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Earthsea Anime!; Claypool Goes Web-Only; Yet another Batman Movie

Gedo Senki (Tales From Earthsea), the anime feature based on Ursula K. LeGuin's fantasy series and directed by Hayao Miyazaki's 39-year-old son, Goro, topped Pirates of the Caribbean 2 at the Japanese box office:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9072.html

After fourteen years and over 300 issues Claypool Comics will cease print publication of all titles and take its Deadbeats series to the Web as an online publication.  Claypool will continue to publish through the first quarter of next year:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9077.html
 
Christopher Nolan will direct The Dark Knight, a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader and Heath Ledger as The Joker.  Filming will start in early 2007 for a summer 2008 release:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9075.html
 

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