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The ongoing legal battle over ownership of the Watchmen movie has taken another step closer to resolution with the federal judge in charge of the case telling both sides to prepare their cases for a January trial date ahead of the movie's planned release in March of next year. Does this mean that the judge wants to see the film released on time, or is just bored of the pre-trial shenanigans? We discuss, under the jump. More »
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How unstoppable was the marketing machine behind The Dark Knight? Enough for Heath Ledger's death and Christian Bale's predilection for family communication with fists to be easily cast off, apparently, leading to a movie whose success surprised even its studio head. The Hollywood Reporter looked into the efforts required to teach America to ask "Why so serious?" More »
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Plagued by fans complaining about the possibility of being robbed of the Watchmen movie by a copyright infringement lawsuit from 20th Century Fox, a statement from the studio has asked fans back off, direct their anger elsewhere and respect proper ownership of intellectual property. Because, you know, that worked so well for the record industry. More »
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Gerard Butler confirmed that he's voicing the Captain for scenes in the animatedTales of the Black Freighter for director Zack Snyder's Watchmen, in a segment solely being created for the DVD. Last year at Comic-Con Snyder said that the Freighter portion of the book (a comic book-within-a-comic book about pirates) would be in the film. But then Warners later nixed the idea, probably to keep the length down. More »
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