Just Jared have snapped shots of Jake Gyl­len­haal, sword in hand, prepar­ing for his next role as Prince Das­tan in the Prince of Per­sia movie, in Eng­land. He’s also let­ting his hair grow long:

Thanks hobo123!

You may remem­ber that a short while ago we posted a cam­era phone shot of a rather blurry, hard to make out Two Face toy. Zdravko has informed us of a new, high qual­ity pic­ture clearly show­ing Mr Dent’s defor­mi­ties, in plas­tic 5″ form (EDIT: not the 6″ version).

This comes via Legions of Gotham which have a great post illus­trat­ing all the Mat­tel Dark Knight toys.

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

Here… we… go! Another 4 Dark Knight TV spots for you, I’m going to need a cup of cof­fee. These come via Bat­man — Yes­ter­day, Today and Beyond:

One year ago, some very lucky peo­ple had the oppor­tu­nity to watch the first clips of The Dark Knight at Wiz­ard World 07. It took 12 months, but now that footage is avail­able on youTube for all to see, enjoy:

Thanks Alas­tor!

This Swedish pre­view for The Dark Knight con­tains some new Joker footage we haven’t yet seen. Some fore­warn­ing, the voiceover is in Swedish but I think we get the gist, any­way, most of you are flu­ent in Swedish — right?

Thanks Alas­tor and Csam!

A new mes­sage was posted to the mains and pub­lic forums of Cit­i­zens for Bat­man today,

Poster: BriDog72 — Thurs­day, July 3rd, 2008 at 00:12
Seems there’s been a bit of a slipup with the project me and Batfan73 have been work­ing on. BatFan’s in jail and I need everyone’s help. He left me a voice­mail, it was kinda gar­bled, but he said he was picked up by the cops for tres­pass­ing, so he needs some help get­ting every­thing acti­vated. He’s not sure when he’s going to be able to extract him­self from his sit­u­a­tion.
He said he needs some­one to get some sort of key off of an invoice, num­ber 38272899 (geez, I hope I copied that down right), but he got cut off before he could tell me what this invoice is or even where to find it. We need this key to acti­vate every­thing.
Can any­one fig­ure this out? We’re going to need to fix this or the whole thing’s ruined! Anyone?

In an email to Glenn Barhyte, Jim Gor­don made ref­er­ence to Maroni Imports, lead­ing us to a new viral site, www​.maroni​im​ports​.com

With the invoice num­ber from the forums post and the sruname “Cras­ton”, which appeared in a small news update to the Gotham City Rail website:

ALERT: The STCS will undergo ini­tial fine-tuning of its soft­ware on the evening of July 8th. This rou­tine main­te­nance may result in tem­po­rary inter­mit­tent sys­tem delays. We apol­o­gize for any incon­ve­nience this may cause. — C. Cras­ton, Sr. Elec. Engi­neer, GCR

With this infor­ma­tion the afore­men­tioned invoice can be down­loaded, at the bot­tom of it there is a key for a sig­nal booster, Key: 5D45C08AA6C3638D7829C0D5183FDB14B0CDBF1DCB12. With this key, the sig­nal booster was acti­vated and CFB was updated to show two sets of co-ordinates in New York and Chicago. Hence the two loca­tions for the big event this July 8th are now known:

New York and Chicago

CFB has since been updated to include a new mis­sion statement:

Some­times, you have to take a stand. You have to fight for respect. You have to let the entire world know you’re here.
On July 8th, nobody will be able to ignore us. Gather at the above coor­di­nates at the appointed time, and help us take a stand in sup­port of Bat­man!
If you can’t join us on the ground, we’ll be pro­vid­ing a way for you to watch what goes down, live on this web­site.
Defend Gotham! Defend Bat­man!
Key: 5D45C08AA6C3638D7829C0D5183FDB14B0CDBF1DCB12
Sig­nal Booster sta­tus: ON

Thanks Pierre!

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