KidsWB released a promo image for the Spider-Man cartoon debuting this fall. The show was previously going to be called The Amazing Spider-Man, but with the Spidey comic line getting stripped down to that one title, the cartoon’s name was just changed to Spectacular Spider-Man. I imagine there’ll be a comic book tie-in to the show of the same name, which would explain the change of the show’s name. Not like they’re about to change the book’s name, right?

Also, Wizard took a bunch of pictures at the New York Licensing Show which – while it doesn’t sound very interesting – resulted in some impressive shots. We’ve got a select few mirrored below – and be sure to keep an eye out for an old Amazing Spider-Man cartoon poster:

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.

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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!

Director Christopher Nolan has announced to USA Today that 4 major action scenes from The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins, will be filmed in 70mm IMAX film.

I know what you’re thinking: You saw Spider-Man 3, Pirates, Matrix, Star Wars and every other movie available in IMAX for years now. Well this is different, because those features were still shot on 35mm film and simply stretched. No additional detail was made available. By shooting the biggest parts of the movie in IMAX, Nolan will be able to give viewers a real experience you can’t duplicate in a smaller theater or at home.

Of course we don’t know all of what will be big as life in the movie, or how much of the final movie it will be, but Nolan did say the introduction of The Joker would be one of the IMAX scenes. The above image is a slide from that shoot, with two bank robbers wearing clown masks. One of them is the Joker, I’m sure.

Recently, we reported on the revelation of Heath Ledger as the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie. The site that once showed the defaced Harvey Dent campaign poster and then the frightening image of Ledger in character, IbelieveinHarveyDentToo.com, has been updated once more. The page shows a message of “Page Not Found.” However, if you highlight the entire page, you see hidden text. Essentially its HA HA HA over and over and over again in varying font sizes and capitalization. Interspersed among the H’a and A’s are randomly inserted letters. Being the lazy person I am, I copied the entirety of the hidden text into Textpad, my text editor of choice, and did a search for H, A, a and h and replaced with a null (“”).

The results: Pgenotfound.seeYOuInDECeMbER

Yesterday we told you about the viral marketing thats being used to promote The Dark Knight and today its hit its first critical point by revealing the first image of Heath Ledger as The Joker.

This image defines creepy. It is unlike any Joker we’ve ever seen in any Batman movie, show, or comic. Pale skin, scarred face, smile painted on like a child with a crayon. Its so radically different, its likely to cause some fans to grumble about the change, but throwing the self proclaimed Clown Prince Of Crime into the fray of the gritty world of the current Batman just wouldn’t work. This image tells me one thing: This guy is meant to scare, not to cause laughs. This may well be the super psychotic Joker we rarely see in comics who is only funny to himself.

Next year’s sequel to Batman Begins is gaining momentum in the online world with some strange marketing decisions.

A central plot point of the movie will be Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent being elected as the District Attorney, and a teaser site called “I Believe In Harvey Dent” has a campaign poster for his election.

Of course the other central plot point of the movie is Heath Ledger as The Joker coming to power as the primary adversary for Batman and Gotham City at large. The Joker has set up his own little website called “I Believe In Harvey Dent Too!” with a defaced poster. Now here’s where is gets interesting: I submitted my email address to the form below the poster and got a message titled “defacing public servants” from tragicpast@ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com. Inside was the following note:

I always say, you never know what a man is truly made of until you peel the skin off his face one piece at a time. Here is your chance to help

There was a set of coordinates with a link back to that defaced poster. After entering them it removed a single pixel. Along with the hundreds of others plugging in coordinates as this site makes its way around to Bat-fans, a new images is slowly being revealed.
Whats under there? The first picture of The Joker? Harvey as Two Face? I have no idea, its still too blurry and scattered to tell.

Adding some guerrilla marketing to the mix, a comic store in Southern California found Joker playing cards scattered in their store with the scribbled message again saying “I Believe In Harvey Dent Too!” and all the HAHAHAs you’d expect from the Joker.

We’ve still got a full year and some months before the movie is released on July 18, 2008, but theres word we’ll see a short teaser trailer attached to a major movie this summer.

Fun Dark Knight Fact: Nestor Carbonell will play the Mayor of Gotham. He’s current seen weekly on TV as Dr Richard Alpert on LOST, but also played the Latino themed parody character Bat Manuel on the short lived “The Tick” live action series.

I’m just reporting all sorts of teasers this weekend.

Seems the new teaser site for the upcoming Batman: Dark Knight movie has been thrown up. Of course, it’s not much to look at right now – only the Batman logo in front of a blue and white explosion-esque background. Still, it means that possible teaser trailers could be in the near future as well.

Check out the teaser site HERE.