Batman “The Dark Knight” on Sunday became the second movie in Hollywood history to top $500 million at the domestic box office, raising its total to $502.4 million, according to estimates from distributor Warner Bros.
Batman Rakes In $500 Million!
Batman hit that mark in just over six weeks, half the time it took “Titanic,” which reached $500 million in a little more than three months. “Titanic,” the biggest modern blockbuster, remains No. 1 on the domestic charts with $600.8 million.
Dark Knight Stars include: Christian Bale – Heath Ledger – Maggie Gyllenhaal
Michael Caine – Gary Oldman
Aaron Eckhart – Morgan Freeman
The phenomenal Batman run at the Top is finally over for Christian Bale and company. After dominating the Box Office for 4 straight weeks, the Paramount-DreamWorks comedy “” — with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black and Tom Cruise — debuted at No. 1 with $26 million, bumping “The Dark Knight” back to second place.
Hit movie, The Dark Knight, has cleared $400 million in only 18 days. The blockbuster is on pace to not only break the all time record set by Titanic, but is on pace to make that record it’s bitch.
Actress Maggie Gyllenhall plays Rachel Dawes, Batman’ s love interest, in “Dark Knight“. Known as the girl with “The Mona Lisa Smile” the Sexy Gyllenhall replaced Katie Holmes who played the original Dawes character in “Batman Beings“.
Dark Knight European Premiere In London
“It’s Gary Oldman and Michael Caine and Aaron Eckhart and Christian Bale and Heath [Ledger] and Morgan Freeman and a great director [Chris Nolan] and it really isn’t all that different than anything else I’ve ever done,” she said. “It is sort of fantasy on some level — the circumstances are larger than life — [but] Chris really wanted us to play the scenes for truth. So it didn’t feel very different to me.”
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Holy Moly Batman “The Dark Knight” took in a record $155.34 million in its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for “Spider-Man 3″ in May 2007 and pacing Hollywood to its biggest weekend ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.
“We knew it would be big, but we never expected to dominate the marketplace like we did,” said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros., which released “The Dark Knight.” The movie should shoot past the $200 million mark by the end of the week, he said.
Hollywood set an overall revenue record of $253 million for a three-day weekend, beating the $218.4 million haul over the weekend of July 7, 2006, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers.
Factoring in higher admission prices, “Spider-Man 3″ may have sold slightly more tickets than “The Dark Knight.” At 2007’s average price of $6.88, “Spider-Man 3″ sold 21.96 million tickets over opening weekend. Media By Numbers estimates today’s average movie prices at $7.08, which means “The Dark Knight” would have sold 21.94 million tickets.
Dark Knight Stars Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, directed by Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale is the new Batman in The Dark Night. The Reviews are in and this could well be the BlockBuster Hit Movie of the Summer.
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Marc Lee, The Daily Telegraph: The Dark Knight has plenty of high-speed, maximum-volume action sequences, but it is also one of the most intelligent big-budget Hollywood movies of recent times; and no sympathy vote is required for a cinematic creation as accomplished as Ledger’s deranged, demonic Lord of Chaos. It is a genuinely unsettling, brilliantly nuanced portrait of evil.
