"Watchmen" Exclusive Footage, iPhone & iPod touch App, behind the Scenes Podcasts, Trailers and More Available Exclusively on iTunes.BURBANK, Calif. -- Who is Watching the Watchmen? Beginning today, iTunes customers can watch special "Watchmen" features exclusively available as free downloads on the iTunes Store The iTunes Store is an online business run by Apple Inc. which sells media files that are accessed through its iTunes application. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28 2003, it proved the viability of online music sales. (www.itunes.com). Available starting today (12/9) on iTunes and the Apple App Store at www.itunes.com/watchmenmovie are: an exclusive "Watchmen" film sequence, previously only shown at San Diego's Comic-Con Convention; the Essential Watchmen app for iPhone and iPod touch A flash-based iPod from Apple that was modeled after the iPhone. It is essentially a thinner iPhone without the phone capability and uses a touch screen for navigation rather than the illustrious click wheel. Like the iPhone, the only physical button displays the main menu. ; multiple behind-the-scenes video journal podcasts; film clips; trailers; and other features exploring the creation of one of the most anticipated films of 2009. Additionally, original Motion Comic Episodes are available on iTunes for individual download or through a season pass. Warner Premiere's Motion Comics are a new way for comic fans to connect with their favorite characters and the stories they know and love through short-form digital content. They draw on a deep reservoir of source material to bring a new visually engaging experience to life through the use of subtle movements, voice-overs, sweeping music scores and stunning comic book comic book Bound collection of comic strips, usually in chronological sequence, typically telling a single story or a series of different stories. The first true comic books were marketed in 1933 as giveaway advertising premiums. artwork. New and exclusive content will be continually added to the iTunes store through the release of the film. "Watchmen" opens nationwide on March 6, 2009. A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, "Watchmen" is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is set at five minutes to midnight Five Minutes to Midnight is an international youth-led project working to educate young people about human rights and international issues. About This program started in Toronto, has since grown and is now active on all continents and in over 22 countries. . When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante vigilante n. someone who takes the law into his/her own hands by trying and/or punishing another person without any legal authority. In the 1800s groups of vigilantes dispensed "frontier justice" by holding trials of accused horse-thieves, rustlers and shooters, and Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag rag·tag adj. 1. Shaggy or unkempt; ragged. 2. Diverse and disorderly in appearance or composition: "They're a small ragtag army of racketeers, bandits, and murderers" group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanityObut who is watching the Watchmen? "Watchmen" is directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay is by David Hayter and Alex Tse, based upon the graphic novel co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics. Herbert W. Gains and Thomas Tull are the executive producers, with Wes Coller serving as co-producer. The film stars Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Silk Spectre II; Billy Crudup as Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan; Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias; Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter, aka Silk Spectre; Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach; Stephen McHattie as Hollis Mason, aka Nite Owl; Jeffrey Dean Morgan Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born April 22, 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actor. Morgan became well known in 2006 for playing three high-profile recurring roles simultaneously: patient Denny Duquette on Grey's Anatomy, patriarch John Winchester on as Edward Blake, aka the Comedian; and Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg, aka Nite Owl II. Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Pictures and Paramount Pictures present, in Association with Legendary Pictures, a Lawrence Gordon/Lloyd Levin Production, a Zack Snyder Film, "Watchmen" based on the award-winning graphic novel. "Watchmen" will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures and internationally by Paramount Pictures. Watchmen has been rated R by the MPAA MPAA abbr. Motion Picture Association of America for strong graphic violence, sexual content, nudity and language. |
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