Check out this youtube video of The Today Show’s Al Roker visiting the Chicago set of ‘The Dark Knight’. Roker talks with both Christian Bale and director Chris Nolan. Heath Ledger is mentioned but not interviewed.

Dark Knight promos, primarily featuring Heath Ledger as the Joker, have been posted on the Internet. To view the full images click here.

UPDATE:

The Dark Knight Promo images are no longer available from the link above. Warner Bros. has taken action against web sites which published the photos.

I’m not really into these films, but for those that are, here is the latest trailer for SAW IV. Scheduled for a 10/26/07 release, the latest installment is helmed by young director Darren Lynn Bousman who also directed Saw II and Saw III. All together, the first three Saw films only cost $15 million to produce. Worldwide, the Saw franchise has pulled in over $400 million in box office receipts. With returns like that for distributor Lions Gate, who knows when we’ll see the last Saw film.

I am not one to promote anything that MTV does. I think MTV and their crap programming are definitely one of the worst influences on youth society and culture. It isn’t just the youth of this country they negatively impact, but youth around the world because there is a separate MTV for Europe, one for Asia, and one for Latin America. I’m not sure if the Arab world has a MTV affiliate, but if they do it would easily explain one of the reasons they dislike our culture so much.

However, MTV.com did submit a neat question to several respected film directors asking what they would do if they took over the Harry Potter film franchise. Directors like Zack Snyder (300) and Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) gave some interesting responses. The Potter films have made billions at the global box office, and still have three more to release. I admit that I am a big fan of the Harry Potter books. They are well-written by author/creator J.K. Rowling with great characters and storylines. The first two movie adaptations really sucked, but the last two were pretty entertaining. The trailer for the latest film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, shows some potential for being a good film. However, we’ll have to wait until it’s released on July 13th before we know for sure. The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, hits bookstores at one second past midnight on July 21st.

Click on the link below to read the MTV.com article, but as soon as you are finished turn off your computer, take a hot shower, then pray, do some meditation, and go sit in the middle of a forest for a week in order to cleanse yourself of the taint that being near anything MTV can leave.

Click here to read the MTV.com article.
Click here to visit the official site for Harry Potter.
Watch the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix trailer here.
Read about the history of Harry Potter here.