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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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...
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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
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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