Hollywood has best box office weekend in history with Dark Knight

Hollywood has best box office weekend in history with Dark Knight
The Dark Knight had ticket sales of $155.34 million in its opening weekend, which is the highest grossing weekend for a film in history. Spiderman 3 was the previous record holder with $151 million its opening weekend in 2007. Dark Knight set several other records at the box office including highest midnight opening at $18.5 million compared to Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith’s $16.9 million. It also made $67.85 million in one day to bring it to the top of the single day box office vs. Spiderman 3 at $59.8 million.

It was the best three day weekend in history at the box office thanks to The Dark Knight and second place Mama Mia, which earned a respectable $27.6 million to make it the top musical opening ever.

Advance buzz for the film coupled with Heath Ledger’s untimely death may have helped increase sales, but given the subject matter and what a great film it is it was likely to do incredibly well without the added tragedy. Critics have lauded the film’s dark plot, depth, and fast-paced action. Some reviewers say that it’s too frenetic and overlong, but they’re in the minority. The film has a 94% aggregate critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

[Details from The Huffington Post and Wikipedia]

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Published 7/21/08 by


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