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youtube.com - 6/23/2009

Batman Opening Title Sequence (video)

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Opening titles to the blockbuster fantasy action drama thriller Batman (1989), a slightly more psychologically unhinged take on the D.C. Comics superhero. H...

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batman-on-film.com - 6/17/2009

ON-FILM.COM - Chris Nolan and BATMAN 3: FAR from a done deal? (June 16, 2009)

— batman-on-film.com — When I got the chance to visit with David Goyer and Jonathan Nolan a year ago ,... one of the things I heard them tell us media folk was that they had to lobby and “convince” Chris Nolan to do THE DARK KNIGHT and they'd probably have to do the same ... (more) ON-FILM.COM - Chris Nolan and BATMAN 3: FAR from a done ...

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chud.com - 6/18/2009

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN BEGINS USING THE PRESS IN HIS BATMAN 3 CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

— chud.com — If Christopher Nolan knows what's good for him he won't come back for Batman 3 in any... capacity other than producer. The confluence of elements that shot The Dark Knight to the all-time #2 box office spot simply cannot be recreated - even killing ... (more) CHRISTOPHER NOLAN BEGINS USING THE PRESS IN HIS BATMAN 3 ...

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incontention.com - 6/23/2009

Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ — 20 years later

— incontention.com — There is a reason I am such an embarrassingly devoted Batman fan. It’s not because I’m a... life-long comic book reader. That came later. And it’s not because I grew up watching reruns of the old ABC television series. Though I ... (more) Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ — 20 years later

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Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ — 20 years later
In Contention — There is a reason I am such an embarrassingly devoted Batman fan. It’s not because I’m a life-long comic book reader.  That came later.  And it’s not because I grew up watching reruns of the old ABC television series.  Though I certainly did.  It’s because Tim Burton’s “Batman,” released in theaters 20 years ago today, was the first movie that truly owned my anticipatory faculties as a child.  It was the first film that lit my movie-going fire, a designation saved for “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones” and “E.T.” a generation prior and perhaps “Jurassic ...

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Hollywood Elsewhere — Almost Rickety I was reading Kris Tapley 's nicely written Batman nostalgia piece and happened to click on the attached YouTube clip of the opening credits. And it was like.... whoa ! Take away the dark minicam footage (i.e., squirreling through the shadowy caverns of the Batman crest) and the titles alone seem so primitive, so austere -- almost like the main titles for a King Vidor or Sam Wood film of the 1940s. You would never see such plain-looking credits on a big-budget comic-book superhero film today.