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Dark Knight Passes $1 Billion Mark

Warner Brothers’ The Dark Knight has passed the $1 Billion mark in the worldwide box office. The film is the fourth best box office seller ever, behind Titanic, Lord of the Rings III, Pirates of the Caribbean II, and ahead of the first Harry Potter movie. Quite an accomplishment.

What’s interesting, is The Dark Knight is also the most-pirated film of 2008, and certainly a high-up in the most-pirated ever.

Perhaps the movie industry is wrong, and ignorant when it comes to the internet? Could it be that BitTorrent and other less-than-legal methods of obtaining movies actually help sales?

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Paramount Acquires Option for “The Lost Years of Merlin”

T.A. Barron’s epic Pentology, The Lost Years of Merlin, may become a movie in the somewhat-near future. Paramount Pictures, as T.A. Barron writes, has obtained filming rights to the series.
Mr. Barron states that “the project could not be in better hands,” and that Paramount “understand[s] the power and depth of young Merlin - and they [...]

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At World’s End Released

At World’s End, the third movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, was released yesterday. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen it yet.
In the meantime, you can view some movie clips.
Yahoo Movies has a new clip up about the Maelstrom Sequence, and some other clips as well. Personally, I like the Competing Captains clip.

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Photoshopped Hermione on IMAX Poster

There’s quite a bit of a commotion going on among Harry Potter fans. There are two posters for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie (normal, and IMAX).
It turns out that the IMAX people….adjusted the photo of Emma Watson (the actress who plays Hermione) on the IMAX version of the poster. [...]

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