After the past weekend in the US box office it looks more and more likely that The Dark Knight will be the fourth film ever to make it over the $1 billion gross worldwide box office takings mark.As mentioned previously in another post I wanted to know if anyone was taking bets on whether or not this runaway hit would make it over the 9 zero line. Well, I think the odds are looking very good indeed.
The film was the third highest grossing at the US box office this past weekend taking in another $5.5 million with it still showing in theatres around the world but it needs to gross an extra $50-odd million to make it over the line. It's currently sitting in 6th position for all time box office gross but has dropped to 3rd place in IMDb's Top 250 Films Of All Time. I'll be keeping an eyeball firmly targeted in this direction.
Either way, congrats to Chris Nolan and Co. (see below) for making a shipload of money, now PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not make another Batman movie with an antagonist (that's a bad guy for those of you who failed grade 6 English) we've seen already. No more Pengiun, Joker, Riddler, Poison Ivy, Catwoman etc. please! But before you do that go and knee-cap Sam Raimi before he makes another bloody Spider-man movie, 2 and 3 were bad enough.
UPDATE: The deal is sealed, if it can't make the $50M it needs now it looks like Warner Bros. are angling to re-release the film in January to garner some Oscar attention. Read about it here on Movieweb.
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