Get ready for Miley Cyrus, Serious Actress. Miley Cyrus is ready to leave her Hannah Montana/Miley Stewart alter ego in the dust and begin tackling more challenging roles — beginning with a part in the upcoming sequel to The Dark Knight.
America’s Most Famous Teenager is determined to play Batgirl in the follow-up to the Summer 2008 blockbuster, according to The Globe’s Loosch Lips Column.
Lordy, have we learned nothing from Alicia Silverstone’s disastrous performance as Batgirl in Batman & Robin? (Love Alicia Silverstone, but she just didn’t work for me as Batgirl.) Read the rest of this entry »
Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan of Batman, an oil producing community in southeastern Turkey, is suing film director Christopher Nolan for stealing his city’s name in the superhero’s latest big box office adventure, The Dark Knight. Read the rest of this entry »
Warner Brothers Studio has begun campaigning for Heath Ledger to be nominated for a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as “The Joker” in the Summer 2008 blockbuster The Dark Knight.
Six actors have been nominated for an Oscar after death–the only posthumous award went to Peter Finch for his role in the film Network in 1976.
Entertainment legend Cher is being courted for the role of Catwoman in the next Batman movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Tropic Thunder just took the wind out of Batman’s sails at the box office this weekend. The Ben Stiller-directed comedy, featuring Jack Black, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr. in Blackface, debuted at No. 1, taking in $26 million and bumping The Dark Knight to second-place after four weekends in the top spot, according to early studio estimates Sunday.
The film’s opening was made with bitter criticism from disablilty rights advocates who challenged its portrayal of people with disabilities.
Christian Bale will not face charges over an alleged assault on his mother and sister in a London hotel room last month.
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At least one moviegoer walked away from the latest Batman sequel feeling disappointed. Actor Robert Downey Jr. says he’s no fan of The Dark Knight. The former bad boy slammed the superhero thriller as “highbrow” and requiring a “college education to understand” in a recent interview with MovieHole. Read the rest of this entry »
Mary-Kate Olsen fled a screening of The Dark Knight in tears after breaking down at the sight of Heath Ledger in his final on-screen performance. Read the rest of this entry »
Award-winning actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Johnny Depp are being courted for roles in a sequel to the biggest box office feature ever, The Dark Knight. Sources close to the project tell the National Enquirer that studio heads are hoping to bring Hoffman, who starred in the critically-acclaimed 2006 film Capote, and Depp on-board for a follow-up to this Summer’s Batman epic. Read the rest of this entry »
File this under “Is it really that serious?!” People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals have beef with The Bat. Batman has been removed PETA’s Top 10 Animal-Friendly Superheroes list for beating dogs in self-defense in the box office smash The Dark Knight.
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