RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media "Watchmen" movie coming soon!!

Its a Schrodingers Cat ending. The fate of the world depends the random fat fingers of a fat kid in a grubby t-shirt. You are not supposed to know what happens. Anything could happen. That's the point (I always read it as an endorsement of the Comedian's philosophy, given the badge on the fat kid's sweater - the vagaries of life are funny, even in their extremes).

Moore talks a lot of shit, and jut cause he said there would not be a sequel, doesnt mean he (or someone else) wouldnt (and still wont) do it.

As has already been said, just look at things like Highlander and Terminator to see that movie studios hold ultimate power as to whether a film with no sequel potential, gets a sequel.

Not that it's a superhero film, but it is a genre tentpole, Terminator Salvation, PG-13 or R? WB wants PG-13, director McG wants R just like the originals. McG was outspoken about the ratings debacle at WonderCon 2009 who said he wants the Moon Bloodgood in the rain topless scene kept in the film. WB wants it nixed to comply with the PG-13 guidelines.

Man, 24, shoots and kills self in movie theater during 'Watchmen'

Police responded to the Regal Cinemas at Valley River Center just after midnight Monday. A man shot and killed himself during a showing of "The Watchmen."

EUGENE, Ore. -- A 24-year-old man shot and killed himself inside a movie theater at a shopping mall during a screening of the movie "The Watchmen" just past midnight Monday.

The report of a gun fired at the Regal Cinemas in Valley River Center mall came in at 12:15 a.m. Monday.

There were about 10 other people in the theater at the time, according to police. The victim, whose name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was seated in the back corner of the theater.

The closest person to the gunman was two rows away. No one else was injured.

Movie goers reported hearing a popping sound during the late-night showing. The manager contacted police.

Officers were on scene for about three hours.

I didn't know PCG was visiting Eugene...

The legal fallout from 'Watchmen' continues next month as attorneys for Warner Bros. and producer Larry Gordon have agreed on a date to begin mediation over the question of legal responsibility for the famous dust-up with 20th Century Fox over the rights to the film.

Regular readers will recall that Fox laid claim to the film late last year and triggered a legal battle that eventually lead to them receiving a payout from Warner Bros in order to clear the release of the film.

According to The Hollywood Repoter, on May 13, representatives for Warner Bros and Gordon will meet for nonbinding mediation with Daniel Weinstein to determine if Gordon should pay a portion of the Fox settlement and, if so, how much.

In a December 2008 ruling on the matter, federal judge Gary Feess admonished Gordon's lack of cooperation in the hearings and suggested that the producer's vague testimony hampered Warners' case.

Warners is said to be seeking full reimbursment from Gordon, arguing that he failed to secure the rights properly before taking the project to them. Gordon's side is said to be arguing that Warner was fully informed of the relationship with Fox and entered into the production with eyes wide open.

Fingers are also pointed at Gordon's former attourneys at Jake Bloom's law firm, who were involved with the 1991 agreement with Fox that became the lynchpin to thier case.

The bittersweet good news for either Warner and/or Gordon and/or Bloom, is that the film's underachievment at the box office means the payout to Fox is smaller than expected

I was disappointed with the directors cut. Alot of what they cut out is crap. Some shit was added in that had to do with Curse of the Black Freighter but COTBF isn't edited into the film.

The murder of Hollis Mason was fucking awesome though.

As discussed when the film first came out, if anything, the theatrical version should've been shorter.

I still want to see it with the pirate story in where it should be.

There is rumours (and strictly that) that there will be an ultimate edition at some point, that reintergrates Black freighter into the movie.

The theatrical version should have been the entire fucking story.

Unfortunately any movie made in Hollywood these days is geared for ticket sales rather than story and the art of film making.

I watched The Right Stuff last night. It is a long movie, but I love it.

It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World was over three hours and that was brilliant.

Amadeus had to have an intermission.

Today half of those movies would have only been seen that way on DVD, because the theater version is cut for the shit head who has trouble remembering what was happening to them 90 minutes ago.

Were being cheated at the cinema. Less movie, more money.

Don't you want to see the entire movie on the big screen, not just at home.

If not why not skip going all together?

I would have preferred a full-length episodic story. However, once they made the decision to make a movie there was no way to include everything from the book.

So we were left with some stuff, most notably the Rorshach origin, which didn't advance the story in the film and could've been cut to make a tighter film.

Similarly, I hate to say it but they could have cut the Hollis backstory all together and not hurt the film one bit.

You're the evil.

What losses?
Budget was $100,000,000, and it made $107,503,316 in the USA alone.
Factor in the rest of the worlds take, and DVD sales, and thats all profit!

Here we go again. Every time Nowie likes a movie, it made a "profit" or was a "hit" once we factor in DVD sales.

No movie he likes ever loses money in his world. Yet, according to at least one business magazine:

• Watchmen's budget is estimated to be $100 million-$125 million. The quick way to estimate the point at which a movie will break even, if you don't know its marketing budget or how much money various back-end deals will take away from the studio, is usually just to double its production budget [and] a movie has to make two and a half times its production budget in order to be considered financially successful.
  
  Erring on the conservative side of Watchmen's production budget, that means it has to make $200 million to $250 million domestically for Warner Bros. and Legendary to make a profit. Considering that Fox may get 8.5% of box-office revenues, this number may be higher.
  
  (Paramount's handling the overseas distribution, so Warner Bros. doesn't get any of the foreign box-office revenues.)

that has been debunked in several times even in court. That's the formula studios use to claim profit when issuing points(percentage takes) to artists. Eddie Murphy won some serious $$$ disproving that fallacy.