Seven Minutes Of The Dark Knight In December

It started on the Brazilian site Omelette but since then, it's started to spread across the web like wild fire: apparently, a seven minute sequence from The Dark Knight is to play in IMAX cinemas this December, before screenings of I Am Legend.

Now, it makes sense that this will be the bank job sequence, taking place parallel to events in Batman Begins and already teased with production stills. It's one of four sequences in the film that have been filmed in the IMAX format and it's entirely possible that, in fact, it won't be part of the main release (though I expect it will, and so will the other three such scenes, just curiously reformatted to 'fit' a standard 35mm aspect ratio, be it cinemascope or widescreen). On the upside, at least when this IMAX 'prologue' is presented as a seven minute stand-alone piece, the problems I noted previously about shifting between aspect ratios will be moot.

This is one heck of a trailer/stunt and I'm sure the IMAX box office of I Am Legend is going to benefit greatly from this addition. It's obvious that 'the theatrical experience' is getting more and more like a theme park as home cinema eats into the straight-up viewing experience (just like the 1950s all over again, but seemingly more lasting) and now my curiosity is flaring: just what tricks will be played on us in the next few years to squeeze those ever inflating ticket prices out of our stony wallets?

New Dark Knight Set Pics Offer Spoilers

A user of the X-Realms messageboard has posted a number of on-set pictures from The Dark Knight. Amongst the spoilery material therein is a look at Heath Ledger without Joker make-up and dressed as a cop.

The images were actually posted some time back, but the link surfaced on IGN today and that's how it came to my attention.

I'm on the record as not really caring much about The Dark Knight, but this is quite a big piece of news for Batfans, isn't it? The rendering of The Joker as a loon who applies make-up rather than has deathly-pallor by disfigurement? Does this put him more on a par with mask wearing psychopaths like Jason, Michael Myers (or, on this side of the screen, John Wayne Gacy) than the grand-guignol and penny dreadful antecedents I had previously associated with the character? And is this a bad thing?

I actually find it quite interesting.

Oops! Bat Spoiler A Quite Embarrassing Case Of Mistaken Identity

Rich Johnston's Lying in the Gutters last week ran a Dark Knight spoiler. It was quite an interesting one, and sounded utterly plausible. Unfortunately... it was incorrect.

Johnston's source was mistaken. They saw an image of one person, identified them as another and... oh dear. Let's just say Rich mines the new story for every drop of irony he can but it's still quite an awkward moment.

All the same, Rich is not at fault, at all, he's handled it well, and he now has a new version of the spoiler, which will put you right about the wrong one, as it were.

Gotham Building Blown To Kingdom Come

I'll reveal just what the building to get blown up is, but be warned: that info is what many would consider a spoiler...

It seems that special effects just aren't special enough for The Dark Knight. Fox news have video footage of a Chicago building coming down. In the plot, the building is playing Gotham Hospital. Naughty Joker.

At Wizard World On Saturday 11th August?

If you're at Wizard World today, Saturday 11th August, then you're in for a Dark Knight treat. Maybe not where and when you expect it, however...

Adam Fendelman has the first info now.

Latino Review's Dark Knight Spoilers - UPDATED AGAIN

I have one gem of a Dark Knight piece and hopefully, I'll be able to publish it very soon. It's a corker. It's something people really want to see...

In the meantime, I missed the Latino Review piece and have been asking around, looking for some idea of what they had originally posted. This is the best I can do at the minute, but please, please, if you have any more info, please let me know. Obviously, this is a post jam packed full of spoilers, and if you're at all worried about that, don't read on. At all.

The police get rather distracted by the 'fake Batman' I told you about before.

Harvey Dent is 'Two Faced' by The Joker. It happens rather late in the story, but there's still time for him to seek revenge.

Batman prevents Two Face from killing The Joker, and this is when Dent finally goes utterly nuts.

The Joker manages to get Batman's identity out of Rachel Dawes, but Bruce uses the fake Batman to his advantage to confuse The Joker and get away with it.

Dawes dies.

[EDIT:And now, thanks to Tourettes Haiku I have even more. Here's the spoiler material - possibly verbatim - from the Latino Review piece:

THE BATMAN WANNABE: There’s a fake Batman roaming the streets of Gotham City. He's 'for' the cops, they believe that he's the real Batman. And it's a connection to the Batman Begins scene with Bruce, Henri Ducard, Ra's Al Ghul and many ninjas, the 'invisibility' scene.

THE BAT-POD: The “motorcycle” is not a part of the Thumbler (the ‘Batmobile’ vehicle Batman drove in Batman Begins), it's another Lucius Fox's gadget. The Bat-Pod has one big action sequence in the film.

TWO-FACE: Many have clamored for information since it was revealed that Harvey Dent (played by Aaron Eckhart) will become Two-Face in The Dark Knight. However Two-Face has only one scene, which comes at the end of the film.

RACHAEL DAWES: Remember the Joker’s dialogue in the trailer? TONIGHT PEOPLE WILL DIE, I’M A MAN OF MY WORD” It’s from a big party scene where the Joker (Heath Ledger) kidnaps Rachel Dawes (now played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) and she tells the Joker that Bruce Wayne is The Batman. However Batman has a scene in the film with the Joker and through some trickery has The Batman and Bruce Wayne in the same room. This causes Joker to think that Bruce Wayne is NOT Batman and that Rachel lied to him. Rachel is also having an affair/having a romance with one of the main characters of the film and, no, it is not Bruce Wayne.

THE BIG FINALE: Someone dies - a main character dies. We aren’t going to tell you who dies but what we can say is that promotional materials already reveal who dies, you just have to look for it. You can slice through Latino Review’s Dark Knight photos and find the huge clue? IT COULD! However this is a big fight at the end in which Harvey wants his revenge, wants to kill The Joker, but Batman stops him and Harvey is going crazy. And now he is against The Batman.

The Joker now knows that Bruce is Batman, but Harvey does not.

Most of this is stuff we've heard before - indeed, some of it is in that spoiler video I posted a long time ago - but some of it is new. What's more, there's plenty of stuff not revealed. For example: how Harvey Dent is involved in the trickery that makes Batman and Bruce Wayne appear in the same room; how many doubles and pairs there are throughout the film - Batman/fake Batman, Batman/Joker, Two Face, the two boats of hostages and so on...]

[EDIT: And BrokenUnion are now disputing these spoilers outright]

Digital Dent

I've been told by a rock-solid source that Cinesite in London are to be handling the CG FX for Two Face in The Dark Knight, with their work due to start in earnest in November. I mention this just so you know it isn't an entirely make-up based look.

[EDIT: Actually, my source has read this published post and told me, actually, it's Framestore CFC and I 'misinterpreted their clues' to the FX house. My mistake, and quite a dumb one, really. I could explain the confusion in how I thought they meant one and not the other, but they asked me not to, as it might just reveal who they are...]

But why not make-up, I wonder? The only solid reasons I can think of are all mouth-based - teeth showing through a wound, maybe, or impossible mouth movements. But I don't know for sure. Hopefulyl more info will be forthcoming.

Cinesite are, frankly, brilliant and have a great back catlogue of work - from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory through The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to Hot Fuzz.

[EDIT: And Framestore CFC are similarly excellent, if not more so. Their work on Children of Men is amongst the greatest FX work ever completed. As well as the digital Dent they'll also be creating the virtual set extensions for the Hong Kong scenes and some CG stand-in Batmen]

Dark Knight Teaser Gone But Not... Er... Gone

The old links for the Dark Knight trailer and Why So Serious website now redirect to Rent-A-Clown. Thankfully, you can still nab a copy of the trailer from Sendspace if you need to.

Why So Serious?

There's been a lot of Dark Knight action in the last 24 hours or so. Flash mobs, teaser trailers, stills and chat. The still is below and you can either stream or download the trailer from an official site, but the flash mobs, well, if you want one now, you'll have to organise your own.

Movie Minesweeper - The What Would You All Say If I Just Disappeared In A Puff Of Smoke Edition

Here we go again.

- Bond is headed back to Blighty.

- Anne Hathaway is to star in Jonathan Demme's Dancing With Sheba as a coke-loving young model, in and out of rehab like a sherbert-dipping yo-yo. In a perfect world this would be scripted by Daniel Waters.

- Some kind of cinematic necromancy has brought Justin Kerrigan's film career back from the infinite void of ill wind. Next up for the Human Traffic perpetrator will be I Know You Know with Robert Carlysle.

- The Japanese release of Evan Almighty has been pulled without explanation. Do we need an explanation? Can't we just make reckless assumptions and tut accordingly?

- Roy Rowan's memoir Chasing the Dragon told of the rise of Mao Zedong. Now, Robert De Niro is one of the producers aiming to transform it into a feature film. Expect 'an epic-sized drama with a love story'. Not an epic drama, note, just an 'epic-sized' one. I wonder what that will mean.

- Warner Bros. have revealed their official synopsis of Watchmen. Doesn't really do the book justice, of course.

- A big orange guy made of rocks and a silver nudist on a surf board do look pretty ridiculous, and maybe I'd have changed at least one of those into a cloud too. Or a talking cup of tea.

- Season Six of Curb your Enthusiasm will start airing in the US on September 9th.

- Danny Wallace seems very happy with the Yes Man script, director and star.

- It sounds like John Carpenter has a new movie on the boil. That's all I need to know to be happy. This one is called LA Gothic and revolves around a priest and his daughter in a Californoa crawling with zombies, vampires and other such fun things.

- Is the next Indiana Jones film just the fourth in a series of (at least) six? I do hope not.

- Yet another fine art forger film is being talked up, likely to never see the light of day. Not for the first time, this one is allegedly to be derived from the misadventures of John Myatt and John Drewe. George Clooney and Clive Owen to star? Don't bank on it.

- Aaron Eckhart has admitted that he'll go into Two Face mode in The Dark Knight. I told you that already - and I didn't just leave it at that either.

Can't...continue...any...longer.... energy draining...

More tomorrow. And normal service should be resumed very soon.

Coin Toss

[EDIT: Spoiler warning! Sorry this wasn't in here in the first place]

Thanks to the little line of you who e-mailed me the news that Two Face will be seen with his coin in The Dark Knight. Some of us had been wondering.

Guess Who Has Shown Up In Gotham Now

I've had most parts of this news corroborated by a few voices, so I'm happy to report it all in good faith. Be wary of spoilers from the very next sentence onwards.

So, not only are more and more people telling me that Anthony Michael Hall is playing Edward Nygma in The Dark Knight, as we discussed before, I've now recieved a report of scenes filmed with Aaron Eckhart...

...drumroll please...

...in Two Face makeup. Yep - Two Face is in the Dark Knight too.

Here's the description of the make-up:

55/40. Scarring across the nose just a tad bit. One of his eye is deformed. And little bubbles across the scarring (They're manips that look similar). Wicked cool.

55/40? What's the remaining 5?

The scene may or may not have involved Two Face shooting Flass, the corrupt cop from Batman Begins. That's one person's version of events, and I'm okay with that.

[EDIT: And for those you of you who think this news piece is simply announcing Eckhart's casting, why not actually read it? There's been plenty of comments to that end, but I rejected them. The news here isn't Eckhart. The news is that he's in Two Face make-up - that is to say, Dent gets Two Faced in this film]

Movie Minesweeper - The Automatic Out Of Office Response Edition

Is this a slow news week? You bet it is.

- Catherine Tate is to return to Dr. Who for the entirety of the fourth series, as his 'companion'. This appears to contradict everything about the Tom Ellis story, but I'm still told "he's not gone for good - we'll see him again". Maybe in Torchwood?

- New Line have hooked up with HBO to bankroll and release a Sex and the City movie. All of the other details are just as rumoured from the last year or two. As part of the deal, Kim Cattrall has been given a deal for a new series on HBO TV.

- Keith David will voice Dr. Facilier, the villain of Disney's The Princess and the Frog. I love Keith David, and I really love the song that Belle and Sebastian wrote for him.

- Just a couple of days after I mentioned A Dog's Breakfast again, it pops up in the news. MGM have quietly released it directly to iTunes and Unbox - and you can download it now. Will I be able to download it in the UK? Seems not... I'll have to wait for the September 18th DVD and import that. Either way, I'm a little disappointed this is bypassing cinemas, but very glad that, at last, we'll all be to able to enjoy it.

- The official Cloverfield site is online. Rubbish - but online.

- Michael Jai White is in The Dark Knight. I expect we'll also see him in the big fat Kill Bill coming out in November, though he was cut from the episodic version.

- The IESB have some video interviews with Werner Herzog and his Rescue Dawn boys.

- The Alvin and the Chipmunks poster hasn't been getting much love. I'm not exactly surprised, looking at the thing.

- Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis has confirmed that his involvement on another, as yet unannounced, Pixar project is underway.

- Fangoria have a couple of exclusive 30 Days of Night shots.

- The poster and trailer for Catacombs have both turned up. I see Pink is being credited by her real name.

Movie Minesweeper - The Drawing Pins Edition

- Stan Bush may not be on the Transformers soundtrack, but Transformers are on his new album.

- Codemonkeys might be a nice stopgap until Scott Pilgrim gets off of the ground.

- Principal photography on Iron Man is over. And it seems like the Hilary Swank cameo rumours are true.

- The Jordanian animation outfit Rubicon is going into production on a new Pink Panther TV series. This time, the approach is a Muppet Babies come Tiny Toons one with the Panther and his 'pals' rendered as kids. As part of the deal, Rubicon get to license MGM properties in the Middle East.

- Righteous Kill - the De Niro/Pacino team-up movie - is to be distributed by Overture Films in the North American territories. And it also seems that 50 Cent is joining the cast. Has anybody got Russell Gerwitz' script for this one? I've been told it's a real winner.

- Shia LaBoeuf is reteaming with his Disturbia director D J Caruso on Eagle Eye. From that title alone it sounds like the plot could be virtually identical, but apparently not. The original premise comes from Steven Spielberg, apparently. Here's Variety's summation: [LaBeouf will play] a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously. When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves. Not only does this put Caruso out of the running for the Wolverine gig, it might mean LaBeouf won't be taking the lead in Death and Me after all...

- Former porn auteur Gregory Dark has wrapped Little Fish, Strange Pond a curious-sounding serial killer comedy with Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Liza Weil and Zach Galifinakas.

- Tom Cruise's links to Scientology (to put it mildly) have led to the German government prohibiting the filming of Valkyrie at any military locations. Paula Wagner has gone on the record saying "Aside from his obvious admiration of the man he is portraying, Mr. Cruise's personal beliefs have absolutely no bearing on the movie's plot, themes or content". Nice to know he admires a Nazi general so much. Ahem.
- Chimps in Spa -sorry, Space Chimps - is to be advertised via stickers on 100 million bananas, pineapples and salad packages.

- Gerard Butler, Idris Elba, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton and Ludacris have all signed up to appear in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla. Poor souls.

- Ian Shorr's Exempt spec script has a very interesting premise: a problem kid sent to a private school falls in with a bunch of 'diplobrats', foreign kids with diplomatic immunity from the law. No wonder Benderspink are putting it into production. Another year at these two colleges and I'll probably have seen everything that could possibly happen in this film, but it certainly does make for an interesting milieu.

- M.I.A fantasy film Neverwas is to crawl out straight to DVD in July.

- A YouTube clip promoting the next six months or so of Focus Features releases has popped up. All manner of interesting stuff gets plugged, not least of which is David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises but least of which is Atonement. I'd recommend you check the full clip out.

- Gary Oldman might quit acting. Perhaps. One day.

- You can see the Tumb... er, Batmobile. In action. The video is called Batman for Mancow.

- Queen Latifah and Adam Shankman seem to want Steve Martin for their All of Me remake. Will he do it again?

- I think we already knew Oliver Platt was going to be in Frost/Nixon but his role in Nip/Tuck is news. He certainly likes those /s.
- Nicole Kidman is the new spokesmodel for Nintendo.

- The US Masters of Horror season one box set is limited to 20,000 copies. More than enough?

- The Wizard of Gore is getting good notices. Good. I like Glover, I love magic and I'm okay with gore - I want this to work.

- Kreacher is somehow essential to the last Harry Potter book.

Movie Minesweeper - The World's Longest Ticker Tape Parade Edition

This is going to take me most of the morning, most likely. I must really love you - all of you.

- SuperHeroHype have a cast line-up photo from Iron Man, weird, posed thing that it is.

- Is there to be a woman president on the 2008 season of 24?

- Uwe Boll's Bloodrayne 2 has been denied an R rating by the MPAA. So, whatever it is, it is also more 'adult' than, say, Hostel 2.

- Thor Freudenthal is to direct family film of Lois Duncan's Hotel For Dogs from an adaptation by Jeff Lowell.

- Wes Craven is suing Pauly Shore. That's one dream team we'll never see work together then. I hope Alexander Payne and Carrot Top get to collaborate before some kind of legal entanglement wrecks my dreams there too.

- Stephen King doesn't like the idea of Captivity. Neither does he like Kubrick's The Shining. At least he gives some idea of what upset him about The Shining, whereas Captivity apparently just 'goes too far'. Oh - and he's wrong. Kubricks' film is leaps and bounds ahead of the original book.

- Len Wiseman wants to direct Wolverine. The only thing keeping pen from paper must be the wait for Die Hard 4's opening numbers.

- MTV have some Shaw Bros. clips that are probably very worth watching, including one with commentary by Quentin Tarantino - but I don't know for sure as I'm in the UK, so they won't work for me. Sigh.

- The transfer of Criterion's Berlin Alexanderplatz set has met criticism, but has been easily, and conclusively defended.

- The Princess and the Frog's story reels run to 90 minutes and have been well received. Apparently, the film has a twist ending... place your bets now.

- Mamoru Oshii's next film is to be The Sky Crawlers, adapted from Hiroshi Mori's books. The anti-war fantasy features hothoused teen soldiers sent to die in wars that exist only to entertain. Oshii promises a love story in the midst of the satire and action.

- Enchanted is being seen as the starting point for a new franchise.

- Alex Cox has turned his unprodcued Repo Man sequel script, Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday into a comic book. I saw the link at TheBeat.

- Michael Bay wasn't a Transformers fan before taking the job. Of course not - but I wonder if this has rankled some fanboys?

- Daniel Benmayor's PSP commerical is like Peter Pan meets Parkour. I foudn the link at Feed.

- Openin casting calls are being held for two youthful roles in Harry Potter 6.

- Angela Bassett will star as Brenda, a Chicago single mother, in the next Tyler Perry film, Meet the Browns.

- Amy Adams is in negotiations to take the key role in John Patrick Shanley's film of his own play, Doubt. Her character is to get caught up in a tense, angry confrontation between those played by Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

- CAA mailboy Ben Dey pitched the comedy Coma Boy to Brian Grazer, and now it's to be a film.

- Lee Hall is adapting the Children of the Lamp books for Dreamworks. They're fantastical family sagas revolving around a dynasty of genies.

- Howard Deutch is to direct Bachelor No. 2, with Kate Hudson and Dane Cook in the lead roles.

- Suzie Templeton's Peter and the Wolf nabbed the big prizes at Annecy. See her previous film, Stanley and Dog for a (reputedly far less impressive, but impressive nonetheless) taste of her stop-motion skills.

- IESB have noted that John Carter of Mars is to be live action but feature animation. That's like almost every genre film these days, surely? Shot in live action, augmented with CG?

- The Scarecrow has been snapped on the Dark Knight set. So that settles that. Apparently.

- Just to be clear: Frank Miller isn't necessarily directing Trouble is My Middle Name. TheBeat wanted to make that absolutely clear.

- The NC17 rating for Hatchet has been overturned.

- Timothy Olyphant and Xavier Gens have given a Hitman interview.

- John Krasinski seems to be up for the Fletch role. So, what about Joshua Jackson?

- Alicia Keys' Big Pita, Little Pita are to produce Catfish, the story of the woman behind the biggest strike in US history.

- Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl is now set up to be a film from the Montecito Production Co.

- The Weinsteins are coughing up for a series of English language, made-in-Hong-Kong action films. Apparently, wire work will be kept to a minimum - and I know somebody who will be pleased about that.

- Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are adapting Cowboys and Aliens into a feature script.

- My Zinc Bed is to star Uma Thurman, Paddy Considine and Jonathan Pryce - three out of three, I'd say. Anthony Page is to direct while David Hare is writing from his own play.

- Satoshi Kon has spoken to The Washington Post. Read it.

- Indiana Jones is headed to Hawaii.

- Images of an Alien/Predator combo turned up online. Not from Aliens vs. Predator 2, as it happens, but just a fake.

- Eddie Murphy is the father of Mel Brown's baby after all. What a surprise.

- You can watch Robot Chicken's Star Wars special with video commentary now.

- The Young Ones is returning to DVD, with new bonus features.

- David Strathairn is to appear in the American Tale of Two Sisters.

And, yes, I was right, this took hours.

Where The Toy Things Are

The first image from Where the Wild Things Are has popped up online and, yep, it looks really quite exciting indeed. I've popped it below with more snaps from the New York Toyfare. There's Beowulf and the Hulk's silhouette, and if you go over to the coverage at Wizard, you can see plenty more - including well distributed, much discussed, boring snaps of vehicles from The Dark Knight and Speed Racer. Yawn.

But this Wild Things image. Now. There's something, eh?

Bat Droppings

I'm sorry, but I'm getting sick of all of these Dark Knight e-mails from people I don't know. I just don't know if I should be grateful to receive them or angry at people for wasting my time - and, as you may see it, your time too. I guess the answer is that I don't know - yet. If/when any of them turn out to be true, then I'll definitely be grateful. Retroactive gratitude is the best I can offer, I guess.

Here's two completely different, utterly conflicting pieces of information I have received in the last couple of days. As far as I know, they could both be a complete and utter crock, but let's take a look.

Oh... and if anybody can send me a copy of the script and put me out of my misery, I'd love them forever.

Piece one comes from the original source of the Riddler story from a few days back:

Here's the deal on Nygma : when I was prepping XXX XXXXX XXXXX I mentioned to the XXXX XXXXXXX manager something about Nygma. "Can't believe Hall is playing Nygma".

He turned, rubbed his forehead and sighed.

"Hall isn't playing Nygma. No one is. The suit was for a joke for Bale."

This [suit] was presented to Bale along with the Nipple-Suit. This was a joke played by Nolan and Goyer. And now I feel like a jack-ass for reporting falsely to you.

Piece two comes from a new 'scooper', claiming that they feel safe reporting to me as I have already run something on the subject:

Hi Mr. Connelly,

I am writing to share my knowledge regarding Mr. Anthony Hall's role in The Dark Knight. I had the privilege of working on the set for one day as I was X XXXX XX X XXXXXXXXX XXXX. On one particular scene we were able to see a brief dialogue between Mr. Hall and some other actor. Nothing big except for the fact that the other man calls him Mr. Nygma! Yes, from what I've seen and heard the future Riddler is indeed in the movie! Apart from that I can also tell, that his character wears a dark suit and a green tie. I think the tie is the only connection with his alter ego. Also he seemed rather nice and definitely not so crazy as Jim Carrey's portrayal of The Riddler in Batman Forever.

I'm writing this because I know that this was spoiled by someone else from the crew at your site, so I think by adding my small share it won't be such a big thing for the director and studio. I'm a big Batman fan myself and like others can't wait to see the finished movie.

And that's the pair of them.

Now, the Goyer comment in the first piece pretty much exposes it as fraud. Goyer has almost nothing to do with the project - certainly now that it is in production.

As for the second piece... I'm definitely sceptical, not least as I believe that Hall's scenes are to be with Morgan Freeman and he's not just 'some actor'. But maybe it's all true. Who am I to say?

Does anybody out there have any verifiable Dark Knight info? At all?

Movie Minesweeper - The Flash Memory Edition

- The trailer for Resurrecting the Champ is now on YouTube. Wonder who uploaded that? Anyway, it'll be nice to see Sam Jackson as a down-and-out and a boxer in the same film.

- Jimmy Fallon has told Howard Stern his I Dream of Jeannie film is off. I found the link at Cinematical.

- Rockstar have responded to the BBFC's banning of their Manhunt 2 game. Can they appeal and turn this around?

- Steve Miner's Day of the Dead rehash is getting some reshoots. Hopefully the entire film, hopefully reshot by a completely different director.

- The Guardian are calling Woody Allen's next Midnight in Barcelona. It starts filming next month. In Barcelona. At Midnight. Possibly. Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson - two out of three ain't bad.

- Katie Holmes is pregnant again. Possibly. Her best years were ahead of her.

- Neil Gaiman doesn't think Shia LaBeouf is necessarily young enough (or young looking enough) to get the part of Sexton in Death and Me. He also suggests that Warner Independent might be bankrolling the film, not New Line...

- MySpace have launched their Miniside Network today. It's a repository of shortened episodes of old TV shows and... er... that's about it.

- The NYTimes piece on Marvel Movies is a must-see, if only for the picture of The Hulk, David Maisel and Iron Man.

- More details of the Twin Peaks Gold Box are surfacing.

- JoBlo have a pretty darn good Dark Knight set report.

The Bat-Pod On The Today Show - Now Updated With Direct Download Link

MSN have a clip of the Bat-Pod on this morning's Today show. Get a good look at the vehicle and - if memory serves, I have her name correct - Meredith Viera atop it like Bale's double will have to be.

[EDIT: And thanks to Verbal, you can now directly download this video for the ages. He went awry at first, then sorted it out. Brilliant stuff]

Dark Knight, Deep Throat

The Dark Knight rumours are getting more and more fun by the day. I'm not sure how many of them I believe - not many, anyway - but I'm honestly enjoying the circus of it all. There's less real news than in a double page spread of the Daily Sport, and twice as many fake boobs, but it's every bit as entertaining. The 'Hitler's Bus Found on Moon' of film stories.

This might be the most amusing set of 'spoilers' so far - not least because they come in the form of a video. To share it with you, I tried to upload it using Blogger's new video button, but that seemed to stall, so I settled for YouTube.

Now, I can't really make out every word, so you might not be able to either, but the general drive is clear: details of two scenes, each of them key, and each of them fairly well supported by things I already know for sure from other sources.

I'm expecting more of this stuff, which could be cool, but I'm not going to hold my breath. Many of the anonymous e-mailers who send me stuff (even stuff that turns out to be 100% accurate) fail to ever rematerialise. I guess we each only know what we know.

A lot of this is hard to hear but the odd gem is crystal clear - if you pardon the expression. Enjoy.

[EDIT: Video removed. Unfortunately]