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Is ‘Dark Knight’ sequel in Nolan’s Future?

During a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan briefly addresses what will determine whether he’ll be back for a third film:

True Believers Issue #7 – DC Comics Summer 2008

In this issue, we finally return to a regular schedule. Join us as we discuss what we’ve missed in the DC Universe since we’ve been gone. The following books are discussed in great detail: Final Crisis, Batman, Action Comics, Green Lantern, Rogues’ Revenge, Legion of 3 Worlds, The Flash, Green Arrow/Black Canary, Robin, Nightwing, Green Lantern Corps, Justice Society of America, Supergirl, and Justice League of America. Tune in later this week as we switch our focus to Marvel, and be sure to check out October’s Book of the Month Selection: Gotham Central Book One – In The Line of Duty by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, and Michael Lark.

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Review: Gotham Central Book One – In The Line Of Duty (DC Comics)

True Believers – Book of the Month – October 2008

GOTHAM CENTRAL BOOK ONE – IN THE LINE OF DUTY

Written by Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka

Artwork by Michael Lark

Published by DC Comics

A Review by Scott Carelli

Posted in Comic Book Reviews
By Scott

Two Geeks Episode 73 – Clone War Zone

In this episode, we discuss boycotting a couple of Wars and clear up some false rumors. News involves Billy Bob Krueger, Matthew Vaughan preparing to Kick-Ass, the death of the Justice League, the birth of Green Lantern, and much more. Trailer are loaded this week with Wonder Woman, W, Max Payne, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Sex Drive, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Flash of Genius, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer, and Harold. Send us your emails for next week’s mailbag episode!

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The Dark Knight Beats Star Wars… Twice!

The Dark Knight’s four week rein as king of the box office came to an end this weekend, but not before passing 1977’s Star Wars to become the 2nd highest domestic grossing film of all time with an absolutely stunning $471.5 million in just five weeks. Star Wars had an unadjusted gross of $461 million, but that includes a number of rereleases since it’s debut thirty-one years ago.

The box office crown for the weekend went to Tropic Thunder, which earned a weekend gross of $26 million. Despite earning only $16.8 million this weekend, The Dark Knight still managed to come in at #2, beating the snot out of the Jedi for a second time this week with the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars earning a dissapointing $15.5 million in over 3,400 theaters (more screens than Tropic Thunder). That’s a laughable $4,500 per site average.

This weekend has made me regain a little faith in humanity. It proved that no matter how big a fanbase might get, people won’t pay to see garbage.

Well, maybe this whole thing will finally teach ol’ George a lesson…

…but I’m not holding my breath.

The Dark Knight Returns in 2011!!!

After the MEGA success of this year’s The Dark Knight, Nolan and company are back to bring us the next installment in 2011, The Dark Knight Returns!!!

Wow. Just wow.

Okay, so that’s not true at all.

Well, it could be true, but its not like anything has been announced as of yet.

Sorry for the misleading headline, but after seeing a MASTERFULLY KICK-ASS fan-made poster as this one… how could you not get a little hyped?

In all honesty, I don’t even know if this IS fan-made. All I know is that I saw it, and couldn’t stop staring at its beauty.

There has been absolute zero movement on the Batman movie front from what I understand, but this damn well makes me wish there has been.

If its real, that’ll be swell, if it isn’t, well then this is still an absolutely AMAZING piece of fan art that deserves all of its recognition.

Kudos to whoever put this together.

‘Arkham Asylum’ coming to a console near you…

From Newsarama:

London based RockSteady Studios, just announced that they are developing a new Batman game using the Unreal 3 engine, called Batman: Arkham Asylum.

The game, which is being scripted by current Detective Comics scribe and Batman: The Animated Series writer Paul Dini, has Batman bring The Joker to the infamous mental ward of Gotham City, where his immense Rogue’s Gallery has set a trap for him. The basic description sounds reminiscent of Grant Morrison’s 1989 graphic novel  Arkham Asylum, wherein Batman takes on his greatest foes in a gauntlet style run through Arkham.

Phil Rogers, CEO of Eidos Interactive, promises the game will feature not just melee combat of a beat-em-up, but will also have Batman “utilizing his intuitive detective skills” to get through the adventure.

More information on the 3rd person action game starring Batman and a host of villains will be forthcoming in just two more days, when this countdown clock reaches zero.

The Dark Knight – $314.2 Million In 10 Days!!

Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight earned an estimated $75.6 million from 4,366 theaters in its second weekend, surpassing Shrek 2’s $72.2 million for biggest second weekend ever.

Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins follow-up has reached $314.2 million in just 10 days, another record. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest held the previous record in the amount of days it took to cross the $300 million mark – 16 days. On Monday, The Dark Knight will surpass Iron Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to become the biggest movie of 2008 domestically.

The film is already up to #23 on the all-time domestic blockbuster list and has a good shot at surpassing Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope’s $460.998 million (not counting inflation) to become the second-biggest domestic earner of all-time, trailing only Titanic’s $600.788 million.

The Dark Knight, budgeted at $185 million, stars Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman.

GeekiN Episode #79 – GeekiNput: Comics on Film

Understandably, everyone had a lot to say for this episode. The good news is that you get over 3 hours of content out of the episode. The bad news? I guess you’ll be wearing out those pause buttons. This is a packed episode, including discussion on Marvel, DC, The Dark Knight, Hellboy, Vertigo, etc, etc, etc. We literally discuss just about everything. Next week is the Television Report Card episode where we plan to discuss the television industry and their recent efforts to make the networks geek-friendly.

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Two Geeks – The Dark Knight Movie Special

SPOILER ALERT! In this episode we focus on the sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins, The Dark Knight. No preshow this time out, but we more than make up for it with an absolutely EPIC discussion of the film complete with not one but two guest hosts: Geekin’ host Randy McKinney and fan-favorite host J-Bey!  Does The Dark Knight live up to its hype or succumb to a nipple-filled fate worse than death? Join us as we discuss our most anticipated film of the year, but beware: Spoilers Abound! (Note: this episode suffered from the same problem that episode 71 did, although it seems to not get nearly as bad. Sorry in advance.)

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A Reminder: Upcoming Comic Movie Discussion

Did you check out Dark Knight and Hellboy 2? Still feel like discussing Iron Man and Incredible Hulk? Are you feeling the new Watchmen trailer? Be sure to join us Monday, July 20th at 8pm EST for an almost certainly content packed episode of GeekiNput. We will be covering any and all comic books that have made it to the big screen that our listeners want to discuss. As a result, this episode will be spoiler filled. That’s especially important in the case of the two newest movies, Hellboy 2 and The Dark Knight.

Come ready to talk.

‘The Dark Knight’ Out Now!

The Dark Knight, sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins, was realeased in theaters this weekend. What did you guys think? Let us know in the comments section below.

Keep reading for a spoiler-filled review

Posted in Movie Reviews
By Saberj

GeekiN Episode #18: 10/19/2005

Another week, another episode. This week, we don’t let a missing harddrive get in our way of delivering you the week’s best news articles and giving great discussion. We press on in the face of adversity. Anyway, we hope you enjoy the show!

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GeekiN Episode #14: 09/28/2005

If the sound is off in today’s episode, we apologise. There were some clipping issues. Today’s episode covered some of the email that we had been recieving, plenty of Movie, Video Game, and Television news for the week. Look inside this post for show notes. Stay tuned later this week for a likely Serenity special podcast.

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