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The cast of The Dark Knight are lobbying on behalf of the late actor for the gold statue.

Heath Ledger’s costars from The Dark Knight, including two-time Batman Christian Bale, took turns at a press event this weekend praising and remembering the late actor’s intense style. A few of them are even lobbying for a gold statue on his behalf.

“Definitely,” said Aaron Eckhart, who plays doomed district attorney Harvey Dent to Ledger’s droll and very creepy Joker. “Why not?”

Fellow castmember Gary Oldman was more pointed about it.

“Heath had this frequency none of us could hear,” said Oldman. “The Academy tends to overlook movies like this, but this acting is so good it’s going to be very hard for them to avoid it.”

His other Gotham cohorts marveled at Ledger’s obsession with detail:

He patched together influences ranging from A Clockwork Orange to ventriloquist dummies to Charlie Chaplin. The result: a Joker so demented and creepy he makes Nicholson’s 1989 version look like Elton John in a bad mood.

“He called me during preproduction from time to time to tell me what he was working on,” director Christopher Nolan recalled. “He told me he was researching the way ventriloquist dummies talk. It was a bit peculiar.” “He’s raised the bar,” said Bale.

If the Academy does honor Ledger for his Joker character, it would be only the second posthumous acting win ever. The first went to Peter Finch for the 1976 movie Network.

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“Dark Knight is a great work of art”, says Todd Gilchrist (IGN). This is a well executed masterpiece.

It isn’t an overstatement to call The Dark Knight the most sophisticated and ambitious work of its kind. Superior to all three Spider-Man installments and even its amazing predecessor in terms of conceptualization, writing, acting, and direction, Nolan’s follow-up to Batman Begins is a dark, complex and disturbing film, not the least of which because it grafts its heroics onto the blueprint of actual reality rather than that of spandex-clad supermen. And while such a distinction may make little difference to those already eagerly anticipating the return of the caped crusader, suffice it to say that The Dark Knight qualifies as the first official comic book adaptation that truly succeeds in being a great artistic achievement in its own right.

Christian Bale returns as Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy who moonlights as Batman. Having eased more comfortably into a lifestyle of excess, Wayne lurks on the fringes of his family’s corporation as CEO Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) runs the boardroom. But when an ambitious district attorney named Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) comes forward to challenge Gotham City’s villainy through proper legal channels, the man also known as Batman sees an opportunity to replace his vigilante persona with a figure of virtue who will truly inspire the best in the citizenry.

Unfortunately, Batman’s success as a crime fighter has generated new problems for Gotham, including a consolidation of the crime lords who once controlled the city independently. Meanwhile, a new adversary named The Joker (Heath Ledger) proves particularly dangerous because he seeks not only to advance the cause of Gotham’s underworld, but obliterate the foundations of liberty and order that Batman protects. Torn between championing Dent and meting out justice as a masked vigilante, Wayne soon finds himself at a crossroads between being the hero that Gotham needs and the one it deserves.

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Release date: Friday July 18, 2008
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Director: Kirk De Micco
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Producer(s): Barry Sonnenfeld, John H. Williams
Screenplay: Kirk De Micco, Robert Moreland
Cast: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Tucci
Official Site: spacechimpspower.com
Rating: G
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Synopsis
“Space Chimps” is a comedy adventure about two NASA chimps that are sent to a galaxy far, far away. One chimp has ‘The Right Stuff,’ and the other, a good natured goofball, has ‘The Wrong Stuff.’ The two chimps find themselves on a strange, uncharted planet, where they embark on a fantastical journey to save its inhabitants from a tyrannical leader. Barry Sonnenfeld will produce animated laffer.

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Two excellent features arriving in theaters this Friday.

• Wall. E (Animation/Family) - Cast: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt ; Directed by: Andrew Stanton

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• Wanted (Action) - Cast: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Common, Terence Stamp; Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov

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If you’re eager for your first look at Quantum of Solace, you will be able to view the expanded footage for the highly anticipated James Bond adventure on television and on the Internet Monday, June 30th (also in theaters when it’s attached to Columbia Pictures’ Hancock).

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Wall. E is a “tender, thoughtful and terrific looking animated film.”

WALL•E is the kind of movie that you spend months anticipating and then have nothing to say about it when you finally see it. A masterpiece on par with Pixar’s very best films, Andrew Stanton’s overdue follow-up to Finding Nemo is everything one could possibly want from a film about a robot finding love, and even more. But the problem is that its substance is all so visible and understandable that it demands, and needs, no further analysis. All of which is why the best that should be said about it is it’s wonderful, and you should see it as soon as possible.

The film follows WALL•E, a cleaning robot who is left behind to straighten up the planet after humankind left Earth on gigantic spaceships. During the intervening centuries between humanity’s departure, WALL•E develops a personality and spends his days discovering small treasures among the trash, including a well-worn copy of Hello, Dolly! When a ship arrives from space, WALL•E is naturally intrigued, but after it drops off a sleek probe named Eve, he’s in love. Following a tenuous introduction (she almost vaporizes him), the two begin to bond. When the ship returns to retrieve Eve, however, WALL•E finds himself on an epic journey not only to explore the (literal) universe beyond Earth, but to find love and help humankind reconnect with the planet they abandoned so many years ago.

Much has already been made of the film’s environmental messages and supposed anti-corporate commentary (no small irony given Pixar’s partnership with Disney, much less their massive marketing push), but its most incisive observations are in regards to humanity’s increasing — and increasingly debilitating — reliance on technology. While the film does feature some actual humans, most notably Fred Willard as corporate mouthpiece Shelby Forthright, the characters that interact with WALL•E and his fellow robots are doughy, overweight CGI blobs that represent 700-plus years of laziness. Aboard the space cruisers, humans are literally waited on hand and foot, consuming the maximum possible calorie intake through the easiest and quickest possible ways, and essentially destroying anything resembling muscle mass, much less the motivation to do much of anything for themselves.

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Wanted is “An action packed, visually arresting comic book movie.” Wanted opens this weekend (June 27th).

Wanted, based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, follows twentysomething Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy, doing a convincing job in hiding his Scottish accent) — an office drone who one day discovers that he is actually the son of the world’s greatest assassin. Before this revelation, Wes suffers panic attacks brought on by his overbearing boss at his soul-sucking accounting job and the blatant affair carried on between his girlfriend and best friend.

Wesley is pulled — literally and violently — out of his ho-hum everyday life by Fox (Angelina Jolie), an alluring mystery woman who tells him about his special heritage and then proceeds to save him from Cross (Thomas Kretschmann). After an absurd but exhilarating car chase-shootout sequence, Fox reveals to Wesley that he must take his father’s place in The Fraternity, an ancient league of assassins led by Sloan (Morgan Freeman). The Fraternity metes out justice as determined by the Loom of Destiny (an over-explained plot device built around murderous weavers — yeah, that’s right).

Wes then undergoes an excruciating training regimen (including beatings, guns and knives) until he accepts the Fraternity’s motto: Kill one, save a thousand. He must then carry out a few hits in order to prove his mettle before he is sent after Cross, whom we learn is a rogue member of the Fraternity out to kill his former comrades one by one. Wes gradually learns to enjoy and embrace his newfound vocation, finally feeling empowered after a lifetime of being a nobody. But soon, he learns that some of his colleagues aren’t as righteous as he first believed.

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According to the Wanted UK review, Wanted is “quite the best time to be had in a cinema thus far this summer.” “People, the summer starts here.” Well, we’ll see.

Wesley Gibson doesn’t have a lot going for him. Working in a dead-end job, he spends his days being bullied by his overbearing boss, while back home his best bud is busy banging his ballbuster of a girlfriend. Wesley is a loser with a capital ‘L’, until the day he meets Fox, a mysterious beauty with a big gun, a fast car, and an offer Wes can’t possibly refuse.

So begins Wanted - quite the best time to be had in a cinema thus far this summer. For it turns out Wes’s long-lost father was a member of the Fraternity - a centuries old league of assassins carrying out the orders of fate - and it’s now the prodigal son’s time to follow his destiny, ‘grow a pair’, and become the superhuman soldier he was always meant to be.

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Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan

IGN talks to Christian Bale (Batman), Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent); and director Christopher Nolan.

Believe it or not, it’s been over three years since Batman Begins reunited moviegoers with the Caped Crusader in Christopher Nolan’s bold, dark vision for the Gotham vigilante’s origin story. Now, with the introductions out of the way, Nolan’s returned to bring fans the next eagerly anticipated installment in the big-screen Batman saga. And he’s brought Christian Bale, the (sadly) late Heath Ledger, Golden Globe-nominated actor Aaron Eckhart, and a killer supporting cast along for the ride.

Bale once again embodies the Dark Knight in a film that takes him across the world in his quest to fight a growing criminal threat. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman has been making headway against local crime… until a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker (Heath Ledger) unleashes a fresh reign of chaos across Gotham City. To stop this devious new menace — Batman’s most personal and vicious enemy yet — he’ll have to use every high-tech weapon in his arsenal and confront everything he believes.

We’ve been tracking the flick here on IGN — you know how we do! And we were recently fortunate enough to visit the TDK set and talk to the man behind the camera, the man behind one-half of a gruesome make-up job, and the man behind the cowl. Here are our interviews with Christopher Nolan, Aaron Eckhart, and Christian Bale.

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