TURKEY: THE CITY OF BATMAN TO SUE WARNER BROS
(ANSAmed) - 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.
(ANSAmed).
2008-11-06 18:43