Skip to main content

The Dark Knight Returning to Some Theaters For 10th Anniversary


A theater chain is getting an early jump on bringing director Christopher Nolan’s 2008 worldwide blockbuster The Dark Knight back to the big screen to celebrate the film’s 10th anniversary. The Dark Knight, of course, was the middle film in Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, which began with 2005’s Batman Begins and concluded in 2012 with The Dark Knight Rises. Starring Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Batman Begins marked a major turning point in the genre of comic book movies since Nolan took a gritty, real world approach to his films with little room for any fantasy elements.


The pinnacle of the trilogy from both a critical and box office standpoint came with The Dark Knight, where Batman met his ultimate nemesis The Joker (Heath Ledger). Ledger’s tragic death after filming sadly added a haunting yet deeply impactful element to the film, which not only went on to capture an astounding $534.8 million in ticket sales domestically, but another $469.7 million overseas to cross the $1 billion mark globally. The Dark Knight also earned Ledger a posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and in response to a public outcry over the lack of a Best Picture nomination for the film, it led the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to expand the number of nods for the top Oscar from five to 10.

With 2018 upon us, at least one film chain is already making plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Dark Knight with a pair of special screenings. Showcase Cinemas, a small East Coast chain with theaters in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, will show the film on Thursday, February 8 and Sunday, February 11.

Showcase Cinemas’ screenings of The Dark Knight seem to stem from an individual decision by the chain to show the film, which officially doesn’t turn 10 until July 18. Don’t be surprised, though, if Warner Brothers commemorates the 10th anniversary when that time comes, either through some sort of event screenings nationwide, a special edition video release of the film or both.


For some, the return of The Dark Knight to theaters may soothe the aches caused by the portrayal of the character by Ben Affleck in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, which hasn’t earned nearly the amount of acclaim that Bale’s version did. Not everybody has caught Affleck’s turn as Batman/Bruce Wayne, however. Bale recently says he has not seen either of Affleck’s Batman films, not because he doesn’t want to, just because between work and parenting, he hasn’t found the time.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Snapchat finally adds @ mention tagging

Snapchat now lets you @-tag someone in your Story, creating a swipe up "more" option that shows the tagged person's name, handle, Bitmoji, and an Add button so you can follow them too. The feature could let friends call each other out in Stories, or promote their favorite influencers by making it easy for people to follow them. Snapchat now confirms to TechCrunch that "We're testing this" but refused to give more details. It's a case of Snapchat copying Instagram back after the Facebook-owned app added @ mentions to Stories back in November 2016, just a few months after Instagram cloned Snapchat's whole Stories feature. Not all users appear to have access to tagging right now, but it seems like a sensible thing to roll out. TechCrunch learned of the feature from Matt Rappaport after Dana Glidden spotted it. The news comes just after Cheddar reported Snapchat is laying of 120 employees in its engineering department in what appears to be a cost-cut...
Post a Comment
Read more

Stallone Confirms Expendables 4

Actor-director Sylvester Stallone has confirmed that The Expendables 4 is happening. Following his breakthrough with the Best Picture Oscar-winning boxing drama Rocky in 1976, Stallone quickly transitioned into becoming an action star, beginning with box office hit First Blood in 1982, where audiences were introduced to who would soon become an iconic character John Rambo. After two Rambo sequels in the 1980s, Stallone, found himself vying for the title of action movie king against former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, who quickly rose to prominence thanks to his Conan movies, as well The Terminator, Commando, and Predator. As both Stallone and Schwarzenegger aged, both tried different film genres (including comedy) to varying degrees of success, while other actors like Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Stallone’s Rocky IV nemesis Dolph Lundgren took up the action film mantle. In 2010, Stallone realized the potential of bringing...
Post a Comment
Read more

Suge Knight's fiancee jailed for 3 years for probation violation tied to rap mogul's murder case

Just months after she struck a plea deal to avoid time behind bars, the fiancee of Marion "Suge" Knight was sentenced to three years in jail Friday for a probation violation linked to the former rap mogul's pending murder trial. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Douglas Sortino ruled that Toi-Lin Kelly, 37, helped Knight violate a court order limiting his jailhouse phone communications by aiding him in arranging interviews with the producers of a BET documentary about Death Row Records, the record label he founded in the early 1990s. Sortino also found that she was indirectly communicating with Knight through a private investigator, violating the terms of probation he granted her in October. "To me it's pretty blatant, and frankly, jaw-dropping," Sortino said, adding that Kelly had basically slapped him in the face after he granted her probation. Prosecutors last year accused Kelly of selling surveillance footage connected to Knight'...
Post a Comment
Read more