Terrence Malick's The New World ( 2005 ) and Christopher Nolan's latest three movies, The Dark Knight ( featured 28 minutes of IMAX footage ), Inception, and The Dark Knight Rises ( over an hour in IMAX ).

Also in 2010, DiCaprio starred in director Christopher Nolan's science-fiction film Inception.

Caine played Nigel Powers in the 2002 parody Austin Powers in Goldmember, and more recently portrayed Alfred Pennyworth, the butler in Christopher Nolan's the Dark Knight trilogy.

In 2007 he appeared in Flawless, while in 2008 and 2012 he reprised his role as Alfred in Christopher Nolan's critically acclaimed Batman sequels, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises as well as starring in the British drama Is Anybody There ?, which explores the final days of life.

Caine appeared in Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller Inception as Prof. Stephen Miles, Cobb's ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) mentor and father-in-law.

Zimmer is also noted for his work on the scores of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins ( 2005 ) and The Dark Knight ( 2008 ), on which he collaborated with James Newton Howard.

Zimmer also composed the score for The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy.

Guy Edward Pearce ( born 5 October 1967 ) is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L. A.

* Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight ( 2008 ).

* It was rumored that David Tennant, Johnny Depp, Eddie Murphy or Joseph Gordon-Levitt would play Riddler in the third sequel to Christopher Nolan's trilogy of Batman, but was dropped in favor of Bane, Catwoman and Talia al Ghul.

He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.

The house has appeared in many films, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil ( 1985 ), Slipstream ( 1989 ), Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut ( 1999 ), Philip Kaufman's Marquis de Sade biopic Quills ( 2000 ), The Mummy Returns ( 2001 ), Ali G Indahouse ( 2002 ), Johnny English ( 2003 ), and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins ( 2005 ), where it was used as the gothic Wayne Manor.

* Liam Neeson makes a cameo appearance as Ra's al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final entry in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy.

At the end of 2009, The Onions AV Club rated Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as the number one film of the 2000s, beating out the likes of Christopher Nolan's Memento and the Coen Brothers ' No Country for Old Men.

In 2012, he appeared in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises as Deputy Commissioner Peter Foley, a Gotham City police officer and peer to Gary Oldman's Commissioner James Gordon.

In early 2011 Manganiello was asked to screen test for the title role of Superman in Zach Snyder and Christopher Nolan's reboot, Superman: Man of Steel but due to scheduling problems with True Blood he was forced out of the running in the final stage.

In 2012, Mendelsohn played the supporting role of John Daggett in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.

* It was rumored that Tom Hardy would play Killer Croc in the third sequel to Christopher Nolan's trilogy of Batman.

Mentmore Towers was used for exterior shots in Christopher Nolan | Nolan's Batman Begins.

After a role in David Cronenberg's eXistenZ ( 1999 ), his first international success on the big screen was his appearance as the thug Dodd in Christopher Nolan's Memento ( 2000 ).

* Lucius is played by Morgan Freeman in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy of films.

Since that time caper movies have been shot in many variations, ranging from light-hearted folly of the 1960s classic like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with its cast of clowns led by Jimmy Durante and the British made Crooks and Coronets to darker, more challenging treatments introducing innovative ways of craftsmanship, such as Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs or Christopher Nolan's Inception.

Other series discarded the continuities of previously released films and began a reboot, most notably Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins ( 2005 ) as well as Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk ( 2008 ) and Lexi Alexander's Punisher: War Zone ( 2008 ).

The next Batman film from Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Rises, is the sequel to Christopher Nolan's film The Dark Knight, and was released on July 20, 2012 in the second position while the third was occupied by reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man, directed by Marc Webb and produced for Columbia Pictures.

One notable example occurred in 2000, when DC Comics refused to allow permission for the reprinting of four panels ( from Batman # 79, 92, 105 and 139 ) to illustrate Christopher York's paper All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s.

The result was Batman Returns which featured Michael Keaton returning as the Dark Knight, and a new triad of villains: Danny DeVito ( as the Penguin ), Michelle Pfeiffer ( as Catwoman ) and Christopher Walken as Max Shreck, an evil corporate tycoon and original character created for the film ( similar to Superman IIIs Ross Webster ).

Caine is a frequent collaborator with director Christopher Nolan, having appeared in five of the filmmaker's eight films: Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, and The Dark Knight Rises.

On 7 November 2008, former Batman Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan began looking into the possibility of suing Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and Warner Bros., distributor of the films, claiming the studios had been using " Batman ", the name of the superhero, without permission from the city, and " placing the blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the films ' success has had on the city's inhabitants.

The creators of both Batman Begins and Rise of the Planet of the Apes also stated their intent to dispense with the continuity of the previous films so they would exist as separate pieces of work, with Christopher Nolan — director of Batman Begins — explicitly stating he does not consider it a prequel.

* Christopher Nolan, film director ( Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception )

In 2012 Hasbro and PPW Toys have a plan to release Mr Potato Head in his Batman forum for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie The Dark Knight Rises which comes out on July 20th, 2012, They are working together and are doing a tie-in to the upcoming movie, They are going to be making the toy and it's in development, The toy itself will be called The Dark Spud and will have Mr Potato Head dressed up as the Caped Crusader for the movie, He will include a cape, A mask, A utility belt, And of course a batarang to hold in his left hand, But also he was unveiled at the New York 2012 Toy Fair and was on display!

Murphy and Combs, are likely references to actors who have portrayed Scarecrow in the past ( Cillian Murphy in the Christopher Nolan Trilogy, and Jeffery Combs in The New Batman Adventures ).

In the case of Superman, it was Donner who insisted the subject of the comic book superhero should be treated " straight " rather than " camp ", an approach that strongly influenced later genre directors such as Tim Burton ( Batman, Batman Returns ), Bryan Singer ( X-Men, X2 ), and Christopher Nolan ( Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises ), who have made successful superhero films of their own.

Percy Toplis the The Monocled Mutineer, founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Planters mascot Mr. Peanut, Batman series antagonist Oswald Cobblepot ( also known as The Penguin ), Portuguese President António de Spínola, filmmakers Fritz Lang and Erich Von Stroheim, prominent 19th century Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz, Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, actor Conrad Veidt, Dadaists Tristan Tzara and Raoul Hausmann, esotericist Julius Evola, French collaborationist politician Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, criminal Percy Toplis, Poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, singer Richard Tauber, diplomat Christopher Ewart-Biggs ( a smoked-glass monocle, to disguise his glass eye ), Major Johnnie Cradock, actors Ralph Lynn and George Arliss, Karl Marx and Milburn Pennybags.

The Christopher Nolan Batman movies, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Doctor Who franchises have each had two nominations, but no wins.

Ra's al Ghul has been featured in various media adaptions, most notably the 2005 Christopher Nolan film, Batman Begins, where he was portrayed by actors Liam Neeson and Ken Watanabe ( the latter being an expendable decoy ).

In Christopher Nolan's 2005 film Batman Begins, Batman initially ' improvises ' a Bat-Signal by draping crime boss Carmine Falcone over a spotlight at the docks after defeating him, his shredded and spread-out coat making the light look like a bat.

* Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins merges Henri Ducard with Ra's al Ghul as the film's main antagonist.

In Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins ( 2005 ) the city's symbolic centre is a skyscraper built by Bruce Wayne's father.

Lopez ( as " Mafia ") and Mack appeared on The Era of Honor Begins, the inaugural Ring of Honor event, on February 23, 2002, attacking the Christopher Street Connection.

Wiener Staatsoper added it to its repertoire in January 2012 in a production by Jérome Deschamps conducted by Ingo Metzmacher starring Christopher Ventris as Jimmy and Angelika Kirchschlager as Jenny, notably casting young mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman as Begbick, breaking the tradition of having a veteran soprano ( like Varnay or Jones ) or musical theater singer ( like Patti LuPone ) perform the role.

These uniforms differentiated them from the Army and the Regular RIC, and gave rise to the force's nickname: Christopher O ' Sullivan wrote in the Limerick Echo on 25 March 1920 that, meeting a group of recruits on a train at Limerick Junction, the attire of one reminded him of the Scarteen Hunt, whose " Black and Tans " nickname derived from the coloration of its Kerry Beagles.

Born in Germany before WWII of a German mother and an American father, Christopher joins the CIA after the war and becomes one of its most effective spies.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

The dish called cassoulet has its roots in the New World discovery of haricot beans, which are central to the dish's creation, but had not existed outside of the New World until its exploration by Christopher Columbus.

Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

In terms of internal church affairs, Sergius rebuilt the Lateran Palace, which had been shattered by an earthquake in 896, and then stripped of its treasures by the Antipope Christopher.

The success of these pavilions further influenced the 1967 Universal exhibition in Montreal, commonly referred to as Expo 67, where multi-screen highlights included In the Labyrinth, hailed by Time magazine as a " stunning visual display ," their review concluding: " such visual delights as Labyrinth ... suggest that cinema — the most typical of 20th century arts — has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities ," as well as A Place to Stand, which displayed Christopher Chapman's pioneering " multi-dynamic image technique " of shifting multiple images.

Later archaeologists, including Christopher Chippindale of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge and Brian Edwards of the University of the West of England, campaigned to give the public more knowledge of the various restorations and in 2004 English Heritage included pictures of the work in progress in its book Stonehenge: A History in Photographs.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

Christopher Columbus followed directly in this tradition in his belief that he had found the Garden of Eden when, towards the end of the 15th century, he first encountered the New World and its indigenous inhabitants.

* June 23 – Copenhagen opens its gates to Count Christopher of Oldenburg leading the army of Lübeck ( and the Hanseatic League ), nominally in the interests of the deposed King Christian II of Denmark.

" It is by no means clear, in any case ," writes Christopher Green, " to what extent these other Cubists depended on Picasso and Braque for their development of such techniques as faceting, ‘ passage ’ and multiple perspective ; they could well have arrived at such practices with little knowledge of ‘ true ’ Cubism in its early stages, guided above all by their own understanding of Cézanne.

In 1658 Christopher Wren showed that the length of one arch of a cycloid is four times the diameter of its generating circle.

Prior to its sale to News Corp, the last members of the board of directors of the company were: Christopher Bancroft, Lewis B. Campbell, Michael Elefante, John Engler, Harvey Golub, Leslie Hill, Irvine Hockaday, Peter Kann, David Li, M. Peter McPherson ( Chairman ), Frank Newman, James Ottaway, Elizabeth Steele, and William Steere.

With William Shakespeare at his peak, as well as Christopher Marlowe and many other playwrights, actors and theatres constantly busy, the high culture of the Elizabethan Renaissance was best expressed in its theatre.

* McIntosh, Christopher ( 1992 ) The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its relationship to the Enlightenment, E. J.

Its government was united with St. Christopher from 1882 until 1967, when it declared its separation.

Sir Christopher Wren has since the eighteenth century been claimed by the Lodge of Antiquity No. 2, one of the four founding Masonic Lodges of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717, to have been its Master at the Goose and Gridiron at St. Paul's churchyard, while he was rebuilding the cathedral: he is said to have been " adopted " on 18 May 1691 ( that is, accepted as a sort of honorary member or patron, rather than an operative ).

As pointed out by Christopher Clark, the actual Tannenberg is some to the west, and there was no intrinsic reason — other than the historical battle and its emotive resonance in the narrative of German and Slavic nationalism — to give its name to the 1914 battle.

; Dor-en-Ernil: Literally, the " Land of the Prince ", located in the south of Gondor ; its boundaries are not stated, but Christopher Tolkien assumed that it spanned both sides of the highlands in Belfalas.