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Live Free or Die Hard film was based on the 1997 article "A Farewell to Arms" written for "Wired" magazine by John Carlin. "Live Free or Die Hard" was released in the United States on June 27, 2007. The film earned total international box office gross receipts of $383.4 million, making it the highest-grossing film in the "Die Hard" series. Unlike the prior three films in the series, the U.S. rating was PG-13 rather than R. The FBI responds to a brief computer outage at its Cyber-Security Division by tracking down top computer hackers who had been on a watch list. The FBI asks New