news.fantasymoguls.com - 7/26/2008
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By Monday morning, The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) will likely be the #1 movie of 2008. Even the rosiest of forecasts could not have anticipated that the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman Begins sequel would surpass Marvel’s Iron Man (Paramount) and Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Paramount) in only 10 days, but it appears that the dark superhero/crime thriller ...
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'Dark Knight' Still Dominating Box-Office While 'X-Files' Bombs
RopeofSilicon.com —
... is breaking box-office records left and right and after becoming the fastest movie to reach the $200 million mark it also beat the previous one week record held by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest by $42.6 million after hitting $238.61 million in its first 7 days. However, it doesn't end there, The Dark Knight aims to become the #1 movie of 2008 in only 10 days as it looks like the Christopher Nola-directed film will hit $315.61 million by Monday! As Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls points out, these new numbers put Warner Bros. within $225 million of Paramount ...
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The Dark Knight to Cross $300+ Milllion By Monday! Would Make TDK 2008’s Top Movie in 10 Days!
/Film —
... Watch out Billy Zane! Fantasy Moguls reports that The Dark Knight is on track to gross $77 million this weekend—only a 50% drop from last weekend, the largest opening on record. If so, the film will have grossed $315 million on Monday, surpassing the total domestic grosses of both Iron Man and Lame Indiana Jones Sequel to be 2008’s top movie in 10 days. Repeat viewings are holding steady. On IMDB, TDK remains the ...
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aceshowbiz.com 7/26/2008 — Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson revealed in recent interview that his character Nick Fury will be seen more in Marvel's movies apart from 'Iron Man 2' and 'The Avengers'.
Zack Snyder Interested in The Dark Knight Returns Movie?
slashfilm.com 7/26/2008 — At the Watchmen panel, Zack Snyder expressed his love for Frank Miller ’s The Dark Knight Returns , in response to a question about the more mature direction of comic book adaptations.
“There are a lot of other graphic novels out ...
Comic-Con: Watchmen Footage Wows, Rattles —
Celebrity Fix 7/25/2008
The most buzzed-about movie at this year's San Diego Comic-Con is, without a doubt, the brainy, violent superhero flick Watchmen. So director Zack Snyder (300) brought plenty of ammo to today's panel, including his cast, some dark philosophy and very ...
Hollywood pulls off summer heroics —
Variety.com 7/26/2008
Weekly: Studios give birth to five potential franchises -- The July 18 weekend dramatized why this summer is like no other. The domestic box office topped a quarter of a billion dollars in just three days, fueled by the record-breaking $158.3 million ...
'Dark Knight' soars over 'Brothers' —
Variety.com 7/26/2008
Front Page: Fox's 'X-Files' sequel places fourth behind 'Mia' -- Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight" continued to dominate the box office in its second Friday, taking in $23.1 million from 4,366 theaters and propelling its domestic cume toward $300 million.
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