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Watchmen vs. Wall-E trailer

Liam — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:42:25 +0000

It’s been a while since i’ve seen a well done trailer mash-up, so I was pleased when I got a link to this in my inbox today. Youtube user TM2Megatron has put together a trailer mash-up featuring the visuals of WALL-E, and using the audio from the Watchmen teaser trailer. As the Watchmen teaser trailer was so good it sparked a number of mash-ups but this is probably the best one i’ve seen. Watch below!

Dr. Manhattan in London

Liam — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:19:49 +0000

The celebrate the release of Watchmen and to drum up some publicity in the UK, Paramount decided to use the world’s biggest water screen projector to project an image of Dr. Manhattan on the River Thames. Watch below!

From /film:

The water screen, moored especially for this occasion in the middle of the Thames between the London Eye and The Shell Building, created an enormous vertical screen of water that extended to 72 feet in height and 100 feet across. Specially created, never to be seen again Watchmen footage, was projected onto the screen to showcase Dr Manhattan’s translucent and shimmering form in dramatic and gigantic effect -an excellent and exciting medium to see Dr Manhattan in all his super human glory as he hovered over the city in true Watchmen style!

Oh no he di’int! Watchmen writer compares Fox to Satan

Liam — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:16:43 +0000

During the whole Warner Bros/Fox Watchmen case we didn’t really hear much from the creative team behind it, as it was really a matter for the studios. However now everything is sorted Watchmen and X-Men writer David Hayter has spoken out and made some controversial comments about 20th Century Fox:

“I had worked for 20th Century Fox before, and I was fully under the belief that they had the potential to shut down the movie and remake it themselves out of pure spite and meanness. They’re a rough group of people … and somewhat ethically challenged.”
“… My experience told me that they could shut down this movie, and lock it away in Rupert’s vault … and make it the most unseen desired cult movie of all time … but I was extremely concerned. Many producer friends of mine said the same thing as Alex – that they’re just going for money or whatever — but I was like, ‘Yeah, okay, but there’s something beyond money going on at that studio and it has to do with … Satan.”

Listen to the complete audio over at Hollywood Outbreak

I guess he won’t be writing for them anytime soon…

Dr. Manhattan is unhappy with the service!

Liam — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:43:46 +0000

io9 got some cool new images of Dr. Manhattan from Watchman.

This awesome-looking scene, where Dr. Manhattan visits Moloch’s “vice den” and vaporizes the patrons, circa 1960, occurs as part of a montage after journalists confront Dr. Manhattan and accuse him of having caused some of his friends and coworkers to die of cancer. Manhattan retreats to Mars and thinks back on his life, including courting Janey Slater, getting disintegrated in his intrinsic field-test chamber, reassembling in the cafeteria, and then this little moment at Moloch’s dive.

Click here to see 5 more images!

Final Watchmen Poster

Liam — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:08:21 +0000

Now the legal stuff is out of the way Warner Bros can now go all out when it comes to marketing Watchmen. Below is a final poster that appeared over at Yahoo!.

As well as a poster, SHH got an exclusive image from The New Frontiersman, a Watchmen viral site. It shows head Smurf Dr. Manhattan giving the Vietnamese a special one-off Yoga session.

Watchmen case resolved

Liam — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:54:15 +0000

After a long and exciting legal battle 20th Century Fox and Warner. Bros have finally come to a settlement over the rights to Watchmen, and who gets what. Terms of the agreement will not be disclosed, but it is said to involve a sizable cash payment to Fox and a percentage of the film’s box office. Fox will not be a co-distributor on the film, nor will it own a piece of the Watchmen property going forward.

Below is an official statement from both studios:

Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox have resolved their dispute regarding the rights to the upcoming motion picture Watchmen in a confidential settlement. Warner Bros acknowledges that Fox acted in good faith in bringing its claims, which were asserted prior to the start of principal photography. Fox acknowledges that Warner Bros. acted in good faith in defending against those claims Warner Bros. and Fox, like all Watchmen fans, look forward with great anticipation to this film’s March 6 release in theatres.

It looks like we will still be seeing Watchmen on it’s original release date, March 6th!

Watchmen release date decision soon

Liam — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:08:55 +0000

If you plan on pre-booking your tickets to see Zack Snyder’s Watchmen I suggest you wait until after the 20th January, as that is when a judge will decide whether it can still keep it’s March release date.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Lawyers for 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. have agreed to let a federal judge decide whether Warner Bros. will be allowed to release Watchmen on March 6, forgoing a jury trial that could have put the high-profile film’s future into even longer limbo.
In court papers filed Monday with U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess, attorneys for Fox and Warner Bros. jointly said they would let the judge decide Jan. 20 whether Fox could block the film’s theatrical distribution as Fox has been seeking all along as part of its copyright infringement lawsuit against Warner Bros.

I hope we will still be able to see Watchmen on it’s original release date. If not the film could be delayed for months!

Japanese Watchmen trailer gets political

Liam — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:56:23 +0000

A new Japanese trailer for Watchmen is online and it gives us a glimpse at some new footage, including Nixon looking at a doomsday map and hints at the Watchmen’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination. This movie just keeps looking better with every new trailer that pops up (and there have been quite a few).

Watch it below!

New Watchmen featurette makes us forget legal troubles…briefly

Liam — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:59:39 +0000

Warner Bros. have released a new Watchmen featurette which shows director Zack Snyder giving us an overview of some of the main characters in the film. It’s good to see Warner Bros still promoting this thing, despite the fact we do not know whether it will still be released in March or not. Anyhow, forget all the legal stuff for 4 minutes and watch the featurette below!

Fox want to delay Watchmen. Riots expected.

Liam — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:16:35 +0000

According to The Hollywood Reporter an attorney for 20th Century Fox said the studio will continue to seek an order delaying the release of Watchmen.

U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess last week agreed with Fox that Warner Bros. had infringed its copyright by developing and shooting the superhero flick, scheduled for release March 6.
Feess said Monday that he plans to hold a trial Jan. 20 to decide remaining issues.

If Watchmen does get delayed there is no doubt that fans will be pissed off. Earlier this year ComicBookMovie got the chance to interview one angry fan, and if I were Fox I would be shaking in my boots!

CBM: What exactly are you planning on doing?
Wyatt: If I get enough support, I would like to go picket Fox Studios and even perhaps the local Wolverine opening night. Aside form that I want to cover up all Fox movie posters with signs that read: Who Watches the Watchmen?
CBM: What would you tell the Fox execs if you could get a meeting with them?
Wyatt: They have no idea who they a f**king with. Watchmen fans are not regular comic fans. We’re f**king crazy. There will be retaliations if they keep this nonsense up. Also I would say that they had there chance and blew it. Stop being assholes and give the people what the want.

20th Century Fox were not the most loved studio to begin with, so this will not help their image one bit (however I doubt they will care). Ideally things will get sorted and Warner Bros. will just have to give Fox a big chunck of money, although I doubt it will be that simple.

Expect more updates on this in the upcoming days/weeks.