Many people have a friend to whom they slip information when they want that info spread out to the community at large. The talkative one, if you will. For Christopher Nolan, that friend might be Michael Caine. The actor has been the source of a great deal of possibly-true statements about the next Batman film,…
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Briefly: We've got very few details right now, but Deadline is reporting that Tom Hardy (Inception, Bronson, the hopefully forthcoming Mad Max films) has been cast by Christopher Nolan in the third Batman film. There are no details on the role, or whether it is a villain or other part. This is magnificent news, and…
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For the past day, the big buzz on Christopher Nolan's third Batman film is that the film will shoot next April in Louisiana. The supposition for the Louisiana location, after the previous two films did so much photography in Chicago, is that Warner Bros. loves the tax breaks that helped out Green Lantern when it…
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We've assumed that Christopher Nolan is pretty much a lock to direct the third Batman movie -- the entire industry has assumed so, based on comments made by Nolan and Warner Bros. -- even if there has been no official statement to that effect. Now there's the closest thing we've had to an official announcement,…
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One vaguely disappointing aspect of Christopher Nolan's film Inception was that, despite a lengthy video-game inspired training sequence in which Leonardo DiCaprio teaches Ellen Page how to physically manipulate a dream world, there isn't much of that large-scale manipulation in the scenes that follow. (There's a lot of flying about, yes, but not so much…
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It's like a miniature Page 2 right here (that'll return as fall hits and smaller stories start to fly) with three short stories and/or rumors on a very slow news day. (Welcome to August, where in a lot of places it is just hot enough that no one wants to do much, even if it…
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Fans have been hungry for reliable info on Batman 3, but while presumed director Christopher Nolan finished his latest movie, Inception, he was reluctant to talk about the third film in his Batman series. Now that Inception is out and making money, it's time for Batman 3 to kick into gear. Accordingly, we've got some…
Read MoreWhile making the press rounds for Inception, director Christopher Nolan hasn't said much about the planned Batman Begins/The Dark Knight sequel (due out in Summer 2012) or the Superman film he's attached to produce. Part of that reason is that Nolan doesn't do interviews with online websites, which are more likely to ask about the…
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Though many of us would like this not to be the case, 3D isn't going anywhere. In the past year, as the format has really exploded in Hollywood, The Dark Knight and Inception director Christopher Nolan has emerged as a figurehead representing old-school blockbusters. The director loves shooting film, as opposed to digital HD or…
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Briefly: Just as we're talking about rumors of the casting for Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie, there's word on the start date for the film's production. In a rather offhand comment in the LA Times Hero Complex blog (via The Film Stage), Geoff Boucher mentions that he'll be interviewing Nolan this weekend, and plans to…
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It's a slow news week, and when legit news isn't filling the frame there is room for rumor to grow. There are two big ones today: that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is being primed to appear in Batman 3, perhaps as the Riddler, and that the big villain of Spider-Man will be the Lizard. First up, Mr.…
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Briefly: I'm not sure why this would even be a question, but apparently there has been some lingering curiosity about whether Christopher Nolan might bring back -- i.e. recast -- the Joker in Batman 3. You can officially lay any curiosity to rest at this point, as Nolan said the following to Empire in response…
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Last week, IMAX announced that they had signed a 20-film deal with Warner Bros. One of the most interesting parts of the news was that Batman 3 was listed as one of the films which might be released sometime between 2011 and 2013. For a project which had not yet been officially greenlit or announced…
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UPDATE: According to THR, the Hobbit date listed in IMAX's press release is a mistake. The first film in the two-part release is set for December 2012, and the second for December 2013, according to the trade. Original article follows: Warner Bros. and IMAX have had a successful partnership over the last few years, and…
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The fact that there will be another Batman film in Christopher Nolan's presumptive trilogy is assumed by just about everyone, despite the fact that there has been no formal announcement of the film. But in the runup to the release of Nolan's Inception, which opens on July 16, there is already some talk about what…
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One of the other notable things Warner Bros head Alan Horn said at the ShoWest presentation today involved how the studio hopes to fill the void that will be left by the studio's most successful franchise. After Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II hits theaters in July 2011, that will conclude the biggest…
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Remember when DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson denied that Christopher Nolan was overseeing the new Superman film? It's stories like this that make the movie rumor business so sketchy, because an official denial doesn't always mean that something isn't true. We know now that Nolan is overseeing Superman for WB as David Goyer writes the…
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You're going to be seeing this one everywhere today, so let's get it out of the way quick. In a report about David Goyer leaving FlashForward, Nikki Finke pegs script duties on the third Batman movie as one of the primary reasons he walked away. The direct quote from Goyer was pretty vague ("As my…
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I thought we were done with the crazy Batman 3 rumors, but it seems like the recent release of the teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan's next film, Inception, has excited the rumor mill. First up is Ain't It Cool News, risking it's geek rep on a rumor that Christopher Nolan is planning to shoot the…
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During the Book of Eli presentation at Comic-Con 2009, Gary Oldman was asked when we would be seeing a third Batman movie. I, like many others, were expecting the standard answer "we're waiting on Chris..." But we got something else entirely. According to Oldman, a sequel to The Dark Knight is not only happening, but…
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An update over at Batman-On-Film has begun to circulate around the interwebs scaring fanboys around the globe. Christopher Nolan has yet to commit to a third Batman film, and at this point he still isn't interested in making another installment in the Batman series. GASP. I know that might come as a shock to some…
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Our friends at Total Film were able to corner Christian Bale about the prospects of a Dark Knight sequel, and the Batman star insists that "it's got to be the right story". When I talked with Bale last July if he would return for another one, he answered that he couldn't "imagine doing this without…
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The public expectation has been that Christopher Nolan's sequel to The Dark Knight to hit theaters in the Summer of 2011, but Michael Cain, who plays Alfred in the series, thinks it might take a little longer. "All I know is that Christopher Nolan, who writes and directs Batman is doing a picture called Inception,…
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The Australian newspaper The Herald Sun is reporting that "Industry gossip now suggests the rising Australian star [Sam Worthington] could score the part of Batman in the third installment of the successful prequel franchise." We've already gotten a bunch of e-mails linking this story, which means the story is already getting around the internets. But…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/batmanstevepart1.flv 400 300] Throughout the week I have super-geeky conversations with Steve from Collider, and we've decided to bring the conversations onto the site. In today's video blog, we talk about Sunday night's Academy Awards (for about four minutes) and then we have an in depth discussion about the future of the Batman franchise. We…
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Let's stop calling the next Batman film Batman 3, shall we? Let's just call it the next Batman film - or TNBF, if you want. That'll do. The Batman films didn't start with Begins, you know. Not nearly. IGN have discovered a tiny crumb of info on TNBF that is bound to fuel speculation. According…
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Christopher Nolan's next film won't be a third Batman movie. But before fanboys freak out and begin drawing conclusions that might not exist, consider the following: this was expected by most everyone in the industry -- we knew Nolan wanted to take a break and possibly work on something else (he's made jokes about making…
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