Keanu ReevesAccording to my trusty "The End is Nigh" promotional desktop clock, there are 331 days, 12 hours, 11 minutes and 24 seconds until the "Watchmen" release as I write this. And still, it's hard for me not to imagine Keanu Reeves as Dr. Manhattan.

"I'm sure Billy's gonna change that," grinned the "Street Kings" star when I interviewed him recently. Quite frankly, Reeves is right: His friend Billy Crudup looked pretty amazing on the film's set, and he seems to be making the most of the iconic, stoic superhero role that Reeves wanted to play but had to turn down.

"How cool did that look?" Reeves asked me once we both realized that we're one of a handful of people who've witnessed Crudup in the insane, green-screen costuming necessary to create Zack Snyder's nuclear-powered, God like movie character. Read More...

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Matthew McConaughey- Matthew McConaughey offered the role of "Magnum P.I." If this excites you or you've ever seen "Magnum P.I," congratulations! You are officially old. (Entertainment Weekly)

- A slew of pictures from "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" surface online. (Yahoo)

- Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's next to be called "The World's End." Flick will almost certainly have a science-fiction, doomsday plot. (Guardian)

- Put this in your pipe and smoke it: First poster for "Pineapple Express." (JoBlo)

- Billy Crudup joins Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. (Variety)

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WatchmenOur guys at the panel, Shawn Adler and Larry Carroll, just sent in the following info and quotes from "Watchmen" director Zack Snyder, talking at length about his hugely anticipated flick.

The film's release date? March 6, 2009.

Some quotes from Snyder:

-"Is 'Watchmen' better if it's updated, more accessible? I don't think so. I don't think 'Watchmen' should come to the people, but the people to 'Watchmen.'"

-"We have real actors. It's not an exercise in marketing. I made a movie called '300' and it had no stars in it either. A couple people saw that."

-"The idea for the Manhattan character -- when he becomes Manhattan he's going to be a full CG version of Billy [Crudup], 'Pirates of the Caribbean'-style. The last thing I want is to see some guy with blue paint."

-"I want to see the ['Tales of the Black Freighter'] story. I think it's really important. People have talked a lot about what it means, but I think it's really cool and would be fun to do. I want to do it."

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Watchmen If I had a nickel for every "Watchmen" blog post I've written in the last few days, I'd...well I still wouldn't be nearly as well off as Adrien Veidt (aka Ozymandias) would I? But here it is at last, the actual confirmed cast of Zack Snyder's "Watchmen."

Jackie Earle Haley is Walter Kovacs/Rorschach 

Patrick Wilson is Nite-Owl 

Matthew Goode is Adrein Veidt/Ozymandias

Billy Crudup is Dr. Manhattan

Malin Akerman is Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Spectre

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the Comedian

So what do you think? Guess they really didn't care about getting A-list names, huh? No offense, Mr. Crudup. Discuss... Stay tuned. We're going to be getting great exclusive access to Zack Snyder himself throughout Comic-Con. We'll bring you all the news right here.  

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