“Atten­tion loyal CAD Followers… ”

Thanks Keith!

Totino’s Pizza Rolls have started a Dark Knight pro­mo­tion. Thanks Zdravko.

Body By Milk has added a new “got milk?” ad, with Bat­man sport­ing the ‘stache. Check out their web­site for details on a con­test whereby you can be inserted in to an actual Bat­man comic. There’s also a nice wid­get, as well as a wall­pa­per and buddy icon of the ad.

And here is the ad:

Hershey’s has launched its web­site for its Bat­man themed can­dies. The site includes infor­ma­tion on their sweep­stakes (the grand prize being a Dark Knight motor­cy­cle), and a new con­test, Revenge Videos. There is also a media sec­tion with the trail­ers we’ve already seen.

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.

Super­hero Hype have posted some images of pro­mo­tional card­board you are likely to see in your local movie the­ater in the com­ing month. It’s the cut-out ver­sion of the bat-pod poster:

The final clue in the “It’s all part of the plan” game revealed a grid con­tain­ing all the let­ter J’s:

Each of these then cor­re­sponds to a let­ter that spells out “sit­ting­ducks” when unscram­bled. This leads to a new Why So Seri­ous page:

www​.whysose​ri​ous​.com/​s​i​t​t​i​n​g​d​u​c​ks/

In this lit­tle flash game, each of the ducks rep­re­sent binary code, blue ducks being 0 and yel­low ducks being 1. 1st row: “To win shoot” 2nd row: “Only row two” 3rd row: ybbyyyybbybby

Com­plet­ing the game reveals a “You Win” sign:

Click­ing that takes you to the Happy Trails (aka trailer!) page:

www​.whysose​ri​ous​.com/​h​a​p​p​y​t​r​a​i​ls/

Now we have to wait til Sun­day to see the trailer.

EDIT: 4:00 PM EDT: Lon­don clues have been solved and the safe opened
5:30 PM EDT: Boston (43–26-76), Philadel­phia (26–16-06), New York (33–80-89), Toronto (32–60-68) — all com­pleted and safes opened.
6:30 PM EDT: Chicago (98–20-49), Dal­las (86–56-01), Kansas City (74–35-76) — all com­pleted
8:30 PM EDT: Seat­tle (65–42-60), Los Ange­les (41–44-98), San Fran­cisco (76–36-42), Sao Paulo (60–47-41) — all completed.

EDIT: I have set up a flash based chat page to help every­one keep up to date:
Why So Seri­ous Live Chat (warn­ing: this chat can degrade into non­sen­si­cal rub­bish because that is the nature of people).

Con­tinue read­ing to see our full cov­er­age with updates as they come

The first of the Why So Seri­ous scav­enger hunt count­downs has ended — Lon­don is up and ready, rar­ing to go. The por­trait image has updated — it now con­tains a set of clues:

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