‘300′ Prequel Has a Title: ‘Xerxes’
Frank Miller is in full development mode with his ‘300′ follow-up, titled ‘Xerxes’, according to the LA Times Hero Complex. The story will take place 10 years prior to the events of ‘300.’
“It’s the battle of Marathon through my lens…I’ve finished the plot and I’m getting started on the artwork.”
Sounds good to us. Wonder how long it’ll be until Zack Snyder turns it into a film?
Many Watch the Watchmen at Midnight
Media By Numbers is reporting that the Watchmen movie earned an estimated $4.55 million during midnight showings of the film earlier today. Almost 1600 theatres showed the long awaited film based on the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons miniseries, including over 100 special screenings in IMAX. Every late night IMAX showing is said to have sold out, prompting several IMAX theatres to schedule an additional showing at 3:00 am in order to meet the demand.
Most box office forecasters are predicting that Watchmen will be the number one movie when the weekend is over. Entertainment Weekly is predicting that the film will earn over $75 million dollars. The Watchmen movie has already broken Zack Snyder’s late night screening ticket sales record of his last comic book movie, 300. When 300 premiered in 2007, it earned a gross of $2.5 million in midnight showing ticket sales. The movie went on to earn $70.9 million during its opening weekend.
Watchmen Director’s Cut May Play In Theaters
In a discussion panel during this year’s WonderCon 2009, Director Zack Snyder announced that the director’s cut version of the Watchmen movie could have a limited run in theaters. The director’s cut could hit the big screen as early as July. If and when the longer version of the film will run in theaters is dependent on the success of the shorter theatrical cut, which debuts on March 6th.
Regardless of how well the shorter version does at the box office, Snyder promises that the director’s cut would still be released on DVD sometime in the fall.
According to Geeks of Doom, some of the scenes that will appear in the director’s cut is footage documenting the role Edward Blake plays throughout American History and the death of the original Nite Owl.
