Tag: Directors Cut

‘Watchmen’ Uncut, for a Limited Time!

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It seems like ages since ‘Watchmen’ hit theaters and utterly amazed the fans, even if it feel short of the box office it deserved. With movie geeks the world over eagerly awaiting the film’s release on DVD and Blu-Ray, Zack Snyder is feeling extra generous. ‘Watchmen’ will be revealing it’s uncut glory for a limited time… theatrically!

Warner Bros. will release a very limited theatrical run of the director’s cut of ‘Watchmen’ for one week leading up to Comic Con in San Diego, complete with 25 minutes of additional movie, including the death of a supporting character. Now, when I saw very limited, I do mean VERY limited! The film will screen in Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis and Dallas… that’s it! I can hear plans of road trips being devised in movie geek’s minds already.

The one week run will culminate in a special screening on July 25 at Comic Con and has an added perk. Check this out…

[The Comic Con screening] … is designed to act as a BD-Live event, a Blu-ray feature that will allow any viewer in North America to watch the movie simultaneously as the audience at Comic-Con, see and hear Snyder comment on the movie, and even ask questions. The screening will then be archived and will be able to be accessed for future viewings.

‘Watchmen’ on DVD and Blu-Ray hits store shelves on July 21, 2009.

[source: Hollywood Reporter]

Where’s the love for ‘Nightbreed’?

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Back in 1990, a little horror film called ‘Nightbreed’ slipped under the radar of most, but still managed to become a cult favorite of genre fans. Directed by horror master and author Clive Barker, the film isn’t “perfect” but it’s still a great movie with tons of reasons to love it, including a cameo role by director David Cronenberg.

If you follow Clive, online or otherwise, you’ll realize there are always lots of questions thrown his way… about his books, about his movies and about the status of both, new and old. One of the most commonly asked questions regards this 1990 movie and whether we’ll ever see the DVD get re-released, preferably as a Director’s Cut (it’s known that much material was cut) and, maybe even Blu-Ray?

As it turns out, Fox currently still owns the rights to this film and thanks to a loyal fan named Mark Millar with an excess of free time, two key pieces of information have been revealed: the additional cut footage (long thought to have been lost) does still exist and is merely buried in some warehouse awaiting it’s resurrection and that any resurrection of ‘Nightbreed’ in any form is being blocked simply by some studio executive’s misguided notion that there isn’t a big enough fan base to warrant spending the money on a Director’s Cut, let alone an upgrade to Blu-Ray.

Here’s where the film stands currently: there’s only a single, bare-bones paper-case Region 1 DVD release that’s sorely outdated, there’s NO Region 2 DVD, and with 25 minutes of unused footage along with a very real possibility for a commentary and lots of bonus material, a Director’s Cut DVD/Blu-Ray release is certainly worth the fight. Below is the information from CliveBarker.info regarding the grass roots push for this to happen…

If you’re interested in showing the size of audience or demand for an extended version of Nightbreed, please either e-mail us by clicking on this link or send us a Tweet to @philandsarah (find us at our Twitter page here).

Just your name or screen name is fine but please feel free to add your country of residence and / or a sentence or two on why this would be a great idea. We’ll collate responses at the bottom of this page and build a picture of support for Nightbreed here!

[source: CliveBarker.info]

‘Watchmen’ DVD will have extended cut!

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Frosty at 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…

[Frosty 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 director’s cut AND the 3 hour and 25 minute extended cut, which will include the ‘Tales of the Black Freighter’ story arc, will both be on the DVD.

[source: Collider.com]