Com­ing Soon have sat down and spo­ken with three mem­bers of The Dark Knight cast, Chris­t­ian Bale, Aaron Eck­hart and Gary Old­man. I have included the three videos below in a playlist, some warn­ing, the thrid video (Gary Old­man) does con­tain spoilers:

The Dark Knight’s Bat pod and pos­si­bly Bat­man Begins’ Tum­bler (although we’ve not seen it on loca­tion yet) are tour­ing and we have the final tour dates for you, via Film School Rejects:

SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2008 Nia­gara Falls, NY

See the Bat-Pod and Bat Tum­bler at the Nia­gara Falls State Park

MONDAY, JULY 14, 2008 New York City

See the Bat-Pod live on the Today Show
See the Bat-Pod and Bat Tum­bler on the red car­pet at AMC Lin­coln Square IMAX

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2008 Chicago

See the Bat-Pod and Bat Tum­bler at the Navy Pier – Crys­tal Gar­den
See the Bat-Pod and Bat Tum­bler at the Chris Nolan Gala Event at Navy Pier

SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2008 Los Angeles

See the Bat-Pod all week at the Arclight Hol­ly­wood Theater/Cinerama Dome

The own­ers of the assorted Joker phones have received a new phone call, with a mon­tage of mum­bled sounds and clips with phrases such as “Is any­body there? Please help” and “Don’t do it, don’t do it”, together with the sounds of the Gotham PD in the back­ground before end­ing with the Joker’s mani­a­cal laugh.

Down­load audio of the call

Coin­cid­ing with this phone call, the lat­est episode of Gotham Tonight has been added to GCN, the episode is set to inter­view Har­vey Dent, the “White Knight”, how­ever half way through it cuts to news of The Joker’s bank robbery.

Cel­e­brated jour­nal­ist Mike Engel sits down with the “White Knight” of Gotham City — Dis­trict Attor­ney Har­vey Dent. Dent defends con­tro­ver­sial crime-fighter Bat­man, and says they’ve “ben­e­fited the entire city.”

Dent takes calls from view­ers on Jonathan Crane and fears of a new out­break of Fear Toxin, and con­fronts a GPD police offi­cer angry over Dent’s pros­e­cu­tion of cor­rupt cops. And Engel asks the ques­tions everybody’s been talk­ing about — is Har­vey Dent dat­ing Assis­tant Dis­trict Attor­ney Rachel Dawes? The episode ends with the break­ing news that the Gotham National Bank has been hit by rob­bers who made away with 68 mil­lion dol­lars from the vault.

The WSS Over­ture count­down has ended, and with it the Joker has brought down his mad­ness upon all of the Gotham City viral web­sites, splat­ter­ing them with flood and defac­ing them with mis­chie­vous messages.

On each of these pages a puz­zle piece with a let­ter was left, com­bin­ing all the pieces the phrase “Kick­ing and Screen­ing” can be found, which leads to the next Why So Seri­ous page,

www​.whysose​ri​ous​.com/​k​i​c​k​i​n​g​a​n​d​s​c​r​e​e​n​i​ng/

Note the play on words, “Screen­ing” — the prize — Free tick­ets to an IMAX pre-release Dark Knight screen­ing on July 15th!. As quickly as they appeared they have now SOLD OUT.

AND HERE WE GO!!!

“You’ve played your part, here are your just rewards. Meet at the ren­de­vous points below. Don’t be late, don’t for­get your ticket or heads will roll. Casual attire, smiles optional.”

Sold Out Chicago, Cin­e­mark IMAX (Woodridge) 9:30pm
Sold Out New York, Pal­isades IMAX (West Nyack) 9:00pm
Sold Out Edmon­ton, Sil­ver City IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Pitts­burg, Cin­e­mark IMAX (Tar­en­tum) 9:30pm
Sold Out Kansas City, Stu­dio IMAX (Olathe) 9:00pm
Sold Out Phoenix, Deer Val­ley IMAX 9:00pm
Sold Out San Fran­cisco, Metreon IMAX 9:00pm
Sold Out Los Ange­les, Uni­ver­sal City IMAX 9:00pm
Sold Out Las Vegas, Palms IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Min­neapo­lis, Met­ro­pol­i­tan IMAX (St. Michael) 9:30pm
Sold Out Dal­las, Cin­e­mark IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Toronto, Sco­tia­bank IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Salt Lake City, Jor­dan Com­mons IMAX (Sandy) 9:30pm
Sold Out Grand Rapids, Cel­e­bra­tion IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Atlanta, Mall of Geor­gia IMAX (Buford) 9:45pm
Sold Out Den­ver, Col­orado Cen­ter IMAX 9:45pm
Sold Out Hous­ton, Marq*e IMAX 9:45pm
Sold Out Orlando, Pointe IMAX 9:45pm
Sold Out Port­land, Bridge­port IMAX (Tigard) 9:45pm
Sold Out San Diego, Mira Mesa IMAX 9:45pm
Sold Out Omaha, Star IMAX (Coun­cil Bluffs) 9:30pm
Sold Out Indi­anapo­lis, Show­place IMAX 9:30pm
Sold Out Boston, Com­cast IMAX (Nat­ick) 7:00pm
Sold Out Seat­tle, Boe­ing IMAX 7:30pm

An email was also sent out shortly before­hand via Human Resources:

http://​www​.whysose​ri​ous​.com/​k​i​c​k​i​n​g​a​n​d​s​c​r​e​e​n​ing HA HA HA HA HA ha HA HA ha HA HA ha HA HA HA ha HA HA HA ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ha ha ha HA HA ha HA HA HA ha ha ha HA HA ha HA HA HA ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ha HA HA ha HA ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA ha HA HA ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA ha ha HA HA HA ha HA HA HA HA ha ha HA ha HA ha HA HA HA HA HA ha ha ha HA HA HA HA ha HA HA HA ha HA HA HA HA ha HA ha

Thanks to every­one that sent this in! Hope you got your tick­ets in time! (We poor brits miss out again it seems — we’re get­ting the movie a week later anyway).

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A grainy ren­di­tion of HBO’s Dark Knight spe­cial is now avail­able on YouTube, thanks Alastor!

Part 1

Part 2

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.