Dark Knight set for the
history books:
Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" has set a single-day box office record by taking in $66.4 million on opening day, according to a Warner Bros. executive.
The movie's Friday haul surpassed the previous record of $59.8 million set last year by "Spider-Man 3."
"The Dark Knight" also might break the opening weekend record of $151.1 million posted by "Spider-Man 3."
..."The Dark Knight" also lit up cash registers during its midnight debut, stealing away with a record $18.5 million from 3,040 theaters, Warner Bros. said.
That bested the 2005 performance of "Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith," which took in $16.9 million during its midnight debut in 2,915 venues.
"The Dark Knight" figure did not include any of its 3 a.m. or 6 a.m. showings.
Semi-spoilers in the
article, but
def a great read:
On its surface, The Dark Knight is a typical franchise sequel, bringing in (familiar) new characters and amping up the Bat-action as we move from the race car fu of Batman Begins to this flick's awesome truck-and-motorcycle fu. Our central figures, the Joker and Gotham's "white knight" district attorney Harvey Dent, are perfect foils. The former is unfathomably evil and the latter unfathomably good. And for a while the balance between these two, with Batman hovering in a profoundly unstable place between, works to good (disturbing) effect. Dent is the unmasked hero that Batman could never be, leading us to question Batman's dubious vigilante tactics in the first place. And Joker is the supervillain Batman could never defeat because his love of mayhem draws out the worst in our dark hero, turning him into a sadist.
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