Over this past weekend, The Dark Knight broke several box office records. Early Friday morning, the film broke the midnight screenings record by bringing in $18.5M. This figure doesn’t include the 3am and 6am showings. The Dark Knight also shattered the single-day opening record by generating a whooping $67M and exploded the opening weekend record, which was last set by Spider-Man 3, by bringing in $155M over the past 3 days. The Dark Knight now sits in 4th place for the most advance ticket sales.
In other news, Mama Mia! came in second at the box office this weekend with $27.6M, the second biggest opening by a musical. Fox’s Space Chimps came in 7th place with $7.4M.
|
Movie |
Distributor |
Release |
Wk |
Wkd Gross |
Total |
|
The Dark Knight
|
Warner Bros. |
Wide |
1 |
$155.340M |
$155.340M |
|
Mama Mia! |
Universal Pictures |
Wide |
1 |
$27.605M |
$27.605M |
|
Hancock
|
Columbia Pictures |
Wide |
3 |
$14.000M |
$191.504M |
|
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
Warner Bros. |
Wide |
2 |
$11.910M |
$43.074M |
|
Hellboy II : The Golden Army |
Universal Pictures |
Wide |
2 |
$10.038M |
$56.447M |
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
patrick
kudos to the makers Dark Knight for their record breaking opening weekend… it’s no wonder there’s talk of another one coming out ASAP
Jul 21st, 2008
Brian Fitzpatrick
Unbelievable movie. It deserves all the kudos it gets. But it’s going to be hard to top. I suspect it’s going to be similar to Lucas trying to beat The Empire Strikes Back. It’s possible, but it’s going to be one heck of a monumental effort.
Jul 24th, 2008
jenna
I saw a movie contest for this too http://my.heavy.com/dark_knight
and sooo many spoofs on youtube omg
Jul 25th, 2008
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