Looks like I for­got to post this one when it first came out, sorry folks. Michael Bay updated his Shoot For The Edit blog with some news about Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen,

Hey every­one. Back from Egypt and Jor­dan — we had a won­der­ful shoot over there. I will miss the crew they were an amaz­ing bunch of peo­ple and a lot of fun.

I’m stuck in the edit room up to my eye balls — also fin­ished pro­duc­ing Fri­day the 13th and The Unborn — com­ing out the after the new year. Our Trailer for Trans­former you have been ask­ing about — First there will be a teaser poster soon after the new year, and the teaser trailer will be out either in the the­aters early Feb. or on the Super­bowl. Can­not decide yet. I’m going to release some set stills on this site in a few weeks. I’ll keep you informed. Going back to do more selects now from my portable avid that I take home from work. It’s late, see you.

Dark Hori­zons have pointed out that on the upcom­ing release sched­ule for Ger­many a sec­ond Trans­form­ers sequel, which would be Trans­form­ers 3, has been sched­uled for a June 29th 2011 release date.

The nom­i­na­tions for the golden globes were announced today, and as usual are being mea­sured as a pre-cursor to the pos­si­ble nom­i­na­tions for the Oscars.

Heath Ledger has picked up a nom­i­na­tion for the best sup­port­ing actor for his role as the joker, a very strong indi­ca­tion that he may be in the run­ning for the same honor at the upcom­ing acad­emy awards.

More shortly as I am post­ing this from a mov­ing train on an iPhone.

The exclu­sive Dark Knight Blu-ray and DVD pack­ages are com­ing in many many dif­fer­ent fla­vors; some with free Bat­man mask (see Tar­get), some with a Joker or Bat­man mask stat­uette (see Best Buy), some with a minia­ture Bat pod (see Ama­zon) and some in a steel case. All of them can be grabbed from Ebay, for the obses­sive col­lec­tor in you.

Ama­zon

Dark Knight Blu-ray | DVD | Spe­cial Edi­tion Blu-ray with Bat-pod

(See our orig­i­nal Dark Knight DVD and Blu ray post for details)

Exclu­sives on Ebay

Tar­get

Best Buy

Christo­pher Nolan has been speak­ing with USA Today about the suc­cess of The Dark Knight and its poten­tial sequel:

Nolan says he is jot­ting notes and doing some rough out­lines for a third story, but he hasn’t yet found any­thing he’s will­ing to com­mit to film, despite Warner Bros.’ eager­ness to get a new film underway.

“It was obvi­ous when the box office was so big ($530 mil­lion domes­ti­cally) that we had under­es­ti­mated how ready fans were to reboot the fran­chise,” he says. “The worst thing you could do now that you’ve got­ten the plane back in the air is mess up the landing.”

[Talk­ing about sequels and a third movie] “I don’t know why they’re hard to do,” Nolan says. “Maybe there’s so much expec­ta­tion to them. But I wouldn’t want to do one if it weren’t going to be as good as the first or sec­ond. That’s not respect­ful to the fans.“

Nolan also points out his rea­sons for not putting out­takes or deleted scenes on the DVD — not a sin­gle extra scene involv­ing The Joker:

Nolan says he wasn’t keep­ing deleted scenes from fans. “For my past three films, I really haven’t had scenes that didn’t make it in the movie,” he says. “If it’s in the final script, I tend put it on screen.”

Any out­takes, how­ever, were inten­tion­ally left off the DVD. “I don’t like out­takes or gag reels,” Nolan says. “I don’t think it’s respect­ful to the actors, who signed on to have their per­for­mance on screen, not the takes that didn’t work out. It dis­cour­ages actors from going all-out if they think every mis­take is going on the disc.”

This report comes from All Things Fan Girl via AICN and details the main points from the talk, cov­er­ing the Blu ray, BD-Live, a live Chris Nolan com­men­tary on Dec 18th, the con­tin­u­a­tion of the Bat­man story (e.g. the third movie), lack of a direc­tors cut and shoot­ing an entire movie in IMAX, with workarounds for the nois­i­ness of the camera.

This is a very good read..

Went to the Dark Knight Blu Ray release event with Chris Nolan last night.

Before tonight I had never even HEARD of BD Live. Appar­ently it’s Xbox Live for Blu-Ray? If you have a BD Live enabled Blu Ray player or a PS3, then you can con­nect to the inter­net and par­take in the poten­tial awe­some­ness. The Dark Knight is Warner Broth­ers’ first foray into this for­mat and it’s shap­ing up to be rea­son alone to invest in a Blu-Ray Player.

First of all, it comes with tons of con­tent, wait­ing to be streamed for free– the newest Warner’s trail­ers, episodes of Warner Pre­mière Motion Comics (Mad Love! Shadow of Ra’s al Ghul!) and more. And because every­thing is stream­ing, you can get to the con­tent faster and it doesn’t take up any hard drive space. One of my favorite fea­tures of TDK BD Live is the com­men­tary option. With a com­puter & web­cam, you can record YOURSELF giv­ing com­men­tary for the whole movie or just a scene here, a scene there. Then, when peo­ple go on BD Live, they can select your com­men­tary to watch with the film. Now, it’s doubt­ful that I would ever watch a stranger’s com­men­tary, but a friend’s? Cer­tainly. Maybe even some­one famous? A blog­ger, a writer, a direc­tor, an actor, a critic, a tech­ni­cian — peo­ple not involved with the film who would have no busi­ness doing com­men­tary for the dvd, but would have an inter­est­ing per­spec­tive, mak­ing their thoughts avail­able to the gen­eral pub­lic? Yes, I’m into that.

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This one throws a bit of a span­ner in the works, as recently as last week Mickey Rourke sug­gested he would be on board for the Sin City sequel, based on “A Dame to Kill for”. How­ever, at The Wrestler press jun­ket his words were not so keen,

“No, I’m not inter­ested in that right now. That’s not a real­ity right now. It’s piss­ing in the wind,” Rourke admit­ted. “There’s dif­fer­ent fac­tions going dif­fer­ent direc­tions there. I don’t know. That’s three hours of make up and I’m claus­tro­pho­bic, so I’m going to have to work some­thing out.”

Source: CS

UGO have posted an inter­view with Super­man Returns direc­tor Bryan Singer, quizzing him on the progress of the Super­man: Man of Steel movie. To sur­mise, Bryan Singer is not involved in the talks around the Super­man sequel, but he is also not yet offi­cially ‘divorced’ from the Super­man franchise.

Jor­dan Hoff­man: Bryan, I have to ask you…..The Man of Steel! Superman!

Bryan Singer: I couldn’t – I wish I had an answer.

JH: I’m strap­ping you to a lie detec­tor right now.

BS: (laughs) Yeah?

JH: You feel that on your arm?

BS: Yeah, yeah.

JH: That’s me strap­ping a lie detec­tor to you.

BS: Okay.

JH: Tell me some­thing about Super­man and you and your rela­tion­ship together.

BS: I love Super­man and I can not tell you any­thing else. I, uh……

JH: Would you like to tell me some­thing else? But you sim­ply can’t?

BS: I can’t, I….no-no I wish I could! Yeah! I wish I could, but there’s noth­ing I have to tell. I’ve got a world tour (laughs) press tour on Valkyrie, a pre­mière in New York, uh –

JH: But there is talk of a new film, though. Are you offi­cially involved in this talk of the new film?

BS: I am not offi­cially involved in the talk, no.

JH: But when talk hap­pens they’ll call you.

BS: Well it’s, you know, I have rela­tion­ships with Warner Broth­ers and with the char­ac­ter and, and, and, and it’s just the way things work out.

JH: But you are not divorced from Super­man at this point.

BS: No.

JH: All right.