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THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

Here’s a new full-length trailer for the final chapter in the Batman trilogy. It’s a real slow burner, but based on the depth of the story, I expect the actual film to be a real head turner.

THE FLOWERS OF WAR

From acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou, comes this film based on the historical novel 13 Flowers of Nanking. The film is a work of historical fiction, though it’s based on the very real Nanking Massacre in 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Christian Bale stars an American priest at a western church in Nanking where a group of young Chinese schoolgirls and 13 courtesans take refuge to protect themselves from the invading Imperial Japanese Army. The film is China’s entry to the forthcoming Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film, as it only contains about 40% English dialogue, with the remainder being a mix of Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. It is also China’s most expensive production to date, with a budget of $94 million. It was announced just over a month ago that the film would have U.S. distribution, so it will commence it’s Oscar-qualifying run in New York on December 21 and expand to Los Angeles and San Francisco on December 23. It is expected to expand to more markets in 2012, though no further dates have currently been announced.