Seems like Warner Bros. have sneaked in at the last moment with a top secret Bat­man related, ticket only, event at Wiz­ard World in Chicago. Here’s the blurb from Wiz­ard Uni­verse:

As a last-minute addi­tion to the convention’s pro­gram­ming slate, DC Comics announced today that its part­ners at Warner Bros. Pic­tures will be hold­ing a panel for the Christo­pher Nolan-helmed “The Dark Knight” at 6 p.m. [11th August] in the Dave Cock­rum Room at Wiz­ard World Chicago. In accor­dance with the shroud of secrecy already sur­round­ing the “Bat­man Begins” sequel, the ticket-only event will be kept under the tight­est secu­rity, with a ban on all cam­eras, phones, record­ing devices and any other elec­tron­ics. To gain entrance to the panel, fans will have to line up at 10 a.m. Sat­ur­day at the DC Comics booth on the con­ven­tion show floor for one of the passes to the 1,200-seat room.

And while DC and Warn­ers have made no state­ments as to what the panel’s pro­gram­ming will con­sist of, the cam­era ban alone hints that footage from the film, which fea­tures Chris­t­ian Bale repris­ing his role as the tit­u­lar hero as well as Heath Ledger as the Joker, Michael Caine as Alfred and Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal step­ping into the part of Rachel Dawes, will be revealed for the first time any­where. And con­sid­er­ing the fact that “The Dark Knight” is film­ing in the Windy City, an appear­ance by cast or crew mem­bers is pos­si­ble.

Stay tuned! 

Mary Jane has sent in this tid­bit of news for us,

Begin­ning Sat­ur­day, August 11 and con­tin­u­ing through Sat­ur­day, August 18, prepa­ra­tions for and film­ing of a fea­ture film cur­rently dis­guised as “Rory’s First Kiss” is sched­uled at 330 North Wabash. The film­ing takes place in the lobby, thir­teenth and third floors as well as the exte­rior south plaza. The actual film­ing dates are: Sun­day, August 12 in the lobby (south­west side), Wednes­day and Thurs­day, August 15 and 16 on the 13th floor, and Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, August 17 and 18 on the 3rd floor and exterior.

Next up, after the break, check out the image of the Joker Semi that Eric sent us and some Har­vey Dent spoil­ers… Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve heard some infor­ma­tion about an animé filler between Bat­man Begins and The Dark Knight, now a leaked doc­u­ment (is it true? No way to val­i­date the info yet) has informed us that this will take the shape of six short films, much like the Ani­ma­trix, each with a dif­fer­ent screen­writer (Josh Olson — His­tory of Vio­lence, David Goyer — Bat­man Begins, Brian Azzarello — famous comic book writer). They will intro­duce a num­ber of pop­u­lar char­ac­ters from the DC comics whilst con­tin­u­ing plot arcs from Bat­man Begins. Expected to be PG-13 rated and geared towards core fans, this col­lec­tion shall bere­leased 2–4 weeks prior to the movie.

To take a gan­der at this doc­u­ment, which has its valid­ity put into doubt by the mis­spelling of Olson as Olsen — (or just a typo that escaped), check out the page here.

Also, here’s a fun Gotham flag as seen on Fight­ing the Sub­urbs (guy stand­ing in the pic­ture ruth­lessly cropped out!):

… and finds the time to update his web­site. The words about Heath Ledger are par­tic­u­larly encouraging.

I have just got back from my sec­ond trip to Chicago where I am shoot­ing “Bat­man”, my jet lag has gone so I feel like updat­ing this site.

I have one more stint in Chicago in a month time, then I will be fin­ished on the 2nd “Bat­man” the great rev­e­la­tion of work­ing on this is Heath Ledger who plays the “The Joker”. I have seen him on film and I have worked with him and I must say it is quite an extra­or­di­nary performance.

Via Bat­MovieNews

Well, here are the street clo­sures in Chicago for what is now the August shoot­ing sched­ule. If you spot any­thin, be sure to send us the good news.

Rory’s First Kiss (Bat­man) film­ing for all of this week (Wed-Sun) is at LaSalle & Adams.

Night time clo­sures are as follows:

Wed (8/1) through Sun (8/5) LaSalle & Adams; 6:30 pm– 5:00 am

Full Clo­sure of LaSalle between Jack­son & Madison

Full Clo­sure of Adams between Clark & Wells

Full Clo­sure of Mon­roe between Clark & Wells

via SHH

In the upcom­ing month’s issue of Total Film there lies a mam­moth Chris­t­ian Bale inter­view. Full page scans of this inter­view can be found here. It makes for a good read. There’s a lot of infor­ma­tion in here, from the type of char­ac­ter Heath Ledger is turn­ing the Joker into (“punk rock”), to sto­ries of scenes filmed and this choice quote:

Via Bat­MovieNews

Super­Hero­Hype have an exclu­sive inter­view with Hans Zim­mer and here is what he had to say about our Dark Knight:

The biggest news from Mr. Zim­mer, who told us that he’s “play­ing around” and “get­ting some ideas” is the fact that he’s craft­ing a new Bat­man theme for the sec­ond movie in the relaunched fran­chise. “It’s going to evolve,” He told us. “There is a big Bat­man theme which I was play­ing with for the last one, but I always felt the char­ac­ter hadn’t earned it yet, so I just want to go and play around, and I now want to go and com­plete that theme, so that’s part of the idea. I felt I had a good start, and now it would be really nice to develop that world a lit­tle further.” 

Why So Seri­ous has departed, and in its wake has left behind a cheesy grinned clown site, right out of the bygone era of Geoc­i­ties. Quite annoy­ingly, the high res­o­lu­tion down­load links of the Dark Knight Teaser Trailer have been removed.

After the break we have some more on set images from Chicago, warn­ing, Spoil­ers ahead… Read the rest of this entry »