Warner Bros. Animation has shared the very first trailer for the forthcoming Batman movie Batman: The Killing Joke.
The animated featured-length is based on the highly controversial and highly acclaimed graphic novel of the same name. It explores Batman’s twisted relationship with the Joker, providing the origin story for the Clown Prince of Crime and focussing on the Joker’s shooting of Commissioner Gordon’s daughter Barbara.
It stars Kevin Conroy, Ray Wise, Mark Hamill and Tara Strong. A release date has yet to be announced.
Rihanna just released her video for ANTI highlight "Needed Me," a gift she's bestowing on the internet "just because it's 4/20." It's the third single she's released from the album to date — "Work" and "Kiss It Better" came first — and the video was directed by Harmony Korine, the director best known for 2013's lurid Florida fantasy Spring Breakers. (He's also directed videos for Cat Powerand Sonic Youth.) She teased the video on Twitterand Instagram early this morning, and the NSFW label definitely applies here — there's plenty of nudity and violence crammed into three minutes.
"Needed Me" really does feel like something of a Spring Breakers sequel, one that happens to feature one of the biggest pop stars on the planet (sorry, Selena Gomez): it's full of mask-wearing gunmen, motorcycles ripping through shabby neighborhoods, and dimly lit strip club scenes. Rihanna's clearly in charge, whether she's strutting through the club with a pistol like she owns the place or lounging around a beachfront condo in some kind of sheer gown. She heads into the back room and takes down her adversary with a few shots to the head, and it's a chilling, bloody scene. "Work" is still riding high on top of the Billboard charts, but "Needed Me" is one of the best songs on ANTI, and this video might be compelling enough to help Rihanna take her own place at the Hot 100's peak.
We might know what Benedict Cumberbatchlooks like as the character, but how does he act as Doctor Strange with all the mystery and magic surrounding him? Now is the first chance to sort of find out as the teaser trailer for Marvel's Doctor Strange has arrived, though it concentrates on Strange before he assumes his true powers.
You may well know the story by now, but just in case... Talented, arrogant New York surgeon Stephen Strange's world is rocked when he's badly hurt in a car accident. Looking to help regain his skills, he turns to an unusual mystic and healer known as The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton). Chiwetel Ejiofor is fellow sorcery student (and potential future rival) Baron Mordo, while Rachel McAdams as another New York-based medic who serves as Strange’s main connection back to humanity. And then there's Mads Mikkelsen as the still-unknown villain of this first outing.
We're promised a lot of weirdness for this one that the trailer only hints at, since Strange's experience expands to encompass various dimensions (including the Quantum Realm first glimpsed in Ant-Man's climactic scenes) and director Scott Derrickson plans to make full use of 3D to bring it all to life. That's for the film itself, though; for now enjoy Cumberbatch standing with his back to us (it's something of a habit) contemplating the Window of Worlds on the poster for the movie.
Doctor Strange will hit UK cinemas on October 28 before arriving in the US on November 4.
