It's fair to say that our excitement over The Dark Knight is borderline reaching fever pitch, even with the film still some way away from release. But unlike most blockbuster movies that seem to be finished at the last possible minute, the bulk of the new Batman flick is clearly in place, because it's now been giving a PG-13 rating in the States.

What's more, the film is set to be accompanied by a rating over there warning of, according to Digital Spy,  "intense sequences of violence and menace". Their report goes on to say that "There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence."

The new trailer for The Dark Knight, meanwhile, is set to be officially unveiled any day now, after an early version of it seemed to leak onto the web. July, for us, simply can't come soon enough...