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Tim Burton almost got to play with Robin. But he changed his mind and ditched that concept for his 1992 sequel Batman Returns. The movie was already stuffed with perhaps one too many characters, with the follow-up to 1989's blockbuster hit Batman introducing Penguin and Catwoman. While we wouldn't see Robin until 1995's Batman Forever, we now have an idea of what Tim Burton's Robin would have looked like.

Robin is an elusive character. When 1989's Batman was being produced, comic book fans warned that the character was too goofy for such a serious take on the material. And he was left on the sidelines. But Tim Burton toyed with introducing the character in his next movie. And thanks to Bart Sears Twitter, we have an idea what that may have looked like.

The movie brought Michael Keaton back as the caped crusader, and cast high profile actors Michelle Pfeiffer...

Who doesn't love Tombstone? It's one of the most beloved Westerns of the modern era. And if you're a fan, you can undoubtedly quote most, if not all, of the lines delivered with scene-stealing flair by Val Kilmer in what's become the definitive portrayal of gambling gunslinger Doc Holliday. You may know every scene in this movie like the back of your hand, but today we've collected 10 Things You Never Knew About Tombstone. And you may walk away pleasantly surprised and shocked.

Tombstone boasts one of the most formidable macho ensembles imaginable: Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, as well as smaller roles for Michael Rooker, Thomas Haden Church, Stephen Lang, Billy Zane, Jason Priestly, Billy Bob Thornton, and Terry O'Quinn. So let's get into it, shall we?

Tombstone is missing a few Earps.

The heroic ensemble at the center of Tombstone includes Wyatt Earp, played by Kurt Russell,...

Author: Dave Roper

So, we come to the end of this particular series. We’ve covered a number of aspects of the creative input into film-making, including actors, actresses, writers composers, and directors (in two parts). We’ve stopped short of costume, make-up, special effects, art design and others, however our final stop is Cinematography. The Dop exerts plenty of influence over the look of the film. Yes, lighting, production design and the director’s vision are key too, but the consistency and persistence with which certain directors stick with and return to a trusted Dop shows just how much they contribute.

Darius Khondji – Seven

Seven has a unique visual aesthetic. Plenty of films have gone for the “always raining, always dark” approach, but contrast Seven with something like AvP: Requiem for a shining example of how hard it is to pull off effectively. And contrast is the word. Seven...

After appearing in Tim Burton's Batman as Gotham City district attorney Harvey Dent, it was assumed at the time that he would return as Two-Face in a subsequent sequel. However, by the time Two-Face made a proper appearance in Batman Forever, the role was handed over to Tommy Lee Jones. Now, close to thirty years later, Billy Dee Williams will finally get the chance to play the character when... Read More...

In 1989, Billy Dee Williams starred as Gotham City district attorney Harvey Dent in director Tim Burton's seminal Batman. The plan, as legend goes, was for Williams to return in subsequent Caped Crusader sequels as the dastardly, dichotomous villain Two-Face, but it never came to fruition.

Instead, for 1992's Batman Returns, Dent was replaced with Oswald Cobblepot, better known as the Penguin, and when Burton exited the franchise as a director, the role of Two-Face went to Tommy Lee Jones in 1995's Joel Schumacher-helmed Batman Forever. 

Now, 28 years down the line, Williams is finally getting the chance to...

Warner Bros. has released a new preview for The Lego Batman Movie, giving fans a sneak peek into Batman's home life at Wayne Manor, a house which he says is the biggest in Gotham City. This "episode" of "Gotham Cribs" features Lego Batman (Will Arnett) starting the tour, confirming rumors that he is in Bruce Wayne's roommate. He then 'introduces' the Gotham billionaire. Bruce thanks Batman for being such a "great host and iconic superhero." The video later shows Bruce and Batman switching places through an open fridge door that conceals the costume change, after Bruce Wayne picks up a Batarang in the kitchen.

Warner Bros. debuted this hilarious video on YouTube earlier today. The tour continues, showing fans Bruce's elaborate pool with live dolphins, and an extravagant bedroom, which Batman never needs because he's fighting crime in Gotham City. The tour concludes with Wayne's "secret room," a.k.

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Longer, darker and closer to what came before, the extended version of Batman Forever sounds interesting at the least...

Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever was a divisive movie, to say the least, and one that we’ve debated the merits of before on this site. But even those of us who like the film (this writer included) would be quick to admit that it’s nowhere near the brilliance of the preceding brace of Bat-movies from Tim Burton.

It’s intriguing to hear, then, that the original cut of Batman Forever weighed in at 2 hours 40 minutes. That’s 38 minutes of extra footage that never made it into cinemas; enough missing minutes to significantly alter the film. Would the original version of Batman Forever have garnered more love?

The fine folk at BatmanOnFilm.com have painstakingly procured information from every available source - earlier drafts of the script,...

Last month, Warner Bros. debuted a new trailer for their highly-anticipated animated spin-off The Lego Batman Movie, as fans get ready for the February 10, 2017 release date. Director Chris McKay, who served as the animation director of the 2014 blockbuster The Lego Movie and makes his feature directorial debut with this spin-off, revealed that there are also plenty of Easter Eggs that are waiting to be found when the film hits theaters. Today we have a new poster, which offers a new look at Batman (Will Arnett), Batgirl (Rosario Dawson) and Robin (Michael Cera), along with a slew of other DC Comics characters, most of whom have not yet been announced.

iTunes debuted the poster earlier today, which features The Joker (Zach Galifianakis) and Alfred Pennyworth (Ralph Fiennes) directly behind the aforementioned heroes, along with Harley Quinn. If you look up in the sky you can see Lego versions of Superman, Green Lantern and Hawkman,...

Way back in 1989, Billy Dee Williams took on the role of Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s Batman, with the actor being told he would be portraying Dent’s villainous alter ego Two-Face in the sequel. Of course, with control of the franchise changing hands after the second film that never happened, with Tommy Lee Jones taking on the role for Batman Forever. But now, Williams is finally getting the chance to play the duality obsessed bad guy with The Lego Batman Movie director Chris McKay revealing, via twitter of course, you will be hearing his dulcet tones come out of Two-Face’s mouth when the animated spin-off hits next year. He does https://t.co/sf1x4NtRzS — Chris McKay (@buddboetticher) November 30, 2016 Williams will be joining fellow bad guys Zach Galifinakis and Jenny Slate, playing The Joker and Harley Quinn respectively, with a huge number of Batman villains,...

Way back in November 2014, months after The Lego Movie became a surprise box office blockbuster, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller revealed that the spin-off they're producing, The Lego Batman Movie, will acknowledge "every era of Batman filmmaking." It seems that the producers, and director Chris McKay have done their Batman homework, as it were, with the director announcing on social media that none other than Billy Dee Williams will provide the voice for the iconic villain Two-Face, a.k.a. Harvey Dent. Die-hard fans of the Batman movie franchise will know that this rights a cinematic wrong set in motion more than 25 years ago.

Director Chris McKay revealed the news on Twitter today, when asked by a fan if Billy Dee Williams will voice Two-Face. Billy Dee Williams previously played Harvey Dent in Tim Burton's 1989 movie Batman, but he never got the chance to transform into the villainous Two-Face.

Most people thank (or blame) Ridley Scott's 1984 Macintosh ad for inventing the spectacle of the Super Bowl commercial, but the Independence Day spot that 20th Century Fox unleashed during the big game in 1996 was an equally significant milestone. Ever since 100 million Americans gawked at their televisions in awe as a massive alien spaceship blew up the White House, the football championship has become the ultimate launching pad for the next wave of spring and summer blockbusters. These days, it almost feels like there’s an entire Comic-Con worth of...

Our countdown of the top 100 films of the 21st Century (so far) concludes here with the top 25.

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The first decade and a half of the 21st century has brought a lot of changes to the landscape of film. The advancement and sophistication of computers has made realistic computer generated effects a mainstay in both big-budget and small-budget films. The internet and streaming technologies have given big Hollywood new competition in films produced independently and by non-traditional means. We went from purchasing films on yards of tape to plastic disks, and now we can simply upload them to the cloud. Advertisements for films have reached a higher, more ruthless level where generating hype through trailers and teasers is crucial for a film’s commercial success. Movie attendance has fluctuated along with the economy, but that hasn...

In their freshman year, Marvel’s Netflix Daredevil series and DC’s CW show the Flash got some of the most overwhelmingly positive reviews of any TV shows ever based on super heroes. They are arguably the two best debut seasons for shows adapted from a comic book. Which one is better? Cinelinx looks at these two excellent shows to determine the live action small screen comic champ.

There have been lots and lots of live action TV programs based on comic books, starting with the Adventures of Superman in the 1950s. Ever since then, we’ve had Batman, the Green Hornet, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Shazam/Isis, Superboy, the Flash (the original), Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman, Birds of Prey, Mutant X, Smallville, Agents of Shield, Arrow, Constantine and Gotham. (We’re not including animated series in this.) We’ve even had one-shot TV movies like Dr. Strange,...

Daredevil moonlighting as Batman? For some actors, one comic book character isn’t enough, nor is one comic publisher. Some actors have jumped the fence between Marvel and DC, playing characters from both companies.

Marvel and DC may have a rivalry going, but that doesn’t stop them from hiring actors who’ve previously worked for the competition. Below is a list of nine actors who’ve portrayed characters from both comic book publishers.

Ryan Reynolds

For Marvel: His first foray into the super hero realm was as Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity (2004). Later, he joined Hugh ‘Wolverine’ Jackman as part of the X-franchise, taking on the role of the mutant Wade “Deadpool” Wilson in X-Men: Origins-Wolverine (2009). He is set to recreate this role in Deadpool (2016)

For DC: He got his big opportunity for super hero stardom playing the cosmic hero with the power ring in Green Lantern (2011). Sadly, that...

Lloyd Fonvielle, who wrote the screenplays for the 1980s films The Lords of Discipline and The Bride and received a story credit on the 1999 blockbuster The Mummy, has died. He was 64. Fonvielle died Feb. 19 while at his writing desk in his apartment in Las Vegas, according to his friend Eli Selden of Anonymous Content. The cause of death was hypertension and the lung disease Copd, the coroner’s office said. A working writer in Hollywood for more than two decades, Fonvielle also wrote and directed the 1988 Showtime telefilm Gotham, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen. He penned

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30. Sense and Sensibility

Directed by: Ang Lee

Ang Lee has gone in about eight different directions in terms of genre. His resume includes “The Ice Storm,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” Hulk,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Life of Pi,” and this delightful Jane Austen adaptation, starring Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, and young Kate Winslet. “Sense and Sensibility” took home the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay for the story of the Dashwood family, a mother widowed and left in difficult circumstances after her husband has left his fortune to his first wife, instead of his current one. So Mrs. Dashwood (Gemma Jones) and her daughters Fanny, Marianne, and Elinor (Harriet Walter, Winslet, Thompson) have to find a way to survive in a world ruled by men and the rules that seem to create obstacle after obstacle for them. Unfortunately, given the era, they are viewed as “unmarryable,” since they have no fortune and no prospects.

In Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever, miniatures of the Batwing and Batman (Val Kilmer) were required for the scenes leading up to confrontation at Claw Island. That is where Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and the Riddler (Jim Carrey) have taken Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman). In the video below, you can watch as The Batwing zooms through the Bat Cave and emerges in the Gotham City sky. Batman's plane is later shot down by The Riddler and then becomes a mini-submarine. The McCune Design team created a 1/6th scale cave interior, and a highly detailed Bat Plane that hung and launched from the cave ceiling. In addition, extensive labyrinths of tunnels were built for high-speed P.O.V. views from the plane as it exited the Bat Cave. Other scenes required the creation The Arkham Asylum exterior and a highly detailed Gotham Alley. When the alley dead ends, The Bat Mobile raced...

In a new interview, Dumb and Dumber To star Jim Carrey answered a question about whether or not he'd want to reprise the role of the Riddler in a future Batman film. While he admits that his iteration of the character probably wouldn't fit in the world that the upcoming slate of DC films is building, he does say he'd be up to give it a go again if asked. Carrey also touches on his desire to work with Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight trilogy) again after their Howard Hughes-biopic failed to see the light of day. Check out the interview below!  The Dark Knight is back on the big screen for the third feature in the blockbuster Batman series ... now battling two supervillains simultaneously--but this time joined by his protégé, Robin, to protect Gotham City. Jim Carrey stars as criminal genius, The Riddler, and Tommy Lee Jones plays Two-Face.

Herewith a collection of fractured thoughts to along with my fractured toe (a piece of advice: never stub your toe so violently that your toe is swollen and purple by the end of the night and you have trouble walking for a week afterwards). I'd never have time for full articles on any of these so let's race through.

The Homesman 

Contrary to popular belief I am more than willing to praise the Swankster when she deserves it. While it's true that I was very hostile ten years ago during the Million Dollar Baby year (I struggle with hostility in any category in any year wherein the least of the five seems to have a free ride to gold... even if they've already won!) I supported her first Oscar win and you can't ever take Boys Don't Cry away from her. What we have here in  Tommy Lee Jones peculiar...

This weekend’s onslaught of smaller new films will have awards contenders and big names to jostle with at the box office. Awards hopefuls Foxcatcher and The Homesman begin their theatrical runs in limited New York and L.A. rollouts, with the former a likely winner in the first weekend when the numbers come in Sunday. The films from Sony Pictures Classics and Roadside Attractions, respectively, tell particularly American stories, though from very different eras. The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart took time off in 2013 to work on his directorial debut. Open Road’s Rosewater, starring Gael García Bernal, will begin its theatrical rollout this weekend. It will be the biggest opener of this weekend’s cadre of specialty newcomers, playing in several hundred locations in the U.S. and Canada. Actor Chris Lowell also makes his filmmaking launch with Beside Still Waters. The project had smooth sailing until it came time for distribution,...

Gotham keeps adding established Batman characters to its ever-increasing cast of odd residents from the crime-ridden city. The latest addition is Harvey Dent, better known to Bat-fans as Two Face, to be played by Nicholas D’Agosto.

As reported in Entertainment Weekly, Gotham has cast its Two Face. Harvey “Two Face” Dent is a very popular Batman villain. He has been portrayed several times in Batman films. Dent has been played by Billy Dee Williams in Batman (1989), Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever (1995) and Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight (2008). Now he’ll make another live-action appearance, this time in the form of actor Nicholas D’Agosto.

In this version, young Harvey Dent/Two Face is described as… “Bright, charming and idealistic, Harvey Dent’s sole mission is to eradicate the crime and corruption that has poisoned Gotham. He is described as appealing, energetic and full of light and life,...

We are incorporating two elements here in the Caped Crusader’s universe: applying the Batman 60′s ABC-tv show (1966-1968/3 seasons) with the Batman film franchise (1989 and beyond). The link that we are looking for to connect Batman’s cheesy television past and its current and future filming state of mind is the conception of repackaging the Dynamic Duo’s cartoonish villains from the small screen and giving them new life on the big screen in the millennium. Let’s examine this line of reasoning, shall we?

As any Batman enthusiast (or casual observer) knows about the campy TV series back in the late 60′s is that the main off-kilter charm was the colorful and wacky regular guest star villains that populated the program many times through the three-year broadcast on the network. Household hooligans such as Catwoman, the Joker, the Penguin and the Riddler would return and become the routine...

To mark Batman's 75th anniversary, we've revisited each of the nine theatrically-released movies to come up with our definitive ranking from worst to best.

We've taken into account not only the films themselves, but also how they fit into the wider context of the character's cinematic legacy. Read our verdict on each below, and we hope the choice for number one gets you talking...

The men behind Batman's mask: Keaton, Bale, Affleck, more

Batman 75th anniversary: An A-z of The Dark Knight

9. Batman & Robin (1997)

Occasionally a film's astronomical budget and hype can overwhelm it on initial release, prompting the critics to sharpen knives and audiences to switch off. Sometimes it takes time for a film to breathe and marinate, it can fare better when revisited after the dust settles. Unfortunately this isn't the case for Batman & Robin - 17 years down the line it's still a steaming pile on repeat viewing.

Some of this year's biggest Oscar hopefuls (notably, "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "August: Osage County") still have yet to open, and yet, what may be the most exciting part of the Oscar race is already over.

I'm talking about the period between the end of November and the announcement of the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations a couple weeks later, when the race is still wide open and consensus has yet to calcify. Then the critics' groups start to weigh in, a new one almost every day, and a picture of the race comes into sharp focus.

It's worth noting that no single critics group -- and this includes the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, whose handful of members vote for the Golden Globes -- is an especially accurate predictor of the Oscars all by itself. It's the consensus among all these groups that begins to suggest the actual Oscar nominating slate.

Garret Dillahunt (“Raising Hope”), Tom Felton (Harry Potter), and Jake Abel (The Host) are set to star in Ghosts Of The Pacific, the true story of three WWII Navy flyers cast adrift on the South Pacific in 1942. The feature will be produced by The American Film Company, which specializes in making movies based on true stories from America’s past.

Producer and American Film Co. president Brian Falk will be making his directorial debut recounting the incredible journey of pilot Harold Dixon (Dillahunt), bombardier Tony Pastula (Felton), and radioman Gene Aldrich (Abel) – virtual strangers assigned to a scouting mission on January 16, 1942. When they are forced to ditch their plane, the men are left with no food, water, or supplies; only a 4×8-foot yellow life raft to keep them afloat on a dangerous ocean.

Written by Mark David Keegan and Falk, Ghosts is being produced by Falk and Mark Moran (Struck by Lightning,...

One of the most difficult Academy Award races to predict this year is Best Supporting Actor. Not only are all five nominees already Oscar champs (that has never happened before in an acting category), but they have been trading off victories at the precursor prizes. None of the men chosen by the four major critic groups made the cut with the Oscars. Both the  Gotham critics and National Society feted Matthew McConaughey ("Magic Mike" and "Bernie"), the La scribes went with Dwight Henry ("Beasts of the Southern Wild") and the National Board of Review winner was Leonardo DiCaprio ("Django Unchained"). -Insertgroups:8- Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln") Jones leads with odds of 19/10 and is the choice of 17 of our 25 experts, five of eight editors, and 33% of Users. Key to this frontrunner status is his win at the SAG Awards; 11 of the 18 SAG champs have repeated at the Oscars, including th...

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Killer Joe (Lionsgate) William Friedkin’s film of Tracy Letts’ off-Broadway hit about a family of Texas trailer park cretins (Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon) who hire a cop-cum-hitman (Matthew McConaughey) to take out their troublesome mother, then foolishly cross him, is a stinging satire, given double-barreled audacity by Friedkin’s sure, and fearless, directorial hand. Earning its Nc-17 rating in spades, “Killer Joe” reminds us that daring, frank material like this is why movies exist in the first place. McConaughey gives the performance of his career, hopefully redefined after this. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Featurettes; Commentary by Friendkin; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.

The Dark Knight Rises (Warner Bros.) Christopher Nolan’s coda to his “Batman” trilogy finds Christian Bale returning as a brooding Bruce Wayne/Caped Crusader, this time faced with a hulking villain (Tom Hardy) with respiratory...

On this week's Oscar Talk, Kris Tapley and I weigh in on Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln." The movie is restrained, and beautiful, and deeply moving, and Daniel Day-Lewis carries the day as America's 16th president pushing thorugh the 13th amendment to ban slavery. Picture, director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, art direction, costumes, score, actor, supporting actress and actor--Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones will also factor--you name it. We also discuss the New York Film Festival closing night film, Bob Zemeckis's "Flight," starring Denzel Washington, as well as the Gotham nominations. And we dig into the best supporting actress category led by Helen Hunt of "The Sessions." We also address whether "The Master" star Joaquin Phoenix's statements about the Oscars being "bullshit" hurt his chances at a best actor nod? Here's the podcast.

Ashby was born fully formed as a film-maker with this debut, a wise and exact meditation on race relations in New York at the end of the 1960s

Sometimes I imagine a scene of a time capsule opening years after its burial, and a noxious stink arises from the urn because its socio-temporal contents have lost all their context, and thus all their meaning. "Ew," says the crowd assembled, "why ever did we bury that?" Not so Hal Ashby's The Landlord, long unavailable despite being, to my mind at least, one of the most assured directorial debuts in Hollywood history, and also perhaps my favourite of all his work. I saw it as a teenager in the 70s, before it vanished out of circulation for decades. This particular time capsule is all madeleines and bitter almonds, its contents apparently not having aged a day in 42 years.

Ashby, one of...

This morning, we have the most interesting of all news stories: release dates and title changes!  How else will you know when things are coming out or what they'll be called?  These are fundamental changes and you should appreciate them.  First up, Deadline reports that Walter Hill's action flick Bullet to the Head, starring Sylvester Stallone, has been kicked off the release calendar.  The film was set to open on April 13th against The Cabin in the Woods and The Three Stooges, but now it's floating in limbo.  Bullet to the Head follows a New Orleans hitman who teams up with a Gotham cop to hunt down those responsible for the deaths of their respective partners. Hit the jump for the new title of the Will Ferrell-Zach Galifianakis political comedy. In an unrelated story, Jay Roach's political comedy Rivals has a new title.  The movie was...

"The Descendants" was widely expected to win several awards from the New York Film Critics Circle. Our Experts heavily favored the film to win the top prize while star George Clooney, supporting player Shailene Woodley and the script were also forecast to be strong contenders. Instead, all were snubbed by the Gotham critics group. "The Descendants" writer/director Alexander Payne has a strong track record with the Nyfcc.  First, he picked up the Best Screenplay prize in 1999 for "Election." In 2004, his "Sideways" swept Best Picture, Actor (Paul Giamatti), Supporting Actress (Virginia Madsen), and he won a second time for Best Screenplay. While this year's voters were passionate about some contenders -- like Meryl Streep who won Best Actress on the first ballot with a whopping 38 points -- the New York Post's Lou Lumenick reveals "The Descendants" never managed to amass more tha...

The news from Batman: Arkham City just keeps on coming. And I for one am glad!

The latest reveal from the sequel to 2009′s game of the year Batman: Arkham Asylum is this lovely picture of our antagonist Harvey Dent, Aka Two Face. As-well as the picture DC have released a small bio which, any die hard fan will see, conforms more with the Harvey Dent of the comics and 90′s animated series than that of the Nolan films, but please don’t take that as a criticism of Nolan’s work.

Real Name: Harvey Dent

Alias: Two-face

Occupation: Professional Criminal

Base: Gotham City

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Brown/Grey

Height: 6 ft

Weight: 182 lb

First Appearance: Detective Comics #66 (August 1942)

• Attribute 01: Hideously scarred on the left half of his face, which he plays up with clothing that’s differently styled on one side

• Attribute 02: Extremely skilled with his weapons of...

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They were already released as part of the Batman Anthology set on blu-ray, but now we're getting stand alone versions of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin on blu-ray. I guess thats good, right? lol. Here are all of the details. They are hitting shelves on May 10th, 2011 packed with movie money, presumably for Green Lantern.

Batman Forever Blu-Ray

Synopsis: Riddle me this, riddle me that, you’ll find adventure on the wings of a bat! Brace for excitement as Val Kilmer (Batman), Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face), Jim Carrey (the Riddler), Nicole Kidman (Dr. Chase Meridian) and Chris O’Donnell (Robin) star in the third formidable film in Warner Bros.’ Batman series. Joel Schumacher directs and Tim Burton co-produces this thrill-ride of a movie that thunders along on Batmobile, Batwing, Batboat, Batsub and bold heroics. Hang on!

Special Features:

• Commentary by Director Joel Schumacher

• Additional Scenes...

hollywoodnews.com: Following a hearing this afternoon, The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced that it has won a unanimous appeal of the Nc-17 rating initially given to its feature film Blue Valentine by the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA’s Classification and Rating Administration had bestowed the Nc-17 due to one scene, a sexually intimate sequence between a married couple trying to repair their broken relationship.

The rare unanimous decision by the appeal board strengthens the ability of the film to reach audiences as an acknowledged award-season contender, already nominated for a Gotham Award and Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. It has also received wide kudos from critics such as Entertainment Weekly’s Dave Karger, who wrote, “If there’s any justice, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams will both earn Oscar nominations for their raw, arresting performances.”

“All of us – the filmmakers and cast – were united in our...

Simon Brew Aug 14, 2017

Is the named director of a film the one who's actually been calling the shots? Here are 11 where a 'ghost director' may have been involved.

It's not that uncommon for a director to take their name off a film, and to leave the moniker Alan Smithee or whatever the current equivalent is behind. However, what's considerably rarer is when a film is released under the name of one director, but it's later revealed or rumoured that, actually, other hands were at work, either for a solid chunk or even the entirety of a production. That a film was, for want of a better phrase, 'ghost directed'.

See related Gotham season 4: Barbara is set to form an all-female "power base"

Granted, some of these stories that we're about to tell have little chance of ever being fully confirmed, but here are some examples of where the helmer...

Our Joel Schumacher retrospective arrives at one of his commercial highs and critical lows - it's the pretty woeful Batman Forever...

"Riddle me this, riddle me that, who's afraid of the big, black bat?" - The Riddler

The Recap

After back-to-back successes with the gritty Falling Down and the tense thriller The Client, Joel Schumacher's next project was slightly off the bat (sorry, we'll get our own taxi). Taking over the reins from Tim Burton, he was about to change the direction and tone of the series, as well as start a downward spiral that would lead to the end of the franchise and almost-certain death knell to any future Batman movies.

Following on directly from Batman Returns, the audience is flung straight into the action as soon as the movie starts with Batman (Val Kilmer) facing Harvey ‘Two-Face' Dent (Tommy Lee Jones), Gotham City's ex-city District Attorney, who,...

The film that put the late Brad Renfro on the map, Carley's look back at the films of Joel Schumacher takes on his adaptation of John Grisham's The Client...

"Keep the dollar, you're fired!" - Mark

The Recap

After tackling the mean streets of La in Falling Down, Schumacher's next project would be another thriller, but this time based on a book by another big name in Hollywood, John Grisham. Grisham was fast becoming a studio favourite with back to back adaptations of his books coming to the big screen at a startling rate.

After their father leaves, 11-year-old Mark Sway (Brad Renfro) and his young brother Ricky (David Speck) spend their days hanging around the trailer park and local surrounding wooded area where they now live while their mother Dianne (Mary-Louise Parker) works at a sweatshop lamp factory.

After catching Mark with a packet of cigarettes, Ricky promises...

The Batman anthology is coming to Blu-ray You can bring home all four films featuring your favorite Dark Knight on Blu-ray this May. Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin will each be released individually on Blu-ray on May 4. The films were previously available on Bd in the Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997, but now you can own these titles individually, priced at $24.98 Srp. Take a look at the special features details below.

Batman

Jack Nicholson is the Joker, who emerged from a horrible accident as a maniacal criminal. Michael Keaton is the Caped Crusader, who emerged from a childhood trauma to become a masked crime-fighter. Kim Basinger is Vicki Vale, the talented photojournalist desired by both men. And Batman is the movie, the all-out spectacular directed by Tim Burton, set to songs by Prince and a music score by Danny Elfman, and an Academy Award winner...

With HeyUGuys recently posting the Top films of the Decade as voted by you the reader, I thought I would look back into noughties myself and do my own top 10 films of the last decade as I was a bit disappointed with a majority of the top 10 choices like Kill Bill, There will be Blood and Donnie Darko.

Searching for my Decadian film winners was a great experience, going through vast amount of films from the last 10 years (which has flown by) and picking my personal 10 favourite films. It was a difficult challenge choosing them and also coming up with my 10 runner up movies from each year as there were so many quality films to pick from and I had to make some difficult choices in letting some stunning films miss out like Children of Men, District 9, Hurt Locker, Let the Right one in, The Departed etc. And so here are my choices,...

Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving, peace and good will towards men. But in Hollywood, its also a time for death, destruction and nearly every form of mayhem. Throughout the 80's 90's and (soon to be history) 00's more and more action films seem to take place during “the most wonderful time of the year”. Whether it be a heist, monster invasion or assault by pirates, so much onscreen action occurs on this jolly day that it's a miracle ole Saint Nick isn't killed in the crossfire. Here are just a few action films where Christmas is actually the last thing on the minds of characters fighting for their lives.Batman Returns (1992) Set during the Christmas season where a tree lighting ceremony in Gotham City serves as a battleground for the struggle between Batman (Michael Keaton), The Penguin (Danny DeVito) and Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer). The film opens...

If you have thought that the day would never come that someone could pull off a superb original video game that was based on a beloved comic book character let me introduce you to Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360, PS3). Ladies and gentlemen, here is the game that we’ve all been waiting to play since we could grasp that game controller between our meatware.

Brilliantly developed by London-based Rocksteady Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive, Batman: Arkham Asylum is easily one of the year’s best games. Instead of phoning it in and coasting on the average sales that a Batman title would grab without trying, what Rocksteady has done is create a game that joins similar titles like 2K’s BioShock, Konami’s Silent Hill 2 or EA's Dead Space and becomes an example of how gameplay can serve story and story serves gameplay. From the graphics to the...

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Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology: 1989-1997 is best described as epic. Four Batman films in high-definition on separate discs packed with extra features - that's a nice package if ever there was one. This will be one of those reviews where less attention will be given to the movies themselves (as the last one came out over 10 years ago) and almost all of this review will be given to the extra features on each disc. Quite honestly, if you don't know the plots of these movies you really shouldn't be buying a Batman anthology.

Before I get into the Extra Features of the individual Blu-ray discs, I think it'll be easier if I establish the standard features present on all of the discs. Unless otherwise mentioned, each disc features an audio commentary by the film's director (Tim Burton or Joel Schumacher), the film's theatrical trailer and an installment in...

12.00 Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology: 1989-1997 is best described as epic. Four Batman films in high-definition on separate discs packed with extra features - that's a nice package if ever there was one. This will be one of those reviews where less attention will be given to the movies themselves (as the last one came out over 10 years ago) and almost all of this review will be given to the extra features on each disc. Quite honestly, if you don't know the plots of these movies you really shouldn't be buying a Batman anthology.

Before I get into the Extra Features of the individual Blu-ray discs, I think it'll be easier if I establish the standard features present on all of the discs. Unless otherwise mentioned, each disc features an audio commentary by the film's director (Tim Burton or Joel Schumacher...

DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0 Chicago – Even though I once had a weekly comic book addiction, I was never a big Wonder Woman fan. Maybe it was a trapping of my gender, but I always tended toward books with male heroes like Superman, Batman, and The X-Men. Having said that, I can still respect what the team behind DC Universe’s latest film have accomplished with “Wonder Woman,” another installment in an increasingly intriguing series of straight-to-dvd movies.

When you tell a lot of people that an animated straight-to-dvd movie is worth their time, a lot of them glaze over, smile, and nod. Trust me. “Superman: Doomsday,” “Justice League: The New Frontier,” “Batman: Gotham Knight,” and, now, “Wonder Woman” would make for a better superhero marathon than most live-action blockbusters of men (or a woman) in tights. If I had to rank the four, “Ww” would be the lowest, but that’s largely...

Anticipation for The Dark Knight is on serious overload. Everyone is pumped and ready for Batman's return to the big screen and Warner Premiere is trying to satiate that anticipation with something similar to what was done with The Animatrix with Batman Gotham Knight, a series of six animated stories that begin where the one before it ends. The details boast "acclaimed directors", writers such as David Goyer (Batman Begins, Blade) and Josh Olson (A History of Violence) as well as a PG-13 rating as if that is really saying anything. Before I go much further, I should say I have never seen Batman The Animated Series, and when it comes to animation I am more of a Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks kind of a person - you know, mainstream. I will say that Hayao Miyazaki is a lot of fun to watch and I even enjoyed Appleseed Ex Machina,...