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Record #4: Dark Knight takes $158.4m on opening weekend July 20th, 2008

Here it comes, the one we have been wait­ing for — The Dark Knight has set the record for best ever sales on an open­ing week­end, reach­ing $155.34m — beat­ing Spider-man 3’s $151.1m.

We were hold­ing a straw poll on poten­tial week­end tak­ings, my Fri­day pre­dic­tion of $157m looks almost spot on :) , excellent!

“The Dark Knight” took in a record $155.34 mil­lion in its first week­end, said Dan Fell­man, head of dis­tri­b­u­tion for Warner Bros., which released the “Bat­man Begins” sequel.

That topped Hollywood’s pre­vi­ous best of $151.1 mil­lion, set by “Spider-Man 3″ in May 2007.

Source: AP, thanks Keith!

EDIT: Looks like the final fig­ures have been clar­i­fied — the WB had pre­vi­ously esti­mated $155.3m, it instead took in a record $158.4m, after tal­ly­ing Sunday’s fig­ures. It also set the record for an IMAX opener, earn­ing $6.2 mil­lion from 94 IMAX theaters.

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Peter July 20th, 2008

Alfred : No Your Lim­its Mas­ter Wayne
Bruce Wayne : BATMAN Has No Limits !!!!!!

Damn Straight Bruce The Bat got no limits

- $155.34 mil­lion (Reg­u­lar the­aters) — $6.2 mil­lion (IMAX the­aters) — $195,340,000 (Worldwide)


Vanessa July 20th, 2008

this movie rocked it was sus­pense­ful yet excit­ing the joker (god rest his soul) was amaz­ing, it was just mind blow­ing its just a great movie for any ages of all kinds to see.


Vanessa July 20th, 2008

this movie rocked it was sus­pense­ful yet excit­ing the joker (god rest his soul) was amaz­ing, it was just mind blow­ing its just a great movie for any ages of all kinds to see. I’ve loved bat­man for so long and now well it has just come alive. :)


Keith July 21st, 2008

I’m so glad we beat Spider-Crap


grirm July 21st, 2008

Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal, is looks absolutely hor­ren­dous…
Should’ve stuck with other actress from Bat­man Begins; only down­fall of the movie.


Tim July 21st, 2008

Hell no, Katie Holmes was ter­ri­ble. Mag­gie was such a bet­ter choice.


Nick July 21st, 2008

I thought Maggie’s act­ing was much bet­ter than Katie’s, and Mag­gie doesn’t come close to look­ing “absolutely hor­ren­dous,” come on.


chiellini July 22nd, 2008

Just saw it this Sun­day, how­ever I don’t believe that my ticket pur­chase went towards the $155M week­end total. Nonethe­less, it was a good movie and I loved the Joker’s magic trick. I’d like to thank God for my camel-like blad­der because I really didn’t want to miss a sec­ond of this 2 1/2 hour film.


tyler July 22nd, 2008

Same here except it was on the mid­night pre­mire and this was when stopped for 5 min and it was 2 min before it came back on. So I ran to the bath­room and every­one was cheer­ing me on and got back on time before it went. We got free movie passes for the inconvience.