Tag: Watchmen
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Regina King’s ‘One Night in Miami,’ Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Human Voice’ Added to Venice Lineup
Regina King’s directorial debut “One Night in Miami” and Pedro Almodovar’s Jean Cocteau adaptation “The Human Voice,” starring Tilda Swinton, have been added to the lineup of the Venice Film Festival’s upcoming 77th edition.Both additions will screen out-of-competition.“One Night in Miami,” to which Amazon Studios recently acquired worldwide rights, takes place in 1964 and follows…
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Venice adds Regina King’s ‘One Night In Miami’, Pedro Almodóvar short ‘The Human Voice’
Both titles will play out of competition at the 77th edition of the festival.Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice and Regina King’s directorial debut One Night In Miami have been added to the lineup of the 77th Venice Film Festival, where they will both play out of competition.One Night In Miami marks the directorial debut of…
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Watchmen Screenwriter Says Darren Aronofsky Came Up With Film’s Ending, And Paul Greengrass’s Version Was Set In Present Day
Zack Snyder‘s 2009 “Watchmen” is largely considered to be the most faithful comicbook film adaptations of all time, nearly to a fault. Though virtually identical to the original graphic novel, critics of the time found the source material didn’t translate too well to film.Read More: Regina King Doesn’t Think ‘Watchmen’ Season 2 Can Happen, But…
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Superhero Bits: Rorschach Getting a ‘Watchmen’ Spin-Off Comic, ‘The Avengers’ Video Game Beta Release & More
Did you hear Watchmen is getting a spin-off comic focusing on Rorschach? When can players who pre-ordered The Avengers video game start playing the beta? Why didn’t Cottonmouth appear beyond the first season of Luke Cage? Would you believe there was a Batman Begins TV spot featuring Nickelback music? Will The Eternals introduce Atlantis to…
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‘Watchmen’ director Nicole Kassell, Participant team on fishing industry exposé (exclusive)
Project marks acclaimed director’s third feature.Nicole Kassell, riding high after her work on Emmys contender Watchmen, is teaming up with Participant to direct Silver Seas, a feature about the Pulitzer Prize-winning female reporters who exposed slavery in the southeast Asian fishing industry.AP journalists Esther Htusan, Robin McDowell, Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza became the first…
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‘Watchmen’ Season 2: Damon Lindelof Still Wants Someone Else to Take Over
Watchmen, last year’s HBO series overseen by Lost and The Leftovers showrunner Damon Lindelof, was a miraculous piece of storytelling that pushed the envelope in terms of what a sequel to a beloved property could be. It also happened to be remarkably prescient in terms of topics like race and police brutality, which are obviously…
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LeBron James is Producing a Documentary About the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
If you watched HBO’s Watchmen series, you were possibly surprised to learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that unfolded in the Oklahoma neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as the “Black Wall Street.” Somehow, one of the biggest incidents of racial violence in the history of America was used to kick off the…
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Regina King Doesn’t Think ‘Watchmen’ Season 2 Can Happen, But Says “The Possibilities Are Infinite”
The moment “Watchmen” ended, everyone and their genetically-engineered lynx started asking if there would be a season 2. No matter how many times show creator Damon Lindelof said that he only intended the show to last nine episodes, there remains the possibility that HBO‘s hunger for more money overcomes the creative decision to give the…
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HBO Is Making All of ‘Watchmen’ Available for Free This Weekend
If you didn’t catch up with HBO’s stunning adaptation of Watchmen last fall, now’s your chance to do so—for free! The pay cable channel announced today that beginning June 19th through June 21st, you’ll be able to watch all nine incredible episodes of Watchmen for free on HBO.com and Free On Demand, “as an extension…
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‘True Detective’ Creator Nic Pizzolatto Reveals His Seriously Wild Batman Story Idea
Prepare for your mind to absolutely boggle because the next sentence is gonna throw you for a loop. On Friday, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto unveiled a pitch for a new Batman comics storyline where he ends up killing God and Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof vehemently co-signed the idea. So, yeah, this is a thing…