Batman writer, girlfriend sued by Filipina beauty queen
This is dark—even for The Dark Knight.
For a year the Joker’s been out of sight, out of mind and out of trouble. That changed Wednesday in the pages of “Batman” No. 13, when the clown prince of crime returned to Gotham with a mission to help Batman become a better man, even if it means going after everyone and everything that the Dark Knight and his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, hold dear.
The Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises” topped the North American box office for a third consecutive week despite last month’s mass shooting at a screening, industry estimates showed Sunday.
Christian Bale, “The Dark Knight Rises” star, condoling with victims of the cinema shooting in Aurora, Colorado: “Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them.”
Batman actor Christian Bale paid a low-key visit Tuesday to Aurora, Colorado to comfort victims of last week’s shooting massacre, which occurred during a screening of his latest film.
Batman movie director Christopher Nolan lamented Friday the “senseless tragedy’ and “unbearably savage” gunning down of 12 movie goers at a Colorado theater screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.”
In “The Dark Knight Rises,” Christopher Nolan delivers a fitting valedictory for his genre-defining “Batman” trilogy. As the visionary director of “Inception” and “Memento” examines the conflicting motivations of his tortured superhero (Christian Bale), he smartly reintroduces a formidable moral provocateur in the Dark Knight’s parallel universe to further shake up Bruce Wayne’s chaotic world.
The aggregating Web site RottenTomatoes.com suspended user comments on movie reviews of “The Dark Knight Rises” after commenters reacted harshly to negative reviews of the film and made profane and threatening remarks about the critics who wrote them.
Long and distinctive is the shadow cast by director Christopher Nolan over the Batman franchise. Massively high then are the expectations for “The Dark Knight Rises,” the coda to Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy.
When Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman—also known as Alfred and Lucius Fox, respectively, in “The Dark Knight” trilogy—were paired together in a recent interview, it turned out to be a treat.
