One of the most important private collections of iconic TV show costumes has achieved $3.2m (£2.4m) in sales. The highlight of Dr. Stewart Berkowitz’s legendary collection saw the original Adam West “Batman” and Burt Ward “Robin” costume ensembles together fetch a remarkable $575k (£436k). Heritage Auctions offered more than 300 pieces from the New Jersey-based … Read more
Always Robin to his Batman. Chris O’Donnell, best known for playing Robin in the two “Batman” movies starring George Clooney and Val Kilmer, is opening up about his late co-star. “He was just an intense, amazing actor,” O’Donnell, 55, exclusively told The Post about Kilmer. Val Kilmer as Batman, Chris O’Donnell as Robin in “Batman … Read more
He’s going from the Batmobile to a fire truck. Chris O’Donnell, best known for playing Robin in the two 1990s “Batman” movies starring George Clooney and Val Kilmer, takes center stage in “9-1-1: Nashville.” Premiering Thursday, Oct. 9 on ABC (9 p.m.) and streaming the next day on Hulu, the show is the latest spinoff … Read more
The Bat-Signal is on. “The Batman: Part II” starring Robert Pattinson will finally begin filming in the spring of 2026, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed in a letter to shareholders on Thursday, per Variety. The sequel is set to be released on Oct. 1, 2027, the company stated. Robert Pattinson in “The Batman.” ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett … Read more
“The Dark Knight Rises” actor Alon Aboutboul has died, The Post can confirm. He was 60. Aboutboul collapsed and died on HaBonim Beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday morning, according to The Jerusalem Post. Onlookers claimed the Israeli actor was swimming in the water, and when he came out, he told people he was … Read more
Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman had Danny DeVito purring. The actor, 80, revealed he pined after his co-star, 67, when the two filmed the 1992 film “Batman Returns.” DeVito sat down with Colin Farrell to swap “Batman” stories for Variety’s “Actors on Actors,” published on Monday, June 2, and divulged his secret crush. Danny DeVito and … Read more
Jim Carrey is remembering his “Batman Forever” co-star Val Kilmer after the actor’s death from pneumonia at the age of 65 on Tuesday. “I’m remembering Val Kilmer today with great admiration for him as a man and as a generational talent who left us an enviable legacy of indelible acting performances,” Carrey, 63, said in … Read more
In June 1995 a pop confection hit thousands of movie screens. It seemed to embody what both boosters and critics have identified as that decade’s end-of-history nonchalance. It was, of all things, a Batman movie. And holding it together, the sturdy straight man surrounded by abject goofiness, was Val Kilmer, the actor who died at … Read more
Val Kilmer fueled nostalgia in his final Instagram post just weeks before his death at 65. Kilmer died after a battle with pneumonia on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, his daughter Mercedes confirmed. In a video shared on his social media account, Kilmer could be seen sitting next to a painting he made … Read more
Val Kilmer, the California-born, Juilliard-trained actor who starred in films including “Top Gun,” “The Doors,” “Tombstone” and “Batman Forever” and earned a reputation as a Hollywood bad boy, has died, the New York Times reported. He was 65. The cause of death was pneumonia, the paper said, citing his daughter Mercedes Kilmer. Kilmer was one … Read more
“Most actors recognize there’s something different in Val than meets the eye,” Mr. Stone said in a 2007 interview for a segment of the television series “Biography.” David Mamet, the playwright and screenwriter who directed Mr. Kilmer in the political thriller “Spartan” (2004), added, “What Val has as an actor is something that the really, … Read more
Ben Affleck won’t be responding to the Bat Signal — ever again. The Oscar-winning actor made his debut as the Dark Knight in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” before reprising the role in films like 2017’s “Justice League” and 2023’s “The Flash,” but he’ll never be Batman. Affleck opened up about the “excruciating experience” … Read more
Holy sticker shock, Batman! Warner Brothers is giving comic book fans a chance to buy their own customized version of the Batmobile — but they’ll need awfully deep pockets. Replicas of the Caped Crusader’s pride and joy — the one seen in Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy — are being manufactured at a whopping $2,990,000 per tank. … Read more
The new owner of the home where Matthew Perry died will not remove a “Batman” logo the actor installed in the pool. The Pacific Palisades house sold almost exactly one year after Perry died at the property on Oct. 28, 2023, fetching $8.5 million in an off-market deal, according to the New York Times. In an … Read more
He’s not having it. John Turturro, who was in the 2022 movie “The Batman,” said that he opted out of reprising his role in the HBO spinoff series, “The Penguin.” “I did what I wanted to with the role,” Turtorro, 67, told Variety. “In the show, there was a lot of violence towards women, and … Read more
Superheroes are saving the real world, too. A study published in The Journal of Psychology in August found that superhero movies can promote prosocial behavior — actions that benefits other people or society as a whole. Researchers wanted to see how the films that are typically filled with violence affect viewers in terms of empathy and … Read more
Why so serious? Heath Ledger had just wrapped playing The Joker in 2008’s “The Dark Knight” when he moved on to work with Andrew Garfield in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” — and he knew the DC Comics film would be a success. “He had just done the ‘Joker,’ he had just finished doing ‘The Dark … Read more
Colin Farrell pulls off his biggest chameleon act yet, disappearing beneath makeup and prosthetics to look unrecognizable in HBO’s “The Penguin.” “It wasn’t limiting, it was so the opposite,” Farrell, 48, exclusively told The Post. “It was such a liberating experience, to be so submerged beneath all that stuff. I felt like I had full … Read more
Here’s your chance to take hero worship to the next level. Iconic props and costumes from the likes of “Harry Potter,” “Batman,” “Spider-Man” and “Captain America” are among the bevy of items up for bid Sunday on the final day of San Diego Comic-Con. An original USO shield used by Chris Evans in Marvel’s 2011 “Captain … Read more
Warner Bros Entertainment didn’t steal the plot for its 2022 blockbuster “The Batman” from a writer who created a story about the Caped Crusader three decades earlier, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday. US District Judge Paul Engelmayer also said the writer Christopher Wozniak infringed copyrights belonging to DC Comics, which employed him as … Read more