Film.com Staff Blog

You guys have heard the stern warnings against amusing ourselves to death, right? I say, whatever. My New York Times mysteriously stopped coming to my house this weekend. I have not listened to NPR in days. And you know what? I don’t think much has changed. Housing crisis: check. Bernie Madoff’s ongoing investigation: check. Global weirding: got it, check.

My point? I seem to be up to date on the key news items, yet I’ve found more time for entertainment. Here’s what I’ve actually been doing:

TV: Watching American Idol. NCIS. Dancing with the Stars, particularly watching Melissa Rycroft kick some butt.

Movies: Watchmen, obviously. And reading Dre Rivas’ brilliant Five Reasons Watchmen Works. Which it does, Laremy Legel. Regardless of what you say.

Other activites: Twitter. Follow me @heathergilmour. Also Facebook, Reading my favorite blog: The Evil Beet.

I keep myself busy.

American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Laremy, NCIS, The Evil Beet, Twitter, Watchmen

I need to talk about this whole Watchmen thing. It first hit my radar when Laremy, our movies producer, wrote this Open Letter to 20th Century Fox RE: Watchmen, which inspired my friend Bob Jennings to make this Nerd Alert: The Watchmen Movie Lawsuit YouTube video:

Since then, we’ve posted many stories on Watchmen, including today’s headline story, Watchmen’s Opening Weekend Box Office: Fearless Prediction. And this: Two Weeks of Watchmen!.

It doesn’t stop there. In fact, it seems, this Watchmenmania is just revving up. And it’s really starting to impact the Film.com work environment.

Here’s Stu, one of our developers, who seems to be leading the pack on Watchmen paraphernalia:

Stu is winning

Here is our other developer, Matt, hiding behind his Watchmen poster:

Matt, come on out from behind there.

And  Laremy, with the book that everyone, apparently, wants:

Laremy always has the good stuff.

I don’t pretend to understand this, but I am getting the feeling that this is going to go on a for a while. Just watch.

Bob Jennings, Laremy, Matt, Nerd Alert, Watchmen

You guys, I’m so happy to finally have a Film.com staff blog. There’s a lot to talk about and I’ve tried to keep the world posted via Twitter and Facebook, but this is really a better venue. So, welcome, hello, and thank you for coming.

Today is the day after the Oscars, which we documented here: http://www.film.com/movies/oscars. It’s a stylishly designed page with a lot of information including a witty, incisive live blog by Laremy Legel, our resident expert: http://www.film.com/features/story/academy-award-winners-live-blog/26194112.  The Academy Awards are always a strange and amazing event. I, personally, was glad to see Slumdog Millionaire get so much attention. Clearly everyone involved put forth a heroic effort to get the film made, and I applaud them. Check out our Oscars coverage out and please leave us your comments.

In other news, our fearless leader has ruptured his achilles tendon. We miss you, fearless leader! Please get well soon; we’re thinking of you.

Laremy, Oscars