{"id":8486,"date":"2019-06-21T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2019-06-24T18:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T01:27:22","slug":"15-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-tim-burtons-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/batman-movie-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’"},"content":{"rendered":"

30 years ago,\u00a0Batman<\/em> changed everything.<\/p>\n

Tim Burton’s blockbuster overcame initial fan backlash over Michael Keaton’s casting as the Dark Knight (thank the gods that the internet wasn’t around back then) to become nothing short of a seismic shift for the genre and how Hollywood handled — and would handle — it. The summer of ’89 was filled with sequels, and Batman<\/em> stood out among the Last Crusade<\/em>s and\u00a0Lethal Weapon 2<\/em>s. (Jack Nicholson’s scene-stealing\/hammy work as the Joker helped considerably with that.) It was something audiences had never experienced before, from the minimalist marketing campaign centering on the film’s iconic one-sheet to Burton’s goth-meets-art deco\/Bat-noir approach to bringing a comic book to life without camp.<\/p>\n

Batman<\/em>\u00a0and its $411 million box office gross would set the tone for how to market and release a blockbuster<\/a> and bombard fans with merch. It said comic books could be taken seriously as dramas on the big screen; we wouldn’t have Marvel Studios or Christopher Nolan’s Caped Crusader without it. In honor of Batman<\/em>‘s 30th anniversary on June 23, here are a few things you may not know about the making of an instant — and game-changing — classic.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0<\/strong>Awareness was so strong leading up to release of the film, that Warner Bros. dialed back on the traditional marketing spend of flooding the airwaves with TV spots. That’s virtually unheard of now in today’s modern blockbuster climate.<\/p>\n