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WB to Re-Release The Dark Knight Jan. 23

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Warner Bros. Pictures is bringing The Dark Knight back for a return engagement in theaters and IMAX on January 23, 2009, giving audiences one more chance to see the film on the big screen. The film will re-open nationwide, it was announced today by Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Pictures President of Domestic Distribution.

In making the announcement, Fellman stated, "'The Dark Knight' is a crowning achievement in every sense of the word. We wanted to provide one more opportunity for moviegoers to experience it on the big screen as it was meant to be seen."

One of the most celebrated and successful films of this or any year, The Dark Knight has been hailed by both critics and audiences since its original release last July. The film garnered widespread acclaim for its artistic and technical achievements, including the work of its outstanding cast and its director, Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Memento).

Led by Christian Bale, reprising his role from Batman Begins, and Academy Award® nominee Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain), the ensemble cast also includes Academy Award® winner Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules), Gary Oldman (the "Harry Potter" films), Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Stranger Than Fiction), and Academy Award® winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby).

In addition, critics and moviegoers alike applauded Nolan's revolutionary use of IMAX cameras to film some of the most challenging action sequences ever created—a first for a major feature film.

Nolan directed The Dark Knight from a screenplay written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer. Charles Roven, Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan produced the film, with Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Kevin De La Noy and Thomas Tull serving as executive producers.

Collaborating with Nolan behind the scenes were two-time Oscar®-nominated director of photography Wally Pfister (The Prestige, Batman Begins), Oscar®-nominated production designer Nathan Crowley (The Prestige), Oscar®-nominated editor Lee Smith (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) and Oscar®-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming (Topsy-Turvy). The music is by Oscar® winner and multiple Oscar® nominee Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator) and seven-time Oscar® nominee James Newton Howard (Michael Clayton, The Fugitive), who previously collaborated on the score for Batman Begins.

Originally released on July 18, 2008, The Dark Knight broke virtually every possible box office record to become the top-grossing film of 2008 and the second-highest grossing movie (domestically) of all time.
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I know I posted something about this...but I think it just gave a vague "January" re-release date. Should be interesting to see how high the box office goes. Who knows? Maybe it can be the highest grossing film two years in a row.
 
Am I the only one who didn't think it was that good?!
 
So it's offical now.

I don't get why Warner Bros. would do this the DVD comes out this month?
 
Luxio2k8 said:
So it's offical now.

I don't get why Warner Bros. would do this the DVD comes out this month?
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To create a buzz for the Oscars and get the film in people's minds around voting time.

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Is it a coincedence that this movie will be re-released one year and one day after Ledger's death?
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Since he IS the one most likely to get an Oscar for the film...who knows? It could be deliberate in order to get him a posthumous Oscar (and WB gets to, then, push Dark Knight as an Oscar-winning film), or it could be purely coincidental. I could believe both.
 
According to the IMDB, the sequel will star Eddie Murphy as the Riddler and Shia Labeaouf as Robin.

I really, really hope they're not serious about that. Murphy's career has been dead for 10 years, the Riddler is a gag villain, and that's an awful Robin. Are they trying to do a comedy or something now?

Catwoman's supposed to be in it too, which is the only decent news I've heard about the damn movie. This sounds like "Batman and Robin 2".
 
I don't see a movie like that doing so well, when the DVD of it is coming out. Would you got to a cinema to see something you can buy on DVD at the same time and watch whenever you like? But I suppose watching it in cinema first is always good, but it has been out in cinema already though.
 
For me, this is excellent news. Why? I completely missed the chance to see it in theatres. And I'm going to make darn sure that I do not make that same mistake again. (And no, I haven't gotten the DVD yet. A movie like this seems to scream "theatre experience".)
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According to the IMDB, the sequel will star Eddie Murphy as the Riddler and Shia Labeaouf as Robin.
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I know that's all just a rumor, but I have to admit: I can only really see Mr LaBeouf behind the wheel of a yellow and black Camaro. As much as I love him, I just can't see him in superhero spandex.
 
Besides that...I remember hearing that Christopher Nolan doesn't ever want to have Robin in the movies. And that Christian Bale threatened to quit if he was ever introduced.
 
And, certainly, considering how well the Dark Knight did, I don't think WB's going to start mandating things.
 
You know, while ROBIN wouldn't fit in the movies, I really would like to see Dick Grayson introduced as Bruce's 8-year old adopted son to try to bring out a softer, less-shallow side to the character. Both Bruce and Batman just ain't working for me in this series.

Edit: I've thought about it, and I think what bothers me is that it feels like Bruce Wayne is trying too hard to act stupid and Batman feels like he's trying too hard to seem tough. Neither one of them feels like a genuine character. It's kind of weird and creepy, really. Usually, depending on the writer - Batman OR Bruce will be the real persona. In these films, it feels like both of them are phony. Just to me, at least. I think that's why I'd like to see Dick - to see if it could bring out anything that feels like genuine emotion from Christian Bale. It just feels like a Hayden Christiansen performance for me.
 
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I've thought about it, and I think what bothers me is that it feels like Bruce Wayne is trying too hard to act stupid and Batman feels like he's trying too hard to seem tough. Neither one of them feels like a genuine character. It's kind of weird and creepy, really. Usually, depending on the writer - Batman OR Bruce will be the real persona. In these films, it feels like both of them are phony. Just to me, at least. I think that's why I'd like to see Dick - to see if it could bring out anything that feels like genuine emotion from Christian Bale. It just feels like a Hayden Christiansen performance for me.
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I'm not in agreeance, and in rebuttal I rather like that the Batman from Nolan's films is based upon Golden Age Batman rather than the later Batman incarnations. I don't see anything "shallow" or "phony" about the character - he's rather learning what it means for himself and for the world to be a hero even as he dons the Batsuit in The Dark Knight. I don't feel that equals off what I see to be superficiality.

If you want to know what I think is tripe, I think it's Peter Parker deeming the saving of Mary Jane as Spiderman a heroic act and cupping his hands together in acknowledgment of that. Too many superheroes and main characters tend to be more super and less heroic. Saving one's lover/girlfriend/boyfriend is so overused that I see it as self-indulgence and the inability to let go and save those in agreeably greater need, or just a larger cause and not any one fastidious person. I also don't see Bruce Wayne as "stupid" in this film - it's just that TDK Joker (who I think is benefited from being based off of The Long Halloween and The Killing Joke Jokers - TDK Joker's power is his kernel of keen perception but more than that his laugh as he is an anarchist at heart) is an especially astute villain of anarchy, someone who messes with Batman's and Bruce Wayne's character traits in a foiling way upon itself rather than just challenging him on a physical level like so many other villains do. If you were told that you had to choose between one of the only hopes left to restore your city to justice (needed, rather than deserved, as stated at the culmination of the film) and one held in most deep regard and love, then which would you choose and would you believe the whereabouts of them or would you just follow your own judgment? I'm not contesting that the Joker switched their locations in his words to play with Batman's morale at leisure. I'm just saying that I don't blame Batman for doing what he did.

It takes more than heroism and a profound swell in tone of things to take the uptake in doing what's best for your city. Hence Alfred's own words on the matter, barring those events. Bruce Wayne may be a magnate, but Batman - the persona that lay underneath that front - is not. He has to work with what he has and he has no super powers, unlike so many other comic book characters in general. Having all that equipment and technology doesn't make him a mogul if they don't have a desired effect in what he's trying to do - help Gotham to order - which he knows he's an ebbing symbol and outlaw of now - fails in the long term.

As for Christian Bale? However dry he is I think he makes for an excellent Bruce Wayne, especially in Batman Begins. He's more tranquil in TDK and he didn't turn in that great a performance in a few moments of the movie but then again the Joker takes over TDK almost wholly. His presence reins over everyone and everything in that film. Batman Begins is the foundation from which Bruce Wayne's discovery of himself (Batman) works and blooms, whereas TDK gives Batman/Bruce Wayne his greatest run for his money yet. And yes, his Batman voice is grating on the ears, coarse, and hoarse, especially in TDK, but I think it works well to blur the discrepancy between heroism and animosity (however subjective the two things may be), which is what Batman is - a vigilante. I still prefer Kevin Konroy's portrayal (of Batman) from the animated series, though, and I still see Mark Hamill to be a very good Joker, though I still prefer Heath Ledger with respect due to both actors. And Hayden Christensen? He's given off good performances. Think Shattered Glass, rather than AOTC and ROTS. The wooden performances in both of those films are more a product of Lucas' script limitations than anything else and his direction instead of Hayden's own volition, but that's another thread of discussion.

But more to the thread itself? I'm just fine with my DVD version of TDK despite that I don't care for the extras but I might as well see the re-release on January 23rd because I've yet to know what the IMAX experience of that film is like for myself. And I feel the film is good enough for such, in spite of my sentiments of it being a tad overrated (the only thing I don't think is overrated in that film is Heath Ledger's portrayal and Christopher Nolan's characterizations of the Joker - I couldn't ask for nor imagine a bettered job in that regard).
 
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As I said before, the other problem I had with the film was waaaay too much Harvey Dent and not enough Joker. I found Harvey Dent kind of like a sickening Mary Sue before he had his face blown up, really.
 
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