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With the recent announcement that James Gunn and Peter Safran are planning to reboot the DC Universe, fans are eager to know how their favorite superheroes will look on the silver screen. Since the producer has confirmed that Batman will debut in a new The Brave and the Bold film, the fandom has already fan-casted different actors who could definitely play the part. Additionally, fans can't help but look back and reflect on all the actors who played Batman before.

As of 2024, 10 different actors have portrayed the Caped Crusader in both live-action films and on television, with many more voicing Batman in animated and video game works. Some of them have starred in their own story, while others only served as guest stars on a show. Regardless of this, each performance brought something different to the hero. Their performances are a central part of what has made Batman as popular as he is today.

The various live-action Batman adaptations often feature Robin in some form, adapting the iconic sidekick almost as often as Batman himself. Robin is one of the most important supporting characters in the Batman mythos, with Dick Grayson being the first to use the moniker before being succeeded by others like Jason Todd and Tim Drake. Batman and the many iterations of Robin are particularly malleable characters, even compared to other DC and Marvel superheroes, allowing filmmakers to drastically reimagine them (or adhere to the comic source material) as they see fit without sacrificing authenticity.

While there are numerous live-action iterations of Robin (Dick Grayson or otherwise), two Batman franchises notably came close to including their own versions of Batman’s sidekick. Both of Tim Burton’s Batman movies nearly included Robin in some form, with Batman Returns initially set to have Marlon Wayans as an all-new iteration. While the plans never came to pass,...

Wes Anderson’s latest endeavor Asteroid City is making its crash-landing into theaters this Friday, June 23rd, and it has a fitting soundtrack to match. As a preview, Jarvis Cocker has shared one of his contributions to the film called “Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven),” a single he wrote with Anderson and his former Pulp bandmate Richard Hawley. The song also features Seu Jorge, who was prominently featured on the soundtrack for Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Considering Asteroid City takes place in a desert town in 1955, the soundtrack comes chock-full of period-setting tunes like classic bluegrass and country as well as mid-century pop. Along with a couple of originals from Cocker are songs by Bing Crosby, The Springfields (featuring a young Dusty Springfield), Burl Ives, Tex Ritter, and many more, as well as a score by Alexandre Desplat.

Cocker is just one of many voices...

Wes Anderson has done it all: India by train, Rhode Island by foot, the Mediterranean by sub, France by bike, faux-Germany by hotel, apple-orchard America by fox, animated Japan by dog, motel Texas by friends, New York City by family. But––despite the feeling that this couldn’t possibly be true––he’s never told a story in western America. In setting he hasn’t gone further west than Houston. Until Asteroid City: Arizona desert by quarantine.

Anderson’s 11th feature opens by railroad. Knowing the story will soon be confined in an all-too-familiar state of lockdown, however, longtime Dp Robert Yeoman uses the arrival to the tiny fictional town to capture and set the terrain. We’re yanked at high speed through a flurry of landscape shots framed through every angle under the sun on the mustard-yellow train and set to the jittery “Last Train to San...

Are you ready for deadpan line readings, symmetrical cinematography, yellow typography, and whimsy? Wes Anderson and a cast of a thousand stars are here for you.

To the tune of “Last Train to San Fernando” by Johnny Duncan and the Bluegrass Boys and “Freight Train” by Nancy Whiskey and Chas McDevitt’s Skiffle Group, Focus Features welcomes you to “Asteroid City,” a brightly-lit diorama of Sputnik-era Americana in a stargazer desert community.

Jason Schwartzman is back in the lead of an Anderson picture (he made his debut in 1998’s “Rushmore”) opposite Scarlett Johansson, making her first appearance in Wesworld. He’s playing a widower with three kids (who don’t know their mother is dead?) and she is a movie star. Other returning collaborators include Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Tony Revolori, Edward Norton, Fisher Stevens, Bryan Cranston, and Jeffrey Wright. Also in the mix with Johansson among the...

Batman has been adapted to film numerous times over since his 1939 debut, yet his movies have consistently struggled to get a live-action Robin right. With the announcement of the new Dcu projects, the upcoming Batman movie, The Brave and the Bold, looks to try once more to deliver a proper movie version of Robin. This will be the first time since the notorious flop of Batman & Robin that the movies have embraced Robin (aside from The Dark Knight Rises borderline use of the character). This speaks to the poor track record or the previous live-action Robin attempts.

Robin has existed in Batman comics for almost as long as Batman himself and is as important to the mythos as other Batman characters like Alfred and Commissioner Gordon. Off the page, Robin has featured in numerous media adaptations, from animated Batman TV shows to video games. The live-action Batman movies, however, have...

Few modern characters have captivated audiences and storytellers alike quite like Batman. Ever since writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane debuted the character in a 1939 issue of Detective Comics, the Dark Knight has demanded interest, first in comics, but soon also in TV, games and of course, movies. Because, goodness, there sure are a lot of Batman movies.

It didn’t take long for The Caped Crusader to arrive on film, making his theatrical debut all the way back in 1943 with a pair of Columbia Pictures serial films, and since then, the character’s cultural imprint has grown exponentially, with more than nine actors taking on the role in film – in fact, we’re about to have three live-action Batmen at the same time with the arrival of “The Flash.”

If that sounds like the Batman timeline is a confusing one, it can be, especially once the DC Multiverse opens up.

Sixty years ago today in Gary, Indiana, Michael Jackson was born. In his lifetime, which came to a tragic end in 2009, the son of Joe and Katherine Jackson became one of the world’s most popular entertainers, first with his brothers in the Jackson 5, then as a solo artist whose 1982 Thriller LP is the world’s best-selling album of all time. Although Jackson’s ties to country music may not be instantly evident, they certainly existed, largely due to his mother, who led her young children, pre-stardom, in sing-alongs to country songs,...

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Warner Bros. Pictures’ screen pairing of the world’s most iconic super heroes has at last answered the question “Who Will Win?” by winning over movie audiences and setting box office records around the world this weekend with an estimated worldwide box office total of $424.1 million.

Batman and Superman. Gotham and Metropolis. Lex Luthor, Doomsday and—for the first time ever on the big screen—Wonder Woman. With its stellar lineup of heroes and villains and bigger and better battles with even more at stake than the destruction of the Earth, Zack Snyder’s Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice is an epic Super Hero journey like no other.

Pit the two greatest heroes in the world against each other and the unthinkable becomes inevitable in the form of a truly seismic clash: Batman, the underground vigilante, a knight in the darkness,...

George Gaynes, the beloved character actor best known for his work in the “Police Academy” films and on “Punky Brewster,” died at his daughter’s home in North Bend, Washington. He was 98. His death Monday was confirmed by his daughter, Iya Gaynes Falcone Brown, according to the New York Times. Gaynes (above middle) starred as Cmdt. Eric Lassard in all seven of the “Police Academy” comedies, opposite Steve Guttenberg and Bubba Smith, as well as in a TV spin-off in 1998. Also Read: Johnny Duncan, 'Batman and Robin' Serial Actor, Dies at 92 He is also well known for his...

Johnny Duncan, who starred as Robin in the 1949 serial film “Batman and Robin,” has died. He was 92. According to a statement provided by his family, Duncan passed away at his Florida home on Feb. 8 with relatives by his side. Born on December 7, 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri, he learned to tap dance at an early age and helped provide for his family that way. Then, at the age of 15, he was discovered by a talent scout who sent his whole family to Hollywood. Also Read: Daniel Gerson, 'Big Hero 6' Screenwriter, Dies at 49 At 26, Duncan was...

Happy Batman Day, everyone! Around the world, May 1st may mark a spring holiday, but here, it marks the first appearance of the Dark Knight, in Detective Comics No. 27, in 1939.

For the past 76 years, the Caped Crusader has been fighting Gotham City evildoers in comic books, movies, TV shows, and pretty much anywhere else you can shine a Bat-signal. Throughout the years, Bruce Wayne's alter ego has gone through many incarnations, not just in actors (from Adam West to Michael Keaton to Christian Bale to Ben Affleck, among the many), but also in character, from haunted avenger to squeaky-clean do-gooder to campy clown to kinky prowler to world-weary fighter. He's due for yet another change this week, with the releases of DC's Batman No. 40 -- in which Bruce Wayne and the Joker finally kill each other (or do they?) and a special issue of DC's Divergence, where an undisclosed character...