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MTV News caught up with Michael Caine at the Toronto film festival yesterday, and in-between talking to the British star about his new film Harry Brown, they also quizzed him about the future of Batman 3.

Pic scores best five-day haul after 'Dark Knight' -- Paramount's sequel "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" grossed an estimated $201.2 million from 4,234 theaters at the domestic box office to score the best five-day haul ever after "The Dark Knight."

Some critics' groups rush to hand out awards weeks before the year of eligility is over. Other groups, like the Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films, prefer to take their time. The 35th annual Saturn Awards were presented last night in beautiful downtown Burbank, California, honoring the best in genre films for the 2008 calendar year.

I thought Christopher Nolan's followup to The Dark Knight was going to be some little indie space movie, but according to The Calgary Sun, it's going to cost $200 million dollars.Described as a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind from "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan. Nolan wrote the original screenplay and hopes to shoot the sci-fi action film in the summer for a release during summer 2010.The Calgary Sun has more: Leonardo DiCaprio is Alberta bound.

Even going back to Comic-Con in San Diego last year, director McG has not been committing to what his upcoming franchise relaunch Terminator Salvation would be rated, saying that Warner Bros' President of Production Jeff Robinov didn't care and just wanted McG to make the best movie he could. Ever since then, McG had cited The Dark Knight (PG-13), The Matrix (R) as two of the movies made under Robinov's regime that proved that that ratings don't really matter either way.

Warner Bros. really wants Christopher Nolan to direct Batman 3. That much is obvious, but a new report suggests that the studio already has a replacement in mind just in case Nolan should pass on helming a third installment.

Ater months of teetering on the brink of $1 billion in worldwide box office revenue, The Dark Knight has officially reached the milestone, distributor Warner Bros. announced today. The Batman sequel is the fourth movie in history to hit the mark, behind Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

While the sequel to The Dark Knight is just in the beginning stages of development, Warner Bros is already looking much further down the line. During today’s Time Warner earnings call, CEO Jeff Bewkes compared the Batman series to the Harry Potter film franchise, saying that they hope to release a long line of sequels.

New Jersey's Courier-Post talked to Batman Begins and The Dark Knight executive producer Michael Uslan, who expects the third installment of the Christopher Nolan-directed films, starring Christian Bale, to hit theaters in 2011.

While there’s been no shortage of attention given to Heath Ledger’s portrayal of The Joker in “The Dark Knight,” the record-breaking sequel to “Batman Begins” might’ve never come to be if it wasn’t for the success of director Christopher Nolan’s first cape-and-cowl tale — and the portrayal of its villain, Ra’s Al Ghul, by Liam Neeson.