Heath Ledger's final movie a tough sell

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‘Heath Ledger’s Last Movie’: Let’s Start the Doomcasting, Shall We?
Published 8/18/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... story pointing to a Hollywood Reporter piece on the uncertain release fate of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — but it did get my attention, unlike the Reporter story itself, which was published late Friday. ...

No One Will Touch Legder’s Last Movie, Even Though They Haven’t Seen It?
Published 8/18/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... They are never quite box-office or critical hits, and even the supernatural would rather he stayed away from the medium of film as well. He hasn’t had a hit since 1995, and now apparently distributors want nothing to do with his latest project. Even though Heath Ledger did help make “The Dark Knight” the 2nd highest grossing film of all time in the United States, word is that the “Ledger Effect” might not play out the same way with Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.” [ Hollywood Reporter ] When Ledger died of an accidental overdoes in January of this year, Johnny ...