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that, for close to a decade, Universal Pictures didn t know it owned the merchandising rights to the film Darkman (1990). It wasn t until toy-maker SOTA asked for a license to make a Darkman action figure that Universal finally looked into it and found out it had owned the rights all along.

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Fun Fact: that, for close to a decade, Universal Pictures didn’t know it owned the merchandising rights to the film Darkman (1990). It wasn’t until toy-maker SOTA asked for a license to make a Darkman action figure that Universal finally looked into it and found out it had owned the rights all along.

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