Joseph Gordon-Levitt belongs to an elite cadre of actors: The Christopher Nolan Club.
The acclaimed director clearly loves to populate his films with certain favorites. He cast Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine and Cillian Murphy in both Inception, his 2010 blockbuster, and this summer's The Dark Knight Rises, the end of his mega-hit Batman trilogy starring another pet actor-collaborator, Christian Bale.
Marion Cotillard makes her debut as Miranda Tate in The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final installment of Christopher Nolan's epic Batman saga.
Describing Miranda as a "good guy," Cotillard says she's "a socialite and she has a lot of money and she wants to use this money to do good things for her city. And she's kind of fascinated by Bruce Wayne. She wants to help him to get back into the world and she wants to do things with him."
When Christian Bale donned the Batman suit for the last time, he needed some alone time to process the end of an era.
"It was a nice occasion because I took a little bit of time after we wrapped and just said, 'give me a few minutes' because I knew I wouldn't be able to put it back on again and the cowl ... and it was funny. It was a surprisingly poignant moment for me," Bale tells THR.
The third and final installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman saga sees Tom Hardy in his most menacing role yet as the villain Bane, a terrorist hell-bent on destroying Gotham.
Most of Hardy's face is shrouded in The Dark Knight Rises by a black, mechanical mask that his character uses to inhale a drug that gives him fearsome super-strength.
"It was hot and tight and a little bit claustrophobic at times," Hardy tells THR. "But, you know, it was good fun. Most of the time."
The long run of casting rumors, set photos and viral marketing all lead to this: Seven years after Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan this week submits the magnum opus that will bring his dark Batman legend to an end.
Christopher Nolan’s aversion to 3D and even digital is understandable given his appetite for the clarity of IMAX and texture of film grain, but his latest medium for reaching fans is even more old-fashioned.
Legendary Entertainment is going deeper into the fanboy world by buying Nerdist Industries, the genre and pop culture multimedia company.
Nerdist's content already has a variety of connections into geek culture: a website, a YouTube channel, a podcast network, targeted e-newsletters and a live events business whose programs include a weekly comedy show at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles.
If the dark and ominous tone of the endless and ubiquitous movie trailers didn't quite convey the message visually, now you can tune into the destruction of Gotham direct through their ear buds.
If there's a Justice League in Warner Bros.' near future, it will be without Christopher Nolan.
The filmmaker, promoting The Dark Knight Rises over the weekend with press junkets in Los Angeles as well as attending a hand-and-foot ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatrer, said he has no plans for any Justice League movie—or any more Batman movies, for that matter.
After announcing weeks ago that The Dark Knight Rises will feature more than an hour of footage shot in the IMAX format, the large-format exhibitor released a TV spot Friday offering a glimpse of what will soon envelop audiences in theaters across the country. As Batman’s adversary Bane proclaims “Let the games begin!” a fast-paced montage of images hints at the epic scale of the film – and that’s before it’s projected on one of IMAX’s enormous screens.
