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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Batman’s rich alter-ego Bruce Wayne has added half a billion dollars to his riches. “The Dark Knight” on Sunday became the second movie in Hollywood history to top $500 million at the domestic box office, raising its total to $502.4 million, according to estimates from distributor Warner Bros.
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As “The Dark Knight” took off overseas, Warner Bros. Pictures International became the third major international distributor to surpass $1 billion in foreign boxoffice revenue.
This is the eighth year in a row and the 10th time overall that WBPI has hurdled the industry benchmark.
Warner Bros. said that the Caped Crusader’s opening blast of $40 million [...]

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Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight added another $24.5 million on Monday from 4,366 theaters to bring its domestic total to $182.9 million after just four days.It marks the fourth-highest Monday of all-time, trailing just Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($25.1 million), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($26.8 million) [...]

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 LOS ANGELES (AP) 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.
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The HBO First Look special on The Dark Knight has made its way onto YouTube in two parts that you can watch below where you will also find a new car chase clip from MTV. The Batman Begins follow-up opens in theaters and IMAX on July 18!
Watch the videos here.
source:  superherohype.com

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Need we say more?With more than a week to go before the highly-anticipated release of “The Dark Knight,” Fandango, the nation’s leading moviegoer destination, reports that many of its pre-opening Thursday midnight shows on July 17 are already sold out in cities across the country, from New York to Boise, Idaho. Theaters continue to add [...]

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The Dark Knight’s main viral site WhySoSerious.com has been updated with all of the viral marketing events and sites to date! On the Joker’s To Do list, if you click on #11, you’ll be taken to WhySoSerious.com/RedBalloons. That game? Already cracked by the fans. Go here for the resulting note. There’s three more things on [...]

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 LOS ANGELES (AP) Heath Ledger is getting a fond tribute from his collaborators on “The Dark Knight” The end credits of the “Batman Begins” sequel include a farewell note to Ledger, who died in January from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs; and to special-effects technician Conway Wickliffe, who was killed last September in a [...]

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Two decades of collaboration have led DC Direct and Graphitti Designs to join forces once again to bring very special products to the summer comics conventions. These tenth anniversary, convention-exclusive figures are sure to excite DC Direct enthusiasts and collectors, as well as fans of Batman!
Wizard World Chicago, June 26-29, 2008 — A limited BATMAN [...]

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This summer DC Comics tells the story of Batman’s Rogue’s Gallery through new eyes: The Joker. That’s the key to the five one-shots coming out weekly under the umbrella title of The Joker’s Asylum in July. But there’s one in which the Joker is more than a mere narrator, acting as the lead and the [...]

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