THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: The Fake Shemp on January 15, 2009, 09:39:24 PM
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Geeks can now rejoice.
Warner Bros. and Fox have resolved their dispute over "Watchmen," with the studios scheduled to present the settlement to Judge Gary Feess on Friday morning and request that the case be dismissed.
Terms of the agreement will not be disclosed, but it is said to involve a sizable cash payment to Fox and a percentage of the film's boxoffice. Fox will not be a co-distributor on the film, nor will it own a piece of the "Watchmen" property going forward. The studios are set to release a joint statement announcing the agreement Friday.
A Warners spokesperson would not comment on the settlement. A Fox spokesman said no final deal had been reached.
Fox sued Warners in February, claiming copyright infringement based on agreements the studio had with producer Larry Gordon. Feess ruled on Dec. 24 that Gordon did not secure the proper rights to "Watchmen" from Fox before shopping the project and eventually setting it up with Warners. Feess' decision prompted settlement talks to heat up because Warners faced the prospect of an injunction stopping its March 6 release of the $130 million comic book adaptation.
While Gordon is not a party to the case, Warners is said to be pursuing the producer and his attorneys to reimburse it for the costs of the settlement. During the course of the litigation, Gordon's then-attorney admitted that he negotiated Gordon's 1994 separation from Fox without knowing about a pre-existing 1991 agreement on which Fox has based its lawsuit.
The rare showdown between studios became particularly nasty in recent weeks, with Gordon and the film's other producer, Lloyd Levin, lashing out at Fox for making a claim on the film. Fox repeatedly has stated that it asserted its "Watchmen" rights before Warners began production on the film and that it sued only when its assertions were ignored.
With the settlement giving Fox a piece of "Watchmen's" revenue, the studio now has a rooting interest in the film's success.
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WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING BATMAN DVDS!?
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WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING BATMAN DVDS!?
Would you really watch it?
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TVC just wants to finance Adam West's motor home.
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It'll be good, like B+ good.
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Terminator 4 will probably end up being a better movie and that one is being directed by a guy call mcg.
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Do his parents actually call him McG?
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Do his parents actually call him McG?
Joseph McGinty Nichol. They probably call him Joe.
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WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING BATMAN DVDS!?
Would you really watch it?
I would. :-*
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Why doesn't he just go by Joseph Nichol. McG like the name of a pompous jerk.
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Why doesn't he just go by Joseph Nichol. McG like the name of a pompous jerk.
According to Wiki, blame it on his family.
He was nicknamed McG from birth to differentiate him from his uncle and grandfather, also named Joe.
Way to go, Nichol family. You fuckers.
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Child protective services should've hauled him from such an abusive environment, well before he made Charlie's Angels.
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That settles it, Willco.
What's your middle name? Can you devise some douchey nickname from it? That's your key to success in Hollywood.
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WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING BATMAN DVDS!?
Would you really watch it?
I would. :-*
I would too, I grew up on that shit. I even had the viewmaster Batman stuff :-*
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WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING BATMAN DVDS!?
Would you really watch it?
I would. :-*
I would too, I grew up on that shit. I even had the viewmaster Batman stuff :-*
I loved the old show growing up, but man, I don't think I'd purposely sit down to watch it.
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That settles it, Willco.
What's your middle name? Can you devise some douchey nickname from it? That's your key to success in Hollywood.
Benjamin. :-\
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BenJ!
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Benjew-jewco is better, but I think wilco needs to go black and put out a rap CD in order to pull it off.
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Or Jewmin.
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Howsabout Willie-Benji?
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Is it true that this really was a fight over the rights to the Batman TV series DVDs?
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Is it true that this really was a fight over the rights to the Batman TV series DVDs?
...but nobody wants to watch that shit.
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Well, hopefully the movie doesn't suck.
I do agree, the fourth Terminator actually looks good from the trailers. Something tells me, in the back of my mind, that I will be disappointed A LOT this year in terms of cinema.
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Well, hopefully the movie doesn't suck.
I do agree, the fourth Terminator actually looks good from the trailers. Something tells me, in the back of my mind, that I will be disappointed A LOT this year in terms of cinema.
The big blockbusters this year look pretty mediocre >:(
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Do his parents actually call him McG?
Sounds like something you'd order off the dollar menu. :yuck
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Well, hopefully the movie doesn't suck.
I do agree, the fourth Terminator actually looks good from the trailers. Something tells me, in the back of my mind, that I will be disappointed A LOT this year in terms of cinema.
The big blockbusters this year look pretty mediocre >:(
Star Trek - Probably a fun movie
Wolverine - Lots of action, but probably mediocre
Terminator Salvation - Could be decent
Up - MOTY
Transformers 2 - More of the same
G.I. Joe - Lots of campy action, probably laughably bad
Watchmen - Probably will be better than most comic movies
Avatar - :bow James Cameron :bow2
The Brothers Bloom - Should be good
Taking of Pelham 123 - Should be good
Harry Potter - Should be at least decent
This year is at least as good as last year, if not better.
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Is it true that this really was a fight over the rights to the Batman TV series DVDs?
...but nobody wants to watch that shit.
speak for yourself, i'd stomp all over every box set of some new trendy show to get at a batman set
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I'm being cautiously anticipatory about Avatar, the new Terminator, and Watchmen.
Harry Potter will be good considering that the last one was good, so I don't have to worry about that since the same director is working on it.