Batman Reviews, Interviews & More
Mondo posters—the highly coveted alternate, and often incredibly awesome, posters for classic and cult films, designed by a stable of independent artists working for Mondo—are often the crown jewels in the collections of movie poster collectors. So it makes sense that Mondo would design a poster for the most anticipated film of 2012—The Dark Knight Rises, and release it at...
Just how many trailers can one film have? A teaser? Sure. A full trailer? Of course. A second full trailer? Why not? A third full-length trailer? Well… OK. A fourth trailer? Apparently so, because that’s what dropped late Tuesday: a trailer that begins as an ad for the entire Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, before jumping into two minutes of new The Dark...
Well, we’re less than two weeks away from the release of 2012’s most anticipated film: The Dark Knight Rises. And while we don’t have anything too spoilery to give away—Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Robin! Catwoman kills Alfred! It was all a dream of Commissioner Gordon’s! (I’m making these up, don’t panic)—we do have something pretty cool: the entire score for The...
Now that the press junkets and interviews with the cast and crew of The Dark Knight Rises have begun, Christopher Nolan and company are finally beginning to give more details and insight into the production of what is likely the most anticipated film of the year. And one of the most revealing and interesting exchanges of this first round of Dark Knight Rises PR is the fact that the...
It seems as if the marketing department behind The Dark Knight Rises has set its sights on total worldwide dominion as, four full-length trailers and about 15 teasers/ TV spots later, they’re still churning out new teasers, sneak peeks, and TV spots for the upcoming film—and each one contains a bevy of new footage. Today’s clip: a one-minute Hong Kong TV spot (in English),...
Another day, another few morsels of The Dark Knight Rises news to parse over and obsess about and pass the time for the next two weeks before the film’s official release: Warner Bros. has released both the official plot synopsis and running time for the massively anticipated new film.
During last month’s 2012 MTV Movie Awards, Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt appeared in order to debut new footage from the insanely anticipated The Dark Knight Rises. Unfortunately the footage was pulled offline almost as quickly as it appeared online—meaning that if you didn’t subject yourself to the horrors of...
Back in 2010, we reported that all rumors of Hans Zimmer being selected to score the upcoming Superman reboot, Man of Steel, had been dashed straight from the horse’s mouth. At the time it was disappointing – after all, what with the Christopher Nolan/ Batman connection, it seemed like a great fit. Well, it turns out it is...
Just one month out from the official release of The Dark Knight Rises, one thing fans weren’t expecting was a brand new full-length trailer for the film. After all, we received what was supposed to be the “final” Dark Knight Rises trailer back in early May. So, let’s just consider ourselves lucky, and bask in Nokia’s new trailer for The Dark Knight...
As the countdown to the July 20 premiere of The Dark Knight Rises continues, the onslaught of semi-spoilery Dark Knight Rises TV spots marches onward. Continuing the trend of revealing more and more of the film via TV spots rather than trailers, the newest TV spot features all-new footage of “The Bat” (essentially, the Bat-Plane), Anne Hathway’s Selina Kyle/Catwoman,...
As we inch ever closer to the July 20th release date of The Dark Knight Rises (and our inner fanboys continue to riot), we’ll take any bit of TDKR news that we can get our greedy hands on—including the dark, funereal soundtrack. Or, rather, the first 30 seconds to every song on said soundtrack.
Earlier this week, we reported that Warner Bros. has is responding to the success of Marvel’s The Avengers by gearing up for their own superhero supergroup film: DC’s Justice League. Word has already trickled out that the team-up film will be “dark and mature,” a la Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy; now it seems that Warner Bros. is set to take a page from the...
Well, no surprise here—following the mind-boggling success of Marvel’s The Avengers, Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment have decided that maybe, just maybe, it would be cost effective to shill out their own superhero team-up film. Thus, the defunct Justice League film is now back on track.
The marketing campaign for The Dark Knight Rises has certainly been a fascinating one, as it’s seemingly broken all the traditional rules—first, the trailers were ambiguous and revealed very little (imagine that—a modern trailer that doesn’t spoil the film); second, the theatrical poster was, well, crap; third, the TV spots, normally 30 second bits of recycled trailer footage,...
Despite being one of the most anticipated action films of, well, ever, The Dark Knight Rises’ print ad campaign seems to be taking a decidedly laid back route, in terms of quality. First, we had the Wal-Mart quality photoshopped horror of the final theatrical poster, now we have six new banners that look like they were pieced together in about 10 minutes each. One would think...
The TV spot—normally they’re just brutally edited ‘Greatest Hits’ versions of a film’s trailer, 30 seconds of explosions and one-liners… Unless, of course, it’s a Dark Knight Rises TV spot, in which case you get a bevy of all new footage. That’s right: forgoing the usual route of offering up the best of their previous trailers, The Dark Knight Rises’ two...
Welcome to the exact moment when The Dark Knight Rises ceased to be cool (even if it’s only for just a moment)—the release of a badly photoshopped final poster for the film. Looking like something you’d find for about $6.99 at Wal-Mart or Toys “R” Us, the final one-sheet for The Dark Knight Rises seems more like something directed towards your eight year old...
Sponsored by IMAX and Mountain Dew (apparently people still drink that?), Warner Bros. is launching a unique The Dark Knight Rises promotional tour—they’re taking The Tumbler (a.k.a., the Batmobile) and the Bat-Pod (a.k.a., Batman’s motorcycle) on a cross-country tour of the United States. Want to completely geek out and touch Batman’s ride? Well, Bat-nerds,...
One of the long-running rumors concerning the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises is that the character played by Marion Cotillard, Miranda Tate, would in fact be Talia al Ghul. Fans familiar with the Batman comics will recognize Talia as the daughter of Ra’s al Ghul, whom Liam Neeson portrayed in Batman Begins (and who will appear via flashbacks in...
Remember those halcyon days, before the megabuzz about The Avengers, or the slew of trailers for Prometheus, when The Dark Knight Rises was the only film of summer 2012 that mattered? Well, things of have become a little more complicated since then, but not anymore—the third and final trailer for The Dark Knight Rises is officially the most dramatic,...
