The Ital­ian movies web­site, Bad­Taste are report­ing that an exhi­bi­tion about The Dark Knight has, as of today, opened in Rome at the Ponte Mil­vio, end­ing July 17th. Included are cos­tumes and con­cept are from the movie as well as one of the many Bat-pod vehi­cles. The press release also men­tions the Bat sig­nal will be appear­ing at Ver­silia and Romag­nola beaches.

Two of the con­cept art pic­tures are already on show:

The com­posers of The Dark Knight score are in Times Square’s Vir­gin Mega­s­tore, 1540 Broad­way, this Tues­day (July 15th) at 7pm, for pre­sum­ably a meet, greet and sign session.

Thanks Mike!

The mid­night screen­ings of The Dark Knight have proved immea­sur­ably pop­u­lar, sell­ing out in over 100 loca­tions — there is so much demand that more late night, early morn­ing screen­ings have been laid on at 3am and 6am respec­tively — I’d get your IMAX tick­ets quickly.

In other news, 4 tick­ets to the NYC pre­mier of The Dark Knight are on Ebay, going for at least $6100! One day left!

Advance Dark Knight tick­ets | IMAX tick­ets | Sold out tick­ets on Ebay | NYC Pre­mière tickets

Here’s the word from Fan­dango:

With more than a week to go before the highly-anticipated release of “The Dark Knight,” Fan­dango, the nation’s lead­ing movie­goer des­ti­na­tion, reports that many of its pre-opening Thurs­day mid­night shows on July 17 are already sold out in cities across the coun­try, from New York to Boise, Idaho. The­aters con­tinue to add 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. pre-opening show­times to meet the tick­et­ing demand.

“‘The Dark Knight’ may be respon­si­ble for a lot of bleary eyes at work next Fri­day morn­ing,” says Rick But­ler, Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer for Fan­dango. “We’re see­ing a record num­ber of late-night show­times sell­ing out in advance, while the­aters are adding new per­for­mances every day.”

More than 1,500 late-night show­times of the movie have been sched­uled for the film’s pre-opening on Thurs­day night (Fri­day morn­ing), July 17–18, at Fan​dango​.com/​T​h​e​D​a​r​k​K​n​i​ght. An online sur­vey of more than 3,000 “The Dark Knight” fans on Fan​dango​.com over the hol­i­day week­end offered the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion on the late-night surge:

* 37% of respon­dents plan to see the film at least once dur­ing one of the late night per­for­mances on Thurs­day night.
* 38% say that they intend to take off a few hours or the entire day from work on Fri­day as a result of see­ing the movie the night before.
* 60% of these movie­go­ers are male.
* 71% are under the age of 35.
* 39% plan to see the film in IMAX®.
* 92% expect that the Acad­emy will rec­og­nize Heath Ledger’s per­for­mance as The Joker with a posthu­mous Oscar® nom­i­na­tion next year.

Not sure where you can catch The Dark Knight on the biggest screens? Do not fret — after the break you can find a com­plete list of all loca­tions show­ing the Bat­man movie in IMAX for­mat in the US and Canada, cour­tesy of Film School Rejects. This is a movie you have to see at the IMAX, do not miss out.

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Sean has received an email detail­ing another loca­tion that the Bat pod will be visiting:

Bat-Pod and Tum­bler @ the Falls — Nia­gara Falls State Park. Audi­ences eagerly antic­i­pat­ing the release of Warner Bros. Pic­tures’ “The Dark Knight” won’t have to wait for the film’s July 18th release date to see
Batman’s newest “ride.” The Bat-Pod, Batman’s lat­est vehi­cle, will be at Nia­gara Falls State Park on Sun­day, July 13th from 11am-3pm. As an added bonus, the Batmobile-nicknamed the Tum­bler, first seen in “Bat­man Begins”-will be on dis­play along­side the Bat-Pod.

The demand for IMAX pre­mière tick­ets is soar­ing, most of the mid­night show­ings are sold out, and a few of the tick­ets for these are sell­ing like hot cakes on Ebay. Tick­ets for the NYC pre­mière have also been listed, 4 for $2500.

The EW have posted this month’s front cover, don­ning The Joker and Bat­man look­ing men­ac­ingly above the head­line, “Bat­man — Tragedy & Tri­umph”, the arti­cle is now online, hit up the link and get your 4 page dose of on the set story telling.

Via /Film

As there is cur­rently no major viral mar­ket­ing tak­ing place, it seems the right time to fill you in on all the smaller Dark Knight sto­ries that have been float­ing about.

Advance Book­ings

The Dark Knight, with the same amount of times to release as Spider-man 3, has sold over eight times as many tick­ets, with a major­ity of those being at IMAX the­aters, report Movi​et​ick​ets​.com via Film School Rejects. To put that into per­spec­tive — Spider-man 3, which was eight times behind, opened to a $150 mil­lion week­end with the record for largest open­ing week­end ever. This also comes from Fan­dango:

With less than three weeks remain­ing till “The Dark Knight” opens on July 18, at 12:01 a.m., Fan­dango, the nation’s lead­ing movie­goer des­ti­na­tion, is find­ing that dozens of show­times for the film are already sold out. (Buy Tick­ets)

Bat­pod and Tum­bler on Tour

The Bat pod and the tum­bler are doing the rounds, tour­ing a num­ber of cities before the movies’ pre­mière. Head­ing to:

• Phoenix
• Den­ver
• St. Louis
• Cleve­land (July 6)
• Kansas City
• Cincin­nati (July 5)
• Wash­ing­ton, DC
• Philadel­phia
• Boston
• Toronto
• Nia­gara Falls, NY
• New York City
• Chicago

July 5 the dis­play will be at Kings Island in Cincin­nati, Ohio from 12:00om to 2:00pm and then be trans­ported to the Show­case Cin­ema de Lux & IMAX in Spring­dale, Ohio and be on dis­play from 3:30pm to 5:30pm that afternoon.

For Cleve­landers, the good will be on dis­play at the Cin­e­mark Val­ley View on Sun­day July 6 from 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Kevin Smith Reviews TDK

On his blog, Kevin Smith posted a short review after the lucky man caught a pre­view screening:

With­out giv­ing any­thing away, this is an epic film (and trust me: based on the sheer size and scope of the visu­als and sto­ry­telling, that’s not an over­state­ment). It’s the “God­fa­ther II” of comic book films and three times more earnest than “Bat­man Begins” (and fuck, was that an earnest film). Eas­ily the most adult comic book film ever made. Heath Ledger didn’t so much give a per­for­mance as he dis­ap­peared com­pletely into the role; I know I’m not the first to sug­gest this, but he’ll likely get at least an Oscar nod (if not the win) for Best Sup­port­ing Actor. Fuck­ing flick’s nearly three hours long and only leaves you want­ing more (in a great way). I can’t imag­ine any­one being dis­ap­pointed by it. Nolan and crew have cre­ated some­thing close to a masterpiece.

On Set

SHH were lucky enough to visit The Dark Knight’s set dur­ing film­ing, with a chance to spend time with the cast for an interview:

Writer/Director Christo­pher Nolan
Chris­t­ian Bale — Bruce Wayne/Batman
Aaron Eck­hart — Har­vey Dent/Two-Face
Crow­ley, Hen­ning & Old­man — Pro­duc­tion Designer, Cos­tume Designer and Com­mis­sioner Gordon

Give­aways

IESB Give­away
Film School Rejects Giveaway

(If I had some swag I’d give it away too, hint hint)

No Robin in Bat­man 3

Chris­t­ian Bale has ruled out an appear­ance of Robin in the next and any sub­se­quent sequals of The Dark Knight, put simply:

If Robin crops up in one of the new Bat­man films, I’ll be chain­ing myself up some­where and refus­ing to go to work.

Gotham Knight (July 8th release)

Fea­ture from Wiz­ard World 08

TV Spe­cials

HBO will air a first look of The Dark Knight on July 10th, 2008 at 10:45pm east­ern. The His­tory chan­nel will also be run­ning a pro­gram look­ing at the his­tory of Bat­man on July 16th in an hour long spe­cial. Thanks Victor!

Heath Ledger Designed his own Makeup

Or so Screen Rant tell us (thanks Tiffany):

“he [Heath] showed up with a very basic make-up kit con­sist­ing of store bought mas­cara, white grease paint and lip­stick and and basi­cally designed the make-up there on the spot”