Zdravko wrote in to tell us that Hot Toys have some new intri­cately designed Dark Knight busts:

WENN are report­ing that within min­utes of going on sale, Mattel’s Joker action fig­ure has sold out:

Bat­man fans have cleaned out New York toy stores’ entire sup­ply of Heath Ledger’s Joker action fig­ure, within min­utes of them going on sale.

Devo­tees of the comic book series lined up early to clear shelves of the $9.99 toy.

Ebay is rid­dled with these fig­ures sell­ing for much more than their retail price, up to $55 each.

Via /Film

A fairly large and detailed image has begun cir­cu­la­tion around the inter­net, claim­ing to be Two Face, as we shall see him in The Dark Knight. This image has the poten­tial to be spoi­lerific and it is also quite graphic, hence it is included after the break…

EDIT: Image removed — looks like WB are doing the rounds and tak­ing down the images as and when they find them — must be legit­i­mate then!

You can still find it here: AICN | The Blem­ish | Amber Street | Kens­ing­ton Victoria

Analy­sis: The detail on this is astound­ing — enough to sug­gest that it is not a fake. It also looks like some sort of noise pho­to­shop fil­ter has been applied over the top — much like the leaked joker pic­tures we saw last month.

The pic­ture orig­i­nated from Comic Book Resource.

The offi­cial Dark Knight web­site has updated to include a sexy new flash intro­duc­tion and all three trail­ers. The intro sees Bat­man stand­ing against a win­dow pane, à la the poster, which then bursts (like the long hor­i­zon­tal poster), before falling to the ground amongst rain­ing Joker cards.

Thanks Zdravko (Batfan93)

Here are an incred­i­bly fine selec­tion of high-resolution, in-focus images from the most recent Dark Knight trailer. They fea­ture close ups of The Joker, Bat­man, Bruce Wayne, Har­vey Dent and Rachel Dawes and most impor­tantly — that quick glimpse of Two-Face! They are all at the res­o­lu­tion of 1920x817 pix­els — per­fect for a widescreen wall­pa­per. The Two Face image is the very last one (and a smaller ver­sion is included after the break — hid­den to save on spoilers!)

You may also be inter­ested in our first round of images, from the pre­vi­ous trailer.

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Be off with you, it’s time to head over to Happy Trails and down­load that 200mb best qual­ity ver­sion of the trailer!

The LA Times recently sat down with Mr Eck­hart (aka Har­vey Dent) to dis­cuss his role as a vil­lain in The Dark Knight. Beware, spoil­ers lurk below.

“I can tell you that, basi­cally, when you look at Two-Face, you should get sick to your stom­ach. Being the guy under all that, well, that was a lot of fun for me. It’s like you would feel if you met some­one whose face had pretty much been ripped off or burned off with acid. I can’t talk about it beyond that because I don’t want to give away too much of the plans by Chris.”

[…]

“The dif­fer­ence between Bat­man and Two-Face is how far they are will­ing to go and how they make their point,” Eck­hart said. “Oth­er­wise, we’re talk­ing about vig­i­lante crime-fighting. That’s what Bat­man is all about. He has a strong sense of jus­tice. And Har­vey Dent has an extremely strong sense of jus­tice. His fiancée is killed. He’s hor­ri­bly injured. But he is still true to him­self. He’s a crime fighter, he’s not killing good peo­ple. He’s not a bad guy, not purely.”

[…]

“You look at a good guy too long and it’s not that excit­ing, it’s the Boy Scout always doing the right thing. I’m inter­ested in good guys gone wrong. They’re not the bad guy, they’re the good guy doing bad things.”

[…]

“Really, all of it is more than an adven­ture tale, it’s some­what of a mir­ror of our times. It deals with some fun­da­men­tal ques­tions of what’s going on in soci­ety. To me, this film is about how Bat­man feels about jus­tice, how he takes care of the city, how he feels about the Joker when he meets him and sees what he is capa­ble of doing. How he feels when Har­vey Two-Face takes mat­ters into his own hands. It’s not sim­ple, and it gets ugly. I think peo­ple will be surprised.”

With all the traits of the Ha Ha Times, the film reel, handed out to the one lucky raf­fle ticket holder at each of the “It’s all part of the plan” events, con­tains not the nor­mal ver­sion but a “jok­er­ized” one:

From YouTube:

The film was a 35mm workprint in anamor­phic and was pro­jected off of an old 35 pro­jec­tor which can han­dle anamor­phic lenses. How­ever the dis­tance between the lens and the screen is not intended for such a wide for­mat caus­ing the image to not fit per­fectly on the screen, but this was the quick­est solu­tion to get this video to every­one else FOR NOW. Hope­fully within the next day or so we should be pro­ject­ing again in a bet­ter set­ting and will have an ideal source to record from (includ­ing good stereo audio). So for now, enjoy.