New WhySoSerious.com Page: /steprightup; ‘The Dark Knight’ Prologue Revealed

HollywoodChicago.com — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:40:42 -0700

Moments ago, I received via e-mail from humanresources@whysoserious.com a new WhySoSerious.com message and code for “The Dark Knight” viral marketing.

Heads up, clown! Tomorrow means that there’s one last shifty step left in the interview process: Arwoeufgryo

By moving each letter one to the right on a QWERTY keyboard, the word “steprightup” is spelled.

This led to a new WhySoSerious.com page at the URL www.whysoserious.com/steprightup with a countdown to 12 p.m. EST on Dec. 4 along with a stuffed monkey with an exposed stomach.

If you set your system clock to noon on Tuesday (as was the answer to the /mausoleum riddle), the countdown changes to zero and nothing happens.

In other news, Wizard revealed the first six minutes of “The Dark Knight” from a screening shown in New York City. Warning: Spoilers follow.

Kicking off with a sweeping shot of downtown Gotham, the camera zooms in above a few buildings before focusing in on a single, traditional skyscraper covered in windows.

Suddenly, one window in the skyscraper explodes outward [and exposes] two criminals inside.

Donning clown masks and standing with a rifle, the two criminals shoot a grappling hook across a busy street below to the next building: the Gotham National Bank.

The two then slide across using a zip line.

On the street below, a man stands [with] his face unseen as the shot creeps up from behind [and] a clown mask slung in his grip. A van suddenly screeches up before he climbs inside and the van hauls off again.

Inside, there are now three men all wearing clown masks. They begin negatively discussing their boss and how he’s sitting out the heist.

“The guy thinks he can sit out and get a cut?,” laughs one man. “Must be why they call him the Joker!”

Back on the bank’s roof, the two men we first saw now shimmy into the bank’s security wiring while also discussing the boss.

“Why do you think they call him Joker?,” asks one. “I hear it’s [because] he wears make-up,” answers the other. “Like war paint.”

Suddenly – below – the three men blast into the bank. [They demand] money and [command] everybody to the floor.

Back on the roof, the two criminals intercept the outgoing emergency alarm set off by an employee. After they cancel its signal, one of the men shoots the other and heads inside for the vault.

Back inside, the clown gunmen hand all the hostages live grenades. “We wouldn’t want your hands free, would we?,” asks one with a laugh.

Continue reading the prologue description here.

New Joker Photo; ‘The Dark Knight’ on The Today Show; Betty’s House of Pies; The Perfect Getaway; Church Site

HollywoodChicago.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:15:01 -0700

Wizard on Friday released the cover of its upcoming 2008 movie spectacular magazine. The cover features a new look at Heath Ledger as the Joker in “The Dark Knight”.

The magazine, which will hit comic stores on Dec. 5 and newsstands on Dec. 18, features 13 pages of “The Dark Knight” coverage including the first official set visit and a Christian Bale profile.

In other Friday news, new footage on “The Dark Knight” from The Today Show surfaced on YouTube. The segment features an interview with Bale on his interpretation of Batman.

We also hear from Aaron Eckhart and Chris Nolan and see the new batsuit. The segment, which aired on Nov. 30, is embedded below.

Also, a new viral site called Betty’s House of Pies has just launched at BettysHouseOfPies.com with reservations@bettyshouseofpies.com and the phone number 866-237-6152 listed as well.

When you e-mail reservations@bettyshouseofpies.com, you receive this automatic response: “We don’t take reservations from e-mail anymore because nobody ever checked and people just got mad.”

After submitting a tip earlier at WeAreTheAnswer.org, I just received a threatening phone call from 000-000-0000. While I typed it as fast as possible, I couldn’t catch everything. This is what I did catch:

We heard about the message you left at the DA’s office. I know you have some big ideas about being a good citizen. No one likes a squeeler. You know nothing.

They’re out there putting their lives on the line so you can sleep OK … and you’re laying in your bed. Let’s see what happens the next time you need someone in blue.

Think about who they are. Check document LC6551. You know where to look.

An online search for LC6551 reveals these documents:

LC6551 .R39 2005
Ray, Angela G.
Lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States.
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2005.

LC6551 .R54 2003
Rieser, Andrew Chamberlin.
Chautauqua moment: Protestants, progressives and the culture of modern liberalism.
New York: Columbia University Press, c2003.

LC6551 .T27 1997
Tapia, John E., 1950-
Circuit chautauqua: from rural education to popular entertainment in
early twentieth century America.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c1997.

The final 26 seconds of the message have just been recorded and posted to YouTube. This is courtesy of AXB Enterprises. Listen below.

Also, a site for St. Swithuns Catholic Church – the oldest Catholic church in Gotham – has launched at www.saintswithunschurch.org. I learned about this site from here.

Even more, yet another WhySoSerious.com page just emerged on Friday at www.whysoserious.com/theperfectgetaway using maps that span the various Gotham sites.

Wizard Entertainment

New WhySoSerious.com Page: /steprightup; ‘The Dark Knight’ Prologue Revealed

New Joker Photo; ‘The Dark Knight’ on The Today Show; Betty’s House of Pies; The Perfect Getaway; Church Site