Oh! Darling Nikki

Nikki Finke's usually perceptive Deadline Hollywood blog hit a snag this week. Reporting from San Diego's Comic-Con, she writes:

20th Century Fox snuck in Hugh Jackman to its Comic-Con presentation and presented WOLVERINE footage. All very last minute and top secret. Said a studio insider, in a hilariously dated reference: "It was like The Beatles."

A Beatles reference dated? Hmm. It just so happens that the Beatles released an album, 1 (shortest link ever), in 2000--same year Fox's first X-Men film came out. And how did this album from an antique band, 30 years after they broke up, making available songs that had been released several times before, do? It only became the fastest selling album ever. It's also the top selling album released in this decade, and one of the top 20 of all time.

It continues to sell a fair amount of copies, week in, week out, since its release. So even if Beatlemania doesn't exist any more, I don't think the reference is dated.