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In a post-Harry Potter world, Warner Bros. is looking for the next big genre film franchise that will bring audiences to the theater. It looks like Warner's next stop in its quest for box office glory is Tad Williams' genre-blending Otherland novels. More »
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Warner Bros. Animation is teaming with the Japanese animation house behind Batman: Gotham Knights and The Animatrix to dust off ol' Lion-O and his refugee clan from Thundera for a new Cartoon Network series. More »
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Why is Warners spending millions of dollars to adapt a Japanese novel you've never heard of? Well, because it sounds awesome. More »
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Rumors of ABC's revival of V being in trouble have only been strengthened by the strange decision made by network schedulers to keep the show in its original slot for four weeks, before taking it off-air for four months. More »
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Less than a month after Mattel put the end to plans to make a live-action He-Man and The Masters of The Universe movie at Warner Bros., the project is alive again at Sony. That's the power of Grayskull for you. More »
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So Warners have restructured DC Comics into DC Entertainment, bringing more mainstream attention to the second-biggest comic book publisher in the industry. Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Something we should even care about at all? More »
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One of the more troubling things to come out of the Siegel/Warners/DC lawsuit decision this week was the feeling that everyone involved in creating Superman stories has already decided that the character is broken. Is Superman's failure a self-fulfilling prophecy? More »
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Warner Bros. doesn't have a Superman film in development right now, and President Alan Horn told a judge that he has "issues" with the Man of Steel. Warners won its latest legal battle, but has Superman's movie career already lost? More »
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No sooner has the movie version of UK TV show Primeval been announced than rumors start appearing that suggest that a small-screen American version of the series may be happening as well... More »
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It's time for a whole new audience to become scared of smart boys writing in notebooks, as Japanese horror manga Death Note is heading for a American movie remake. Make sure no-one knows your name! More »
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Fox and Warners have reached a settlement in their lawsuit over the rights to the Watchmen movie, but exactly what that settlement actually is is remaining a secret... for now, at least. More »
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It's your daily Watchmen legal battle update - and, as has become customary about this story, forget what we told you yesterday, because the situation has changed... again. More »
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Just when we'd gotten used to the idea that Judge Gary Feess could rule as early as January 20th on Fox's delaying Watchmen's release at the end of this month, a new timeline appears. More »
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You thought that the lawsuit over the rights to the Watchmen movie were actually about Zack Snyder's adaptation of the famous Moore/Gibbons comic? The latest moves in the story show just how wrong you are. More »
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Now that it's clear Fox wants to delay — or derail — the Watchmen movie, fans are talking boycott. There's only one problem: you can't boycott something unless you actually want to see it. More »
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After a judge ruled that Fox did, in fact, have some rights to Warners' Watchmen movie, people have wondered if this means we won't see the movie in March. The answer is: Probably not. More »
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So now that we know that the Watchmen movie case has been resolved in Fox's favor, we're left wondering what happens next. Who owns the movie? Will it be released? Will anyone watch the Watchmen? More »
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Will Zack Snyder's Watchmen be the legendary lost movie that nobody got to see? Fox just won its long legal battle over rights to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel. (Actually, it'll be fine.) More »
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Waiting for March's release of the Watchmen movie? Get ready to wait a little while longer - The lawsuit over who owns the movie has hit a couple of roadblocks en route to early settlement. More »
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Now that we know that it's not Megan Fox, you may be thinking to yourself, well, who should be the movie Wonder Woman? One independent woman currently has her eyes on the role - and she's doing her best to put a ring on it before it's time to ring the alarm. Okay, I'll stop with the puns, but if she has anything to say about it, Beyonce Knowles will be cinema's first Diana Prince. More »
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Two months ago, Warner Bros. honcho Jeff Rabinov announced his studio’s intentions to release eight franchise-stoking DC comics films by 2011 — among them, a movie "reintroducing" Superman. Since then, all’s been relatively on the Kryptonian front…until now. U.K.’s The Independent has reported, amid an interview with Kevin Spacey, that "producers…will be paying him big bucks to reprise his role as Lex Luthor next year" in 2011’s Superman: The Man of Steel. More »
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Somewhat confused about what the lawsuit about the Watchmen movie actually means? You're not the only one. Luckily, former comic editor and copyright law professor Andrew Steven Harris is perfectly placed to pick apart the case and put it into real world terms so that even Alan Moore could understand what's going on. More »
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Click to viewWarner Bros may finally have bitten the bullet and announced that they're going to reboot the Superman movie franchise, but reading President of Production Jeff Robinov say that he wants the movie versions of all of DC's superheroes to "go dark to the extent that the characters allow it," is more than a little concerning. How can one man miss the point of one of the most famous fictional characters of the last hundred years so badly? Under the jump, we offer five simple steps to keep any movie reboot for the Man of Steel on track. More »
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Hope everyone out there liked The Dark Knight, because if Warner Bros have their way, there will be plenty more where that came from - Four such movies a year, in fact. Variety is reporting that, while the studio may be light on summer blockbusters next year, they're looking to DC Comics in particular to remedy that in future. More »
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It's already calling itself the movie adaptation of "the most celebrated graphic novel of all time," but if a certain group of masochistic fans have their way, "visionary director" Zack Snyder's version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic may also be the longest comic strip movie ever made - But is the general public ready for three hours of watching the Watchmen? More »
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Click to viewThere's no getting away from it - the smash hit of Comic-Con was Watchmen. In the absence of any presence from the rest of next year's big SF movies like Star Trek or Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Zack Snyder's glossy adaptation of the 21-year-old comic swept the collective nerd herd off their feet with the free bags, two panels, star guests and giant prop Owlship. But isn't there something wrong with this picture? More »
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Okay, Warner Bros, I'm willing to grant you that Zach Snyder's heart is in the right place with his movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen. After all, he's gone on record multiple times about his respect for the original comic, and his desire to stay true to the spirit of that series. But the newly-announced video game tie-in to the movie that calls itself an "action brawler" and introduces new characters to the storyline? That's really going too far. More »
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io9 was on hand last night at Warner Bros. Studios, where their home video department shared plans for the studio's 85th anniversary celebration this year. They'll be focusing on superheroes, putting out a mega-collector's edition of Batman Begins, a Batman Anthology set, and some refreshes of other Batman and Superman DVDs. Check out our highlights from the event, which involve superhero crotches, fetish footwear, and a few minutes with Terminator Salvation director McG. More »
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The hammer came down yesterday for the Justice League movie, and Warner Bros. has now officially put the project on "indefinite hold." That sound you may have heard was a billion JLA fans around the globe sighing in relief. But what, aside from the writers' strike, made studio execs decide to activate the lasers and eradicate this project? More »
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We couldn't be more excited about Batman: The Dark Knight... or more sick of Warner Bros.' marketing campaign for the movie. When it was just sky-writing planes over Comic-Con and "Jokerized" dollar bills, we were sort of amused. But when Warner started baking Joker-cakes, we got indigestion. A gallery of weird schwag and a rundown of crazed marketing, after the jump. More »
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The writers strike is forcing executives to actually consider some of the rash decisions they've made. Case in point, the Justice League movie. Before the holidays there were announcements of cast members, chatter about the shooting location, a script that needed some work, and even rumblings from the Christian Bale/The Dark Knight camp that they weren't happy about another Batman hitting the screen. Looks like Warner Bros. has finally listened and is putting the skids down on the movie, hard. More »
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Producer Barrie Osborne let the news slip that the New Zealand based WETA Workshop will be designing the costumes for the upcoming Justice League movie. Additional WETA Digital will be working on some of the digital effects, if they have time. While the costume part should lead to some awesome results (we can't wait to see what the new Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman costumes will look like), it's the "if they have time" for the digital effects part that alarms us. More »
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Warner Bros. has been tossing enough promo photos, teaser trailers, viral ads, and movie posters onto the internet to cause a serious glut of Dark Knight materials. Which is where this refreshing slap in the face video comes from. Netizen and part-time editor ntbone has mashed up the sound from the recent trailer for The Dark Knight with clips he's cut together from the 1966 Batman movie, starring Adam West as the caped crusader. More »
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While Director Zack Snyder is working away feverishly to complete his live-action adaptation of Alan Moore's seminal Watchmen graphic novel, we decided to take a look at the three versions of the film's script floating around on the etherwebs. This project has had several stalled-out development attempts since 1986, and reading through some of these it's easy to see why. Check out the breakdown of the top three below. More »
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For moviegoers looking forward to Will Smith's new apocalypse movie I Am Legend, there's now the chance for them to not just watch the end of the world, but participate in it. More »
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