Just announced! Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury) joins Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson), and Director Joss Whedon in our Global Fan Chat today! Assemble at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT!

“MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS” ASSEMBLE ON TWITTER

MARVEL STUDIOS SPONSORS GLOBAL TWITTER CHAT WITH DIRECTOR AND CAST FOR FANS AROUND THE WORLD

PARTICIPANTS GET TEASE OF “MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS”

BURBANK, CALIF. (January 27, 2012)–Marvel Studios announced today that they will be sponsoring a Global Twitter Chat on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 11 a.m. (PST) with cast members and the director of their highly anticipated action-adventure “Marvel’s The Avengers,” opening in theaters on May 4, 2012. The 30-minute live tweeting event features writer/director Joss Whedon and cast members Tom Hiddleston and Clark Gregg.

Fans around the world will be able to participate in the Q&A on Twitter by using the @Avengers handle and the #Avengers hashtag. Participating fans will have the opportunity to see a 10-second tease of the 30-second Super Bowl spot that will air during Super Bowl XLVI on February 5 on NBC. They will also have a chance to answer “Avengers” trivia for a chance to win “Avengers” prize packs.

International fans will be able to submit questions for the talent in their native language through a global translation tool provided by Ortsbo.com. The chat will be moderated by Marvel’s @Agent_M.

“Marvel’s The Avengers” is the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, NickFury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.

Starring Robert DowneyJr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, JeremyRenner and Tom Hiddleston, with Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson, and written and directed by Joss Whedon, “Marvel’s The Avengers” is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. “Marvel’s The Avengers” is presented by Marvel Studios in association

with Paramount Pictures. The film is being produced by Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige and executive produced by Alan Fine, Stan Lee, Jon Favreau, Louis D’Esposito, Patricia Whitcher, Victoria Alonso and Jeremy Latcham. The film is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Follow @Avengers on Twitter for more details.

So what if it’s not Batman, it’s a viral for a superhero movie!

Batman and Robin Tops the 10 worst movies of all time

There’s really no surprise that Joel Schumacher’s franchise-ending shlockfest Batman and Robin was named the Worst of the Worst on TBR’s “Top 10 Movies to avoid, Worst Movies of All Time” list.  What’s amazing is that they found nine others bad enough to be grouped with it.

1. Batman and Robin is a 1997 superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, staring George Clooney. Even him once admitted Batman & Robin, the schlocky 1997 superhero movie that jump-started the actor’s career, was lame. Now director Joel Schumacher’s steaming heap of cinematic dung has been voted the worst film ever by readers of Empire magazine. Atempting to pick out just one bad scene from Batman & Robin is impossible, and it certainly wouldn’t do justice to just how painfully awful the rest of it is. The film is so dreadful that director Joel Schumacher actually apologized for it on the DVD commentary. That’s right, the man who proudly made 8MM, The Number 23 and Cousins thought Batman & Robin was so bad that it warranted an apology.

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Top Posts of the Week: From Oh So Sexy Anne Hathaway to Oh So Hepburn Selina Kyle, with Oh So Green Kim Kardashian in between, this week was all about the women of Gotham

The women of Gotham City dominated this week’s top posts, from Anne Hathaway’s ever popular runway appearance in a see-through blouse to Kim Kardashian dressed as an Uma Thurman Poison Ivy last halloween to Selina Kyle’s “Very Hepburn” appearance on the set in haute couture chanel, so classy no one could decide if it was more Katherine or Audrey…

1. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
2. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
3. Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Dark Knight Rises
4. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman Costume
5. Batman Merch: Joker Tshirt of the Day
6. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
7. Kim Kardashian’s Uma Thurman-style Poison Ivy on Halloween
8. Bane Mask, Other Batman Items coming up for sale in Movie Memorabilia Auction
9. Batman Merch: Riddler Converse
10. Overheard on the Social Networks: Selina Kyle is “Very Hepburn”

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Batman Arkham Asylum tops list of 10 Best Superhero Games Of All Time

It’s nice to know that the many missteps of the disappointing sequel are not being held against the original stellar game Batman: Arkham Asylum, topping Crave Online’s list of the 10 Best Superhero Games of All Time.

Yes, of ALL time.  The Crusades, Ancient Mesopotamia, everywhere.  Gotta love the gamers and fanboys, they do love their superlatives.

 

Developer: Rocksteady Studios
System: Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Release: August 2009

Did you expect something else to be in the number one spot? If so, shame on you. Batman: Arkham Asylum is easily the best Batman video game ever made, and a perfect use of a well-established license by Rocksteady Studios. Arkham Asylum had everything a Batman fan could ask for: phenomenal graphics, excellent voice work, an amazing combat system, proper use of Batman’s detective reasoning, and a boatload of cool gadgets.

But Batman: Arkham Asylum isn’t just a game made for the Bat-fanatics. Arkham Asylum is a great game period. It was runner-up only to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for our game of the year back in 2009.

CraveOnline.

TDKR’s Gary Oldman Oscar nom for Tinker Tailor

As expected, when the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards were announced this morning, Gary Oldman, who has played Jim Gordon in all three Christopher Nolan Batman movies, was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of George Smiley in big screen remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Gary Oldman is a true rarity in Hollywood.  He will go from starring roles to supporting ones and back again.

Gary Oldman nominated for Actor in a Leading Role for "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"

The 84th Academy Awards will be telecast live Sunday February 26 at 7 pm Eastern/ 4pm Pacific time on ABC.

Top Posts of the Week: Who beats Bane week after week? It’s not Batman. It’s Catwoman.

Batman may or may not beat Bane, but you know who does week after week?  Anne Hathaway – Selina Kyle – Catwoman.  Week after week.  All i takes is a see-through blouse.  Here she is again, settled in at Number 1.

1. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
2. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
3. Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Dark Knight Rises
4. batman-merchandise-the-dark-knight-joker-tshirt-why-so-serious
5. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman Costume
6. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
7. The Dark Knight Rises Stars Bale and Hathaway on set
8. Batman Merch: Joker Tshirt of the Day | TDW Geeks
9. Arkham City gets it all wrong: Edward Nygma
10. Newest Stills from TDKR
11. Bane Mask, Other Batman Items coming up for sale in Movie Memorabilia Auction
12. The Dark Knight Rises: New Poster and a menu on Official Website

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Overheard on the Social Networks: DC’s new logo

DC Comics released a new logo.  The hardcore fans and bloggers went into predictable spasms of disapproval, as they must at any change, remaining oblivious to of the real state of the industry and the larger franchises beyond print comics.  They remain blissfully ignorant of the real issues facing DC Entertainment, and the utter irrelevance of those still reading print comics when the antics they tolerate have driven away tens of thousands of fans and generated incalculable bad will that damages the characters across all media .

A few comments did stand out, however, displaying a real understanding of the damage DC Entertainment is trying to repair.

#branding
If this is the new DC Comics Logo #bigimprovement Old one looks like flushing original DC down the toilet

–Twitter

Fine, so it doesn’t LOOK like they’re flushing the original Batman, Superman, et al down the crapper.   THAT IS A PERFECT REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THEY WERE DOING!  Changing the logo is fine but only if a new attitude goes with it.
–Facebook

Newest Stills from TDKR

Last week saw a few new stills from The Dark Knight Rises, touted as “the first view of the Batcave.”  It isn’t exactly.  But it’s Christian Bale in front of the Bat Suit in its case and Gary Oldman in front of a brown stoneish wall.  Tom Hardy again.  We think Bane is a promising villain but we can’t really see the fascination with another close up.  Or another long shot for that matter.  We get it.  He’s… Bane.

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The Dark Knight Rises Rumor and Speculation: The Batcave

The Dark Knight Rises is Christopher Nolan’s third and final installment of his Batman trilogy, starring Christian Bale (Batman/Bruce Wayne), Anne Hathaway (Selina Kyle/Catwoman), Tom Hardy (Bane), Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and other Nolan alums Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard, to be released by Warner Bros. July 2012

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Does it really matter what I say at this point?

Okay, in case anyone is actually reading down here, that picture is from a breast cancer awareness campaign rolled out by an advertising agency in Mozambique late last year, when it might have received a little more attention if we weren’t all occupied trying to figure out what Bane was saying in The Dark Knight Rises prologue and resetting the trailer audio against footage of The Lion King.

That said, this should have been a really good campaign.  Because there are factions in comic book fandoms that rail against the titties, who rail against fantasy and sexuality and anything men enjoy looking at as if it’s an insult to women.  But in the words of West Wing’s Josh Lyman:

You know, I realize that as an adult not everyone shares my view of the world, and with an issue as…

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Batman Humor: About these superpowers

What better way to start off the week than with a few Dark Knight themed motivation posters.

What is it we all say about Batman?  He’s the superhero who doesn’t have a superpower?

Well, that black American Express card is better than this bright idea…

TDKR’s Morgan Freeman ‘A Prince in His Profession’ | Golden Globe Awards Official Website

MORGAN FREEMAN—A ‘PRINCE IN HIS PROFESSION’

Morgan Freeman was hailed as “a prince in his profession” by Sidney Poitier, who, with Helen Mirren, introduced him as this year’s recipient of the Cecil B. De Mille award.

Poitier, himself a former De Mille award recipient, said Freeman invests the characters he plays with a third-dimensional aura and added: “You become the character and the character becomes you.”

Helen Mirren, a three-time Golden Globe winner, playfully chided Freeman for having made more than 50 films and only one —Red—with her.

The Cecil B. De Mille award is given every year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.

The calm and authoritative Morgan Freeman, 74, had already had a long and venerable career by the time he became famous.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he made his acting debut at the age of nine in a school play, won a state-wide drama competition when he was 12, performed on a Nashville radio show while still in high school, danced at the 1964 World’s Fair and first appeared on screen in 1965 as an extra in The Pawnbroker.

He won a best actor Golden Globe in 1990 for Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated three more times, for The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, for which he won an Oscar, and Invictus.

The actor recently finished filming his role as a wheelchair-bound former baseball star in The Summer of Monte Wildhorn,.

via OFFICIAL WEBSITE of the HFPA and the GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS.

Morgan Freeman is currently playing Lucius Fox in The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s third and final installment of his Batman trilogy starring Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway et al.  It is Freeman’s third appearance as Wayne Enterprises CEO Lucius Fox and “Q” to Bruce Wayne’s James Bond

Top Posts of the Week: Sexy Anne tops Bale, Gordon-Levitt at Golden Globes or First Look at TDKR Batcave

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s 50/50 was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and Christian Bale’s Flowers of War was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film,  there was a stunning new picture of Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne “in the Batcave” although all we see of the cave is the Batsuit behind him.  Nevertheless, the top post of the week was the feline fatale, looking her sexy best

1. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
2. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
3. Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Dark Knight Rises
4. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman Costume
5. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
6. The Dark Knight Rises: New Poster and a menu on Official Website
7. Bane Mask, Other Batman Items coming up for sale in Movie Memorabilia Auction
8. batman-merchandise-the-dark-knight-joker-tshirt-why-so-serious
9. Arkham City gets it all wrong: Edward Nygma
10. The Dark Knight Rises Batcave Location (Rumor and Speculation)

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TDKR Star Christian Bale’s other headline-maker Flowers of War at The Golden Globe Foreign Film Discussion | OFFICIAL WEBSITE of the HFPA and the GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS

Christian Bale’s The Flowers of War was off the radar for many watchers of The Dark Knight Rises cast, until the actor was roughed up in China trying to see a Chinese dissident.  The movie is on the radar of the Hollywood Foreign Press, however, and is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.  A discussion at the Golden Globes below:

Directors Angelina Jolie (In the Land of Blood and Honey), Pedro Almodóvar (The Skin I Live In), Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (The Kid With a Bike) and Yimou Zhang (The Flowers of War) speak at the Golden Globe Foreign Language Nominee Panel Discussion at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, January 14, 2012.

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TDKR Stars to make a showing at the Golden Globes

The 69th Annual Golden Globes are tonight and the stars of The Dark Knight Rises will be well-represented.

Most significantly, Morgan Freeman, who has played Lucius Fox in all three Nolan Batman outings, will be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award.   It will be presented by CBD Award-winner and legend Sidney Poitier.

Christian Bale’s The Flowers of War is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

And Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s “Cancer Comedy” 50/50 is nominated for Best Comedy or Musical Motion Picture, and Gordon-Levitt himself for best actor.

Get used to it: TDKR’s Gary Oldman and Tinker Tailor will be all over this years Awards Season

The Dark Knight Rises promo may be all Batman, Bane, and Catwoman, Bale, Hardy, & Hathaway, but the quiet, life-size, hardworking James Gordon still maintains an extraordinary presence, thanks in no small part to the brilliant actor who plays him, Gary Oldman.  Oldman is one of the rarities in Hollywood, who will go from starring roles to supporting ones and back again.  His latest starring role is in the remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, sure to be a darling of the awards season.  It begins here, with the American Society of Cinematographers.

 

We’ve been reporting a lot lately about awards nominations from various movie industry guilds, and with the Directors Guild nominees already out there, we’re pretty much done with the guilds that accurately predict Best Picture nominees. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fun to pore over the picks by the American Society of Cinematographers, who picked their nominees for their annual Oustanding Achievement Awards, and of course, selected some of the most gorgeous films to be released in theaters in the last year. Here is the list nominees, via Indiewire:

Guillaume Schiffman, The Artist
Jeff Cronenweth, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Robert Richardson, Hugo
Hoyte van Hoytema, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life

Oscar nominations are announced on January 24.

Cinematographers Guild Nominates Hugo, Tree Of Life, The Artist, Dragon Tattoo And Tinker Tailor | Digg Movies.