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* A talking head on CNBC reported that the then-just released ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: Dead Man's Chest'' movie had broken the opening box office record held by the movie "[[Aquaman]]". However, ''Aquaman'' was a [[Show Within a Show|fictional movie]] within the universe of ''[[Entourage]]'', and has never actually been made, to say nothing of breaking any box office records.

** An Israeli mainstream news site reported about a new trailer for ''[[Show Within a Show|Medellin]]'', starring Vincent Chase, the star of [[Show Within a Show|Aquaman]], which is ''also'' all plot from the show ''[[Entourage]]''. The article had a link to the [[Defictionalization|de-fictional]] website created for the fictional movie, along with the trailer itself embedded in the page. Shortly after the virtual [[Face Palm]]s began appearing in the comments section, the article was removed.

* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' film series:

* The ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' film series:

** One article about the fifth movie showed a picture of Harry and Cho about to kiss, but the caption read that he was puckering up for Hermione Granger. The canon shippers were not amused.

** A Norwegian newspaper called the aforementioned kiss scene a "highly controversial sex scene".

** An amazing number of film critics, including [[Roger Ebert]], described the ending of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' as involving a duel with a dragon, whereas the creature Harry fought was actually a [[wikipedia:Basilisk|basilisk]]. This may be rather nitpicky, but the fact that the creature was a snake was a bit of a plot point. On the other hand, [http://listverse.com/2010/04/16/10-beasts-that-used-to-be-mythical/ early descriptions] of dragons in western literature describe them as serpents.

** An amazing number of film critics, including [[Roger Ebert]], described the ending of ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' as involving a duel with a dragon, whereas the creature Harry fought was actually a [[wikipedia:Basilisk|basilisk]]. This may be rather nitpicky, but the fact that the creature was a snake was a bit of a plot point. Not to mention it was called by name numerous times. On the other hand, [http://listverse.com/2010/04/16/10-beasts-that-used-to-be-mythical/ early descriptions] of dragons in western literature describe them as serpents.

** 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 [[~~Flash~~ ~~Back~~]]. Of course, reporters covering ''[[Twilight (novel)|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.

** Robert Pattinson appeared properly in ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', but wasn't in the next film, ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', unless you count a two-second [[Flashback (trope)|flashback]]. Of course, reporters covering ''[[Twilight (novel)|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.

** Media coverage from various sources sort of did this with [[Daniel Radcliffe]] and [[Emma Watson]]'s kiss in ''[[Deathly Hallows]] 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. It even got an unironic nod for "best kiss" from the MTV Movie Awards.

** Media coverage from various sources sort of did this with [[Daniel Radcliffe]] and [[Emma Watson]]'s kiss in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 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. It even got an unironic nod for "best kiss" from the MTV Movie Awards.

* The local Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN) paper's movie review of the 2007 ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' movie repeatedly referred to the Autobots' human buddy as "Spike". Spike was the equivalent human in the [[Transformers Generation 1|original comic and cartoon]].

** For Transformers 3, we have Movie Juice's negative review that tells us that you can disguise the fact you didn't watch a film with a series of jokes about it. The reviewer called Megan Fox a Decepticon, made jokes about Rosie Huntington Whitely wearing tight dresses and high heels during battle scenes including the scene with the colapsing building, and made several jokes about how silly a lot of the character's names are. To those who haven't seen the film, let me explain these problems: Megan Fox was a human girl in the first film who sided with the good guys, the Decepticon's are ''aliens'' and ''bad guys''. RHW did wear a form fitting dress and high heels in one scene that you could call a fight scene, but that was between humans, consisted of two holding one down while a third punched him, and her involvement in the scene was her leaving a party and being abducted by a Decepticon before she's even left the premisis. The collapsing building scene is right after she's been rescued, to which she's already changed into more casual clothing. The characters with funny names are all ''alien robots'', it would be weird if they ''didn't'' have alien sounding names. This was, of course, not helped by the reviewer basically trolling anyone who called them out on it.