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TDK Does It Again

The Dark Knight has crossed it's $400mil mark and in record 18 days beating Shrek 2 for a 43 days sprint. This places TDK at 8th position on the All-Time US Box Office and at 39th on the Worldwide Box Office leaving only 5 movies between TDK and 2nd position Star Wars (1977) that had grossed $460mil in domestic sales. The well anticipated sequel of the Mummy took 2nd place for it's first weekend box office at $40mil just $2mil behind TDK's 3rd weekend. At this time last year The Bourne Ultimatum opened at $69mil, which doesn't leave the Mummy 3 looking very good. However on a global scale, the Mummy sequel won the gold with $102mil worldwide beating TDK at $81mil.

According to Rotten Tomatoes things look very promising for TDK as past records show very little decline in August. 2006's Pirate's of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest grossings consisted of the 76% late summer cummulation as did Bourne Ultimatum's 72% of last year out of their total box office. Of course without being over optimistic, should TDK continue at this pace it will take the 2nd place on box office within the next 2 weeks, bringing it well within reach of the elite $500mil mark that only Titanic (1997) holds to date.

"Internationally, TDK grossed an estimated $37mil from 51 markets to boost its stellar overseas tally to $202mil. That gives the comic book flick a worldwide cume of $597mil with much more fuel still in the tank as major markets like Korea, Japan, Spain, France, Russia and Germany have yet to open" Gitesh Pandya, www.BoxOfficeGuru.com