Fox and Warner Bros. Besieged by Steamed �Watchmen� and �Harry Potter� Fans

Courtesy of Warner Bros.

Following Tuesday's news that Fox's copyright lawsuit over Watchmen could threaten the movie's release next March (or, more likely, force Warner Bros.' to cough up a settlement) angry comics fans have, predictably, descended on Fox, with geeks threatening to boycott the studio's upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Nerds at one Website are even, according to EW, threatening to make "a crappy cam recording of [Wolverine] and post it somewhere on the Internet for illegal download" (which geeks already do to pretty much every movie anyway, but whatever). Feeling the pain, a Fox spokesman released a statement:

Of course we are concerned about the fans; however, any disappointment from the core fans should not be directed toward Fox. What we are doing is seeking to enforce our distribution rights to Watchmen. Legal copyright ownership should not just be swept under the rug and ignored.�

Likewise, irate Harry Potter fans � still sore over last week's announcement that Half-Blood Prince has been pushed back from its planned November release all the way until next summer � have forced poor Warner Bros. head Alan Horn to respond:

Many of you have written to me to express your disappointment in our moving "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to Summer 2009. [...] If I may offer a silver lining: there would have been a two-year gap between "Half-Blood Prince" and the much-anticipated first part of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which opens in November 2010. So although we have to wait a little longer for "Half-Blood Prince," the wait from that film until "Deathly Hallows" will be less than 18 months. I am sorry to have disappointed you now, but if you hold on a little longer, I believe it will be worth the wait.

If the multitudes of ticked-off Harry Potter fans really wanted to bring Warner to its knees, we'd suggest they focus on stymieing the protests of the weaker, lesser-in-number Watchmen fans, thus allowing Fox's copyright suit to continue apace.

The 'Watchmen' war: Fanboys furious with Fox [EW]

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BIG BROTHER: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow!

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There take been a number of big changes in the Big Brother house. The housemates were woken up by Mohammad letting them know that the heaven and inferno divide had been removed and the house was whole once more!


Their showtime task as a united house tortuous a copulate of scissors hold. Housemates had to take away part in the �barber shop challenge.� During the chore one housemate was minded the task of organism barber for the day and every other housemate had to have their hair cut in order to fill a jar full with their cast-off hair.


Lisa was the housemate granted the privilege of cut her mate housemates� hair. The task began with Darnel having his integral head shaved, filling the jar immediately but regrettably, he was quickly followed by Kat who saw the job as an opportunity to �have playfulness!�


Even though it clearly stated in the rules that no-one apart from the barber was allowed to touch the scissors Kat got overly excited and decided she wanted to cut Lisa�s hair. She excitedly came out of the diary room and informed her fellow housemate of what she had done, as you can imagine they were not best pleased!


Michael, as head of house, was called to the journal room and informed because Kat stony-broke the rules the housemates had to start the task again � which meant emptying the jar of any hair they had accumulated so far!


Kat soon redeemed herself by having the underneath of part of her fuzz shaved sour; she was followed by Michael, world Health Organization taking his role as head of house very seriously decided it was his tariff to shave all his hair off, insuring that the house succeeded in the job and were rewarded with alcohol and wigs!

CW Making Lemonade From Critics' Lemons

In a unique advertizing campaign, the CW network has pulled quotes from negative reviews for Gossip Girl, and is victimization them in billboard ads to further the series. Among them, the New York Post's assertion that the usher is "a nasty piece of work," and the Parents Television Council's description of it as "mind-blowingly inappropriate." The PTC did not objective to its review being used by the network. "Normally," it said, "we have to pay for our outdoor advertising." Meanwhile, on Monday, Gossip Girl picked up six awards at the TeenChoice 2008 ceremony, including Choice TV Show: Drama. It besides won for Choice TV: Breakout Show; Breakout Actress in a Drama and Breakout Star Female (Blake Lively), Breakout Star Male (Chace Crawford) and Villain (Ed Westwick).