Watchmen

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By reelz reelz While 2008 was a high-profile year for movies adapted from comic books (Iron Man, The Dark Knight), 2009 had its own army of super properties arrayed on the big screen — nine notables all tallied, including the highly anticipated Watchmen. Next Showing:

No not the Marvel XMen ones but the literaly ones like Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight Returns, Sandman, ones with complex stories and characters. ...

By David Bentley In superhero films we've seen major changes in costumes in the leatherclad X-Men, a recognisable comic book look with some design and colour alterations in Superman Returns, a more practical and functional approach in The Dark Knight, and a very accurate translation in Iron Man and Spi...

By Graeme McMillan Sure, movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight have proven that superheroes can work on the big screen, but sometimes only comics can offer longjohned epics so large-scale that they'd break Hollywood in half through special effects budget alone.

By David Bentley WHEN Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight made a billion dollars at the global box office and became America's second highest-grossing movie of all time, several subsequent action-adventure releases used its dark formula but without the same success.

By David Bentley WELCOME to the dark side of cinema, where horror meets heroes.   Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight soared at the box office last year, becoming America's second highest-grossing movie of all time and earning a billion dollars.   The...

So who REALLY ruined comics? Was it former DC executive editor Dick Giordano? As the DCU show runner from 1983-93, Giordano oversaw the comics during the rise of the direct market, the widening of DC’s material, and the twin peaks of DARK KNIGHT and WATCHMEN. But reached in retirement, he h...

By Nick Nadel Legendary Pictures knows what comic book fans want -- quality movies featuring their favorite characters. And so far they've delivered, bringing us The Dark Knight, 300, Watchmen, and the upcoming Jonah Hex. Now, the studio has optioned Gravel, a supernatural action series from hot com...

By John Scott Lewinski Marvel Animation 6 Film Set: Just as Warner Bros. Animation made some of the best movies about DC Comics characters (at least until The Dark Knight), Marvel’s animated movies have often proven more entertaining than their live-action counterparts (at least until Iron Man). This six-DVD...

Illuminati Movies:Batman,The Dark Knight,Watchmen http://www.HollywoodInsiders ... Examining each movie's use of all-seeing eyes, pyramids, suns,..."

By Elisabeth Rappe I like the cut of Legendary Pictures' jib. A company that produces Batman Begins, 300, The Dark Knight and Watchmen is one to salute, and their upcoming slate is nothing less than exciting. (Inception, Sucker Punch, Jonah Hex, Clash of the Titans, and Sam Raimi's Warcraft are just a few film...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) In the early ’80s, Frank Miller prefaced his groundbreaking work on The Dark Knight Returns with a limited series called Ronin, which saw a feudal Japanese samurai and his demon antagonist brought forward to a ravaged, lawless modern New York. The story has been potential fodder for a fil...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Kevin Smith joined us for our Dark Knight episode, and again for our Watchmen reviewPaul Scheer joined us to discuss Death RaceStephen Tobolowsky joined us to discuss The Mummy 3Rian Johnson joined us to talk about Star TrekMarc Webb helped us review Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prin...

By Charlie Jane Anders Watchmen happened. You could argue that The Dark Knight changed everything, and then Watchmen changed it all back. Zack Snyder's movie version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' classic graphic novel was everything the studios were saying they wanted: dark, controversial, morally gray, c...

By Scott Weinberg The first big battles are done! Here's how the last round went down: Richard Donner's Superman smacked down Tim Burton's Batman Returns! Spider-Man 2 made easy work of Hellboy 2! The Dark Knight obliterated the 1989 Batman! (I'll say.) And in a wonderfully strange semi-upset, Pixar's Th...

By Scott Weinberg Batman Returns (1992) vs. The Incredible Hulk (2008) Darkman (1990) vs. Spider-Man 2 (2004) The Dark Knight (2008) vs. Batman: The Movie (1966) Blade 2 (2002) vs. Batman (1989) Blade: Trinity (2004) vs. Watchmen (2009) Bracket C Batman Begins (2005) vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

By Graeme McMillan After last year's crunch of The Dark Knight, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Hancock (and you could arguably through in Speed Racer in there, as well), this summer was remarkably clear of superheroes, if you ignore X-Men Origins: Wolverine (as most who've seen X-Men Origins: Wolverin...

By Charlie Jane Anders Somebody else asked Gaiman how he felt about graphic novels being on the Hugo ballot, and he basically said it's about time. When The Dark Knight Returns came out some 23 years ago, the Hugo Ballot included it — but in the non-fiction category, giving the impression the Hugo voters believed...

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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) FirstShowing has a full look at the cast of the big screen comic book film adaptation The Losers. Christopher Nolan will be returning to the Cardington Airship Shed (in which he filmed parts of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight) to film sets for Inception. [nolanfans]

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) We’ve featured some of Tom Whalen’s art in past editions of Cool Stuff (posters, Dark Knight magazine cover, Watchmen art, The Shining and The Warriors, Predator, 80’s super villains). Whalen has created two pieces for the Crazy4Cult 3D show, the first of which is this poster for Sam Raim...

By jake You Might Also Be Interested In:A Prequel/Sequel To 300!Has Watchmen Killed ‘Comic Book Movies?’Zack Snyder On Adapting The Dark Knight ReturnsWarner Bros. Wants A Lot More Batman MoviesWatchmen Wows At Wonder ConFirst Review of Watchmen Is In! The perfect sequel contains new and old...

By Kofi Outlaw You Might Also Be Interested In:Watchmen Director’s Cut Blu-ray Details RevealedZack Snyder Talks ‘Watchmen’ Box Office & The Director’s CutWatchmen DVD/Blu-ray Details Revealed4 New Watchmen FeaturettesWatchmen Will Trump The Dark Knight In RealismFirst Review of Watchm...

By sonia@soyabean.com Some of the most lauded comics of recent years are the ones that were created for a "mature audience", which show a more rounded view of both the "good" and "bad" characters. Comics like Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, Maus, Ronin, V for Vendetta, Arkham Asylum... these are all books which g...

By Jevon Phillips Jevon Phillips RECENT AND RELATED The Dark Knight" snubbed in Oscar race Is 'Watchmen' the 'Fight Club' of superhero films? Counting down to 'Harry Potter' Harry Potter' or 'Star Trek' may contend for best picture, if fanboys have their way.

Warner Bros apparently has a shortlist of alternative directors, which does not include Watchmen filmmaker Zack Snyder. Snyder had previously expressed interest in a Batman project based on an acclaimed comic book called The Dark Knight Returns, ...

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By Chad Nevett You know how in those expansive, career-spanning interviews, comics creators tend to, at one point, mention that one comic that changed it all for them? Not Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns, but some random anonymous issue that just happened to speak to them at a specific time. Thousands o...

By Sarah Jaffe I consider myself both a film geek and a comic geek, and I will argue ’til the end of days that superhero movies can be as good as any other film (Exhibit A: The Dark Knight). I don’t read a lot of superhero comics, but nearly always see the films, mostly because the movies are self-contained and...

By Alex Ross Perry Watchmen is a film that concerns itself with details that, while not strictly relevant to the narrative, result in a textile world that is remarkably richer and more realistic than recent superhero movies like The Dark Knight and Iron Man. With high regard paid to the nature of costumes, b...

By Rick Marshall Last night’s episode of “South Park” offered a parody of the “dark superhero” movie trend, and there was no shortage of references to subject matter Splash Page readers have become more than familiar with lately — including everything from “Watchmen” and “The Spirit” to “The Dark Knigh...

By Kofi Outlaw Well, last night it was comic book movie-lovers’ turn to get it, as the newest episode of South Park’s thirteenth season, “The Coon,” took aim at the recent trend of “dark” comic book films like Watchmen and The Dark Knight and lampooned away.

By Casey Seijas One of the complaints often heard when it comes to comic book movies is that, just because a film does wonders at the multiplex, it doesn’t necessarily translate into sales of the source material. In other words, “The Dark Knight” has become a billion-dollar box office juggernaut, but whe...

By Graeme McMillan If You Loved The Denseness Of Watchmen: If You Loved The Adult Approach To Superheroes: If You Loved The Near-Future Setting Of Watchmen: 100% If You Loved The Cold War World-building of Watchmen: The Dark Knight Returns If You Want A More Optimistic Period Piece About Superheroes:

By Scott Eric Kaufman Same thing I did with The Dark Knight, only this time about the fourth issue of Watchmen. The same caveats apply. In Making Comics, Scott McCloud argues that there are six means of transitioning from one panel to the next;... Same thing I did with The Dark Knight, only this time about the fourth is...

By Scott Thill Is Watchmen Director Zack Snyder Really 'Visionary'?Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League and Making MagicArchaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave GibbonsReview: Alan Moore's Seminal Swamp Thing ResurfacesAlan Moore Will Be 'Spitting Venom All...

By Alex Billington So the story goes that at the San Diego Comic-Con last year, during the Watchmen panel, Zack Snyder said that he "would love to see Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns made into a movie." Following all the hype surrounding that statement, Frank Miller was asked if he would give Zack his bless...

By Alex Billington An interesting update today regarding Warner Brothers and the DC Comics side of things. While that does include Watchmen, that's not exactly what this is about. IESB recently talked with David S. Goyer, who is credited for coming up with the story in The Dark Knight. When asked about the statu...

By David Bentley The movie, an adaptation of an acclaimed graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, is shaping up to be another smash hit following Warner's mammoth success with The Dark Knight. But what does this latest ruling mean? Will we ever get to see the Watchmen movie?

By Greg Hatcher Unless you were watching the old Marvel made-for-TV movies in the 1970’s like I was, I don’t think you have any idea how glorious it felt for this aging fan to see these characters realized on the big screen with such care and affection. 3. The Dark Knight. 2. Comics scholarship.

By WebMaster That meeting, which will determine the bake-off selections, is slated to occur in December. Until then, speculation will continue as to whether "WALL-E" will go up against VFX heavyweights such as Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight" and Paramount's "Iron Man."

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By Simon Comic book fans are truly blessed this year with a bevy of great comic book movies. From The Dark Knight to Iron Man to Hellboy 2 and even the under-rated Incredible Hulk we've been lucky this year. Now there has been a lot of talk that The Dark Knight is the greatest super hero movie of all time bu...

By Kevin Kelly We were invited to a Warner Bros. event tonight to see 26 minutes worth of footage from the Watchmen film that’s due out on 03.06.09 next year, and it was pretty impressive stuff. Even the ice cold comic book fan inside of me enjoyed it, and I didn’t think The Dark Knight was worth all the hype every...

By Travis The story itself actually reminds me a little of Maus, the only comic book to ever receive a Pulitzer prize. Maus was a great read, and most people who have been around comics long enough have probably heard of it almost as much as Watchmen and the Dark Knight Returns. In Testament, no matter wh...

By Alex Billington Watchmen and Star Trek are amazing too, but Dark Knight, I think, it's just an imminently watchable film. I saw that movie 5 times in the theater and I was never bored once," Smith recalled. "I would probably give the edge to The Dark Knight, personally, just because I love that movie so much. An...

By ComicList THE VE GUYS SAY: It's the summer of the comic book movies...and we finally take a look at the biggest of them all: The Dark Knight. But before we share our thoughts on Batman's big return to theaters, we also review Wanted and Hellboy 2. Plus, Kevin takes a look at the new Watchmen Motion Comics.

By Joe Rice Dark Knight failed for me as a superhero movie, mostly for taking itself too serious as you have pointed out ... Dark Knight failed for me as a superhero movie, mostly for taking itself too serious as you have pointed out ... I'd argue the opposite, it looks like it's ... At August 13, 2008, Dave wrote:

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Remember that teaser trailer that was attached to The Dark Knight? No, not Watchmen. Nope, not Terminator. I’m talking about the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Body of Lies follows a former journalist who is hired by the CIA to track down an Al Qaeda leader. You probably di...

By Kevin Melrose • Can The Dark Knight unseat Titanic as the top-grossing film of all time in North America? Okay, $600.8 million may be a little out of reach, but The Dark Knight will likely reach $400 million early next week, setting it up to surpass Star Wars and Shrek 2 to grab the No. 2 spot. [Variety]

By Glass Being the comic fan I am, I felt required to feature a small article on the upcoming movie 'The Watchmen'. It's trailer was first shown during The Dark Knight and if you sat there watching it going "this looks stupi- why are some people clapping??"; it's because The Watchmen was to comics lik...

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 CA - Jul 21, 2008 saw The Dark Knight over the weekend, you probably caught the trailer for Watchmen, the upcoming film adaptation of Alan Moore's seminal graphic novel. ...

 Canada - Jul 17, 2008 By Hervé St-Louis Film goers will be able to watch a new teaser trailer about the film adaptation of the Watchmen comic book, featured just before the The ... Watchmen trailer! JoBlo.com all 2 news articles

By Alex Billington Discover More: Hype, Movie News There is one thing that everyone should be excited to see this weekend on top of The Dark Knight - the first Watchmen trailer. I happened to get an early look at it this week and it truly took my breath away. But alas, that will officially launch at 9PM PST on Thursd...

Despite the rise of the so-called graphic novel over the past few decades—self-contained, morally complex comic series like Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns—comic books are still widely regarded as kiddie stuff. And when X-Men and Spider-Man recently...

By Michael May In an essay in the back of Less Than Heroes, David Yurkovich claims that his book was inspired by the simpler, more fun- and adventure-filled comics of yesteryear. Comics that were made before Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen left their permanent influence on everything that came after. W...

Week of March 14th 2007 Corrections and Clarifications: 1. Jeff Bridges' part in Iron Man 2. Maggie Gyllenhal in talks for The Dark Knight 3. Bruce Timm is in the clear for Braniac Attacks 4. Teen Titans really is cancelled 5. Bionic Woman lead actress 6. TMNT voice cast 7. The original JLA lineup Pl...