Blockbuster Reality Check: 'Dark Knight' Only $1 Billion Off Record Pace [Beancounting]

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 Blockbuster Reality Check: 'Dark Knight' Only $1 Billion Off Record Pace [Beancounting]
Big ups to The Dark Knight , which surpassed the first Star Wars film over the weekend to become the second-highest-grossing film ever. Sort of, anyway: That number-two figure on which the industry has had its eye for the last month since TDK 's release — $471 million, still a cruise ship shy of Titanic's $600 million — remains quite the impressive number domestically, but isn't ... [link]

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Can You Believe These Fucking Guys Were Batman?
Published 8/25/2008 at Videogum
... Now that it's been more than a month since the release of The Dark Knight and we can step back and finally have some perspective on the phenomenon of the second highest grossing movie of all time, one thing has become really clear: it's amazing that the people who played Batman before did that. (The working title of this list was "FINALLY, AND NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON.") It's not even a question of " ...

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