The Dark Knight Articles

Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Moulin Rouge! DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1990s: Odd People Out Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman 2000 DGA Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous AMPAS Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot DGA/AMPAS Steven Soderbergh, Traffic Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ridley Scott, Gladiator Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich   2001 DGA Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge! Christopher Nolan, Memento [...]

Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 (click on the Edward/Bella photo to enlarge it) Despite poor reviews and the depressed North American box office, Bill Condon's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, collected $139.5 million this weekend (Nov. 18-20), as per studio estimates found at [...]

Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Bill Condon's poorly received The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, starring favorites Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, ended up a notch behind Chris Weitz's The Twilight Saga: New Moon on Friday, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo: $72 million vs. $72.7 million. If higher ticket prices are taken into account, [...]

James Cameron's Avatar Avatar is the most pirated movie of all time according to the website TorrentFreak. Citing statistics "gathered from public BitTorrent trackers, dating back to early 2006," Avatar was downloaded an estimated 21 million times. James Cameron's environmentally conscious sci-fier, which went on to gross $2.78 billion at the worldwide box office, was followed by two other major worldwide blockbusters: Christopher Nolan's The [...]