dailymail.co.uk - 7/18/2008
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For better or worse, the new Batman film, The Dark Knight, is being marketed almost entirely on the strength of the performance of the late Heath Ledger.
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Dead Men Tell No Tales, But They Do Market Movies [Death And Taxes]
Gawker —
... Warner Bros., months ago, with something of a conundrum. Should they continue plans to make his leering visage the movie's chief marketing image, or should they shy away from death, retreating to the simultaneously brighter and dimmer lights of Christian Bale and his boringer friends? Ultimately they chose to continue with their Joker-centric media deluge, and people got very angry! How dare they?! The man is dead, reduced to mere ashes floating in the Indian Ocean! It's immoral. And to that, we say bullshit. ...
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