Tom Hardy Doesn’t Want to Compete with Heath Ledger
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The Inception actor has admitted he isn't worried about living up to the late actor's legacy by taking on the role of the villain in the third Batman installment, The Dark Knight Rises.
"That would be putting myself in a competition with somebody who's clearly brilliant. And it's not a question of whose talent is greater or whose work is greater. It's just trying to be the best that we can be. I'm not trying to be better than somebody else. What he did was amazing. That's that. I've got a part I've got to play, and I want to play my part."
Tom portrays muscular comic book super-villain Bane in Christopher Nolan's latest film, while Brokeback Mountain star Heath was awarded a posthumous Best Actor Oscar for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight.
The Dark Knight Rises producer, Emma Thomas, said the writers wanted to steer clear of similarities with Heath's iconic Joker character: "We were obviously never going to revisit the Joker, and you don't want to be trying to chase that. It's fun to have a very different sort of villain in this, and a different sort of challenge for Batman to meet, much more physical. It's almost a more even match in some ways, you know, in a physical sense."
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Tim Burton: My Batman Movies Were Lighthearted
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Classics, Mystery, Thrillers, Filmmaking,
Tim Burton believes his Batman movies are like a "lighthearted romp" compared to Christopher Nolan's rebooted versions. The Dark Shadows filmmaker was in charge of 1989's Batman and 1992's Batman Returns, which he believes were a lot lighter than Christopher's latest installments of the superhero movie, The Dark Knight and the forthcoming follow up The Dark Knight Rises.
"I always get told that my material is dark, but nowadays my version of Batman looks like a lighthearted romp in comparison to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight."
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New Spider-Man, Batman Teaser Posters
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Disney, Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Remakes, Science Fiction, Sequels, Thrillers, Distribution, Upcoming Releases,
With all the excitement building around the upcoming Iron Man sequel and The Avengers, it's easy to see why Marvel Entertainment didn't want you to forget about their lone wall-crawling superhero, offering up a new teaser poster for The Amazing Spider-Man. Warner Bros. followed suit by unveiling a new teaser poster for The Dark Knight Rises -- because DC has superheroes, too, lest you forget.
While Andrew Garfield looks promising as the new Spidey (as far as the wall posing goes, anyway), things don't look too good for Batman if the film's poster featuring Tom Hardy's Bane is intended to shed light on the plot.
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Anne Hathway: Batman’s New Catwoman
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Sequels, Casting, Celeb News, Upcoming Releases,
Alice in Wonderland's White Queen will soon be adopting a much darker wardrobe.
It's just been announced that Anne Hathaway has won the role of Selina Kyle (a.k.a. Catwoman) in the next Batman installment. The 28-year-old is now the latest Academy Award nominee -- following Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry -- to play the famous character.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Anne was chosen over a list of contenders that included Keira Knightley, Jessica Biel and Kate Mara.
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Last Batman Movie for Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale?
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Sequels, Rumors, Upcoming Releases,
Whether or not Tom Hardy plays a villain The Dark Knight Rises (btw - it appears he is), there's one thing we should know about the next Batman installment: It may be the last for Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale.
At least that's what they're saying now.
In a recent interview with E!, Bale said the follow-up to Dark Knight will likely be his last turn as the Caped Crusader. "This will be, I believe -- unless Chris [Nolan] says different -- the last time I'll be playing Batman."
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Batman Sequel Gets a Name, Eliminates a Villain
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Sequels, Rumors, Technology,
The pieces of the Batman puzzle are finally starting to come together.
Today, we learned several new tidbits about the franchise’s next installment – which, from this point on, we will officially call The Dark Knight Rises.
Although we do already know that Tom Hardy will be joining the Christopher Nolan project, it’s been unclear which character he will play. We can now say with certainty which role he won’t be playing: the Riddler.
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Third Batman Movie in the Works
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Warner Bros, Action, Adventure, Sequels, Casting, Upcoming Releases,
The caped crusader is finally set to return to the big screen.
The sequel to The Dark Knight, still untitled, will begin production in April 2011. Movie franchise stars Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman are all involved with the project.
Warner Bros. has scheduled the next Batman movie for a July 20, 2012 release date.
Director Christopher Nolan‘s current project, Inception, opened in theaters today.
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Sequel News: Romy and Michele, Planet of the Apes and More
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks, New Line, Universal, Warner Bros, Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels, Comedy, Thrillers, Casting, Celeb News, Filmmaking, Rumors, Scripts, Upcoming Releases, Videos,
Planet of the Apes: The apes will rise again in 2011 when Fox delivers a Planet of the Apes prequel. The movie - currently titled Rise of the Apes - will have photo-realistic apes incorporated into the cautionary tale. The story, written by The Relic‘s Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa, will explain how genetic engineering experimentation lead to the apes’ development. The Rupert Wyatt-directed film will be set in present-day San Francisco.
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Moulin Rouge Tops Decade List
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Foreign, Foreign Language, Horror, Musicals, Period, Romance, Sequels, Comedy, Thrillers, Lists,
Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge has been voted Best Film of the Decade in a poll conducted by LOVEFiLM.
The 2001 musical - which starred Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman - topped a survey of 150,000 movie fans, narrowly beating Batman epic The Dark Knight and British zombie spoof Shaun of the Dead.
Two movies from the Lord of the Rings franchise - Fellowship of the Ring (#4) and Return of the King (#6) - also made the list.
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Blind Side Eclipses New Moon on Thanksgiving
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Action, Adaptation, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Sequels, Thrillers, Box Office, Celebrity Gossip, New Releases, Rumors,
Despite predicted dominance at the box office this Thanksgiving weekend, Twi-hards seemed to be too busy stuffing their faces with food to keep up with movie-goers set to see Sandra Bullock‘s football drama The Blind Side.
Raking in $9.5 million, The Blind Side rushed ahead (barely) of New Moon, which received $9.2 million—raising its cumulative total to $188.4 million.
Will this keep up the rest of the holiday weekend? While I certainly do not possess Alice Cullen’s psychic abilities, I’ve surmised ten reasons as to why the latest installment of The Twilight Saga could be losing its box office grip.
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