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From CNN.com...

The weekend haul lifted the Warner Bros. [The Dark Knight] to No. 3 on the all-time
domestic box-office charts with $441.5 million, behind only "Titanic" ($600.8
million) and the original "Star Wars" ($461 million)...

...However, the numbers reflect today's higher admission prices, and "The Dark Knight" will not approach "Star Wars" or "Titanic" in terms of actual number of tickets sold. Taking inflation into account, "The Dark Knight" would need to pull in about $900 million to match the number of tickets sold for "Titanic" and about $1.2 billion to equal "Star Wars."

Interesting stats. Also, when Star Wars came out, there wasn't the proliferation of home theaters, cable, VCRs, bittorrent, and other means of alternative entertainment. It's a lot harder now to bring in the numbers that Star Wars and other movies did in the seventies and earlier.

I saw The Dark Knight last night. It lives up to the hype. Packed theater in the fourth week. It's a 2.5 hour movie and I didn't think to look at a watch during the entire showing. I was riveted, more or less, the entire time.

A third movie in the newest Batman franchise is in production. Looking forward to it.

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