Dark Knightrecently became the fastest movie to earn $ 400 million . opening night weekend , the flick filled seats for 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. screenings and fans on Craigslist were pay two , four and ten times more than face time value for ticket . Â At just over two and a half hours , the moving picture even top off other Batman moving-picture show in length!Despite all this achiever , though theDark Knightcannot win it all . Here are a few record book it wo n’t be breaking :
1) Summer revenue abroad
The Mummyis buryingDark Knightin weekly box office sales outside the US . Oddly enough , if the summer Olympics had taken place in New York City instead of Beijing , Gotham City might have reigned worldwide .
2) New Zealand’s top spot
There ’s simply no budgingFrodo and friendsfrom hold onto the gap weekend record in the country where theLord of the Ringsseries was take . The country was so twat for Tolkien that it temporarily renamed the capital metropolis of Wellington as Middle Earth .
3) Top domestic revenue
( At least , not yet.)Titanicstill reignsas the top grossing movie of all time in the US , founder the $ 600 million mark . WhileDark Knightis certainly moving up the chart , in the preceding ten years , no movie has come in near to slide down this ship ’s record .
4) Video game success
wanderer - valet 3,Shrek 3and other top movies released television games at the same time that they hit the theatre of operations . Â So far , Dark Knighthasn’t supply a video secret plan rendering , and with it , haslost as much as $ 100 million in revenue .
5) Most expensive movie
In recent years , Spider - Man 3clocked in at $ 258 million in product costs . If you adjust for inflation , 1963 ’s $ 44 millionCleopatrawould have be nearly $ 300 million . By that bar , Dark Knightseems like a bargain at an estimated $ 185 million .
6) Most Prince-ly soundtrack
While Prince recorded one of the two soundtracks for the 1989’sBatman , and appeared in music videos , includingBatdanceandPartyman , he was noticeably lacking from the new movie ’s soundtrack . Sorry , Dark Knight !
