"Dark Knight" breaks preview record

The new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," swooped into theaters to gross a record $18.5 million from midnight preview screenings ahead of its official opening on Friday, according to distributor Warner Bros.

That tally includes receipts from 12:01 a.m. Friday showings only in 3,040 North American theaters -- 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. screenings were not counted -- and shattered the preview benchmark of $16.9 million set by "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" in 2005, the studio said.

The robust advance screenings for "Dark Knight" bolstered projections that the film was headed for an opening weekend of $100 million or more in the United States and Canada.

A $100 million "Dark Knight" debut would more than double the $47 million opening gross averaged by the five previous Batman movies released by Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner Inc.

Those films have collectively have amassed over $1.6 billion in ticket sales worldwide since 1989, according to box office tracking service Media By Numbers.

The fortunes of "Dark Knight," which cost about $180 million to produce, were further brightened by mostly positive reviews and a record wide release in 4,366 U.S. and Canadian theaters.

"We have been thrilled by the response to 'The Dark Knight,' first from the critics and now from audiences," said Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution for Warner Bros, in a statement. "From our earliest screenings, the buzz on the film has been white hot, and it hasn't let up."

Box office analysts say the film is almost certain to surpass the $100.1 million debut rung up in May by "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which would make "Dark Knight" the biggest opening so far this year.

"Revenge of the Sith," by comparison, grossed $108.4 million in its first Friday-through-Sunday frame from far fewer theaters than "Dark Knight."

The last Batman movie, 2005's "Batman Begins," grossed nearly $49 million its first weekend in North America and went on to collect about $372 million worldwide.

"Dark Knight," picking up where that film left off, reunites director Chris Nolan and star Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader. It also features the late Australian actor Heath Ledger in what turned out to be his last completed screen role, as Batman's arch nemesis, the Joker.

Only 10 other movies have managed to cross the $100 million domestic box-office mark in their first weekends, led by "Spider-Man 3" with $151 million in May 2007 and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" with $135.6 million in 2006, the biggest July opening on record.

(Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Eric Walsh).
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The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is a 2008 American superhero film co-written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to Batman Begins (2005), which rebooted the Batman film series after an eight-year hiatus. Christian Bale reprises the lead role. Batman's primary conflicts in the film include his fight against the Joker (Heath Ledger) and his strained friendship with district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart).

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Release date
North America
July 14, 2008 (New York City, U.S., official premiere)
July 18, 2008

Australia
July 16, 2008

United Kingdom
July 25, 2008

Plot
The Dark Knight opens with Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent beginning to succeed in rounding up the criminals that plague Gotham City. They are unexpectedly challenged when a mysterious criminal mastermind known as the Joker appears in Gotham. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and to improve his technology to stop the madman's campaign of destruction. During the course of the film, a love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes.


Cast and characters
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman
A billionaire who has dedicated himself to protecting Gotham City from the criminal underworld. Bale was confident in his choice to return in the role because of the positive response to his performance in Batman Begins. He trained in the Keysi Fighting Method, and performed many of his own stunts. He did not gain as much muscle this time, because of the storyline in which Batman builds a new suit that allows him to move with more agility.

The actor described Batman's dilemma as whether "[his crusade is] something that has an end. Can he quit and have an ordinary life? The kind of manic intensity someone has to have to maintain the passion and the anger that they felt as a child, takes an effort after awhile, to keep doing that. At some point, you have to exorcise your demons." He added, "Now you have not just a young man in pain attempting to find some kind of an answer, you have somebody who actually has power, who is burdened by that power, and is having to recognize the difference between attaining that power and holding on to it." Bale felt because Batman's personality was strongly established in the first film, it was unlikely that his character would be overshadowed by the villains, stating: "I have no problem with competing with someone else. And that's going to make a better movie."

Heath Ledger as The Joker
Heath Ledger described the Joker as a "psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy". Nolan had wanted to work with Ledger on a number of projects in the past, but had been unable to do so. When Ledger saw Batman Begins, he realized a way to make the character work consistent with that film's tone, and Nolan agreed with his anarchic interpretation. To prepare for the role, Ledger lived alone in a hotel room for a month, formulating the character's posture, voice and psychology, and kept a diary, in which he recorded the Joker's thoughts and feelings to guide himself during his performance. While he initially found it difficult, Ledger was eventually able to generate a voice that did not sound like Jack Nicholson's take on the character in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film. He was also given Batman: The Killing Joke and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth to read, which he "really tried to read [...] and put it down". Ledger also cited inspirations such as A Clockwork Orange and Sid Vicious, which were "a very early starting point for Christian [Bale] and I. But we kind of flew far away from that pretty quickly and into another world altogether." "There’s a bit of everything in him. There’s nothing that consistent," Ledger said, adding that "There are a few more surprises to him." Before Ledger was confirmed to play the Joker in July 2006, Paul Bettany, Lachy Hulme, Adrien Brody, Steve Carell, and Robin Williams publicly expressed interest in the role. On not being invited to reprise the Joker, Jack Nicholson jokingly remarked that he was "furious". In turn, responding to his initially-controversial selection to play the Joker, Ledger stated publicly, "It would not matter who is chosen to play the [Joker]. [...] In any film, there is always someone who does not like you and I am secure in my choices and my record. But I know at the end of the day you are never going to please anyone 100 percent…I refuse to carbon copy a performance. That would not be a challenge and it would be mocking Mr. Nicholson, whom I have much respect for."

On January 22, 2008, after he had completed filming The Dark Knight and during what was to be a short break from his work on Terry Gilliam's forthcoming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Ledger died, leading to intense press attention and memorial tributes. In March 2008, four months prior to the film's scheduled release, Larry Carroll reported that "like Batman himself, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal and director Christopher Nolan find themselves shifting gears between being secretive, superheroic and fighting back a deep sadness." "It was tremendously emotional, right when he passed, having to go back in and look at him every day," Nolan recalled. "But the truth is, I feel very lucky to have something productive to do, to have a performance that he was very, very proud of, and that he had entrusted to me to finish."[16] All of Ledger's scenes appear as he completed them in the filming; in editing the film, Nolan added no "digital effects" to alter Ledger's actual performance posthumously.[24] Nolan has dedicated the film in part to Ledger's memory, as well as to the memory of technician Conway Wickliffe, who was killed during a car accident while preparing one of the film's stunts (see below).

Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent / Two-Face
The Gotham district attorney; Dent's battle with the Joker turns Dent into a murderous, disfigured vigilante called "Two-Face". Producer Charles Roven described Dent as initially the "white knight of the city". Wayne sees Dent as his heir, which comes back to the theme of him realizing that being Batman will be a lifelong mission, and the tragedy that follows when Dent is corrupted. Whereas Two-Face is an evil villain in the comics, Nolan chose to portray him as a twisted vigilante to emphasize his role as Batman's counterpart, and Eckhart, who has played corrupt men in films such as The Black Dahlia, Thank You For Smoking and In the Company of Men, notes: "[He] is still true to himself. He's a crime fighter, he's not killing good people. He's not a bad guy, not purely," while admitting: "I'm interested in good guys gone wrong." Nolan and David S. Goyer had originally considered using Dent in Batman Begins, but they replaced him with the new character Rachel Dawes when they realized they "couldn’t do him justice". Before Eckhart was cast in February 2007, Liev Schreiber, Josh Lucas, and Ryan Phillippe had expressed interest in the role. Nolan chose Eckhart, whom he had considered for the lead role in Memento, citing his "extraordinary" ability as an actor, his embodiment of "that kind of chiselled, American hero quality" projected by Robert Redford, and his subtextual "edge".

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes: The Gotham assistant D.A. and childhood friend of Bruce Wayne, she is one of the few people who know that he is Batman. Gyllenhaal has acknowledged that her character is a damsel in distress to an extent, adding that Nolan had sought ways to empower her character so that "Rachel's really clear about what's important to her and unwilling to compromise her morals, which made a nice change" from the many conflicted characters whom she has previously portrayed. In August 2005, before the casting of Gyllenhaal, producer Charles Roven had reported that actress Katie Holmes (who portrayed Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins) was going to reprise the role in The Dark Knight; however, in January 2007, Holmes turned down the offer to reprise her role as Rachel Dawes due to scheduling conflicts, and, by March 2007, Gyllenhaal was in "final talks" for the part.


Movie Info
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Produced by Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas
Written by
Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
Story: David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan
Characters: Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson
Music by Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard
Cinematography Wally Pfister
Editing by Lee Smith
Distributed by Warner Bros

Language English
Budget $180 million
Running time 152 min

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Space Chimps

When a $5 billion NASA probe disappears into an intergalactic wormhole, the agency recruits Ham III (Andy Samberg), grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, to help retrieve the wayward craft. But Ham is a free-spirited circus performer more interested in zero-gravity hijinks than living up to his illustrious heritage. The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Luna (Cheryl Hines) and their uptight commander, Titan (Patrick Warburton), risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from the evil dictator Zartog (Jeff Daniels).

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Cast

• Andy Samberg as Ham III
• Cheryl Hines as Luna
• Patrick Warburton as Titan
• Omid Abtahi as Dr. Jagu
• Jeff Daniels as Zartog
• Patrick Breen as Dr. Bob
• Kenan Thompson as Ringmaster
• Carlos Alazraqui as Houston
• Kristin Chenoweth as Kilowatt
• Kath Soucie as Dr. Smothers
• Stanley Tucci as The Senator
• Jane Lynch as Dr. Poole
• Zack Shada as Comet

Movie Info

• Directed by Kirk De Micco
• Produced by Barry Sonnenfeld, John H. Williams, John W. Hyde
• Written by Kirk De Micco, Robert Moreland
• Music by Chris P. Bacon, Blue Man Group
• Cinematography Jericca Cleland
• Editing by Debbie Berman
• Distributed by 20th Century Fox, Vanguard Animation, Starz Media
• Release date(s) July 18, 2008
• Running time 81 min.
• Language English
• Budget $37,000,000

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Righteous Kill

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Righteous Kill is an upcoming action and crime film that will be released on September 12th, 2008.

This movie about two veteran New York City detectives (De Niro and Pacino) work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

Cast

• Al Pacino as David Fisted
• Robert De Niro as Thomas Bocchino
• Carla Gugino as Karen Conasse
• Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Riley Hunt
• Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as Spider
• Brian Dennehy as Lieutenant Hingus
• Frank John Hughes as Pierre Encul
• Clive Swift as Carl Spunks
• Michael Cruz as Frankie
• Rob Dyrdek as Jack Palance
• John Leguizamo as Miguel Cara de Cona

Movie Info
Directed by Jon Avnet
Produced by Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Ali Mohamed, Lati Grobman, Randall Emmett, Danny Mosensaft, Tugenda Fistadonki
Written by Russell Gewirtz
Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis"50 Cent"Jackson
Distributed by Overture Films, Coonlight Films
Release date(s) September 12, 2008 (USA)
Language English
Budget $60,000,000

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The Accidental Husband

The Accidental Husband is a romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It also stars Colin Firth, Isabella Rossellini and Sam Shepard. It was released in the UK on February 29, 2008 and it will be released on the rest of the world between August and December 2008.

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Plot
New York firefighter Patrick Sullivan had no idea his seemingly idyllic life was about to go up in smoke – especially as the unwitting, second-hand recipient of advice from famed love expert and radio host Dr. Emma Lloyd. One day he is a happy, go-lucky guy looking forward to a life with his soon-to-be-bride. The next thing you know, his fiancée Sophia (Justina Machado) is seeking couples counseling on the radio from Dr. Lloyd. The no-nonsense, ever practical Dr. Lloyd questions Sophia’s concept of romantic love and advises her to break their engagement, which she swiftly does. But when Patrick and his computer-savvy neighbor decide to give Dr. Lloyd a taste of her own medicine and “accidentally” join them in holy matrimony – something that doesn’t go over too well with her fiancé (played by Firth) -- it isn’t long before they learn that sometimes even an expert in love needs a second opinion…

Movie Info
Directed by Griffin Dunne
Written by Mimi Hare and Clare Naylor and Bonnie Sikowitz
Produced by Jennifer Todd, Jason Blum, and Uma Thurman
Distributed by Yari Film Group
Language English