Pokemon Developer's New 3DS Game: Harmo Knight

Harmo Knight is the new Nintendo 3DS title from Game Freak, the team behind the Pokémon series.

The game was announced by Satoru Iwata during today's Nintendo Direct livestream. From the footage released, it looks like a hybrid of a traditional side-scrolling platformer, replete with a Mario Bros-style world hub, and a rhythm action game. The game's hero charges through levels, from verdant hilly landscapes to city rooftops, collecting musical notes and swinging a quaver like a battle axe/golf club. Presumably, you have to execute your attacks in time with the game's music.

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The game is scheduled for release in Japan on September 5, 2012, priced at ¥1,800. No word on a Western release date.

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Dark Knight Rises Tops Box Office for Third Week

The remake of Total Recall wasn't powerful enough to wipe the memory of The Dark Knight Rises from audiences' minds. Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy capper topped the domestic weekend box office for the third straight weekend.

The Dark Knight Rises' current domestic total is $354.6 million. It's made almost $25 million more overseas so far to bring its current worldwide cume to $733 million.

Here are the weekend estimates via Rentrak:

1. The Dark Knight Rises $36.4 million

2. Total Recall $26 million

3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days $14.7 million

4. Ice Age: Continental Drift $8.4 million

5. The Watch $6.4 million

6. Ted $5.5 million

7. Step Up Revolution $5.3 million

8. The Amazing Spider-Man $4.3 million

9. Brave $2.9 million

10. Magic Mike $1.4 million

Check out last week's Keepin' It Reel podcast to see how we fared with our box office predictions!

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Nikita Influenced The Dark Knight Rises

The look of The Dark Knight Rises' Catwoman was influenced more so by a classic foreign action film than by her comic book counterpart.

Clothes on Film interviewed TDKR costume designer Lindy Hemming who said, "Selina Kyle we decided was a kind of female version of Bruce Wayne, she is a cat burglar and an opportunist, so must, rather like James Bond, be able to ‘pass’ or be ‘hidden in plain sight’. My influences were La Femme Nikita, and Audrey Hepburn, with a medium dose of Thierry Mugler thrown in for theatricality. All her clothes were designed by me, and made by / in our workshops, including all her underwear which needed to be worn under the cat suit. Whatever event she decided to be at, she could invent a look that would work, from Maid at Wayne Manor, to Woman Going to a Funeral at the airport."

And for the film's climactic scene (SPOILER!) featuring Selina and Bruce at a European cafe, Hemming said the character's blue dress was a symbolic choice: "She is now, like Bruce Wayne, living in the ‘normal’ world, and should look like any other holidaymaker in Italy. To her (Anne Hathaway) and myself, that kind of blue signifies happiness and has good connotations. Wish we had seen more of it, but it’s a mysterious scene."

Hemming also said the "trickiest character to nail down was Marion [Cotillard] as Miranda Tate [aka Talia Al Ghul], who must not be given away during the course of the film, but who needed to look ethnic in some way that might relate her to Ra’s A Ghul by the end quarter of the story. Very Difficult."

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