Yesterday Warner Bros. announced that The Dark Knight Rises had started filming, as well as launching the film’s official website. Along with this launch includes a social campaign that revealed the first photo of Tom Hardy as Bane.

At launch the official website was just a black image with some odd chanting playing. A deditcated fan looked at the visual spectrum of the chanting and noticed it contained a twitter hashtag of #thefirerises. As fans tweeted using that hashtag, on the official site an image started to be filled in using the twitter icon of people using the hashtag. The image is still being filled in, but /Film has posted the details of this social campaign and the high res photo of the finished picture.

SPOILERS! There are no robots in this clip.
However, we do see Patrick Dempsy’s character and Carly gets to speak, two things the other trailers didn’t show us.
Fun fact: this scene was shot at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a location I’ve been to several times. In the movie it stands in for the office of Sam and Carly’s boss Dylan Gould. The cars and other set dressing are not part of the sparse architecture of the hall.

Like many Transformers fans, I headed to the stores on May 16 to see the release of the first wave of figures for the third live action movie. I intended to only buy 1, maybe 2… but once I was in store, it was hard not to grab 3. This video is a quick look at Powerglide, Deluxe Starscream, and Voyager Megatron.

Something I didn’t mention in the video: Megatron and the other voyagers are quite small. The price point is lower than its been in previous years (around $19), but these figures are exactly in the scale of the “Mega” size class used popularized in the Beast Wars era. That size was abandoned as of Armada. Megatron appears to be about the same size as Transmetal Megatron from Beast Wars.

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MTV has posted three new character trailers for X-Men: First Class, featuring Banshee, Havok, and Beast.

Watch the trailers after the jump.
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Warner brothers has released a new theatrical trailer for Green Lantern, which comes out next month on June 17, 2011.

Let us know what you think in the comments.

Zac is joined by Crazy, aDam, Sean and Sindra once again. Listen for a (spoiler free) early review of Thor, a run down on Mortal Kombat and Dr Who, and a legnthy discussion on the PSN outage.

Also, Osama Bin Laden’s death was announced while we were recording, so the last few minutes of the show take a weird turn.

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