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:arrow: [b]The Dark Knight Passes $300 million. Refer to post #14[/b] [align=center][img]http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/27/film.darkknight.first.ap/art.knight.ledger.jpg[/img] [i]Editor's Note: The following Associated Press story about "The Dark Knight" contains spoilers. If you'd rather not know anything about the film, stop reading now.[/i] LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The buzz over Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" for the last several months was justified. With his final full film role, Ledger delivers what may be remembered as the finest performance of his career. Heath Ledger gives a brilliant performance as the Joker, says the AP. A press screening of the "Batman Begins" sequel Thursday night had the audience cackling along with Ledger's Joker, a depraved creature utterly without conscience whom the late actor played with gleeful anarchy. [i][b](Warning: There are spoilers ahead, so stop reading now if you'd rather wait to find out details about "The Dark Knight.")[/b][/i] At times sounding like a cross between tough guy James Cagney in a gangster flick and Philip Seymour Hoffman's fastidious Truman Capote, Ledger elevates Batman's No. 1 nemesis to a place even Jack Nicholson did not take him in 1989's "Batman." Nicholson's Joker was campy and clever. Ledger's Joker is an all-out terror, definitely funny but with a lunatic moral mission to drag all of Gotham, the city Batman thanklessly protects, down to his own dim assessment of humanity. Spewing alternate personal histories for how he got the horrible scars on his face, the Joker hides behind distorted clown makeup that looks like a chalk drawing left out in the rain. The Joker masterminds a series of escalating abductions, assassination attempts, murders and bombings, all aimed at calling out Batman (Christian Bale) and proving to the tormented vigilante hero that they are two sides of the same coin. "You complete me," the Joker tells Batman, dementedly borrowing Tom Cruise's sappy romantic line from "Jerry Maguire." Long before Ledger's death in January from an accidental prescription drug overdose, his collaborators on "The Dark Knight" had been describing his performance as a new high in the art of villainy for a comic-book adaptation. Director Christopher Nolan, reuniting with "Batman Begins" star Bale, told The Associated Press earlier this year that Ledger came through with precisely what he had envisioned for this take on the Joker, "a young, anarchic presence, somebody who is genuinely threatening to the establishment." "It was though they'd taken the Joker and all the colors, everything of it, and just kind of put him through a Turkish prison for a decade or so," Bale told the AP. "It's like he's gone through that personal hell to come out being this, if you can even call him mad, at the end here." A best-actor Academy Award nominee for "Brokeback Mountain," Ledger has earned fresh Oscar buzz for "The Dark Knight," which could land him in the supporting-actor race. Running just over two and a half hours, "The Dark Knight" is a true crime epic. Throughout, the Joker's bag of tricks is bottomless, twisted to the point of horror-flick sick. "Some men aren't looking for anything logical," Michael Caine's butler Alfred tells Bruce, who's trying to decipher the Joker's motives. "Some men just want to watch the world burn." Come July 18, when "The Dark Knight" lands in theaters, the world will be watching Ledger burn up the screen.[/align] [b][align=center]I'm looking forward to seeing this one.[/align][/b]

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" and why so serious?" - joker i just watched this yesterday. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Me too, I just saw it yesterday....awesome movie !!! "You complete me" :lol: Definitely [b]NOT [/b]a kid's movie, though. Wow. Sadistic.

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i want to watch this one. sadly, no one would want to accompany me on the cinema. :lol:
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That movie was MAD awesome! If i see it again, I'll be wanting to see it over again.
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you can always go to [url]http://www.watch-movies.net[/url] and watch it for free :eh:
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weeh most grossing film since spiderman 3! with $155 million in it's first week! :o oh mah gawd! i want to watch this movie!
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its a lot diff from the past batman movies. t'was kiddie lyk. but this one's better, darker. for grown-ups. i think the joker outstands more than the batman itslf. ledger was :thumbsup:. awsome. ...a sad ending movie "why...so...serious?"

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^ I agree....definitely a movie for grown ups, and the best in the Batman series, in my opinion. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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yeay! i watched it already. "i don't want to kill you! what will i do without you?"-joker to batman super intense movie. =) :thumbsup:
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i haven't seen it, but my dad said we'll buy a DVD of it.. when it comes out. heehee. i think Heath Ledger is awesome in this movie as Joker. [i saw the trailer] and it was actually a shock for me when i found out that he was dead. RIP, Mr. Heath.
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@Khayzee just go here if you want [url]http://www.watch-movies.net[/url]
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best hollywood movie so far in asia, the best is still love of siam
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[align=center][b]'Dark Knight' grosses $300M, shattering record[/b][/align] [b]LOS ANGELES (AP)[/b] "The Dark Knight" continues to obliterate box office records, crossing the $300 million mark in just 10 days. The epic Batman saga grossed $75.6 million in its second weekend in theaters, pushing its domestic total to $314,245,000, Warner Bros. head of distribution Dan Fellman said Sunday. That surpasses the record set in 2006 by "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," which took 16 days to make $300 million. The latest Batman installment already had broken records for best opening weekend at $158.4 million and best single-day with $66.4 million. It's also busted records in its showings on IMAX screens, making $16.3 million in its first 10 days. Fellman expects that "Dark Knight" could reach $400 million in about 18 days, which would beat the record "Shrek 2" set in 2004 when it made that much money in 43 days. "What can you say? We've been getting a lot of repeat business coming in," Fellman said. "Our audience is expanding, like you would expect with terrific word-of-mouth and strong reviews. Our audience is getting a little bit older, that's the good news. We're finding the younger demographic, male and female, coming back." He called it "a big surprise," adding: "To do $300 (million) plus in 10 days, we just couldn't have predicted it." "The Dark Knight" could pass "Titanic" as the highest-grossing film in U.S. history, said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers. James Cameron's 1997 extravaganza made $600,788,188 domestically, a record no other movie has come close to touching. "The `Titanic' record has sat in a lock box for 10 years. It's a tall order but if any film has a chance to surpass that number, it's got to be `Dark Knight,'" Dergarabedian said. Director Christopher Nolan's follow-up to his 2005 origin story "Batman Begins," which again stars Christian Bale as the tormented comic-book crime fighter, initially benefited from the mystique of the late Heath Ledger giving his masterful, last performance as the Joker, Dergarabedian said. "Now, it's all about word-of-mouth," he said. "The first weekend, there was this huge, pent-up demand and eagerness by audiences to see this movie. Now, it's like a freight train it seems to be unstoppable." Part of the film's visual allure comes from the fact that 30 minutes of it were shot with IMAX cameras, including an elaborate bank-heist scene at the start. "Chris (Nolan) has clearly hit upon something," said Greg Foster, chairman and president of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "There are many important filmmakers who we've spoken with in the last couple of weeks about shooting with IMAX cameras." Coming in second place was "Step Brothers," which had a strong opening of its own with $30 million. The comedy reunites Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, co-stars of "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," as 40-year-olds who've never left home and are forced to share a bedroom when their parents get married. Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony, said this was at the high end of the studio's expectations. "We'd hoped to be in the mid-to-high $20 (millions), so to hit $30 (million) is a great start," Bruer said. "Having the chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly together again, reuniting with (director) Adam McKay who did `Talladega Nights,' it's great. They both immerse themselves and the humor comes from their connection." Sony also has the Will Smith superhero flick "Hancock," which made $8.2 million this past weekend to cross the $200 million mark. The weekend's other big release was "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" which made an estimated $10.2 million. Ten years after the first "X-Files" movie and six years since the pioneering sci-fi show went off the air, this latest installment finds Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) re-teaming to solve a missing-persons case. "The hardcore `X-Files' fans, they're happy. And frankly, that's who the movie was made for," said Chris Aronson, distribution executive for 20th Century Fox. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.
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no doubt about it... nd the thing that they used high-res cams (imax)...can say much y it has bcome a box office hit. batman has been a favorite evrsince. hehe. nd othr DC comics too. :D
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Yeah, awesome movie. The best of all the Batman movies, I think. Probably now my favorite comic book movie of all time.
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truly a phenomenon. i love the dark knight!!! =) :thumbsup:
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I don't have the article on hand, but I think the film has surpassed the $400 million mark in just 3 1/2 weeks or something like that. Wow :o
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I think, It's grossing film movie because of Heath Ledger... this is for you Joker! ;)
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^ I'm not sure if its because of Heath Ledger :lol: but I think he did an excellent job of playing The Joker....Overall, I think it was just an awesome movie. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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