Dark Knight To Brighten Box Office

The Dark Knight, round 3.

Posted 7/21/2008 on GreenCine Daily

"Fevered fans pushed The Dark Knight the sixth of the Warner Brothers series of Batman movies, to record three-day ticket sales of $155.3 million over the weekend, shoring up what so far had been a wobbly year at the box office." Michael Cieply reports for the New York Times , while, at Movie City News , Leonard Klady sorts through the numbers and Variety 's Pamela McClintock notes that ...

Hollywood has best box office weekend in history with Dark Knight

Posted 7/21/2008 on Cele|bitchy

The Dark Knight had ticket sales of $155.34 million in its opening weekend, which is the highest grossing weekend for a film in history. Spiderman 3 was the previous record holder with $151 million its opening weekend in 2007. Dark Knight set several other records at the box office including highest midnight opening at $18.5 million compared to Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith’s $16.9 ...

Dark Knight Box Office Numbers: Dark Knight Opening Weekend Sets Record

Posted 7/20/2008 on Stupid Celebrities Gossip

“ “Dark Knight” Batman movie’s opening weekend sets box office record, beating “Spiderman 3″, the previous record holder. Batman fans pushed “The Dark Knight”, sixth in the series of Batman movies, to record weekend ticket sales of $155.3 million over the weekend. According to Warner Brothers, the Dark Knight movie beats out ...

Weekend Estimates by Klady

Posted 7/20/2008 on The Hot Blog

First... I would like to protest, yet again, the idiotic use of estimated ticket sales as a measure of ANYTHING other than journalists looking for an angle. Paul Dergarabedian is a good guy, but he doesn't have the slightest fucking idea what the average ticket price is right now and more importantly, has no inkling what tickets to Spider-Man 3 were sold for versus The Dark Knight . None. ...

Great ticket sales Batman! Dark Knight pulls in $18.4 million for midnight screenings

Posted 7/19/2008 on Pop Critics

The Joker had his own special ticket I’m not sure I can do the math, but when a movie makes $18.4 million SOLELY on their opening midnight screenings…something amazing is about to happen. That figure also includes a record-breaking $640,000 in ticket sales for IMAX showings across the country. And let’s be clear on this: According to Media By Numbers, the $18.4 ...

About Those SELL OUTS!!!!!

Posted 7/18/2008 on The Hot Blog

I hate to offer a look at the truth of what's going on out there, but by way of the MovieTickets.com and Fandango ticket sales websites... Here in Los Angeles, at The Grove, the most often sold out movie theater in the Los Angeles area, there are, indeed six The Dark Knight screenings starting between midnight and 1am that at sold out. There are no later screenings currently scheduled. And ...

The Dark Knight: Third Highest Advance Ticket Sales of All Time

Posted 7/15/2008 on /Film

The advance ticket sales of The Dark Knight continues to point to a huge opening weekend at the box office. The Christopher Nolan comic book sequel is currently outselling three of the Top-10 Performing Films of All-Time at the same point in the sales cycle. According to MovieTickets.com , The Dark Knight has sold out over 150 performances in Los Angeles and New York alone. That’s more ...

Batman Blockbuster Busts Box Office

Published 7/21/2008 on Extra

Boffo! The caped crusader is back -- and he's annihilated the box office with a record-breaking opening weekend. "The Dark Knight" -- the latest installment in the Batman franchise -- earned an estimated $155.3 million in ticket sales for its ...

'Knight' shines for $60 mil on Friday

Published 7/19/2008 on Variety.com

Front Page: WB sequel may be headed for history books -- The domestic box office went into overdrive on Friday as Warner Bros.' Batman sequel "The Dark Night" stood ready to deliver the best opening day gross ever, taking in an estimated $60 million ...