{"id":2840,"date":"2009-02-01T18:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2018-11-20T22:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T03:50:02","slug":"weekend-watchmen-roundup-pictures-books-and-black-freighter-dvd-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/01\/weekend-watchmen-roundup-pictures-books-and-black-freighter-dvd-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend WATCHMEN Roundup: Pictures, Books And BLACK FREIGHTER DVD Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of <strong>Watchmen<\/strong> related things hit the internet this weekend, with just four weeks until the movie (finally!) opens. Here&#8217;s the rundown-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rorschachgrabblegun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2841\" title=\"rorschachgrabblegun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rorschachgrabblegun-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"rorschachgrabblegun\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> premiered this new photo of Rorschach using his grapple gun to gain access to the Comedian&#8217;s apartment building. And what a great photo it is. I love the dynamic look of the thing.There are also a few new pictures up at viral site The New Frontiersman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thenewfrontiersman\/\" target=\"_blank\">flickr account<\/a>, again focusing on the <strong>Watchmen<\/strong> world&#8217;s version of the Vietnam War. Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150920044248\/http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/news\/story.asp?NID=24083\" target=\"_blank\">EmpireOnLine<\/a> has some new character photos courtesy of the upcoming book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1848560699?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1848560699\"><strong>Watchmen<\/strong>: Portraits.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1848560699\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/em> Meanwhile, Total Film has also gotten a few new photos courtesy of another tie-in book to the film, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1848560672?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1848560672\"><strong>Watchmen<\/strong>: The Official Film Companion.<\/a><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1848560672\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QTWC0K?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001QTWC0K\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/watchmenblackfreighterdvd.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001QTWC0K\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the specs for the DVD release of the animated <strong>Tales Of The Black Freighter<\/strong>, a comic within the Watchmen comic that serves as a counterpoint to the main story, have been released. In addition to the animated Black Freighter feature, the disc will also be available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QTWC00?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001QTWC00\">Blu-ray format.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001QTWC00\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The disc hits stores on March 10.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/s\/link-enhancer?tag=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;o=1\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript>&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br \/&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;     &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;img src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/s\/noscript?tag=filmbuffonlin-20&#8243; mce_src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/s\/noscript?tag=filmbuffonlin-20&#8243; alt=&#8221;&#8221; \/&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Lots of Watchmen related things hit the internet this weekend, with just four weeks until the movie (finally!) opens. Here&#8217;s the rundown- Entertainment Weekly premiered this new photo of Rorschach using his grapple gun to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/01\/weekend-watchmen-roundup-pictures-books-and-black-freighter-dvd-info\/\" title=\"Weekend WATCHMEN Roundup: Pictures, Books And BLACK FREIGHTER DVD Info\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}