If you live in Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis and Dallas you will be able to catch the director’s cut of “Watchmen” on the big-screen.
Warner Brothers announced that it will give the director’s cut of “Watchmen” a one-week limited theatrical run before the movie hits DVD and Blu Ray. The screenings will take place a week before the movie hits shelves on July 21.
The rollout will culminate with a special screening July 25 at Comic-Con that 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.
“Comic-Con, it isn’t just comic book fanatics, it’s cinephiles as well. It’ll be cool to discuss what people are thinking,” Snyder said. The day was designed to showcase a bonus Blu-ray feature called Maximum Movie Mode as well as features to be seen in Snyder’s Blu-ray release of “300: The Complete Experience.”
The rerelease is unusual given that “Watchmen” wasn’t the blockbuster Warner Brothers hoped for at the box-office.
Lejon from Chandler says
Damn It – Phoenix never rates on these things.
We have little better to do than go to an Air Conditioned theatre in our 110° heat.
Sheesh!
Robin says
Again with a limited-run geek movie leaving out Boston! There are so many colleges here. We have a very high concentration of nerds itching to spend money on exactly this sort of thing.
And I’m not going to be in NYC again until October. ::pout::
Jason says
As someone who lives in Phoenix, AZ it always sucks when we aren’t “cool enough” to get the big premiers or really any big events in the world of film.