No Joke! The Dark Night
July 19th, 2008 | by admin | |
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The Dark Night just had the biggest 1 day box office ever. This movie is huge in a lot of respects. Did you know that 20 minutes of the movie is shot in the ultra huge IMAX format?
There are too many articles to mention, but this piece on whether to pony up the extra cash for the “IMAX experience” is certainly worth a read.
With opening-weekend Imax showings of The Dark Knight already selling out in many cities, is it worth waiting a couple of days — or waking up at four in the morning — to pay extra money and see Batman on the biggest of big screens? Or should you just see it in a regular theater, since after all, only twenty minutes of the movie are shot in Imax anyway?
Why see The Dark Knight in an Imax theater? As P-Funk front man George Clinton once succinctly explained to us, “Cuz that shit is motherfuckin’ huuuuuge.”
A Warner Bros. executive says the Batman sequel “The Dark Knight” has set a single-day box office record by taking in $66.4 million on opening day.
The movie’s Friday haul surpasses the previous record of $59.8 million set last year by “Spider-Man 3.” “The Dark Knight” also might break the opening weekend record of $151.1 million that also was posted by “Spider-Man 3.”
Warner Bros. head of distribution Dan Fellman says the death of co-star Heath Ledger and the buzz about his frenzied performance as the Batman villain Joker was a big part of the movie’s allure.
Check out Yahoo’s Dark Knight page for tons of good stuff! Or the Dark Knight’s Official Site - With a memorial for Heath Ledger.
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Update: 7/20/08
Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood’s box-office superheroes.
“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.
Tags: Batman, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight, The Joker
One Response to “No Joke! The Dark Night”
By Lynch on Jul 19, 2008 | Reply
Hopefully WB will take the Superman Movies seriously now. Because these movies should be making bank. They have the money and the time to do it right.