Audiences who went to see Harry Potter this weekend got a special treat before they sobbed into their popcorn-butter covered hands mourning the end of the Harry Potter franchise - they were the first to see the teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises.

BaleBatmanRises230.jpgUnfortunately, the teaser makes it clear that this is another end - the end to Christopher Nolan's reboot of the Batman series. Any who are holding out hope that there will be another Batman with Christian Bale after Rises comes out in 2012, get ready to have your dreams squashed - the trailer calls Rises "the epic conclusion."

The teaser shows Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) begging Bruce Wayne (Bale) to bring Batman back, and also cuts back to footage from Batman Begins, the first in the series.

Nolan loves to re-use actors in his films, so this flick also stars Inception's Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard and Tom Hardy, though Hardy, as the villain Bane, is the only one in the teaser. Anne Hathaway will star as Catwoman.