Box Office: Just Good Enough

Posted on August 29, 2008 by jaggerkieth

L. to R.: Warner Bros.; George Kraychyk / Paramount / AP In Hollywood, 2008 was a very good summer for men who fly, women who bond and pandas who roundhouse kick. And it wasn’t a bad summer for the overall domestic box office, which will total roughly the same as last year — about $4 [...]

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Batman wins weekend box office again, nears new record

Posted on August 4, 2008 by jaggerkieth

Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight” conquered the North American box office for a third straight weekend and was close to smashing the record for the fastest film to gross 400 million dollars, estimates showed Sunday. Director Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to 2005′s “Batman Begins” grabbed another 43.8 million dollars over the weekend, pushing its three-week take [...]

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NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE 2008

Posted on July 29, 2008 by jaggerkieth

1. The Dark Knight ($75.6m) 2. Step Brothers ($30.0m, pictured) 3. Mamma Mia! ($17.8m) 4. The X-Files: I Want to Believe ($10.2m) 5. Journey to the Centre of the Earth ($9.4m) 6. Hancock ($8.2m) 7. Wall-E ($6.3m) 8. Hellboy II: The Golden Army ($4.9m) 9. Space Chimps ($4.4m) 10. Wanted ($2.7m) Source: Media By Numbers

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‘Batman’ star Bale has Joker under his skin

Posted on July 29, 2008 by jaggerkieth

Christian Bale, the controversial star of the new “Batman” film that weighs good and evil, said Tuesday he saw some truth in the evil logic of the film’s villain the Joker. In “The Dark Knight,” which shattered box-office records in the United States, the late Heath Ledger plays the Joker who questions whether Batman is [...]

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Dark Knight breaks $300m record

Posted on July 29, 2008 by jaggerkieth

Christian Bale (pictured) is Batman, with Heath Ledger playing The Joker The new Batman film has broken another box office record in North America as it spends a second week at number one. The Dark Knight passed the $300m (£151m) mark quicker than any other movie, doing so 10 days after release. Pirates of the [...]

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Batman ” The Dark Knight” is top superhero at box office

Posted on July 21, 2008 by jaggerkieth

Heath Ledger as the Joker and Christian Bale as Batman are breaking box office records with “The Dark Knight.” LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood’s box-office superheroes. “The Dark Knight” took in a record $155.34 million in its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million [...]

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Dark Knight: Lines, But Not For Tickets

Posted on July 18, 2008 by jaggerkieth

When it comes to the hugely hyped opening of the new Batman moview, The Dark Knight, the question is who’s crazier: the mad, murderous Joker portrayed by the late Heath Ledger, or the mad, manic fanboys who insist on lining up for hours just to see the film at 2, 3 or 6 a.m. on [...]

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Batman is Back — The Dark Knight

Posted on July 11, 2008 by jaggerkieth

There’s a beautiful high-angle shot, early in The Dark Knight, that looks down on Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) in full Batman regalia as he perches atop a Gotham skyscraper, surveying the city he lives to protect, then leaping off and spreading his majestic bat wings to swoop down into the night. Bruce’s trajectory is also [...]

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