The Comic-Con in San Diego ongoing and there’s already a lot of leaks, hints, and previews that would make a lot of overzealous geek fans’ brains melt.

The panel Book of Eli included Gary Oldman and instead of pimping the Hughes Boys film (the cast of which includes big names like Denzel Washington, Michael Gambon, Mila Kunis and Ray Stevenson), Gary dropped a nukie of a geek dookie – the third Batman movie will begin filming next year.

Holy crap, Batman! This is huge new indeed. After getting steamrolled by awesomeness in The Dark Knight, fans are content on waiting even a couple of years for the next installment. Still, rumors have been around regarding a third installment but most can be dismissed on the account that there’s no script written, director tapped, or cast drafted to back the claim that the project has been greenlighted.

But this is Oldman hinting on it. Being the Hollywood professional, we don’t think that he’s just saying this to earn some cheap pops. There most likely is some major development regarding The Dark Knight sequel.

Whether Nolan will be back, we’ll just have to wait on more news.

Via: Film School Rejects

MamaPop just dished out this post pitting two of the biggest superheroes in the movies this year – Iron Man versus Batman. Quite the sacrilege if you ask me. Well, mostly it’s because of the movies. Iron Man is the best superhero movie so far. The Dark Knight (Batman) is an epic crime drama that happened to feature a guy in a cape.

But the two (as characters) taken side by side do not really feature much difference. Billionaire playboys, with lotsa money, lotsa toys, and swanky butlers. There were some other takes online pitting one against the other but come on, they come from two different mythos. Sure they have some dead-on similarities but we could still highlight key differences here. Phenomena on Break had an interesting take on this too.

And MamaPop’s take is a bit flawed I guess since they’re based mostly on the movies. Tony Stark had Jarvis as a butler. There’s no point comparing Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) with Alfred (Michael Caine). Hot-blooded men would definitely choose Pepper any day. Well, they ended up with Iron Man sweeping all points.

Oh and remember this YouTube clip?

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Just got back from the movie theater where I watched the first full show on the official opening day of The Dark Knight. Jessica Zafra wrote in her review (the only one I’ve read about the movie) that, “This is possibly the best superhero movie ever made.” Guess what? I cannot agree with her more!

Read more of Flori’s personal take on The Dark Knight on Speechless.

Now if you happen to have $395 lying around (and a few more for shipping…) and have fantasized about Batman coming to your rescue, then this item might be a must have for you. You might not live in Gotham City but you can always light up the sky with your very own Bat Signal.

Don’t be fooled by the relatively small dimensions on this thing (12? x 2.25? x 9?) but this gizmo can project Batman’s insignia up to 16 feet away. Hey, it’s a great way to say that “Batman’s on my side so bugger off” or “Hey, I’m a forty-year old weaboo who trips balls for Batman.” View the bigger picture after the cut.

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Remember that LEGO Star Wars? Quite interesting wasn’t it? Especially if you’re a fan of both LEGO and Star Wars. Then how about this? LEGO Batman. Yahoo! For a guy who asked for nothing else but LEGO sets for Christmas (yes, I am a retard), and a Batman fan at that, this is just a treat.

And while it coincides with the year the new Batman movie will be coming out, this doesn’t really relate to the movie’s storyline at all. You’d have Batman and Robin fighting crime in Gotham City in pretty much the LEGO Star Wars fashion and in their TV glory. Yup, we Batman will be in gray and black and Robin will be wearing green toits (at least, it’s not those flesh-colored stocking and elf shoes).

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Who would have thought that Gotham City’s one true hero will be buried elsewhere in the world? For a hero such as Batman, you’d expect some really fancy mausoleum with a statue or something like that. Or at least you could expect Bruce Wayne to be buried in a swanky grave near his parents. But no.

If the source isn’t joking or if this isn’t some Photoshopped scam, then Batman is buried as Batman at the RiverView Cemetery somewhere in Southwest Portland. Oh man. He really is a tragic hero.

Source: damnportlanders

Mainstream Hollywood has really taken a liking to anime that they’ve considered to use it to enhance their own films. Take Matrix for example where they used Animatrix to use as a filler in between Matrix and Matrix: Reloaded. And how about Kill Bill with those anime sections.

Now how about this? A Batman anime. Yes, you read that right. They’ll be release an anime feature dubbed as Batman: Gotham Knight which will serve as the filler between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with the latter due this year.

Okay, so everyone’s too damn depressed with Heath Ledger’s passing. Still, who wouldn’t want to get a piece of his final work in The Dark Knight?

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The next Batman film will have such high expectations to meet. Batman Begins was simply the best Batman film counting the first ones with Michael Keaton on them. Being the reeboot of the franchise, it offered a slightly different styling of the Dark Knight. Giving the Batmobile a tank-ish look was definitely a step away from the sleek chocolate-bar-on-wheels appearance that fans of the Batman are used to.

And one of the much-awaited teasers to be revealed for the sequel would be how they’d be styling The Joker. It has already been known that it’s Heath Ledger (escaping his Brokeback image perhaps) who’d be playing Batman’s nemesis but one of the great questions is how he’d be styled. Here’s the photo of Ledger as The Joker on the Cover of Empire magazine:

All I can say is wow. Just like many of the things in Begins, The Joker’s styling in this one doesn’t appear like it’s straight out of the comic or that animated series with a flowing green mane and fanciful face paint. He just looks like one really demented madman. Someone of which you’d be really scared just in case he pops out at the foot of your bed in the middle of the night. Nice.