Woah.

I no longer think Christian Bale is hot.

Click here to listen to his loooooong and very frightening rant against what appears to be some manner of lighting tech on the Terminator: Salvation set. (WARNING: The audio starts automatically and contains profanity.)

I don’t care how hard your day has been, or how hard your co-workers are to deal with, there is just no excuse for this kind of an angry rant against someone who isn’t even fighting back. It accomplishes nothing, and Christian should be ashamed of himself. I hope he issues an apology for this and does something about his anger management issues. To be honest, I didn’t even listen to the whole thing. I got through about 30 seconds of it and just felt too mortified for everyone involved to continue.

I think people are more likely to understand why his mom and sister filed that verbal assault complaint with the police last year.

Batman will not face charges in relation to the “verbal abuse” incident that took place last month, say UK officials.

Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to afford a “realistic prospect of conviction,” and ordered police not to take any further action.

If this were a physical abuse case, I’d be all like “WTF???” but I still can’t really figure out what “verbal abuse” is, at least in a criminal sense, because if my little sister went running to the cops every time I called her a shithead, they’d have no time to do important things like arrest celebrities for DUIs. So thank goodness the U.S. doesn’t operate that way.

It looks like Christian Bale is in for yet another summer blockbuster. Director McG was on-hand at ComicCon to hype up Terminator Salvation, which hits theaters in May 2009. He’s not giving much away, but he does hint that Arnold Schwarzenegger may make an appearance, and that the movie is likely to have an R rating. They’re still filming in New Mexico, but they’ve already released some teasers (see above). Looks awesome already!

His mother and sister may hate him, but Christian Bale’s wife and daughter are still by his side. The family landed at Narita Airport outside Tokyo last night, where I assume Christian will be promoting The Dark Knight.

It’s actually kind of sweet that he’s taken his whole family on his promotional tour. Most celebs leave their spouses and kids behind when they do something like this.

Apparently Christian Bale’s “verbal assault” against his mother and sister was about a financial issue.

Basically, Christian’s sister asked him for $200K to help raise her three kids, and Batman said no. His sister responded by talking shit about Christian’s wife, and this started the fight between Christian and his mom and sis, which ended in the two women reporting him to a London police station.

Total dramz!

“Everyone loses their shit on occasions, don’t they? Like, ‘Oh God, what demon possessed me to do that?’ My wife gets to live with a variety of men. Some of them she likes, some of them she doesn’t. There are ones people like and others that they say, ‘Man we’re glad you’re finished with that project. You were an asshole’.”

Christian Bale, in an interview prior to the release of The Dark Knight.

There’s clearly some very real darkness behind Batman’s pretty face.

Last week should have been one of the greatest weeks of Christian Bale’s life. Instead, it seems he was in a very bad mood.

Just a couple days before he allegedly verbally assaulted his family in a London hotel, Christian lost his shit on the set of Terminator 4 in New Mexico.

During a scene, Shane Hurlbut (seriously), director of cinematography, screwed up a shot — at least in Christian’s mind. We’re told Bale went ballistic, screaming “I will kick your ass” along with other choice remarks. Several hundred people heard the outburst — including Military Police — which was described as “intense.”

Is this how Christian always is? Or is something stressing him out right now? Tipsters, write in!

He should be so happy about the success of The Dark Knight! Just goes to show, folks, nothing on the outside can fix the problems you feel on the inside. Hopefully Christian can work out whatever’s bothering him before things get more out of hand.