Comments on: ‘The Dark Knight’ About to Join the Billion Dollar Club

By: jb523

jb523 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:45:33 +0000

"none of this ‘adjusted for inflation’ junk"

While there's something to be said about the notion that a billion dollars is only a billion dollars when it's actually a billion dollars, using a non-adjusted metric only means that what was 15 years ago an unattainable box office figure and is now an astoundingly high box office figure is going to be in 10 years a high, but regularly achieved box office figure and in 30 years a fairly normal box office figure for a high-budget film.

A billion dollars simply doesn't buy as much now as it did when Gone With The Wind reached that figure in yesterday's dollars. Now it's just a footnote in a stimulus package, the annual revenue of a company that hasn't come close to making it onto Fortune's list, and less than the net worth of any of the 500 richest people in the world.

By: jb523

jb523 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:45:00 +0000

"none of this ‘adjusted for inflation’ junk"

By: tishabridges

tishabridges — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:25:08 +0000

i hope that Batman The Dark Knight crosses the billion dollar mark coz it was one of the best movies of 2008 and heath ledger gave the best performance of his life with many others in the movie also delivering good performances hope it does cross the billion dollar mark and also wins a lot of awards

By: tishabridges

tishabridges — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:25:00 +0000

By: destruct26

destruct26 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:07:25 +0000

Actually, box office mojo screwed up- the foreign numbers were 3 million off. (They said 469, but now its around 466) The worldwide total as of 11/25/08 are roughly 995.7 million. Not out of the woods quite yet……………..

By: destruct26

destruct26 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:07:00 +0000

By: Aleš

Aleš — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:05:51 +0000

THE DARK KNIGHT RULES!!!!

By: AleÅ¡

AleÅ¡ — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:05:00 +0000

THE DARK KNIGHT RULES!!!!

By: Perspective

Perspective — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:43:30 +0000

If you don’t adjust for inflation, then the entire metric is meaningless…

By: Perspective

Perspective — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:43:00 +0000

If you don’t adjust for inflation, then the entire metric is meaningless…

By: Mr Sinister

Mr Sinister — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:52:18 +0000

Shoryuken!!

By: Mr Sinister

Mr Sinister — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:52:00 +0000

Shoryuken!!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:26:58 +0000

I will be very disappointed if TDk doesn’t win Best Picture. For the past few years, watching the Oscars and presentation for Best Pictures I always find myself saying, “Yeah, it was a great movie, and great to watch. But…how many times am I going to want to see this again?” For me, a Best Picture award should go to a movie where it was great to watch the first time around, and pulls you in to watch a second or third time. Of course, it also needs to be well shot with a good story. TDK is the first movie that has done that AND is Oscar worthy for a long time in my mind.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:26:00 +0000

By: Malcolm T Grindhouse

Malcolm T Grindhouse — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:34:24 +0000

this movie will probably make 1.03 billion dollars in all at the box office that is my prodiction boys and girls.

Mr. Hunter you are thinking of Broke Back Mountain with Heath Ledger you obviously already knew that or else you would never had made that statement

It Would Be lovely if the Dark Knight picked the Oscars clean but lets face it the pannel for the accademy wards are dominately senior citicens and middle aged people who probably dont dig the films of comic book and fantacy

By: Malcolm T Grindhouse

Malcolm T Grindhouse — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:34:00 +0000

this movie will probably make 1.03 billion dollars in all at the box office that is my prodiction boys and girls.

Mr. Hunter you are thinking of Broke Back Mountain with Heath Ledger you obviously already knew that or else you would never had made that statement

By: Adolf Hunter

Adolf Hunter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:01:23 +0000

Which one of these guys is a homosexual? I remember one of them was in some smut flim, Bare Back Mounting or something.

By: Adolf Hunter

Adolf Hunter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:01:00 +0000

Which one of these guys is a homosexual? I remember one of them was in some smut flim, Bare Back Mounting or something.

By: C.C.

C.C. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:27:40 +0000

I never got to go the first time! D:

I’d love to go if re-release plans were realized.

By: C.C.

C.C. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:27:00 +0000

I never got to go the first time! D:

I’d love to go if re-release plans were realized.