The Dark Knight has utterly smashed the record for reaching $200m the fastest, the previous record was eight days — by three films — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Spider-Man 2 and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith; all big name contenders. The Dark Knight has achieved this in five days, knocking a whole 3 days off the record. That’s phenomenal.
On Monday the movie took $24.5 million (a best ever non-holiday Monday) and Tuesday it added a further $20.87 million (second best ever to Transformers).
SSH has a nice summary of The Dark Knight’s major accomplishments so far:
Widest release (4,366 theaters), biggest midnight opening ($18.5M), biggest opening weekend ($158.4M), biggest July opener ($158.4M), biggest PG-13 rated opening ($158.4M), biggest single day ($67.2M), biggest opening day ($67.2M), biggest Friday ($67.2M), biggest Sunday ($43.6M), biggest IMAX opening ($6.3M) and fastest to $200M in five days ($203.8M).
Source: Media by Numbers, Thanks Keith
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That’s really good for domestic sales. I remember Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End making $400 million in 6 days, but that was worldwide.
are there any stats showing which city brought in the most money for this movie over the weekend (i.e. chicago)?
Yeah that would be cool to see the worldwide stats. It would also be cool to see the stats of city by city. As of writing this it’s past 300 million