While grieving over the Aurora killings, Americans still flocked to theaters, giving the finale to the Batman trilogy the all-time top opening gross of any 2-D film
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The Tao of Cooper: Why High Noon Still Matters
I discovered what a really good actor my father, Gary Cooper, was on the set of High Noon, when I watched the filming of the movie’s memorable wedding scene. We did not visit my father at work often. He found it distracting to …
Dark Knight Rises: Did Christopher Nolan Pave the Way to Something Even More Cryptic?
Spoiler alert! Could the next Batman be even darker?
Warner Bros. to Recut Gangster Squad After Colorado Shooting
The studio already pulled the trailer from theaters over concerns of a scene featuring a movie-theater shooting. Now that scene may hit the cutting room floor
Today’s Movie Trailer(s): Man of Steel
That’s what I Kal-El a trailer
Bane for Real: How the Aurora Killings Shattered Movie Fantasy
An outrage that mimics the mayhem in The Dark Knight Rises renews the debate on the link between violence in movies and in real life
The Well Digger’s Daughter: Scandal in the Sunlight
This French romantic drama boasts the rustic virtues of a vanished movie age
New Security Precautions Announced for Dark Knight Rises Screenings
After this morning’s deadly shooting at a Colorado screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ how will other theaters protect moviegoers this weekend?
Behind the Scenes with Batman: The Making of Christopher Nolan’s Trilogy
The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy, a new book by Jody Duncan Jesser and Janine Pourroy, tells the behind-the-scenes story of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises—complete with never-before-seen …
Commissioner Gordon: Gary Oldman on the Secrets and Surprises of Dark Knight
“We weren’t even sure that there was going to be a third after The Dark Knight wrapped.”
Pixar Goes Sequel-Crazy: Finding Nemo 2, Toy Story 4 in the Works?
As ‘Finding Nemo 2’ and the ‘Monsters Inc.’ prequel get their greenlight, speculation soars for ‘Toy Story 4’
The Queen of Versailles: How the Biggest House in America Became a Brokedown Palace
A riches-to-rags documentary about the world’s least pitiable victims of the recession and their unfinished mega-mansion. Our schadenfreude cup runneth over.
Batman’s Weapons: What’s in the Dark Knight’s Arsenal?
Sure, the caped crusader may look intimidating, but he couldn’t keep Gotham safe without a little help, as new book The Dark Knight Manual reveals