'Dark Knight' Rescues Summer Box Office
'Batman Begins' Sequel Passes $500M Over Labor Day Weekend
POSTED: Tuesday, September 2, 2008
UPDATED: 10:44 am CDT September 2,
2008
  Warner Bros. Image Heath Ledger as The Joker and Christian Bale as Batman in "The Dark Knight" |
Thanks to the soaring performance of "The Dark Knight," the 2008 summer box office finished a fraction ahead of last year's record-setting take.Box office tracker Media By Numbers said Monday that movie ticket sales between the first weekend in May through Labor Day totaled about $4.2 billion, up from $4.18 billion during summer 2007."The Dark Knight," Warner Bros. "Batman Begins" sequel crossed over the $500 million mark Labor Day weekend. The studio expects the movie to top out at about a $530 million gross, leaving "Titanic" as the all-time box office champ at $600.8 million.Coming in behind "The Dark Knight" at the box office were "Iron Man" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which each earned more than $300 million domestically.Other films that earned big office returns include "Hancock," "Kung-Fu Panda," "Sex and the City," "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" and "The Incredible Hulk."
Previous Stories:
- July 22, 2008: Ledger's Joker Has Last Laugh
- July 17, 2008: Does Director Fear Hype Of 'Dark Knight'?
- July 18, 2008: Review: Epic 'Dark Knight' Is Masterpiece
- June 29, 2008: Director Opens Up About Ledger's Joker
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