Black Freighter cover art

Cover Art For Watchmen's Black Freighter
By Rafe Telsch: 2009-01-31 05:21:11
http://www.cinemablend.com/dvdnews/Cover....hter-14928.html

Warner Brothers has released the cover art and more details for its Watchmen DVD tie-in, the adaptation of the comic-within-the-comic, Tales of the Black Freighter. Interestingly, the Gerard Butler voiced animated tale won’t be the only thing on the DVD. We’ll also be treated to Under the Hood, Hollis Mason’s look at how the costumed crusaders came into being. The second story will be a mix of live-action and CG and will feature the major players from the movie.

Tales of the Black Freighter will be available on both DVD and Blu-ray, and I have to say Blu-ray will be the better deal here. With both formats you get “Story Within a Story: The Books of the Watchmen,” which looks at the two shorts on the DVD and how they tie in with the movie. You also get a sneak peek at the “Watchmen Motion Comic” (chapter 1) and a “First Look” at the upcoming Green Lantern DVD. But Blu-ray purchasers also get a deleted scene from the Watchmen movie titled “The Two Bernies” and an additional featurette: “The ‘Why’ of the Watchmen,” which features director Zack Snyder. If you’re a hardcore Watchmen fan (and you probably are if you’re picking this up) those sound a lot more interesting than a first look at Green Lantern.

Check out a high resolution version of the cover art below. Tales of the Black Freighter will be in stores on March 24th.

Early Watchmen movie poster?

This poster which seems never to have been used in the Watchmen publicity campaign, was posted on the IMDb Watchmen board by Spineshank66620.

Days of Wrath at Film Festival

Women get big role at CineFest
By Elda Silva - Express-News Staff Writer
http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/38627977.html

For those of you around the San Antonio, Texas, area, here's your chance to see Days of Wrath.

EXCERPT:

And, in the case of "Days of Wrath," that voice is coming through in a genre typically dominated by men. Los Angeles-based filmmaker Celia Fox's directorial debut, "Wrath" is an action movie about L.A. gangs starring Wilmer Valderrama, Ricardo Chavira and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

CineFestival en San Antonio

* Where: Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St.
* When: Opens Thursday with a reception at 6:30 p.m.; runs through Feb. 8
* Admission: $6-$8 for individual screenings; $30 four-day pass. Call (210) 271-3151

Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Swank in Hammer's The Resident
Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles
29 Jan 2009 19:34
http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=42895&Category=


Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined Hilary Swank in Hammer Films' thriller The Resident, which will be available at next week's EFM in Berlin.

Hammer will produce for parent company Exclusive Media Group, the global company that combines Hammer and Los Angeles-based Spitfire Pictures and is backed by strategic investment Group Cyrte Investments. Exclusive Film Distribution is handling worldwide sales.

Morgan will play a seemingly charming landlord who obsesses over a new tenant, played by Swank. Antti J Jokinen is directing from a script he co-wrote with Robert Orr that was rewritten by Erin Cressida Wilson.

Exclusive Media Groups co-CEOs Simon Oakes and Nigel Sinclair are producing with Guy East while Swank serves as executive producer alongside Hammer's Tobin Armbrust and Alex Brunner and Tom Lassally of 3 Arts Entertainment.

Morgan will next be seen in Watchmen, set to open through Warner Bros on March 6. He also stars opposite Kirsten Dunst and Ryan Gosling in The Weinstein Company's upcoming romantic mystery All Good Things and The Weinstein Company's period mystery Shanghai, and recently wrapped production on Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock for Focus Features.

Morgan is represented by Theresa Peters of UTA, manager Rob Gomez of Precision Entertainment and attorney Stuart Rosenthal of Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette & Feldman.

Kim Manners Memorial

"In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to
The American Cancer Society in Memory of Kim (http://www.cancer. org).

Any correspondence for the Manners family may be mailed to:

Holly Ollis

Warner Bros. Television

4000 Warner Blvd.

Bldg 140, Rm 115

Burbank, CA 91522"


Thank you...and make sure the donation is made in Kim's name...

Last Watchmen Poster

From Coming Soon http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=52374



VERY nice.

'Supernatural,' 'X-Files' Producer Kim Manners Passes Away
Monday, January 26, 2009
Read the full article here: http://www.buddytv.com/articles/supernat....aspx?cf=1048576


A spokesperson from Supernatural confirmed that the show's director and executive producer Kim Manners passed away Sunday in Los Angeles due to complications from lung cancer.

Supernatural creator Eric Kripke released a statement saying, "Everyone at Supernatural is walking around in a daze, shocked and absolutely devastated. Kim was a brilliant director; more than that, he was a mentor and friend. He was one of the patriarchs of the family, and we miss him desperately. He gave so much to Supernatural, and everything we do on the show, now and forever, is in memory of him."




Rest well, friend.

We're Up and Running

The new Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Maniacs is now here!
http://www.jeffreydeanmorgansmaniacs.org went live last night. There were a few small glitches, but we now seem to be good to go!

The old Morgan's Maniacs site will be coming down in the next couple of days.

Morgan's Maniacs Site renewal

The main website at Morgan's Maniacs is temporarily down, because the new Morgan's Maniacs website is about to be launched.

Instead of morgansmaniacs.org, we'll be jeffreydeanmorgansmaniacs.org I hope we can get the new site up and running tomorrow!

Some new pictures of Jeff

There are several VERY nice pictures of Jeff, including this one



available here: http://www.greysgabble.com/?p=4831

Well, hello there Jeffrey Dean!

Two new pictures of Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Melanie Dunea's site here.

http://www.melaniedunea.com/main.php Click first on Portfolio and then Location, Jeff is numbers 1 and 7.

(And Sir Ian McKellan ain't looking too shabby his own rumpled self either!)

Watchmen Exclusive


From: http:// watchmencomicmovie.com The best Watchmen site on the web, in my opinion.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Craig Ferguson... TONIGHT!

Ok everyone, get ready to set your TiVo or your VCR's! Break out the no-doze! I just got the following!


Hello, All. Here's a little tidbit of exclusive JDM news to thank everyone for being so enthusiastic and helpful in spreading the word about DonateJDM and The Great Jeffrey Dean Birthday Project.

Jeff is doing Craig Ferguson tonight! The show airs at 12:35 EST on the CBS network, so be sure and tune in to catch up on all the news that is news.

Thanks again for all your enthusiasm and support. And remember: Jeff's birthday is coming up in just a few short months, so keep those donations rolling in!

Feel free to post this scoop anywhere JDM fans gather, or on your personal blogs and journals. If you can also post a link back to DonateJDM.org, that would be awesome, but we don't require it. Tune in tonight and have fun.

DonateJDM.org

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This very cool project is in full swing now, and will be ongoing until just before Jeff's Birthday, which is April 22nd.

Cancel the Winchesters...Denny ISN'T a ghost!

"Grey's Anatomy" surprise: Denny isn't a ghost
Hal Boedeker on Jan 16, 2009

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/enterta....-anatomy-s.html

LOS ANGELES -- It's not a ghost on "Grey's Anatomy."

This news comes from Steve McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment.

Fans have wondered what's going on between Izzie (Katherine Heigl) and dead Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Some viewers have complained the show has gone off the rails. McPherson defended the work of series creator Shonda Rhimes.

"When you get to end of the season, you see everything she had in mind," McPherson said. "It might not be your cup of tea, but I think you'll be surprised at how insightful and actually smart the story line itself is."

Watchmen Suit Settled

From: http://blogs.indystar.com/geek/2009/01/watchmen_suit_s.html

Feathers were ruffled, sabres were rattled, but this ending surprises absolutely no one.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. and Fox have reached a settlement in Fox's lawsuit over the distribution rights for the movie adaptation of 'Watchmen.' The movie will arrive on its originally announced release date of March 6.

With Warners reportedly giving cash and a percentage of the gross to Fox, all that's left is for both parties to take this to the judge tomorrow (Friday) and have him sign off on it. The details of the settlement will remain private -- Boooo! -- but considering the very public nature of the spat, you can count on them leaking out at some point.

New Grey's Anatomy Tonight

From The Futon Critic: http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings.aspx?id=20081222abc18

"Sympathy for the Devil"(#5.12) Derek's mother, Carolyn, makes a surprise visit to Seattle and meets Meredith for the first time, as Mark tries to conceal his relationship with Lexie from her as well; meanwhile, death row inmate William wishes to donate his organs to Bailey and Arizona's patient, as Owen and Cristina try to go on their first date, on "Grey's Anatomy," THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Special guest stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Denny and Tyne Daly as Carolyn.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Maniacs

After more than 15 years in Hollywood as a 'blue collar actor', the recurring roles of Denny Duquette on the hit medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and John Winchester on Supernatural brought Jeffrey Dean Morgan to the attention of upwards of 29 million viewers a week. Jeffrey has parlayed these popular roles into a burgeoning film career, with several movie projects either just released or soon to be on theater screens around the globe.

Coming Soon:

Watchmen

All Good Things

Shanghai

Taking Woodstock

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The Accidental Husband

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KABLUEY



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