The Times has an interesting interview with Gary Oldman, it mainly covers the new Harry Potter film but he does offer up some tidbits about what it’s like to play Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight:

‘I don’t know how it happened,’ Oldman says of his pigeonholing as a natural born gangster. He speaks slowly. Very slowly. In clipped sentences. ‘I really don’t. I was this… psycho guy. I just got into these parts. Then it… it… contaminates people. And they think that you’re Crazy-Scary-Gary. The closest character to me,’ he adds with ponderous gravity, ‘is Jim Gordon.’

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I tell Oldman that the first word that comes to mind when you think of Jim Gordon is ‘avuncular’. ‘Yeah,’ he replies with a light shrug. ‘Got a good sense of right and wrong. Family man. Just a regular geezer.’

In other news, Dog Custard have some new Batpod shots from the 2007 Licensing show here. And a Flickr image has originated from LilRonGal showing the filming of a rooftop scene (with a spoilerific surprise).

SuperHeroHype also has a set report which discusses some scenes that have been filmed, obviously you should beware of spoilers.

Finally, here’s a video showing the tumbler on set, once again, more spoilers ahead: YouTube
There’s also another TDK set video from 20th June, of course, there are further spoilers.

Blizzard is hot right now, what with Starcraft 2 on its way and WoW continuing to dominate. Now we are hearing rumors of a Diablo adaptation for the big screen. These rumors came about when “Diablo” was spotted in the “In Development” section of Legendary Pictures‘ website. This notice has since been removed and Blizzard have been characteristically silent on the whole matter. Coming from an official source this is hard to classify as merely rumor, though lack of an official press statement and the notice’s removal does warrant this labelling.

Nobody really knows what’s going on at the moment – except that the Warcraft Motion Picture is still in development.

We’ll keep you tuned should any developments arise.

CurleyCasey has provided AICN with a new scoop, and some great shots. Check out the link for the full story about the scene and some more pictures, not really any spoilers here.

This is the big Batman news story of the day, Cillian Murphy has been spotted on the set of The Dark Knight, as the Scarecrow. There’s some footage online over at YouTube, which pretty much gives away the scene and hence has some spoilers. Nothing too suprising in the video so I advise just waiting for the movie, if you can. SuperHeroHype has the full story from budding Paparazzi ‘typeorocks’. Here’s one of the shots:

And here’s the infamous Bat Signal, the best candid shot we’ve seen yet, as snapped by Jeremy Farmer:

Let us not forget the lessons of History; let us remember why the original Batman franchise was destroyed so utterly and completely. Batman – Robin – Batgirl – Mr Freeze – Poison Ivy – Bane – Batplane – Batmobile, it had it all.

10 years ago today many a fan boy shed a tear. If you work in the film industry and you ever find yourself putting nipples on a costume, think twice and get out while you still can.

EDIT: Chicago not New York, I had questioned this but it had seemed plausible what with the NY 2007 Licensing show which had the Batpod. Sorry for the mistake guys. 

The news keeps “tumbling” in, this time we’re getting reports of Bruce Wayne’s tumbler, aka the Batman Begins Batmobile. It’s turned up in CHICAGO, ready for filming. Here are some great shots:

As expected, what with the release of a high resolution batsuit picture, we can get some juicy up close pictures of the infamous bat-cycle monster. Click the images for the full high resolution versions, each is about 1mb in size. Enjoy.

And here’s an ALL NEW image from The Slug:

Many misleading reports have been filed about the purported re-firing of the Halo Movie engines. These reports assumed that a Halo GAME and FRANCHISE distribution deal, made by Fox, extended to the movie. This is not the case and NO MOVIE DEVELOPMENT plans have as YET been confirmed.

This deal does however look favourably on the Halo movie process and could initiate the future development. Though, as it stands, we are still not moving anywhere, our ignition is firmly set to off.