Showing posts with label Watchmen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watchmen. Show all posts
Monday, 13 July 2009
Watchmen - Deleted Scene - Hollis Mason's Death
This is a better version of the deleted scene that will feature in the Watchmen Director's Cut. It shows the death of Hollis Mason, Nite Owl I. You can get the Director's Cut for Watchmen on DVD and Blu-ray on July 21st.
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Friday, 10 July 2009
Watchmen - The Ultimate Collector's Edition
If you go and buy the Watchmen: Director's Cut on Blu-ray Disc that is all well and good. It was a film I really enjoyed and it will be great to see the extra scenes edited into the film. Below is the scene of Hollis Mason's death.However, HDR spotted a flier in the pack that gives $10 off the upcoming Ultimate Collector's Edition of Watchmen.
It is due out in December and will span a 5 discs. The director's cut set is three discs, one of which is dedicated to the standard definition digital copy.
The Ultimate version will have a new commentary track from director Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons, 2+ hours of bonus content including Hollis Mason's Tell All "Under the Hood," and the complete Watchmen Motion Comics. If you play it with the sound off you have Alan Moore's commentary track!
Tales of the Black Freighter will be "woven into" the director's cut of watchmen for an all-new creative cut of the film. It also features the complete Watchmen motion comic.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009
Watchmen Director's Cut to have limited theatrical release
Collider spoke with Zack Snyder and got confirmation that the extended Director's Cut of Watchmen will be officially hitting theaters on 17th July. That is the weekend before Comic-Con.
Mr Beaks over at AICN has seen some of the extra footage and had this to say "I can verify that you will get to see the brutal murder of Hollis Mason by a bunch of top-knotted thugs. As with most of the violent scenes in WATCHMEN, Snyder has taken a dozen or so panels from the graphic novel and transformed them into breathtaking cinema. He's also turned the sequence into a half-clever, half-heartbreaking homage to Raging Bull, with Hollis flashing back to his crime-fighting heyday as the "Intermezzo" from CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA briefly dominates the soundtrack. The music - and his punch-drunk reverie - ends abruptly when the gang's ringleader busts open Hollis's skull with his Nite Owl trophy. This is a brilliantly shot-and-edited sequence."
Snyder said that it will only show for one weekend in one theater in only Los Angeles, Dallas, Minneapolis, and New York City. Get your tickets as soon as you can. I can' wait to see the director's cut and it is meant to have an extra 25 minutes worth of footage. There will also be a new poster for the release. Will you be going to see the new cut?
The 188-minute Director's Cut of Watchmen will hit Blu-ray and DVD on 21st July.
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Cemetery Junction - First photos of Ricky Gervais & Matthew Goode
Cemetery Junctionis the new film by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Gervais posted these photos from the shoot on his blog with the comment "This is me in character (Len Taylor). I play a fat middle-aged bloke from Reading by the way. Chameleon."
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Watchmen: The High School Years - Fan series
Here is a funny little web series based on the Watchmen world.
The always excellent Fan Cinema Today spotted it over on Jackie Earle Haley's blog.
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The always excellent Fan Cinema Today spotted it over on Jackie Earle Haley's blog.
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter - New images
MTV Splashpage had these cool looking images from the forthcoming Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter DVD. There will be a super deluxe directer's cut version of Watchmen with this animated segment spliced in.
“Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter” — features the vocal talents of “300” star Gerard Butler — ships out tomorrow on DVD and Blu-ray, and includes the Minutemen pseudo-doc, “Under the Hood,” starring the cast from the film reprising their roles as the original do-gooders gone horribly bad. Along with the headlining movies, the 2-disc set also includes a first-look at “Green Lantern: First Flight,” and bonus featurettes “Story Within a Story: The Books of the Watchmen” which explores the comic-within-a-comic of “Watchmen,” “The Why of the Watchmen” by Zack Snyder, and “The Two Bernies” showing a scene from “Watchmen” not seen in theaters (the latter two only available on the Blu-ray edition of the set).
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Saturday, 21 March 2009
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Dave Gibbons has finished his Watchmen Commentary
Rich Johnston over at Lying in the Gutters had this little piece of info regarding the Watchmen DVD.
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Dave Gibbons confirmed to a packed audience at a Borders bookstore this week that he has already completed his DVD commentary for the mega-directors-cut of "Watchmen" that includes the “Black Freighter" story integrated into the main film. Maybe we can expect the finished product sooner rather than later?Leave a comment on this post below.
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Monday, 16 March 2009
The Dr Manhattan Video Game that never was
I must admit this Watchmen spoof did make me laugh.
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Sunday, 15 March 2009
Watchmen drops while Witch Mountain Races ahead
| Title | This Week | Total | Last Week | |
| 1 | Race to Witch Mountain | $25,000,000 | $25,000,000 | NA |
| 2 | Watchmen | $18,070,000 | $86,005,000 | #1 |
| 3 | Last House on the Left | $14,658,000 | $14,658,000 | NA |
| 4 | Taken | $6,650,000 | $126,833,000 | #3 |
| 5 | Madea Goes to Jail | $5,130,000 | $83,209,000 | #2 |
| 6 | Slumdog Millionaire | $5,025,000 | $132,625,000 | #5 |
| 7 | Paul Blart: Mall Cop | $3,100,000 | $137,767,000 | #4 |
| 8 | He’s Just Not That Into You | $2,905,000 | $89,004,000 | #6 |
| 9 | Coraline | $2,655,000 | $69,144,000 | #7 |
| 10 | Miss March | $2,350,00 | $2,350,000 | NA |
In the second week of it being open Watchmen has dropped to second place in the US and Dwayne Johnson's Race to Witch Mountain has taken the top spot. Watchmen's takings have dropped by 67% which is not good, but it's still taken a fair few million.
I am just so surprised that Paul Blart: Mall Cop is still in the top 10. It makes no sense that a straight to DVD type of film should be doing that well, but what do I know.
Taken has become the first film since The Dark Knight to have seven consecutive weeks in the top five. I really must get round to watching Liam Neeson's latest film as it has been out on DVD over here for ages.
Did you expect Watchmen to drop so much so soon? What are your theories for Paul Blart's popularity?
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Friday, 13 March 2009
Watchmen Tour with Malin Ackerman
What do you do if you live with the actress who plays Silk Spectre? Charge nerds hundreds of dollars to watch her sleep.
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Thursday, 12 March 2009
The Paramount Picture Show
This is an animated based 5 minute thing that includes clips of Watchmen, Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter, Eagle Eye, Ghost Town, I Love You, Man, and interviews with Zack Snyder
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009
David Hayter wants you to go and see Watchmen again
AN OPEN LETTER FROM A WATCHMEN SCREENWRITER
So it has been five months since I saw my first rough cut of WATCHMEN, and eight days since the premiere of the film I've been working on since late in the year 2000.
The reviews are out -- Some outstanding, others rankly dismissive, which can be frustrating for the people involved, (though I can only speak for myself,) because I firmly believe that WATCHMEN, the novel, must be read through more than once to even have the faintest grip on it. And I believe the film is the same.
I've seen it twice now, and despite having run the movie in my head thousands of times, my two viewings still don’t' allow me to view the film with the proper distance or objectivity. Is it Apocalypse Now? Is it Blade Runner? Is it Kubrick, or Starship Troopers? I don’t know yet.
All I know is that I had a pretty amazing experience the two times I've seen it. And both viewings produced remarkably different experiences. The point is, I have listened for years, to complaints from true comic book fans, that "not enough movies take the source material seriously." "Too many movies puss out," or "They change great stories, just to be commercial." Well, I f***ing dare you to say any one of those things about this movie.
This is a movie made by fans, for fans. Hundreds of people put in years of their lives to make this movie happen, and every one of them was insanely committed to retaining the integrity of this amazing, epic tale. This is a rare success story, bordering on the impossible, and every studio in town is watching to see if it will work. Hell, most of them own a piece of the movie.
So look, this is a note to the fanboys and fangirls. The true believers. Dedicated for life.
If the film made you think. Or argue with your friends. If it inspired a debate about the nature of man, or vigilante justice, or the horror of Nixon abolishing term limits. If you laughed at Bowie hanging with Adrian at Studio 54, or the Silhouette kissing that nurse.
Please go see the movie again next weekend.
You have to understand, everyone is watching to see how the film will do in its second week. If you care about movies that have a brain, or balls, (and this film's got both, literally), or true adaptations -- And if you're thinking of seeing it again anyway, please go back this weekend, Friday or Saturday night. Demonstrate the power of the fans, because it'll help let the people who pay for these movies know what we'd like to see. Because if it drops off the radar after the first weekend, they will never allow a film like this to be made again.
In the interests of full disclosure, let me also point out that I do not profit one cent from an increase in box office, although an increase in box office can add to the value of the writers' eventual residual profits from dvd and tv sales.
But I'm not saying it for money. I'm saying it for people like me. I'm saying it for people who love smart, dark entertainment, on a grand, operatic scale. I'm talking to the Snake fans, the Rorschach fans, the people of the Dark Knight.
And hey, if you hated the film, if you think we committed atrocities, or literary mistakes of a massive, cephalopodic nature. If the movie made you a little sick to your stomach, or made you feel bad about your life. If you hated it for whatever reason, that's cool too. I'm not suggesting you risk gastro-intestinal distress just for the sake of risky filmmaking.
But if you haven't seen it yet? Well, I'll just say this...
It may upset you. And it probably will upset you.
And all along, we really meant it to.
Because face it. All this time...You there, with the Smiley-face pin. Admit it.
All this time, you’ve been waiting for a director who was going to hit you in the face with this story. To just crack you in the jaw, and then bend you over the pool table with this story. With its utterly raw view of the darkest sides of human nature, expressed through its masks of action and beauty and twisted good intentions. Like a fry-basket full of hot grease in the face. Like the Comedian on the Grassy Knoll. I know, I know...
You say you don't like it. You say you've got issues. I get it.
And yet... You'll be thinking about this film, down the road. It'll nag at you. How it was rough and beautiful. How it went where it wanted to go, and you just hung on. How it was thoughtful and hateful and bleak and hilarious. And for Jackie Earle Haley.
Trust me. You'll come back, eventually. Just like Sally.
Might as well make it count for something.
David Hayter
Source: Hardcore Nerdity
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Nite Owl saved Thomas and Martha Wayne. Result No Batman in Watchmen Universe
io9 have posted a load of Easter Eggs from the opening credits of the Watchmen film. They also include some bits that had to be cut, but that may be on the DVD.The one above is my favourite with the first Nite Owl punching out a criminal and saving a smartly dressed trio on the left. Could it be Alfred and Martha and Thomas Wayne?
What other cool things did you spot in the opening credits of Zack Snyder's Watchmen?
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