‘Watchmen’ legal fight settled
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. and Fox have resolved their dispute over Watchmen, with the studios scheduled to present a likely 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….
While [producer Lawrence] 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.
Boy, I wouldn’t like to be Gordon’s insurance company now…
In the meantime, it sounds like I will actually be able to see the film for my
Has anybody figured out how to make a blood stained smiley face emoticon?
(Hat tip: Mmike Wweber.)
That's spelt "mike weber", please… (Old story having to do with an ancient IBM electric typewriter with an oddball keyboard and a wonky shift…)
As you wish, sir. Fixed.
Ummm … "Mmike Wweber"?
You're not seeing the strikethrough on the capital letters? Weird. What browser are you using?
Opera. You know – the only 100% standards-compliant browser?But i'm not seeing it in Firefox, either, now that you ask.
Very weird– the tag is supported in Opera and Firefox, and I'm seeing them here. What platform? PC?
Yup.May be a character set question.Or it may be that i'm running Windows 7.
The fact that I'm actually reading this posts, leads me to wonder just how sad this conversation is.;-)
Hey, *you* know how pathetic you are … we can only guess.
i remember the days of Eclipse Comics, when their editor, cat yronwode, insisted that not only her name appear in lower case letter but also the pronoun, "i", but only when she was referring to herself. i wonder if mike weber capitalizes his pronoun. Maybe that's too personal (pronoun) a question.And i can see the strikethrough just fine on a PC running Google Chrome.cat yronwode recently had a job in the production department of Claypool Comics, but i don't know if Claypool is still producing comics. she remains a Colorful Character. http://www.luckymojo.com/cat.htmlher second husband, Dean Mullaney, is back in comics, producing Eisner award winning, hardbound collections of old newspaper strips for IDW.
Claypool is still around, even doing online strips: http://www.claypoolcomics.com/
"i wonder if mike weber capitalizes his pronoun."No, i don't. Actually, the "i" on the old IBM was what started it – the upper-case "i" (and a couple other keys upper-case) was messed up – i forget exactly how, as it was thirty-seven years ago – but it didn't work properly when cutting mimeo stencils.
Yay! My birthday is the same week as Watchmen's release date, so now I can see Wonder Woman and Watchmen for my birthday!