Batman Still Kicking More Butt

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.

Yanks Love Aussie V8s

While I think a 6.2 litre V8 isn’t exactly the thing we should be driving these days it is still heartwarming to see the local (Aussie) car manufacturers getting some love from the USA.

Autoblog often waxes eloquent about the local grown produce and comes across as having a warm fuzzy place in their car-loving hearts for the Pontiac G8 (AKA Holden VE Commodore) not too suprising through after considering it will eat up the road using all 415 horses (309 kw).

Reading up on the G8 on Wikipedia I found this interesting tidbit. "...Some G8 buyers are removing all traces of the Pontiac brand from their vehicles by installing Commodore front bumpers and other parts.". I've noticed the opposite here with Aussie hoons choosing to replace their Holden markings with Chevy logos and whatnot. Weird.

For comparison here's a photo of a similar Holden, the VE SS V-Series.