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19 July 2008 2:40 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Batman laid waste to those in his path

Photo: Warner Bros. Well, instead of jumping the gun and publishing several articles based on the box-office records The Dark Knight was sure to break I held off and bring you my traditional Friday recap with the help of Steve Mason from Fantasy Moguls. I could have written an article when Warner Bros. sent me a press release telling me, "Just past the stroke of midnight, Warner Bros. Pictures' The Dark Knight broke the record for a 12:01 a.m. film opening, earning an unprecedented $18,489,000 at the box office... That total does not include the grosses from the subsequent 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. showings." But I didn't... I could have written an article around 5:30 Pm on Friday when Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood wrote, "Warner Bros sources tell me The Dark Knight is opening to a humongous $60M today.

Brad Brevet

19 July 2008 12:43 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Thanks to TrekMovie (and Imp Awards) for our first Star Trek character posters. Seriously, aren't character posters the shiznit? We owe it all to the Matrix sequels, by the way, as painful as that is to admit. Those were really the first excellent use of the concept.

Both The Dark Knight and Hellboy capitalized on it this summer, and now looking ahead to next May, here's the first batch for Trek featuring (clockwise) Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Eric Bana.

Dig them Spock ears.

These are part of the glut of merchandising that will hit Comic Con next weekend, and if you're interested in bigger, slightly higher resolution versions of these posters, you can find them at /film.

Also from TrekMovie, international release dates, which have Belgium, Switzerland, and France getting the movie on Wednesday the 6th, with a few more countries premiering the film on Thursday the 7th,

Colin Boyd

18 July 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

This really has nothing to do with Christian Bale. Honest. I know this is the fourth or fifth story we've had featuring Bale today alone, but what can I say? The former indie God nobody in the mainstream ever thought about has become a full-fledged movie star, and now he's positioning two franchises at once.

The Dark Knight, as you may have heard by now, is in theaters now. And closely aligned with that is his new franchise, Terminator. Beginning with Terminator Salvation, Bale plays John Connor in the next trilogy, which should explain everything. Incidentally, because T2 is one of the great sequels ever made and because T3 was one of the better threequels (a rare feat), if the next three movies are in that vicinity, could this be among a handful of the best film series in history? I think if you're talking science fiction, it rises near

Colin Boyd

18 July 2008 8:22 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

These past two days have been utterly insane. After finally publishing my seventh Dark Knight interview and all the stuff related to Watchmen I never expected to be busy working into the wee hours of Friday afternoon. Quite frankly, I was hoping for a break up until reporting Dark Knight numbers tonight, but then we go and find out it breaks midnight box-office records and I had to do a little something for that in preparation. However, this update has nothing to do with The Dark Knight as we have new posters for Star Trek, The Duchess, The Women and Death Defying Acts to show you. The first poster, and probably the one most of you want to look at is the poster for Star Trek, which debuted in Entertainment Weekly's Comic Con issue. Well, the boys at TrekMovie.com scanned the four posters that make up the one big

Brad Brevet

18 July 2008 3:42 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Jim Gordon gives the bat signal a workout

Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures Gary Oldman is back for his second turn as Lt. Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight and this time his character is given a lot more to do and when asked, Gary isn't afraid to admit he loved the expanded role. He also talks about how great it is working with director Chris Nolan, he gives heartfelt comments regarding Heath Ledger and lets us in a little bit on his future projects. Enjoy! How was it stepping back into character, especially considering you were given so much more to do in this one? Gary Oldman (Go): Yeah, it was very nice of Chris Nolan to write me such a good part. It was great to come back because I really enjoyed working on the first one. I was just actually saying that [Chris] doesn't shout, he doesn't scream,

Brad Brevet

18 July 2008 2:57 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

No more hype. Now it's time to discuss the biggest movie of the year, and some contend the best movie of the year, as well. You've heard plenty from me on the subject, but what did you think of The Dark Knight?

I'm going to open this forum up to whatever you feel like discussing. If you have a specific grievance with my review, lay it on me, and I'll be happy to respond, even though I don't want to be a huge factor in this discussion. But I will say this: Everything is fair game, so if you haven't seen The Dark Knight, you may not want to read the comments. Spoilers will be lurking.

In fact, I'll start the conversation with a spoiler of my own. Chime in, praise away, predict its box office future and Oscar chances for Heath Ledger, call me a moron for not liking

Colin Boyd

18 July 2008 2:25 PM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

In an assured and brilliant stroke of timely programming, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival ("Sfsff") included Paul Leni‘s 1928 “silent” classic The Man Who Laughs as their Centerpiece presentation, acknowledging the direct influence the film’s protagonist Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt) had upon the creation and development of Bob Kane‘s Batman archnemesis The Joker (masterfully appropriated by Heath Ledger in a consummate swan song performance for Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight).

Television producer and director Frank Buxton, a member of the Sfsff Board of Directors for the last 12-13 years, emceed The Man Who Laughs. He recalled back to the festival’s first year when “about four people” were in the audience, whereas now he enthused proudly that the festival was “packed to the rafters.” He introduced Mike Mashon from the Library of Congress who detailed the preservation of the print of The Man Who Laughs provided the festival.

Michael Guillen

18 July 2008 2:17 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

As audiences around the world are discovering today, the late Heath Ledger has taken the iconic Joker character in The Dark Knight to entirely new depths of emotion and complexity. Personally, I feel like he's bested Jack Nicholson's long-held title by far, but some might consider that apples to oranges (Tim Burton vs Christopher Nolan, after all). Either way, it's hard to argue that Ledger hasn't left us with one of the greatest screen villains in history. Despite the actor's passing, we can discover some of what went into portraying the dark clown thanks to Fhm. The magazine sat down with Ledger last year and here's some of what he had to say of the role he considered the "most fun [he's] had." "I just locked myself away and formed a little diary and experimented with voices... I ended up making him within the realm of a psychopath kind of

Kevin Powers

18 July 2008 1:50 PM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

The dilemma of writing a review of Batman at this point lies in actually engaging the film without giving in to hyperbole. Newsweek did it by ending on a note of slight complaint that the film hadn’t been fun enough to really be a Batman movie. Others have simply gushed. Of course on some level everyone is a at least a little right here. There are so many ways to praise this movie that a reviewer can be easily understood if he makes the latter mistake and there’s no doubt that Christopher Nolans new, more realistic direction is going to have some comic book fans scratching their heads. 

Canfield

18 July 2008 12:29 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

This might be the shortest tease of all time, other than Brett Favre's latest "retirement," that is. So, apparently, Warner Bros. wanted to squeeze Harry Potter into the overall experience for The Dark Knight, so they found the little wizard a little time.

Fifteen seconds, actually.

Here's the teaser trailer hitting theaters this weekend:

I guess we're to assume that an actual trailer will still debut in a month; it was originally reported that we'd see it before Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Surely, this can't be what they were talking about.

I actually think this is worth noting because of its absence of anything at all. This is a big screen business card. But Harry Potter is one of the few film properties that can get away with it. Can't imagine we'd see a fifteen second teaser for Superhero Movie, for instance.

Colin Boyd

18 July 2008 10:25 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The governor of Illinois would like it to be known that Gotham is not another name for New York -- it's another name for Chicago. In a press release, Gov. Rod Blagojevich said that the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight, brought $40 million into the state and created about 4,500 jobs. Warner Bros., he observed, spent $17 million in wages for everything from construction to truck driving. More than 300 Illinois vendors including security services, cleaning companies, and caterers pulled in another $22 million. On Wednesday, the studio presented an advance screening of the movie in Chicago for some of the personnel who worked in it.

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18 July 2008 10:25 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

For moviegoers who might not regard dark as a favorite shade, this weekend offers an abundance of light at theaters, too. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern compares his reaction to Mamma Mia! with his reaction to The Dark Knight. "During the early stretches of The Dark Knight," he writes, "eager anticipation gave way to resistance. During the first few minutes of Mamma Mia! I resisted the bombardment of good cheer, then surrendered almost unconditionally. Yes, of course this is fairly old-fashioned entertainment, but it's really, really entertaining." A.O. Scott in the New York Times found himself similarly torn. "You can have a perfectly nice time watching this spirited adaptation of the popular stage musical and, once the hangover wears off, acknowledge just how bad it is. ... If you insist on folding your arms, looking at your watch and defending yourself against this mindless, hedonistic assault on coherence, you are unlikely to survive until the end credits (which may, by themselves, kill you all over again). Surrender, on the other hand, is easy and painless. It's Greece! It's bellybuttons! It's Meryl Streep! It's Abba!" Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times remarks that he saw the original stage version and didn't think much of it then, even though it went on to become one of the biggest musical hits of the decade. "So here's the fact of the matter. This movie wasn't made for me. It was made for the people who will love it, of which there may be a multitude. The stage musical has sold 30 million tickets, and I feel like the grouch at the party." He has company. Michael Phillips, the Chicago Tribune critic, says that he's seen the stage version of Mamma Mia! three times. "It's disappointing, then, to see the film version of the stage hit turn out this way -- not lousy, but pushy." Lisa Kennedy in the Denver Post comments that the movie "too often feels like a souvenir program: something to revive the feelings you had watching the stage performance." And Michael Sragow in the Baltimore Sun comments that the movie "is like a party where everyone is so desperate to have a good time that it makes you miserable."

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18 July 2008 10:08 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

Now that you've seen it, what did you think? It's finally here! Three years since Batman Begins, two years since we first heard about casting, and now one year since the first trailer. The Dark Knight is finally upon us! Does it live up to all of your hype and expectations? Were you surprised by its length and immense story? How was the late Heath Ledger as the Joker - the best villain or the worst villain you've seen? Has Christopher Nolan created a masterpiece on the level of The Godfather II or instead just a lengthy and boring mess? The Dark Knight is easily the most buzz about movie this year and now the full experience is upon us which means it's time to let it at all out. Sound off below, leave your thoughts, and let us know what you thought of The Dark Knight. To fuel the fire,

Alex Billington

18 July 2008 9:33 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Ew.com is running an article with 25 sneak peeks at films being previewed at next week's San Diego Comic-Con. Among the bunch is a picture from David Goyer's latest film Unborn, which stars Gary Oldman (whom you can see reprising his role as Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight this weekend) and  Odette Yustman (Cloverfield). Unborn also stars Meagan Good, Carla Gugino, Jane Alexander, Idris Elba and Rhys Coiro.

18 July 2008 9:07 AM, PDT | From fantasymoguls.com | See recent Fantasy Moguls news

Friday 9:00 p.m. (Pacific): Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited The Dark Knight (Warner Bros), fueled by thrilling IMAX sequences, a brilliantly conceived script and a diabolically skilled performance by the late Heath Ledger, is on its way to shattering records. Lots of them. Starting with Thursday night’s 12:01a screenings coast-to-coast, which generated an estimated $18.4M by dawn, and continuing through packed matinee and evening showings, The Dark Knight has delivered a staggering $66M on its opening day. All-time Best Opening Days 1. The Dark Knight - $66M (estimate) 2. Spider-Man 3 - $59.84M 3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest - $55.83M 4. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith - $50.01M 5. X-Men: The Last Stand - $45.1M 6. Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix - $44.23M 7. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End - $42.9M 8. Spider-Man 2 - $40.44M 9. Harry Potter &...

Steve Mason

18 July 2008 9:00 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

If you're headed out (or just coming back from) The Dark Knight this weekend, this is not going to impress you in the slightest. But there are Stephenie Meyer fans out there and there are those of you who are looking forward to seeing Twilight this December. Summit Entertainment has debuted the second full trailer and it's a slight step up from that teaser we saw a while back. I still think this movie looks rather freaky, but has so much sappy romance in it, that I don't think being creeped out is what I'm worried about. Either way, I can't lie and say that I'm looking forward to it, because the more I see now, the less I want to see later. If you're interested, here's the second trailer for Twilight, otherwise - skip it! Watch the full trailer for Twilight: [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/firstshowing/twilight-full.flv http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/firstshowing/twilight-full.jpg 596 336] You can also watch the Twilight trailer

Alex Billington

18 July 2008 9:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Christian Bale will reprise his role as Batman for the third time - but only if director Chris Nolan is at the helm.

The British star has appeared as Bruce Wayne and his caped alter-ego in both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

And Bale is willing to star in another film as the superhero - but only if it means working under Nolan again.

He tells Britain's GQ magazine, "I would certainly hope (Nolan) would be on board for a third installment of Batman. If he wasn't I'd have to think long and hard about whether I'd want to continue myself."

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18 July 2008 8:24 AM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Below you'll find a roundtable discussion about The Dark Knight conducted by Kyle Ryan, Tasha Robinson, Nathan Rabin, and myself. It's downloadable if you'd like to take it with you. Also, for A.V. Talk veterans, we're working with better equipment now. How do we sound? Intro music: "Batman Theme" by the great Link Wray, available on the album Good Rockin' Tonight. Outro music: "I'm Gonna Unmask The Batman" by the great Sun Ra, available on the album Sun Ra: The Singles

18 July 2008 8:15 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

There was one last batch of Dark Knight posters that appeared online this week, one last sterling reminder that the biggest movie of the year was almost upon us. But rather than just highlight the new posters, as vandalized by The Joker, we thought we'd steer you to some of our better articles about The Dark Knight over the past couple of months, its clever marketing, the storyline about Heath Ledger, and more.

First, the new posters:

As for our coverage, I think we wrote something like 30 articles this year about The Dark Knight. Half of those were unveiling either trailer of posters. We're going to throw some video at you here, along with some of the more interesting headlines, so if you've avoided trailers and clips so far, you've only got to dodge them one more time.

Rachel Dawes Supports Harvey Dent

The Dark Knight Has Cooler Masks than

Colin Boyd

18 July 2008 6:21 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Watch an explosive new TV spot for the Warner Bros film “The Dark Knight” by director Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins) and starring Christian Bale (Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins), Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) and Michael Caine. Synopsis: Christopher Nolan steps back into the director’s chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis — the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played by Katie Holmes in Batman Begins), and Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger dons the ghoulishly gleeful Joker makeup previously worn by Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero. Just as it begins to appear as if Batman, [...]

Brian Corder

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