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TDK reaches the $1 billion box office mark

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szelim

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WB press release:

 

“The Dark Knight” Achieves Box Office Milestone - Film Crosses $1 Billion Threshold In Worldwide Box Office Revenue

 

(February 20, 2009 – Burbank, CA) – After an astounding, record-breaking domestic run and continuing success in the overseas markets, Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ “The Dark Knight” has crossed the $1 billion threshold in worldwide box office revenue with a staggering $1,001,082,160 gross to date. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, and Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.

 

In addition to becoming the highest grossing film for Warner Bros. Pictures worldwide, “The Dark Knight” is now the second-highest grossing film domestically of all time and the fourth-highest worldwide. In the film’s IMAX release, it’s the largest 2-D digitally re-mastered IMAX release of all time in both the domestic market with $49.6 million and worldwide with a gross of $64.9 million. “The Dark Knight” received eight Academy Award nominations, including a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Heath Ledger’s renowned portrayal of The Joker.

 

“From our initial record-shattering opening weekend to the unprecedented momentum of the film’s box office run, we could not be more proud of ‘The Dark Knight’s’ unparalleled success,” said Fellman. “We salute our filmmakers, cast and crew on making cinematic history.”

 

“Chris Nolan has taken the Batman franchise to a new level internationally,” said Kwan-Rubinek. “Audiences around the world have really embraced ‘The Dark Knight,’ which has more than doubled the gross of any of the prior films in the franchise.”

 

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Legendary Pictures, a Syncopy Production, a Christopher Nolan film, “The Dark Knight,” starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman. Nolan directed the film from a screenplay written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer. Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan are the producers, with Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Kevin De La Noy and Thomas Tull serving as executive producers. “The Dark Knight,” is based upon characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Batman was created by Bob Kane. “The Dark Knight” is distributed worldwide in theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. The film has been rated PG-13 for “intense sequences of violence and some menace.”

 

 

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Will Ledger win for Best Supporting Actor? Now that would be great seeing a comic-based movie with an Oscar.

 

Oh, and if he does win, the Oscar goes to his daughter but she doesn't receive it until later in life.

 

Ledger's potential Oscar saga

 

is there any chance he won't win? the ladbroke odds are something like 1/50- meaning if you bet $50 on him to win and he does you get back $51.

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Well, apart from anything else this guarantees one thing:

 

More Batman movies (thumbs u

 

I just wonder if they will bring back The Joker again..

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I just wonder if they will bring back The Joker again..

 

Obviously, it's just a matter of when.

 

Also who..

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:whistle:

Just found this out about the "Leaked Document"

 

"The document is a complete fraud," Academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger tells E! News in response to the purported awards-season leakage.

 

"PricewaterhouseCoopers is still counting the ballots, and there are only two people there who will know the complete list of winners in advance of the envelopes being opened during the ceremony," Unger says. "The Academy's president is not advised of the winners in advance, and no such list is created."

 

 

But I really hope Ledger does win.

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Now wouldn't it be funny if right down the list every one of those choices mentioned gets the award? How would they explain that?

 

But Dark Knight winning some oscars really would put comic movies in a new category, and hopefully bring even more interest into making more comic-based movies.

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Of course the Academy has to denounce the authenticity. However ...

 

Could it be that the Sunday telecast of the Oscars is irrelevant? Are the winners already out there in plain sight?

 

The answer is yes, if you believe some of chatter this week on movie industry blogs, which notes that a mysterious Web site materialized with the apparent intention of leaking the Academy Award winners.

 

That doesn't necessarily mean a spoiler, but the blog has just as mysteriously been taken down, prompting some to speculate that it was too close to the truth.

 

 

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Bosco685

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If this is the true list, thank goodness Christian Bale's recent flame fame may not have hurt TDK's chances at an Oscar or two or three.

 

Remember when Russell Crowe threw that phone at a hotel attendent, he was the shoe-in for another Oscar for his role in "Cinderella Man" and in the end it only came up with three nominations, no wins. There were a few articles about his pre-Oscar behavior killing the momentum of the movie.

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