Dark Knight Week Begins with Batmobile!

Jill Priluck

It's really finally happening, isn't it? First the Bat Signal hyped up the Woolworth Building, now the Batmobile is in town for the The Dark Knight world premiere tonight. The full-size toy was spotted outside the AMC Loews Lincoln Square theater – the one with the IMAX – earlier today. Our correspondent tells us that "handlers were in the process of covering it because people taking pictures wouldn't stop photographing it. When people asked why, the handlers said: 'Because you guys won't listen!'" Fools – just try and stop us from giving your movie more free publicity!

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By John Del Signore in Arts and Events on July 14, 2008 2:31 PM

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fancastfan

Those are the same PAs who try to stop people from walking down the street or in Central Park as if they have a legal right to do it, because, you know, they're working on Gossip Girl or something - oh wait, they're wearing a baseball cap and have a walkie talkie, I guess they're Spielberg! Cool car/prop though and check out this fun little free Dark Knight video game, you're on a motorcycle shooting at the Joker's henchmen in a van ahead of you. I thought I was doing ok but came in at something like 647th place - oy

http://www.comcast.net/thedarkknightmovie/game/

JoeSchumacher

Weird, since they had no problems with people taking pictures of the car in Niagara Falls.

Spirit of 76

I watched Batman Begins and can't remember a single thing about it. It made about as much of an impression as Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. That is the ugliest Batmobile ever and you couldn't pay me to take pictures of it.

The Edge

Well, that's why they're PA's and not actually making their own films...

zodak

what the hell did they expect people to do when they saw it??

JenChungsBaby

Production assistants/whatever are so fucking stupid. Did they really think people wouldn't take pictures of it? Or that they could tell people to stop?

Toby von Meistersinger

The picture is quite interesting only because I once knew a girl from the Bronx with the last name of Mazzella (take a look at the truck in the background). I can't remember her first name, but her brother worked for the TA.

meL

When you put something eyecatching out on public display, what do you expect people to do? Unless people were going up to it, touching and climbing, let them take their pictures.