This Dark Knight poster is freakin’ sweet!  Take the jump for the spooky imagery using all those Joker cards as “someone” attempts to paint a smile on that dour mug.

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to adapt the Hiding in Time mini-series from Image Shadowline.

The story is set in a not-too-distant future in which the Witness Protection Program uses time travel to relocate high-value witnesses into the past for safe keeping. When the program is compromised, a government scientist must travel back through the greatest moments in history to help a master thief rescue his old crew from the assassins sent back by their former employer.

Jon Silk and Ray Miller will co-produce, with Beau Thorne hired to pen the adaptation.

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File this in the rumor file, but those attending the San Diego Comic Con next month might get a double dose of Watchmen goodness. First is the rumor attendees might be seeing some of the very first footage from the film during the Dark Knight panel.

The second is Nite Owl’s ship might be on the show floor.

When asked whether Nite Owl’s ship would land at Comic Con, Zack once again tripped over his words and let out that revealing smile as he discussed how expensive it would be to do so. Expensive, but so very sweet. I can only hope that bit is true for you fans out there. The ship is awesome. Really, absolutely awesome.

If this is a life size model that fans can go in and check out for themselves, then that could possibly the most kick-ass memorable moment of the con, and could topple the Mark I armor reveal done last year by Marvel.

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Watchmen director Zack Snyder has selected the winners of the YouTube Veidt Advertising Contest.  Each of the winners will have their commercial appear in the movie, playing on the many television and video monitors scattered throughout the film.

You can see all the winners a over at YouTube

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Enjoy this five minute sneak peek of Batman: Gotham Knight

Well Hellooooo beautiful!

DC Comics and Warner Bros have announced Bruce Timm, Josh Olson, Brian Azzarello, Greg Rucka, Alan Burnett, and others will make an appearance at Wizard World Chicago for the Batman Gotham Knight World Premiere and Panel.

If you are going to Wiz World Chi, better take the jump to see how you can get into this big event.

Oh, and more cool pics from the movie after the jump too!

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Holy Pizza-Face Batman! Head over to Gotham City Pizzeria, and if you know where to click (ha ha), you’ll see a trailer that features the first appearance of Two Face in the upcoming Dark Knight movie.

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Red, the three-issue Warren Ellis graphic novel, is set to make its way to the big screen, thanks to a deal by Summit Entertainment.

The three-issue comic series, published in 2003, told the story of a former black-ops CIA agent now living a quiet life in retirement until the day a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his secret identity compromised and his love interest in danger, the man must reassemble his old team to figure out who is out to get them. The book was written by Warren Ellis, whose comic “Ocean” is set up at Warner Bros., and illustrated by Cully Hamner.

The Hollywood Reporter says it took nearly two years for Summit to get the rights from DC/Wildstorm, even though DC will have some hand in the project.

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Check out this behind the scenes clip about one of the fire stunts from the film.

According to Slash Flim, the Green Arrow centric movie Super Max is getting a name change to Green Arrow.

The well-reviewed script, which sees Green Arrow facing off in a high security prison with DC villains like The Riddler, is by Justin Marks, who wrote the aforemenioned He-Man script that’s driving the Internet nuts right now.

Yeah, I think what happened is Warner Bros. did some research on message boards and sites like Major Spoilers and realized no one, NO ONE, would go and see a Green Arrow movie called Super Max. And seeings how the Green Arrow character is fairly popular thanks to The CW’s Smallville (he’s back for season 8 ladies), the name change seems very appropriate.

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Hollywood tradition dictates that an Academy Award nomination begets lucrative offer after offer, and the nominee usually reaps the immediate seven-figure benefits. But sometimes, boyhood dreams take precedence.

Buoyed by his Oscar nod for scripting “A History of Violence,” Josh Olson has become one of the most sought-after writers in Hollywood. But amidst the offers following his nomination came the opportunity to pen a chapter of “Batman Gotham Knight” – and that was an offer simply too tempting to resist. The result is an impressive opening segment to the film that not only arrests the imagination with visually stunning perspectives of Batman, but sets the thematic tone for the entire six-chapter film.

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I was debating this morning on whether or not to cover zombie stuff anymore.  While I feel the zombie genre is way over, apparently other people are just getting on the boat; Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. for example with their latest Army of Dead.  Announced today is the hiring of Matthijs van Heijningen as the director for the flick - a first time director by the way.

“We were looking for an inventive talent with a unique voice and we found it in Matthijs,” said Snyder, a commercial director-turned-feature filmmaker. “His ability to infuse humor with irony allows him to create compelling stories in 30 seconds.”

Army of the dead focuses on a father trying to save his daughter from the zombie infested world.

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DC Universe original animated movies are created by a unique collaboration between four diverse units within the Warner Bros. family – Warner Premiere, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros Animation and, the source of the characters and many of the stories, DC Comics. Leading the charge for the latter group is Gregory Noveck, Senior Vice President, Creative Affairs for the iconic comics company, and credited as Executive in Charge of Production for DC Comics on all of the DC Universe films.

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Well, providing they’d stop using growth hormones on cows that then gets passed on to the wee babies… or so they say.

Oh god, now I’m going to the Dairy Farmers of America after my ass.

Maybe Batman can help.