Movie Chronicles

Gotham Props, Gyllenhaal and Eckhart June 22nd, 2007

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.

 
 
 

The Scarecrow Returns June 21st, 2007

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:

Bat Signal

10th Anniversary of “Batman and Robin” June 20th, 2007

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.

Mr. Freeze: You’re not send­ing ME to the COOLER!

Batman, Robin and Batgirl

Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy

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.

Batmobile Spotted in Chicago June 19th, 2007

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:

 
 
Catch more of these shots at Freak Comics.

High Resolution Batpod Images June 19th, 2007

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.

Bat Pod High Resolution Close

Batman riding Bat pod up close

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

And we’ve got another good shot from the show via AICN:

Halo Movie still on hiatus June 19th, 2007

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.

The batpod video June 19th, 2007

I’m not one for this kind of pre­sent­ing, I pre­fer my reporters straight up and British, BBC style. Aside from that, here’s a nice lit­tle video clip from NBC’s Today Show, reveal­ing the ‘hard to strad­dle’ mon­stros­ity. It is lit­er­ally huge.

By the way, sorry for the site’s down time, we got hit pretty bad by traf­fic and we needed to reim­ple­ment a lot of stuff. But we’re back!

The Batpod (or bat-cycle) is here! June 18th, 2007

Bat pod / cycle

This is it, the new con­trap­tion ‘cre­ated’ by Lucius Fox, the vehi­cle rumored to be unveiled this week. It is the Bat­pod, or bat-cycle, whichever you pre­fer. It offi­cially goes on view tomor­row at the 2007 New York Licens­ing show.

It is a mon­ster, and not only is it rid­able, it is fast. The wheels are 508 mm in diam­e­ter and it boasts machine guns, can­nons and a grap­pling hook. There is no han­dle­bar, instead you steer with your shoul­ders that lock into two shields. To ride this you need to lie belly down, on the ‘tank’, which can rise and lower itself in order to fit through the small­est of gaps.

Bat pod 2

There are six of these beau­ties in total and their cost is unknown. They were designed by the man behind the Bat­man Begins Bat­mo­bile, Nathan Crow­ley and built by Chris Cor­bould. It will be rid­den by French stunt­man Jean-Pierre Goy, who has been test­ing the bikes at an undis­closed secret loca­tion in Eng­land over the past month.

I think we all can’t wait to see this thing in action!

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