Can an anime version of Batman hold a candle next to the recently released Batman movies? Even the animated series of the 90’s?What They SayAcclaimed screenwriters including David Goyer (Batman Begins), Josh Olson (A History of Violence) and Alan Bu...
Kids' WB! has shifted episodes of 'The Batman' for February and will air "Apprentice" this Saturday.
The Continuum has the first look at the packaging for the UMD versions of 'Batman Begins', 'Batman' and 'Constantine'. All are available as of Tuesday...
Michael Keaton. Christian Bale. Val Kilmer. George Clooney. Even, yes, Adam West (he did a Batman film during the TV show's run). All of them have donned the bat-ears, the billowy cape, and the pointy gloves for one movie or another, to varying levels of ...
Can't get enough of Batman after taking in 'The Dark Knight'? Tune your browser to Joost.com. They've posted a a wide selection of bat-toons, including episodes of 'Batman: The Animated Series', 'Batman Beyond' and 'The Batman' for your viewing pleasure.
Tarzan: `Why does a millionaire dress in a costume and hurl himself from rooftops?`Batman: `Why does a noblemen live in the jungle and hurl himself from the treetops?`The one thing Batman & Tarzan: Claws of the Catwoman makes abundantly clear to me is thi...
Greetings, and welcome to another edition of "Readers Take Aim" on this week's COMICSCAPE. Last week, I asked everyone to send me their thoughts on BATMAN BEGINS, particularly those that didn't care for the film. It seems counterintuitive to welcome disag...
Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty is the kind of story that breaks a reader`s heart with possibilities unseen and opportunities unexplored. There`s nothing bad about it in writing or art. Mike Barr is the kind of writer who could take the suicidal concept of a ...
Devin Grayson had one goal when she started writing comic books three years ago: to tell stories about Batman. Period. Unlike most comics creators, Grayson wasn’t into funnybooks as a child, so superheroes never really held any interest for her as a write...
At this last weekend's Mega-Con in Florida, Michael Uslan, one of the guys producing the upcoming Darren Aronofsky/Frank Miller BATMAN: YEAR ONE, had a few things to say about his film, and the Caped Crusader films of years past."Things eventually g...
This month, Batman dies.No, really. We’re not kidding. What, you don’t believe us?Okay, fair enough. We comic fans have been burned so many times by resurrected heroes and meaningless `events` that we’re skeptical of anything that promises major changes i...
DC Direct is posted an image of the upcoming Batman action figure based on SUPERMAN/BATMAN: SERIES 2: THE RETURN OF SUPERGIRL. In the series, Batman accompanies Superman on a mission to Apokolips and battles Darkseid for the life of the new Supergirl. Th...
In early November, DC Direct will offer the BATMAN: BLACK & WHITE: BATMAN Statue for sale. Designed by Kelley Jones and sculpted by Ray Villafane, the statue captures the true essence of Batman as inspired by the art of Kelley Jones. The limited-edition f...
Let no man call me unwilling to raise the dead. Last week, I hesitated to write yet another critique of Burton's Batman films. Surprisingly, you all wrote an interesting, worthy batch of mail. Seeing as how it was also Halloween weekend, I had every inten...
...posure to Batman was unlike so many others of my generation who were exposed to comics in their early childhood. As a child, I was too ‘mature’ to read comics, and started making films and watching and studying film at a very early age—nine, I think. I...
UPDATED: Our friends at Warner Home Entertainment have just provided three images from the DVD: Check 'em out!
From a Press Release
Producers of 'Batman Begins' and 'The Dark Knight' Bring You the DC Universe Animated Original Movie 'Batman: G...
Straight from The WB`s hit animated series comes this 11-inch, talking figure of future Batman Terry McGinnis. The all-black figure has five points of articulation, including ball-jointed shoulders. His chest emblem is a metallic red bat, with silver belt...
DC Comics has announced that Grant Morrison's Batman will be delayed, again, with the four-issue fill-in arc by Ostrander and Mandrake moving up a month.The previously announced next issue for the title was scheduled to be a Joker-focused issue with art b...
Warner Premiere’s Batman - Gotham Knight (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) is a bridge between Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight. It is also the best animation for a movie tie-in DVD since The Animatrix. Batman - Gotham Knight sets a new bar...
As noted by the writers and producers in the featurettes, the theme of the 5th and final season of The Batman is the Brave and the Bold as Batman teams up with each member of the Justice League of America. This season also serves to integrate Batman ...
Robert Trate’s take on the new animated Batman feature: The Batman Gotham Knight DVD is shaping up to be as good if not better than Warner Brother’s Animatrix DVD. Warner Brothers was kind enough to send us the following interview with aw...
Batman: Gotham Knight is a series of short animated films that tell of Batman's growth and trials between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. The in-pieces presentation is not unlike The Animatrix, which also incorporated different stories created by a var...
Batman Beyond by Coming Attractions (Sun 05-18-2003)
...ed series Batman Beyond, created by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett.Premise:Decades after the final appearance of Gotham City's Dark Knight, a retired Bruce Wayne lives in the seclusion of his mansion, his days of crimefighting a distant memory....
One of the irreconcilable problems with the current Batman mythos is the recurring desire to position the Dark Knight as an urban myth. Batman works most effectively--he and many of his creators believe--as an unrelenting `creature of the night.` He’s bes...
Probably no other superhero has the staying power of DC's Batman. It's true that Superman might be a bit more recognisable or that the X-Men might be a bit more thrilling thanks to their teamwork and inner-member drama. But Batman easily lays claim to sev...
`Let’s dance, Bozo!` — Batman to the Joker`I`m rested, I`m tanned, and I`m ready to give this town a wedgie again!` — The JokerIn spite of three seasons of fantastic, futuristic adventures on Warner Brothers’ hit animated series Batman Beyond, what contin...
DC Direct has released an image of their upcoming BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE: BATMAN statue. It was sculpted by Jonathan Matthews.This original creation, inspired by Steve Rude, is painted in monochromatic tones, which reflect the mood of Batman: Black and ...
When it comes to creating direct-to-home animated videos, you`d think producers would have a lot more freedom than when they contend with Saturday morning fare. Bruce Timm, who`s been with the Batman animated shows since they started back on Fox in the ea...
Kevin Conroy, the benchmark by which fans compare all Batman voices, returns to the title role in Batman Gotham Knight, the third release in the DC Universe Animated Original Movie series from DC Comics, Warner Premiere, Warner Home Video and Warner Bros....
It’s the perfect crime, a shooting so mysterious that even Batman himself may not be able to solve it. And worse, it’s happened to one of the Dark Knight’s closest friends—Commissioner Jim Gordon.So began `Officer Down,` one of the grimmer crossover arcs ...
The DC Direct "Batman Begins" collector's catalogue that accompanied the March Previews also will be inserted into select BATMAN titles in April and May.
...d week of BATMAN BEGINS mail would beat the subject to death, but those that responded to my call for a vote last week disagreed. So, unlike the return of the New Warriors, you actually demanded this. In fact, readers continued to e-mail me about the m...
This should be the last of the animated Warner Bros releases coming on December 6; the fourth volume of Batman: The Animated Series, which includes 24 episodes from The New Batman Adventures.
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The DVD prizes keep rolling in...This contest has two (2) prize packs with the following super hot DVD's - The Batman vs. Dracula, Teen Titans Season 2 Vol. 1 Fear Itself, Justice League Unlimited Joining Forces, The Batman Vol. 2 The Man Who Would Be Bat...
Kids' WB! has released its schedules for January and they include six episodes of The Batman.
Warner Home Video has announced a Feb. 7 release date for 1989's Batman movie on UMD. Check out the packaging artwork.
The Painkiller Jane movie on Sci Fi...
Well kids, here we are with another comic movie column. For those of you that never leave the house and still think your copy of SPAWN #1 is worth $80, BATMAN BEGINS opened on Wednesday last week. Critics have rightfully praised it as both an engaging cha...
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When Batman came out in 1989, D.C. now had successful blockbuster films
of it's two flagship characters (along with Superman in 1978), and having
conquered cinema , D.C. set their sites on supremacy of the small screen with Batman:
The Animated...
DC Comics, Warner Premiere, Warner Home Video and Warner Bros. Animation have collaborated to create a unique Batman experience in Batman: Gotham Knight. The all-new, original movie will arrive July 8, 2008 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Order due date is June ...
Some woman just can’t give it to you straight. Let’s say that you’re Talia al Ghul and you want Batman to fulfill his responsibilities as a father and then join you in ruling the world. You could sit down and explain that ...
The Batman Season Four is out on DVD with all 13 episodes from the latest season. Season four marks a number of changes in the series. First and foremost, Dick Grayson AKA Robin is introduced in the first episode of the season entitled “A Matter of ...
Words fail me when reviewing DC’s All-Star Batman and Robin. On a gut level, I want to harshly criticize the book for its ridiculous delays and for its showcase of Frank Miller’s worst qualities as a writer. The humor comes off as in...
... continue Batman's war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves to be effective, but they soo...
...tANIMATED BATMAN 4-PACK (Hasbro/Toys `R` Us Exclusive)This exclusive, boxed 4-pack contains repaints of three previous Batman: The Animated Series/The New Batman Adventures figures and one all-new figure.* Batman with Firing Bat Launcher: This is the `...
Based on DC comic’s epic event, Crisis on Infinite Earths presents series three with the debut of Batman into the line. Batman is one of the most time-tested heroes in comics and The Dark Knight makes his umpteenth appearance as an action figure....
Eli McElmurray
of the DC Live
Action Universe group sat down and talked to Aaron Schoenke, the director of
an independently made live-action Batman Beyond Year One movie.
Eli was nice enough to share his account with C2F readers.
I had the chance...
Holy flashback, Batman! DC goes back to the vaults once again to unveil yet another reproduction, "re-presented in its entirety," of a Silver Age annual. But is it worth your five dollars to go back on this magical mystery tour to the days when Robin was ...
... fresh in Batman's mind (every time I see the Batcave, you can see the Robin suit). I really never thought he'd come back. They don't bring Bruce's mother and father back ever, so why Todd? I think (or hope) that there are some evil ramifications here....
...eone like Batman (or even Green Lantern). With Batman, there is this human side. He gives up here and there. He has had to kill people [to save] other people's lives and out of anger. He's much more human. Superman is treated like an alien. We see him ...
Hasbro has finally heeded the pleas of Batman fans, producing the first ever Commissioner Gordon figure based on THE NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES. (Of course, fans have only been asking for this figure ever since BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES-inspired toys first d...
The continuation of Grant Morrison’s run on Batman – with a four-issue intermission by John Ostrander – settles not on the Dark Knight’s wayward son, Damien, but on the Joker – hospitalized after taking a bullet to the fac...
...cause the Batman exists, which Bruce feels makes him responsible for the homicidal maniac. With that kind of logic - and with the death of yet another of his friends under the Joker's belt - it only makes sense to Batman that if he's responsible for th...
Given the bevy of Batman miniseries that complement the character's already overloaded schedule of monthly titles, it's always pleasant to read one that both portrays the character faithfully and takes him in a new direction. While at first glance, Paul ...
BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES has always been the best rendition of Batman. This is due to the care and the craft of all of the people involved in the project, specifically Bruce Timm and Paul Dini. At the same time it is very unfortunate that Warner Bros. ...
It's going to be a Spectacular Saturday on March 8 when Kids' WB!/The CW brings you the broadcast premiere of 'The Spectacular Spider-Man' and the series finale of 'The Batman' in the form of a special one-hour television movie, "The Batman: Lost Her...
Bob Kane's archetypal superhero Batman has been getting the big and small screen treatment for decades now. Largely forgotten movie serials in the '40s, a variety of cartoon incarnations that continue to this day, the mixed-bag movie series that began in ...
...he water. BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES—ARKHAM ASYLUM ESCAPE (Hasbro/Toys `R` Us) While the small, independent hobby shops are great, you`ve also got to hand it to the toy-giants! TRU`s latest Batman exclusive 4-pack doesn`t contain any new figures (as o...
...ing "Batman Gotham Knight" into production, guiding the team toward its original concept and recruiting an amazing array of writing talent for the project. It proved to be a most interesting production at every turn – including divergin...
Brand new Batman Begins figures have begun arriving in stores across the country this week. Skull Strike Scarecrow, Dual Blade Bruce to Batman, Rapid Fire Batman, Exo Suit Batman, Attack Net Batman, Bomb Blast Batman, Ra's Al Ghul and Henry Ducard.
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On October 18 Warner Home Video (WHV) debuts 'Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997,' brand new two-disc Special Editions of the first four Batman movies, and makes them available both individually and as a special edition gift set. The new "Two-...
On the heels of the theatrical success of "Batman Begins" and the birth of a new bat franchise, Warner Home Video said Tuesday that it will release a series of two-disc special editions of the four original "Batman" movies from the late 1980s and '90s. "B...
Burbank, CA (April 28, 2008) – Batman and the Teen Titans find themselves in the fight of their lives as Warner Home Video (WHV) and DC Comics bring the final installments of their heroic animated tales to DVD with the releases of 'The Batman: The C...
Last week I was given a copy of
the script for "Batman Begins." There is no draft number, no date,
merely a note about having been transferred to PDF by someone who calls himself
Ubu with an association to Ra's Al Ghul. Okay, geeks will be ...
All right, I promise this will be the last Batman review for a while. Initially, I thought BATMAN: JOURNEY INTO KNIGHT would portray Bruce Wayne's training around the world, as we saw in BATMAN BEGINS. Curiously, this portion of the Dark Knight's biogra...
To start, the C rating is for Warner Brothers new Batman Begins Limited Edition Gift Set. The actual film, Batman Begins, is a Mania grade A film. Christopher Nolan’s approach to Batman was a godsend compared to the butchering done by Batman and Rob...
Oh my God! Jeph Loeb killed continuity! You bastard!The headline to this review is a joke, because I really like SUPERMAN/BATMAN. This is essentially the big summer action movie title of DC heroes. Except that unlike those things, this book is usually...
It took 13 long months for Batman to catch the Hang Man, the mysterious serial killer who’s been whacking Gotham City cops in the pages of Batman: Dark Victory. The maxi-series, which wrapped up earlier this month with a spectacular double issue, finally ...
...e heroes: Batman and Superman.Recently I’ve read a number of essays from, and interviews with, comics professionals that casually mention the wisdom of canceling World’s Finest. They all, including Walt Simonson’s introduction to Legends of the World’s...
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Hellboy Month resumes on Wednesday while we bring you another breaking DVD release.
'The New Adventures of Batman' brings the classic cartoons o...
For a while it seemed like the "Bruce Wayne, Fugitive" crossover was going to be just as tedious and slow-moving as the "Bruce Wayne, Murderer?" crossover that preceded it, despite the impressive kickoff in BATMAN #600. Afterwards, most of the Bat-titles ...
With 'The Dark Knight' on the horizone, Warner Home Video is a Limited Edition Gift Set of 'Batman Begins' both on standard DVD and Blu-Ray.
Included in the Blu-Ray edition are:
'The Dark Knight' Prologue (the first six minutes of the film)
...
The problem with trying to organize all the lore surrounding Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s Batman is pretty simple: there’s too damn much of it to fit in any one book. From the Dark Knight’s founding in 1939 to the character’s schism ...
Warner Home Video has announced that BATMAN BEGINS will be released on DVD on October 18th. The film will be available in two versions: a single-disc edition that contains the movie only and a two-disc edition that includes a 72-page comic book and severa...
Someone's killing police officers in Gotham City, and with such precision that Batman suspects Rasputin might be involved. Three of the officers were clean, one was corrupt, one was about to retire nothing else links them except their careers. As Batman ...
Three years into his career as the Batman, Bruce Wayne has reached a crossroads. After a former thug of the Joker's rats the psychopath out, he kills his wife and child and then commits suicide rather than leaving himself or them to the Joker's mercies. W...
Details are emerging about the oft-rumored rerelease of the previous 'Batman' movies on DVD. 'Batman' is now said to be slated for a 2-disc set with commentaries by Tim Burton and new featurette. Joel Schumacher will reportedly re-edit 'Batman Forever' to...
In my last column, I discussed Wolfgang Petersen's aborted Batman vs. Superman movie (which came this close to being made in 2002) and noted that Warner Brothers is still considering the script as a viable sequel to their newly rejuvenated Batman and Supe...
Inspired by the motion picture, "Batman Begins," this special Batman action figure captures a "pre-suit" Bruce Wayne as he prepares to don the legendary Dark Knight gear. Batman utilizes a Kevlar utility harness, a NOMEX survival suit for advanced infantr...
In Tchaikovsky's ballet, magic brings the nutcracker of the title to life. When Mattel's Batmobile comes to life, however, it's the result of Veil Interactive Technologies working with Warner Bros. Animation. The Batman TV-Activated Batmobile Vehicle -- t...
Beyond established licenses, Magic 8-Ball will be unveiling its Batman lineup of new candy items around the upcoming Batman movie, 'Batman Begins,' to be released on June 17. More....
Drivers Mark Martin and Ricky Craven were part of a photo event for the Batman Begins 400 Friday morning at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich. They posed with Batman and the Batman-themed vehicles they will be racing at the NASCAR events t...
Right now, the state of the moving Batman universe is at a very crucial checkpoint. As I type this, we in the know are now exposed to the way things were (with Batman: The Animated Series now given deserving treatment on DVD), the way things will be (with...
...WB!'s The Batman on Saturday, Sept. 17. Producer Jeff Matsuda told The Continuum that he based Batgirl's color scheme on that of the 1960's Batman television series, with the purple and yellow, "but still keep in with our Batman themes as well." The Co...
Q: How did you come up with the theme for Batman Beyond?
Kristopher Carter: The piece of music that ultimately became the theme to Batman Beyond started out on a CD of music Shirley, Michael, Lolita and I submitted to the producers to demonstrate that ...
...character Batman before," says actor Christian Bale about accepting the title role in 'Batman Begins'. "And that was what first opened my eyes and I went on to read 'Batman Year One' and then 'The Dark Victory', 'The Long Halloween'. I realized that he...
Comparing the early returns from 'Superman Returns' to 'Batman Begins', the former is doing better business. After an eight-year theatrical sabbatical, 'Batman' also was released on a Wednesday and had a first-weekend gross of $48.7 million, grossed $72.8...
... SUPERMAN/BATMAN series so far. I had not expected a return to the so-called "glory days" of the WORLD'S FINEST series which served as a kind of DC TEAM-UP featuring only Batman and Superman, of course. But I also hadn't expected each issue to be narra...
Nelson Riddle’s original music for the 1966 BATMAN movie (based on the colorful TV series) is the latest limited edition CD release from Film Score Monthly magazine. With just 3,000 copies, the disc includes more than an hour of original dramatic soundtr...
DC Comics announced that BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #27 has gone back to press after selling out its initial print run before its in-store date of March 20. The issue features the lead story "Positive I.D.," written by Devin Grayson, with art by Roger Robins...
Warner Brothers finally re-released the original four Batman films on "super-special-Über-badass-cure-for-cancer" two-disc editions last week in conjunction with Christopher Nolan's BATMAN BEGINS. I hadn't seen BATMAN or BATMAN RETURNS in over ten years. ...
Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, DC Comics devised a means of telling a number of fanciful stories that could never be pulled off in regular continuity (i.e. what if Batman had been raised by the Kents?, what if Superman lost his powers?, what if Superman had ...
...: what is Batman's greatest defeat? Answer: the death of Robin." The Riddler, in BATMAN #619 The name "Jason Todd" has to be one of the most charged in all of comics even more than Madeline Pryor, Ben Reilly, and even Rob Leifeld. The Robin that died...
BATMAN #608, the debut issue of "Hush" by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee and Scott Williams, is the No. 1 in copies for October in-store books as announced by Diamond Comic Distributors. This ranking is based on initial orders only."We're excited by the response," sa...
Kemco USA has released BATMAN: DARK TOMORROW for Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's Gamecube. Unlike earlier Batman titles, DARK TOMORROW is based on the DC Comics version of the Dark Knight and not THE ANIMATED SERIES or movies, making this version of Batm...
There's a new anime BATMAN film in production which is set to be released on Dvd shortly before DARK KNIGHT hits theaters July 18, 2008. Some details have emerged on it courtesy of Batman On Film.com. Apparently, the anime take place between Batman Begins...
"I have never been happy with any of the 'Batman' movies. They got some things right, but I was always dissapointed, and I don't think that there's been anything even close to a definitive 'Batman' film."
That's what filmmaker David Goyer said in the lat...
In BATMAN: GOTHAM COUNTY LINE, Steve Niles boldly takes the Dark Knight where he's never gone before: the suburbs. I never thought I'd see it either. But, as long as Bats doesn't trade in the Batmobile for an Excursion to drop the Outsiders off at socce...
Batman on Film has published what may be the first description of the upcoming trailer for BATMAN BEGINS. While the website is hesitant to say that the scoop is authentic, the webmaster does say that he is cautiously optimistic that the report is legit.Th...
"The third season of The Batman is likely to remind older fans of the last film of the Dark Knight directed by Joel Schumacher - Batman & Robin - the movie that shut down the franchise until Christopher Nolan breathed new life back into it. In other words...
Now that the future of the next Batman film is clear with David Goyer's Batman Begins, we thought we'd take a look back at one script that made a lot of noise in both the comic and film communities in the mysterious Batman: The Frightening.
...d one for BATMAN one-offsone only has to look at Darwyn Cooke's BATMAN: EGO to see how good it's beenand Chuck Dixon's addition to the pile is no exception. Dixon's script truly rises to the occasion, making the most out of the Egyptian material and in...
Warner Bros. Pictures' "Batman Begins" opens on June 17, and Topps will bring the latest cinematic adventures of the Dark Knight to Batman fans and card collectors with the Batman Begins Movie Cards. The cards are scheduled to ship on June 22, and are ava...
In the latest issue of Scr(i)pt magazine Batman Begins co-screenwriter David Goyer goes into great detail about what the filmmakers were intending to do with the Dark Knight's return. Here's a taste: "Bruce's main conflict in the film is his struggle wit...
'Batman Begins' producers Emma Thomas said the current production crew had no concerns about meshing their vision of the Dark Knight with the previous franchise:
"We've just approached this as a stand alone film which starts the story off. I think our ...
"I'm not a comic reader. I never read comics as a kid. Chris Nolan really interested me. What he might do with it and, you know, the opportunity of someone like Chris to put the Batman franchise back on track, to pull it back from where no man had gone be...
U2 guitarist THE EDGE has taken time out from making the band's new album to compose his second 'BATMAN' theme.
Back in 1995, U2 wrote 'Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me' as the theme for 'Batman Forever'.
Now The Edge has recorded the theme musi...
Warner Bros. Pictures' "Batman Begins" will take center stage as the title sponsor for the running of the NASCAR Nextel Cup on June 19 at the Michigan International Speedway. Roush racing great Mark Martin will drive a "Batman Begins"-themed car, the Batm...
The highly anticipated return of the Dark Knight to the silver screen became a reality Wednesday, when Warner Bros. Pictures' "Batman Begins" took flight in 3,718 theaters and grossed a solid but not record-breaking $15.1 million. "We're ecstatic about th...
"After a mediocre at best first season, The Batman needed to do a lot in order to convert the fanbase and convince them to stick around. Luckily, the second season manages to do that pretty well. Crime is again king in Gotham City, and the city's greatest...
Batman-On-Film.com takes a look at "Batman" #1 (Spring 1940) which features the firt appearance of The Joker -- and is rumored to be a big influence on the upcoming Batman film, "The Dark Knight."
Batman-On-Film.com interviewed 70s "Detective Comics" writer Steve Englehart. On of the topics covered was his involvement in what became the movie "Batman (1989).
"...for the next ten years they had screenwriters try to adapt it [Batman]. Finally, th...
"The film perfectly balances all the elements required for a film of this nature and yet it brings new ingredients to the table which have never been used this way before. Nearly each gadget and object used by Batman is given meaning and reason unlike any...
"After viewing the pilot episode, Kids WB has proven that sometimes change can be a good thing. Batman has been re-invented for a new generation of Batman fans while retaining many of the same things that diehard Batman fans have grown to love."
The specs are out for the upcoming collaborative work from Warner Bros. with the release of Batman: Gotham Knights and High Def Digest has the details. While the audio specs are a bit disappointing with just Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround audio in English and...
...uld be as Batman. Sisto fills the vocal role of the Dark Knight in the highly-anticipated release of 'Justice League: The New Frontier,' the second DC Universe original animated PG-13 film presented by Warner Premiere, produced by Warner Bros. Animatio...
...will play Batman in the movie. They say this is "solid confirmation that this is not bullshit". The rumor has previously been reported by Batman-on-Film.
IESB does not name their source, but has demonstrated a pattern of credibility, so you'...
CNN reports that filming of 'The Dark Knight' in Hong Kong has experienced one hiccup already, due to the pollution in Hong Kong's harbor.
The latest installment of the Batman series will start filming in the territory this month, but already the movie...
What look to be two pages from an internal DC/Warner Bros. Animation marketing document have made their way online, revealing that the next two direct to DVD animated films will star Wonder Woman and Batman. From the respective descriptions, the Wonder Wo...
...n for the Batman. To put it bluntly: Bruce Wayne no longer exists. But the question remains: did he kill Vesper Fairchild?I was originally very angry and upset that the sprawling "Bruce Wayne: Murderer?" crossover that has tied up the Bat-books for the...
Back in the year 2000 there was a lot of excited talk about a new direct-to-video BATMAN BEYOND feature that was being made. It was going to feature the return of the original Joker and explain what happened to the second Robin. It was going to be dark. I...
CommingSoon.net had the oppurtunirty to sit in on an editing session with Chris Nolan where the director talked about BATMAN BEGINS and it's sequel.ComingSoon wrote, "Nolan said he was very surprised by Batman Begins' success, "for the simple reason that ...
DC Direct has announced it will release the BATMAN UTILITY BELT.This finely crafted, high-end, limited-edition replica of the BATMAN UTILITY BELT is a life-sized, fully-lined genuine leather belt with solid-state construction measuring approximately 44" l...
...apham and BATMAN jumped into all of the Red Hood/Jason Todd business that dominated comic shop conversations and Internet forums for several months. After a strong run by Judd Winick and a one-off by Anderson Gabrych, Bill Willingham took over the tit...
Last year saw the return of the BATMAN comic book to the top of the monthly sales chart due to the talents of superstar artist Jim Lee and writer Jeph Loeb teaming up on the 12-part story arc "Hush". Lee's designs of the Dark Knight, his rogues gallery of...
So when one views the new DVD set of THE NEW ADVENTURES OF BATMAN, one can not go into it expecting to see something along the lines of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES. Hell, this thing makes the current animated series, THE BATMAN, look like ARKHAM ASYLUM. Y...
...racter of Batman without making him into the '50s sap, the camp '60s version, or the far too cop-like '70s incarnation. Wayne Williams has the same driving motivation as Bruce Wayne, but Williams is a far more likeable character somehow. It's as if Pet...
...3 Movie, Batman Gotham Knight, at Wizard World Chicago on June 28, 2008, it was announced today.
Scheduled for an evening presentation, the Batman Gotham Knight premiere will be followed immediately by a panel featuring members of the film crew a...
It’s six in the morning. What on God’s green earth would get someone like me to wake up so early? The Dark Night, the long anticipated sequel to the wildly successful Batman Begins. Believe it or not, there are showings for the newest Christop...
What They SayAcclaimed screenwriters including David Goyer (Batman Begins), Josh Olson (A History of Violence) and Alan Burnett (Batman The Animated Series) join forces with revered animation filmmakers on six spellbinding chapters chronicling Batman\'s t...
The first issue of Batman: Death Mask begins a manga miniseries by Togari creator Yoshinori Natsume. It considers an often explored idea in the Batman’s world and brings it to literal, vicious life. Other writers have examined the idea tha...
Grant Morrison begins his run on BATMAN with a markedly different tone than that used by most recent creative teams. Rather than using the misanthropic, brooding Batman we all love, Morrison writes the character with a wry smile and a touch of humor. It...
... lives of Batman and Superman. Now he expands the focus to include more of the DC Universe cast of characters, and the result is a decades-spanning epic that will see these heroes experience equal measures of success and adversity as the years roll on....
...etective, Batman, where he's never gone before - Hong Kong!That's right. While Moench is not nearly as active in comics now as he used to be, preferring to focus more on his career as a novelist, he will indeed be crafting some comic book stories to de...
Paul Pope's BATMAN: YEAR 100 feels like the synthesis of YEAR ONE, THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, and V FOR VENDETTA. It occurs in the year 2039, when an invasive fascist government uses psychic police to eliminate privacy and control the press. In Gotham City,...
For those of you of a certain age to remember the monstrous success Tim Burton's 1989 film BATMAN brought to pop culture, you'll remember that anything Batman related that followed in the movie's wake had some large shoes to fill. Looking back I don't thi...
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, DC Comics and Electronic Arts have announced plans to release a video game based on the forthcoming BATMAN BEGINS feature film, scheduled for release in June 2005. The video game will be released on June 17, 2005, t...
Genre:Comic Book Adaptation/Action.
Studio:Warner Bros.Project Phase:Development Hell.
Who's In It:Unknown.
Who's Making It:TBA
Premise:After experiencing a personal tragedy, Batman becomes more adversarial in his quest for justice in Gotham City. M...
Finally, after the controversial tongue-in-cheek second issue of ALL-STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN, the third issue arrives in comic shops and into your hot little hands. Fortunately, the silliness seems to have subsided, but this issue still doesn't offer much i...
ALL STAR BATMAN & ROBIN launches DC's new All Star line iconic stories set in a continuity familiar to nearly everyone. These titles occur in the present, but non-comic readers can easily recognize the circumstances. In this case, Batman has just start...
Warner Bros. Animation has announced plans for an all-new animated series featuring THE BATMAN, to be broadcast on Cartoon Network. The show will follow the adventures of Batman in his third year of fighting crime in Gotham City as he is "just finding his...
This issue of BATMAN is an epilogue to DC's recent effort to force everyone to buy almost every Bat-book published (with a couple of exceptions) for three months, entitled "War Games." I can't emphasize enough how glad I am that this fiasco has ended. I...
Don't be fooled by the title of this miniseries: this is not your father's BATMAN FAMILY, or your older brother's (or older sister's, either). The '70s series of that name was camp, fun, and stand-alone, the only thing linking the stories together being t...
Consider the Batman a man destined (or doomed) to fight a never-ending battle against the evils of the world one that he can never ultimately win, yet still pursues anyway. At least, this is Sasha's take on him as she and her boss go out on another night...
"The movie has an excellent story, great dialogue (sans puns), amazing animation, perfect voice actors and a score that keeps up and enhances them all. There's very little not to like about this film. Whether you're a The Batman fan or not (and even if yo...
Grant Morrison opens his newest Batman arc with an obscure introduction – namely, the introduction of another Batman-imitating police officer. Morrison has already suggested the existence of a group of Batman imposters, which he has seemingly m...
In this 676th issue of Batman, writer Grant Morrison begins the arc that will supposedly culminate in the death—or a kind of death—for the titular character. Batman: R.I.P. promises the end of the Batman at the hands of a group of flambo...
As development continues on the fifth BATMAN movie, one of our friends from across the Atlantic Ocean wrote in to tell us of a juicy casting rumor making the rounds over in England. According to our informant, there's talk that BATMAN director Christopher...
With the announcement this week of Christian Bale playing Batman (full details right here), things are heating up now for Warner Bros. to get the new Bats movie greenlighted and going.We've heard from a source who likes to be called "The Other Mr. Voorhee...
At last year's Comic-Con
International, indie director Sandy Collora launched the fan film seen round
the world. "Batman: Dead End" featured the most menacing Caped
Crusader ever rendered on film, squaring off not only against the Joker, but the
Alien...
The New Adventures of Batman is an animated series produced by Filmation in 1977 featuring the adventures of the DC Comics superheroes, Batman, Robin and often Batgirl. In this series, Batman, Robin and Batgirl battle various villians in Gotham City. Comp...
BATMAN #654 concludes the eight-part FACE THE FACE arc and the first ONE YEAR LATER story, portraying the events following INFINITE CRISIS and 52. At the start of the arc, reinstated Commissioner Jim Gordon makes a passing reference to certain terrible e...
BATMAN #600, in addition to kicking off the "Bruce Wayne: Fugitive" story arc, will have three back-up stories with "forgotten tales" of the Dark Knight."The Mystery of the Black Bat" is an homage to the works of Bill Finger and Dick Sprang. It is written...
'Dark Knight' viral: Comics2Film received a package in the mail last night...a call to arms for Citizens for Batman to mobilize.
The package included a T-Shirt, bumper stickers, circular stickers and a key ring. Here are the photos to prove it!
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...'The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season'
Gotham City teems with heroes as criminal masterminds from around the glove make their way to Batman's turf in one action-packed animated adventure after another in The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season. ...
On March 8, Kids' WB! brings you Super Hero Saturday, an action-packed television event like nothing you've seen before!
On that morning, 'The Spectacular Spider-Man' premieres on Kids' WB!, 'The Batman' comes to its final exciting conclusion, and 'Legio...
Superman/Batman series 4 is an interesting series. I had a lot of trouble deciding how I felt about it upon first inspection. The first thing I noticed was the quality of the figures. They all look very good. The sculpting is c...
The website "World of KJ" provides coverage of Christian Bale at Wondercon 2005 discussing his part in the upcoming BATMAN BEGINS as well as his involvement in future Batman films.Bale noted that he is signed up for two sequels but Christopher Nolan is no...
Mark Cotta Vaz talks to vfxblog about his writing career and his involvement with visual effects. He also previews one of his upcoming books, 'The Art of Batman Begins'. He says: "The Batman Begins book is my return to Gotham City—In 1989, I wrote Tales o...
In 2004, Corgi launched a Batman(TM) Collectibles Die-Cast Editions line, realistic renditions of some of DC Comics' most well known Batman vehicles. In 2005, Corgi will be rolling out 12 all-new Batman vehicles that will be in stores in time to take adva...
We're wrapping up our Summer of Superhero contests with a Monogram Batman Begins prize pack.
Up for grabs we have a Batmobile Rotocast Bank, Batmobile Paperweight, Batman Begins Keychain, Batman Bust Rotocast Bank and a Batman large size mug.
DC Driect's 13" Deluxe figures get their latest addition with a classic image of the Dark Knight. While the figure maintains the quality of the earlier members of the series, Batman hasn't translated as well as some of the others. The gray spandex shows t...
WHAT: The 14-inch Action Cape Batman figure, from Mattel's Batman Begins toy line and available now everywhere!
WHY:Because this is one of the coolest Batman toys we've seen...and we've seen a lot of Batman toys.
"Cursed" victim Josh Jackson got talking to UK's TRL about missed opportunities, looming opportunities and, squeal girly squeal, whether Pacey will ever return.
Jackson confirmed reports that he was up for "Batman Begins" before Chrissy Bale snagged th...
...over from BATMAN #183, Geoff Johns and Len Wein, each have ideas of their own and they don't see the concept cover as a straitjacket. If anything, these two stories almost make you wish that current editors would take up the practice rather than going ...