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16 September 2008 11:59 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Abba movie Mamma Mia! is still singing at the top of the global box office chart - taking $17.5 million (GBP9.45 million) across 44 countries in the last week.

The Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan-starring musical has proved a far bigger hit outside the U.S. - grossing a total of $307 million (GBP166 million) in foreign territories to date, compared to $139 million (GBP75 million) in American movie theatres.

Will Smith's Hancock is the second biggest hit of the week, grossing $10 million (GBP5.4 million), which lifts its global total to $375 million (GBP202 million).

Wanted - starring Angelina Jolie - finished third, followed by The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

Batman movie The Dark Knight lands in fifth place - boosting its total takings at the international box office to $449 million (GBP242 million).

Add that to the $517.7 million (GBP279 million) the movie has made so far in the U.S., and The Dark Knight is close to reaching $1 billion (GBP540 million) - a figure only achieved by Titanic, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

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28 August 2008 12:22 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Ok, here's the deal: It's Labor Day. Hollywood, for whatever reason, has this misconception that people won't go see movies over the last pre-Thanksgiving holiday weekend. And I can't believe that, in 2008, all those multi-billion dollar multinationals still hold on to this business model. Here's a little secret, you to me: Some of the movies that do best on Labor Day weekend are movies from earlier in the summer. Why? The movies that come out on Labor Day aren't Usda grade A beef.

Last year, there were actually a couple new releases that did pretty well (Halloween, Balls of Fury), but in 2006, the carryover Invincible beat all newcomers, and Little Miss Sunshine and Pirates 2 saw significant increases in their audiences. The year before, The 40-Year-Old Virgin also sold more tickets over Labor Day than it had in the previous weekend, ditto March of the Penguins. In 2004, Hero became the

Colin Boyd

5 August 2008 12:08 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Slashfilm consulted Media By Numbers for the latest Dark Knight box office, and solely because we've covered every theatrical heartbeat of that film, we wanted to pass along that it has reportedly cleared $400 million, and has done so in nearly 30 days faster than the previous record.

In 18 days, The Dark Knight has done what it took Shrek 2 over 40 days to accomplish. The Media By Numbers estimate also gives a presumed Monday total of $6.3 million or so, good enough for a domestic gross of $400,031,000. Now, because it's an unofficial estimate and that number is so close to not being $400 million, there's as good a chance that today's box office will actually be the one that puts it over. Then again, that estimate might be a touch low, as well.

The point is: Less than three weeks versus six weeks and a day for Shrek 2.

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Colin Boyd

5 August 2008 12:05 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Chalk up another record for The Dark Knight. Having hit the $300-million mark after only 10 days of release, the Batman adventure can now claim title to $400 million at the box office in only 18 days – the fastest pace ever, Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. Jeff Goldstein, general sales manager for the film company, said the movie, starring Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger, sliced in half the amount of time it took the previous record to hit $400 million. Shrek 2, in 2004, crossed that line after 43 days in release, the Associated Press reports.In terms of overall performance, The Dark Knight already ranks No.

Stephen M. Silverman

31 July 2008 2:31 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Will The Dark Knight hit $400 million after this weekend? Probably not. That number should fall Monday or Tuesday, and when it does, The Dark Knight will be only the sixth movie to reach it in its original release. Looking at its place in history, this movie ought to be in second place all-time by August 18th. That's $460 million, by the way, and after that, who knows?

We predicted earlier this week that The Dark Knight will hit $500 million by the end of August, and I still think that's a real distinct possibility, with $525 - $550 being the most likely final resting place. If it performs exactly the way Pirates 2 did two summers ago - at least this is what we worked out in our column about The Dark Knight's pursuit of Titanic - then $550 is kind of a magic number. Personally, I don't think it'll get there, but that's what the exercise showed.

Colin Boyd

27 July 2008 5:49 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight has set another record at the U.S. box office by becoming the first film to pass the $300 million (GBP150 million) in just 10 days.

The film became the first movie to hit the $200 million (GBP100 million) mark in five days after breaking all opening-weekend box office records last week.

Thanks to a staggering $75.6 million ($37.8 million) secondweekend take, the Batman film has racked up over $314 million (GBP157 million) since its release in America 10 days ago.

It took previous record holder Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 16 days to pass the $300 million mark in 2006.

Meanwhile, Will Ferrell's new comedy Step Brothers opened big in second place with a $30 million (GBP15 million) opening weekend take and Abba movie musical Mamma Mia! slipped to third with $17.9 million (GBP8.95 million).

The new X-Files film, The X-Files: I Want To Believe, was a disappointment in its first weekend on release - it took in just $10.2 million (GBP5.1 million).

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27 July 2008 2:31 PM, PDT | From syfyportal.com | See recent syfyportal news

It might not be in a position just yet to challenge "Titanic" 10-year rule on top of the all-time box office, but the "Batman Begins" sequel "The Dark Knight" is certainly giving the James Cameron film a run for its money. The film earned $75.6 million in domestic box office over the weekend to up its total to $314.2 million, hitting the $300 million mark in just 10 days, shattering the previous speed record to $300 million of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," which hit the $300 million mark in 16 days. Dan Fellman, the distribution head at Warner Bros., told CNN "The Dark Knight" could hit $400 million by next weekend if not a few days later, easily destroying the record set by "Shrek 2" in 2004 that hit the mark in 43 days. "The Dark Knight" easily was the top movie ...

27 July 2008 3:50 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

No argument: The Dark Knight is Hollywood's brightest light. The Batman adventure, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, shattered another box-office benchmark this weekend – reaching beyond the $300 million mark in a mere 10 days. The movie grossed $75.6 million in its second weekend in theaters, bringing its North American box-office total to $314,245,000, Warner Bros. head of distribution Dan Fellman tells the Associated Press. The number breaks the record established by 2006's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which hit $300 million after 16 days. Fellman says Dark Knight could conceivably reach the $400-million mark in about 18 days – placing it ahead of Shrek 2

Stephen M. Silverman

26 July 2008 4:30 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Rivetting pictures like this helped X-Files to a miserable $5 million on opening day

Photo: 20th Century Fox Regular readers probably noticed RopeofSilicon is one of the few sites to not have a review of The X-Files: I Want To Believe online. Well, it isn't for a lack of trying to see it. Unfortunately due to Fox trying to keep this thing as hidden as possible (more on that in a sec) their screening coincided with my plane flight down to San Diego resulting in me not being able to see it in Seattle or San Diego. So, I had to go without a review. However, it appears it didn't matter, not many of you were going to see it as The Dark Knight continues its surge for a second weekend. Could it make it three next week? Too early to tell, but let's dig into these Friday estimates shall we?

Brad Brevet

24 July 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight dealt another Kerplow! to a box-office record Tuesday when it crossed the $200-million mark in ticket sales in five days -- the fastest any film has ever reached that milestone. Three films had previously tied for the record, but it had taken each of them eight days to get there. (They were: Spider-Man 2; Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; and Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith.) The film has been posting remarkable weekday grosses -- $24.5 million on Monday and $20.9 million on Tuesday. As of Tuesday, its total gross stood at $203.77 million. Meanwhile, Dark Knight producer Charles Roven has told USA Today that he's "scratching my head" over the results. "I've been doing this for a while," he told the newspaper. "I made my first film in 1983. I've had what I thought was a lot of success but never anything like this."

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23 July 2008 4:11 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

The Dark Knight has broken two more Hollywood record, and they weren't even close. By earning $24 million on Monday and another $20 million Tuesday, according to Box Office Mojo, the Batman Begins sequel is by far the fastest movie to $200 million, beating the old record by three days. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest accomplished the feat in eight days back in 2006.

So The Dark Knight is now the fastest to $100 million and $200 million, and we're even going to upgrade the film's chances to break $300 million. We had been predicting 13 days, a full three days quicker than the current record held by Dead Man's Chest. Now, however, it appears likely that The Dark Knight will beat $300 million in ten days, eleven tops.

The second record to fall to Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, and Heath Ledger is the highest grossing movie in five days (it also holds the record for totals on opening day,

Colin Boyd

21 July 2008 5:35 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

In case you haven't heard – or witnessed at any cineplex this weekend – The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's dark sequel about the Caped Crusader, took in $158.3 million since Friday. Speaking on Britain's GMTV Monday morning, the star of the picture, Christian Bale of the impressive box-office take: "It's Monopoly money to me – I can't even comprehend it." Along with a hearty $27.6 million opening take for Mamma Mia – the best ever for a musical, topping last year's Hairspray opening – this turned out to be the best three-day weekend in Hollywood history. Previously, a $218.4 million weekend in July 2007 held that distinction, largely

Michael Y. Park

19 July 2008 10:19 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

If things continue this way, we might have that new opening weekend box office record after all.

With $66 million on Friday - a brand new high - The Dark Knight is poised to make at least $140 million this weekend, if not closer to $160 million. The new opening day record beat last year's Spider-Man 3 by nearly $7 million. These estimates come to us from Box Office Mojo.

A couple of things about projecting the rest of the weekend: It's going to be hard to accurately gauge where this film might wind up because of all the midnight, 3am, and 6am shows. According to various reports, the overnight screenings contributed $17 million and change to The Dark Knight's take, but since those showings aren't available on Saturday and Sunday (at least not industry wide), you can make the assumption that The Dark Knight probably won't make another $60 million on Saturday.

That's speculation,

Colin Boyd

13 July 2008 9:24 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

There's very little doubt about what movie will have the longest lines next weekend. The Dark Knight may break the all-time opening weekend record. Then again, it might not, if a lot of people, believing it will break the opening weekend record, don't want to screw with the long lines. Maybe they'll stay away completely, or maybe, having spent all that time in line just to see sold out theaters for The Dark Knight, they'll see something else instead.

The summer movie season has a few weeks where it seems as though one movie has a weekend all to itself, but it's hardly the case here. In fact, with all the talk surrounding how The Dark Knight might make $160, $180 million dollars in three days - speculation based primarily on geeked-up hope more than anything else - it's worth pointing out that of the top three films of all time in terms of stratospheric debuts,

Colin Boyd

15 June 2008 10:45 PM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Keira Knightley isn't anorexic – her slim figure is thanks to her dad, not a restrictive diet, says the star's mom. "She has always been thin," Knightley's mother, Sharman Macdonald, told Britain's Sunday Times. "She's her daddy's daughter, with his long body." Like her father, the actress, 23, must "eat like a horse," to maintain her weight, Macdonald said. Knightley eats a diet high in protein and carbohydrates to make sure she doesn't lose any more weight.Last year, Knightley successfully sued Britain's Daily Mail, saying that the tabloid implied she'd lied about having an eating disorder. In 2006, Knightley vociferously denied that she suffered from anorexia.

Courtney Rubin

15 articles from 2008