Kung Fu Rodeo has posted some excel­lent pre­views of The Gotham Knight animé, thanks to Juno for the heads up.

The offi­cial Har­vey Dent web­site, “ibelievein​har​vey​dent​.com” has been updated to include a new mes­sage and some text entry boxes for your email and phone number,

“We have the power to change Gotham City, soon you’ll find out how”

On doing so you get a quick con­fir­ma­tion email reading:

Cit­i­zens of Gotham! The future of our city rests in your hands! Alone, we are help­less against the thugs and killers men­ac­ing our city. Together, we have the power to take back Gotham. In just a few days, you’ll find out how. Please click … to ver­ify your e-mail address. Keep an eye on http://​www​.ibelievein​har​vey​dent​.com and get ready to join a move­ment that will trans­form our city!

It looks like the sec­ond major viral mar­ket­ing cam­paign shall be focus­ing around Har­vey Dent, rather than the Joker, which falls in line with the rumors we have heard con­cern­ing the third Dark Knight trailer.

Via Hol­ly­wood Chicago and with thanks to Austin

… in case you some­how missed it, which I can scarcely believe.

The debut trailer:

The announce­ment:

The third Dark Knight trailer is set to land in the next few weeks — how, when and where is not quite cer­tain yet. It is widely rumored to revolve around Bat­man and Har­vey Dent, with much less of a focus on The Joker.

Dark Hori­zons have recently heard that a slot before the fea­ture film “10,000 BC” is the most likely can­di­date for the first trailer show­ing — and that pre­mières on March 7th. We’ll keep our fin­gers crossed.

As an aside, the arti­cle also linked to the MTV blog which has a video with one of the new Bat­man toys, Bruce Wayne’s Lam­borgh­ini Murcielago.

Com­ing­Soon have posted a sec­ond gallery of images from the Mat­tel toy show, this time reveal­ing The Joker action fig­ure and free­ing oth­ers from their restric­tive child-proof pack­ag­ing. Looks like their are two ver­sions of the Joker toy — a Heath Ledger looka­like and a stylised kids rep­re­sen­ta­tion. Also included are some close-ups of the Bat­mo­bile, Bruce Wayne’s Mur­cielago and Bat­pod auto-mobile toys.

Thanks to Ghell again for the very fast heads up!

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.

Shia has been hap­pily dis­cussing the new Trans­form­ers movie adap­ta­tion with British pub­li­ca­tion Empire, although keep­ing the secrets to him­self it seems:

“It’s going to be bad-ass. We’re not mak­ing another one unless it is, and Mike is def­i­nitely not rest­ing on his lau­rels — he’s doing insane shit again. And the pre-vizes that I’ve seen… it’s just mas­sive. If the first one was any indi­ca­tor of how mas­sive mas­sive can be, this is going to blow that out of the water. It’s insane. Mike’s mind was just kind of made for this — it’s amaz­ing. There’s going to be a lot more char­ac­ter­i­za­tion with the robots, which I’m excited about. […] There’s gonna be new robots on both sides. I can say that the war isn’t over… It’s hard to do inter­views when you’re not allowed to talk about the movies. It’s like I give two or three things away and then I get rep­ri­manded for it. It’s never fun to get rep­ri­manded by these people”.