Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Equity Games Production and Halcyon Games have announced “Terminator Salvation – The Videogame,” an action-packed, third-person shooter, to be released in conjunction with the highly anticipated Warner Bros. Pictures and Sony Pictures film, which opens nationwide on May 22, 2009.

Based on the upcoming Terminator Salvation film, the game offers players the chance to assume the role of John Connor, a soldier in the resistance, battling for survival against the far superior forces of Skynet. “Terminator Salvation – The Videogame” is a third-person action game with concentrated armed combat against all of the Skynet enemies from the film while encountering new enemies specifically designed for the game. The game was developed by GRIN Studios, published by Equity Games, co-published by Evolved Games and distributed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »

IGN watches exclusive footage and talks to McG about the ending and sequels.

Yesterday evening IGN was invited to a special “roadshow” event for the upcoming Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins in Leicester Square, London. We were shown some world exclusive footage from the movie, but before that we were present for an in-depth Q & A with the enthusiastic director of the movie, McG. Here are some of his more interesting comments:

(Warning: Spoilers Follow)

Why another Terminator?

“Initially, I didn’t want to do it. I was not that excited by the idea of a fourth Terminator movie, I thought, ‘Why flog a dead horse?’ Especially when James Cameron did such a great job on the first few films.

“I then started thinking about the film, how would be set after the nuclear apocalypse wrought by Cyberdyne at the end of the last movie and would have a ‘post-nuclear apocalypse look’ that was only alluded to in the previous films. This made think the film might be more interesting… maybe!” Read the rest of this entry »

After agonising over a list of eligible, high profile film stars, musicians and athletes, editors at the magazine named the 40-year-old its number one of 2008.

Jackman succeeds last year’s top man Matt Damon, and George Clooney who took the title the year before.

In a special edition of the weekly magazine, there were honourable mentions for handsome contenders Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Seal, Robert Downey Jr., Will Smith, Christian Bale and David Beckham.

Source: People / Credit: Lola

The new Terminator movie will “reinvigorate the franchise”, Hollywood director McG has promised at a preview of footage in central London.

The film-maker also said the film, Terminator Salvation, would “push the envelope” with its hi-tech visual effects.

Set in 2018 in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, the film depicts a “dirty, gritty, difficult” world in which human survivors are preyed upon by lethal robots.

Batman actor Christian Bale plays John Connor, leader of the resistance against the cyborg army.

“When he came on board I knew we had the chance to do something special,” the director told reporters.

Other cast members include Bryce Dallas Howard, Australian Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin, soon to be seen in the new Star Trek film. Read the rest of this entry »

The director of Terminator: Salvation left a prank message on Christian Bale’s phone during the first ever screening of footage from the film.

McG hosted the world’s first preview screening of six to seven minutes of footage from the unfinished film at London’s Vue West End and told the audience he had arranged to call Christian, who plays John Connor, during the screening.

One guest said: “McG told us he was dialling Christian’s number but he got voicemail. He left a message saying he was in the cinema with us and that we were all excited and he held up his iPhone so we could scream down the phone to Christian.

“Then he jokingly told Christian he had told us all he was moody, and hung up.”

McG also rubbished rumours circulating on the internet about the ending of the new film, the fourth Terminator movie. Read the rest of this entry »

John Connor to utter iconic line in T4, but why?IGN was invited to a special Terminator Salvation road show last night where we shown exclusive unseen footage from the film, as well treated to a Q&A session with director McG.

We’ll post our full event report later today, but in the bar afterwards we were also able to corner the helmer for an exclusive - albeit short - one-on-one chat. Firstly we asked him how much of The Terminator mythology would be appearing in the new film.

“A whole lot, honestly, every night whilst we were writing the script and making the film, we would sit down and watch the first three films, literally cherry picking elements we could introduce into Salvation…” Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve uploaded new stills of Christian on ‘The Dark Knight‘ to the gallery. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINK:
- The Dark Knight: Stills

I’ve uploaded more candids photos of Christian out and about with his lovely family at Children’s land. Aww soo sweet of Christian & Sibi enjoying time with their daughter.

GALLERY LINK:
- Candids in 2008: At Children’s Land - November 16

Christian Bale and his 3 ½-year-old daughter smile after traveling to San Diego to pick out a backyard playset at Children’s Land with mom Sibi Blazic on Sunday. The trio stopped at a Chinese buffet for lunch on the way down. [Photo Courtesy via Celebrity Baby Blog]

The Dark Knight is listed at number #3 on Entertainment Weekly’s The 25 Entertainers Of The Year.

3. CAST AND CREW OF THE DARK KNIGHT
In 1939, cartoonist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger created the brooding urban vigilante known as Batman as a comic-book rival to the medium’s hottest property — the brighter, happier Superman. Now, thanks toThe Dark Knight, which was imbued with provocative new meaning and must-see urgency following Heath Ledger’s tragic death in January and went on to gross $528 million, Batman stands masked head and caped shoulders above his fictional superfriends as the pinnacle of Hollywood superhero pop. To the filmmakers and stars behind this triumph, we offer a toast. —Jeff Jensen

While many industry observers are predicting that the planned December 9 release of The Dark Knight on DVD will become the year’s biggest video hit, a few others suggest that next Tuesday’s release of Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E should not be overlooked. They point out that animated features have a long history of dominance in home-video sales and that Wall-e is one of the few that holds as much appeal for adults as it does for children. Meanwhile, websites that focus on high-definition fare have unanimously endorsed the Blu-ray version of Wall-e as the HD gold standard. On dvdtown.com, James Plath begins his review of the Blu-ray release with the single word “Wow.” He calls the picture detail “remarkable” and says that it often displays a “pleasing” 3-D quality that gives the illusion of depth “without ‘popping’ the figures out at you as if you were watching a film with those funny cardboard glasses.” On bluray.com, Ben Williams calls the video quality “flawless … simply stunning.” He adds: “Wall-e is as perfect and stunning on Blu-ray as anyone could have hoped.” On highdefdigest.com, Peter M. Bracke calls the Wall-e Blu-ray package “a truly ground-breaking achievement.” He goes on to write that it is “guaranteed to rank as a new demo disc of choice. … Pixar has crowed that there is not a pixel out of place, and the hyperbole is justified. Wall-E is a visual masterpiece.” Read the rest of this entry »

Well, now this sucks – The Dark Knight’s score, which to Empire’s ears is one of the best, if not the best, of the year, has been disqualified from consideration for next year’s Academy Awards.

The executive committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science’s music branch made the decision after failing to be suitably satisfied that the score’s composers, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, were directly responsible for more than 70% of the music.

That’s because – in a show of generosity and solidarity – Zimmer and Howard, who collaborated on the Batman Begins soundtrack, listed three other people as composers on the official cue sheet, the document that specifies every piece of music in the film. Read the rest of this entry »

Batman has a new adversary: Batman.

The mayor of an oil-producing city in southeastern Turkey, which has the same name as the Caped Crusader, is suing helmer Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties from mega-grosser “The Dark Knight.”

Huseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of Batman, has accused “The Dark Knight” producers of using the city’s name without permission.

“There is only one Batman in the world,” Kalkan said. “The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.” Read the rest of this entry »

The Dark Knight: For Your Consideration

Warner Bros. Pictures has launched a “For Your Consideration” website for The Dark Knight which includes the full script for the film!

In related news, Variety says the major of an oil-producing city in southeastern Turkey named “Batman” is suing director Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties from The Dark Knight.

Huseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of Batman, has accused the film’s producers of using the city’s name without permission. Read the rest of this entry »

Congrats to Christian & The Dark Knight Casts of being nominated on the upcoming ‘The People’s Choice Awards’! Here are the nominations catergory which Christian has been nominated at. Vote for Christian Bale now!

FAVORITE CAST
The Dark Knight (Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Mamma Mia! (Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, Colin Firth)
Sex and the City (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth)

FAVORITE LEADING MAN
Christian Bale
Brad Pitt
Mark Wahlberg

FAVORITE MALE ACTION STAR
Christian Bale
Robert Downey Jr.
Will Smith

FAVORITE ON-SCREEN MATCH-UP
Christian Bale & Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Tina Fey & Amy Poehler (Baby Mama)
Harrison Ford & Shia LaBeouf (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

FAVORITE SUPERHERO
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
Will Smith as John Hancock

Britney Spears secured a People’s Choice nomination for her guest appearance in How I Met Your Motherwhile late Heath Ledger is a nominee for favorite on-screen match-up with costar Christian Bale in The Dark Knight.Britney will compete against Luke Perry and Robin Williams, both nominated for their guest-starring roles in Law and Order: SVU.

Ledger and Bale will compete against Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf.

The Dark Knight also won nominations for favorite movie and favorite cast. In the favorite movie category it is pitched against Iron Man andIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Read the rest of this entry »

ISTANBUL - The mayor of Batman, a city recently under scrutiny due to unsolved murders and increasing rates of female suicides, will sue the director of the movie “Batman” movie.

Not a superhero with supernatural abilities, or a person wealthy enough to buy high-tech toys to fight evil, but a simple human being named Hüseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of the southeastern city of Batman, declared war against his city’s namesake superhero, Batman.

“The royalty of the name ‘Batman’ belongs to us … There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us,” Kalkan told to the Do?an news agency. Batman is a centuries old city, taking root in the Neolithic age but becoming significant when oil was found in the region at the end of 1940s. Almost a decade before that, Batman was created as a comic hero. Kalkan is going to sue Christopher Nolan, the director of the latest Batman movie “The Dark Night,” not DC Comics, the creator of the superhero. Read the rest of this entry »

I have uploaded a Terminator Salvation footage video & screen captures, thanks to miniglik for the find!

Video Removed, Due to Copyright Infringement by DMCA

GALLERY LINK:
- Terminator 4: Screen Captures > Clip #1

The Dark Knight came to the rescue of Time Warner, helping it to boost third-quarter revenue. The film has grossed $527 million worldwide. DVD sales were Ok, largely as a result of the popularity of the Sex and the City DVD release, but the company noted that profits paled in comparison with its sales at the same time last year for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Time Warner also reported solid results from its cable networks CNN, TNT, TBS and its pay-tv outlet HBO. In a statement, CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said that the company has the “ability to weather difficult economic conditions and the flexibility to invest in the long-term competitive position of our business in a period when others may have to retrench.” However, revenue from its AOL unit continued a persistent descent, falling another 17 percent during the quarter. Shares of Time-Warner were down 5 percent to $9.64 in late-afternoon trading.

Source: Studio Briefing
Credit: Lola

In honour of star Michael Fassbender’s dramatic (but medically-supervised) weight-loss to play the role of hunger-strike leader Bobby Sands in Hunger, we doff our caps to 5 other actors who famously skipped a meal or two in the name of method acting.

CB is #6: Christian Bale, The Machinist
To play insomnia-addled Trevor Resnik in The Machinist, Bale is said to have dropped from 182lbs all the way down to 119lbs by eating just an apple and a can of tuna every day, while smoking to suppress his appetite. Producers claim that Bale wanted to go down below 100lbs, but strangely enough they wouldn’t allow it - something about safety, health, insurance, or just common sense perhaps? Still Bale’s 63lb drop holds the record for movie weight-loss thus far and as this image will testify, the result was nothing short of horrific.

Credit: Lola

A British jury investigating the death of a special-effects technician on “The Dark Knight” was told that he was killed in an accident during the shooting of a stunt, The Guardian reported. Conway Wickliffe, 41, was killed on Sept. 25, 2007, during the filming of a chase sequence for “The Dark Knight,” the blockbuster Batman movie directed by Christopher Nolan.

On Monday the jurors at a coroners’ court in Surrey, England, were told that Mr. Wickliffe had been riding in the back seat of a Nissan four-wheel-drive pickup driving parallel to a stunt car; the vehicle carrying Mr. Wickliffe crashed into a tree when it missed a 90-degree turn.

The jury will rule on an official cause of death. A stunt technician who had worked on “Casino Royale,” “Children of Men,” “Batman Begins” and other films, Mr. Wickliffe was honored in the closing credits of “The Dark Knight,” along with the actor Heath Ledger, who died before the film’s release.

Source: NY Times

Rising up from the plateau of the Albuquerque desert is the burned remnants of a concrete highway overpass, riddled with fissures and mangled steel reinforcement rods. Exposed openings of two water ducts jut out. Atop the ledge of the precipice, a figure is about to jump. Dressed in a black bomber jacket and combat boots, with weaponry slung about his waist, he hesitates for a second and then plummets head first to the ground. Supported by barely visible cables, his descent seems to almost be in slow motion.

“Hey, Christian, that looked great!” The voice belongs to a tall figure in a Penguin shirt, black shorts, and a white Stetson, hidden from the desert heat in a makeshift tent. McG watches the action from behind several monitors but also keeps an eagle eye on the set towering above him. “Did you see me start to spin though?” laughs Bale, before downing a bottle of red Vitamin Water. Read the rest of this entry »

I have uploaded new candid photos of Christian out & about in Los Angeles on October 28, 2008.

Actor Christian Bale to become Dr. Strange? According to reports Christian - who played Batman in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight - is rumored to be considering taking on another superhero role - Dr. Strange. Dr. Strange is a Marvel Comics character who was a former surgeon that becomes a powerful sorcerer after a car accident leaves him unable to perform operations. The New Zealand Harold’s online publication nzherald.co.nz writes: ‘A source said Christian is hot property right now, courtesy of Batman.

Doctor Strange is a very different kind of hero to Batman and it’s felt Christian is the sort of actor who can make the part work on screen. It is understood a deal could be struck in the coming weeks… Bale also plays hero John Connor in the upcoming Terminator Salvation and has signed on for two more sequels in the science-fiction franchise. He has also expressed an interest in reprising his role as Batman if a third film is confirmed.’ Also notice Christian carries an art book - nothing will stop this eccentric Welsh actor from arts and culture.

GALLERY LINK:
- Candids in 2008: In Los Angeles - October 28