Trailer Released Of Oliver Stone's Horrible New Movie

Above is a sneak peek at Stone's "W", which is a movie about the greatest President of our time.

The movie will not create much buzz until about 2 months before it is released, when Richard Dreyfuss is found dead in his NY apartment from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

Record

Dark Knight set for the history books:

Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" has set a single-day box office record by taking in $66.4 million on opening day, according to a Warner Bros. executive.

The movie's Friday haul surpassed the previous record of $59.8 million set last year by "Spider-Man 3."

"The Dark Knight" also might break the opening weekend record of $151.1 million posted by "Spider-Man 3."

..."The Dark Knight" also lit up cash registers during its midnight debut, stealing away with a record $18.5 million from 3,040 theaters, Warner Bros. said.

That bested the 2005 performance of "Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith," which took in $16.9 million during its midnight debut in 2,915 venues.

"The Dark Knight" figure did not include any of its 3 a.m. or 6 a.m. showings.

io9 Weighs In On Dark Knight

Semi-spoilers in the article, but def a great read:

On its surface, The Dark Knight is a typical franchise sequel, bringing in (familiar) new characters and amping up the Bat-action as we move from the race car fu of Batman Begins to this flick's awesome truck-and-motorcycle fu. Our central figures, the Joker and Gotham's "white knight" district attorney Harvey Dent, are perfect foils. The former is unfathomably evil and the latter unfathomably good. And for a while the balance between these two, with Batman hovering in a profoundly unstable place between, works to good (disturbing) effect. Dent is the unmasked hero that Batman could never be, leading us to question Batman's dubious vigilante tactics in the first place. And Joker is the supervillain Batman could never defeat because his love of mayhem draws out the worst in our dark hero, turning him into a sadist.

Toxicology Results

Acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine:

The drugs are the generic names for the painkiller OxyContin, the anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax, and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom. Hydrocodone is a prescription painkiller.

Borakove wouldn't say what concentrations of each drug were found in Ledger's blood, or whether one drug played a greater part than another in causing his death.

"What you're looking at here is the cumulative effects of these medications together," she said.

via Breitbart

Crazy Tom Cruise Also A Sucker

I have conflicting emotions.

One one hand, I'm still emo over Heath, so anyone trying to take advantage of his death by posing as his father to get free schwag and condolences from movie stars disgusts me.

On the other, when it's Tom Cruise involved, that....that's just fucking gold:

Heath Ledger's father set about the sad task of gathering personal effects today from his son's SoHo apartment.

Kim Ledger, a race-car driver, was spotted today outside the apartment where his son died last week. He arrived in New York on a flight from LA yesterday.

While Ledger visited the apartment, police were still trying to find a twisted impostor pretending to be the grieving father. The imposter cruelly duped superstar Tom Cruise into consoling him over the phone - and nearly got John Travolta to buy him a plane ticket to the United States, sources told The Post.

To which Tommy replied:



via NY Post

John Gibson: Big Time Dbag

Fox's John Gibson on the death of Heath.

Douchebag.

W Turns Emo Over Heath

Bushie was gonna give an important speech on the dangers of prescrition drug abuse, but in light of the Heath saga, he's giving teh gayz a couple of days to sort things out:

White House press secretary Dana Perino said Bush's event had been scheduled for a while.

"We thought it would be better to postpone the event rather than run the risk of anyone thinking that we were being opportunistic in highlighting the issue," she said.

I really expected something more along the lines of this:



Huh.

via AP

Life is Not Fair

Heath Ledger dead, but Chris Crocker alive and doing this????????????????????




Dearest Jeebus:

We've all heard you work in mysterious ways, but this is a little much.

Put your thing down, flip it and reverse it.

Thanks,

brickbat

Obit

via Gawker

Too Much

First Brad

Now Heath.

I swear to fucking God, Macauly Culkin better be hiding in Dick Cheney's bunker. I don't know how much more of this shit I can take.

Heath, you will be missed:



via HuffPo