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App Editions of The Dark Knight and Inception Released

Posted on Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 at 2:18 pm by TeddyBlass

app editions App Editions of The Dark Knight and Inception Released

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution announced and launched the “groundbreaking” App Editions of the feature films Inception and The Dark Knight today. These App Editions create an entirely new way to own special edition movies with the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad; An alternative to purchasing or renting the films from the iTunes store — if you will. And even an alternative to purchasing the DVDs and Blu-rays.

App Editions provide a “fully-loaded, connected viewing experience” that offers the first 5 minutes of a feature film and a portion of bonus content for free. The entire film and an array of bonus content can be unlocked via an in-app purchase. The Inception and The Dark Knight App Editions are available in over 30 territories, including some which previously did not have access to films through iTunes and contain fully customized menus in 16 languages. Fans can also connect with friends by sharing their favorite movie quotes through Facebook and Twitter and watch a feed of social networking chatter directly related to the movie in real-time. Inception: App Edition and The Dark Knight: App Edition are now available on the App Store.

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Tags: App Store, Inception, iTunes, The Dark Knight
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The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises As Magnus Rex

Posted on Thursday, February 10th, 2011 at 3:30 am by TeddyBlass

Although official production isn’t set to begin until May, word comes to us from Production Weekly that The Dark Knight Rises will be going under the working titles Magnus Rex and Fox Hills Green. Many of you will remember that Inception went under the working title Oliver’s Arrow; Oliver being the name of one of Christopher’s sons. And I’m sure I don’t have to remind many that The Dark Knight‘s working title was Rory’s First Kiss; Rory also being the name of another of Nolan’s sons. It shouldn’t surprise you to learn that the name Magnus in Magnus Rex is derived from yet another one of the Nolan boys. Magnus Nolan is most notably known for his adorable role as the young James Cobb in Inception.

So why would a movie filming in May have a fake production title out already? And seemingly two of them? Well that could be due to the fact that The Dark Knight Rises is supposedly shooting plates this week in New York City. We know that Wally Pfister met with Christopher Nolan and production designer Nathan Crowley in NYC the other week scouting for locations. According to a source close to Batman-On-Film they are filming “a plate shot in a helicopter over New York City this week. Apparently, Chris Nolan wants to get the city with snow on the ground.” My guess would be that Fox Hills Green is being used for this NYC bit, with Magnus Rex likely being the working title that sticks around for the remainder of the production starting in May.

Tags: Christopher Nolan, New York, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Working Title
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The Dark Knight Rises

Wally Pfister Speaks About The Dark Knight Rises

Posted on Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at 4:09 pm by TeddyBlass

Cinematographer extraordinaire Wally Pfister gave an exciting and tantalizing phone interview to the Kevin and Josh Movie Show last friday that touched on subjects like Inception, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. Wally is a friend of the show’s and loves to talk film with the hosts, who are huge Christopher Nolan fans — to the point where I am surprised they didn’t found this site themselves. They do their best to pick Wally’s brain for information and insight. Thankfully Wally is a really cool dude and talks about everything he can talk about without getting himself fired. I’ll do my best to sum up what I though was the most fascinating or exciting, but I’ll also include a link to the audio file of the show below so you can hear it all for yourself.

After discussing Inception and the disappointment with some of its Oscar nominations, or lack of rather, the hosts praise Chris and Wally’s use of practical effects and stunts in their action sequences. They then ask Wally how Nolan can top The Dark Knight? “I asked the same question,” Wally responded. “I read the script 2 weeks ago, and he’s done it. Plain and simple — he’s done it. It’s a phenomenal script. He’s still in the process of cutting it back because it’s a very long script right now, but it’s really phenomenal. And he actually had me go back and wanted me to watch, in IMAX, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight again. When I watched those I had read the script for The Dark Knight Rises and was like, ‘dude, it is a perfect trilogy.’ I think that was his intent, to work off those two pictures — and they are very different pictures. And it’s funny, we all had different opinions about which picture we like better.”

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Tags: Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Wally Pfister
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Rumors The Dark Knight Rises

Eva Green and Naomi Watts Cast in The Dark Knight Rises?

Posted on Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 at 9:47 pm by TeddyBlass

As the more or less confirmed May start start date for The Dark Knight Rises grows closer each day, fanboys (and girls!) everywhere grow antsy in anticipation of official news. In the void left by lack of official news grow rumors. Many of them. The latest and most interesting rumors come to us from the folks over at Collider. Today they reported a couple rumors given to them by confidential yet reliable or trustworthy sources.

The first rumor, as you can guess from my rather plain but descriptive title, is that Eva Green (Casino Royal) and Naomi Watts (King Kong) have been cast in The Dark Knight Rises. A source told them Eva Green is set to play the role of Talia al Ghul, daughter of Ra’s al Ghul (Liam Neeson’s character in Batman Begins) and possible baddie. Naomi Watts will play Vicki Vale, photojournalist and possible love interest to Bruce Wayne – a character who also appeared in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. Collider has been unable to confirm this rumor, and another website listed several other actresses who are supposedly still in talks for a role in the film and even go as far as to rule out Green and Watts. They do however believe that Talia al Ghul is a definite character appearing in the film.

A different source let slip some details on the new Batmobile and Batcave. The previous two installments in the franchise set up the need for replacements for them both. The source tells Collider that the Tumbler is being redesigned to be more sleek, but still powerful. The “new” Batcave will be essentially be the same as the one in Batman Begins, but they’re adding a bay for the Tumbler, and areas for computer systems and Batsuits, presumably similar to the ones in The Dark Knight.

Lastly, Collider is reporting and essentially confirming the May to November production dates that Michael Caine mentioned a couple months back. Their first source cites May 6th as the start of production, and November 28th as the end. Sounds pretty dope to me. What do you think about all of this? I think some of it seems pretty reliable or believable at least. Much more so than some of the other rumors flying around.

Tags: Batman Begins, Eva Green, Naomi Watts, Ra's al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises
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Awards Inception

Christopher Nolan Earns Third DGA Nomination

Posted on Monday, January 10th, 2011 at 5:21 pm by George

Hopefully the third time’s a charm when it comes to Christopher Nolan being recognized by both the Directors Guild and the Academy. Nolan was among five nominees announced today for the 2011 Directors Guild Awards, his third nomination from the group following previous nods for 2001′s Memento and 2008′s The Dark Knight. Nolan released the following statement expressing his appreciation for the Inception nomination:

I’m thrilled that the DGA membership has chosen to nominate me and my DGA team (Jan Foster, Nilo Otero, Brandon Lambdin, Greg Pawlik, Lauren Pasternack) for our work on Inception. The recognition of our peers is extremely gratifying — this is an incredible honor.
- Christopher Nolan

Other nominees this year include Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan, David Fincher for The Social Network, Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech, and David O. Russell for The Fighter. The only surprise is the lack of Joel & Ethan Coen for True Grit, but it’s likely they will replace one of the DGA five for the Academy Award nominations. Fincher aside, I could see any one of the other four getting replaced by the Coens. Russell seems the weakest in the category, but Nolan has missed out twice before. How do you think it’ll all play out? Academy Award nominations will be announced January 25th, followed by the DGA winners on January 29th.

Tags: Christopher Nolan, Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, David O. Russell, DGA Award, Inception, Joel & Ethan Coen, Memento, The Dark Knight, Tom Hooper
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