Earlier this month as reported by Deadline.com, The New York Times, Associated Press, and other news sites, Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired the rights to Kathryn Bigelow’s film about killing Osama bin Laden.
The film project was originally called “killing bin Laden” according to Deadline who first broke the story.
After bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs, the project changed, and so did the title of the movie.
Well, despite rumors that the film is untitled, Sony Pictures isn’t taking any chances.
On May 26, only days after news broke of Sony’s deal with Bigelow, the company has registered nearly a dozen domain names related to the killing of bin Laden movie.
Registrant:
Domain Administrator
SPDE Domain Names Inc
9050 West Washington Blvd Smith Building 2014 A
Culver City CA 90232
‘[email protected]’
Domain Name: killingbinladen-movie.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com‘
Created on…………..: 2011-05-26.
Expires on…………..: 2012-05-26.
Record last updated on..: 2011-05-26.
Other names registered by Sony Pictures include the following:
killingbinladen-movie.com
killingbinladen-movie.net
killingbinladen.net
killingbinladenmovie.com
thekilling-movie.com
thekilling-movie.net
thekillingofbinladen-movie.com
thekillingofbinladen-movie.net
thekillingofbinladen.net
thekillingofbinladenmovie.com
The company missed out on some of the better web addresses.
The domain killingofbinladen.com was registered May 2, 2011, while killingbinladen.com was registered May 3, 2011 after it had expired and became available again.
Kathryn Bigelow had better luck on The Hurt Locker, which won six Academy Awards including Best Picture. The official site is located at the URL thehurtlocker.com.
At the time of this posting, no other news site or blog has reported about Sony Pictures’ domain registrations.
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