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The Incredible Hulk Trailer

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The Incredible Hulk Trailer

Rotten Tomatoes has a veritable feast of Hulk goodies - including the new trailer and a slab of photos. Basically this version re-starts the story of the Hulk five years after Ang Lee tried his hand at the mean, green superhero with Eric Bana in the lead. In director Louis Leterrier’s (The Transporter) new version, Ed Norton is Bruce Banner, the physicist whose exposure to gamma rays has burdened him with fantastic and terrible new powers.

Yeah. Ho hum. The first movie with Eric Bana suffered ‘cos the Hulk looked wayyyy too much like a CGI character… as far as the trailer goes, this one looks even worse. Just make the whole darn thing as an animation and be done with it…

Check it all out for yourself here…

Batman’s Burden: A Director Confronts Darkness and Death

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Batman’s Burden: A Director Confronts Darkness and Death.

The Watchmen (First Look)

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The Watchmen

The countdown is on… officially one year and counting until the release of Watchmen on March 6 2009.

Watchmen was a twelve-issue comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Originally published by DC Comics as a monthly limited series from 1986 to 1987, it was later republished as a trade paperback, which popularized the ‘graphic novel’ format.

To date, Watchmen remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award, and is also the only graphic novel to appear on Time Magazine’s 2005 list of ‘the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.’

Watchmen is set in 1985, in an alternative history United States where costumed adventurers are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (the Doomsday Clock is at five minutes to midnight). It tells the story of a group of past and present superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own. Watchmen depicts superheroes as real people who must confront ethical and personal issues, who struggle with neuroses and failings, and who - with one notable exception - lack anything recognizable as super powers. Watchmen’s deconstruction of the conventional superhero archetype, combined with its innovative adaptation of cinematic techniques and heavy use of symbolism, multi-layered dialogue, and metafiction, has influenced both comics and film.

So without further adieu…

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Worship Your Plastic Heroes in The DC Comics Action Figure Archive

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on February 12, 2008
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Worship Your Plastic Heroes in The DC Comics Action Figure Archive.

The Killing Joke - The Joker Is Dead

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on January 23, 2008
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Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight

It’s always a tragedy when anyone gets paid a visit by Death. I was saddened by the (sketchy) news today that Australian actor Heath Ledger had been found dead in his hotel room. He had generated quite a bit of interest on this blog as we had been documenting his forthcoming appearance in the new Batman movie, ‘The Dark Knight’.

Currently, this site is taking an absolute hammering as Googling Ledger is bringing a lot of traffic right here. (We won’t even begin to mention the countless of blogs who steal our bandwidth by serving their Heath Ledger/Joker images right from here. Fuckers!) so you may notice some slow-down today.

But I digress… a talented young man has lost his hold on life, and that really is sad and has put a morose dampener on this day.

The Joker… is dead.

The 6-Minute Dark Knight Bank Heist Trailer

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Heath Ledger - The Joker - The Dark Knight

As this blog can attest to, many have been objecting to the casting of Heath Ledger as the Joker in the forthcoming ‘The Dark Knight’ flick. Pretty senseless and short-minded really, when no one has even seen the film yet. There was a similar outcry when back in 1989, Michael Keaton was cast as the caped crusader. And boy, weren’t all those critics wrong as Keaton’s Batman was an amazing portrayal. From what I have seen of the upcoming pic, Ledger is nothing short of freaking amazing!

Further proof can be seen in the 6 minute prologue that screened before the debut iMax version of the ‘I Am Legend’ movie. Unfortunately, this is just a cam version - but it still looks great and shows off more of Ledger as the Joker.

The prologue was shot entirely with 70mm IMAX cameras.

The prologue features a bank heist orchestrated by the Joker, a criminal mastermind who, according to one of the thugs, wears “war paint” makeup to scare people. His face is revealed near the end, when he lifts up a clown mask to expose the white makeup and red, scarred mouth underneath. On his way out, he tells the bank’s infuriated manager, played by William Fichtner, that “whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you stranger.”

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Download The Dark Knight Trailer

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Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight

Head on over to A Taste for the Theatrical to download the new Dark Knight Trailer in glorious HD.

Its well worth it!

In the meantime, check out some screenshots after the jump!

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More Batman ‘The Dark Knight’ Photos

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Batman The Dark Knight Heath Ledger The Joker

You wanted ‘em, you got ‘em! Here’s a slew of pics from the forthcoming Batman flick ‘The Dark Knight’ - featuring Heath Ledger as the Joker!

Check ‘em out folks, right after the jump:

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First look: Enter the Joker — in the IMAX format

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First look: Enter the Joker — in the IMAX format. All directors promise that their sequels will be bigger and flashier than the predecessors’. But Christopher Nolan doesn’t mess around. The director’s sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, will become the first feature film to be partly shot in the IMAX format, an expensive and cumbersome process that typically is the province of documentaries and short films.

Heath Ledger Is The Joker

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on May 22, 2007
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Heath Ledger Is The Joker

The new image of Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight has now been removed from IBelieveinHarveyDentToo.com. It’s been replaced with red text that gives the error, ‘Page not found’. If you highlight the entire page, however, you’ll see a ton of ‘Ha Ha Ha’s’ with some letters here and there that don’t belong. String those letters together and what do you get? - ‘See you in December’.

So who is behind all this? It looks to be 42 Entertainment, the company which previously created the ‘I Love Bees’ promotion for ‘Halo 2′ and ‘Year Zero’ for the Nine Inch Nails album ‘Year Zero’. The company just registered SeeYouinDecember.com yesterday, so stay tuned.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The early comic books were amazing! Dark, brooding, sinister and nothing like the colorful ‘for kids only’ that the Turtles became in the early 90’s. The hype turned them into a kiddie phenomenon but now… the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back with a brand new all-CGI flick which is about to hit our screens.

A brief synopsis: After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Master Splinter (Mako), becomes worried when strange things begin to brew in New York City. Tech-industrialist Max Winters (Patrick Stewart) is raising up an army of ancient monsters, and only one super-ninja fighting team can stop them — those heroes in a half shell — Leonardo (James Arnold Taylor), Michelangelo (Mikey Kelley), Donatello (Mitchell Whitfield) and Raphael (Nolan North)! With the help of old allies April O’Neil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Casey Jones (Chris Evans), the Turtles are in for the fight of their lives as they once again must face the mysterious Foot Clan, who have put their own ninja skills behind Winters’ endeavors.

Making this new incarnation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles truly cutting-edge, the film was created entirely with state-of-the-art CG animation, giving them a completely new look for the 21st century.

Warner Bros. Pictures and The Weinstein Company present an Imagi Animation Studios Production, “TMNT,” featuring the voices of Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako, Kevin Smith, Patrick Stewart, Ziyi Zhang, and narrated by Laurence Fishburne. Kevin Munroe wrote and directed the film, which is produced by Thomas K. Gray, Galen Walker and Paul Wang. The executive producers are Francis Kao, Peter Laird, Gary Richardson and Frederick U. Fierst, with Felix Ip serving as co-producer. The music is by Klaus Badelt.

Check out the awesome trailers here and here.

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