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Joker defaces sites, Kicking and Screening — Free IMAX tickets July 10th, 2008

The WSS Over­ture count­down has ended, and with it the Joker has brought down his mad­ness upon all of the Gotham City viral web­sites, splat­ter­ing them with flood and defac­ing them with mis­chie­vous messages.

On each of these pages a puz­zle piece with a let­ter was left, com­bin­ing all the pieces the phrase “Kick­ing and Screen­ing” can be found, which leads to the next Why So Seri­ous page,

www​.whysose​ri​ous​.com/​k​i​c​k​i​n​g​a​n​d​s​c​r​e​e​n​i​ng/

Note the play on words, “Screen­ing” — the prize — Free tick­ets to an IMAX pre-release Dark Knight screen­ing on July 15th!. As quickly as they appeared they have now SOLD OUT.

AND HERE WE GO!!!

“You’ve played your part, here are your just rewards. Meet at the ren­de­vous points below. Don’t be late, don’t for­get your ticket or heads will roll. Casual attire, smiles optional.”

Sold Out Chicago, Cin­e­mark IMAX (Woodridge) 9:30pm
Sold Out New York, Pal­isades IMAX (West Nyack) 9:00pm
Sold Out Edmon­ton, Sil­ver City IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Pitts­burg, Cin­e­mark IMAX (Tar­en­tum) 9:30pm
Sold Out Kansas City, Stu­dio IMAX (Olathe) 9:00pm
Sold Out Phoenix, Deer Val­ley IMAX 9:00pm
Sold Out San Fran­cisco, Metreon IMAX 9:00pm
Sold Out Los Ange­les, Uni­ver­sal City IMAX 9:00pm
Sold Out Las Vegas, Palms IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Min­neapo­lis, Met­ro­pol­i­tan IMAX (St. Michael) 9:30pm
Sold Out Dal­las, Cin­e­mark IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Toronto, Sco­tia­bank IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Salt Lake City, Jor­dan Com­mons IMAX (Sandy) 9:30pm
Sold Out Grand Rapids, Cel­e­bra­tion IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Atlanta, Mall of Geor­gia IMAX (Buford) 9:45pm
Sold Out Den­ver, Col­orado Cen­ter IMAX 9:45pm
Sold Out Hous­ton, Marq*e IMAX 9:45pm
Sold Out Orlando, Pointe IMAX 9:45pm
Sold Out Port­land, Bridge­port IMAX (Tigard) 9:45pm
Sold Out San Diego, Mira Mesa IMAX 9:45pm
Sold Out Omaha, Star IMAX (Coun­cil Bluffs) 9:30pm
Sold Out Indi­anapo­lis, Show­place IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Boston, Com­cast IMAX (Nat­ick) 7:00pm
Sold Out Seat­tle, Boe­ing IMAX 7:30pm

An email was also sent out shortly before­hand via Human Resources:

http://​www​.whysose​ri​ous​.com/​k​i​c​k​i​n​g​a​n​d​s​c​r​e​e​n​ing HA HA HA HA HA ha HA HA ha HA HA ha HA HA HA ha HA HA HA ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ha ha ha HA HA ha HA HA HA ha ha ha HA HA ha HA HA HA ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ha HA HA ha HA ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA ha HA HA ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA ha ha HA HA HA ha HA HA HA HA ha ha HA ha HA ha HA HA HA HA HA ha ha ha HA HA HA HA ha HA HA HA ha HA HA HA HA ha HA ha

Thanks to every­one that sent this in! Hope you got your tick­ets in time! (We poor brits miss out again it seems — we’re get­ting the movie a week later anyway).

The offi­cial web­site has also been man-handled by The Joker:

Comments 25 Responses to “Joker defaces sites, Kicking and Screening — Free IMAX tickets”

jaime p July 11th, 2008

here is my ticket!!!!!!!!! 6 hours away i hope its worth it

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jaime p July 11th, 2008

check the web­site for the pic of my ticket i got off the site!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whos going to see this????


Princes­sEV July 11th, 2008

I tried to get a ticket to the Las Vegas one at 8:01 when i got the email and it said Vegas was sold out…I sent the link to my friend 10 mins later she got #86 of 86 and cant even go. And on the page it says you cant give it away or anything…So i totally got screwed out of going, Im so bummed.


isi123 July 11th, 2008

Man you guys are soo lucky. Seems as Brit­ian doesnt get any­thing :( ahwel.


jaime p July 11th, 2008

that sucks i just hope for a 6 hour drive that they give some stuff out as well


Princes­sEV July 11th, 2008

yeah we’re going to try to see if an exec from warner is around and see if theyll approve me usu­ing the ticket. I so hope they will.


jaime p July 11th, 2008

gooood luck


tyler July 11th, 2008

I was right about the free tickets.


jaime p July 11th, 2008

wat u mean u were right?


lms July 11th, 2008

i just call a call about traf­fic at gotham bank


Devin July 11th, 2008

Just so you know the fine print says that each ticket is good for you and ONE FRIEND. I called and con­firmed. Each ticket you have is good for entrance for two peo­ple. Im going to the one in Orlando.


jaime p July 11th, 2008

i got a call too sounded crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy


Tim July 11th, 2008

I got the call an hour ago!! Does any­one have a recording??


Princes­sEV July 11th, 2008

i didnt hear the phone but my greet­ing is so short i think it fig­ured i said hello and it recorded the whole call…its so muf­fled though you have to lis­ten like 3 times lol


Alex July 12th, 2008

Where’s the Show­place in Indianapolis?


Katie July 12th, 2008

Jaime, you blacked your ticket num­ber out, but failed to rename the file, which obvi­ously matches up with what you blacked out.

I advise you take your ticket pic­ture down quickly…if it’s not already too late and some­one hasn’t stolen it from you.


Katie July 12th, 2008

Alex, I believe it’s the Kera­sotes Show­place 16 IMAX. I called and asked.


Jen July 12th, 2008

The Warner Bros. Dark Knight site has also been defaced by the Joker, as have all of the down­loads from that site.


tyler July 16th, 2008

When I wrote that com­ment on the bam­boo­zle page, I thought there would be a pat­tern. Remem­ber the free tick­ets to the 6 minute pro­logue of the dark knight, I thought it would repeat by hav­ing a series of scav­enger hunts and count­downs and I thought it would be free tick­ets to the Dark knight. So I was right.


Joker Defaced Posters (Bat­man: The Dark Knight — Movie Chronicles) July 16th, 2008

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