Weekend Box Office: Witch Mountain Pees On Watchmen’s Parade
By Stuart Heritage on Monday, March 16, 2009 at 2:00pm | Comments Off
Anyone with half a brain knew that Watchmen would open at number big in the weekend box office last week. The real question, though - the question that could potentially lead to other beloved comicbooks being adapted into spectacular big-budget movies - was whether Watchmen could keep the weekend box office number one spot.
It can’t. Almost 70% fewer people saw Watchmen this weekend. So there’ll be less movies like Watchmen in the future, and more like Race To Witch Mountain. Bad news for serious geeks, but great news for creepy, perpetually adolescent geeks.
Watchmen Utilises Blue Penis Power To Top Weekend Box Office
Watchmen is the frenziedly-anticipated, two decades in the making movie adaptation of an alarmingly revered comic book. So you’ll never guess what. Watchmen is the top weekend box office movie, outperforming all the other new movies like, um, oh. Watchmen was the only new movie in the US weekend box office this week.
Of course, Watchmen’s weekend box office success was probably down to
Zack Snyder, who the Watchmen posters describe as being a ‘visionary director’. Proof then that you’re a visionary if you can film lots of angry people doing crap in slow motion. Better luck next time,
Pythagoras.
Is There Going To Be A Watchmen 2? Um, Probably Not
When Watchmen is released next month, it'll be like Christmas come early for about 17 or so lonely spods.
But after Christmas always comes Boxing Day. That's the day when you're forced to eat leftovers and play with the toys you're already bored with. And for Watchmen fans, Boxing Day might just come in the form of Watchmen 2 - the Watchmen sequel that's been made up exclusively out the mind of a Hollywood executive who hasn't read the comic books or seen the film and thinks the whole thing is about a band of part-clock mutants.
Or not, according to Zack Synder.
Watchmen: Fox & Warner Bros Put Their Handbags Away
It would have been awful if Fox managed to block the release of this year's Watchmen movie, wouldn't it? Because what would we have to be disappointed about then? The weather? Our jobs? The way we can't grow a proper beard? No, Fox didn't want to just block Watchmen - it wanted to block our right to be chronically disappointed by Watchmen, and that wasn't on.
Luckily, though, the crisis has been averted. Fox and Warner Bros have resolved their legal squabble, and Watchmen is coming out as planned. That means our plan to slag it off before we've seen it remains intact! Yay!
Watchmen Saga Takes Another Interminable Twist
One of the movies that everyone is most looking forward to being profoundly disappointed by this year is Watchmen. That's if Watchmen is released this year, of course. Thanks to a petty squabble between Warner Bros (which made Watchmen) and Fox (which says it owns the rights to Watchmen), nothing looks certain any more. And now one of the movie's producers,
Lloyd Levin, has waded in on the issue by writing a letter calling everyone at Fox big old smellyheads. We're paraphrasing.
So Watchmen still might not be released this year. That's OK, we're sure we'll be just as disappointed by Terminator Salvation.
Watchmen Won’t be Watched by Men, if Fox Get Their Way
Everybody seems to be getting in on the comic book-to-movie adaptation thing, with easily one of the most anticipated being that of Watchmen. While normally this would be greeted with trepidation and a slight amount of fear, the sheer quality of the source material, combined with the fact that the film is supposed to actually be, y'know - good - has people sweating around the groin, awaiting next year's release.
That is, unless Fox have their way and ban the film from ever coming out.
Oh, we're not kidding here - that's what they're trying to do in the latest of legal battles that shows just how the company is actually forged from Satan's testicles themselves. There's evil, then there's Fox evil.