Judge Gary Allen Feess handed Warner Bros. a legal lump of coal on Christmas Eve, as he issued a brief ruling indicating 20th-Century Fox has the distribution rights to Watchmen, according to Variety. His five-page ruling said, “Fox owns a copyright interest consisting of, at the very least, the right to distribute the ‘Watchmen’ motion…
It’s little surprise that the Watchmen toped BookScan’s list of Top 20 Graphic Novels for November for the fifth month in a row. In a report at ICv2, it was noted the book actually hit the Top 10 list twice with the paperback edition of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ story atop the list and…
Ilex Press has announced a January release of Erotic Comics: A Graphic History (Volume 2) – From The 1970s to the Present Day. Former Vertigo editor Tim Pilcher returns for the second volume, with additional research by Gene Kannenberg, Jr, and the book sports a foreword by Alan Moore. Abrams ComicArts will release the book…
Imagine an inter-company “Crisis” style crossover that included The Muppets, The Incredibles, Farscape and even some of the cast of Cthulhu. Ok, farfetched, but all these titles from one company are not. We have the latest from Boom! Studios, plus: Four big sellouts and now variants coming from Marvel Who has the Best Death in…
A large portion of America is all about Hollywood. Who’s the new big star? What new movie is coming out? Which director will blow us away this year? Understandably, we have so many struggling artists – actors, singers, writers, directors all trying to find their big break – that it’s become cliche. Likewise, we comic…
Our generation’s favorite Boogey Man, Robert Englund, tells us where he’s been hiding recently, where he thinks the horror genre is headed, as well as his choices for some cool recent films you may not have heard of, plus: Alan Moore comes to DVD Chuck gets some love from NBC The Hulk heads to DVD,…
The New York Times is reporting that DC has ordered around 900,000 additional copies of Watchmen printed since the trailer for the film adaptation of the graphic novel debuted last month. Only 100,000 copies of the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons project sold last year, but DC’s president and publisher, Paul Levitz, says he expects…
The Watchmen posters that debuted at Comic-Con are now online, and dang– they’re just like the promo posters from the original miniseries. Don’t believe me? Compare and contrast: Larger versions of these images, as well as the rest of the promo posters, are posted after the jump.
Director Zack Snyder has said he’s trying to stay faithful to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen graphic novel, but that has left Snyder with a whole lot of material and a whole lot of cutting ahead of him. Slash Film does a good job of sorting through Snyder’s comments about his film adaptation, leading…
From a Wired article about the excessive success of this year’s Comic-Con is a little tidbit about the success of comics: Watchmen is now sitting at the top of Amazon’s fiction and literature sales list. DC has been printing up copies like mad to meet the demand, which is of course churned up by the…
It makes my fingers ache when I think about how long it must have taken to transcribe Daniel Whiston’s interview with Alan Moore (Watchmen, V For Vendetta), but it’s well worth a read for anyone interested in the legendary scribe’s approach to the craft of writing. Moore addresses his work on various prominent and a…
Alan Moore talks movies over at Entertainment Weekly, and — surprise, surprise — he remains not so thrilled about the adaptations of his work. Here’s a particularly good exchange on his falling-out with DC: Has Warner Bros. tried to contact you about Watchmen? No, they’ve all been told not to. They get the message…. I…
