Rent The Dark Knight for FREE

Start your 14 day FREE trial » Find out more

+70,000 other titles and counting

NO late fees or long term contracts - cancel anytime
FREE first class post for DVD, Blu-ray & Games rental
1000's of films to stream instantly to your PC, TV or PS3^TM at no extra cost

The Dark Knight News

2008

80
from 96,056 members

Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker's crimes grow more and more deadly. Read more

Starring	Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart
Director	Christopher Nolan
Genres	Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Thriller

Sign up The Dark Knight DVD, Blu-ray

Buy from Amazon.co.uk

Eckhart: The Dark Knight is 'a heavy movie'
- 18 Jul 2008
Aaron Eckhart has said he was drawn to latest Batman instalment The Dark Knight as it comments on what may be wrong with modern society. The Thank You For Smoking actor stars as Harvey Dent/Two Face – a morally ambivalent character who starts out as a district attorney but transforms in to a deranged criminal. "The thing that struck me about this movie were the contemporary issues. The mirror of our times. It is a heavy movie in a lot of ways," Eckhart said. He also became the... Read more
The Dark Knight hits London
- 22 Jul 2008
The stars of the latest Batman movie The Dark Knight congregated in London last night for its UK premiere. It has just taken the US box office record fro previous holder Spider Man 3 by taking 55.34 million dollars (£77.7 million) during its opening weekend. Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Maggie Gyllenhall all attended the event in Leicester Square, but were almost upstaged when a 2.5 tonne six-wheeled Batmobile made its entrance. Bale again dons the Batsuit in Christopher Nolan's... Read more
The Dark Knight breaks US box office record
- 21 Jul 2008
Latest Batman instalment The Dark Knight has smashed the box office record for takings on its first day of release in the US. The movie, which stars Christian Bale stars as the caped crusader, pulled in some $66.4 million (£33.1 million) on its opening night. Last summer's Spider Man 3 was the previous holder of the record, having made $59.8 million on its first day. It is now widely expected that the new movie will top the $151.1 million record for an opening weekend. Warner Bros head of... Read more
Nolan: Harvey Dent's story is central to The Dark Knight
- 16 Jan 2008
It may be six months until Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight is released, but this week saw director Christopher Nolan explain how each character fits into the story. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Nolan said that Harvey Dent - who fans will know later becomes the evil megalomaniac Two Face - is a "tragic figure" and one whose journey becomes "the backbone of this film". This might surprise people given the publicity surrounding Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker.... Read more
Tropic Thunder topples The Dark Knight
- 18 Aug 2008
Tropic Thunder has knocked The Dark Knight from the top of the US box office. Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr and Jack Black star in the comedy about the making of a Vietnam film, which has raked in some $26 million (£13.9 million) since being released on Wednesday Christopher Nolan's second Batman movie The Dark Knight slipped to second place after a four-week reign at the top of the chart. However, the movie is still breaking records – with Media By Numbers reporting that it has... Read more

Buy from Amazon.co.uk

- - Buy
- The Dark Knight - Blu-ray
  
  Director Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO, THE PRESTIGE) returns to Gotham City with this sequel to the critically-acclaimed fan favourite, BATMAN BEGINS. In THE DARK KNIGHT, Batman (Christian Bale - RESCUE DAWN, AMERICAN PSYCHO) squares off against a new, completely psychotic foe: the Joker (Heath ...

- - Buy
- The Dark Knight
  
  Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker's crimes grow more and more deadly....