The Billion Dollar Bat
It may have taken 218 days, but The Dark Knight finally crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide on Friday. Who needs a Best Picture nomination when you have a cool billion in the bank, right? (Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, and Chris Nolan all shoot me a dirty look.)
Okay, an Oscar nod would have been nice too, but $1 billion puts this already massive blockbuster into the elite global billion club. The Dark Knight joins Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest as one of only four motion pictures to hit the billion dollar mark. Moreover, the only other superhero movie in this Golden Age of superhero movies to come close to $1 billion dollars is Sony’s Spider-Man 3 with $890 million.
Of course, the real joy is seeing The Dark Knight cross the billion dollar mark just two days before the Oscars. Like Barry Bonds’ all-time home run record, there will always be that asterisk next to this year’s list of Best Picture nominees thanks to the Academy’s The Dark Knight snub. More so than even the Crash Best Picture win, The Dark Knight‘s absence from the final five will go down as one of the biggest flubs in Oscar history.
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