Box Office Mojo is reporting that Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight”, the second film in the newly rebooted Batman franchise, may have broken the opening day box office record. At this time I am only working from estimates and the true figures won’t be available until Monday (US time).
“The Dark Knight” has taken an astounding US$66.4 Million in its first day (estimated) on 4,366 screens. That is just the US take, remember that the “The Dark Knight” opened worldwide so we also have to take into account the international box office. Those figures are not available yet. When I saw the film on Wednesday night here in Australia, the theatre was full and all of the day’s sessions had booked out.
I don’t think Warner Bros. has to worry to much about recouping its US$180 million budget. I don’t think an early congratulations is out of line here. It is a fitting farewell to Heath Ledger who was absolutely awesome as the Joker, he will be missed. I will be seeing the film a second (and possibly third) time and of course I will be buying it when it is released on DVD (it might even be the film to make me move to Blu-Ray).
