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The Dark Knight closes in on a billion
Simon Brew
The Dark Knight is about to break another box office barrier - but the worldwide all-time top three has proven tougher to crack...
Published on Sep 18, 2008
But is there a slight fly in the ointment? Admittedly not a big one, but The Dark Knight’s international box office – while still chugging along quite nicely – doesn’t seem to be keeping pace with its US take. The film currently stands on $449m outside of an America (still trailing the take from the fourth Indiana Jones movie), which is still by some distance the record for a Batman film, but it doesn’t look like the final total will now be enough to knock The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King out of second place. The Dark Knight, which should hit a billion dollars in the next couple of weeks (only the fourth film to do so) still trails the last Lord Of The Rings movie’s $1.119bn take, and while it may have a shot at third place in the all time chart (currently held by Pirates Of The Caribbean 2’s $1.066bn), it may be at last that Batman’s box office performance is winding down.
Of course, by nobody’s measure is a $1bn take a disappointment, and it’s considerably more than Warner Bros was probably expecting after Batman Begins took $371m worldwide. But it seems that there are still a few box office records that Batman is going to leave in tact. Although there’s the small matter of the DVD revenue yet to come…
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