Come on, Warner Bros.! How many of these Watchmen sneaks are you going to put together? We get it. There’s lots of brooding in slow-mo. Things explode. Glass shatters. Just release the frickin’ movie already!
In any event, if your appetite still needs whetting, check out the latest Watchmen trailer after the jump …
The New York Times is reporting that 20th Century Fox will try to delay the release of Watchmen. Deadline Hollywood Daily has a statement from Warner Bros. on the lawsuit.
This week’s DVD releases: Rope of Silicon runs down Paramount’s new Blu-Ray titles, including the Patrick Swayze stupid-face fest, Ghost; Tom Cruise going vroom vroom with Nicole Kidman in Days of Thunder; Event Horizon and The Truman Show.
Q: Who’s the most reviled movie critic? A: Ben Lyons. He’s so hated (and with good reason), that CriticWatch’s Erik Childress has a blog dedicated to using Lyons’s own words against him:
Is it possible that New York publicists have a poster of Ben Lyons in their office with the slogan that reads “Put critics in a theater full of people laughing with free tickets and one of them may laugh too?” What if the Bedtime Stories crowd was laughing at Ben Lyons laughing? Or just Ben Lyons? I guarantee he’s produced more unintentional laugh lines than Sandler & Co. did this year. Take for example:
The New York Times is reporting that a federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of 20th Century Fox’s claim to the rights to Watchmen, which is a Warner Bros. production.
This is big news, as Watchmen has been one of the most eagerly awaited movies of 2009. With the film scheduled to arrive in theaters March 6, it seems the two studios will now have to work out a deal fairly quickly.
First Batman, now Superman: It looks like Warner Bros. has taken a cue from the blockbuster success of The Dark Knight and will reintroduce the Man of Steel in his next big-screen outing, in what is commonly referred to as a “reboot.”
Just as Christopher Nolan brought the Caped Crusader back to his origins in Batman Begins, so too will Warner Bros. and DC Comics start from scratch with Superman, going for a darker tone more in keeping with Nolan’s blockbuster sequel.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Warner Bros. Group President Jeff Robinov addressed the new philosophy: Read the rest of this entry »
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