Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

In an effort to boost its DVD sales, Warner Bros. is going to release supplements to Watchmen on DVD five days after the initial release. The DVD will feature the Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood portions of the graphic novel. Four months later, Watchmen will come out on DVD, and then another DVD will come out with Tales of the Black Freighter and Watchmen edited together.

The marketing for The Incredible Hulk is getting into full swing and Marvel is trying everything short of erasing the memory of Ang Lee’s 2003 version. Last week a handful of clips from the flick hit the web. You can find them here, here and here . A handful of movie sites have also recently talked with the director and sat in on the editing. You can read those articles here , here , here and here .

James Cameron promises his next film, Avatar, will be unlike anything ever experience before and that all of his future films will be in 3-D. Some details on the plot and the technology behind the film can be found here.

And, finally, not to finish on a sad note, but director/actor/producer Sydney Pollack has died at 73 from cancer. He directed such classic films as Tootsie and Out of Africa, produced everything from Sliding Doors to HBO’s Recount, and even acted (and excellently at that) in Michael Clayton, The Sopranos, Will and Grace and Tootsie, just to name a few. While I haven’t seen enough of his work to write a formal celebrity-style obit, you can read the one that ran in the New York Times here.

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