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Christian Bale Visits Aurora, Colorado Shooting Victims

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Seems like those Facebook “likes” and “shares” are worth the click!

After a Facebook sharing/liking campaign asking Christian Bale to visit the shooting victims went around the site shortly after the Colorado theater shooting, The Dark Knight Rises star didn’t hesitate to make it come true.

Warner Brothers officials confirmed Tuesday last week that the Oscar-winning actor, 38, was in Aurora, Colorado visiting and paying respect to the victims of the horrifying incident. They said in a statement:

Mr. Bale is there as himself, not representing Warner Brothers.

Shortly after the theater shooting that took 12 lives and injured 58 people, fans created a Facebook campaign requesting Bale to visit the hospitalized victims. The campaign read:

 Dear Christian Bale, please visit the injured children from the movie massacre as Batman. You have the power to be a hero right now — not a movie hero, a real flesh and blood one. Sincerely, Everyone.

Maybe superheroes are real, after all.

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Dane Cook Apologizes for Joking About Colorado Shooting

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Sometimes, not all jokes are laughable.

When Dane Cook performed at the Laugh Factory in LA last Thursday, the comedian, 40, decided to use the Aurora, Colo. The Dark Knight Rises shooting as the axis of his routine. He said:

So I heard that the guy came into the theater about 25 minutes into the movie. And I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie, but the movie is pretty much a piece of s–t. Yeah, spoiler alert.

He continued:

I know that if none of that would have happened, pretty sure that somebody in that theater, about 25 minutes in, realizing it was a piece of s–t, was probably like, ‘Ugh f—— shoot me.

The audience’s response was a mixture of cheers, laughter, and flouts.

The shooting, recorded as the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, killed 12 people and injured 58 moviegoers.

Probably realizing his mistake, and perhaps after seeing all the raged response online, Cook took to Twitter to release a statement:

I am devastated by the recent tragedy in Colorado & did not mean to make light of what happened. I made a bad judgment call with my material last night & regret making a joke at such a sensitive time. My heart goes out to all of the families & friends of the victims.

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Christian Bale Releases Statement about Colorado Shooting

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Anne Hathaway and Christian Bale - TDKR

Still appalled and “keeping victims’ families in their thoughts,” The Dark Knight Rises cast flew back to America after the horrifying shooting at a screening of their new movie in Colorado. Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were all in France for the supposed Paris premiere of their movie on the same day of the shooting, so in reverence to the incident, the cast rode a Los Angeles-bound Warner Brothers plane home. A source shares:

The cast was completely shocked and several – Anne and Marion [Cotillard], a couple of the men – were in tears. There was enormous, enormous sadness.

Bale, who is the on-screen Batman, released a statement while en-route:

Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them.

The Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan also released a statement showing “profound sorrow” for the Aurora, Colorado shooting that killed 12 people and wounded more than 50 movie goers.

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