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Batman: Year One (2011)
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IMDbScooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010)
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IMDbThe Glass Menagerie (2010)
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YouTubeSouthland (2009-2010)
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IMDbThe Eight Percent (2009)
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Whenever a band breaks up it’s especially hard on all the members, when one of the guys in the group is just too old for the group, that’s when it gets really tough.
A link to the video was posted by Ben himself via his new twitter account, @ben_mckenzie. In his latest tweet Ben wrote:
Boarding a plane back from Europe to the states. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the short…in 12 hours.
So be sure to tell Ben what you thought of the video.
The next animated feature from DC Entertainment and Warner Premiere will be the adaption of the acclaimed Batman story from Frank Miller, with Bryan Cranston, Ben McKenzie, Eliza Dushku and Katee Sackhoff lending their voices to the main characters.
Batman: Year One — otherwise known simply as Year One — is a 1987 comic book story arc written by Frank Miller and illustrated by David Mazzucchelli. The story finds a young Bruce Wayne who has spent his adolescence and early adulthood traveling the world so he could hone his body and mind into the perfect fighting and investigative machine. But now as he returns to Gotham City, he must find a way to focus his passion and bring justice to his city.
Retracing Batman’s first attempts to fight injustice as a costumed vigilante, we watch as he chooses a guise of a giant bat, creates an early bond with a young Lieutenant James Gordon, inadvertently plays a role in the birth of Catwoman, and helps to bring down a corrupt political system that infests Gotham.
Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston will voice Jim Gordon, while Ben McKenzie is Bruce Wayne/Batman. Dollhouse’s Eliza Dushku will play Catwoman, and fan-favorite actress Katie Sackhoff will voice Detective Sarah Essen, a love interest to Gordon. Alex Rocco has also been announced to be playing crime lord Carmine Falcone.
Bruce Timm previously confirmed that a Catwoman short would be attached to the feature. Batman: Year One is directed by Lauren Montgomery and Sam Liu and scribed by Tab Murphy. The animated film will be rated PG-13 and is due out in this fall but will make it’s world premiere at the San Diego Comic-Con in July.
Ben McKenzie, this month’s Guest Programmer, has become a television superstar thanks to his roles as Ryan Atwood in Fox’s teen drama The O.C. and as Ben Sherman in the gritty crime series Southland, currently showing on TNT. McKenzie also has earned awards and solid reviews for his acting in such films as Junebug (2005), 88 Minutes (2008) and Johnny Got His Gun (2008).
Film fan McKenzie says programming movies from the vast TCM library is “hard work,” and he has settled on an eclectic mix of dramas and comedies that span the decades. He tells host Robert Osborne that Terrence Malick’s atmospheric thriller Badlands (1973) is one of his all-time favorites and “one of the reasons I became an actor.” As a fan of sports movies, McKenzie admires both the book This Sporting Life and the 1963 film version starring Richard Harris in a “terrific” performance as a tough rugby player.
For a comic change of pace McKenzie picks Duck Soup (1933) because, with the Marx Brothers, “Everything is on the table–they will make fun of absolutely everything. This one takes aim at the political establishment, government, war.” McKenzie first saw David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) on television as a youngster and enjoyed its adventure, then later came to appreciate its “great performances” and stirring themes of “patriotism, loyalty and honor.”
Batman: Year One (2011)
Southland (2009-2010)
Sin Bin (2010)
The Eight Percent (2009)
Johnny Got His Gun (2008)
