The Dark Knight is fastest movie to $300 Million (8 days)

[charlie and algernon]

It's up to $314 million after Saturday and should pass an amazing $400 million next week! I just saw it for the third time tonight and was surprised that it was a full theater, so it should add quite a bit after today. It's still every bit as suspensfull even after a third viewing, which IMO is a great sign that this movie will stand the test of time.

[DS1]

1. Rightfully so

[charlie and algernon]

2. I think we'll be seeing this movie on TCM

AMC has denegrated to showing ANY past movie, but TCM has stayed with the true classics where TDK will end up as well.

[DS1]

3. this weeks Top Gear has bits from the soundtrack in all its clips

It's a great soundtrack, as I've mentioned in the past

[charlie and algernon]

4. i need to get it

i made an effort to pay attention to it this time around and loved it

[Blue_Tires]

5. wow....it was good, but not THAT good, imo

[pokerfan]

6. In all fairness

I really wish that they would either adjust for inflation or report the # of tickets sold. It seems like every other summer, there's a new blockbuster that busts the sales records.

Adjusted for inflation, Gone With the Wind grossed $1.4B:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

[Blue_Tires]

7. true...

every summer i also get tired of the 'highest grossing' hour, day, weekend, week or whatever talk

[pokerfan]

8. It's almost like they want us to believe

that this is the best and most popular movie ever. Now why would they want to do they? :)

If you want to get really scientific, you should also adjust for population changes. The USA's population has doubled since GWTW came out.

But, on the other hand, there probably weren't many people waiting for the DBD release in 1940 so there's that.

[npk]

9. It's the only movie that has a chance at beating Titanic

For the biggest grossing movie ever.

Titanic made over $600 million.