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When Grand Theft Auto IV: Liberty City came out on April 29 last year, it sold 3.6 million copies in one day. By the end of the week, sales were up to 6 million, for a total take of about $500 million. Which means, if you go by that number (and Guinness does), that Grand Theft Auto IV owns the biggest opening of any entertainment property in history. In comparison, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 took in a paltry $400 million during its first week...
...Grand Theft Auto IV wasn't even the most commercial entertainment option on the bill. As Dan Houser, one of the prime movers behind the Grand Theft Auto series, points out, the game opened opposite Speed Racer and Iron Man. "I thought that was an interesting moment," says Houser, an affable, shaved-headed Londoner who talks so quickly that he's almost untranscribable. "You have a video game about an immigrant discovering himself and losing himself in America - and that's the video game - and then the movies are about a superhero in a metal suit and a car based...
...counterclaim, Nesson questioned the constitutionality of the RIAA’s application of the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999, which penalizes copyright violators up to $150,000 per song willfully downloaded...
...kidnapping was an act of retaliation against The Crimson’s earlier theft of the iconic golden ibis figure from atop The Lampoon’s castle-like headquarters. But The Crimson maintained the upper hand...
Dixon, Sheila • refusal of to step down from Baltimore mayoralty after indictment of for perjury and theft...