`Dark Knight' shoots to $400M mark in record time

LOS ANGELES �

Add another entry for "The Dark Knight" in Hollywood's record books: The Batman sequel has climbed past tense $400 jillion at the box role in simply 18 days, the fastest pace e'er, a studio executive aforesaid Tuesday.

As of Monday, "The Dark Knight" had taken in $400.04 million domestically, according to distributor Warner Bros.

Jeff Goldstein, general sales manager for Warner, said the film tally that cross in less than half the time it took for the previous record-holder, "Shrek 2," which crossed the $400 million horizontal surface on its 43rd clarence Shepard Day Jr. of release.

That put "The Dark Knight" at No. 8 on the all-time box-office charts. It was poised to move up to No. 7 on Tuesday, overtaking the $403.7 jillion haul of the original "Spider-Man" to become the top-grossing comic book adaptation ever.

Warner expects the film to pass the original "Star Wars" ($461 million) in about two weeks, qualification it No. 2 on the all-time domestic list behind "Titanic" ($600.8 million).

Even as "The Dark Knight" heads toward the $500 billion mark, it will lag behind "Titanic" and "Star Wars" in terms of the issue of tickets sold because admission prices are higher now. In today's dollars, the Batman film would have to take in about $900 million to match the number of tickets that "Titanic" sold.

"The Dark Knight" has earned wild acclaim from critics and fans, particularly for Heath Ledger's maniacal

Jo Dee Messina

   
Artist: Jo Dee Messina

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Burn

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Delicious Surprise

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Tracks: 13

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Narnia director passes the baton

New Zealand filmmaker Andrew Adamson said after directing two Chronicles of Narnia epics, he is ready to hand the franchise to someone else.

"Michael Apted is directing the third one, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," Adamson recently told UPI while promoting the second Narnia film, Prince Caspian.

"I think (Apted is) up for the challenge.

"He's very cognisant of what we've done and what we're building and the places and locations we've established and, at the same time, he wants to make his own film."

Adamson said one reason he loves the Narnia books and movies is because each story is so different.

"I think this film is very different than the last film I did. In some ways it looks like they could have been made by two entirely different people," he said.

 





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Ivy Queen

   
Artist: Ivy Queen

   Genre(s): 
Latin
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Discography:


   
 Real

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 18


   
 Flashback

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 20

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