18 July 2008 10:25 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news
The governor of Illinois would like it to be known that Gotham is not another name for New York -- it's another name for Chicago. In a press release, Gov. Rod Blagojevich said that the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight, brought $40 million into the state and created about 4,500 jobs. Warner Bros., he observed, spent $17 million in wages for everything from construction to truck driving. More than 300 Illinois vendors including security services, cleaning companies, and caterers pulled in another $22 million. On Wednesday, the studio presented an advance screening of the movie in Chicago for some of the personnel who worked in it.
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