What's this? It's looking like Warner Bros. is considering paying Fox a bunch of money to go away so they can release WATCHMEN on March 6, 2009? Why, who could ever have seen that coming?
Though I am 100% in agreement with anyone who says 20th Century Fox is currently being run by a pack of movie-loathing... not-nice-people (and agree in spirit with producer Lloyd Levin's open letter), the bottom line in this unfortunate matter has always been that WB either performed shoddy due diligence or foolishly thought the town's most ruthless legal department wouldn't track them down for free money. Regardless, they're going to (reluctantly) fork over the dough, and you're going to get WATCHMEN in the first week of March. The only change from a year ago? It'll take WB much longer to turn a profit on this particular picture (provided it's as wonderful as we all hope it will be). Somehow, theywillendure.
But please feel free to boycott all of Fox's 2009 releases on general principle. Not that "avoiding predictably awful movies" counts as much of a boycott.
For further reading, here's The Hollywood Reporter with producer Larry Gordon's say on the matter (you can read Gordon's entire letter here).
