What Will TDK's Final (Domestic) Box Office Total Be?

[The Old Mixer]

It barely beat out The Clone Wars.

I'll say it again--TDK was in its fifth weekend, TCW was in its first. If you want a fair comparison, compare TDK's first weekend to TCW's. Not much of a contest, is it?

Even so, what exactly is the point of trumpting this as some major success?

I've merely been stating the facts when you, and another poster before you, put forth the fact that TCW made almost as much money as a movie in its fifth week as if that were a major success. If you're going to compare TCW's performance to that of the TDK, you need to compare them based on where they were at the same point in their respective runs, not give one movie a four-week handicap. I'm not even a particularly strong supporter of TDK, but fair is fair. And saying that TDK barely beat TCW, as if that were some kind of major achievement for TCW, is pure spin.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The question I'm wondering is will it break under a million dollars daily this week?

It should stay well above $1 million per day this week given a Monday of over $2 million.

Yeah, I figured that's probably the case, based on looking at other movies at this point (particular Spider-Man and Titanic).

In other news: TDK reclaimed the #1 spot in terms of international box office this weekend with a take of $42.4 million (fueled by strong openings in France, Spain and Russia). It hit a milestone by going over $800 million worldwide.

That's good news, but it still has quite a bit to go before it catches up to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull internationally.

 

[Agent Richard07]

The Dark Knight has crossed the $500 million mark domestically and its worldwide box office take is about $919 million as of this posting.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Damnit, you just beat me to it! I was about to report that.

Still, very exciting and I'm sure The Dark Knight will make it to the $1 billion mark.

 

[JacksonArcher]

$1 billion? Nah, it'll do $100 billion!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I didn't even have to click on that link to know what that would be about.

 

[Tulin]

I called it that it would cross $500m by Sunday night but I said just barely.

Now I see the film's drop from last week was only around 17%!!!!! That is pretty incredible. And if you check Sunday's figure to last week's you see they ACTUALLY WENT UP!!!!


Some freaky shit is going on here.

Lots of us said $525 for a final take. I'd say it might pass that now.

 

[The Old Mixer]

They mentioned this on the radio this morning, and mentioned some of the other biggest domestic successes and flops of the summer. Speed Racer was said to have been the biggest flop dollar per dollar, for costing $250 million and earning $44 million.

(Think maybe Speed should hit Bats up for a handout?)

 

[JacksonArcher]

Wow, Speed Racer cost $250 million? I thought it was like $100 million or something, maybe $120-150 million with marketing? If that number is correct, then that's insane.

After the critical and financial flops of The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and now Speed Racer, I doubt the Wachowski Brothers will be directing another big-time blockbuster anytime soon.

 

[Harvey]

Wow, Speed Racer cost $250 million? I thought it was like $100 million or something, maybe $120-150 million with marketing? If that number is correct, then that's insane.

After the critical and financial flops of The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and now Speed Racer, I doubt the Wachowski Brothers will be directing another big-time blockbuster anytime soon.

If that number is correct, it is indeed insane, but I think you're mischaracterizing the Wachowski brothers financial success.

The Matrix Reloaded made more money than its predecessor, a healthy $738,599,701 worldwide. Even The Matrix Revolutions, generally considered to be the least successful of the series earned $424,988,211 worldwide (both films against $150,000,000 budgets).

And V For Vendetta (which they didn't direct, but are widely associated with due to writing and producing) made a healthy $132,511,035 worldwide against a budget of $54,000,000.

Speed Racer is still a colossal flop, perhaps the worst of the year. It may be the end of the Wachowski brothers. But their previous films weren't the (financial) flops you characterize them to be.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Guess I should have double-checked that. The radio news bit said it cost a quarter of a billion, but according to Box Office Mojo, the production budget was $120 million.

 

[Samurai8472]

(Think maybe Speed should hit Bats up for a handout?)

Batman- I need a new car

i'm not surprised it cost 120 to make Speed Racer due to the graphics and cast and cars.

*Dwight Schurtz fist pump* yes pass 500 million!

 

[Galactus]

I was just going to say, when did any of the Matrix films become financial flops? I am really surprised that Speed Racer did not do better. I thought for sure that movie would do well. You can never tell with these things.

 

[romulus]

According to Wiki:
The Matrix Reloaded -
Budget $150,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue $738,599,701

The Matrix Revolutions -
Budget $110,000,000
Gross revenue $424,988,211 (worldwide)

So maybe critical flop (I don't even pay much attention to critics when I agree with them) but not a financial flop.

 

[Hicks]

I had finally stopped tracking this a week or so ago. It actually made it a little faster than I thought it might.

 

[chrisspringob]

Dark Knight has now passed both Spider-Man and Shrek 2, even when adjusted inflation. So it's now the #1 superhero movie of all time, even adjusted for inflation.....and the biggest domestic blockbuster of the 2000s, even when adjusted for inflation.

 

[Frontier]

I think all of us who said $525 are going to be very close when it's all over. It could do over that, though. But I doubt it would make it to $550.

That said, did anyone else notice that it's now made 45% of it's world total from International sales? It was expected to only pull in about 35% international, 65% domestic. But it's much more even, 45% / 55% basically. I think it might end up being a reverse of that, 55% intl, 45% domestic, or some such, when all is said and done. Which puts it about what I originally said, 60/40 intl/domestic. A rare thing for a comic book film.

 

[nx1701g]

^ WB estmates between $530 - $550 too. They agree it has no hope of catching Titanic.

 

[Tulin]

It never did........as I said all along.

That is NOTHING to be ashamed of, however.

"Titanic" was an enigma and should not have happened. For TDK to have made what it has is a MONUMENTAL feat. I think it is a record that will stand for many years.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Now I also heard that TDK reached $500 mil. twice as fast as Titanic did...but that was the same radio station, so take it with a grain of salt.