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Sludge 
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
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 Posted - 06/09/2011 : 20:23:27
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Interesting call by Warner Bros.
The billboard of Ed Helms donning Mike Tysen's tattoo is iconic and, at least in Los Angeles, everywhere. The tattoo seems to play a major role in the picture, and they have already benefited from the marketing done with that image.
I don't know enough about this, but usually it's a matter of money. Assuming it isn't about the integrity of his art, which arguably does look better o Mike Tysen than on Ed Helms, I don't see how they have to pick between going to court and removing the tattoo from DVD covers (which nobody buys anyway). Shouldn't they just pay the guy off and be done with it?
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 06/09/2011 : 23:44:20
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| I wonder if it was simply a case of money? I.e., cheaper to change the tatt than either pay the guy off or go to trial? |
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benj clews 
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Posted - 06/09/2011 : 23:54:15
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Bit of a kick in the nuts for any aspirations Mike Tyson might have had of becoming a movie star. Which film studio would dare put his face on a billboard after this?
And maybe Warners figured it would be cheaper to change the DVD art than to pay off (a). the tattoo artist and (b). then possibly all the Maori people said 'artist' clearly nicked the design from. |
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Sludge
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
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Posted - 06/10/2011 : 19:10:10
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Benj, that's an interesting observation. It would be a shame.
They're also going to graphically change the tattoo in the film itself.
I loved the idea of the guy who lost a tooth in The Hangover now waking up with Mike Tyson's tattoo the second time around. It tells you there's a different story and makes you wonder if it's as creative as the first.
So I could see it feeling kind of crappy for whoever has to re-ink the tattoo frame by frame. But, hey, job security.
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Sludge
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 01/19/2012 : 02:39:50
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| A p.o.s. with about :10 of entertaining footage. Tyson's appearance in the epilogue is actually embarrassing. I read two magazines while watching this and enjoyed the mags far more. |
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