When Hollywood needs a bankable actor to snag a Wild West outlaw, Pablo Escobar or a few thousand Terminators, they send for Christian Bale, so why not send him after John Dillinger? This summer’s Dark Knight is in talks to star in the 2009 mobster drama Public Enemies for director Michael Mann. Bale’s rumored for the role of FBI agent Melvin Purvis, who became an American hero in 1934, the year his relentless manhunt for Dillinger culminated in the 31-year-old gangster being shot dead after he fled from a movie theater by Purvis’ men. To fire off another few rounds of [...]

Our friend Devin at CHUD has a bunch of new details about the upcoming fourth Terminator film, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Most of the information below will probably be revealed in the trailers and pre-release advertising, and is not all to spoilerish. But if you want to be kept in the dark, stop reading now. Here are the main details:

The official version of the new movie trailer for The Dark Knight is now online. Watch it below now! I’ve watched it three times now and am still shaking. What do you guys think? I want your first impressions (or second impressions if you’ve already seen it in the theater or on YouTube). Comment Now!
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You can also watch the new trailer in High Definition 1080p. The Dark Knight hits theaters on July 18th 2008.

EW was able to talk to Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins producers Derek Anderson, Victor Kubicek, and Moritz Borman about the fourth film in the Terminator series, directed by McG. Here is what I learned:

The movie is set to begin shooting in either Australia or Budapest on March 15
The budget is “north of $150 million.”
John Connoer (Christian Bale) is the star of the film: “He’s leading the fight for the salvation of humanity against the machines. So he’s very important,” says Anderson.
A New Terminator co-star will be introduced.
Arnold Schwarzenegger “may make a cameo.”

You can read the whole EW article over at TerminatorFiles.

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Six new promotional photos featuring Christian Bale as Batman and Heath Ledger as The Joker, have leaked onto the interwebs. Sent to me by /Film reader Cameron H, these Dark Knight promo images give us a better preview at Ledger’s performance, and I’m still not sold on him.
Sure, Christopher Nolan won’t let me down, and I’m sure of that. And yes, Batman Begins was one of the best superhero movies of all time. But people seem to forget that it did have it’s third act problems, most of which involved the film’s villain Scarecrow. Let’s hope The Dark Knight doesn’t fall into the same trap. Check out more [...]

Al Roker went behind the scenes on the upcoming Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight on NBC’s Today Show. Roker talks with Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, director Christopher Nolan and we also get a few glimpses of DK filming. Eckhart talks briefly about the accident which turns Harvey Dent into Two Face. And Bale talks about some of the changes they made to the Batsuit. It’s definitely worth checking out.
At one point the screen flashes to a photo of Heath Ledger as The Joker, but it’s actually one of the fan made creations from months and months ago. I’m surprised that the Today Show would make such a screw-up.
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Last week we told you that McG has supposedly signed on to direct Terminator 4. Today Ain’tItCool is reporting a rumor that Christian Bale has been cast as John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. What are the chances of this being true? I’ve been a long supporter of McG. With a good producer to wrangle him in, he can make a fun movie, I’m sure of that. If this is true, Bale would immediately gives the project more credibility in the fanboy circles.

The Yari Film Group is fast-tracking Killing Pablo with Christian Bale (Batman Begins) and Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) set to star. The Pablo Escobar bio-pic has been in development for nearly five years, and was originally set-up at Paramount. Joe Carnahan (Smoking Aces) is still attached to direct. Bardem is slated to play Escobar, while Bale is in talks to play Major Steve Jacoby, the Delta Force commander who led the hunt for Escobar. Everyone agrees that Bardem is incredible in the new Cohen Brother’s movie.
The Escobar story has also influenced countless movie and video game storylines. I’m guessing that the Entourage storyline which involved a Escobar [...]

Yesterday we reported on a story that claimed that Christian Bale revealed that 3:10 To Yuma co-star Russell Crowe was featured in the upcoming Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. We speculated that he must have been joking, because why would Russell appear in the film if he wasn’t a lead character? Well turns out that it was in fact a joke. SuperHeroHype confirms that Bale didn’t want to talk about The Dark Knight, since the press junket was for another film, and made the joke in an effort change the questions from the Dark Knight questions back to Yuma.
Also, on Monday the UK’s Daily Mail reported that James McAvoy [...]

Christian Bale told IFMagazine that 3:10 To Yuma co-star Russell Crowe is in The Dark Knight.
“Russell’s going to actually be in the new BATMAN movie, which is a big surprise and I want to reveal it to everybody right now,” said Bale, who wouldn’t disclose any more info.
I don’t think that Crowe would appear in a nonspeaking cameo. If he appears at all, I would assume it’s a small speaking role.
But who knows, may-be he was joking? I sometimes wonder if the boredom of a press junket results in actors making up stuff just to entertain themselves. Sometimes they’re just joking around and you never can tell. We’ll keep you [...]

Just when I think I’ve convinced myself that the Justice League of America movie isn’t coming anytime soon, another contradicting news report is posted which makes me reconsider my position.
Yesterday, Christian Bale told IESB that not only has he not been contacted about the JLA movie, but he is not involved what-so-ever. This lead me to speculate that a Batman-less JLA movie was probably not probable. Could all these JLA movie rumors just be rumors after all?
Today Clint from Moviehole is reporting that casting for the film begins next week. That’s right - NEXT WEEK. Christian Bale and Brandon Routh will not be featured in this project, and the current [...]

When rumor spread that a film adaptation of Justice League of America was being fast tracked into production, I had my doubts. Bryan Singer’s Superman: The Man of Steel would need to be pushed back, and options of Christian Bale and Brandon Routh’s contracts would have to be used, which meant one less Superman and Batman film in the can. I like the prospect o a superhero team-up flick, but I don’t see how Warner could justify wasting too hot characters in one movie. May-be down the line, a year or two, but not now. It just didn’t seem right.
Then yesterday, Ryan Reynolds made some comments about the possibility of [...]

Our friends at IESB are reporting that a screenplay for the proposed Justice League of America movie is finished, and has been warmly received at Warner Bros. I always believed that the film wouldn’t happen until the Superman and Batman franchises started to die down.
My theory being: why waste two superheros in one movie when you could make double the money with two films. Well it seems like I, like most others might have overlooked the benefit of such a film. Apparently the studio is envisioning the film as a lunching pad for other superhero offshoot films such as The Flash, Wonder Woman, The Green Lantern and Aquaman. And the [...]

Our friend Frosty at Collider is reporting that Happy Feet director George Miller has been asked to direct a live-action big screen version of the Justice League of America for Warner Bros. The source of the information seems to be credible, but I’m amazed to see that Warner Bros is actually pushing th development of the project so early. I always just assumed that a JLA movie would be years off, especially considering that the superhero team features Superman and Batman, two DC characters who still have no trouble selling a movie own their own merit. Logically, I would assume that a JLA movie would be saved for a last [...]

We haven’t had much (if any) coverage of James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma remake on /Film based purely on my dislike of movie westerns. But it seems like everywhere I look there is something else about this new flick. Today it’s the movie poster [via our friends at FirstShowing ComingSoon], which even I must admit, looks very cool.
When a small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who’s awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma, a battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
The film stars Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda and Vinessa Shaw. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse [...]