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A couple of months ago -- and after watching the film spit out monster box office totals -- there was word Warner Bros. would throw The Dark Knight back onto IMAX screens (and possibly conventional theaters) for one last run. With the flick currently lingering around the $996 million mark, a re-release would all but guarantee it the much sought-after $1 billion. However, according to Superhero Hype, it's not gonna happen. They don't give much of a reason or a statement, just that plans to re-release on IMAX screens have apparently been scrapped.

It's unfortunate, too, because the DVD (which we'll review tomorrow) includes a few great behind-the-scenes features on the film's IMAX sequences. And, as someone who did not have a chance to catch the flick on IMAX screens, I was kinda looking forward to taking in a screening this January during the re-release after watching how they went about shooting it. Considering Christopher Nolan and his crew made history by becoming the first major feature film to shoot partly using IMAX cameras, you'd think folks might want to stage an encore engagement. Oh well.

Also of note: Variety reports that The Dark Knight will arrive via video-on-demand in South Korea two weeks before the DVD hits shelves, making it the first Hollywood blockbuster release to go VOD before DVD.

Were you looking forward to watching The Dark Knight again on IMAX screens?

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div align="center"a href="http://technabob.com/blog/2008/12/01/nanovision-mimo-7-inch-mini-monitor-hands-on-review/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-2-08-mimo_photoshop_pale.jpg" //abr //div While we were led to believe that Nanovision's a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/nanovisions-mimo-7-inch-displays-are-strangely-cute-sort-of-us/"MIMO line/a of diminutive LCDs would be stuck in South Korea for the foreseeable future, it appears that a trio of 'em are now shipping to North America. While not christened with any a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/SideShow/"SideShow/a labeling, this 7-inch UM-710 mini monitor was designed to operate alongside your laptop and / or desktop monitor in order to give you more space for those little-but-necessary applications. Critics at emTechnabob/em were quite fond of the 800 x 480 display, noting that it was perfectly clear, incredibly useful and darn near impossible to live without after a solid hour of usage. Setup was relatively painless with Windows Vista, and OS X drivers (for Intel-based Macs, that is) were said to be bundled in as well. Sure, we'd prefer the $129.99 price tag to be a little lower, but if you can't stand to lug around a low-end 17-incher, this might not be a bad travel companion.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/nanovisions-mimo-um-710-mini-display-gets-tested-proves-addict/"Nanovision's MIMO UM-710 mini display gets tested, proves addictive/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:05:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://technabob.com/blog/2008/12/01/nanovision-mimo-7-inch-mini-monitor-hands-on-review/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/nanovisions-mimo-um-710-mini-display-gets-tested-proves-addict/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1388068/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/nanovisions-mimo-um-710-mini-display-gets-tested-proves-addict/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/r-6yxrn21sWkhfCa9zisjApRdts/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/r-6yxrn21sWkhfCa9zisjApRdts/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=1oYNmr6G"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=1oYNmr6G" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=c4YtmvyT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=c4YtmvyT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/sxGcJTXpnHY" height="1" width="1"/

While we were led to believe that Nanovision's MIMO line of diminutive LCDs would be stuck in South Korea for the foreseeable future, it appears that a trio of 'em are now shipping to North America. While not christened with any SideShow labeling, this 7-inch UM-710 mini monitor was designed to operate alongside your laptop and / or desktop monitor in order to give you more space for those little-but-necessary applications. Critics at Technabob were quite fond of the 800 x 480 display, noting that it was perfectly clear, incredibly useful and darn near impossible to live without after a solid hour of usage. Setup was relatively painless with Windows Vista, and OS X drivers (for Intel-based Macs, that is) were said to be bundled in as well. Sure, we'd prefer the $129.99 price tag to be a little lower, but if you can't stand to lug around a low-end 17-incher, this might not be a bad travel companion.

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