The guys over at Collider were attending a press junket for Watchmen recently and made the savvy move of asking director Zack Snyder some pointed questions about what fans can expect to see from the Watchmen DVD/Blu-ray when it is released this summer - probably some time in early Aug

Aside from the Comedian and Rorschach (and maybe even Dr. Manhattan), I never really felt drawn into the characters in the film. They felt like, well, characters - instead of real people. I suppose it was almost akin to an Opera, where you're very aware of what you're watching as an observer. It was so obviously trying to honor the source material that you could actually TELL that's what it was do

Of course, in order to promote the film adaptation of a hallowed comic book like Watchmen , the filmmakers have to first win the approval of fanboys. To further that end, the Watchmen movie official website scored an exclusive interview with Watchmen illustrator and co-creator, artist Dave Gibb

Dave Gibbons: ...I am involved in reviewing various materials that are being produced in connection with the Watchmen movie...the motion comics...video games, new editions of the book, sculptures...I’m off in a few weeks to do a mini-tour with Zack to publicize the movie. I’m then doing a mini-tour of the UK to publicize the Watching the Watchmen book and a similar mini-tour of the US to do the same...I’ve also done pieces of licensing art, to get the definitive look of the movie characters...It’s often the case that this kind of work is done by people who aren’t connected with the original property, with the inevitable lack of authenticity and so on...hopefully my approach to it will filter through to the final products and they will be, to that degree, much more faithful to the original graphic no

But enough from me, what and who will YOU vote for? As stated, you can cast your votes over at Spike.com , and you can see if the winners match your picks when the Scream Awards 2009 air on October 27th this year on Spike

Zack: No. The Black Freighter version of the superhero movie games Tips|https://superheromoviespot.Com/, which we call the final cut or the ultimate cut – it has a marketed name that I don’t know exactly what it is. That version of the movie, because when we were up there we physically shot the in’s and out’s, scenes at the newsstand that go into the movie. There’s like scenes where our characters pass the newsstand and then we pick up action at the newsstand and it gets us into the Black Freighter….with shots that go into it and it comes to life and you follow the Black Freighter story and then come back into the movie. That version of the movie is the director’s cut with the Black Freighter intercut. That version sort of traces the structure of the Black Freighter that's integrated into the comic book… So that version is the 3 hour and 25 minute version. So you have all those in’s and out’s…but the director’s cut includes the Hollis death stuff, that’s just a lot more connective tissue…it’s hard for me to even remember exactly what’s in it. But it’s just a lot m

The interview is being done in three installments, with Dave Gibbons responding to fan-generated questions. We here at Screen Rant have shaved Part 1 of the interview down into nifty little cliff notes for your quick-reading pleas

The nominees have been announced for the fourth annual Scream Awards, held every year by Spike TV . The decisively more "fan-friendly" award ceremony (compared to the Oscars) honors films from the sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comic-book genres of movies, TV shows and comic books. The awards are described as, "the first and only global event of its kind," to honor those gen

Below is the list of a selection of the 32 categories from this year's Scream nominations. For those of you (all of you?) who want to have YOUR say on which film should win, you're in luck! Public voting for the awards has opened already and will run right up to October 17th. But before you head off to vote, here are some of the nomin

Also, nobody mentioned it in the Collider interview, but what about the Hollis Mason documentary Under The Hood ? It's going to be featured on the Black Freighter DVD/Blu-ray but it looks like it's not going to be spliced into the "ultimate cut" of Watchmen . That's kind of a drag: seeing Under The Hood mixed in with the theatrical film was something I was kinda looking forward to--even more than the Black Freighter scene

In 1991 enter producer Lawrence Gordon, a powerful Hollywood producer who was once a studio chief at 20th Century Fox and managed to secure the turnaround rights to Watchmen (remember, this means that Fox still owned the rights at a higher lev

Well now Zack Snyder has confirmed exactly what the Watchmen DVD/Blu-ray will and will not feature, so if you want to know just how much extra Watchmen you'll be getting for your buck, check out what Snyder had to

On top of The Hobbit - which is going to be one time-consuming, exhaustive challenge to say the least (just think about the pressure he's under to "get it right") - he also has found the time to plan and start writing a trilogy of vampire novels, has a four-picture deal with Universal to make a Frankenstein movie, an adaptation the classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five , a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie, and an adaptation of the vampire novel Drood . After that, Universal hopes to pin him down for his "pet project" At the Mountains of Madness . To put it simply: He's booked solid until at least 2