Aurora cinema massacre may have been inspired by a Batman comic book strip, it emerged on Friday. The bloodbath is a chilling copycat of a 1986 Batman comic strip which features a deranged gunman opening fire in a cinema. In the second issue of The Dark Knight Returns, written by Frank Miller – the creative mind behind Sin City and 300 – gunman Arnold Crimp opens fire in a pornographi…
A collection of early comic books has been sold for $3.5 million at auction in New York. The trove of 345 comics had been bought by the late Billy Wright from Virginia when he was a boy. A copy of Detective Comics No. 27, which was sold for 10 cents in 1939 and featured Batman’s debut, got the top bid on Wednesday – raising $523,000. The “jaw-dropping” collection was found last year w…
New reports give details about James Holmes, the psychotic gunman who killed 12 people at a screening of the new Batman film on Thursday night. James Holmes, 24, was a PhD student who was described as “really smart” but was in the process of dropping out of graduate school at the University of Colorado Denver. He is said to have had few friends and barely any social life, instead spending hours i…
Batman was pulled over earlier this week after Montgomery police saw he had no tags on his black Lamborghini. Lenny B. Robinson, the man dressed as Batman, was heading to a local children’s hospital, according to Montgomery County Captain Paul Starks. According to Capt. Paul Starks, a man dressed as Batman was pulled over on Interstate 29 in Montgomery, Maryland, outside of Washington, DC. “An of…
…out in 1978, Joe Shuster was so poor he was working for a delivery company. It was a box-office success followed by four more Superman films and a Supergirl version. Another is due for release in June 2013. Although $130 is around $2,300 in today’s money, it is a tiny fraction of what the character has earned since then. The heirs of the creators Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster are still invol…
Reality star Honey Boo Boo has been immortalized in cartoon form, in a garish new comic book titled 15 Minutes. The colorful 23-page magazine charts seven-year-old Honey Boo Boo over the past 11 months, from her TV debut in Toddlers and Tiara’s to landing her very own reality show. Explaining his inspiration, writer and illustrator Michael Troy said: “Andy Warhol’s quote about 15 minutes of…
Jessie J showed off her newly shaved head on Friday night’s Comic Relief show. Jessie J said that having no hair was “the weirdest feeling” and proudly rocked the look on stage on the live show. After having her hair cut, Jessie J emerged to speak to hosts Dermot O’Leary and Claudia Winkleman about how she was feeling. As Dermot O’Leary stroked her head she said: “That feels nice. It…
p sketch has since been removed from the BBC’s iPlayer. Comic Relief sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson as the Archbishop of Canterbury has drawn more than 2,200 complaints The BBC received almost 3,000 complaints in total over the charity fundraising night of programming. Other complaints over the event – which drew a peak audience of 12.2 million people – involved another sketch…
This year’s Comic Relief charity telethon raised a record £75 million ($120 million) so far. Comedian Lenny Henry, the founder of the Red Nose Day fundraiser which is now in its 25th year, kicked off the live show on BBC One. Simon Cowell, Jessie J, comedian Peter Kay and One Direction all made appearances. There were also reinterpretations of hit TV shows The Vicar of Dibley and Call the Midwife…
At least 14 people have been killed in a shooting at Batman film The Dark Knight Rises premiere in Denver, Colorado, police say. About 50 people have been injured in the incident, police say. Witnesses say a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire at the cinema complex in Aurora, at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. There are reports the gunman released a smoke bomb during the incident….
David Brent made his big return on Comic Relief after he was off screens for 10 years. David Brent made famous appearing on The Office used his time back in the limelight to debut a political reggae song called Equality Street. Ricky Gervais resurrected his popular character for the fundraising fun and viewers learned that the former General Manager of Wernham–Hogg paper merchants is now a cleani…
US begin to mourn the 12 people killed by a gunman at a showing of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, and a candlelit vigil has been held in Aurora, Colorado. US President Barack Obama ordered flags flown at half mast. A man in a gas mask and body armour threw tear gas canisters at a midnight screening, then fired on the crowd, killing 12 and injuring 58. Suspect James Holmes, 24, was ar…
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outside. James Holmes was said to be armed with a rifle, a shotgun and two pistols when he launched his assault on the midnight screening of the new Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises. He also bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet, Dan Oates said. The police chief said that all weapons and ammunition were purchased legally within the past few months, and that the suspect had receive…
ass shooting at a midnight showing of the film in Colorado on Friday. Projected figures suggested the film would make an estimated $173 million, based on Friday receipts. Twelve people were killed and 58 hurt in the attack at a cinema in Aurora. The Dark Knight Rises made an estimated $160 million at US and Canadian box offices in its opening weekend The top two highest-ever openings were both 3-…
…n things get complicated. Based on an Internet meme, the film was praised at this year’s Sundance Festival and has “indie sleeper” written all over it. 13. Savages Release Date: July 6 Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, Emile Hirsch The Scoop: Oliver Stone is going back to the crazy-ass, hallucinogenic vibe of “Natural Born Killers” with this tawdry…
Will Smith angrily slapped camp comic Vitalii Sediuk on the face after he tried to kiss him on the lips on the red carpet in Russia yesterday. Will Smith, 43, was walking the press line in Moscow to promote Men In Black 3 when Ukrainian TV prankster Vitalii Sediuk stopped him to give him a hug and attempted to kiss him. He managed to dodge two lunges, with each kiss landing on his cheek, before h…
t confirmed this. Police said the suspect had acted with “calculation and deliberation”, adding that he had been stockpiling ammunition for months. Over the course of eight weeks he bought 6,300 rounds of ammunition: 3,000 for a .233 semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, 3,000 for two .40 Glock 22 pistols and 300 cartridges for a pump-action shotgun. James Holmes bought the four weapons legally….
…s by TOPSHOP and black suede heels with a black Ralph Lauren jacket pushed up at the sleeves. The trio have brought with them to the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, 500 guests, both children and adults, associated with some of the charities they support. The royal party were first shown props and costumes from the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. Princes Willi…
James Holmes, the suspect gunman at Aurora cinema, has been formally charged with 142 criminal counts in one of America’s worst mass shootings. James Holmes, 24, faces 24 counts of murder, two for each of the 12 people killed, and 116 counts of attempted murder, two each for the 58 injured. For each person killed he faces a count of murder with deliberation and one of murder with extreme in…
outside. James Holmes was said to be armed with a rifle, a shotgun and two pistols when he launched his assault on the midnight screening of the new Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises. He also bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition over the internet, Dan Oates said. All weapons and ammunition were purchased legally within the past few months, he said. Thirty people remained in hospital, Colorado Gover…
Kim Kardashian was out shopping for Halloween outfits on Sunday in Miami and tweeted a picture of herself in a revealing tiger costume. Kim Kardashian, 31, took the Instagram snap in the mirror of the changing room, and putting every inch of her famous curves on display in the process. The skintight catsuit was sheer in the middle area, revealing Kim Kardashian’s enviable cleavage and stoma…
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