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Watching the Watchmen : Part 5

The main characters in Watchmen are Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, The Comedian, Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan. Of these, it looks like Rorschach is getting the most attention in the blogosphere.

Watching Watchmen : Part 4

Do you have your tickets? There is a reasonable trend of people blogging about buying their tickets – enough to get me to go and buy mine tomorrow morning (luckily the cinema is in the same building as my office).

This graph made me happy:

Watching Watchmen : Part 3

It looks like some early screenings have been happening. A few tweets are reporting this:

• Just got out of #Watchmen. How incredibly epic!
• Just finished a Watchmen screening. Review to come soon. Taco Bell sure does go well with movies. #watchmen (clever shilling…)
• #Watchmen just ended. So dark it makes 'Dark Knight' look like Super Friends - suspect most friends will HATE it,.
• etc.

(get more from Twitter search.)

The Blogosphere has something to say about these screenings, though the posts are more forward looking (I’m going to see… rather than I’ve just seen.)

Watching Watchmen : Part 2

Ron Kass, of BoardTracker, kindly sent me a graph of posts in the message board space including the term 'Watchmen’. Compare with the previous post which showed weblog and Twitter attention around the film.

Watching Watchmen

BlogPulse shows a pretty sharp increase in blogging about Watchmen (coming out this Friday):

Twitter, according to Flaptor’s Twist, shows something of a more sedate ramp up (though I’m not sure what sort of sampling Twist is doing).

Unfortunately, BoardTracker doesn’t have any recent content for Watchmen (what’s up Ron?).

Quantum of Spock

It is fascinating to see the opening of a trailer getting more buzz than the host movie.

Update: Just found this picture that predates this post!

Quanta of Trailers

Some may be going to the cinema this weekend to see the new James Bond movie ‘A Quantum of Solace’. Others will be going to see a couple a key trailers for films to be released next year: Watchmen and Star Trek.

(please don’t change the ending of Watchmen…)

Angels and Demons (and Photosynth)

Sony Pictures have partnered up with MSN and are promoting the movie Angels and Demons with a competition which uses Photosynth (ex Live Labs). The initial site is up, which includes the trailer as well as a large synth of St. Peter’s Basilica. More details we be revealed on the site as the launch of the film approaches.

The competition is described on the site as follows:

In Angels & Demons, Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of a secret brotherhood know as the Illuminati. The four elements Earth, Air, Fire and Water are key clues that will lead Langdon on a path to Rome with the hopes of stopping an unthinkable crime.

Solve the puzzles in the Path Of Illumination Contest and you could win a trip to Rome and more!

The contest begins January 30, 2009.

Quantum of Solace

The next James Bond film is starting early with publicity, taking advantage of the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming. The Times has an interactive timeline and map (note an earlier BBC interactive tool from 2006).

The film will be release in November (IMDB, 007 site).

The Surprise of Success

I was intrigued by this comment captured by Wired writer David Germain:

"We knew it would be big, but we never expected to dominate the marketplace like we did," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., which released "The Dark Knight." The movie should shoot past the $200 million mark by the end of the week, he said.

The simple tea leaves of BlogPulse would have helped…