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The Dark Knight is a Remake
SpoutBlog — Apparently there is a new trailer for The Dark Knight premiering online tonight. But I’m not so good at playing those viral marketing games, plus I’m a relatively patient guy, so I’ll just wait until it hits YouTube and watch it tomorrow. In the meantime, while you wait for the secret time that the trailer goes live (I hear 5:30 PM PST), here’s a video submitted to College Humor that compares the previous trailer for The Dark Knight with that of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. Yes, it looks kinda like ...

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Consciously Or Not, 'The Dark Knight' Pays Homage To Tim Burton [Clips]
Gawker: defamer — A clever mashup from CollegeHumor.com suggests Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight—the hotly anticipated, second chapter of his radical re-envisioning of the Batman franchise for Warner Bros.—might be less of a radical re-envisioning than we might have been led to believe. Frankly, they could prove the entire thing was lifted frame-by-frame from an NYU film school thesis project, we wouldn't be any less excited about it. Dark Knight! Whooo! Movie of the summer! The side-by-side "trailers" are after the jump: Batman vs The Dark Knight Trailer [College ...

Is Chris Nolan remaking Tim Burton's Batman?
FilmChat — It doesn't happen often, but there are times when I wish I had that boxed set of the original Batman films, just so I could fact-check stuff like this. Is the trailer below for Tim Burton's Batman (1989) the real thing, in which case Chris Nolan and his marketing team are twisted geniuses far beyond anything I ever realized? Or did someone edit it together to mimic the trailer for Nolan's upcoming The Dark Knight? Christopher Campbell, who starts out by writing as though the old movie's trailer were genuine, leans towards the latter option, and so do I. But I kind of wish Nolan and his team were the ...

Batman Plagiarizes Own 1989 Trailer [The Dark Knight]
Gawker — This is creepy: The preview for the latest installment in the Batman movie franchise, the Dark Knight, looks incredibly similar scene-for-scene to the trailer for the original Batman 19 years ago. It's like the Dark Knight preview editor went frame by frame, trying to come as close to possible to duplicating the old trailer with new footage. Maybe as an homage. Or maybe there's a manual somewhere on how to make action movie trailers. Or maybe we've all been watching the same handful of Hollywood blockbusters over and over again, under different titles and with different combinations of stars, for decades now, and ...

Why So Similar, Batman?
World of Wonder Productions — If it worked for the first one, it should work for the remake. The trailers for Tim Burton's Batman and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, side by similar side. (College Humor)

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Early buzz: Ice cream, 'Reaper,' 'Dark Knight,' TV comedies, more
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed — OK, so I have some good news and bad news: The good news is that I saw Iron Man last night, and it's awesome. The visual effects are top-notch, the pace never slows and Robert Downey Jr. is hilarious, heroic and everything I hoped he would be. (Plus, I never tire of watching men fly.) The bad news? I'm pretty sick, and I think I need to take some time off to rest. I've been trying to work through it for more than a week, but a positive attitude is not killing the germs. Forgive me, and I'll return to my computer when I can breathe again. Some headlines: - It's 31-Cent Scoop Night ...

No Dark Knight trailer, just a continuing game; Plus a funny trailer comparison and some cool international posters
Movie Marketing Madness — As you probably noticed, the new trailer for The Dark Knight that I and others expected to materialize sometime Sunday or Monday most spectacularly did not. Instead what we got was yet another link in the chain of Joker-laid clues that will hopefully lead to that new trailer. The new step is another branching off of WhySoSerious.com, this time titled Happy Trails. The page features a classified ad torn from the Gotham Times and re-done Joker-style with the promise that an all-new model would be debuting this Sunday. That makes sense in terms of a release of the trailer, which is said to be debuting theatrically in front ...

Batman VS. The Dark Knight Trailer
Oh No They Didn't! — why so similar? See more funny videos at CollegeHumor I guess as an homage the Burton's Batman, Chris Nolan has developed the new Dark Knight trailer to match up perfectly with the 1989 classic source

The Dark Knight vs. Tim Burton’s Batman… a battle of the trailers…
Lair of the Green Knight — Hey all… I happened to StumbleUpon this post today at CollegeHumor.com , and it really peaked my interest. As you may or may not know, I’m excited about The Dark Knight this summer. It’s one of the four tentpoles of my most anticipated summer movies… Iron Man, Indy IV, Hellboy 2, and The Dark Knight… So when I watched this video comparing the trailers for the original Tim Burton Batman movie (with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson) with the trailer for this summer’s sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight. I’m SHOCKED at the similarities. Not sure if it was deliberate or not, but it’s certainly eerie to see them side by side like this. What do you think? ...

Why So Similar? “Batman” vs. “The Dark Knight”
Pop Critics — I’ve heard people talking about how scenes in The Dark Knight were highly reminiscent of scenes from the 1989 version of Batman, but I never really thought anything about it. Then I saw this video on CollegeHumor.com and realized what they were talking about. It’s actually pretty interesting. But I think it might be more a case of creative editing than anything else. What do you think? Did Christopher Nolan rip off scenes from Batman to use in strong>The Dark Knight? strong>The Dark ...