First stop — peo­ple tak­ing pic­tures should know how to focus the sub­ject. Rant over, mov­ing on, Dark Hori­zons has got the scoop on the Mat­tel Two Face toy for The Dark Knight, this con­sti­tutes our very first look at the Two Face char­ac­ter, aka Har­vey Dent por­trayed by Aaron Eck­hart — even if it is in the form of a toy.

Below are some pho­tos snuck out from a restricted press event at the recent Toy Fair in New York show­ing off the Two-Face tie-in action fig­ure from “The Dark Knight”. The photo dis­plays the look of the Two-Face form of Har­vey Dent (Eckhart)

Spoiler pic­tures after the break! Thanks to Juno and Ghell for send­ing this in.

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We saw a glimpse of these a cou­ple of weeks ago, before the pic­tures were pulled from web­sites. Now Com­ing Soon are back with a full gallery of action fig­ures and play time auto-mobiles. Whilst there is one Joker hench­man fig­ure, there is a dis­tinct lack of Joker fig­ures, pos­si­bly to respect the mem­ory of Heath Ledger.

Mat­tel will be going whole hog with dozens of toys that start rolling out around May 1. There are maybe a dozen dif­fer­ent vari­a­tions of Bat­man in dif­fer­ent out­fits, includ­ing a “bat­tle cape,” “stealth wing” and “Fire­fly Bat­man” (pos­si­bly inspired by the comic book vil­lain). Notice­ably absent from the dis­play were any fig­ures for his new arch-nemesis the Joker, prob­a­bly out of respect for the fam­ily and friends of Heath Ledger, though we did get to see a few pic­tures. Mat­tel was even more secre­tive and care­ful about hav­ing any pic­tures of their fig­ure for Two-Face on dis­play, but one was listed in the mate­ri­als as part of the first wave of action fig­ures, as well as there being a new Scare­crow fig­ure, con­firm­ing his appear­ance in the sequel. Instead of any of these, they had a “Gotham City Thug,” one of the Joker’s clown-faced hench­men, on dis­play. Even more inter­est­ing were some of the vehi­cles on dis­play includ­ing a look at the Bat­copter and the Bat­pod, which is the new Bat­cy­cle, and some­thing called the “Treada­tor, Ulti­mate Pur­suit ATV” (that’s “all-terrain vehi­cle”), which we may have to wait and see if it’s actu­ally a vehi­cle from the movie. The new “Dark Knight” toys also include a Zipline Gun and a Disc Shoot­ing Jet, fairly typ­i­cal toys cus­tomized for the movie, but the most inter­est­ing new toy might be the “Inter­ac­tive Bat” which hope­fully, we’ll be able to see in action on Tuesday.

EDIT: YouTube video taken down (odd con­sid­er­ing it seems entirely pro­mo­tional), you can still find a copy at IO9.

Here is our first look at the six part straight to DVD animé that fills in the gaps between Bat­man Begins and The Dark Knight. Far from a teaser trailer, this is a ten minute “pre­mière” with a lot of back­ground on the Bat­man char­ac­ter and the thoughts behind its creation.

DVD­Town got in first on this one, with thanks to Ghell who sent this in.

Accord­ing to a just held press con­fer­ence Warner Bros. has some new excit­ing Bat­man releases on its way.

Bat­man Begins: Lim­ited Collector’s Edi­tion Gift Set [that’s a mouth­ful] will arrive on DVD and Blu-ray. The Bat­man Anthol­ogy box will also be released on Blu-ray.

Again, all titles should arrive this fall and will probaly be released along­side the lat­est Bat­man install­ment “The Dark Knight.”

This is a very well exe­cuted Lego adap­ta­tion of the first Dark Knight trailer, I’ll let you judge it…

All of us that have been fol­low­ing Ledger over the past few months knew this already, but it’s reas­sur­ing to get some con­fir­ma­tion. After all those defam­ing rumors cir­cu­lat­ing in the tabloid press, we can tell you that Heath Ledger did not pur­pose­fully take his own life.

From the BBC:

Hol­ly­wood actor Heath Ledger died of an acci­den­tal over­dose of six dif­fer­ent types of pre­scrip­tion drugs, New York author­i­ties have revealed. […] The city med­ical examiner’s spokes­woman said Ledger died “as the result of acute intox­i­ca­tion by the com­bined effects” of the dif­fer­ent drugs.

“While no med­ica­tions were taken in excess, we learned today the com­bi­na­tion of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy. Heath’s acci­den­tal death serves as a cau­tion to the hid­den dan­gers of com­bin­ing pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tion, even at low dosage.”

And so the Dark Knight news con­tin­ues in absence of Heath Ledger, that melan­choly feel­ing con­tin­ues to linger. It is going to be a lit­tle weird in these next few months, as pro­mo­tion gears up again and we get more viral mar­ket­ing cam­paigns — prob­a­bly with the same Joker stance.

Com­ing Soon have posted three new shots of Bat­man in an assort­ment of poses:

A pos­si­ble new poster here, looks a lit­tle green and fake but that may just be the qual­ity of the image itself. I pre­fer the other posters that we have seen.

Bruce Wayne aside the new Bat-suit (every­thing always has to be new and improved!)

The offi­cial Warner Bros. Dark Knight web­site has paid trib­ute to the late Heath Ledger,

The Why So Seri­ous page has also added their mark of respect with a black ribbon:

(Thanks Adam)