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Christian Bale, star of The Dark Knight Rises, visited Tuesday with some of the survivors of last week's Colorado cinema shootings, The Denver Post reported.

Bale met with seven wounded patients at the Medical Centre of Aurora, Colorado, close to the shopping mall cinema where a gunman carried out Friday's shooting spree at a midnight screening of the hit Batman sequel.

The report said that Bale spent about 10 minutes with each patient and met with doctors, police officers and emergency medical technicians who responded to the attack, in which 12 people were killed and 58 injured.

The suspect in the case, James Holmes, a 24-year-old former neuroscience graduate student, appeared in court for the first time Monday, where his vacant and lethargic gaze prompted speculation about his mental state.