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According to IESB Christopher and Jonathan NOLAN and DAVID GOYER have started writing the script for next BATMAN flick. Although it has yet to be confirmed officialy, IESB claims:

IESB was told by an extremely reliable source that the project has already gone into the writing stage with Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan and David Goyer all hard at work.
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We've double checked and we are definitely hearing the script is being written as we speak.

THE DARK KNIGHT is still regining the american BOX OFFICE.
Not even big franchise contender THE MUMMY - TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
could claim the BO throne against BATMAN.
THE DARK KNIGHT is on top of the domestic box office for the third week in a row, taking in an estimated $43.8 million and edging out the debut of Universal's MUMMY, which took in $42.4 million.
MUMMY bested KNIGHT on a per-theater basis, however, coming in with an average of $11,303 at 3,760 theaters versus $9,939 for Knight at 4,266 theaters. The results left KNIGHT sitting on the edge of $400 million at $395 million after 17 days in release. Many analysts predicted the film could cross the magic number by today (Monday), it's 18th day in release, thereby setting yet another record.
Previously the record for hitting $400 million in ticket sales in the shortest amount of time is held by last year's SHREK THE THIRD, which did it in 43 days. Many analysts have also begun predicting that the movie has a strong possibility of surpassing TITANIC, which holds the record as the biggest earner of all time with $601 million.

source: imdb.com

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S DARK KNIGHT is on a record breaking rampage. The movie is breaking almost every record there is, grossing $ 66 million on its FIRST day. SPEED RACER took $ 40 million until today... do the math.
THE DARK KNIGHT is very likely to break every Box Office record that has ever been. But that's not all. The movie took the number one spot at the IMDB Top 250 list, scoring an average user rating of 9.7 (24.000 votes thus far) making it the best movie of all times according to the largest movie community on earth.

*UPDATE*
According to Variety THE DARK KNIGHT grossed a total of $ 155.3 million on it's first weekend, making it the best opening movie for a three-day-weekend of all time and beating SPIDER-MAN 3 who grossed $ 151 million on it's opening weekend.

This is funny. THE DARK KNIGHT is opening this week and it's directed by CHRISTOPHER NOLAN who's known for his (literally) dark style in movies like MEMENTO, INSOMNIA or THE PRESTIGE. But what if MICHAEL BAY, the not-so-subtle director of movies like ARMAGEDDON, BAD BOYS and PEARL HARBOR would have made THE DARK KNIGHT?
Well read the first pages of his version here.


Note: Of course this is a fake script.
In a recent Interview with Entertainment Weekly, BAY was asked what he thought about that parody of his style. He was subtle as always saying "That's complete bullshit. I only read one line of it...".

I guess his sense of humor is in slowmotion aswell...

This week several pre-screenings of THE DARK KNIGHT were held in the U.S. and the first reviews are making their way to the net. To date, I haven't read a single bad one. Quite the opposite. The more I read, the more I come to the conclusion, that THE DARK KNIGHT could be a "one of a kind" picture, instead of "just another superhero flick".
Here is a snippet of Massawyrm from aintitcool:

I love The Incredible Hulk. I love the living shit out of Iron Man. And as you all know, Hellboy 2 made me squeal with childish glee. But this? This is the first Oscar quality superhero movie. This is the one we will look back upon 20 years from now and hold it to be superior to most everything that came after it. I want to say that this is like Wrath of Khan or Superman 2, but really this is better than that. This is The Empire Strikes Back of superhero films.

I can say without any hesitation that THE DARK KNIGHT is a spectacular piece of storytelling, that it is as giant a leap forward from the first film as EMPIRE did from STAR WARS or that Godfather Part II did from the first, that all this talk of Heath Ledger being nominated for his work as The Joker isn’t just industry buzz capitalizing on the tragic and far too premature death of the actor. He will be nominated and he would have been nominated had he been alive to see the film open.

[Ledgers Joker] "is simply one of the most twisted and mesmerizing creeps in movie history."

"The Dark Knight is an epic that will leave you staggering from the theater, stunned by its scope and complexity."

Heath Ledger is "a dead cert" to win the Oscar for his portrayal of The Joker. Edwards says that the late actor "is the brilliant heart of a superhero movie that's like nothing you've ever seen before. ... the finest superhero movie in years."

Comingsoon.net reports, that THE DARK KNIGHT will have some pretty neat trailers waiting for his audience. You can expect a first trailer of TERMINATOR - SALVATION starring also CHRISTIAN BALE, RIDLEY SCOTTs BODY OF LIES featuring LEO DiCAPRIO and RUSSEL CROWE aswell as the frist moving pictures of WATCHMEN, the highly anticipated comic-adaption from director ZACK SNYDER (300).
Furthermore HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE will probably be "trailer'd" with STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS.