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You think you know Batman? The Caped Crusader's mysteries are much deeper than you've ever fathomed. Over 60-odd years, in an assortment of media, Batman has gone in some incredibly weird directions. Here are 10 Bat-facts you didn't know. More »
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It was 20 years ago this week that Tim Burton's Batman was released, changing the face of summer blockbusters, superhero movies and even breakfast cereal forever (Okay, maybe not that last one). Perhaps it's time to relive some Batmania...? More »
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As the cliche (doesn't) go: Where there's the box office smoke, there's going to be sequel fire, and Batman's box office breaking lead to three follow-ups that pretty much define that whole The Good, The Bad and The Ugly idea. More »
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The Comics More »
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In the summer of 1989, you couldn't get away from Batman even if you tried. Kevin Smith put it best: More »
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Even before Tim Burton took the director's chair of Batman in 1986, the movie seemed troubled, if not just outright unlikely to ever happen. A Batman movie had been in development since 1980, following the success of Richard Donner's Superman The Movie and Superman II, with various writers - including comic writer Steve Englehart - and directors (amongst them, Ghostbusters' Ivan Reitman) attached at different times. It took Burton's arrival, following the success of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure as well as Frank Miller's gamechanging The Dark Knight Returns comic series, to galvanize a coherent direction for the movie, but even then, it would take another two years - and Burton's Beetlejuice becoming a hit - to get the movie greenlit by Warner Bros. More »
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