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Watchmen

(2009) Action - Rated NR

Directed by: Zack Snyder

Starring: Malin Akerman, Patrick Wilson

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    • ForeverXenaFan

      08/03/08 05:39 PM
      Rivka, if you're a nerd, count me in. This movie looks awesome.
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    BILLY CRUDUP as Jon Osterman in transformation in the mystery adventure “Watchmen,” a Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures presentation in association with Legendary Pictures.JACKIE EARLE HALEY as Rorschach in the mystery adventure “Watchmen,” a Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures presentation, in association with Legendary Pictures.PATRICK WILSON as Nite Owl II with MALIN AKERMAN (in the background) as Silk Spectre II in the mystery adventure “Watchmen,” a Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures presentation, in association with Legendary Pictures.JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN as The Comedian and CARLA GUGINO as the original Silk Spectre in the mystery adventure “Watchmen,” a Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures presentation, in association with Legendary Pictures.JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN as The Comedian in the mystery adventure “Watchmen,” a Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures presentation, in association with Legendary Pictures.
    • rivka

      07/25/08 06:20 PM
      The more of this I see, the more I look forward to seeing it. I'm a nerd.
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      • dack

        07/26/08 12:03 AM
        I hear you brotha. I don't even like comic book movies and want to see this one.
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      Rivka, if you're a nerd, count me in. This movie looks awesome.
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  • Crew

    Director Zack Snyder
    Producer Lawrence Gordon
    Producer Lloyd Levin
    Producer Deborah Snyder
    Executive Producer Herbert W. Gains
    Executive Producer Thomas Tull

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Tuesday, July 29

Friday, July 25

  • Take Down Woodward and Bernstein in the New Watchmen Game

    Comic-Con 2008: San Diego

    Earlier this week, Warner Bros. Interactive announced plans for a new videogame based on Zack Snyder's upcoming movie adaptation of Watchmen -- a head-scratching proposition for anyone familiar with the philosophically intricate, morally complex world of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel.

    The Comedian, played by Jeffrey Dean MorganToday at Comic-Con, I asked Snyder to shed some light on what fans might expect in the game, billed as a prequel of sorts to the much anticipated movie. "One of the plots -- just to rough it -- is that Woodward and Bernstein are in New York lecturing, and the Comedian assassinates them," Snyder told me. "It's all like that, in that style."

    Watchmen fans will of course remember the Comedian as the ruthless, amoral "mask" in the employ of the U.S. government. His work -- as well as that of god-like Doctor Manhattan -- enables President Nixon to serve five terms in office, according to the novel's alternative history.


    Posted 07/25/2008 by Thomas

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  • Sparkling New Watchmen Footage Unveiled at Comic-Con

    Comic-Con 2008: San Diego

    Director Zack Snyder wowed attendees of this afternoon's Watchmen panel when he unveiled some dazzling new footage from the film. The awestruck Comic-Con crowd swooned at the new, thoroughly R-rated clip, which featured scenes from the trailer expanded to provide more context.

    Some highlights included: a giant Doctor Manhattan disintegrating a bunch of soldiers in Vietnam, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre II kissing while a mushroom cloud explodes behind them, Rorshach uncovering Comedian's arsenal, Doctor Manhattan creating his Martian castle (my personal favorite), an elderly Nixon turning to face his advisers, and Dollar Bill lying dead after getting his cape caught in the door at the bank.

    Judging from the audience reaction, the new footage ranks on par with Jon Favreau's unveiling of Iron Man footage at last year's Comic-Con.


    Watchmen - Trailer

    Who watches the Watchmen? - Releasing March 6, 2009

    Posted 07/25/2008 by Thomas

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Wednesday, July 23

  • New Watchmen Videogame Allows You to Become Your Favorite Dysfunctional Superhero

    The Watchmen, coming to a gaming console near youHave you ever longed to be one of the Watchmen? Well, now you can -- thanks to the new Watchmen videogame from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

    Ruthlessly torch Viet Cong soldiers as the amoral Comedian! Brutalize criminals to help mask the pain of your traumatic childhood as Rorschach! Vacation on Mars as the world falls apart as the god-like Doctor Manhattan! Get pressured into fighting crime by your insane mother as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Silk Spectre II!

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new game will be available next year on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC.

    Alan Moore must be thrilled.


    Posted 07/23/2008 by Thomas

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Tuesday, July 22

Thursday, July 17

  • The Watchmen Trailer Arrives

    Who Watches the Watchmen? You, probably.It's been quite a week for major movie trailers. Earlier this week, McG gave us a tantalizing glimpse of Terminator Salvation. Now, 300 director Zack Snyder has upped the ante with the debut of a full-length trailer for Watchmen, his much anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel. This ain't no teaser, mind you -- it's a two-minute-long, fanboy-reassuring sequence of memorable moments seemingly ripped straight from the pages of the comic book (albeit with some modern stylistic touches). All the major characters are featured -- even Dr. Manhattan in all of his naked blue glory. Check it out over at Empireonline.com.

    Notably, the trailer refers to Watchmen as "The most celebrated graphic novel of all time." Methinks Frank Miller might respectfully disagree.

    UPDATE: Warner Bros. has informed us that an even snazzier HD version of the Watchmen trailer is available over at Apple.com.


    Posted 07/17/2008 by Thomas

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Thursday, March 6

Wednesday, February 20

Thursday, January 31

  • Gugino spills Watchmen details

    Carla GuginoMTV Movies managed to squeeze a few juicy Watchmen details out of Carla Gugino at last week's Screen Actor's Guild Awards. The sexy star of Sin City and TV's Entourage, who plays Sally Jupiter, aka "The Silk Spectre," in Zack Snyder's adaptation of Alan Moore's seminal graphic novel, described her character as "one of the craziest, most fun roles I've gotten to play...I start at 25 years old in the 1940s, and I age to 67 years old with full prosthetics in the 1980s. [Sally] is a larger-than-life character. She’s a costumed crime fighter, but her idea of a costume is very Bettie Page-meets-[Alberto] Vargas."

    Gugino also referred to the film's opening title sequence as "extraordinary" and "empowering." Not exactly what she meant by the "empowering" bit, but we'll take her word for it.

    Source: MTV Movies


    Posted 01/31/2008 by Thomas

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Wednesday, November 28

  • Watchmen set pix

    Can't wait until Watchmen hits theaters? We second that emotion.

    Luckily we've got some pictures of the movie set to make the wait that much shorter.

    Check them out on our Watchmen page!


    Next Showing: Watchmen comes to theaters everywhere March 6, 2009.

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    Snyder dishes in Watchmen movie Exclusive interview!

    Posted 11/28/2007 by Heather

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Wednesday, November 14

  • Max Headroom joins Watchmen cast

    P-p-p-please kill meMTV Movies is reporting that Max Headroom -- or, to be more precise, the guy who played Max Headroom -- has joined the cast of Zack Snyder's hotly anticipated comic book flick Watchmen. Turns out that Matt Frewer, the man who created the infamous '80s computer-animated icon, is quite the prolific character actor, with dozens of movie credits to his name. According to MTV, Frewer will be playing Moloch, a retired supervillain whose brutal murder helps form the core of Watchmen's mystery.

    While it's a nice step for Frewer, he still has quite a long way to go to make up for creating what is by far the most irritating thing to come out of the '80s. Even Cindy Lauper, New Coke and the "Where's the beef?" grandma wanted Max Headroom dead.


    Posted 11/14/2007 by Thomas

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Wednesday, August 8

Friday, July 27

  • LIVE FROM COMIC-CON: WARNER BROS. PRESENTATION

    Jeff Otto here at Hall H at Comic-Con with live updates from the Warner Bros. presentation.

    Things just got rolling here and we were shown about 5 minutes from Get Smart. The footage looks great. Tons of laughs, lots of action. It ended with a scene in which Carell, as Maxwell smart, vomits in an airplane he is piloting. The vomit bag comes open and vomit goes everywhere. Big Applause.

    Now director Pete Segal, The Rock, Steve Carell, Ken Davidian (Azamat from Borat) and a few other cast members have come out.

    Carell, joking, says that Pete Segal never wore pants or underwear on set. "I found that funny," says Carell.

    "Especially because he wanted us to call him Big Pete," says the Rock. Big laughs.

    A nervous fan is taking forever to ask a question.

    Carell interupts, yelling "ASK THE QUESTION! ASK THE QUESTION! WE DON'T HAVE ALL DAY HERE!"

    Greeting from Nicole Kidman has been taped and is airing for Invasion.

    "It's an interesting twist on the original," Kidman says of Invasion.

    Clip from Invasion now. Footage looks all right, but nothing major. Very quick.

    Now we are seeing footage from an upcoming horror movie called One Missed Call. It's met with rather lukewarm applause.

    Now the stars Shannyn Sossman and Ed Burns have joined for a Q & A.

    Burns is asked about a sequel to Confidence.

    "Like most of the films I'm in, it came out and died at the box office, so that pretty much killed any sequel." Lots of laughs.

    Now we are getting the world premiere of Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C. It looks like Apocalypto meets Jurassic Park. Very tepid reaction from the crowd.

    Footage from Whiteout... Again kind of mixed reactions.

    Joel Silver is out for a Q & A now.

    Silver on Speed Racer: "The races are just unbelievable."

    Kate Beckinsale is supposed to be here, but isn't showing up. They show the Whiteout footage again. People still seem unimpressed.

    Finally, Silver disappears and returns with Beckinsale. Almost looks to be pushing her out.

    Kate is asked about playing Catwoman, which she says she'd consider. She's not sure about more black latex.

    The panel seems to go on forever and people are getting restless. We want The Dark Knight!

    Now footage from Trick 'R Treat. Actually looks pretty cool.

    It's time for Watchmen! And here's Zack Snyder!

    Snyder is saying that Watchmen will reflect the time in which it was made rather than directly referencing the current political climate.

    He verifies it's an R-rated superhero movie. "Are there other R-rated superhero movies?" Snyder says. "It's an adult movie, whatever that means. If you call me an adult, which is a mistake... I'm not going to make it accessable to teenyboppers."

    "We have a lot of sets that we are building in Vancouver. We have a New York City backdrop... We are not going to Mars, which I know if going to disappoint some people... I promise you, if we could, we would. They will not spend the money to send the crew to Mars on an R-rated movie." (Laughs)

    He says he cast actors in the middle of the age range of the characters so that he could age them up and down.

    "Manhattan needed to be more than a man... When he grows to 200 feet and he's tromping through the jungles of Vietnam, you've got to buy that and believe it."

    Some of the cast is coming out. Malin Ackerman (Entourage), who plays Laurie, and Jackie Earle Hayley, who plays Rorschach, join the panel.

    Questions about Alan Moore's participation. He is not involved and his name is not on the project. Snyder hopes he will check it out at some point and he hopes he's happy with it, but he understands why Moore has said "F**k Hollywood" up to this point.

    Snyder has one last surprise. It's the poster and they are giving it out. It's a drawing from the comic. It has the date: 03.06.09 - DC will have it here at the Con.

    And that's it from the Warner's panel. More to come in a bit.


    Posted 07/27/2007 by Jeff

    Steve Carell | Dwayne Johnson | Peter Segal | Dwayne ``The Rock'' Johnson | Get Smart | The Invasion | Speed Racer | The Dark Knight | I Am Legend | Watchmen

  • Will Watchmen be Watchable?

    The Heroes of WatchmenAre you ready for a talky, three-hour deconstruction of the 20th century superhero archetype? That's what Zack Snyder's next project, Watchmen, could end up being if the 300 director stay as faithful to Alan Moore's acclaimed graphic novel as many fans (myself included) hope. 

    On the eve of Snyder's much-anticipated appearance at the 2007 Comic-Con, we looked at the challenges he'll face bringing Watchmen's complex story to the big screen.

    Click here to read the article. And be sure to check back later for highlights from Snyder's Comic-Con panel.


    Posted 07/27/2007 by Thomas

    Zack Snyder | Watchmen

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