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1 By Drew Grant 1/11 1:50pm

The Dark Knight Rises

How much would you pay to see justice served?

Midnight Tickets for The Dark Knight Rises Sell Out Six Months in Advance, Already Going for $100 on Craigslist

Sorry fan boys (and girls!): If you want to see the third installment in Christopher Nolan's gritty Batman reboot, you're going to have to wait until after opening night. The midnight screenings for the July 19th premiere of The Dark Knight Rises have already sold out in select cities. How is that possible, you ask, since the movie is still six months away? And how much are greedy Craigslist scalpers already charging for their coveted golden tickets online?
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1 By Drew Grant 10/18/11 6:24pm

Occupy Wall Street

Batman versus Anonymous

Would Batman Protect the 99 %?

It just keeps rolling in today: first MTV decided that when seven strangers get together and stop being polite and start being real, at least one of them should be protesting in Zuccotti Park. Now a tipster "involved in the production" of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises has leaked to The LA Times that Liberty Plaza would be a great backdrop in Gotham.

But are these the smelly hippies that are city deserves? Would the Batman tolerate the General Assembly? Let's discuss!

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By Tom McGeveran 7/28/08 6:53pm

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Dark Knight Hangs On in Gotham, But Set its Records Elsewhere

More box office records crumbled as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight continued its vertiginous climb. Heath Ledger's psychotic Joker seduced viewers nationwide to the tune of $75.6 million this weekend, making his movie the country's favorite once again—and by a $45.6 million margin. Here in Gotham's real-world counterpart, The Dark Knight claimed $1.1 million in sales—a Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 7/16/08 12:07am

Dark, Stormy Knight

There’s a moment in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight when the action—which relentlessly pounds, soars, twists and turns for a full two and a half hours—slows down for one brief and strangely beautiful instant. The Joker—certainly one of the more villainous, terrifying and electric characters to come our way in some time—speeds through Read More

By Rex Reed 7/15/08 3:41pm

Bat to the Future

THE DARK KNIGHT RUNNING TIME 152 minutes WRITTEN BY Christopher and Jonathan Nolan DIRECTED BY Christopher Nolan STARRING Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Some folks take metaphysical pleasure from the New Batman Philosophy According to Christopher Nolan: that good and evil lurk side by Read More

By Andrew Sarris 7/15/08 3:35pm

Joke’s On Us: Nolan’s Noir Is Gloomy Echo of New York in 2008

THE DARK KNIGHTRUNNING TIME 152 minutesWRITTEN BY Christopher Nolan and Jonathan NolanDIRECTED BY Christopher NolanSTARRING Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman

Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, from a screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, based on a story by Christopher Nolan and Read More

By Oliver Haydock 4/22/08 4:35pm

Revenge of the Comic Book Nerds: You Are Worth Many Thousands!

“I related most to Batman,” said 56-year-old movie producer Michael Uslan of his childhood comic-book tastes, “because Batman’s greatest superpower was humanity.” Mr. Uslan, like many baby boomers, grew up an avid comic-book reader. But his fandom didn’t stop at 18. As an adult, he parlayed his love of Batman into a successful career in Read More


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