Adam writes in to tell us that IMAX Chicago will be putting on a spe­cial 72 hour Bat­man feast to mark the release of The Dark Knight,

Begin­ning with the first pub­lic show­ing at mid­night on Fri­day, July 18 (late Thurs­day night), the film will show con­sec­u­tively all week­end until late Sun­day, July 20 (the mid­night show). As well, var­i­ous Batman-themed games, con­tests and prizes will add to the buzz through­out the weekend.

Tick­ets can be bought at IMAX Chicago

The Gotham City elec­tion for dis­trict attor­ney has begun at the Gotham Elec­tion Board. Results are out June 13th!

Gotham Elec­tion Board
www​.gotham​elec​tion​board​.com

The Gotham Elec­tion Board is charged by the City of Gotham to ensure fair­ness and accu­racy in all city­wide elec­tions. As part of this man­date, the board has imple­mented a new elec­tronic vot­ing sys­tem acces­si­ble from any com­puter with an Inter­net connection.

Impor­tant reminder: City­wide elec­tion results announced on June 13
Vot­ing Ordi­nance 198.182.v4 now in effect.
New vot­ing equip­ment installed at the Dun­can Avenue polling sta­tion.
New fine-tipped punch­card sty­lus reduces voter error.
Elec­tion Board wel­comes new mem­ber, Direc­tor Penny Charring.

Reg­is­ter to Vote

Thanks to Jason!

Com­cast have unveiled a Dark Knight themed flash based web­site, com­plete with posters and screen­saver down­loads, in a sim­i­lar vein to the offi­cial site, but all the same slightly dif­fer­ent! Thanks Csram

Handy ZIP of all downloads

Video

The site fea­tures two new fea­turettes, one focus­ing on Imax, another on the mak­ing of the clown masks.

Down­load IMAX Promo

Down­load Clown Masks Featurette

Wall­pa­pers

I’d also like to take this moment to thank my friend aCyn­i­calPie for keep­ing the web­site up to date in my two week absence! The remote parts of Greek islands do not have high speed inter­net access.

Empire Mag­a­zine are run­ning a Batman/Joker dual edi­tion of their pub­li­ca­tion, the Bat­man fronted ver­sion is as nor­mal, with the caped cru­sader don­ning the front, and all pages as nor­mal. The excit­ing bit comes in the form of The Jok­er­ized ver­sion, where the Joker has taken it upon him­self to not only deface the Bat­man arti­cle, but also the entire issue!

Seems like NYC is under­go­ing sim­i­lar treat­ment…

With a mar­gin of 44%, The Dark Knight’s sec­ond trailer won USAToday’s Golden Trailer Award for best trailer of the year. It beat 12 other con­tes­tants, each the award win­ner from their own indi­vid­ual category.

Warner Bros. has updated the web­site for The Dark Knight again, now with con­tent. There’s a plot syn­op­sis, a video sec­tion and photo gallery, and a bunch of down­loads. The wall­pa­pers are pretty cool. Visit the site at www​.thedark​knight​.com.

Batman-On-Film have posted an exclu­sive new one sheet poster in the style of the two lat­est posters, though this time show­ing off the Joker. Judg­ing by the URL at the bot­tom of it, seems to have come from a source in the UK.

Com­ing via Chicago Film Fes­ti­val:

THE DARK KNIGHT GALA
A NIGHT HONORING FILMMAKER CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Wednes­day, July 16, 2008
IMAX The­atre | 600 E. Grand Avenue

You are cor­dially invited to a once-in-a-lifetime Gala evening hon­or­ing film­maker Christo­pher Nolan!

Cinema/Chicago, the 44th Chicago Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val and Warner Bros. Pic­tures proudly present the first Chicago show­ing of THE DARK KNIGHT, the follow-up to the action hit Bat­man Begins. THE DARK KNIGHT reunites film­maker Christo­pher Nolan and star Chris­t­ian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his con­tin­u­ing war on crime. The City of Chicago is promi­nently show­cased in the film, with shots of the old Chicago Post Office, the State of Illi­nois Cen­ter, the IBM Build­ing, Upper and Lower Wacker Drive, and LaSalle Street, among other locations.

The evening will include a trib­ute to film­maker Christo­pher Nolan fol­lowed by a screen­ing of THE DARK KNIGHT in IMAX®, which fea­tures six sequences shot with IMAX® cam­eras. “Nolan’s work has cap­ti­vated both crit­ics and audi­ences alike. Memento remains one of the great direc­to­r­ial and writ­ing achieve­ments in cin­ema. He is a mod­ern writer/director who approaches all aspects of his work with a style and sophis­ti­ca­tion seen only amongst the most élite tier of film­mak­ers,” remarks Fes­ti­val Founder and Artis­tic Direc­tor Michael Kutza.

A din­ner recep­tion will fol­low the trib­ute and screen­ing in the stun­ning Crys­tal Gar­dens at Navy Pier, lit up by a spec­tac­u­lar fire­works dis­play. The Gala will ben­e­fit Cinema/Chicago, its year-round edu­ca­tional pro­grams, and the 44th Chicago Inter­na­tional Film Festival.

Warner Bros. Pic­tures presents, in asso­ci­a­tion with Leg­endary Pic­tures, a Syn­copy Pro­duc­tion, a Christo­pher Nolan film, THE DARK KNIGHT. Nolan directed the film from a screen­play writ­ten by Jonathan Nolan and Christo­pher Nolan, story by Christo­pher Nolan and David S. Goyer. Charles Roven, Emma Thomas and Christo­pher Nolan are the pro­duc­ers, with Ben­jamin Mel­niker, Michael E.Uslan, Kevin De La Noy and Thomas Tull serv­ing as exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers. THE DARK KNIGHT is based upon char­ac­ters appear­ing in comic books pub­lished by DC Comics. Bat­man was cre­ated by Bob Kane.

Evening Pro­gram:

5:30PM Red Car­pet Arrivals
6:30PM Trib­ute and Award Pre­sen­ta­tion to film­maker Christo­pher Nolan
7:00PM Gala screen­ing of The Dark Knight
9:30PM — 11:30PM Din­ner Recep­tion at The Crys­tal Gardens

TICKET PRICE:

Advance ticket price: $150/ticket if pur­chased by June 1
After June 1: $175/ticket

TICKETS ON SALE AT 9:00AM ON FRIDAY, MAY 16! LIMIT 4 PER PERSON.

PRESALE tick­ets avail­able to Cinema/Chicago mem­bers May 12–15.

To pur­chase tick­ets, please call 312–683-0121 x154, or click here.