Batman Tragedy

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  Justice League Director Zack Snyder Steps Down Over Family Tragedy; Joss Whedon to Take Over

  Zack Snyder, the director who has shepherded Warner Bros' DC Comics universe since the beginning, is stepping down from Justice League due to a family tragedy.

• Batman movie shooting: Colorado theatre lacked security, unlike some peers

  The Colorado movie theater complex that was the scene of a massacre earlier this month didn't have any uniformed security guards on duty the night of the shooting, even though other theaters operated by the same company did provide such protection for the busy premiere of the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.

• Batman shooter was psychiatric patient

  The suspected Batman massacre gunman was seeing a psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia before the attack that killed 12 in Colorado, court documents showed on Friday.

• Scare in UK theatre over masked man at Batman showing

  Just hours after a gunmen massacred 12 people at a US cinema hall last week, moviegoers at a British theatre screening the latest Batman flick got a fright of their lives when an attendant walked in wearing a gas mask.

• Colorado shooting suspect sent plans notebook to psychiatrist: Report

  The man accused of Friday's movie theater massacre in Colorado mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, FoxNews.com reported on Wednesday.

• Batman shooting suspect due in court

  The man accused of gunning down 12 filmgoers and injuring dozens more at a screening of the latest Batman movie in Colorado was expected to make his first court appearance on Monday.

• Movie massacre suspect mum; Batman mask found

  University of Colorado officials were looking on Sunday into whether James Holmes used his position in a graduate programme to collect hazardous materials, but school officials weren't saying whether they knew the suspect in a movie theatre massacre was anything more than a hard-working student.

• Batman shooting: Barack Obama to visit town where tragedy struck

  President Barack Obama will Sunday visit the Colorado city of Aurora where 12 people were shot dead and dozens wounded during a screening of the new Batman film, the White House said.

• 'Batman' shooting survivor proposes after family escapes death

  Surviving the deadly movie theatre shooting in a Denver suburb was one momentous event that Jamie Rohrs and Patricia Legarreta shared on Friday - the other came afterward when they got engaged to be married at the hospital.

• 'Batman' shooting: Police to detonate devices in suspect's home

  The apartment of the man suspected of killing 12 people in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area movie theatre on Friday has been so extensively booby-trapped that police have determined they cannot safely defuse the devices, a police source said on Friday.

• 'Dark Knight Rises' director Christopher Nolan: Shootings 'devastating'

  "The Dark Knight Rises" director speaking out about the Colorado theater slayings, called it a "senseless tragedy" and "devastating." In a statement released Friday night, Christopher Nolan expressed his sadness about the shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. A gunman opened fire on an audience watching a midnight screening of the highl...

• 'Batman' shooting suspect tells police he is 'The Joker'

  New York City's police commissioner says the gunman in the Colorado movie theatre rampage had painted his hair red and called himself the Joker - the villain from the Batman movies.

• Batman shooting shakes up US presidential campaign

  The deadly shooting spree in Colorado consumed the presidential campaign Friday, sidetracking a bitter political contest with a tragedy that at least temporarily brought the candidates together in common purpose. "There are going to be other days for politics," a somber President Barack Obama said.

• Batman shooting: He pointed a gun at my face, says witness

  One of the women who escaped a mass shooting at a Denver suburb movie theater says the shooter pointed a gun at her face but then shot people seated behind her.

• It sounded like firecrackers, says witness to US killing

  When a gunman opened fire at a cinema hall in Denver, it sounded like firecrackers, said a witness who added that someone later yelled "they're shooting out here". At least 14 people were killed and 50 injured on Friday in Denver at a cinema hall showing the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises".