Welcome Guest Active Topics
CCL Messageboard » The Water Cooler » Movies » Dark Knight Reaches $1 Billion

Dark Knight Reaches $1 Billion

BurningDoom
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:43:24 AM
Rank: Beyonder
Groups: Beta, Guru, Member
Location: Redding, CA
Joined: 1/5/2007 | Posts: 12,829 | Points: 61,220
Quote:
While it might not be getting a whole lot of Oscar love Sunday evening, The Dark Knight has reached a level of success only three other films before it have managed – Warner Bros. announced Friday that the film had surpassed the $1 billion dollar mark in worldwide box office receipts.

According to Variety, the studio placed the movie's combined domestic and international gross at $1,001,082,160 to date , or broken down about $533 million in North America and $567 million overseas.

Ecuador was the country that put The Dark Knight over the top, a Warner Bros. spokesperson revealed.

The Christopher Nolan epic joins Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as the only film to have pulled off the feat.

Warner Bros. also reportedly noted that it's the largest 2-D digitally re-mastered IMAX release in the domestic market with $49.6 million and worldwide with $64.9 million.
Make sure that you read and understand the forum rules here
Back to top
punisherfan1138
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:49:24 AM
Rank: Beyonder
Groups: Member
Joined: 3/9/2007 | Posts: 14,399 | Points: 56,862
Man, just think of the royalties.Sigh
Back to top
KrisEllieOphi
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:01:44 AM
Rank: Herald of Galactus
Groups: Member
Location: Texas
Joined: 4/4/2007 | Posts: 1,641 | Points: 7,500
Uh, it got plenty of Oscar love. It won twice, for awards it deserved. Benjamin Button stole a couple it shouldn't have, but they weren't stolen from Dark Knight.


Darkstar Studios
GIRL G33K blog and reviews
Comic Attack!
Back to top
SpidermanGeek
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:47:28 PM
Rank: Beyonder
Groups: Guru, Marvel Host, Member
Location: Orleans, Ontario
Joined: 5/9/2007 | Posts: 8,597 | Points: 46,128
I can't believe this piece of crap made over a billion dollars! Hypnotized


Make sure that you read and understand the forum rules, here.


I haz a Blog
Back to top
punisherfan1138
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:52:46 PM
Rank: Beyonder
Groups: Member
Joined: 3/9/2007 | Posts: 14,399 | Points: 56,862
SpidermanGeek wrote:
I can't believe this piece of crap made over a billion dollars! Hypnotized


Who said you could get out of the corner!Waiting
Back to top
jaryd1241
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:58:14 PM
Rank: Celestial
Groups: Member
Location: TX
Joined: 3/22/2007 | Posts: 3,822 | Points: 11,597
SpidermanGeek wrote:
I can't believe this piece of crap made over a billion dollars! Hypnotized

lol, I can't believe Spider-man 3 made as much money as it did. Laughing
Back to top
SpidermanGeek
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:01:15 PM
Rank: Beyonder
Groups: Guru, Marvel Host, Member
Location: Orleans, Ontario
Joined: 5/9/2007 | Posts: 8,597 | Points: 46,128
jaryd1241 wrote:
SpidermanGeek wrote:
I can't believe this piece of crap made over a billion dollars! Hypnotized

lol, I can't believe Spider-man 3 made as much money as it did. Laughing


I agree, lol. But at least it wasn't nominated for Oscars. lol.


Make sure that you read and understand the forum rules, here.


I haz a Blog
Back to top
dunleavy75
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:36:04 PM
Rank: Beyonder
Groups: Member
Location: south/central/east/west PA
Joined: 9/2/2008 | Posts: 12,241 | Points: 39,744
awesome--maybe some of this money will calm bale down a littleLaughing




Shop at - ComicsCastle - AlphaComics - TreeHouse
Back to top
HammerTron
Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:26:46 AM
Rank: Herald of Galactus
Groups: Member
Joined: 5/5/2007 | Posts: 2,189 | Points: 6,567
forget Oprah!

I should be in the movie making business.
Back to top
brendavis
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:31:31 AM
Rank: Eternal
Groups: Member
Location: Raleigh, NC
Joined: 5/26/2008 | Posts: 258 | Points: 774
That's pretty sweet! I find it more interesting that it made more money internationally that it did domestically. I wonder if that's the case for the other movies that have reached that plateau.
Back to top
jamnloki
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:32:06 AM
Rank: Beyonder
Groups: Guru, Member
Location: "Your front porch"...MN
Joined: 6/20/2007 | Posts: 18,432 | Points: 95,652

R.I.P. Morgan Anthony Jacques


R.I.P. TRACY L. BROWN

** Make sure you read and understand the Forum Rules **:HERE
Back to top
SpidermanGeek
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:56:59 PM
Rank: Beyonder
Groups: Guru, Marvel Host, Member
Location: Orleans, Ontario
Joined: 5/9/2007 | Posts: 8,597 | Points: 46,128
brendavis wrote:
That's pretty sweet! I find it more interesting that it made more money internationally that it did domestically. I wonder if that's the case for the other movies that have reached that plateau.


There are 306 million people in the United States. There are 6.8 billion people on Earth. Do the math.

Any movie has the poptential to make more money internationally than in the United States (or even North America) alone.

If you count North America, well Canada only adds 33.5 million people to the US' 306 million.


Make sure that you read and understand the forum rules, here.


I haz a Blog
Back to top
Neutron
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:24:55 PM
Rank: Herald of Galactus
Groups: Member
Location: Butler, NJ
Joined: 5/20/2007 | Posts: 1,643 | Points: 5,176
SpidermanGeek wrote:
Any movie has the poptential to make more money internationally than in the United States (or even North America) alone.

Remember Equilibrium (also with Christian Bale)? The movie totally kicked ass but didn't get much of a release here in the states?

That was because the movie was released internationally before it was released in the states and it made a ton of money so the investors were afraid if they pump millions into a huge American release and it doesn't hit number 1 at the box office, it'll end up losing money overall.

Also...remember Spielbergs AI? Not many do since it sucked. It tanked here in the states but ended up as the biggest money maker of the year due to the foreign market.

So yeah...films get more press when they make a lot of money in the states but the real money is in the foreign release.

Cool

A wise man once said "Every day I thank god I'm an atheist."
Back to top
Users browsing this topic
Guest

Forum Jump

Access

You cannot post new topics in this forum.
You cannot reply to topics in this forum.
You cannot delete your posts in this forum.
You cannot edit your posts in this forum.
You cannot create polls in this forum.
You cannot vote in polls in this forum.

Main Forum RSS : RSS

This page was generated in 0.167 seconds.
(0.086 seconds)