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Friday, July 18, 2008 --- 43 days ago http://movieblog.ugo.com/index.php/movieblog/more/dark_knight_bright_monday_morn
| Here we go. The final superhero film of the summer is unleashed onto 9200 total screens and industry estimates have the The Dark Knight pulling in something north of 130 million dollars over the three day weekend, which would place it just shy of Spider-man 3’s $151,116,516 and in direct competition with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’s $135,634,554 for the number two all-time biggest three-day opening weekend slot. According to Box Office Guru, Warner Bros. is releasing the PG-13 film in a record 4,366 theaters (including 94 IMAX locations) with an estimated 9,200 total screens. The theater count inches past the 4,362 of last year’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End which used to be the widest opener in that category. As for total screens, Dark Knight’s count is not as high as the 10,000 screens that Sony secured for Spider-Man 3 when it set the all-time opening weekend record in May 2007 with $151.3M, but it is higher than the 8,500 screens that the second biggest opener Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest locked in two years ago in July 2006 for its then-record $135.6M launch. Despite the prediction, taking into account the coolest viral marketing in cinema history, I think the film has the goods to dethrone Spidey and grab the number one all-time opening. I mean, let’s be real here, Nikki Finke reports that Imax has 1,600 shows in all U.S. screens for this weekends opening of Batman: The Dark Knigh ... |
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