Will The Dark Knight beat Titanic's box office?

Originally posted by Endrict Nuul
After four weeks as the #1 movie in the country, the reign of Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight finally came to an end, but not before it amassed enough money to pass the unadjusted gross of George Lucas' 1977 sci-fi classic Star Wars to become the 2nd highest grossing movie domestically with an astounding five-week box office gross of $471.5 million! (Star Wars' unadjusted gross of $461 million included a number of re-releases since its debut thirty years ago.) While it has a long way to go if it wants to pass the long-held box office record of James Cameron's Titanic, it's more than likely The Dark Knight could become the second movie to ever make more than $500 million domestically. (Quite ironically, the continued success of Nolan's Batman film knocked George Lucas' new animated Star Wars: the Clone Wars, the first movie in the franchise to be distributed by Warner Bros., down to third place for the weekend as well.)

http://www.superherohype.com/news/batmannews.php?id=7595

If The Dark Knight is out until mid to late October then The Dark Knight can very well surpass Titanic.

I will be watching closely - no major releases for the rest of summer. Does it have the gas to edge Titanic out by late September - early October?

Nah. I don't think so. The hype's starting to die down. It's been a month and Tropic Thunder just beat TDK this weekend.

I mean we're talking about another 150 million+ more just to catch up to tie "Titanic". (domestically speaking)

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Nah. I don't think so. The hype's starting to die down. It's been a month and Tropic Thunder just beat TDK this weekend.

I mean we're talking about another 150 million+ more just to catch up to tie "Titanic". (domestically speaking)

At $471 million, it's only $130 million behind Titanic. It's has no other major releases to contend with this month - unless you think the remake of Death Race 2000 will do anything - and one more holiday weekend(Labour Day) to fill it's boots. It's still possible, but it will be close.
Bringing in $16 million the past weekend - $30 million for the whole week - it's weekly decline has been small compared to many other films.
If it brings in $20-25 million next week, $16-18 million the next, then then $13, then $10...
Project out and see how much it could have by mid October.

Originally posted by roughrider
At $471 million, it's only $130 million behind Titanic. It's has no other major releases to contend with this month - unless you think the remake of Death Race 2000 will do anything - and one more holiday weekend(Labour Day) to fill it's boots. It's still possible, but it will be close.
Bringing in $16 million the past weekend - $30 million for the whole week - it's weekly decline has been small compared to many other films.
If it brings in $20-25 million next week, $16-18 million the next, then then $13, then $10...
Project out and see how much it could have by mid October.

That's sensible. Warner execs don't have that high an expectation ($510-$540mil.) but it does seem a theoretic possibility with your scenario and numbers.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
That's sensible. Warner execs don't have that high an expectation ($510-$540mil.) but it does seem a theoretic possibility with your scenario and numbers.

Warner Bros is putting that out there so they can cover there arse if The Dark Knight falls short of beating Titanic. If The Dark Knight does indeed catch and pass Titanic, rival studios will never hear the end of it for a very long time.

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
Warner Bros is putting that out there so they can cover there arse if The Dark Knight falls short of beating Titanic. If The Dark Knight does indeed catch and pass Titanic, rival studios will never hear the end of it for a very long time.

is every country worldwide watching it now?....

Originally posted by TheGame17
is every country worldwide watching it now?....

I believe so, yes

Its #19 worldwide now at 805 million. I expect it will be able to jump to at least #14 which is um...finding nemo

It added $18 million the past week, down from $30 million the week before. Just ten million shy of $500 million, which is really neat.
But it's getting tight. It will have to keep doing good business until mid-October to do it. Unless Warner Bros. does a splashy re-release with a good hook, right around Oscar time.

Originally posted by roughrider
It added $18 million the past week, down from $30 million the week before. Just ten million shy of $500 million, which is really neat.
But it's getting tight. It will have to keep doing good business until mid-October to do it. Unless Warner Bros. does a splashy re-release with a good hook, right around Oscar time.

its at 870.3 million total rite now so its #14 all time, just below Fellowship of the ring.

Is there any big weekend or holiday coming up that could give it a boost??
I think seeing The Dark Knight on Halloween would be awesome 😄

Originally posted by TheGame17
its at 870.3 million total rite now so its #14 all time, just below Fellowship of the ring.

Is there any big weekend or holiday coming up that could give it a boost??
I think seeing The Dark Knight on Halloween would be awesome 😄

It could get a push this labour day weekend.
Releasing it again on Halloween means having to pull it out of theatres weeks prior - could defeat the purpose of doing it.

Indeed, just keep it in theaters until around Halloween or whatever, and take it out instead of doing what was said above. Also, I was starting to think it might not even come in number 2 to Titanic, but with it having shot up to $870 million worldwide so quickly, it could do so.

The Dark Knight is truly poised to quite possibly catch if not pass Titanic. Over the weekend it will pass $900 million worldwide and I will not be surprised at all if this stays in theaters both domestic and overseas until October. So that being said The Dark Knight can certainly catch if not pass Titanic...

http://www.superherohype.com/news/batmannews.php?id=7626

It is drawing fairly close in US domestic terms but it is WAY short worldwide.

(Inflation adjusted, of course, it is still a mere 33rd domestically)

At $502 million & counting. 💃 💃 💃

Just before its release, I knew the film would be big but not THIS big. Congratulations to all.
Though at this rate, it will have to stay in theatres until mid November to pass Titanic.

Just $99 million away...

Breaking news: Manchester City have bid £100m to sign Batman.

Originally posted by roughrider
At $502 million & counting. 💃 💃 💃

Just before its release, I knew the film would be big but not THIS big. Congratulations to all.
Though at this rate, it will have to stay in theatres until mid November to pass Titanic.

Just $99 million away...

If you want to believe WB they think it will top out at $530 or $550 million domestically. Personally I think if it does stay in theaters until october or november then it will surpass Titanic domestically. Overall since it has made $919 worldwide and isn't stopping anytime soon overseas then it certainly has a chance to tie, break or come close to Titanic's worldwide box office take of $1.8 billion

Originally posted by Kovacs86
Breaking news: Manchester City have bid £100m to sign Batman.

Originally posted by roughrider
😄 So if you had Batman on your football team, what position would you play him?

Dang... can't think of an appropriate pun. If it were cricket it'd be so easy to think of one, too.
I'd say Man City want him as a striker considering their other targets...

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