In the early 2000s, some of the biggest blockbuster franchises were in trouble. 2002's "Die Another Day," widely considered the worst James Bond movie, had almost finished off 007 for good just five ...

“From the beginning, my interest was in taking on a superhero story but grounding it in reality, never looking at it as a comic book movie, but rather as any other action/adventure film,” Nolan said, ...

The year was 2003, and Batman was at his lowest ebb. After Tim Burton’s two films in 1989 and 1992 successfully reinvented the Caped Crusader on the big screen, something seemed to have gone awry.