Here’s the next big record that is beyond everyone’s expec­ta­tions — The Dark Knight has notched up a mas­sive $500m in domes­tic sales in only 45 days, after an $11m week­end tak­ing. It took Titanic, the only film that has sold more than the Dark Knight and the only other film to break the half a bil­lion bar­rier, 91 days to do that.

To add to this, The Dark Knight has now made $921m world­wide (major over­seas releases came out much later than the US), putting in 9th in the all time world­wide best sellers.

Source: Com­ing Soon

Despite being bounced from the weekend’s top spot by Topic Thun­der ($25.8m beat­ing $16.3m), The Dark Knight has amassed a mas­sive $471.5m in five weeks — fly­ing past Star Wars to become the sec­ond high­est domes­tic gross­ing movie of all time. Bat­man dealt a dou­ble blow by keep­ing the ani­mated Clone Wars in third place for the week­end ($14.1m).

Source: Box Office Mojo

The authen­tic Bat­man Returns Bat­mo­bile is being auci­toned off at the 38th Kruse inter­na­tional auc­tion on Labor day. View the auc­tion.

“Other less valu­able non-movie pro­mo­tional Bat­mo­biles have sold for as much as $550,000.00! This authen­tic movie mas­ter­piece is expected to bring a record price. The Warner Bros. & DC Comics sales approval agree­ment clearly authen­ti­cates that this is the num­ber “3” “Movie” Bat­mo­bile. All inter­ested Bat­mo­bile bid­ders should notify Kruse Inter­na­tional 1– 800 968‑4444 ASAP. This is your chance of a life­time to become the owner of this awe­some piece of movie his­tory. BILL OF SALE ONLY FROM WARNER BROTHERS.”

Thanks to /Film

Joblo got the down and dirty with a full 167 page PDF of The Dark Knight script, as avail­able in the “Art of The Dark Knight” book.

Down­load The Dark Knight Script

(or down­load it from Joblo: Joblo Down­load)

Thanks jb/ysosrs!

/Film have posted what look like the first details about the spe­cial releases and lim­ited edi­tion ver­sions of The Dark Knight that will be avail­able when it comes out to own later this year. HOWEVER — they were sent in by a reader and could be com­plete fabrications.

None of this pro­mo­tion plays on the pop­u­lar­ity of The Joker which leaves me a lit­tle suspect.

2-Disc Bat­Pod Collector’s Edition

2-Disc Bat-Mask Edi­tion (this one has to be fake)

DVD and Blu ray covers

For the fourth con­sec­u­tive week The Dark Knight has topped the week­end box office, last week it fended off The Mummy, this week it held back the Pineap­ple Express. With sales of $7.6m, $10.5m and $7.9m, The Dark Knight amassed a week­end total of $26m, beat­ing the Pineap­ple Express’ $22.4m, and over­tak­ing Shrek 2 with a gross of $440m to become the third biggest sell­ing movie of all time. Star Wars sits pretty above it with $460m — it’s only a mat­ter of time!

Source: Box Office Mojo

Here is the next big mile­stone in The Dark Knight’s all encom­pass­ing suc­cess at the Box Office — it is now offi­cially the fastest movie to reach the cov­eted $400m mark, doing so in just 18 days.

Would you like to know what the pre­vi­ous record was? Shrek 2 did this same feat, only a full 25 days later, tak­ing a whop­ping 43 days. The Dark Knight has more than cut that in half, and it’s still tak­ing in $6m in mon­day sales, whilst mov­ing up to 8th on the all time gross chart.

Con­tribut­ing Sources: /Film, Media By Numbers

Thanks Tim.

Mor­gan Free­man is in a seri­ous con­di­tion after a car acci­dent late on Sun­day night, trav­el­ing East­bound on Mis­sis­sippi High­way 32 in Tal­la­hatchie County. His Nis­san Max­ima edged off the road, and by over-correcting, Free­man flipped the vehicle.

Emer­gency crews pulled Free­man and his pas­sen­ger from the wreck using the “jaws of life”, before air­lift­ing to the MED in Memphis.

WMCTv​.com report that whilst crews were cut­ting Mr Free­man out, he was lucid and jok­ing with the res­cue workers.