‘Dark Knight’ Breaks $200M In 5 Days

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• I wonder how this affects the X-Files opening this weekend. Does it take away from it, or does high Dark Knight attendance mean sold-out shows and thus overflow to other films?

  Comment by matt — Thursday July 24, 2008 @ 9:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• In my wildest dreams I couldn’t imagine the movie doing these kinds of numbers or getting such an overwhelmingly positive response. And I fully expected the movie to be excellent, which I thought it really was–no letdown.

  I guess one thing I didn’t take into account were the numbers of people who saw BATMAN BEGINS after its somewhat modestly successful original run at theatres. The DVDs and even cable TV showings built the Batfan-base up to pre-Joel Schumacher levels again. People saw the quality of Nolan’s filmmaking and screenwriting and knew this one wasn’t going to disappoint. (To say nothing of the Joker/Ledger factor.)

  I’m impatient to get a second showing in…when the movie was done at my first show, a friend of mine said “I feel like I’ve been punched in the stomach repeatedly.” That a “comic book” film can do that I think really says something!

  Comment by Guy Fawkes — Thursday July 24, 2008 @ 10:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• After living in Los Angeles for a few years and now living squarely in the midwest (suburbs of Chicago) i always try to gage how the movie plays out here compared to the coasts. For what it’s worth, i saw i last night (thursday) at a Regal 20 screen theater (with an IMAX, which continues to sell out all its shows, including a 12:50am every night since opening.)

  I went to a 9:00pm show and the theater was about 75% full, with the movie basically playing on the half hour through 1am. When i got out of the movie at 11:45, the theater was packed. People pouring out of it and people pouring into it to see late shows, on a Thursday. After experiencing all the “event” movies of th past 15 years, i feel like this one takes the cake – even inside the theater i felt a palpable sense of excitement/bewilderment as the movie unspooled. For me it crystalizes why i still love going to the theater to see big extravaganzas…

  Comment by AJ Denman — Friday July 25, 2008 @ 12:09pm PDT  Reply to this post