Watchmen

Who's Watching The Watchmen? Even Prestigious Comics Are Just Grist For The Entertainment Mill

BY Rob Salkowitz | 02-02-2012 | 5:38 PM | LEADERSHIP

"Watchmen" may be a literary classic and genre game-changer, but it's not immune from exploitation by its corporate owners.READ MORE›

The 12 Best and Worst Digital Characters

BY Kevin Ohannessian | 11-20-2009 | 6:15 PM | DESIGN

With the coming release of James Cameron's sci-fi epic, moviegoers are focusing anew on digital characters. It's tough to fashion from mere pixels believable beings that walk and talk and seem to feel the same emotions of real humans. Here are the virtual actors that lived up to their living colleagues, and those that fell flat on the screen.READ MORE›

Watchmen: Adapting a Masterpiece for the Movie Screen

BY Kevin Ohannessian | 10-06-2008 | 8:08 PM | WORK/LIFE

How do you adapt a book that has been compared to Citizen Kane into a film? How do you honor a dense literary work while making it digestible to the mainstream public? The answer, I learned at a press event today, is carefully and ...READ MORE›

The Watchmen Movie Trailer and Niche Marketing

BY Kevin Ohannessian | 07-18-2008 | 7:33 AM | WORK/LIFE

Last night, Warner Bros. released online the trailer for the film adaptation of graphic novel Watchmen. After a two second conflict with myself over whether I should wait to see the teaser in the theater -- it is attached to The ...READ MORE›

The Affleck Rule

BY Kevin Ohannessian | 06-27-2008 | 1:39 PM | WORK/LIFE

On Nightline last night, they had a mini-documentary about Ben Affleck visiting the Congo and sharing stories of what he saw in the conflict-torn country. As I watched his sunburned face, as he tearfully described atrocities he ...READ MORE›