This Week’s Box Office: The Dark Knight Sets 8 Records
Everybody knew that overly-anticipated movie The Dark Knight will hit it pretty big, but not all of us predicted that it’ll be the biggest box office opening in history. The movie made $155.34 M, more than the $151.1 M made by Spiderman 3. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and the rest of the magnificent ensemble sure are characters that will be remembered for a long, long period of time. It is truly a historical affair, the movie breaking 8 box office records all at once. Here is a list of all the records broken by the Caped Crusader and The Joker:
1- Largest number of opening theatres with 4,366 (more than the 4,362 debut theatres of Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End in 2007)
2- Biggest midnight preview gross with $18,489 million in 3,040 theatres (beats Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and its $16,9 million in 2,915 theatres in 2005).
3- Biggest IMAX midnight previews with $640,000 (included in the $18,489 million preview number).
4- Biggest single-day gross in box office history with $67,850 million (beats the $ 59,841,919 set by Spiderman 3 in 2007).
5- Biggest opening weekend gross in box office history with $155,340 million (beats the $151,116 million set by Spiderman 3 in 1007).
6- Biggest opening weekend gross for an IMAX release in box office historyn with $6,214,061 million in 94 theaters with $66,107 per theatre (beats the $4.7 million set by Spiderman 3 in 2007).
7- Biggest opening weekend of 2008 with $151,340 (beats Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’s $101.137 million from May 23-25, 2008)
8- Biggest July opening ever (beats Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest’s $135,l654,554 on July 7, 2006)
Though it may be hard to realize, there are still other movies to watch but the results are evident that everyone just wanted to see The Dark Knight and nothing else. Meryl Streep’s musical Mamma Mia came in a humiliating far-fetched second place with $27.6 M and Will Smith’s Hancock keeping it’s blockbuster streak for its second week with $14 M. Brendan Fraser’s adventure flick Journey to the Center of the Earth grosses at $11.9 M, while Hellboy’s sequel make a disappointing $10 M. Here is a list of this weekend’s box office top 10:
1. “The Dark Knight,” $155.34 million.
2. “Mamma Mia!”, $27.6 million.
3. “Hancock,” $14 million.
4. “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” $11.9 million.
5. “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” $10 million.
6. “WALL-E,” $9.8 million.
7. “Space Chimps,” $7.4 million.
8. “Wanted,” $5.1 million.
9. “Get Smart,” $4.1 million.
10. “Kung Fu Panda,” $1.8 million.
