links for 2006-07-23

Now is this a good or bad thing?

The Movie Blog reports that Heath Ledger will be The Joker in the forthcoming Batman sequel

The incredible rise of YouTube continues as web traffic to the video-sharing site grew 75% just in the week ending July 16, from 7.3 million to 12.8 million unique visitors.

The LA Times on the doom and gloom sweeping Hollywood despite the success of Pirates 2 and The Da Vinci Code