This is the first poster for Chris Nolan’s Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. According to /Film‘s plot rumor…

“Inception is about entering peoples’ minds/dreams. A technology to do so has been developed and is done through an injection. DiCaprio and his team work to enter the minds of other characters in order to retrieve/plant information.”

As you can see, between the cityscape and the focus on a dude in a suit’s back, it looks a lot like The Dark Knight‘s first poster.  But that’s okay.  Chris Nolan advertising his new movie by reminding people of The Dark Knight is kind of like LeBron James picking up chicks by reminding them, “Hey, remember how I played basketball?”

[via /Film, CHUD.   Though if he wanted to remind people of Dark Knight, I would've gone with Harvey Dent Puppy]

Douchebags who work in marketing (or as I like to call them, “club promoters with day jobs”) need only pass out a few flyers to convince themselves that they’re visionary supergeniuses. So of course the people who worked on The Dark Knight are wasting no time falling all over each other to take credit for the film’s success. After the jump, check out the hilariously dramatic, self-congratulatory, faux-gritty video put together by the people at 42 Entertainment, the company that oversaw the “Why So Serious/Elect Harvey Dent” marketing campaign for The Dark Knight.  Or as they call it, “A transmedia experience with over 10 million participants in over 75 countries that played across hundreds of web pages, interactive games, mobile phones, print, email, real world events, video and unique collectibles.”

You got a bunch of dorks to dress up, play video games, and collect toys. Congratulations. I’d say that’s worth at least four dismissive wank motions.
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Okay, everyone, time to freak out! Chris Nolan’s next movie won’t be a Dark Knight sequel!

In a whopping seven-figure buy, Warner Bros. has nabbed “Inception,” a script written by Christopher Nolan as his next directing vehicle. Deal allows WB to keep the director of its 2008 top-grosser “The Dark Knight” in the studio fold and gives WB a big film for summer 2010. Nolan will begin production this summer on the project that Warner describes as a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind [Editor's Note: I loathe you, Variety writers]. The studio hopes to bring Nolan back for a third Batfilm, but the filmmaker hasn’t yet committed to doing that pic. [Variety]

What the f-ck! You make a great movie everyone loves and we demand you make a sequel and now this is how you repay us?  It’s almost as if this asshole wants to wait for a script or a good idea or some gay bullshit like that.  Screw him. Someone get Brett Ratner on the phone. Or just set up that spotlight with the silhouette of nachos on it and point it at the sky above West Hollywood. He’ll know what to do.

The nominations for the 81st Academy Awards have been released.  No best song for Springsteen?  Nothing for Eastwood? Encounters at the End of the World over Gonzo?  Have another chamomile, you pussies.

Best Picture: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor: Richard Jenkins, The Visitor, Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon, Sean Penn, Milk, Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Really?], Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married, Angelina Jolie, Changeling, Melissa Leo, Frozen River, Meryl Streep, Doubt, Kate Winslet, The Reader

Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, Milk, Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt, Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight, Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Doubt, Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Viola Davis, Doubt, Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon, Gus Van Sant, Milk  [MORE CATEGORIES AFTER THE JUMP…}

Wow.  Nice to see Mickey Rourke on there, but The Wrestler is a hell of a lot better than any of their best picture nominees.  Frost/Nixon?  Milk?  The Reader?  Is this an award for great filmmaking or the IMPORTANT STORY FROM HISTORY award?  And I’m sure you’ll all notice the Dark Knight snub.  Even if you don’t think it deserves a best picture nomination (I’m on the fence, myself), Chris Nolan still deserves a best director nod (this dismissive wank is for you, Ron Howard).  It’s much harder to make a believable movie about Batman than it is to make yet another holocaust masturbation.  Do they realize what they’ve done? They’ve made us bored.  With THE HOLOCAUST.  At some point, they may have to recruit some members of the Academy who aren’t a million years old.  Just a thought.

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The dude from MTV caught up with Aaron Eckhart outside the Golden Globes last night to ask him if Harvey Dent would have a place in The Dark Knight sequel.  Since the film’s still barely at the brainstorming stage, who really gives a shit.  There’s no way the actors would have that kind of information anyway.  Actually, the reason I’m posting this clip is that I’m impressed by MTV’s ability to consistently produce the most socially awkward interviews imaginable.  Starting at the three-second mark, Eckhart chuckles for seven straight seconds.  I know that doesn’t sound like a super long time, but keep in mind no one made a joke or said anything remotely funny.  Yet Eckhart clearly states, “Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.”

Does anyone ever give this guy a straight answer about anything?  That is the fakest laugh I’ve ever heard that didn’t come out of Tom Cruise.  MTV: Where normal human interaction goes to die.

[via MTV]