When looking at the above photo of Ingmar Bergman and Bengt Ekerot on the set of The Seventh Seal, I want to imagine there is a chessboard in front of them.
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Warner Bros have released the first image of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises.
Warner Bros. have released the first image of Henry Cavill as Superman in the upcoming film version Man of Steel.
Here is a close-up version:
The film is directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Christopher Nolan, with a release date scheduled for June 2013.
> Man of Steel at the IMDb
> Henry Cavill at Wikipedia
Various photos of the upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight Rises shooting in London have recently surfaced online.
Chris Nolan has a history of directing films in the capital city.
Not only was his micro-budget debut Following (1998) shot all over London (with key locations in Southwark, Covent Garden and Highgate) but Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008) utilised London locations for various scenes.
A wonderfully prescient shot in Following even features a Batman logo – who could have predicted that Nolan would asked to reboot the franchise a few years later?
Earlier this month the third film in the Batman series The Dark Knight Rises (2012) began filming at the Farmiloe building in Clerkenwell.
The location was used as the Gotham City Police Station in the last two films and for sequences in Inception.
The building is adjacent to a public street, so some people were able to take photos and videos of cars, trucks, cranes and lights, although it seemed the filming took place behind closed doors.
But Craig Grobler of The Establishing Shot took an interesting set of photos at the location (no real spoilers) and caught glimpses of Nolan, Wally Pfister and a bunch of extras dressed as the Gotham SWAT team.
Check out the full gallery here:
There is also some video here:
In addition, filming has also taken place in Croydon and other locations around the UK before heading to the United States.
The Dark Knight Rises is scheduled to open in July 2012
> The Dark Knight Rises at the IMDb
> Batman on Film
> The Establishing Shot
The elusive Terrence Malick was actually seen last week at the Cannes film festival.
The famously reclusive director may have been absent from the official press conference, the red carpet and even the official ceremony where his film won the Palme d’Or.
But he did actually make a brief appearence inside the Grand Theatre Lumiere after the premiere of his latest film.
USA Today report:
After the film ended and the premiere audience engaged in a hearty ovation for his latest magnum opus, a moving odyssey through time and memory, the iconoclastic Malick slipped in quietly, having avoided the red carpet and somehow arranging for TV cameras to point away. In the midst of the extended ovation in side the Palais’ Grand Theatre Lumiere, Malick surreptitously entered and was suddenly in the actors’ midst.
They quote actress Jessica Chastain as saying:
“Brad [Pitt] and I are standing there and everyone’s applauding, I looked over and in walked Terry. I don’t think people realized it. The festival of course knew, but it was a last minute thing. And the camera kind of turned to the ground even though the premiere was being televised. There was nothing for like a minute on the screen and that’s because Terry came in. He stood there and everyone was clapping. The festival director was going ‘Yes!’ and throwing his arms up and trying to get everyone to recognize who Terry is. I came over and hugged Terry and Brad hugged Terry and Terry hugged his wife and it was a beautiful moment. It lasted like a minute and then he was gone.”
This photo on Flickr would appear to confirm that Malick did indeed sneak in to the cinema to celebrate the moment with his actors:
If we zoom in a little bit we can see the director and his actors a little more clearly:
Click here for the full larger version.
[Hat tip to @Awardsdaily, @LePuu and colonelchi]
> Cannes reactions to The Tree of Life
> More on Terrence Malick at Wikipedia