourth about that. They sent me a script for it. This is the dorkiest thing I’ve ever seen in my life, and it’s not cool at all. And it had nothing to do with Watchmen. We tried to rewrite it. We tried to come up with an idea where you like kill Woodward and Bernstein. We tried to go down those kind of routes and do something more subversive. A dialogue needs to be established between filmmakers and game producers. It’s not marketing; it can’t be an afterthought.
Comic-Con 2008: “Watchmen” Panel July 25, 2008 10:33 pm
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Warner Bros. panel for Watchmen was moderated by Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly. In attendance were Malin Ackerman (Silk Spectre), , Billy Crudup (Dr. Manhattan), Matthew Goode (Ozymandias), Carla Gugino (Sally Jupiter), Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Comedian), Patrick Wilson (Night Owl). Co-creator of the graphic novel Dave Gibbons was also in attendance as was director Zack Snyder. Here are the panel highlights courtesy. Here are the panel highlights courtesy SuperHeroHype.com:
- Before the panel starts, SHH notes that they were told by Carla Gugino that Zack Snyder created a special title sequence for the start of the movie that’s not in the original Moore-Gibbons graphic novel. It was created to show the passage of time fromthe early days of the Minutemen to where they are in the film.
- Snyder recapped how the project came to be. He was contacted by WB. He felt that if he didn’t say yes, the project would ahve been done poorly by someone else.
- He says the cast and crew have all remained as consistent to the book and characters as possible.
- Gibbons talked about being on the set and was excited: It was like “being a kid at Christmas”.
- Asked about Alan Moore (who is notoriously against any of his material being translated to the big screen), Gibons said: “I wish that Alan could have the same sort of excitement and experience that I have.”
They screened a few clips, here are SHH’s summary of what was shown:
Okay, no full frontal nudity, but it starts with Manhattan blowing up guys in Vietnam as promised, really blowing them up into atoms. That’s followed by an image of the Comedian’s smiley face with a drop of blood splattered on it like the classic image from the comics. We see Rorschach walking into a room, which is the Comedian’s lair and we get to see the first images of the ink on his mask changing shapes. Next image is of Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg (aka Night Owl but out of costume) sitting down with a lot of angst on his face (probably after finding out about the first deaths?) There is a scene with the Minutemen from the ’50s with the Comedian and Sally Jupiter in their early guises.
We see the formation of the palace on Mars which looks pretty amazing since it’s extended from the trailer, as well as an image of a watch as we see the early stages of Dr. Manhattan’s transformation. Another shot of the modern Silk Spectre unveiling the Owl Ship, pulling the covering from it. Lots more images of clocks and watches and more of Dr. Manhattan’s transformation, again from the trailer.
The next image was really cool, showing Nite Owl and Silk Spectre kissing from the dream sequence with the nuclear mushroom in the background… very cool, as well as a shot of President Nixon, The Comedian being slashed by his Vietnamese girlfriend/wife. A little bit of Matthew Goode’s Ozymandias, and some of Silk Spectre and Night Owl fighting crime. At this point, there are a lot of images that went by very fast, but essentially, it’s all stuff that’s in the comics with little bits of each of the characters. Rorshach looks very cool, though we never see him unmasked. There was no actual dialogue or narration in the clip reel as well as no titles, just some great scoring presumably by Tyler Bates and it all ends with the sequence of the Comedian being thrown out the window with the blood-splattered smiley face button following him, which looks amazing, just like the graphic novel. It looks great and hopefully they’ll shot it again!! (We love Zack for doing that for 300 a couple years ago.
Back to panel highlights:
- Asked about whether the movie will be as dark as the book, Snyder said that is a reflection on “all of us” and that the movie is about “what is darkness?”.
- Snyder said that they tried to incorporate all the supplemental material with no images into the movie.
- Here’s what Jeffrey Dean Morgan had to say about playing the Comdian:”There were days that I got home from work and I’d be in a daze. He does some particular things that I wouldn’t naturally do as a person, but like Dan’s character, we all pull for the Comedian.” (big laugh) “Every day was a challenge. I found getting into the costume and putting a cigar in my mouth helped get me into the mood to kill people.”
- The Smashing Pumpkins song used over the clip reel was chosen because tonally it made sense but also that it had irony. It doesn’t think it’ll be included the movie’s soundtrack though.
ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype.com also had a chance to talk to several of the cast and crew from the film and have provided the interviews for download. I’ve included the direct links below.
Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino & Malin Akerman
Jackie Earle Haley & Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Click here for another report from the panel (via /Film).
New “Watchmen”, “Harry Potter 6” and “Terminator Salvation” Photos July 18, 2008 7:39 pm
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Warner Bros. has released a batch of photos from Watchmen, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Terminator Salvation. The photos were all featured in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. Check out the photos after the jump.
“Watchmen” Teaser Trailer Released July 18, 2008 4:02 pm
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The movie trailer for Zack Snyder’s upcoming adaptation of Alan Moore’s 1980’s graphic novel series, Watchmen, has been released. The trailer was also attached to The Dark Knight. Check out the trailer after the jump.
Synopsis
300’s Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ critically acclaimed comic book Watchmen to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film’s world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have long been made to hang up their tights thanks to the government-sponsored Keene Act, but that all changes with the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a robust ex-hero commando whose mysterious free fall out a window perks the interest of one of the country’s last remaining vigilantes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). His investigation leads him to caution many of his other former costumed colleagues, including Dr. Manhattan, Night Owl (Patrick Wilson), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino), and her daughter, The Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman). Heralded for bringing the world of superheroes into the literary world, Watchmen gave the super-powered mythos a real-life grounding that had been missing in mainstream comics to that point. The film adaptation had languished in one form of development hell or another for years after the book’s release, with various directors on and off the project, including Terry Gilliam, David Hayter, and Darren Aronofsky, as well as Paul Greengrass, whose eventual dismissal stemmed from budget conflicts with the studio.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
Movie Posters: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dragonball, G.I. Joe, The Clone Wars, ‘Harry Potter’, Watchmen and Benjamin Button June 25, 2008 6:56 pm
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A whole slew of movie posters have popped up online, courtesy the on-going Cinema EXPO in Amsterdam. In the latest crop, we got new posters for The Day the Earth Stood Still (pictured right), Dragonball, G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Harry Potter: And the Half-Blood Prince, Watchmen and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Check them all out after the jump.
Watchmen Three-hours long, ‘Black Freighter’ to be released as a DVD movie May 27, 2008 6:30 pm
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Post production on the big screen adaptation of Watchmen has started and director Zach Snyder has revealed that the current cut of the movie is sitting at three hours long:
“The main picture is nearing three hours long and I know I have a fight on my hands just with that,” Snyder told the New York Times.
The article mainly focuses on Tales of the Black Freighter, the story-within-the-story. In addition to directing Watchmen, Snyder has also directed Tales of the Black Freighter and the studio will release the movie as a stand-alone DVD just five days after the release of the main picture in March 2009.
Read the entire NY Times article here.
Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.
Source: New York Times
“Watchmen” Photo February 21, 2008 1:54 am
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The first photo from Watchmen has been released. Check it out after the jump.
Zack Snyder Talks “Watchmen” September 26, 2007 2:36 pm
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Warner Bros. has released a video of director Zack Synder (300) speaking about his upcoming film Watchmen.
Comic-Con 2007: “Watchmen” Poster Revealed July 28, 2007 10:17 pm
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With the cast and director set for the upcoming Watchmen film, we now have a poster for the film, which includes a date of release: March 6, 2009.
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