Comments on: The Dark Knight: Failed Predictions And Monster Box Office

By: Gabriel’s Horn » A call to arms. Geek-style.

Gabriel’s Horn » A call to arms. Geek-style. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:06:15 +0000

[...] on record as stating that The Dark Knight would, likely, not live up to its hype. Many have since recanted. Now, critics are bandying about the notion that the film will, or will not, beat Titanic’s [...]

By: The Dark Knight’s Box Office Burn-up Continues - Screen Rant

The Dark Knight’s Box Office Burn-up Continues - Screen Rant — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:35:40 +0000

[...] The Dark Knight: Failed Predictions And Monster Box Office [...]

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:28:24 +0000

IMAX is the way to see it

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:58:22 +0000

btw saw it on an Imax screen finally and…WOW…if you haven’t seen it on Imax you have to check it out, it’s worth the trip and the extra coin. I think if Nolan does a third film his next logical step would be to shoot the entire movie in Imax

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:56:24 +0000

So boxofficemojo is projecting that TDK will beat out The Mummy 3 to stay on top for a third staight weekend and will land by the end of Sunday night at around $394 million domestic take alone in only 17 days. $500 million is within range and maybe close to if not more than $1 billion worldwide…wow

By: degahse

degahse — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:14:54 +0000

As the king of an amoral universe, as a purveyor of unrestricted evil for fun, Ledger’s dastardly villain, attired as sort of a rotting Clarabell, has chosen his own damnation. He’s jumped into an abyss he has dug himself, and he wants to pull us along.
I m watched The Dark Knight Movies Here
http://www.80millionmoviesfree.com

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:50:17 +0000

400 million?? it could make that by next weekend go to boxofficemojo and check the daily box office for Spiderman etc they will run this thing until its making a $100 grand a day easily $500 million in the us it could do that in a month actually more and more people are going to see it 3 and 4 times I know at least 10 people who want to see it in IMAX which is even more $$$

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:56:14 +0000

Zar

It sounds like you are blaming people for exercising freedom of choice…If the Golden Compass had made 200 million..heck even 150 million domestic it would be getting sequels up to yin yang… Profit and greed are this world’s religion…Most people take criticism of their religion or church as an attack…Refine your critique to maybe include complaints of improper interpretations of church doctrines by church leaders and maybe you will have a better argument. Religion itself is not the problem here as most religions advocate peace, love, compassion and kindness..It’s our interpretation and manipulation of doctrines that mutate beautiful teachings of CHrist, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Lao Tze , Confuscious (whomever you believe in).. If every person in the world made a conscious effort to promote love, compassion and kindness then good would come naturally and the world would be a better more harmonious place…Oh and how did you know that protestors didn’t see the movie or read the books on which they are based. I read Davinci code and I am a Strong Catholic… I was offended til I realized that this work of fiction was just Dan Brown’s ploy to get rich from attacking people’s beliefs to the core..Attack a Savior with a fantastic story of conjecture by people who have been proven to be frauds…That’s called being an opportunist…but it worked for Dan Brown..He was able to do it because we live in a democracy just as people are allowed to protest something that attacks their beliefs… Again what you call moronic is democracy in action..

Cheers

By: ZAR

ZAR — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:50:17 +0000

@Vic: I’m sorry, my choice of words may have been too strong!

But I’m not going to excuse for what I said (if that’s your point).

People who won’t distinguish between criticism on the church and criticism on the religion ARE religious zealots! Besides, I saw a lot of the protests AND the protesters and they obviously had NEITHER seen the movie NOR read the novels! When a person is trying to harm someone or something out of deliberate ignorance, this is fanaticism and definitely moronic as well!

We critisize his kind of mobilised mob (someone obviously had an interest in getting these people together in the first place) elsewhere, but when it happens right in our own country, we just accept it as “ok”?

ZAR.

By: 790

790 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:31:02 +0000

I think the public is stupid overall, and fat too.

What you talkin bout Greenknight333. Speed Racer was aweosme.!!!

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:44 +0000

Hey Zar

I can’t see foreign grosses or DVD sales helping Spped Racer recoup it losses..that was a disaster..THe Wakowski’s stated that the movie was ahead of it’s time and that fans didn’t get it..Polite way of saying they think the fans are stupid for not getting it..Hello Andy and Larry…It was crap…B-level acting, story, plot and directing made with an A movie budget…It was a worse B movie than 10,000 BC for cryin’ out loud…

By: 790

790 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:49:25 +0000

I saw about 5 min, of The Golden Compass and it was horrible.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:36:01 +0000

@ZAR Easy boy – I was on the fence regarding whether or not to delete your post.

Vic

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:26:26 +0000

Are they even making sequels to the golden compass?

I didn’t enjoy that movie at all.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:42:52 +0000

Well that are good numbers .
Anyways, over here (Belgium) there was a lot of marketing (and still is) going, but I went to see an early (5 AM) show on the first day (yesterday), the people who came reserved their ticket, but the room was only 1/3th full.
Americans are more movie-going than Europeans, I guess, and more comic-book fans.
Still, with those numbers, we can prettu sure say that Nolan and Bale will be back! And I secretly hope they make 5 of them, and not 3, this is just a serie that’s worth it. This is no Matrix or Pirates, the sequel was actually better than the first, with top actors and all.

greets

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:02:01 +0000

TDK wont come close to Titanics record
$400 maybe but thats a long way from Titanics record .

By: ZAR

ZAR — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:42:16 +0000

I was never actually afraid that the Bat was going to fail. The foreign markets and the DVD/HD-release will fix almost any summer movie disaster.

These days I’m far more p***ed off about the fact, that because of some religious zealots and morons we’re not going to see the remaining two instalments of HIS DARK MATERIALS (aka the sequels to THE GOLDEN COMPASS):

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/christian-protests-may-leave-philip-pullmans-trilogy-as-one-of-a-kind-13912686.html

Thank you very much, dear “good” Christians! You obviously embody all the prejudices that Philip Pullman was writing about in the first place.

ZAR.

By: 790

790 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:25:30 +0000

Hey Jamie, I wouldn’t worry about it. I never considered you to be wrong so to say. Its a prediction after all and it was a speculative article.
I had more prob with the film than your article.

How high is that Titanic record again ????? This will come close. I predict that.

The dvds alone are gonna blow the dvd market wide open. It will set records there too.