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Dark Knight to Make Money. Trade Roughage 7/17/08

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By Christopher Campbell posted 1 year ago
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  • A little film called The Dark Knight opens tomorrow tonight, and it’s so highly anticipated and it has received so much positive buzz that one expert is predicting it could gross anywhere between $100-150 million. I’m going to to do him one better and broaden that gap further to $100-900 million. Good thing this isn’t The Price is Right.
  • Will Ferrell will play a racist who develops a split personality in Two Face (no relation to the character in The Dark Knight), scripted by Vince Gilligan, the guy who gave us that recent drunk, swearing black superhero.
  • And speaking of down-on-their-luck, alcoholics, Jeff Bridges will play one — a country singer, though, not a superhero — in the T Bone Burnett-scored musical Crazy Heart, which will also star Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall.
  • John Woo is known for announcing about 20 new directing gigs a year, so don’t get too upset if he doesn’t actually end up helming the comic book adaptation Caliber.
  • That was quick: Screen Gems is already making a Colombian hostage rescue movie.
  • Can we expect a whole new marketing strategy for Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie? United Artists has just hired a new chief of marketing and publicity, Michael Vollman from Paramount, to replace the resigned Dennis Rice.
  • Documentary site SnagFilms has acquired indieWIRE. Congrats and good luck to our SpoutBlog friends at iW, including Eugene Hernandez, who has a new position and will oversee content on both sites.

Teasing Two Face in ‘The Dark Knight’. Clip of the Day

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By Christopher Campbell posted 1 year ago
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Will Two Face really be in The Dark Knight? That has been a big question for a long time, and now we kind of get an answer with this new clip (view it bigger or download at the Why So Serious site). But now there’s a new question: will Two Face be in The Dark Knight any more than this little bit?

I have a strong feeling that the answer is no. Like the Tony Stark/Iron Man cameo from The Incredible Hulk that was revealed in advance, I think this is just a tease of itself. I think this is like the Nick Fury bit from the end of Iron Man — it could even be similarly hidden after the credits.

The only thing more will be an actual shot of Two Face’s face (which I constantly picture as looking like Alex Winter in Freaked), which will come right at the tail of this scene before the picture cuts to black (and either the credits then roll or, having already rolled, the projector cuts off). Aside from that, we’ll have to wait for the next film.

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