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
