Within days, The Dark Knight will have made as much money, and maybe more, than Batman Begins made during its entire four-month theatrical run.
A record-shattering debut will help you perform a superhuman feat like that.
s related in blogger Nikke Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily, The Dark Knight beat projections every day, save for Saturday, when it just fell shy of the initial $48 million estimate.

By Julieta Mendoza NEW YORK - "The Dark Knight" made a historical worldwide record of $199.655 million in ticket sales during its first weekend at the theaters, Warner Bros. reported on Monday.
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nday's estimates slightly by $3 million, Reuters reported. On its debut outside the U.S., the film brought in $41.3 million in more than 20 foreign markets, surpassing Sunday's forecast of $40 million. Australia, Mexico and Brazil topped foreign box offices.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Wayne just keeps getting richer. "The Dark Knight," the crime saga about vigilante Batman and his wealthy alter ego Wayne,

Here's the truth about The Dark Knight's opening weekend. The only surprise would have been if the latest Batman movie DIDN'T have a massive opening weekend

By AP Warner Bros.'s "The Dark Knight" swooped across North America theaters over the weekend, generating a record-shattering $158.4 million in its debut,

By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Warner Bros, Variety While the early estimates placed the opening (domestic) bow for The Dark Knight at $155.3 million,

Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight brought in $158.3 million since opening Thursday night, surpassing last year’s Spider-Man 3 ($151 million) to score the

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It turns out Batman is more of a superhero than first thought. The latest instalment in the Caped Crusader franchise, "The Dark Knight," enhanced its status as the biggest movie opening of all time at the North American box office, according to final data issued on Monday by its distributor, Warner Bros. Pictures.
The film grossed $158.355 million (79 million pounds) during its first three days of release across the United States and Canada -- a $3 million improvement over Sunday's estimate from the Time Warner Inc-owned studio.
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What a weekend. Warner Bros., "The Dark Knight" shattered all sorts of US box office records. The biggest three day opening weekend ever, clocking in at

By Steve Mason | Monday, July 21, 2008 HOLLYWOOD - MONDAY 9:00 am (Pacific): Sunday was even stronger-than-expected for The Dark Knight (Warner Bros) with

By Mark Shaffer/The Ironton Tribune OS ANGELES - Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood’s box-office superheroes.
“The Dark Knight” took in a record $155.34 million in its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for “Spider-Man 3” in May 2007 and pacing Hollywood to its biggest weekend ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.
21.96 million tickets over opening weekend. Media By Numbers estimates today’s average movie prices at $7.08, which means “The Dark Knight” would have sold 21.94 million tickets.

Holy gargantuan grosses, Batman! Hollywood has just ridden to the most lucrative moviegoing weekend in film history on the cape of The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan's gritty Batman sequel raked in $155 million between Friday and Sunday, outselling the previous top weekend grosser, 2007's Spider-Man 3, by more than $4 million and driving the movie business to a record $253 million weekend.
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trip. It also helps that The Dark Knight, as most critics and audiences attest, is a very good film.

By MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES - Fevered fans pushed “The Dark Knight,” the sixth of the Warner Brothers series of “Batman” movies, to record three-day ticket sales of $155.3 million over the weekend, shoring up what so far had been a wobbly year at the box office.
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-office consultant Media by Numbers. That lifted the domestic box-office total for the year to $5.36 billion.