The Dark Knight made $24,290 on Thursday, November 6. Its weekend receipts are still not known, but it was only shown on 125 here in the States so I can’t assume it is going to be a huge number. However, $992,811,316 is a HUGE number and that is The Dark Knight‘s current foreign tally made up of $528,315,892 domestically and $464,495,424 from foreign markets. The film may still be $72,472,296 shy of Titanic‘s #1 spot at the top of the all-time box office, but to be less than $8 million away from $1 billion isn’t a bad consolation prize.
As of right now The Dark Knight is fourth in all-time worldwide gross with the top five looking like this:
- Titanic ($1.842 billion)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.119 billion)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($1.066 billion)
- The Dark Knight ($992.8 million)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($976.5 million)
I swear to you, that Titanic figure is ASTRONOMICAL!
Warner Bros. is currently ramping up on promoting the flick for Oscar consideration and has opened up their For Your Consideration website with a snazzy spot for the flick (check it out here) as well as allowing you to download the script written by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan, which you can get directly right here.
I still believe The Dark Knight will earn a Best Picture nomination and an assured nomination for Heath Ledger for Supporting Actor and perhaps a score nomination for Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Technical nominations are almost assured, but I am sure fanboys will be on the edge of their seats waiting to see if it gets nominated for the big one. The Academy would be stupid not to nominate it for Best Picture seeing how it would guarantee monstrous ratings for the show itself, but as of right now is 100% deserved. Sure, some late 2008 flicks could be better, but right now there aren’t many that top it.
I’ll be paying close attention to that worldwide gross and let yah know once it hits $1 billion. However, one has to wonder just how much more is in The Dark Knight box-office tank because with it set to hit DVD and Blu-ray on December 9 and Warner set to ship more than 1 million copies of the upcoming Blu-ray release, which represents the largest initial shipment of any Blu-ray title ever is certain to all but end its theatrical run. Numbers wise, that release compares to the current Blu-ray record holder, Iron Man, which is the current Blu-ray bestseller at around a half million copies in its first week.
In other Batman related news Hüseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of the southeastern city of Batman, is set to sue Christopher Nolan and not Batman creator DC Comics saying, “The royalty of the name ‘Batman’ belongs to us … There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.” Get the full take on this moron right here and thanks to SlashFilm for the heads up.
