It’s coming again in your way, the Warner Bros. are set to come out with their next film on the Batman Series and as usual it will be directed by Memento helmer Chris Nolan.

Deadline’s Nikki Finke reports that Chris Nolan’s Brother Jonathan Nolan and ABC’s Flash Forward’s show runner David Goyer is all set to pen the script for Batman 3. David Goyer has previously scripted Batman Begins along with Jonathan Nolan and also wrote the story for the last Batman film “The Dark Knight”.

Deadline also reports that David Goyer has left the ABC’s Flash Forward to pen down the Batman script. Deadline also quoted a statement from David Goyer stating: “As my feature projects have started ramping up again, I felt I was being pulled in too many directions. I’m proud of ["FlashForward"] and excited about the re-launch. It’s in great hands.”

The Batman series kick started by Nolan earned $US 1.5 Billion in total for the last two movies. The last installment “The Dark Knight” won two academy awards for Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger.

Chris Nolan is a busy man this year as his latest flick Inception is all set to release on 16th July and has an electrifying star cast that includes the likes of Leonardo De Caprio, Ken Watanbe, Marion Cotillard , Ellen Page, Tom Berenger and Joseph-Gordon Levitt of 500 Day of Summer fame.

Source: Entertainment & ShowBiz

‘The Dark Knight’ has Telegraph’s ‘Top 10 Conservative Movies of the 2000s’.

6. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
Christopher Nolan’s global mega hit raked in over $1 billion worldwide, and it’s not hard to see why. Featuring some of the most striking set designs since Blade Runner, Nolan’s towering vision of Gotham City looked glorious in IMAX, and was a ground-breaking cinematic achievement. Heath Ledger’s pitch-perfect performance as The Joker deservedly won him a posthumous Best Supporting Actor award. It is though its depiction of Batman’s relentless war against the Joker’s campaign of terror, which marks The Dark Knight as a standout conservative film. The Dark Knight himself, played to perfection by Christian Bale, is unwavering in his determination to defeat his adversary, whatever the cost.

Director McG participated in a BD-Live chat for the Terminator Salvation Blu-ray yesterday and said that he is still planning on directing the fifth and sixth “Terminator” movies.

We’re not sure how he knows this considering that the Halcyon group just this week said that they expect their auction for the franchise rights to conclude by February 1st, which means that the current owners of “Terminator” won’t have any say in upcoming films.

“Over the past few weeks, Halcyon and its professionals have engaged in in-depth discussions and negotiations with numerous serious potential buyers, including several major movie studios,” Halcyon said.

Also, “Salvation” didn’t exactly earn big numbers at the box office. The movie carried a production budget of about $200 million, not counting advertising, and made only $371.4 million worldwide. That’s $125.3 million domestically and $246 million internationally.

Source: Coming Soon

I’ve added old new photos of Christian Bale during his appearances for ‘Termination Salvation’ Japan Press Conference on June 3, 2009. Thanks to Ferd via baleheads.com for them!

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- Events in 2009: ‘Terminator Salvation’ Japan Press Junket – June 3

Terminator Salvation comes to Blu-ray with an unfortunate chip on its shoulder. After director McG informed the media that the high definition version would run over 30 minutes longer and be slapped with the fan requested R-rating, Warner delivered the final specs that held up on the rating but fell about 90 percent short on the additional footage.
The fourth installment in the Terminator lexicon is as much a reboot as a continuation, shuffling the entire cast and setting the film in a post apocalyptic Judgment Day world where Skynet rules and humans scavenge for life’s necessities in order to survive. A war-grizzled John Connor (Christian Bale) is the central character, the prophesied savior of mankind whose very existence Skynet is willing to travel through time to extinguish. He is not quite the Resistance’s leader yet but makes up for any lack of authoritative control by barking commands in the familiar low gruff Batman monotone voice.

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Batman’s faithful butler, Alfred, has dropped bad news … again.

Batman fans everywhere have been furiously blogging and discussing the twists and turns in the will-they-or-won’t-they debate over a third installment of Christopher Nolan’s revamped Batman franchise. Early on it was announced that, although lead actor Christian Bale was contractually obligated to appear in Batman 3, Nolan had no such obligation and might decide not to direct another one.

Screenwriter David S. Goyer gave fans some hope when he said that he believed Nolan would return if he could “find the story that he’s happy with.” Then, Gary Oldman got everyone excited when he announced that filming would begin in 2010, only to recant his statement a couple days later. Read the rest of this entry »

Finally I have finally got the time to cap Christian in his early movie, Shaft. Christian has a very wonderful performance in the movie. 616 movie screen captures have been added to the gallery!

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- Shaft: Screen Captures > Movie

Terminator Salvation seemed to be plagued with problems, right from the start. First TS star Christian Bale had a YouTube moment, pitching a fit at director of photography Shane Hurlbut, for getting in his way. Then Bale broke his hand shooting a scene, and his co-star Sam Worthington hurt his back. Then special effects man Mike Menardis almost lost his leg in an effects explosion. Stan Winston, the special effects makeup man who designed the original Terminator cyborg and the dinos in Jurassic Park dies of multiple myeloma (TS was his last film).

The film also had to rush through filming due to the impending Screen Actors Guild strike, and an inflating budget, which tapped out at $200 million. As if all that wasn’t enough, several lawsuits were filed against Halcyon Company, the production company that bought the rights to the Terminator franchise, by former rights owners and producers who claimed that they didn’t get their fair cut from the final transfer deal and that they were owed more money. The suits were all settled out of court. Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since Michael Caine infamously name-checked Johnny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman as potential cast members for the next “Batman” movie, he’s been on notice. According to Caine, who’s currently making the rounds promoting his upcoming film “Harry Brown,” he hasn’t been on the receiving end of any details regarding Christopher Nolan’s next foray in the Bat-universe… but that doesn’t mean he isn’t interested in where the franchise goes next.

MTV Movies Editor Joshua Horowitz caught up with Caine during the Toronto International Film Festival (where the “news” first got started last year) to pick his brain about the next “Batman” movie and joke about the scoop that rocked the ‘Net.

“There is nobody, there’s no script, there’s nothing,” Caine told MTV News of the status of the next “Batman” movie. “It can’t possibly be made before 2011 because ‘Inception’ is such a big picture.”

“[They] won’t tell me anything because I said this before,” laughed Caine of the no-tell policy surrounding him after last year’s Depp/Hoffman story. Nevertheless, Caine offered this bit of “news”—before admitting that it could be wrong, and he’d be in trouble all over again.

“Johnny Depp is great in anything, but there is no Johnny Depp in this Batman,” he smiled. “They tell me in no uncertain terms.”

Source: MTV News

I’ve added some more event photos of Christian in ‘Public Enemies’ Press Conference on June 19, 2009.

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- Events in 2009: ‘Public Enemies’ Chicago Press Conference