Who puts the MAN in Batman? Not George Clooney, according to professional growler Christian Bale. Bale tells WSJ magazine this week that Clooney, who basically enacted laws in Italy to protect his wedding from the paparazzi, should "shut up" and "stop whining" about privacy.

Director David Fincher says Oscar winner and second-best-Batman Christian Bale is his first (and only) choice to play Steve Jobs in an upcoming Jobs biopic. The still-untitled film was written by Aaron Sorkin, who also wrote Fincher's The Social Network.

Huey Lewis and the News' breakthrough album Sports turns 30 this year.

A Redditor who claims to have grabbed this photo from 4chan's fashion boards (/fa/) swears this is definitely not Christian Bale but just some dude who dressed up as Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho for Halloween.

Though he was unable to meet young leukemia patient Zach Guillot in person, the movie star arranged instead to have a lengthy phone conversation with the boy about his favorite topic: Batman.

The Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale popped by the Medical Center of Aurora on Tuesday afternoon, more or less unannounced, to visit with victims of Friday's movie-theater shooting. Above, via TheDenverChannel.com, Bale with Carey Rottman; below, via KUSA, Bale in the hallway.

Anticipation for the return of Batman will pack theaters until they are unbearable during this and the next several weekends — and The Dark Knight Rises knows it.

Looks like Austin, America's warmest creative-classetropolis, has gone all Chloe Moretz and developed a little crush on Ryan Gosling, who's there to film Lawless with director Terrence Malick. As evidence, we submit Ryan Gosling at Fun Fun Fest: a collaborative photo-Tumblr inspired by our shy hero's attendance at one…

While most interviewers would ask tougher questions—or even about his Golden Globes win—Billy Bush asked what women everywhere really wanted to know: what's up with Christian Bale's scraggly look? It's a far cry from his American Psycho look.

Ryan Gosling sings the My Little Pony theme song and breaks hearts everywhere. Maybe he should team up with Christian Bale and release an album. We'd buy it!

Fans of quality movies should love the winter since it's when the important prestige pictures—the movies vying for Oscars—litter the cineplex. But who wants to see one depressing movie after the next? It's way too much.

In an interview with the stars of The Fighter, Peter Travers asks Christian Bale to sing "Santa Fe" from Newsies. He doesn't oblige, but instead sings the theme song to The Powerpuff Girls—in a viking beard, no less!

Here's a trailer for David O. Russell's boxing drama The Fighter, a modern Cinderella Man, the based-on-a-true-story tale of a scrappy, over-the-hill boxer who beats the odds. It seems full of that Boston blue collar-gawking that's gotten a bit old.

This leaked email from someone at Paramount Pictures and acquired by the Wrap shows us what they've got in the works.

On a whole, Newsies is pretty homoerotic. But Newsies set to Lady Gaga? Maybe a bit strange at first...but then you realize it's kind of perfect. Watch as Christian Bale and company dance their way into mashup history.

• Lindsay Lohan was supposed to go to Vienna so she could accompany creepy billionaire Richard Lugner to the Vienna Opera Ball. (He brings a different celeb or model to the event every year and pays them $150,000 for the pleasure.) Sadly, Lindsay missed her chance to collect the much-needed cash. She ran up a $22K…

Christian Bale and Javier Bardem are in a plotless romantic drama. New entries in The Da Vinci Code and Fast and the Furious series of popular films. A movie about a shark attack. Trade Roundup: let us do this thing.

Hmmm. A reader sent in this video of the usually affable Seth Green "freaking out" after getting jumped outside the set of a commercial. We call bullshit for at least two reasons.