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Last November, a special effects technician was killed during a stunt test run.
In January, Heath Ledger died of an accidental drug overdose.
Last month, Christian Bale was arrested by London police on suspicion of assault following a complaint made by his mother and sister.
And just today, Morgan Freeman was hospitalized following a serious car [...]

Sunday, August 3, 2008
After placing second Friday and despite predictions that it would finally fall from its perch atop the box office, The Dark Knight buried The Mummy over the weekend, bringing its three week cumulative gross to $394.9 million.
The Dark Knight, which is currently the eighth highest grossing film of all time, [...]

Midnight can’t come fast enough.

The New Yorker’s David Denby is confused and couldn’t bother to spare 30 seconds for research. He seems to think Tim Burton created Batman:
Warner Bros. has continued to drain the poetry, fantasy, and comedy out of Tim Burton’s original conception for “Batman,” (1989), completing the job of coarsening the material into hyperviolent summer action [...]

In case you couldn’t tell, my excitement for The Dark Knight is not cable of being measured. (Don’t believe me, then feel these nipples.) I bought my midnight tickets three weeks ago. Rebecca and I will be there with bells on. (Rebecca and I will not actually be wearing bells.) [...]

There’s a new official clip from The Dark Knight featuring Aaron Eckhart over at Why So Serious? It might contain minor spoilers.

Warning: This trailer contains what appear to be spoilers. Watch at your own risk.

SPOILER SPECULATION BELOW

The next leg of The Dark Knight viral marketing campaign has begun. It will culminate with the premiere of the new, official theatrical trailer — not a teaser trailer but a full-fledged trailer designed to wet our appetites. In twelve cities today, including Boston, a scavenger hunt of sorts will lead to a [...]

If haven’t seen the trailer for the upcoming Michel Gondry comedy Be Kind Rewind, then you might not appreciate the following parody as much. Basically, the premise of Be Kind Rewind is that Jack Black and Mos Def work in a video store where all of the VHS tapes have been magnetically erased, [...]

Someone has way too much time on his hands…

I wish I was making this up. I really do but I’m not. Heath Ledger, star of the upcoming film The Dark Knight, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in a New York City apartment. This is utterly tragic.
EDIT: The New York Times reports that it [...]

What would the trailer for The Dark Knight look like with footage from 1966’s Batman: The Movie starring Adam West and Caesar Romero?

You can now watch and download the new teaser trailer for The Dark Knight. It’s beautiful.
Also, enjoy these sweet new promotional images.   
What’s with the mask?
The Joker’s Cell
Why so serious?
Joker’s Wild
Darth Wayne

Another day, another viral marketing frenzy for The Dark Knight. This time the reward was a teaser poster made by The Joker himself. It’s pretty rad.
Warner Bros. has also released the first sneak peak of the movie - the opening scene, shot in Imax format, that introduces The Joker. It will [...]

Well, Warner Bros. is at it again with a slew of new viral marketing sites for The Dark Knight. These might be the best yet.First, there is a website devoted to exposing police corruption and then the official websites of the Gotham City Police Department and Gotham National Bank.
But the best has to be [...]

I don’t watch MTV nor am I a regular visitor to their website. (Actually, this is probably the first time I’ve ever been on mtv.com.) But I simply can’t resist a rare interview with Jack Nicholson, the coolest person in the history of existence, especially one that includes his thoughts on another actor [...]

After months of inactivity, Warner Bros. stepped up its viral marketing campaign for The Dark Knight today with a multi-city scavenger hunt. The reward was another image of The Joker and another viral marketing mission for tomorrow.

Warner Bros. has already proven that they know how to go about viral marketing. Well, today, they truly outdid themselves with a synchronized scavenger hunt that fed clues to fanboys (and fangirls) at Comic Con in San Diego that were then relayed to people on the interweb who used said clues to gain deep access [...]