LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Will "Titanic" ever lose its built in bed as the biggest flick of all time? "The Dark Knight" is racing up the ranks, simply the Batman sequel will stall at No. 2 with about $510 gazillion to $520 million, Warner Bros. Pictures predicts.
That's far from the $601 1000000 haul of "Titanic," which set sweep in December 1997. (Adjusted for ostentation, both movies are dwarfed by the $1.4 billion draw for 1939's "Gone with the Wind").
The buoyancy of "Titanic" is traceable to teenaged girls from Toledo to Tokyo to Timbuktu. They lined up over and over once more to spill tears for Leonardo DiCaprio's heroic part, and helped writer/director James Cameron's maritime epic wee-wee $1.8 billion cosmopolitan.
Fast-forward 10-plus years, and "The Dark Knight" has soared to an incredible $441.6 zillion domestically and $263.5 million internationally through just its first gear four weekends. In quelling a throng of swiftness records, the superhero saga has stoked speculation that the "Titanic" record testament finally run into an iceberg.
Yet the theatrical ethel Waters have changed dramatically during the past tense decade thanks to the rise of the megaplex -- allowing double- and triple-screen showings of films in single venues -- and the onset of supersaturation cathartic in 4,000 or more theaters.
"Dark Knight" and other major releases now ring up mind-bending sums over their first duet weekends, with "Dark Knight" grossing a record $313.8 million domestically through its first-class honours degree 10 days. That makes it something of an apples-and-oranges comparison in trying to project whether the appetite for a contemporary release will match the historic performance of an older film deep into a theatrical run.
In whatever event, such an depth psychology soon could be rendered moot. For there's 1 simple rationality the box office party likely testament end sooner rather than later for "Dark Knight," and it's spelled D-V-D.
Warners has yet to slot the Batman sequel's home video release, simply well-placed sources said a December discharge is highly likely to tap into the moneymaking holiday gift-giving season. So even if "Dark Knight" topliner Christian Bale, his late co-star Heath Ledger, director Christopher Nolan or the photographic film itself attract awards computer hardware in the winter, any related theatrical promos would be of limited value at the box role.�
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