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Film School Rejects: The Dark Knight Box Office: Down Goes the Midnight Record

  • themicrocosm · 1 year ago
    This is going to be the biggest movie event of the last 10 years, actually it may already be. If you want to see the first five minutes of the movie: http://themicrocosm.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/th...
  • Nathan Deen · 1 year ago
    I did and a funny coincidence happened. Back in 2005 when I went to see Batman Begins, there was like a twenty minute delay due to technical problems. I was in the theater for over three hours. Last night, there was yet again a lengthy delay and I didn't get home until like 3:30. Only delays I've ever encountered in a theater and they were both Batman movies. Oh well, they were both well worth the wait.
  • Kevin Carr · 1 year ago
    $18.5 million down... $6,915,000,000 to go for Neil's prediction of $7 billion on opening weekend...
  • Kevin Carr · 1 year ago
    er... rather... $6,981,500,000... goes to show what attending a midnight show does to your ability to do math.

    Why so serious?
  • Garrett · 1 year ago
    Went to a midnight showing here in iowa and there was one kid dressed as joker and the other as batman and they pretended to fight in front of the screen
  • busterbros · 1 year ago
    The theater I went to last night had Dark Knight playing on 25 screens and they were all sold out. That's easily the biggest midnight show I've ever seen.
  • Peter Boyle (Not That One) · 1 year ago
    well, where I was there were a bunch of idiots who had haphazardly thrown on some kid's batman costumes. there was one guy who had near perfect joker make-up on. RIGHT before the trailers started, one of the batmen started yelling at the joker guy. he shouted a bunch of stuff, like "the joker? the joker is awful! and scary and villianous!". and then, the coup d'etat: "HEATH LEDGER'S DEAD!" he kept going as the theater went dark, after which everyone yelled at him.

    it was pretty funny.
  • Brian Rodden · 1 year ago
    Christian Bale rules. That is all.
  • Adam Sweeney · 1 year ago
    No blockbuster movie of the last decade is as deserving. I hope it knocks every record down like a hospital in Gotham. I thought Iron Man was a near perfect comic film. I stand corrected. The Dark Knight takes that honor.
  • Emily · 1 year ago
    the movie was phenominal. i can't even begin to explain the excitement in the theatre when we went in to see this movie that's been made to perfection. the joker was amazing along with the rest of the cast. definately a must see for anyone that's ever been a fan of batman. excellent jobb!
  • tom · 1 year ago
    this was a great movie indeed.
  • Ben · 1 year ago
    I went to a midnight showing and right when the commissioner was destroying the bat light, the movie stopped. It took the workers at the theater a good fifteen minutes to fix it. During this time, a guy dressed up as the Joker wrestled a guy dressed up as Batman. I went to the same high school as the Joker, and he had the costume nearly perfect. Oh yeah, he's also one of the best wrestlers in the state, so he won easily.
  • J · 1 year ago
    Neil Miller! Spell-check that article, bro!
  • Neil Miller · 1 year ago
    Yikes!

    Done.
  • Will · 1 year ago
    looks like the final tally is between 65 and 66 mil for Friday...just crushed it!

    with how many advance tickets are already sold for the rest of the weekend, plus the word
    of mouth, this HAS to beat Spiderman 3's record, yeah?
  • ddog · 1 year ago
    went the midnight screenings as well as the sneak preview and at the showing there was roughly 60% of most likely single males dressed up as the joker. there were even outside reenactments of joker impressions for the best joker..pretty funny stuff here at the theatre.
  • Drew · 1 year ago
    At the midnight showing I went to, a fake fight broke out between someone in a Batman costume and someone in a Joker costume. It was rather amusing time-burner for those last few minutes before the movie started.
  • Special Reports · 1 year ago
    Is the Dark Knight a success, because of Ledger’s death? Some people have said that the movie blatantly played on the symbolism of 9-11 with the poster, some say it’s a great movie, some say heath ledger played his best role. What do you think?
  • Shayla · 1 year ago
    I went to a midnight showing, and the film melted (yes, literally melted) fifteen minutes before the end of the movie!