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Watchmen court case takes strange move
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
During the holiday season we’ve been taking some much needed vacation time but also keeping an eye on entertainment news that is breaking and there’s one story that’s emerged as a biggie. On Christmas Eve the judge presiding over the ownership of the Watchmen movie issued a statement saying that he found sufficient grounds to grant 20th Century Fox a stake in the ownership of the picture. Up to that point no decision had been made as to whether Warner Bros. had complete ownership of the film. You can read our past coverage of this trial to learn the details as to why Fox is contesting the ownership of the film, but right now it’s suffice to say that after WB has spent upwards of $150 million dollars to make Watchmen, Fox is now in a legal position where it stands to claim financial compensation for the film. Continue reading…
Posted at 12:42PM by Patrick
Watchmen international trailer
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The international trailer for Watchmen is here. What does that mean? It means more footage that we have yet to see. Not too much but just a little more to get those fanboys whipped into more of a frenzy.
Less talk. Here it is:
Posted at 10:17AM by Mike
Watchmen video journal goes easter egg hunting
Monday, December 08, 2008
On the 6th of every month the people running the official Watchmen movie website release another behind-the-scenes video showing us another slice of how they made the movie. For December we have the opportunity to look at some of the film’s more important props as well as “easter eggs”, fleetingly short scenes or even solitary items positioned in a scene that fans of the Watchmen graphic novel will ID. Continue reading…
Posted at 2:14PM by Patrick
Watchmen is getting shorter
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Deborah Snyder, producer and wife of Director Zack Snyder, spoke to Sci Fi Wire about the running time of Watchmen:
“We’re getting really close,” producer Deborah Snyder said in a telephone interview on Nov. 18. “We’re at two hours and 35 minutes.”
Director 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.” [more at source]
For more on Watchmen check out the official MovieSet sitelet for the film.
Posted at 4:36PM by Mike
Watching more of the Watchmen
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Warner Bros. will have its second trailer for Watchmen running in front of showings of Quantum of Solace starting this weekend, but, if you want to watch it right now, Yahoo has the internet exclusive. Continue reading…
Posted at 4:49PM by Patrick
New Watchmen character posters
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Jonesing for some more Watchmen content? I know you are.
Yesterday 6 new character posters were released to various news organizations and come to you here at MovieSet via movieposteraddict.com.
Check out Dr. Manhattan (not a member of the Blue Man Group) below with more after the jump:
Posted at 9:48AM by Mike
New Watchmen poster drops out of the sky
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Following hot on the heels of last night’s Scream broadcast, Warner Bros. has kicked out a new Watchmen movie poster for us to look at. If you’re afraid of heights you may want to move on to the next story, but if you’re brave enough (or can bounce off sidewalks) then proceed ahead…
Posted at 9:18PM by admin
New Watchmen, Twilight, Friday the 13th footage shown
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Last night Spike TV broadcast the 2008 Scream Awards. If you didn’t catch it you missed out on watching a ton of actors come out and plug their upcoming movies just before presenting an award, followed by a quick cut-away to someone in the goth/industrial/punk crowd.
Three upcoming 2009 releases had new material shown during the broadcast: Watchmen, the remake of Friday the 13th and Twilight. And by God, I’m going to show them to you because that’s how I roll.
First up, Watchmen. There’s a few new nice moments in this footage including one of Rorschach leaping up into The Comedian’s apartment, Dr. Manhattan dissassembling a tank using his powers and Nite-Owl and Silk Spectre kissing while a nuclear bomb goes off in the background. Director Zack Snyder certainly seems to be following almost exactly to the comic book’s imagery:
Next comes the first real footage from Friday the 13th. If you know your Jason Voorhees then you’ll probably find that the only real difference between the old F13th and this new one is that Jason now can move fast, which in my opinion ain’t a sacriligious thing to do.
And bringing up the rear is Twilight. Again, some new stuff intermixed with footage we’ve already seen from the trailer:
Posted at 4:23PM by admin
Watchmen sneak preview screened to online press
Thursday, October 02, 2008
I’ve been reading reports on various movie websites about a special screening that took place last night on the Warner Bros. lot in Los Angeles for Watchmen. In attendance was the film’s director, Zack Snyder, to introduce the 25 minutes of early footage. And the good news is that the reports across the web by my fellow online collegues are very positive and surprise, surprise, Watchmen might just turn out to be a great movie experience.
The first footage seen contained the first 5 or so minutes from the start of the movie. The story kicks off with the murder of a 60-year-old man in his New York apartment. This dude is The Comedian, one of this world’s costumed superheroes, and in his case I mean an assassin on the government payroll. After an unknown intruder breaks into The Comedian’s apartment and a fistfight breaks out, the Comedian is tossed by his assailant out through one of his apartment’s windows to his death on the street below.
Then the film kicks into the opening title sequence and we catch up with 50 years of alternative history, a what if montage of visuals showing what may have happened if superheroes existed. This sequence wowed those that saw it and it should open the concept to the average person who hasn’t been previously exposed to the ideas of Watchmen in its original comic book format.
Next came a sequence showing the blue-skinned character of Dr. Manhattan (played by Billy Crudup) as he sits naked on Mars reflecting on his origin as the world’s most powerful being. If I’m messing up your head by saying this guy is blue and on Mars, don’t sweat it, it’ll all make sense when you see the movie.
The last sequence showed two of the heroes breaking out one of their friends from prison. Nite Owl and Silk Spectre (Patrick Wilson and Malin Akerman) are running through the prison fighting off convicts and trying to make their way to Rorscharch (Jackie Earle Haley). I was there on the set last year when they filmed these scenes and I saw the actors wearing their superhero costumes and punching stuntmen. Every bit of what I saw looked awesome and I’m jealous as hell that the peeps in L.A. got to see what the finished product looked like.
Barring any fallout from the lawsuit launched by 20th Century Fox against Warner Bros., Watchmen is set for a March 6, 2009 opening. I’ll be there opening night.
Posted at 9:07PM by admin
Watchmen’s video journal
Monday, September 08, 2008
Warner Bros. has been doing a terrific job of building up anticipation for its superhero movie to end all superhero movies, Watchmen, by releasing regular video journals showing us behind-the-scenes footage from the production. The sixth and latest journal doesn’t disappoint either. Director of Photography Larry Fong explains how he filmed Watchmen and how its approach to a serious storytelling of superheroes lent itself to a one-camera production.
Along the way we have interviews with producer Deborah Snyder and director Zack Snyder as well as quick glimpses of the Batman-esque hero Rorscharch breaking some fingers to get information as well as the motion capture suit that Billy Crudup wore to achieve the CGI blue-skinned superman, Dr. Manhattan. It’s cool stuff kiddies so watch and count the days down until March 6, 2009.
Posted at 5:52PM by admin
