Saturday, July 19

WB: 'Dark Knight' $60M, Update: $64-65M Deadline Hollywood

FRIDAY 5:30PM: Warner Bros sources tell me that Batman: The Dark Knight is opening to a humongous $60M today. That's breathtaking North American box office gross, even for a mega-blockbuster! read more

Updated: 'Dark Knight' $66M, 'Mamma' $10.5M Fantasy Moguls

Just got off the phone with a competing studio exec, and I am told that their "numbers crunchers" are, at the moment, projecting that The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) will break the all-time opening day and all-time 3-day weekend records, surpassing last May's Spider-Man 3. read more

Friday, July 18

'Dark Knight' Record $18.4M in midnights Fantasy Moguls

It's official. Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (Warner Bros), easily the most buzzed-about movie of 2008, has laid to waste the midnight opening record of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Fox) with a staggering $18.4M overnight. read more

'Dark Knight' crowd reactions Variety

'Knight' Midnights: Over $17M Deadline Hollywood

'Tropic Thunder' Tom Cruise parody BuzzFeed

Early Midnights: $3.6M at one chain HSX Talk

Warner Bros. Hope for $160-$170M Deadline Hollywood

Theater report: 3,196 tickets sold notfabio