With it looking more and more likely that The Dark Knight will have a large role in what happens at the Academy Awards, isn’t it about time someone caught up with Christopher Nolan? Thankfully the LA Times got to sit down with the director, presumably before everyone there was fired. In the first part Read More
Scott Rudin has admitted that he lied to Page Six about an email that Harvey Weinstein supposedly sent to producer Sydney Pollack on his deathbed, along with the widow of another producer, Anthony Minghella, over issues related to the upcoming release of The Reader. [Gawker]
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In an 11-year-old tape anonymously leaked to Page Six, Harvey Weinstein can be heard warning director Quentin Tarantino of potential "weird late night phone calls" from Robert De Niro, who was apparently angry about the salary he received for Tarantino’s 1997 film Jackie Brown. [P6]
Actor Shia LaBeouf will not be charged for Read More
Hamptons residents who paid up to $2,500 a plate to hang out with Gwyneth Paltrow at a benefit for the Amaryllis Farm Equine Rescue Organization at Steven Klein‘s Bridgehampton farm (read Daily Transom’s account!) were upset when the actress refused to come out of the host’s house for most of the evening. [NYDN] Read More
Mary-Kate Olsen won’t have to talk to the police about Heath Ledger‘s death after all. [
Morgan Freeman and his wife are divorcing, just days after he wrecked a car with their mutual "friend" in the passenger seat. [
A woman was found dead on a rooftop after attending Lil’ Kim‘s birthday party at Spotlight Read More
Well, that didn’t take long. When the New York Post reported today that Mary-Kate Olsen was refusing to speak with investigators about Heath Ledger‘s death unless she was promised immunity, the unsubtle implication was that Ms. Olsen knew something about Ledger’s death that she wasn’t telling. Maybe, some speculated, she had even supplied Ledger Read More
Heath Ledger was reportedly a silent investor in Five Leaves, a Greenpoint bar designed by John McCormick, who also designed Smith & Mills and Beatrice Inn. While the project was at first put on hold after the actor’s death, his father has agreed to fund the project to its completion. [P6]
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Two things were noticeable about the line of people awaiting the 12:01 a.m. Lincoln Square cinema premiere of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight.
First, the affinity most of the waiting masses appeared to feel with the Caped One; second, the bizarre impression many of the waiting seemed to have that they had seen Read More
There’s a moment in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight when the action—which relentlessly pounds, soars, twists and turns for a full two and a half hours—slows down for one brief and strangely beautiful instant. The Joker—certainly one of the more villainous, terrifying and electric characters to come our way in some time—speeds through Read More
THE DARK KNIGHT
RUNNING TIME 152 minutes
WRITTEN BY Christopher and Jonathan Nolan
DIRECTED BY Christopher Nolan
STARRING Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Some folks take metaphysical pleasure from the New Batman Philosophy According to Christopher Nolan: Read More
