Posted February 24, 200916 yr 'Dark Knight' passes $1 billion mark Monday, February 23 2009, 17:02 GMT By Lara Martin The Dark Knight has become only the fourth movie in history to cross the $1 billion mark at the box office. Warner Brothers announced that Christopher Nolan's film, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, has now grossed $1,001,082,160 worldwide. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio's domestic distribution president Dan Fellman said: "From our initial record-shattering opening weekend to the unprecedented momentum of the film's box office run, we could not be more proud of The Dark Knight. "We salute our filmmakers, cast and crew on making cinematic history." The superhero movie now ranks in fourth place in the list of the highest-grossing films of all time, behind Titanic ($1.84 billion), The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King ($1.13 billion) and Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($1.06 billion).
February 24, 200916 yr No suprise at all really, was always going to happen with Oscar season in full swing...
February 27, 200916 yr The phenomenal success of this film pretty much guarantees that Chris and John Nolan can write their own ticket.... I'll just never understand for the life of me why it was that Dark Knight didn't get an Oscar nod for Best Film or Best Director, Nolan's job of directing was pretty astounding, I would argue as good as Boyle or van Sant, I think it somewhat diminishes the film overall to just focus on the performance of Heath Ledger because, for me, that wasn't the most important thing about the film, merely one element in the overall make up.... It's easily the equal of Return of the King, and about a hundred times better than the unmitigated cr@p that was Titanic....
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