Monday 23 July 2012

"Batman star Anne Hathaway labels shooting 'reasonable under the circumstances' as film makes $160m on first weekend"

From The Daily Mail

'The Dark Knight Rises' star Anne Hathaway has labelled Friday's massacre at a Colorado screening of the Batman film 'a fair response to a film glorifying violence' as she joins a growing list of cast and crew publicly concealing their glee at the amount of publicity for the film the incident generated.

'My heart aches and breaks for the lives taken and altered by this mildly senseless act,' the actress, who plays Catwoman in the film, told ETonline today. 'I am at a loss how to express my sorrow with this big grin on my face. My thoughts and prayers are with my investment managers.'

Ms Hathaway's cynical comments follow statements from Christian Bale, who plays Batman, in which he said he was 'quite entertained' by rushes of the shootings, but he'd have to see the final edit first and from the movie's British director Christopher Nolan, who labelled the gunman's actions 'nowhere near as unbearably savage as what goes on in the film, and just as good for the box office as Heath Ledger overdosing while we were finishing off The Dark Knight'.

As survivors, families of the victims and the community in Aurora, Colorado, battle to come to terms with the heinous crime, which saw suspect James Holmes open fire in a midnight screening of the final movie in the Batman trilogy, killing 12 people and injuring 58, Warner Bros chose not to release weekend box office figures for the film in case those affected started a class action law suit.

'Out of respect for our shareholders and their families, Warner Bros. Pictures will not be reporting box office numbers for The Dark Knight Rises throughout the weekend. Box office numbers will be released on Monday when we've managed to stop grinning.' read a statement.

1 comments:

Tim Almond said...

Not sure I agree on that one.

Nolan didn't need any hype for this to be a monster hit. Along with The Avengers, it was about the most anticipated movie of the year, and the reviews are excellent for it.

Heath Ledger's death probably did help The Dark Knight - it drew attention to a brilliant performance (and probably got him the posthumous Oscar).

As a slight aside - I'm going to see it over the next few days, but I probably won't take my daughter, despite the fact that she's seen 12A films before. The Nolan films are great, but what he did was to take comic book characters and place them in something that's very much like our world, rather than say, the Avengers which includes Norse gods, Hulks and aliens.