The Maiden Avenue Report has updated with some results from the polls, putting Har­vey Dent at a low low 9%, with rumors that he shall with­draw from the race. But more excit­ingly, on the right of the page there are three links with the descrip­tion “Clowns against Dent” — which link off to YouTube and three creepy clown videos declar­ing war against Har­vey Dent.

Thanks Jackie Chavez!

This new viral site links in with the Acme Secu­rity Sys­tems mes­sage where the Gotham Police Major Crimes Unit was unveiled with logo. The URL was dis­cov­ered very close to the time but the site hadn’t gone live, today it has:

GPDMCU: www​.gpdmcu​.com

The site lists a con­tact email address (which was orig­i­nally incor­rectly point­ing to a .org address), contact@​gpdmcu.​com.

Sorry for the delay in post­ing this and thanks to every­one that sent it in. This is our first piece of viral mar­ket­ing that actively includes the stars of The Dark Knight. In this case it is Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal as Rachel Dawes, air­ing her sup­port for Har­vey Dent in a press con­fer­ence. This video orig­i­nated at the Maiden Avenue Report.

Down­load the Quick­time Ver­sion (2mb) : View at Gotham Times

Warner Bros. have released their lat­est press pack­age for Sum­mer 2008, within it comes infor­ma­tion about The Dark Knight. Most of which we already knew, but inter­est­ingly their plot syn­op­sis has updated:

“The Dark Knight” reunites direc­tor Christo­pher Nolan with star Chris­t­ian Bale, who returns to con­tinue Batman’s war on crime. With the help of Lieu­tenant Jim Gor­don (Gary Old­man) and Dis­trict Attor­ney Har­vey Dent (Aaron Eck­hart), Bat­man sets out to destroy orga­nized crime in Gotham for good. The tri­umvi­rate proves to be effec­tive, but they soon find them­selves prey to a ris­ing crim­i­nal mas­ter­mind known as the Joker (Heath Ledger), who thrusts Gotham into anar­chy and forces the Dark Knight ever closer to cross­ing the fine line between hero and vigilante.

They have also offi­cially released two new images, (some of you may have seen these before when they were leaked with 17 oth­ers):

Neca have today revealed their Dark Knight mer­chan­dise includ­ing alarm clocks, key chains and wall hang­ings. Visit their site for details on the new prod­ucts, or spend a few moments gaz­ing at this won­der­ous knocker:

Via SHH

It looks like the Jow Forums have leaked some very reveal­ing shots of The Joker in The Dark Knight, albeit with some pho­to­shop effects thrown over the top. They include scenes from the hos­pi­tal and the parade — they are major spoil­ers as to cer­tain events in the movie.

As these were leaked we shall not be post­ing them here. Cer­tain sites do still have them though. How­ever I rec­om­mend stay­ing away from these, if you can — these are things you’d want to see in the movie and not beforehand.

Thanks Keith.

The Clown Travel Agency prize has been unveiled, it is a link to Acme Secu­rity Sys­tems, a page with the descrip­tion of “delos”:

www​.acmese​cu​ri​tysys​tems​.com/​d​e​los

The aim is to deac­ti­vate a par­tic­u­lar secu­rity sys­tem, and the pass­word is “Nee­dle”.

Enter­ing your tele­phone leads them to call you with an auto­mated mes­sage, on answer­ing you need to clearly state “Nee­dle” as the pass­word. Say­ing “Hello” fails the pass­word check. You’ll then be greeted by a fel­low (Gor­don) from Gotham Police Depart­ment stat­ing that your iden­tity has been cap­tured and that you “work for us now”. It is a very excit­ing and inter­est­ing phone call if you get it to go through.

Mean­ings to the num­bers in the Iden­tity Cap­tured image — they are charges:
156.05 Unau­tho­rized use of a com­puter.
156.10 Com­puter tres­pass.
156.27 Com­puter tam­per­ing in the first degree.
156.35 Crim­i­nal pos­ses­sion of com­puter related mate­r­ial.
(thanks gilga)

Down­load Audio Record­ing of the Phone Call

(thanks to BANEpark­our)

Tele­phone Transcript:

Woman: Hello, this is the Acme Secu­rity Sys­tems voice print iden­ti­fi­ca­tion sys­tem, please say the pass­word clearly.

Caller: NEEDLE

Gor­don: This is Jim Gor­don, major crimes, Gotham Police Depart­ment. Not the voice you were expect­ing… huh? We have your name. We have your num­ber. We have your computer’s IP address. So what I’m say­ing is, we have you. Con­sider your­self the Gotham Police Department’s newest recruit. You see, this works one of two ways, either you’re going to jail for con­spir­acy in a crim­i­nal enter­prise, or, you’ll work for me. We’ll be in touch. Oh, have a great day!

All pack­ages have been uncov­ered! Now time to head over to Acme Secu­rity Sys­tems or con­tinue fol­low­ing our coverage

As expected, The Clown Travel Agency viral puz­zle has come online — this time they have gone inter­na­tional. By click­ing on the manilla enve­lope (donned with the text “Proud Mother” in the bot­tom right) a sheet of loca­tions is revealed — from Paris to Sao Paolo. At each of these loca­tions is a package.

The text reads:

“Ready to have a ball?
A spe­cial bag of fun awaits the first to claim it. But you bet­ter strike fast, there’s no time to spare”

The mes­sage hints at the sport of Ten Pin Bowl­ing, and this mes­sage from Alex at SHH con­firms that:

I con­tacted the Tavi­s­tock Hotel, but I was too late, how­ever they gave me some info on the pack­age. Some­one col­lected it and inside was a bowl­ing ball, and a nifty smart mobile phone. On the ball was a mobile phone num­ber etched on it. He rang the num­ber apa­prently and was told they now knew who he was and to await fur­ther instructions.

The folks over at SHH and Omelette have posted their pic­tures of the packages.

The note that came with it reads:

“Nice work, clown! Now call the num­ber on the ball imme­di­ately, from this phone and THIS PHONE ONLY. Don’t give this num­ber to any­one else, or I’ll know.

Hope­fully, your cohorts will be in the same league as you, because once all your points are racked up, I’ll give you all some­thing that will really bowl you over…”

A bowl­ing ball, a joker card, a phone, a mes­sage and a bag for the lot.