According to a report by Variety, Lloyd Levin, the producer of the hit DC/Vertigo adaptation of Alan Moore’s “Watchmen,” has acquired the screen rights to “Echo”, a comic book series by the acclaimed Terry Moore. Moore is known for his critically-acclaimed self-published indie comic “Strangers In Paradise,” which ran from 1993 to 2007. besides last year’s “Watchmen”, Levin has also produced both “Hellboy” films, with producer Larry Gordon.
“Echo”, which debuted in 2008, is about photographer Julie Martin, whose personal life is in shambles until the day she is accidentally doused in a type of liquid metal from a military experiment gone wrong. She discovers that [...]

To complete your WATCHMEN experience, Warner Bros. is releasing a companion home movie to the film entitled WATCHMEN: Tales of the Black Freighter, coming to Blu-Ray/DVD on March 24, 2009.
Tales of the Black Freighter is an amazing animated short film that brings WATCHMEN’s comic-within-the-comic to life! Narrated by 300’s Gerard Butler, Tales of the Black Freighter is a gut-wrenching tale full of pirates, sharks, and doom & gloom that foreshadow the coming events of WATCHMEN. It definitely puts the “GORY” in allegory. Needless to say, it is a must-have for all WATCHMEN fan boys (and girls). The disc also features another short, Beneath the Hood, which provides a back-story of [...]

Walt Disney Pictures recently released this brand new movie trailer from the upcoming film “Race to Witch Mountain” by director Andy Fickman (The Game Plan) and starring Carla Gugino (Watchmen, The Unborn), Dwayne Johnson (Tooth Fairy, Planet 51), AnnaSophia Robb, Cheech Marin (Angel of Oxnard, Lost) and Christine Lakin.
Synopsis: For years, stories have circulated about a secret place in the middle of the Nevada desert, known for unexplained phenomena and strange sightings. It is called Witch Mountain, and when a Las Vegas cab driver (Dwayne Johnson) finds two teens with supernatural powers in his cab, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of an adventure he can’t explain. When they [...]

Watch a brand new Spill.com movie review of the action film “Watchmen” by director Zack Snyder (300, Dawn of the Dead) and starring Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode.
Synopsis: “Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” - which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and [...]

Warner Bros Pictures released this clip “We Can Save The World” from the action film “Watchmen” by director Zack Snyder (300, Dawn of the Dead) and starring Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode.
Synopsis: “Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” - which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a [...]

Here’s a funny animation from the folks at Newgrounds.com entitled “Saturday Morning Watchmen” based on the Watchmen comic book. Hans Van Harken and Josh Tomar voice Ozymandias and Bubastis, all other voices, music and animation by Harry Partridge (aka HappyHarry).
Currently in theaters from Warner Bros. Pictures “Watchmen” by director Zack Snyder (300, Dawn of the Dead) stars Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode.
Synopsis: “Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” - which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union - is [...]

For the first time on television, two of the best known movie bloggers will square-off about one of the most anticipated movies of the year - “Watchmen,” offering two very different perspectives on the film.
Drew McWeeny of HitFix, formerly Moriarty from Aint it Cool News, and David Poland from Movie City News will join “Attack of the Show” live, in the studio for a very special roundtable debate.
“Watchmen” by director Zack Snyder (300, Dawn of the Dead) stars Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode.
Don’t miss this special event Monday at 7pm only on G4.
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the [...]

The good folks over at G4tv.com sent us this hilarious spoof from AOTS of the upcoming film “Watchmen” by director Zack Snyder (300, Dawn of the Dead) and starring Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Goode.
The omnipresent, omniscient, omniannoying Dr. Manhattan pays a little visit to the Attack of the Show set interjecting his own erudite BS into the show’s proceedings. It’s good stuff.
Series Synopsis: Attack of the Show (or “AOTS”)–the self-proclaimed “show that gets it before it gets out”–is a signature show of G4, the video game network.
There’s the inside track, and then there are those who [...]

Days before the movie Watchmen is even released, the movie has already set a new record: the highest number of theaters to play an R-rated film ever, with 3,611 screens.
The Zack Snyder-helmed comic book adaptation will play in 1,600 locations Thursday at midnight, which is 656 more than Snyder’s movie 300 had for its midnight shows.
Snyder’s first night earnings for 300 was the second-highest ever for an R-rated movie with $28 million, with Warner Bros’ 2003 hit The Matrix Reloaded in the number one spot, earning over $42.5 million its opening night.

The Matrix Reloaded had a 3,603-theater distribution for its entire run.
Warner Bros. Distribution President Dan Fellman said [...]

Check out two exclusive, brand-new clips of the mysterious masked Rorschach form the upcoming comic book adaptation “Watchmen” right here:
Based on the award-winning and much-beloved 1980’s graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, “Watchmen” is about a dark alternate time, where a group of former heroes attempt to deal with and shake off their many flaws and damaged psyches in order to investigate the death of one of their own, and in the process uncover a much bigger threat to the entire world. Written by Moore and drawn by Gibbons, the title ran in single issues as a limited series between 1986 and 1987 from DC/Vertigo Comics and [...]