No sooner do we find that Batman Gets A New Suit For Dark Knight, but now we find he’s got new wheels!

Called “The Batpod” its in the same spirit as The Tumbler from Batman Begins. Its a specially design motorcycle equiped with twin machine guns, cannons, and grappling hooks. And like the 2005 Batmobile, its fully functional and rides at high speeds and will be filmed without the use of visual effects to distort the functionality of the vehicle, with 508 millimeter wheels and and two engines.

It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to think up what kind of chase scene this will play a part in, but I’m eager to see it all the same.

To see a video of Al Roker talking about it, click here.

From The LATimes

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Scanned right out of the new Entertainment Weekly, this is Christian Bale’s new cape & cowl for The Dark Knight.

Thanks to Logan for passing along this link!

Last year, Joss Whedon’s follow-up to brilliant-but-cancelled Firefly was given a special global re-release to support the charity Equality Now. They raised over $65,000, and they had such a good time, they’re doing it again.

Starting June 23rd, 50 cities will hold special screenings of Serenity with the aim of raising $100,000! Tickets are already on sale, and a screening last night in Dublin has already pulled in over $4300. Check here for cities and to buy tickets.

Dirty secret: Though I’m a fan of Firefly, I’ve never seen this movie. But its playing this Saturday and for a good cause, so I have to go!

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It would appear that someone’s prayers were answered. Paul S. Anderson has announced that he is stepping down from directing the live-action Castlevania movie, in favor of making the movie Death Race instead. Anderson hands control of directing over Sylvain White, and has said that the two will collaborate on rewriting the script for the film. Sylvain Wright is known for such movies as Stomp the Yard, and hopes to do a film adaption of Frank Miller’s Ronin in the future.

Oh happy day!

Of course this will still rub some Castlevania fanboys the wrong way, and cries of ‘it’ll be some melodramatic dance movie’ have already been sounded. Of course this is despite the fact these same fans complained that Anderson would make Castlevania another Resident Evil or Alien vs. Predator disaster. What does this CV fangirl say to all that? At least it’s not Uwe Boll people.

Castlevania now has a slated release of late 2008.

Unnecessary sequels, prequels, and threequels cannot match the raw uncalled for force of another Indiana Jones picture. George Lucas, not satisfied with a decade long gutting of Star Wars, apparently convinced star Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg that the “Last Crusade” needed a follow-up, now almost 20 years later.

Now next summer’s adventure has a name, Indiana Jones and The City Of Gods, and the persistent rumor is that Indy will fight aliens, and discover he has a son with his Raiders cohort Marion Ravenwood, played by Karen Allen.

I could go on a poop on this movie some more, but I’ll leave that to the comments section. I mean, I really hope it will be good, but opting out of the spiritual and religious stuff that made up Indy’s adventures in favor of aliens just seems odd to me. That and Harrison Ford will be 65 next month, making hold older than Sean Connery was in Last Crusade.

It would appear since so many movies recently have been based off of comic and gaming heroes such as Spider-Man and the upcoming Iron-Man film, that even the more ambiguous names in the hero world want a piece of the fame.

Tom DeSanto, who produced the Transformers movie slated to release next month, has announced he plans on bringing the multiplayer online RPG City of Heroes into the cinama world that has made so many other heroes blockbuster hits. DeSanto states that he wishes to take advantage of the variety of protaganists that could come from the game’s “mix-n-match” hero creation theme.

“You also haven’t seen a big superheroes vs. aliens movie. I see this as the next big superhero franchise.”

There’s also talk of DeSanto making a TV series based on the game as well. Given the influx of such hero movies as of late, this seems to look like it will either be genius or a complete flop.

The controversial figure is finally reviewed!

A very sexy review of the Cutie Honey movie and DVD.

Purchase either just the movie or the super lunch box set
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