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The film studios may be taking a back seat this year inside the San Diego Convention Center at Comic-Con, but the always vigorous battle for skyscraper space, square footage and activation attractions in San Diego is no less full throttle. In a typically crowed skyline, the clear winner this week is Fox Animation…

Nearly every nook and cranny surrounding the San Diego Convention Center will be taken over by Comic-Con — and that includes hotel keycards. Warner Bros. TV Group unveiled that the CW’s Batwoman and the forthcoming EPIX original series Pennyworth will be seen on hotel keycards. In addition, HBO will release…

Even as Game of Thrones winds down, HBO has been ramping up another sprawling adaptation of a genre epic that defies almost every traditional expectation about episodic television. It’s Watchmen, based on the namesake comic book epic by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics in the 1980s. HBO released…

Sun Records alum Dustin Ingram has been tapped for a key recurring role on Watchmen, HBO's upcoming drama series from Damon Lindelof based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic limited comic series. Written by Lindelof, Watchmen is considered a dark satirical and dystopian take on the superhero genre. Set in an…

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Chau (Downsizing) has been tapped for a key role on Watchmen, HBO's upcoming drama series from Damon Lindelof based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic limited comic series. Written by Lindelof, Watchmen is considered a dark satirical and dystopian take on the superhero genre. Set in an alternate…

Jean Smart has joined the cast of HBO’s Watchmen as a series regular. Written by Damon Lindelof based on characters from DC, Watchmen is considered a dark satirical and dystopian take on the superhero genre. Set in an alternate history where "superheroes" are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the…

James Wolk (Tell Me a Story) has been tapped for a major recurring role on Watchmen, HBO’s upcoming drama series from Damon Lindelof based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic limited comic series. Written by Lindelof, Watchmen is considered a dark satirical and dystopian take on the superhero genre. Set in an…

A new Instagram account for the HBO series Watchmen went into action on Monday with a mysterious teaser image that depicts a menacing masked-man in a law-enforcement uniform. Who exactly is that masked man? Time will tell. The mystery man in the uniform is obscured by his peaked cap and a bright yellow wrap-mask worn…

Artist Dave Gibbons made comic book history with writer Alan Moore when the two collaborated on Watchmen, the 1986 masterpiece that many hail as the most important work in the history of the medium. Watchmen was so sprawling, so intricately suited to its medium, that it was considered un-adaptable to the screen — but…

The Oscar-winning duo of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are tuning up to compose the music for Watchmen, HBO’s upcoming DC superhero series from Damon Lindelof. The pair won their Oscar for scoring 2010’s The Social Network and also have worked on such films as Patriots Day, Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo…

HBO has handed a series order to Watchmen, Damon Lindelof’s take on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic limited comic series, for a 2019 premiere. The project boasts an A-list cast led by Jeremy Irons, Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson and Louis Gossett Jr. Set in an alternate history where "superheroes” are…

Dylan Schombing (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce), Adelynn Spoon and Lily Rose Smith (The Vampire Diaries) have been cast in Damon Lindelof's HBO Watchmen pilot, a take on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' iconic limited comic series. Set in an alternate history where "superheroes" are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces…