TMI (Today’s Movie Info)
February: Director’s Month
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN is about to release his seventh full-length feature film: The Dark Knight Rises (July 2012). This will be the third film in his trilogy of the re-imagined Batman series. The first two films (Batman Begins, 2005 and The Dark Knight, 2008) have grossed almost $1.4 billion worldwide. The success of those films, plus his 2010 masterpiece Inception ($825 million worldwide, and two Oscar nominations), have placed him among the most powerful people in Hollywood. On the flipside, his first full-length feature film Memento (2000) garnered him an Oscar nomination and quite a cult following, so Nolan is one of the few to be hailed in the indie world and then also reach box office peaks with studio blockbusters. Insomnia (2002) is his only film in which he didn’t write the script. He often writes with his brother Jonathan Nolan (the creator of the TV series “Person of Interest”) … including next year’s Man of Steel (the next Superman movie). When discussing his recent experience with filmmaking, Nolan said, “Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn’t really anything else that does the job in modern terms.”
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