The Dark Knight

[Midnite]

An alternate trailer for The Dark Knight and the 8-minute viral Gotham Cable News program "Gotham Tonight with Mike Engel (played by Anthony Michael Hall)" have started airing on Comcast On Demand,

Alternate Dark Knight Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65zKQYpjpiE

Gotham Tonight Clip. From the latest viral campaign
Ackk.. WB took down the clip, here's the description:

SPOILERS:








Very, VERY well made. AMH is very cool as Engel. Think Brian Williams mixed with Tom Brokaw with a dash of Matt Lauer.

It's about 7 mins long, and Engel begins with a report of a group of thugs disrupting a polling area, showing up with baseball bats and threatening Dent supporters. One of them is none other than Albert Rossi. They're all caught by Batman.

Here, we finally get to see Roger Garcetti, Dana Worthington, and Allan Cypes (Dent's media manager) in action as opposed to just reading about them and seeing photos. It's really something watching how they clash together.

The majority of the segment flows similar to Hardball or Larry King Live sans phonecalls. Of course, Dent wins by a large majority. The first topic touches on the legality of Batman's activities. Garcetti completely opposes Batman. Worthington, however, acknowledges that Batman is a necessity in "desperate times." Garcetti is very cool and defiant, even in the face of defeat, constantly berating both Dent and Batman. Garcetti also attempts to take credit for the recent decline in Gotham's crime rate, but Worthington credits Batman with the decline. Cypes considers Batman a nonissue, and when questioned as to why Dent refuses to appear in interviews, he replies that Dent is busy preparing to prosecute Sal Maroni.

Cypes (who is in the studio with Engel, while Garcetti and Worthington are on satellite camera), spills the same things we've seen in the emails, painting Dent as Gotham's savior, instead of Batman. He had a great line, where he said "Batman wasn't on the ballot, Harvey Dent was, and the people voted for Harvey Dent."

Garcetti and Cypes are constantly stepping over each other's comments, which gets Garcetti on edge as Cypes describes Dent's "not stooping" to Garcetti's level when the former DA launched his smear campaign. Garcetti still defends the corrupt cops that Dent prosecuted, and accuses Dent of alienating the police from protecting the citizens of Gotham. Cypes ultimately reveals Garcetti's involvement with several organizations connected to Maroni, and that Dent plans to prosecute Garcetti on charges of corruption and accepting bribes. Garcetti then looses his cool, and he has an awesome quote at the end of his schtick: "You think your White Knight doesn't have chinks in his armor, you think again!" Engel asks if that was a threat, to which Garcetti replies "You figure it out!" He then demands his camera be turned off.

Engel then signs off, giving a preview of next week's edition where they're going to take a look at Bruce Wayne.

Overall, this was an incredibly well-made featurette, and at first glance you might think that this is an actual news show. Can't wait for the next one.

[Gremlin]

Man, I really hope the DVD has a documentary on the viral campaign.  How insnaely difficult must it have been to plan it all out?

[Midnite]

Two Face Scene:
http://www.whysoserious.com/myhero/

[Midnite]

Gotham Tonight can be view now:
http://gothamcablenews.com/gotham_tonight.aspx

[JeyNyce]

About Harvey Face, this is a quote from 1 website:

If this is just a pre-rendering. We can't wait to see what the final product looks like.The big question still remains: Is it real? Highly likely.  Especially since WB has been taking them down.  Now if WB were doing that, it's gotta be real right?  right?....

From this site:

http://thefour11.org/2008/05/05/harvey-dent-a-man-who-sees-both-sides/

[Midnite]

Gotham Tonight: Video on the life and career of Bruce Wayne < youtube

Gotham Tonight: Video on the life and career of Bruce Wayne < Gotham Cable News

[Previsionary]

First review is out here

WARNING: Some curses are on the page so be wary. Also, avoid if you don't want to see any spoilers.

Just to note: I don't know how "real" this review is and other reviews in the swear-infested forums seem to reveal/debunk/whatever more details, so take that as you will.

[JeyNyce]

They are comparing this movie to GodFather 2??!!!  Well from reading this review, I have to agree.  I will be seeing this movie on opening day!

[Midnite]

Rolling Stone Review

I don't know how heavy the spoilers are in the review. Haven't read it yet, don't think I will.

[Figure Fan]

Rolling Stone Review

I don't know how heavy the spoilers are in the review. Haven't read it yet, don't think I will.

Ok, so I read the first few paragraphs.


I can't take the waiting anymore!


This movie sounds soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.

[Midnite]

The hi-res alternate trailer by Comcast is out.

Linky

[Midnite]

Gotham Tonight #3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1hc5iFPpSQ

Gotham Tonight #4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upfjT0TdlBY

12 Clips for TDK
Must resist...

Linky

[Midnite]

Prologue

Cam job off Blu Ray DVD.

[Midnite]

Domino's exclusive trailer
youtube version

Joker: "Does it depress you? How alone you really are..."

[GhostMachine]

I'm hoping that design for Two-Face isn't real, because it looks too much like Darkman.

However, I've read a spoiler for the movie that gives away how the character is handled, and I am none too thrilled.

[bredon7777]

I'm hoping that design for Two-Face isn't real, because it looks too much like Darkman.

However, I've read a spoiler for the movie that gives away how the character is handled, and I am none too thrilled.

Dude, you can't just put something like that OUT there and leave us hanging like that!

Spill already!

[Midnite]

The Dark Knight Wizard World Footage

This was the footage shown last year.

[GhostMachine]

I'm hoping that design for Two-Face isn't real, because it looks too much like Darkman.

However, I've read a spoiler for the movie that gives away how the character is handled, and I am none too thrilled.

Dude, you can't just put something like that OUT there and leave us hanging like that!

Spill already!

Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you - and this is NOT a rumor, but something that's been confirmed - Moriarity from Ain't It Cool News mentioned it on some forum and I've read a few other confirmations that back it up. Don't click if you don't want to know a MAJOR spoiler that may ruin your enjoyment of the movie. Seriously.

[spoiler]He isn't in the movie as Two-Face for long and he actually gets killed off on-screen with his funeral being shown instead of being much of a secondary villain or set up as the baddie for the next movie.[/spoiler]

And this is just a rumor, but the villain for the third film may be [spoiler]The Ridder[/spoiler]

[Midnite]

Whoa, The Dark Knight is going to break Spider-man 3's opening day record and maybe the opening weekend too.

The Dark Knight to Pack Theaters Just Before the Dawn
Source: Fandango July 9, 2008


Need we say more?

With more than a week to go before the highly-anticipated release of "The Dark Knight," Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination, reports that many of its pre-opening Thursday midnight shows on July 17 are already sold out in cities across the country, from New York to Boise, Idaho. Theaters continue to add 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. pre-opening showtimes to meet the ticketing demand.

"'The Dark Knight' may be responsible for a lot of bleary eyes at work next Friday morning," says Rick Butler, Chief Operating Officer for Fandango. "We're seeing a record number of late-night showtimes selling out in advance, while theaters are adding new performances every day."

More than 1,500 late-night showtimes of the movie have been scheduled for the film's pre-opening on Thursday night (Friday morning), July 17-18, at Fandango.com/TheDarkKnight. An online survey of more than 3,000 "The Dark Knight" fans on Fandango.com over the holiday weekend offered the following information on the late-night surge:

* 37% of respondents plan to see the film at least once during one of the late night performances on Thursday night.
* 38% say that they intend to take off a few hours or the entire day from work on Friday as a result of seeing the movie the night before.
* 60% of these moviegoers are male.
* 71% are under the age of 35.
* 39% plan to see the film in IMAX(R).
* 92% expect that the Academy will recognize Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker with a posthumous Oscar(R) nomination next year.

For Fandango, "The Dark Knight" is poised to be the year's top advance ticket-seller in wide release, outpacing "Iron Man," "Indiana Jones 4" and "Sex and the City" at the same point in those films' sales cycles.

[the_ultimate_evil]

I'm hoping that design for Two-Face isn't real, because it looks too much like Darkman.

However, I've read a spoiler for the movie that gives away how the character is handled, and I am none too thrilled.

Dude, you can't just put something like that OUT there and leave us hanging like that!

Spill already!

Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you - and this is NOT a rumor, but something that's been confirmed - Moriarity from Ain't It Cool News mentioned it on some forum and I've read a few other confirmations that back it up. Don't click if you don't want to know a MAJOR spoiler that may ruin your enjoyment of the movie. Seriously.

[spoiler]He isn't in the movie as Two-Face for long and he actually gets killed off on-screen with his funeral being shown instead of being much of a secondary villain or set up as the baddie for the next movie.[/spoiler]

And this is just a rumor, but the villain for the third film may be [spoiler]The Ridder[/spoiler]

if thats true that sucks

[Mr. Hamrick]

The rumor about the villain in the third film was started because of a joke by Gary Oldman during the interview. 
[spoiler] As for the other thing, I am pretty sure its not the case.  Aaron Eckhardt signed on for two films.  What may get seen is Harvey's funeral as he is now Two Face.[/spoiler]

[bredon7777]

I'm hoping that design for Two-Face isn't real, because it looks too much like Darkman.

However, I've read a spoiler for the movie that gives away how the character is handled, and I am none too thrilled.

Dude, you can't just put something like that OUT there and leave us hanging like that!

Spill already!

Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you - and this is NOT a rumor, but something that's been confirmed - Moriarity from Ain't It Cool News mentioned it on some forum and I've read a few other confirmations that back it up. Don't click if you don't want to know a MAJOR spoiler that may ruin your enjoyment of the movie. Seriously.

[spoiler]He isn't in the movie as Two-Face for long and he actually gets killed off on-screen with his funeral being shown instead of being much of a secondary villain or set up as the baddie for the next movie.[/spoiler]

And this is just a rumor, but the villain for the third film may be [spoiler]The Ridder[/spoiler]

if thats true that sucks

Only if by "sucks" you mean "is totally awesome"!. :P

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/dark-knight-sold-out-sold-out-sold-out/

They've already sold out at 700 theatures, days ahead of time.  They say 90% of all tickets for the weekend have already been sold.  It's two or three times the biggest blockbusters in history.  In fact, they're predicting 130 mil for just the opening weekend, which is normally a good profit for a movie's entire run.

[Gremlin]

Less than 24 hours until I'm in the theatre, nerding out.  YEAH! :lol:

[MJB]

Our whole family wants to see this flick. That includes Ms_MJB and I and our 3 kids. That is a boat load of money.

To say the least I don't know when we will get out to see this movie.

-MJB

[Panther_Gunn]

Our whole family wants to see this flick. That includes Ms_MJB and I and our 3 kids. That is a boat load of money.

To say the least I don't know when we will get out to see this movie.

-MJB

Yeah, I remember when matinee prices were affordable.  Nowadays, they're just slightly less painful.  Barely.  :angry:

[docdelorean88]

tommorrw is my bday and i am taking my friends to see it! I'm so excited!

[style]

If you're taking your friends to go see a movie on your bday. WHAT KINDA FRIENDS DO YOU HAVE!  :lol: :P

[docdelorean88]

Yeah, well money aroun here is short so i needed something in expenseive to do for my bday and all of the tickets were free. we got them off of my coke rewards.com, each ticket was good on special events, never expired and included a free beverage! Oh wait i take that back, we had to pay for two tickets, but i think a $20 bday party is pretty cheep. Yeah, when we were checking show times the theatre didn't even have it listed, so when we actually went to buy our tickets, the nice lady at the desk had put the show on litterally 20 minutes before we got there! We were the first people to buy tickets at that theatre! I foun that cool!

[BatWing]

i'm going to see the dark knight at 11:59 tonight!
:cool: