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WATCHMEN DVD/Blu-ray Director's Cut To Run Three Hours, 10 Minutes!
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... cuts for the DVD/Blu-ray release. The theatrical cut - which you'll be seeing in less than three weeks! - clocks in at 156 minutes. The Director's Cut will run 190 minutes. And then there will be a cut splicing in "Tales of the Black Freighter" that will run a whopping 205 minutes. Wow. This has been expected, but it's the first confirmation we've received since Snyder finished the film. For more information on what will be included in the Director's Cut, keep dropping in on this story at Collider.com.
'Watchmen' To Run 3 Hours And 25 Min On DVD; Contentious Squid Does Makes Small Appearance
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... Some people are already grumbling about the excessive length of Zack Snyder's alleged carbon-copy xerox of Alan Moore's "Watchmen" graphic novel. Those who want even more and more should be happy though. An excitable Collider write: ...
Lay It On
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Lay It On Late yesterday afternoon on CHUD Steve Weintraub reported on a chat with Watchmen director Zack Snyder , and the big news is that Watchmen DVD/Blu-ray will have two much longer versions of the film. One will be a 3 hour and 10 minute director's cut and another cut with "Tales of the Black Freighter" that will run 3 hours and 25 minutes. The theatrical cut runs 2 hours and 36 minutes .
Listen: 'Watchmen' Screenwriter Compares Fox to Satan
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... So ... we should assume this Hayter won't be penning any future X-Men movies for Fox then? Whaddya think? In other Watchmen news, Collider confirmed that the Watchmen DVD will have a Director's Cut that's 3 hours and 10 minutes, and another cut with Tales of the Black Freighter mixed in which will run at 3 hours and 25 minutes. FINALLY ... check out four Watchmen clips after the jump ... ...
‘Watchmen’ DVD will have extended cut!
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Steve Weintraub of Collider.com got an opportunity to speak with director Zack Snyder regarding ‘Watchmen’ and the following AWESOME news came straight from the man’s mouth…
[Steve has updated his article to include a transcript of his conversation with Zack and Debbie Snyder. Read it here!
While the theatrical version of the film is only 2 hours and 36 minutes in length, Snyder told Weintraub that the DVD/Blu-Ray release will have not one, but two extra versions of the movie! Snyder's 3 hour and 10 minute ...
Watchmen DVD/Blu-ray Details Revealed
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... cut) will hit stores in late July, around the time San Diego Comic Con kicks off. The second version of the DVD/Blu-ray (featuring the director’s cut of the film spliced with the Black Freighter scenes) will hit stores in the fall of 2009, date TBD.
So what do you think: Are you satisfied with options currently on the table, or do you feel Warner Bros. is trying to push too many versions of Watchmen on us?
Source: Collider ...
Who Watches the 'Watchmen' 3 1/2 Hour DVD?
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Let's fast forward a couple weeks. You're walking out a showing of Watchmen, thankful the movie met at least some of your expectations, and even more thankful to be free of the packed theater's body odor haze. You're thinking, "I'm the kind of guy or girl who buys movies on discs for home enjoyment. How many versions of this am I going to have to buy?" So let me tell you: Zack and Debbie Snyder told Collider the first release, which will likely contain the theatrical version and a 3:10 director's cut, will come out around Comic Con (late July, for ...
Watchmen Director’s Cut Planned For Theatrical Release in July
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... Collider has confirmed that the directors cut will be three hours and ten minutes in length and that the “Crazy Ultimate Freaky Edition” will be three hours and 25 minutes long. Sounds good, huh? Perhaps it is. Or perhaps Watchmen isn’t worth any of your anticipation at all. I mean… can Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s masterwork truly be done justice in a single movie? ...
The Long and Treacherous Road to 'Watchmen'
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... Of course this comes on the heels of a reveal from Collider who got word the director's cut will hit DVD and Blu-ray in July and will then be followed by what Snyder has called a "Crazy Ultimate Freaky Edition" in the fall boasting such time-omitted extras as Tales of the Black Freighter, Hollis Mason's death, more Manhattan moments on Mars and dialogue-heavy scenes with the newsstand-bonding Bernies. ...
Newsbites: The comics and superheroes edition!
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... : the 156-minute version coming to theatres in two weeks, a 190-minute "director's cut" on DVD, and an even longer 205-minute "ultimate edition" on DVD that will include footage from the story-within-the-story Tales of the Black Freighter. Meanwhile, early reviews are trickling in, and they are not mixed so much as they are sharply divided. -- Collider.com ...
First Look at the Features and Box Art for WATCHMEN - THE ULTIMATE CUT
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... Warner Bros. just sent out the sellsheet of the upcoming “Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut” and it confirms what we already heard: “The Ultimate Cut” has the “Tales of the Black Freighter” animated short film woven into the Director’s Cut. This new cut will also have two new commentaries from Director Zach Snyder and Illustrator Dave Gibbons. According to the sellsheet, the Ultimate Cut runs 3 hours and 35 minutes. ...
