'Watchmen' Contracts & Court Documents

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Get Knee Deep in 'Watchmen' Legal Papers
Published 8/19/2008 at RopeofSilicon.com
Deadline Hollywood points us to Un Civil Society where you can download megabyte after megabyte of court documents from the 20th Century Fox vs. Warner Bros. Watchmen legal battle. You can read the Fox complaint, the Warner Bros. response, the disputed legal documents and the judge's order as laid down yesterday. You can even take a look at the original papers involving the trouble Warner Bros. had with The Dukes of Hazzard when the same judge that ruled on the Watchmen case granted a preliminary injunction on Dukes . You can check it all out ...

WATCHMEN STUDIO GRUDGE MATCH
Published 8/19/2008 by Scott Macaulay (noreply@blogger.com) at Filmmaker Magazine
... on the Variety discussion boards: Watchmen doesn't come out until March, but interest in this comic adaptation is already showing signs of being the kind of crossover phenomenon that hasn't been seen in a comics property in a long time. For those who want to dive into the nitty gritty of this case, Nikki Finke has posted a link to a PDF download. For those who want a quick summary, I recommend reading the first of her posts linked here, which includes a detailed timeline, and then a long comment in her discussion section by a poster going by the name of "Clearing Some Stuff ...