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* A newspaper TV guide reviewed ''{{Zombieland}}'' as (paraphrased) "Woody Harrelson as a mean zombie hunter, with Jesse Eisenberg as his supporting sidekick, in this inexplicably successful blend of horror and teen rom-com". Apart from the fact that Eisenberg is the lead, and... teen romantic comedy?

* [[http://animatedviews.com/2011/superman-the-motion-picture-anthology-blu-ray-collection/ This review]] of the ''{{Film/Superman}}'' Motion Picture Anthology Blu-Ray keeps crediting Bud Collyer as the lead of the 1940s serials and portrayer of Lois Lane's father in the extended version of the first movie. However, Bud Collyer voiced Superman in the radio series, as well as some cartoons from the 1940s and '60s. Kirk Alyn actually acted as the lead in the serials, and Lois' father in the first movie.

* [[http://animatedviews.com/2011/superman-the-motion-picture-anthology-blu-ray-collection/ This review]] of the ''{{Film/Superman}}'' Motion Picture Anthology Blu-Ray keeps crediting Bud Collyer as the lead of the 1940s serials and portrayer of Lois Lane's father in the extended version of the first movie. However, Bud Collyer voiced Superman in the radio series, as well as some cartoons from the 1940s and '60s. Kirk Alyn actually acted as the lead in the serials.

* In 2011, Celio (a cloth shop franchise in France) decided to do a special Star Wars themed collection. The iconic vehicle of the saga they used for their TV advertisement? A [[BattlestarGalactica mkII Viper]].

* the repeated insistences that the flying ship in {{Stardust}} is original to the movie and not featured in the book. While Gaiman doesn't elaborate on Tristran and Yvaine's adventure on the ship, its captain has a different name and it isn't a pirate ship, it does in fact appear in the book, and serves roughly the same purpose in the plot

** Media coverage from various sources sort of did this with DanielRadcliffe and Emma Waston's kiss in ''DeathlyHallows Part 1''. While they technically didn't state anything inaccurate about it, they heavily implied the scene was an actual romantic moment rather than an evil vision tormenting Ron. And, of course, lots of attention was given to the fact that they were naked.

* The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary from "How to Train Your Dragon": "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would techically be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book, but so much liberties were taken to change the plot that instead of a boy going through a right of passage capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them to be wrong.

* [[http://cinemovie.tv/cinemovie_new/component/content/article/55-interviews/1280-guillermo-del-toro-interview-pinocchio-dreamworks This article]] about Guillermo Del Toro joining DreamWorksAnimation claims that the studio's 2012 movie "Rise of the Guardians" is a sequel to Zack Snyder's "Legend of the Guardians." You know, that owl movie made by ''WARNER BROTHERS''.

** Robert Pattinson appeared properly in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', but wasn't in the next film, ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', unless you count a two-second {{Flashback}}. Of course, reporters covering ''{{Twilight}}'' say he was in two ''Potter'' films (after all, that's how it shows up on [=IMDb=]) or even mention ''Phoenix'' exclusively, since it was more recent.

** Of course, the ads are [[NeverTrustATrailer probably doing this on purpose]].
*** Sure, they purposely namedropped Selick each time they said it just to get you to think it was a Tim Burton movie.
**** No, they purposefully did not name drop Sellick, they merely called him the "Director of Nightmare Before Christmas" hoping people would assume Burton directed NBC.
**** Neil Gaiman, fom the above blog entry:
---->"It was irritating when people started asking me ''why'' the advertising said "From the director of ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"

* A crossword puzzle provided the clue "Comden and Green musical" for "Auntie Mame." Trouble is, ''AuntieMame'' isn't a musical, at least not under that 10-letter title, and Comden and Green only wrote the screenplay for the film of the play Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee adapted from Patrick Dennis's original story. There is a musical adaptation, titled simply ''Mame'', which Comden and Green had nothing to do with.

* In the UK series of ''{{Gladiators}}'', a character refers to Spartan saying 'he doesn't have 299 friends to back him up now!'. About a second later, the commentator says '300 Greeks fought for Rome, but there's only one Spartan!'. [[WallBanger Walls hurt]].

* [[http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/20094/Godzilla-vs-Biollante/overview This article from the New York Times]] wrongfully calls the film ''{{Godzilla}} VS Biollante'' "Godzilla VS Bioranch". It's made even more [[WallBanger annoying]] by the fact that the article even has a poster from the film that shows the actual title of the film.

* A "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids parent's review]]" (we're already in WallBanger territory, but bear with it for now) of the ''{{Watchmen}}'' [[Film/{{Watchmen}} movie adaptation]], instead of reviewing the actual film, listed every single instance of violence or sexual content without mentioning anything else, then concluded that the ultimate message of the story was that "humankind is inherently savage". What? Even more hilarious, another blurb stated the movie's premise as: "After the death of one of his colleagues, the masked vigilante Rorschach sets out on a mission to kill all superheroes."

* A book on Australian film screwed up its article on ''Lantana.'' Apparently, they chose to get most of the cast's names from the end credits instead of actually paying attention to the film, and in the process failed to notice that the cast were billed in order of appearance. Thus, they referred to Vince Colosimo's character Nik D'amato as Steve Valdez and his wife Paula as Lisa, who were the fourth and fifth billed characters, right after Leon, Sonja and Jane (three points of the film's love square), but were fairly minor to the story. More understandably, they called Geoffrey Rush's character John Somers instead of John Knox (his wife was named Valerie Somers), and more inexplicably, they called Patrick Alex, even though there's no character by that name in the film. Ironically, they still got most of the plot details right.

** Another White example is somehow crazier: In his review of {{Inglourious Basterds}}, he identifies Marcel, the black film projectionist/Shoshanna's lover, as the narrator of the penultimate chapters. There's a LOT wrong with that statement:

*** It's even stranger for him to see socialism in the movie considering that every reference to anarchism was removed from it.

* David Edelstein, reviewing the ''{{Bewitched}}'' movie in ''Slate'': "Using R.E.M.'s impassioned 'Everybody Hurts' -- written by Michael Stipe after the suicide of Kurt Cobain -- to underscore shots of Kidman and Ferrell feeling blue about their inability to pair off is an aesthetic crime." Take Th... uh, wait a minute, that song was recorded in 1992, while Cobain died in 1994. In fact, the album that "Everybody Hurts" is off of, ''Automatic for the People'', was found in Cobain's stereo and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kurt_Cobain#Discovery_of_Cobain.27s_body was apparently the last album he ever listened to]]. To his credit, [[http://www.slate.com/id/2121389/ Edelstein quickly issued a (very snotty) retraction.]] "I don't like having to change something after it's published." Dude, then don't make a mistake on an easily checkable fact.

---->"It was irritating when people started asking me <i>why</i> the advertising said "From the director of <i>The Nightmare Before Christmas</i>", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed <i>The Nightmare Before Christmas</i>. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"

---->"It was irritating when people started asking me <i>why</i> the advertising said "From the director of <i>The Nightmare Before Christmas</i>", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"