Four Consecutive First Place Weekends for “The Dark Knight”; Now Third Highest Grossing Movie of All-Time August 10, 2008 11:14 pm
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The Dark Knight held off comedy Pineapple Express over the weekend, taking in an estimated $26.03M from 4,025 theaters to take first place for the fourth consecutive weekend. That’s a drop of just 39% from the weekend prior. The film’s total domestic gross now stands at $441.54M, good enough to put it into third place on the all-time list, just below #2 Star Wars ($461M). As I noted last week, I’m going to continue tracking the performance of The Dark Knight and my estimate has widened slightly to $496-547M total domestic box office (Although Titanic’s $600.79M record is unlikely, it’s not entirely out of the question just yet. It’s really going to depend on how the movie performs over the coming weeks).
In terms of overseas box office, the film has tacked on an additional $263.1M, growing its worldwide cume to over $700M at $704.64M.
Pineapple Express, meanwhile, grossed $22.4M over the weekend, but the film actually opened on Wednesday so it’s taken in $40.47M over its first five days of release. A good sum for an R-rated comedy.
Click through the jump for the rest of the top 10.
“Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1 Volume 1”: DVD Review August 10, 2008 10:45 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in DVD, DVD Reviews, Television, Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1 Volume 1.1 comment so far
Cartoon fun so huge it’s Tiny! Rejoice, potatoes du couch, ’cause look what’s finally on 4 deliciously delirious DVDs: the first half of Season One – 35 furry, funny, Montana Max-has-money episodes stretching from inner Burbank to outer space and featuring Buster Bunny, Babs Bunny (no relation!), Plucky Duck, Hamton Pig, Elmyra Duff, Dizzy Devil and more denizens of Acme Acres. Here you;’ll find cultrual send-ups, sly in-jokes and lfat0out silliness. And here you’ll find Acme Looniversity, where the Toonsters are schooleed under the wise(guy) guidance of Warner Bros. ‘toon legends from Bugs Bunny to Yosemite Sam. Enroll today. (And if you don’t pay attent and stop playing with that Acme Atom Re-Arranger, you’ll get a week’s detention!)
Read my review of the Four-Disc DVD set after the jump.
2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in Beijing Draws Record 34.2 Million Viewers August 10, 2008 12:09 am
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NBC’s coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in Beijing was the most-watched ever for a non-U.S. Summer Olympic Opening ceremony, averaging an 18.6/33 national rating/share and 34.2 million viewers. Also, a record 69.9M viewers tuned into at least some portion of the ceremony. Traffic to the official site NBCOlympics.com is also off to a record start, with the site logging 70 million page views on 8/8/2008, an increase of 900 percent or 10 times more than the opening day of the Athens Games in 2004 (7 million). And since August 1, 2008, the site has logged more than 127 million page views, nearly half the TOTAL for the entire Athens Games.
The full press release follows after the jump. (more…)
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