Warner Brothers will use it’s biggest franchise ever to kick off two of its other premiere titles when it runs the first trailers for both ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ in front of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ when it opens this Friday. And not only that but Warners has released the first poster for the Batman sequel as well (full size copy here). I guess it shows Gotham crumbling because of something the bad guys did. But I don’t feel sorry for them because when they built their buildings into the shape of a bat, they had to know that would be bad luck.
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES - had it’s first day of filming today in India, and already there are mysterious pictures from the set showing a green ooze. And the internet is all, “Is that the Lazarus Pit? Is Ra’s al Ghul in this? That’s so stupid, that doesn’t fit the canon, this is Batman in real life! This movie sucks, I hate it!” (latino review)
WHITNEY HOUSTONS DAUGHTER - was arrested for possession of alcohol (she’s 18) after some kind of gun fight between her friends and her ex boyfriend. A shocked and frightened Whitney has heard to ask, “Does anyone know what happened to the alcohol, where is it now?” (the enquirer)
THE OFFICE - had it’s first episode with Will Ferrell replacing Steve Carell last night, and the ratings were down 17 percent. If I were them I’d just keep saying Carell is on it and see how long before people figure it out. (thr)
THOR - has 175 reviews so far, and an impressive 80 percent of them are positive. Although a lot of them sound like Hollywood has lowered our summer expectations to a degree where all you have to do to get a good review is not completely fuck everything up. (rotten tomatoes)
X MEN FIRST CLASS - has a new character trailer, this time for Mystique, who is played by Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence. Of course if she was any good she would have won. If Julia Roberts has one, how hard could it really be. (youtube)
LINDSAY LOHAN - began her community service today at a women’s shelter in Los Angeles, although you’re forgiven if you assumed the green ooze in the headline was going to have something to do with her vagina. In your defense we’re still not sure it doesn’t. (inf)
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Jeff Robinov is the new president of the motion picture group at Warner Bros., and one of his immediate goals is to make sure we all get to see a new Batman franchise in a few years, one that will no doubt tell the same story as the current Batman franchise, only not as well.
The LA Times says…
(Robinovs) first priority: Finally getting the Justice League, DC’s team featuring all its top characters, on the big screen in 2013.
Also being written for Warner are scripts featuring the Flash and Wonder Woman, who could be spun off into their own movies after Justice League.
Batman will continue to be a centerpiece beyond next year’s “The Dark Knight Rises” and Christopher Nolan’s departure from the franchise.
Robinov says, “We have the third Batman, but then we’ll have to reinvent Batman…Chris Nolan and [his producing partner] Emma Thomas will be producing it, so it will be a conversation with them about what the next phase is.”
I don’t know if it’s because real people just look goofy in those costumes or what, but unless they’re done incredibly well, superhero movies are kind of stupid, and more often than not they’re terrible, if not worse. Even a gynecologist from the 1600’s would say Batman and Robin was the worst thing he’s ever seen.
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01.13.2011 Thurdsay morning headlines
LADY GAGA - will make 100 million dollars in 2011, adding to the 60 million she made in 2010. And she would have made even more except that her music is horrible. (popeater)
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY - has broken up with Rupert Friend, her boyfriend for the past 5 years, but the really awesome part is the Suns headline, “Keiras Not Getting it Knightley”. Also note that the source of the story is her dad. So they talk about Keira getting cum on at least once every 24 hours, in huge font, then quote her dad who seems sad because his little girl won’t have some guys dick punching the back of her throat tonight. I dare you to find something better than London newspapers. (the sun)
BATMAN 3 - will likely have Keira Knightley, Anne Hathaway or Jessica Biel as the female lead. It’s good to finally see white girls catch a break in Hollywood. (nydn)
AMY WINEHOUSE - is in Rio this week, and the Daily Mail says she has some strange bruises on her thigh. Strange in the sense that she’s obviously a god damn zombie and they’re not supposed to have blood flow. (daily mail)
11.19.2010 Friday morning headlines
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - opened this morning at 12:01am, and based on pre-ticket sales it has a shot at breaking The Dark Knights 158 million dollar opening weekend record. It’s made around 30 million already, but the entire weekend is expected to be packed with loser nerds in Harry Potter costumes, and me showing them what real power looks like in my Gandolf outfit. (deadline)
TOM HARDY - is all set to play the villain in the third Christopher Nolan Batman movie, and though it’s not known which one, the best current guess is it will be Dr. Hugo Strange, “a genius, mad scientist who becomes obsessed with Batman, learns his secret identity and ends up dressing up like him.” Maybe someone just try shooting him like 300 times. With a gun. I feel like that would work. (batman news)
THE SCHICK HYDRO GIRL - is Saras Gil, though I can barely even confirm that she exists. She’s 24, lives in Barcelona, I think. And that’s about it. I was amazed at how many emails came in about this chick, but I’m not here to judge. I jacked off to a constellation once, so, hey, whatever man. (youtube)
One of the best things about Christopher Nolan is that he makes his movies and lets them stand on their own. He doesn’t cut 50 different commercials or give anything away in the trailers and he doesn’t talk about them.
The last part also kind of sucks, because it’s been impossible to get any details out of him about Batman 3, so the fact that the LA Times got the name of the movie and can kill the rumor that the villain would be a ‘Saw’-like version of the Riddler is a flood of information on par with the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.
Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film will be called “The Dark Knight Rises” and though he isn’t ready to reveal the villain of his 2012 film, he did eliminate one of the big contenders: “It won’t be the Riddler,” Nolan said in an exclusive interview with Hero Complex.
Nolan was most eager to talk about the fact that Warner Bros. had agreed with his argument that the film should resist the current 3-D craze and instead use high-definition approaches and IMAX cameras.
So Nolan has now eliminated Riddler and Mr. Freeze as villains, and it likely wont feature AnnaLynne McCord in a sexy Halloween Batgirl costume. God, so now I feel like I’ve already seen it. Thanks for ruining the movie dick!
