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I’m Too Old For This Sh*t!

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Tom Jolliffe on that fateful day when you start to outgrow things… Getting older is inevitable. It’s a sad fact of life. Petrol prices are going through the roof, along with everything else. I’m paying a mortgage and all the unexpected joys (read costs) that come with having a home (always resting on that knowledge […]

The Batman 1:3 scale limited edition collectible statue unveiled by Queen Studios

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Queen Studios has unveiled its limited edition 1:3 scale The Batman statue which is based on the likeness of Robert Pattinson as the Dark Knight in the DC Films blockbuster and comes with alternate headpieces allowing for both masked and unmasked display; check out the promotional images here… The Batman, Gotham’s personification of vengeance, a […]

Batman meets The Joker in deleted scene from The Batman

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Well, here’s a nice surprise, as Warner Bros. has just dropped a deleted scene from The Batman which sees Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight playing Clarice Starling as he pays a visit to Arkham Asylum seeking help in tracking down The Riddler (Paul Dano) from Barry Keoghan’s ‘Unseen Arkham Prisoner’, a.k.a. The Joker! Watch it here… […]

The Batman dominates another weekend as Jujutsu Kaisen 0 continues anime’s box office rise

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It’s no surprise The Batman cleaned up at the box office for another weekend. The month of March has been slow for other major releases, but that doesn’t take away from the dominant force that is the latest DC outing. Yet, this weekend’s box office has another major talking point: anime films & their rise. […]

The Batman’s Paul Dano writing Riddler: Year One comic for DC Black Label

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Having reinvented the character with a chilling, Zodiac Killer-inspired take on the iconic villain in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, it looks like Paul Dano is set to explore the origins of his twisted incarnation of The Riddler – albeit not on screen, but as writer of a new DC Comics miniseries. As announced by the […]

Concept art from Ben Affleck’s The Batman features Deathstroke and the Dark Knight

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Before Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson came on board to overhaul the franchise with The Batman, the original plan was for Ben Affleck to pull double duty on the project, directing and starring in a DC Extended Universe-set solo movie which would have pitted his Dark Knight against Deathstroke, played by Zack Snyder’s Justice League’s […]

The Batman crosses $500 million at the global box office, but opens soft in China

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Having held onto top spot at the box office last weekend, Warner Bros. and DC Films’ The Batman has crossed a major milestone with the film passing the $500 million mark heading into its third weekend in cinemas. By close of play on Thursday, the Matt Reeves-directed film had amassed $510.8 million, with $263.3 million […]

The Batman box office soars as the Dark Knight rises to $463 million worldwide

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In this pandemic-era box office landscape the sophomore frame is almost as important as the opening, so The Batman‘s second weekend domestic haul of $66M is a promising sign for the Matt Reeves-directed blockbuster. Admittedly there were no new wide-releases to bother the bat, but a -50.7% drop and a $14,942 per-screen average is better […]

The Batman HBO Max spin-off The Penguin officially ordered

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The world of The Batman is already expanding as HBO Max has officially ordered The Penguin, a limited series which will see Colin Farrell reprise his role as Gotham’s gangster Oswald Cobblepot, a.k.a. The Penguin. Spoilers for The Batman follow… The Penguin will follow Cobblepot “as he rises through the ranks of Gotham’s criminal underworld.” There is no […]

The Batman director Matt Reeves on Barry Keoghan’s cameo and the character’s future

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Warning. Spoilers for The Batman follow… Although the initial casting announcement for The Batman had Barry Keoghan as portraying Gotham City Police Officer Stanley Merkel, that ultimately proved to be nothing more than a smokescreen and – as had been rumoured for the past few months – the Eternals star was instead revealed as the […]