Browse: Home | ARTS | BUSINESS | CARS | COMICS | DVD | FOOD | GADGETS | GAMING | GOSSIP | HOUSE | HUMOR | LUXURY | MOVIES | MUSIC | POLITICS | SPORTS | STYLE | GREEN | TECHNOLOGY | TRAVEL | TV | TWITTER | VIDEO | WINE |
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in “Inception,” the science-fiction film that Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight”) wrote and will direct as his next pic at Warner Bros. Script has been kept under wraps but the studio calls it a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind. – from Variety
Fire up the DVRs. U2 will be sitting in with David Letterman for an entire week from March 2-6. Their new album is due March 3. Great coup for Letterman, great marketing by U2.
Nicolette Sheridan will leave Desperate Housewives for good this time. SPOILER INVOLVED.
USA Network is canceling The Starter Wife. The Debra Messing vehicle simply didn’t garner the ratings to survive. You’ll have to content with the 10 episodes in the can.
One of the American Idol contestants was booted from the show. Joanna Pacitti, a 23-year-old Philadelphia native, was shown the door. Reasons weren’t given, but word is she had a ‘relationship’ with a couple of execs at 19 Entertainment, a company founded by judge Simon Fuller.
We haven’t yet received our Dark Knight Blu-ray review DVD — but here’s the roundup from other reviewers. It is a great movie, of course, basically due to Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker. But, someone forgot to include the extras. So, this DVD was probably rushed for the Holiday season — and it will be a HUGE seller and in every geek’s Christmas stocking. But, expect a fuller DVD release to come out soon with more features and extras from Christopher Nolan.
But by modern standards, “The Dark Knight’s” DVD package and extras are—with apologies to the Joker—laughably thin.
A few of the features (especially “Batman Unmasked” on the Blu-ray version) appear to be repackaged TV pieces meant to promote the movie before its release.
Nevertheless, a few minutes of behind-the-scenes footage of the armored car chase on Lower Wacker Drive on the feature “Evolution of the Knight” will be of interest to Chicagoans. Shots of an outdoor dry run of the Batpod chase sequence stunts (possibly in rural England), including a test of the famous end-over-end flip of a semi, later duplicated on LaSalle Street, are worth watching.
But that’s about it. Other mildly interesting components include six larger-format IMAX scenes, and a featurette with composer Hans Zimmer talking about crafting the Joker’s musical cue.
- from Chicago Tribune
Plenty of fans shelled out to see The Dark Knight in theaters multiple times. They might wind up doing the same on home video, given how the studio is skimping with the extras on the initial DVD and Blu-ray releases. The Blu-ray also has a featurette on Batman’s gadgets and a psychological study of the conflicted hero. A single-disc DVD ($28.98) version comes with just the movie. – from Balt