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THE CITY OF BATMAN TO SUE WARNER BROS
ANKARA, NOVEMBER 6 - The major of Batman, the small city in South-East Turkey, announced its intention to sue Warner Bros. for its Batman movie franchise. According to press reports in Turkish dailies, the major Huseyin Kalkan has said that they are preparing to sue the producer of the Batman film, who is claimed to make money by using the towns name, and has that they are investigating on the matter whether the case should be opened in the US or in Turkey. "There is only one Batman in this world," said Kalkan. "Without telling us, the US makers of the films have taken the name of our region." Kalkan said that they will use the compensation that they will obtain from the case for women and street children in Batman. Kalkan has criticized that, in spite of the large revenues of the worldfamous Batman film, the Batman Municipality, where women commit suicide and where children live on the streets, have not undertaken anything on this topic. About their expectations about the compensation he said: "If we win compensation, we will see in court how much of the revenues it will be. We expect our share from the revenues. If we win the case, we will use all the rights we won for service to the Batman people and to the street children there." When it comes to the statement that the English version of Batman and the name of Batman city are being used in different meanings, Kalkan said that Batman means "weight, heaviness", and that different meanings did not interest them. The very first filmed Batman was the 1943 serial with the first full-length feature being the 1966 movie with the television cast. More recently, The Dark Knight amassed USD 992,764,009 in global box office receipts according to Box Office Mojo.Posted by: Classer 2008-11-07 |
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