Christopher Nolan has all of the movie world collectively scratching our heads ever since he debuted the enigmatic teaser trailer for his next film, Inception. The trailers don’t do much in helping us figure out the film and what it’s going to be.

Is it a love story? Is it a corporate espionage thriller? A mind-bender like Memento? The answer is “all of the above,” according to Nolan himself. Whatever it becomes, Mr. Nolan, you have our attention.

From the Hero Complex blog we have learned that Nolan considers this film to be his biggest yet. And he goes as far to say that it’s even bigger than the monumental Dark Knight.

“This is the biggest challenge I’ve taken on to this point,” said Nolan, “We’re trying to tell a story on a massive scale, a true blockbuster scale – the biggest I’ve ever been involved with. We tried to make a very large-scale film with ‘The Dark Knight’ and with this one we wanted to push that even further.”

What influences a director like Nolan to create the rich and multi-level films that he does?

“I grew up watching James Bond films and loving those and watching spy movies with their globetrotting sensibility…. We get to do that here, not just geographically but also in time and dimensions of reality as well. We get to make a movie that’s expansive, I suppose you’d say, in four dimensions.”

Did you catch that? 4 dimensions?! What does that even mean? The only thing certain at this point is that this will be one of the most anticipated films of 2010.

What do you think? Will Inception make your 2010 Must See list?

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According to Movieweb, Michael Uslan, executive producer of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight told New Jersey’s Courier-Post that The Dark Knight sequel is expected to hit theaters in 2011:

Uslan will be onboard as executive producer for the “Dark Knight” sequel, which he estimates will be theaters by 2011. As for the identity of the next round of Batman’s supervillains and love interests, Uslan remains tight-lipped. “It’s one of those deals where if I told you, I’d have to kill you,” he says with a chuckle.

[Source:Movieweb]

It’s nice to hear some news coming out from an official source, someone who is ACTUALLY attached to the franchise, but Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, nor even Gary Oldman has been confirmed to return…but rest assured, they will be back.

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Discussion: For me, this is great news! I saw it in the theaters 3 times and never got to experience the IMAX version, so I will gladly drop ten more dollars to see it in January…and just in time for my birthday! HINT HINT! There are also speculative reports saying that Warner Bros. would like to re-release the movie every year as like an event. Does it have the buzz still to push past Titanic? With the DVD release coming out in December, will people be less interested in going to the theaters and just purchase the DVD? Will you go see it in January?

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That first word totally sums it up for me…finally. After all of the waiting and anticipation, I got to see The Dark Knight and it delivered, it truly delivered. After nearly 3 years since the first *NEW* Batman, I finally was able to see The Dark Knight. Choosing to wait out the massive crowds on opening night and weekend, I ventured out on a bright Sunday afternoon to experience this epic movie. With expectations as high as ever in tow, I watched The Dark Knight…

…and it was absolutely fantastic. I walked out of the theater mesmerized and a little short of breath, and in fact, I needed time to sit and recollect on what I just experienced. There was so much in the movie and it was such a BIG movie that there was no way I could even express what I felt or thought until I had a chance to sit down and actually verbalize what I thought. I was overwhelmed by the movie, by the shear mass of it I was taken for a loss. I had waited so long and had such high hopes and had talked about it to nearly everyone I knew, and wrote countless news pieces and insights into the movie that I nearly didn’t know how to even start this review.

I was afraid going into the movie that the hype would outlast the reality of the screen, though I wasn’t as freaked out about it as some other film bloggers, I was at least wary of the fact, but it seriously and utterly lived and surpassed the hype following it. So much goes into the marketing of a movie and many were calling TDK an “over-marketed” movie with all of its viral sites and teasers and trailers debuting here and there, and I am here to tell you, once again, that you will totally forget that fact once you see this movie. I thought that the movie held up great against its “image” that was created prior to its release, there’s never a point where you feel like you were cheated by the amount of information and games that the studios made you play in order to find out anything about the movie. It just adds to the overall phenomenon surrounding the movie.

I think I am going to devote an entire blog to Heath Ledger and why I think he is the best comic book villain to-date to ever appear on screen. His performance ALONE is worth seeing the movie multiple times in the theater. I have never, well, maybe not since Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, forgotten about an actor and legitimately believed I was watching a real person like I did watching Ledger portray The Joker. In most cases, I see the ACTOR portraying a character, I see Christian Bale as Batman, I can see Michael Caine as Alfred, but with Ledger, I didn’t see him AS The Joker, I just saw THE JOKER!! I was totally frightened and amazed at The Joker. His evil was unexplainable, which made it all the better, and he seemed to really and truly embody what The Joker should be…someone who is pure evil, not made evil by some abusive childhood or turned by a tragic event, but someone who just IS evil for evil’s sake. Watching Ledger become Joker was true magic, and to be honest, a little disheartening to think how much he would have had to do to prepare for that role mentally, how depressed, low, insane, lonely he had to become to wholeheartedly become Joker. I read that he spent an entire month in a small run-down apartment in a dangerous and shabby part of New York to learn what that kind of loneliness felt like…hindsight in that situation makes you think a little.

Trust me, don’t believe the hype or the stories you read, Ledger makes this movie stand out on its own. Yes, he was SO GREAT that it did expose how just GOOD Christian Bale, Michael Cane, Gary Oldman, etc. were, in that he absolutely OUT SHINED his costars, but not so much as to ruin the movie. It just reminds you how GREAT Ledger was. You can tell that he put everything, literally everything, into this role and sadly enough, from what I have read, the added stress of preparing for a role as dark as this one may have been too much in the end.

One of the things that bothered me about this movie (I know, half of you just gasped, but hear me out) was the splotchy and fidgety editing. I was really bothered by how at times the scene would cut way too fast to the next scene that was already in progress, and it just really distracted me. At multiple times, there were action scenes that were cut too tight and seemed to end too quickly without any resolution at all. I felt like they had SO MUCH MOVIE to cut and edit that in the end, I think they spent too much time slimming the movie to 2 and a half hours and didn’t concentrate enough on how scenes flowed together. The transitions didn’t match at times and it just seemed a little robotic in its flow.

The Nolan brothers’ script I thought was very well put together and flowed nicely. The story really moved quite well in my opinion and never left you guessing. One of the elements of the story that I didn’t quite like and noticed right away was the “over-villain-izing” that was going on. Like the debacle that was Spider-Man 3 with all 3 of their MAJOR villains trying to split time in a 2 hour movie, I thought the inclusion of Two-Face (Dent), The Joker, Gamble, The Mob, AND the Scarecrow (though his was a small part) was a little much to try and cram into the movie, even though it was 2 and a half hours long. I know that Joker was the MAIN villain and most of the movie revolved around him, but I felt like they tried too hard to show all of the villains on one screen and in one movie.

This was a fantastic movie that I will see again this week. It lived up to its hype and it kept me thinking about it and discussing it days after, which is what a truly great film should aspire to do. This movie will make $300 million in 3 weeks, mark my words!

Content Warning: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace. The Joker is an evil guy and the kind of darkness portrayed in this film is not for the younger kids. Adults, don’t miss it, but find a sitter.

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The Dark Knight grossed a behemoth $158.3 million from Friday through Sunday, according to early estimates, to score the biggest three-day opening in box-office history, while leading the way on a weekend for the record books. It scored the biggest three-day opening weekend of all time (beating Spider-Man 3′s $151.1 mil bow). It achieved the best opening day and single day in history ($66.4 mil, shattering Spider-Man 3′s mark of $59.8 mil).

It brought in the most money from Friday midnight shows of any release ever ($18.5 mil, passing Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith’s $16.9 mil). It banked a record $6.2 mil from 94 IMAX venues over the weekend (Spider-Man 3 had the old record, $4.7 mil). And it did it all with the biggest theater count, 4,366 locations, of all time, pulling in $35,579 per theater on average.

Worldwide, it has already made $196.6 million, compare that to its predecessor, Batman Begins, which made $205.3 million in its entire domestic run….all in just 4 days!

So, does anyone else want to chime in on how great it was for them? What do you think about these figures? Do you agree with my prediction that it will hit $300 million domestically in 3 weeks?

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