Instead of asking ‘why so serious,’ perhaps the question should be, ‘are they serious?’ The answer is a simple one: yes they are. ‘They’ are the fans of Christopher Nolan and ‘The Dark Knight.’ If toppling box office records wasn’t enough, they now have their eyes on a bigger prize: Oscar gold. A website, Dark …
While out doing promotions for the much anticipated ‘Towelhead,’ actor Aaron Eckhart put to bed (at least for now) any chance of him appearing in the next Batman film. Apparently, Nolan told Eckhart “No way…he’s toast.” He told web-blog CHUD that Heath Ledger was supposed to come back, but there was never a plan for …
Ben Stiller’s comedy ‘Tropic Thunder,’ is spending its second week as the top film at the box office.
It’s official- ‘The Dark Knight,’ is the second highest grossing movie of all time in North America. This weekend, the Christian Bale movie passed George Lucas’ original ‘Star Wars,’ with a gross of $473 million. ‘Titanic’ is still number one with $600 million.
Christopher Nolan’s second Batman movie, ‘The Dark Knight,’ is number one at the box office for a fourth straight week, bringing it’s domestic haul to $441.5 million.
With the success of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight,’ (I’ve read a bunch of articles suggesting that the film could possibly pass ‘Titanic,’ as the highest grossing film of all time,) talk always turns to the follow-up movie. While Nolan and his co-writer brother remain un-signed for a follow-up, Flylyf is reporting that producers are eyeing …
Despite horrid reviews, audiences were split this weekend between ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,’ and ‘The Dark Knight.’ In its third week, ‘Dark Knight,’ dropped only 42% from the week prior, totaling and estimated $43.8 million for the weekend.
It wasn’t enough to have a stellar opening for Batman and ‘The Dark Knight.’ They sought to break even more records. In its sophomore session, ‘Dark Knight’ brought in and estimated $75.6 million dollars, making it the fastest film to break the $300 million dollar mark.
It wasn’t easy being the competition this weekend. Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight,’ shot past ‘Spider-Man 3’s’ record debut to claim the spot of highest weekend opening ever, the film earned $155.4 million domestically.
With the recent spate of comic book-based movies, we’re in a golden age. It is no longer just okay to throw characters onto the screen with poor dialogue and ludicrous scenarios. The bar has been raised every summer. And the bar is now sky high. Now comic book movies must face the dizzying heights achieved …