With more than a week to go before the highly-anticipated release of
The Dark Knight, Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination, reports that many of its pre-opening Thursday midnight shows on July 17 are already sold out in cities across the country, from New York to Boise, Idaho. Theaters continue to add 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. showtimes to meet the ticketing demand.
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The Dark Knight may be responsible for a lot of bleary eyes at work next Friday morning," says Rick Butler, Chief Operating Officer for Fandango. "We're seeing a record number of late-night showtimes selling out in advance, while theaters are adding new performances every day."
More than 1,500 late-night showtimes of the movie have been scheduled for the film's pre-opening on Thursday night (Friday morning), July 17-18, at
Fandango.com/TheDarkKnight. An online survey of more than 3,000
The Dark Knight fans on Fandango.com last week resulted in the following information on the late-night surge:
- 37% of respondents plan to see the film at least once during one of the late night performances on Thursday night.
- 38% say that they intend to take off a few hours or the entire day
from work on Friday as a result of seeing the movie the night before.
- 60% of these moviegoers are male.
- 71% are under the age of 35.
- 39% plan to see the film in IMAX(R).
- 92% expect that the Academy will recognize Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker with a posthumous Oscar(R) nomination next year.
For Fandango,
The Dark Knight is poised to be the year's top advance ticket-seller in wide release, outpacing
Iron Man,
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and
Sex and the City: The Movie at the same point in those films' sales cycles.
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don't want to put a link but hey don't look at it if you don't want to be seeing it I watched 45 seconds its amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jklih-4Jtr8
Most people's opinions I do not respect because of how personal people get. What is this topic about? The Dark Knight. Not sexual preferences, not about global warming, not about politics. But somehow, SOMEHOW people always manage to squeeze that bullshit in here. It's fucking annoying. I think movieweb should actually delete (unrelated) off-topic posts.
And you're right Roam... anything we say here is up for scrutinization... (opinions are always open to that) but I just don't think a person's age, sex, or in Maniack's case sexual preference, should be an issue when it comes to opinions. If you love movies and have opinions about them, it shouldn't matter if your 15 or 60 yrs old, male or female, or homosexual or heterosexual.
And Visionary... I respect your opinion about NOT respecting our opinions HAHAHAHAHAHA... and what do you mean "SCREW U GUYS, I'M GOIN HOME!!"? Weren't you on your computer when you typed that?
As far as this being one of the best films, I will never say one way or another till I watch it.
Who cares how much this film will make, it's not going to do jack crap for me to see this film make the most ever or not.
and last, whenever you write something on the internet it is open for scrutinization, and being ripped apart because of your opinion. Don't ever write things expecting everyone to agree or even show any respect at all, it's an endless battle that no one will win.
I respect your opinion, but i'll have to disagree with you on the Indy 4 vs Iron Man thing and will have to side with Maniack. See as of July 9, Iron Man has made 312 million and Indy 4 has made 307 million. Iron Man was release THREE weeks before Indy 4 so Iron Man has already run its course while Indy 4 still has a couple of weeks left. Final tally prediction:
Indy 4 - 321 million
Iron Man - 315 million
And with all that said, The Dark Knight will destroy both Iron Man and Indy 4. Hands down. I wish I were kidding. You can just tell. It has so much hype it will do very well.
Best Buy stores are promoting an exclusive steelbook case, plus a free character guide with the purchase of the two-DVD set of the new animated anthology "Batman: Gotham Knight", with a minimum of 11 copies per store.
Best Buy also offers a $3 concession coupon with any purchase of Gotham Knight, including the single-DVD and Blu-ray versions.
That and Titanic may have made the most money, but that doesn't mean it is a great film, look at Indy! Everyone hated it, the first three were amazing and they fucked it all up by making another one...with aliens...really fucking aliends in Indy!? WTF!