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Christopher Nolan's Inception Cast Gets Interesting
We knew that Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan was next directing a "contemporary sci-fi action" movie he wrote titled Inception, and that Leonardo DiCaprio would be the next big A-lister to work with him. Now an interesting trio has been added to the cast, including an Oscar winner, a young Oscar nominee and a "Scarecrow."
Apparently "Warner Bros.
Leonardo DiCaprio Joins Christopher Nolan's Next Project
After an incredibly exciting year of praise and tremendous box office success for The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan is ready to start all over again with a new, non-Batman-related project. And yet again, he's getting a big-name A-lister to work with. Leonardo DiCaprio is signing on to star in Nolan's Inception, which "is described as a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within 'the architecture of the mind.'" The movie is set to release relatively soon, in the Summer of 2010.
Buzz News Roundup, 2/13
- Jennifer Hudson and The Secret Life of Bees were big winners at the NAACP Image Awards. — Reuters
- Columbia Pictures is bringing a time-traveling Jane Austen drama to the big screen, based on the British miniseries Lost in Austen. — ComingSoon
- Director Christopher Nolan's next project has nothing to do with Batman: He'll direct an original screenplay he wrote called Inception, a sci-fi action film, for Warner Bros.
The Dark Knight Smashes Box Office Records
Many thought that breaking Spider-Man 3's record for the biggest opening weekend ever would be difficult, even for The Dark Knight. But the much-hyped and critically adored sequel to Batman Begins shattered many records over the weekend — including Spidey's.
Earning an estimated $155.4 million, Bruce Wayne and gang smashed box office records for the biggest single-day gross in history and the biggest opening weekend for an IMAX release.
Prepare Yourself For Batman — Take My Quiz!
So you're excited for the new Batman movie, are ya? Does your knowledge start and stop with Christian Bale? (I'd understand if it does, he's so beautiful.) Or do you sharply remember all that came before Christopher Nolan's reboot?
The Dark Knight: Tense, Sad, Unsettling — And One of the Best Movies I've Seen in Years
"This town deserves a better class of criminal." – The Joker
Indeed. And by extension, audiences deserve a better class of villain.
Movie Night: The World of Dark Knight Director Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is a director who initially made a huge splash with a little budget and not much celebrity star power. He's the director of The Dark Knight and the man responsible for resuscitating the Batman franchise. Not so long ago, he was an independent filmmaker, but after this weekend he'll probably be seen as one of the most influential creative forces in Hollywood.
Would You See a 6:00 a.m. Screening of The Dark Knight?
According to The New York Times, the demand is so high for opening weekend tickets to The Dark Knight that many theaters are showing the film on Friday, July 18 starting at midnight (no surprise there), and continuing through 6:00 a.m. showings. Fandango.com is reporting "well over 1,500 wee-hour showings for The Dark Knight in theaters that typically do not open their doors before about 10 a.m."
Link Time! 7/1
- Popwatch writer Annie Barrett has a hilarious note that her mother passed to her father on a plane, explaining how to adjust the volume on an iPod, which prompted Annie to ask: What's the most basic technological instruction you've had to explain to the tragically unhip?
- Best Week Ever is holding a quirk-off between Daniel Day-Lewis and Jeremy Irons.
- LilSugar wants to know if you can handle any more Real Housewives.
- Inspired by Amanda Seyfried's character's dilemma in Mamma Mia, FilmExperience wonders which of her three possible daddies would be your daddy: Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth or Stellan Skarsgård?
- TV Squad names some of the best Six Feet Under corpses, including the one that makes me scared to ever put my head through the roof of a limo.
- Cinematical ponders whether or not Robin has any place in Christopher Nolan's Batman movies.
- Lucky TV with MeeVee has seen three hours of Generation Kill, and it sounds like everything I'd hope it would be.
- One brave contributor to The TV Addict lays out some reasons for hating Lost.
New Photos From the Set of The Dark Knight
I'm starting to think that the people behind the viral marketing for The Dark Knight are geniuses. For a movie that doesn't even open until next summer, they've managed to generate an awful lot of buzz around this next Batman movie. The latest ploy: releasing 18 new images from the set of the movie, some of which hint at plot details previously unknown (multiple people in Batman costumes?).
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