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“The Dark Knight” Headed for $500 Million?
By Kyle | July 28, 2008
The massive success of “The Dark Knight,” which as of today becomes the biggest earner of the year at the box office, raises the question of whether it can become the second film to top $500 million at the domestic box office. I think it can, though it’s highly unlikely it will approach the $600 million “Titanic” took in. Studios are usually crazed to be the first big movie of the summer, but “The Dark Knight” is going to show the advantages of the last major blockbuster of the summer. Though movies like “The Mummy 3,” “Tropic Thunder” and “Pineapple Express” will attract sizeable audiences, having opened on July 18, “The Dark Knight” is not going to have to face anything on the scale of “Shrek the Third” or “Pirates 3,” as “Spider-Man 3″ did last year. As is almost always the case, early September is also a write-off, movie-wise, meaning “The Dark Knight” could easily linger in the top ten well past Labor Day.
Topics: Comic Books, Economics, Movies |
July 28th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I, for one, am considering going to see it a second (and possibly even a third) time simply to aid the effort of toppling Titanic…