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From the Watchmen’s Director Cut, here is one of the most important deleted scenes from Watchmen. The scene shows the death of Hollis Mason, Nite Owl I, by a group of thugs. You can get the Director’s Cut for Watchmen on DVD and Blu-ray on July 21st.

If you’re ready for the WATCHMEN movie to open already and don’t want to wait till Friday to get a fix, check out the viral 6 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT site which features an interactive game where you guess the ink blots to get exclusive clips of the 6 major characters.

Then get in line for the IMax WATCHMEN screening and be prepared to be blown away!

The opening credits of the WATCHMEN movie are a spectacle to be enjoyed on the big screen.  Or an IMAX if you get the chance. Set to the iconic Bob Dylan song  “The Times They Are A-Changin,’ the audience receives a quick run down of several very stylized time periods starting in 1939 with the Minutemen and ending in 1985 with the public uprising over masked vigilantes.

L.A. production company yU+Co had the joy of creating the WATCHMEN opening credits despite having one of the worst flash sites as their portfolio.  That aside they did a fantastic job with the graphics in the credits.  The entire 6-minute piece is almost a work of art in itself.

From the yU+Co release:

The challenge for yU+co. was integrating titles into an already edited six-minute sequence that was built without the placement of titles in mind. In order to make the titles feel like an organic part of the sequence, Yu and his creative team wove meticulous detail into the type design. Rather then simply lay 2D type onto the foreground of the live action, it is incorporated in 3D into each scene.

EDIT: FYI, this video is about to be pulled offline….enjoy it while you can.  There are a few other links still available online like this but Warner Bros. is going around and pulling it from all the sites.  Even the yU +Co site.

DOUBLE EDIT: This title sequence was removed at the request of Warner Bros. If the video appears online in the future we will update this post but for now we are being politely asked to remove the video from our site.

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To help clean up the streets, the Keene Act made vigilantism illegal to target caped wildcards who are causing damage around the nation. The costumed menace is now outlawed in this viral video from the upcoming WATCHMEN movie which opens in theaters next month.

Japanese Watchmen Movie Trailer
Most of this theatrical trailer for the upcoming WATCHMEN movie is in Japanese but you’ll get the idea.  This alternative trailer (see U.S. version here) shows us more of the background political elements of the story including Richard Nixon’s re-election, JFK, and some Soviet nuclear threats thrown in for good measure.

If you are unfamiliar with the legend that is the WATCHMEN graphic novel we highly suggest grabbing a copy and learning why many consider this work one of the most important graphic novels of all time.  The movie version, directed by 300′s Zack Snyder, looks not to disapoint with its close following of the original Alan Moore epic.

WATCHMEN will also be released in IMAX, just like THE DARK KNIGHT, along with its major release on March 6th.