"THE DARK KNIGHT" SETS ANOTHER RECORD AS IT CROSSES THE $200 MILLION MARK IN JUST FIVE DAYS!
(Earns $24,493,313 on Monday, $20,868,722 on Tuesday and $18,515,000 on Wednesday to a domestic cumulative of $222,289,000)
WARNER BROTHERS' "THE DARK KNIGHT" POSTS BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND OF ALL-TIME!
(Also leads the biggest overall box-office weekend ever with $260 million for all films in the marketplace)
BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY GROSS IN HISTORY WITH $67,165,092. THIS APPROPRIATELY INCLUDES THE $18.5 MILLION IN FRIDAY 12:01 PREVIEW SHOWINGS.
"DARK KNIGHT" RECORDS THUS FAR (IN ORDER OF OCCURRENCE):
1 - LARGEST NUMBER OF OPENING THEATRES WITH 4,366 (MORE THAN THE 4,362 DEBUT THEATRES OF "PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END IN 2007).
2 - BIGGEST MIDNIGHT PREVIEW GROSS WITH $18.489 MILLION IN 3,040 THEATRES (THIS BEATS "STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH" AND ITS $16.9 MILLION IN 2,915 THEATRES IN 2005).
3 - BIGGEST IMAX MIDNIGHT PREVIEWS SET AN NEW RECORD WITH $640,000 (THIS AMOUNT WAS APPROPRIATELY INCLUDED IN THE $18.489 MILLION PREVIEW NUMBER).
4 - BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY GROSS IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY WITH $67,165,092 (THIS BESTS THE $59,841,919 SET BY "SPIDER-MAN 3" IN 2007).
5 - BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY WITH $158,411,483 MILLION (THIS BESTS THE $151,116,516 SET BY "SPIDER-MAN 3" IN 2007).
6 - BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS FOR AN IMAX RELEASE IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY WITH $6,214,061 MILLION IN 94 THEATRES ($66,107 PER-THEATRE!) (THIS BESTS THE $4.7 MILLION SET BY "SPIDER-MAN 3" IN 2007) - IMAX SHOWING AT FULL CAPACITY $1.9 MILLION ON SATURDAY ALONE.
7 - BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY SUNDAY GROSS WITH $43,596,151 (THIS BEATS THE $39,937,865 SET BY "SPIDER-MAN 3" ON ITS DEBUT WEEKEND).
8 - FASTEST SPRINT TO $200 MILLION DOMESTICALLY IN JUST FIVE DAYS
A HUGE WEEKEND ON TAP AS THE MOST ANTICPATED FILM OF THE YEAR HITS THEATRES THIS WEEKEND IN THEATRES AND IN IMAX
Warner Brothers' "The Dark Knight" poised for a monumental debut
Summer and Year-to-Date Stats