Actor Christian Bale, star of the recent Batman franchise, was detained in London today after a reported altercation with his mother and sister. He has been released on bail. Reportedly this had something to do with a longstanding family dispute. Dain thinks Bale’s mom wouldn’t let him sleep in his bat cape.

From The Telegraph:

Sources said that Bale was accused of lashing out at his family members - pushing one of them - in an argument over a long-running family dispute.

Bale was arrested when he attended Belgravia police station in London today after his mother and sister had reported him to police.

He left the back of the station in a blacked out silver Mercedes people carrier and sped past the awaiting paparazzi and heavy security.

Bale gave a statement to detectives of his version of events in what was described by police sources as an allegation of a “minor” common assault.

The 34-year-old was bailed until September and will be allowed to fly back to his home in America.

Sorry, I meant to say “The Dark Knight was one of the best action movies ever”, but all that wouldn’t fit in the title space.  Raking in $198 million in it’s first weekend, plus that added bonus of $18 million just on the midnight showing, I think the film did pretty well for its self.  The 2hr 30min (+/-) was undeniably Ledger’s best work, and Aaron Eckhart’s role was beyond what I thought he could handle.  Oh, that Christial Bale fellow is still a badass.

Deadline Hollywood:I’ve just been told by unofficial sources that Warner Bros’ The Dark Knight is playing to packed Sunday performances for over $40M and maybe as high as $43M. That would mean a 9th record for the latest Batman installment since Spider-Man 3’s Sunday take in 2007 was a record-setting $39.9M. It’s also now abundantly clear that the Warner Bros caped crusader will crush the old 3-day weekend non-holiday record set by Spider-Man 3 last year. Also, Dark Knight should break its 9th record by beating the all-time weekly tally. Meanwhile, in its first six days, DK will have grossed more than the entire run of director Chris Nolan’s first installment Batman Begins.

Apparently I’ve taken the official role on this site as The Dark Knight updater.  Our homies (i.e. people we steal teh internetz from) over at WWTDD have posted the first 6 minutes of The Dark Knight.  There was a video camera recording (see below) floating around the web, but that version was pretty damn shaky.

The actual clip?  Pretty fucking awesome.  I’m actually think that this performance might be better than Jack Nicholson’s in the original movie.  Click here to go to WWTDD to watch it on their stupid media player that doesn’t allow people to rip off of it, or, watch the bad ass video camera version below.

Last week, when I Am Legend opened, some dude filmed the full trailer for the upcoming Batman sequel The Dark Knight on his cellphone camera. I didn’t bother checking it out, because it was a movie trailer captured on a cellphone camera. But I saw I Am Legend on Monday, and that shit was good. Almost as good as the trailer for The Dark Knight. If you’re one of the four people who haven’t seen I Am Legend yet, a much better (though not great) quality version of the The Dark Knight trailer is embedded above. The film will open Summer 2008 and stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Heath Ledger as the Joker (looking pretty damn creepy I might add). 2008 = year of the fanboy.

This was supposed to be shown before The Simpsons Movie, but if that’s the case, the idiots at the local movie theater didn’t get the fucking memo. Not that this teaser shows anything. You can just hear Michael Caine and Christian Bale muttering very seriously about shit and Heath Ledger getting a little Joker-y. That’s it. Still, this teaser gave me the fanboy sweats. The Dark Knight is due out next summer.