DARK KNIGHT BATTLES THE OLYMPICS
August 3, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Many moviegoers are likely to remain at home over the weekend to watch the Olympics, sending the box office into a slump for a second week. Once again the champ is expected to turn out to be Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight Rises with around $30-35 million. Its only real challenger is the debuting remake […]
KNIGHT CONTINUES TO RISE OVERSEAS
July 30, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Warner Bros. expanded The Dark Knight Rises to 57 markets from 17 the previous weekend and boosted its overseas gross an additional $122.1 million, bringing its foreign total to $248.2 million. That’s roughly half what 2008’s The Dark Knight took in ($469 million). Meanwhile, Ice Age: Continental Drift grossed $49.4 million in 69 markets, propelling […]
NOLAN’S FIRST TWO BATMAN MOVIES RETURN TO VIDEO CHARTS
July 26, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Moviegoers who were planning on taking in The Dark Knight Rises, the finale of director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, apparently decided to take a refresher course on Nolan’s earlier Batman movies, making them the top two sellers on the Blu-ray Disc Chart and Nos. 2 and 3 on the DVD chart, according to Nielsen VideoScan […]
ON ITS SIXTH DAY, DARK KNIGHT RISES CROSSES $200 MILLION
July 26, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
The Dark Knight Rises crossed the $200-million mark at the domestic box office on Wednesday as it continued to rake in big bucks during midweek. According to Box Office Mojo, the film took in $19.4 million on Monday. That compares with the $22.5 million for The Amazing Spider-Man during its first Monday following the Fourth […]
HOW HIGH WILL THE LATEST DARK KNIGHT RISE?
July 10, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight Rises is generating a prodigious number of discussions on social networks and in-theater trackers have suggested that it may be the one film that virtually every regular moviegoer is determined to see this summer. Today’s (Tuesday) Hollywood Reporter observed that studio executives are “abuzz” over the strength of tracking for […]
DARK KNIGHT RISES IS PREVIEWED
July 9, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Warner Bros. has previewed Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises to a select group of U.S. bloggers on condition that they not publish reviews until July 19, the day before the official premiere. Britain’s Guardian magazine reported today that some of those bloggers, while not actuially posting reviews per se, did register their opinions of […]
