Watchmen Court Battle Finally Settled! Who Cares?!

Maybe I'm the only one, but I never really gave a damn about all the legal huzzah surrounding the release of the Watchmen movie. It was obvious to me and pretty much everybody else that the film would release as planned, and that all Fox was really looking for was their cut. And they got it in spades. They finally settled the dispute, and Fox supposedly will get roughly 8% of the take including a piece of any sequels or spinoffs. They also get their court costs paid for and about $1 million in development costs from when they had the rights.

I'm sticking to my original assessment that Watchmen will peter out at somewhere around $150 million. To comic book geeks like myself who pray at the alter of Alan Moore on a regular basis, this is THE must-see movie of my generation. But to everybody else? They're probably wondering where Hancock is. And if this film isn't the blockbuster runaway hit WB thinks it will be, then they just handed away a ton of money for nothin'.