Original sentence: By the end of August, over 5,000 signatures had been posted.This received criticism from some fans of the movie
Edited sentence: And before the end of August, 5,000 signatures had been posted.As of August 30th, 2007, there are 5,414 signatures on the petition, and the numbers have been increasing by hundreds each day since it began shortly after the film first aired in theaters.By only mid-August the following month, with more and more people seeing the film and word of the petition spreading across the internet, that number had easily doubled to 4000.Released by Popular Demand....This received much criticism from many of the fans of the movie