Christopher Nolan’s version of the Dark Knight had been kept a buzz for more than a year, and for good reason - it cost 180 million dollars to make. That’s a particularly high number when you think that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was made only for $300 million. Warner Brothers must have lots of money.
Over the weekend, Dark Knight had already reached $155 million bucks making it a record weekend opening. And as the weekend isn’t over yet as of this writing, the movie is definitely gonna gross further. Some even hinting it could get its way onto the $200 million mark.
As for it’s other records..
- It was released in over 4360 cinemas, more than any other movie to date.
- Dark Knight had already set a midnight preview record of 18 million beating Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith which previously held the record at 16.9 million.
- With $155m currently in tow, this is also the best Batman film yet. Previous Batman movies only averaged 47million in the box office. Batman Begins grossed 205million domestically.
- It is the biggest movie of the year so far. Beating Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and, yes, Iron Man.
- Speaking of another Marvel record Batman smashed, Spiderman no longer holds weekend boy office record at 151million. Though there is argument that inflation helped Batman in this regard since Spiderman 3 sold more tickets at what was then 6.50 compared to the 8 bucks I had to pay for to see the Dark Knight.
For my review of the movie, please check out Dark Knight Review: All About the Joker
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joyfulchicken
I hope it sinks Titanic’s record.
paolo mendoza reply on July 20th, 2008 6:40 pm:
Dark Knight should give it a good
Jul 20th, 2008