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Joseph Gordon-Levitt has come a long way from his TV days playing a disguised extraterrestrial stranded on Earth,harnessing a chameleon-like ability to inhabit a variety of roles in independent films and big-budget blockbusters. The actor portrays Gotham police officer John Blake in The Dark Knight Rises,the final installment of director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. He told Reuters in a recent interview that fans can expect “a really excellent movie and a real ending” for the trio of Nolan’s movies about the crime-fighting superhero. “Sometimes they call something a trilogy,and it’s not really a trilogy,it’s another sequel to make money. But this really is a great ending,there’s a beginning,a middle and an end,” he said about Nolan’s Batman movies.

Paul Stanley,singer and guitarist of the band KISS,which was among the biggest acts of the 1970s,says fans can expect “the apocalypse” from the band as KISS is hitting the road again with one of the summer’s biggest concert tours. “It’s a lot more than people usually get in one night.” Also,talking about the band’s new album,Monster,Stanley says,“Monster is done. Its heart is beating,and it’s chained down until we release it in October. I was asked if it’s a great Kiss album and I said,I believe it’s far beyond being a Kiss album. It’s a great album of its genre with all the elements of the classic bands that I listened to—the music that inspired me—The Who,the Stones,Humble Pie,(Eric) Clapton,(Jimi) Hendrix,Led Zeppelin.”

Quentin Tarantino unlocked the secrets of his upcoming action flick Django Unchained at Comic-Con last week with explosive clips of the slave revenge movie,which takes place in the pre-Civil War U.S. South. Django Unchained is the latest from the maker of Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction,who was joined in a panel by actors Jamie Foxx,Christoph Waltz,Kerry Washington,Don Johnson and Walter Groggins. Tarantino revealed that Jonah Hill is playing a racist. The story follows Django (Foxx),a black slave freed by a rebel dentist-turned-bounty hunter,Dr. King Schultz (Waltz). The pair embark on a bloody bounty hunting expedition to rescue Django’s captured slave wife,Broomhilda (Washington).