$200 million in 5 days for The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight will pick up the record for fastest movie to reach $200M in domestic receipts, beating the previous record holders by three days.
That’s (at least) 13 box office records for the Batman sequel, including widest release (4,366 theaters), biggest midnight screening gross ($18.4M), biggest opening weekend ($158.4M), biggest July opening ($158.4M), biggest PG-13 rated opening ($158.4M), biggest single day ($67.2M), biggest opening day ($67.2M), biggest Friday ($67.2M), biggest Sunday ($43.6M), biggest four-day gross ($182.9M), biggest five-day gross ($203.7M), fastest to $100M (two days) and fastest to $200M (five days).
The Monday ($24.5M) and Tuesday ($20.8) grosses are also notable, though technically not record breaking. Transformers holds the Tuesday record with $27.8M, which was its opening day. The Dark Knight is No. 2, ahead of Pirates 2 by $5M. As for Monday, The Dark Knight has the fourth highest of all-time. But it’s behind films like Spider-Man 2, whose Monday fell on a vacation day for most people (July 5), and two other films with Memorial Day Mondays. Not bad for a release with no national holidays to boost its box office.
Now, The Dark Knight will officially crush Pirates 2‘s single week record of $196M on Thursday. After that’s it has its sights on Shrek 2‘s biggest second weekend record, which currently stands at $72.4M. The Dark Knight can drop about 54 percent weekend-to-weekend and still beat Shrek 2‘s record. If The Dark Knight holds pace with other popular $400M grossers, a drop of anything more than 50 percent will be surprising. It’s repeat business should keep the change coming in.
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