A very important embargo broke last night at midnight and entertainment outlets all around the internet have begun to release their reports. We have a roundup for you here if you choose to not hunt for them!

Thanks to Batman-News.com for news of the embargo lift. Enjoy!

Collider has an excellent interview with Emma Thomas, a snippet of which we’ve included below:

Are you surprised at the level of interest around the world in your production? This is, in my opinion, the most set photos that have ever hit the net. Were you prepared for this or did it hit you blindside?

Thomas: We’ve definitely been surprised by it. It’s interesting because every film that we make…certainly with this film because of the property and because of the success of The Dark Knight, there’s definitely a whole different level of interest based on the tie with that. But also, every time we make a film, every two years, what’s interesting to me and what I find fascinating, is that technology has changed. Twitter wasn’t a big thing even on Inception, it certainly wasn’t on The Dark Knight. It just seems to me that there’s so much more…people communicate in a whole different way now.

It’s partly a function of what we’re shooting. On The Dark Knight, for example, we were shooting mostly night shoots in the Loop in Chicago, so there was no one around to take photos. There were a few die-hards that would come down to the set and be there for everything, but this is slightly different. We’re shooting in the middle of the day and in the middle of Pittsburgh. There are lots of different reasons why there’s a lot more interest, but one of the most interesting things to me is the way that technology is different. Where, on The Dark Knight, if someone had taken a set photo, it might end up online maybe the next day or maybe a couple days later. But now, I’m literally looking on the computer and, a half an hour after we’ve shot something, it’s everywhere! It’s crazy! And I think it’s a bummer, personally. I love that people are interested and excited, but I’d prefer people waited for the movie.

What about the choice of Bane for this movie, which is obviously very different from the Joker. The Joker was very intelligent, very methodical…you’d imagine Bane to be all brawn. Was it deliberate to go that rout with this movie, to be more action based?

Thomas: That’s something that Chris can speak to a little bit more than me, and probably Tom, too. I think that’s one of the interesting things about Bane as a choice. We were obviously never going to revisit the Joker and you don’t want to be trying to chase that. So it’s fun to have a very different sort of villain in this and a different sort of challenge for Batman to meet, much more physical. It’s almost a more even match in some ways, you know, in a physical sense. You just don’t want to do the same thing again.

You’ve got another very iconic character, probably the next biggest after Joker, one would argue, although you’ve not actually said she’s Catwoman anywhere…

Thomas: We haven’t, it’s true. As we were just saying, there’s so little that we can control about what goes out there at this point. It’s actually quite nice to not give everything away.

In the same vein, they also have interviews with Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy and Christian Bale, but our favorite piece by them has to be their list of the 20 things they learned while on the set. It includes an in-depth description of the Football stadium scene that we gave you a description of last summer.

Superherohype has more of the same with an awesome set-report and interviews with the same principle cast members (Bale, Hathaway, Hardy), and Batman On Film has posted a very detailed set visit of their own.

What do you think? Will you be reading all of this brand new material or are you planning to go into Dark Knight Rises with a blank slate?