Sly Fox Captures The Bat
Tuesday September 23, 2008
First reported in the CBR column Lying in the Gutters by Rich Johnston, it appears that FOX, who actually owns the rights to the Watchmen movie, isn't after stopping the movie after all. According to Johnston, FOX is after the ability to release the 1960's Batman television series. FOX owns the rights to the show, but not the rights to characters, thus making them unable to release any DVD's to the public, something Batman collectors have wanted for quite some time now. I completely wondered why FOX would have waited so long to take Warner Bros to court, since they had to know about this deal for quite some time. Either this was a cunning move by FOX, or this was something that just fell into place for them. I'm thinking they were planning this all along, waiting for Warner Bros to be in a position where they needed to put out the movie in order to recoup all the money they have put into it. The weird thing is that comic fans should not only be able to see The Watchmen on schedule, but pick up some much sought after Batman DVD's as well. That was a slick move indeed.
Comments
I’m willing to sacrifice Watchmen for retro Batman DVDs anyday.
I’m probably in the minority.
Sweet! No holds on the Watchmen *and* retro Batman on DVD. With the Milwaukee Brewers going to the post season, life is good!
I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict (sight unseen) that the BATMAN DVD sets might be more profitable in the long-run than the WATCHMEN film.
I could be wrong, but I think the movie based on the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbins series will have a good opening week with decreasing box-office after that.
I think that unlike solo hero films (Batman, Iron Man, etc.) there might be too much going on in this movie for the non-comic geek.
I want my cake (Watchmen) and eat it too (DVDs)!