Lawsuit May Stall Watchmen

More roller coaster news on the upcoming releases front. First, Harry Potter got pushed back eight months. Then Twilight got bumped up three weeks to take advantage of HP's vacated spot. Now Watchmen may be in trouble that will shelve it indefinitely.

Twentieth Century Fox filed a lawsuit against Warner Brothers earlier this year for making the $100 million Watchmen without having the distribution rights. Fox says that they have those rights, and want to stop the film's release. Warner Brothers' request to have the lawsuit dismissed was denied by a judge this week.

With that decision, the fate of Watchmen is in movie industry limbo. These types of battles can bury films for good, but with a film this high profile, with such great potential to be a hit, my bet would be that if the case goes Fox's way, they'll want a cut of the money, not the death of the film.