The Dark Knight Breaks Box Office Records!
The Dark Knight is such an amazing film that it didn't just break one box office record. It lived up to it's colossal reviews and smashed all these records:
1. The record for midnight shows: $18.5 million. It bested the previous midnight record set by Star Wars: Episode III- The Revenge of the Sith, in 2005, which grossed $16.9 million.
2. The record for the highest weekend opening: $155 million (or 155.3, 155.4, or 155.34 million- depending on the source). It shattered the previous record of $151.1 million the opening weekend of Spider-Man 3 in May 2007.
3. The top single-day receipts record: $67.9 million on a record 4,366 screens. This was of course, on opening day (Friday the 18th). Yet again, Spidey's 2007 record of $59.8 million was smashed.
4. The domestic box office record for the three-day weekend: $250 million. The unprecedented ticket sales beat the previous record weekend tally of $218.4 million, set in early July 2007 when Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest debuted to $135.6 million. Besides The Dark Knight's revenue, Mamma Mia! debuted with $27.6 million. Even though this record wasn't entirely The Dark Knight's doing, I think it is safe to say that it would not have happened without it!
5. The IMAX record: $6.2 million. Many viewers wanted to see the film on the big BIG screen, which led the previous record of $4.7 million set by Spider-Man 3 in 2007.
6. In Ledger's native Australia, box office records were almost broken. The filmed raked in almost $12 million in its first weekend, which was the biggest opening for a movie this year. But it was about $2 million short of the biggest Australian opening, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers record set in 2002 still remains on top. Damn hobbits...
So there you have it. FIVE (almost six) BOX OFFICE RECORDS BROKEN!!
I'm happy to say that I helped break records 1-4 this weekend. I was going for the five-piece but all of the IMAX shows were sold out! So I have decided that I am going to see it on IMAX this week.
Of course, the movie lived up to all the hype and more. I thought it was astonishing, frightening, break-taking, memorable and definitely left me blown away. I think that this short list of adjectives does not even give it justice.
Not only were the performances by all the actors remarkable, but the actual film- the cinematography, the storyline, all the action and effects- were all simply beautiful. And I also love that I was apart of box office history.
If you haven't seen The Dark Knight yet, what are you waiting for?!
