Collider.com sat down with producer Donald De Line on the set of the new Seth Rogen comedy and got an update on Guardians of Ga’Hoole.

Q: Your animated project you’re doing with Zach, is that moving forward even with how busy he is with Watchmen?

Yes, because, well Zach’s an animal. I mean, he’s one of these guys. Watchman is in post-production and this being an animated film has a long lead time, you know.It won’t be out until 2010, so he’s been involved in all his spare time “quote unquote” doing character design and working on the screenplay and laying down a scratch track and doing all kinds of stuff.

Q: What sort of aesthetic does Zach Snyder bring to an animated film?

Well, you know he brings his aesthetic, even though it’s a movie that will be for all ages, it’s an epic story so it’s more of, you have to think more of I’ll say “Harry Potter” as a kind of feel and a tone than “Happy Feet”.So it’s an owl kingdom and it’s 2 brothers.One is evil and one is good, who go up against each other in battle. And so it’s a big kind of epic story. There’s 14 books in the series and so it’s more of that feel to it. “Lord of the Rings” might be another analogy; you know that kind of scope.

Q: How many of the books are being adapted for this one movie?

For the first, the first 3 books will comprise what will be the first movie.

Q: Have you cast voices yet?

No, we just laid down scratch tracks with just good character actors and we are in the process of starting to cast the real characters.

Read the entire article at Collider.com…

Tales of the Black Freighter, trailer rumors, the movies runtime and Comic Con are all on the pages of the blogs all buzzing about Watchmen. It doesn’t get any better than this, as the comic and film world is humming with excitement and anticipation. Follow the links below for all the buzz you can handle!!

Devin Faraci at CHUD…

In the meantime, I want to address something that I have seen again and again on our message boards: a lack of faith in Zack Snyder. First of all, it’s too late to get worked up about him, as the guy has wrapped shooting on the film. Second, it’s hard for me to understand where anyone is coming from on this. Snyder is two for two at this point; even if Dawn of the Dead and 300 are not your favorite movies or even your cup of tea, there’s no denying that they are well-made films. And most importantly, they are very different sorts of films. I think Watchmen may make clear the fact that there is not yet a ‘Zack Snyder’ stereotypical film. Unless maybe you’re thinking of him serving the material in the best way possible is his stereotypical move.

Alex Billington at FirstShowing.Net…

Seeing this photo gives fans a chance to finally realize that Zack Snyder is keeping the real depth and complexity of the entire story and universe contained within Watchmen. Instead of opting for a simpler story focusing on just what’s mainly presented in the comic, Zack’s implementing every last detail, including going as far as actually creating an entire Tales of the Black Freighter animated film based on the graphic novel within the graphic novel.

Gary Susman at EW’s PopWatch Blog…

That backstory will be further explored in a mockumentary called Under The Hood, a side project Snyder is overseeing, along with Tales of the Black Freighter, a grim pirate saga that appears in Watchmen in the form of a comic book one character reads throughout the story, offering a counterpoint to the main superhero plot. Both Under the Hood and Black Freighter will be released on DVD at the time of Watchmen’s big-screen release next March. That’s not quite the same thing as being able to enjoy these stories and refer back to them while reading the main Watchmen story, as you can with the graphic novel, but it’s pretty close. Props to Snyder for trying to replicate as closely as possible the rich and allusive experience of reading the book — and to Warner Bros. for letting him do so.

Warner Bros. offers up a sneak peak into the Watchmen “War Room” with a new blog entry on the official site from Zack.

The blog contains a promise to fans:

If you happen to be checking these pictures out wishing you could see more of the art, I assure you that sometime in November I will post a series of first look photos to show you in more detail what we’ve been up to.

We will definitely stay tuned!

The 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival’s “Hollywood Awards®” ceremony, honoring independent filmmakers and established Hollywood professionals, was held on October 22 before a standing-room-only audience of over 1,200 Hollywood Film Festival® attendees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

The festival, presented by STARZ, announced this year’s winner of the “Hollywood Movie of the Year Award” — Zach Snyder’s “300″ — which was chosen by the public voting online at the Yahoo! Movies website. The voting site received 20 million visitors and 125,000 votes were cast.

The nominees for the “Hollywood Movie of the Year Award” were: “300,” “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “Hairspray,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” “Ocean’s Thirteen,” “Ratatouille,” “Shrek the Third,” “The Simpsons Movie,” “Spider-Man 3,” and “Transformers.”

To read more about the awards, click here.

Variety reports that Zack, screenwriter Kurt Johnstad and Hollywood Gang have reunited for “The Last Photograph,” a drama based on an original idea by Snyder.Story revolves around a photograph that becomes the catalyst for a journey two men undertake through war-torn Afghanistan.  The producers plan to develop the film and then auction it. All of them have been doing most of their work for “300″ distributor Warner Bros.

The fan site WatchmenTheMovie.Com has been reporting on interior and exterior scenes being shot at Vancouver Hospital, location of past X-Men and Smallville filming, for several days.

Matthew Goode, portaying Adrian Veidt in Watchmen, has also been interviewed by Total Film with more on his role in the movie and a possible HUGE spoiler.  Click here to read more.