Now that the court case is over and Watchmen officially belongs to Warner Bros. (although the case went in favor of Fox Searchlight, who will get a hefty sum from the W.B.), clips from the film are starting to leak worse than your eyes did when you heard the 300 director was doing an adaptation of Alan Moore's dark, brilliant graphic novel. Although hey, listening to Snyder talk in his interviews, he sounds like he might know what he's doing. Let's all pray.
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It's been four months since we heard a peep about 20th Century Fox duking it out for with Warner Brothers for the rights to the Watchmen film, which the WB produced, shot, and did promotional tie-ins before Fox got around to bringing up a lawsuit. The theory at the time was that Fox originally owned the rights, some stuff got muddled, and Fox, instead of mentioning the situation to Warner Bros. when the studio started casting, decided to bide their time in the hopes that the production would just pay them a lot of money to go away once they had an actual movie shot and ready to go.
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Hari Puttar is the Bollywood film by Mirchi Movies about a young Indian boy who moves to London and, with the help of his parents, saves the world. Puttar also bears a resemblance, in name at least, to the marvelously fantastical gay wizard books by J/K Rowling. Which is why Warner Brothers, the distributors of the Harry Potter films, decided to sue the Indian film company to prevent its release.
Well, suck it Bugs Bunny:
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Every fanboy got his panties in a bunch when a trailer for The Watchmen, Alan Moore's 1985 graphic novel about masked vigilantes, previewed before The Dark Knight several weeks ago. Watchmen holds a special place for most comic book lovers; it was one of the first comics, along with Maus, to earn the title of graphic novel (though it was released in sections) due to its meta-commentary on the traditional world of superheroes and crime fighters. Watchmen deals with some pretty dark and complex subject matter, and when details were leaked about the cast of heroes (young and hip, as opposed to the comic where they were older and washed up), and the director (Zack Snyder, who adapted Frank Miller's 300, to mixed reviews), there was some rumblings of trouble in geek and non-geek communities alike. Despite a giant marketing tie-in at this year's Comic-Con, Watchmen seemed doomed to have the impossibly high expectations of a super-hero action piece that also says something, resting on its shoulder. That is, if it even gets released now.
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