Hversu stórt opnar DKR í USA - stærsta opnum fyrr og síðar ? Ehhhh já.

Remember, when The Dark Knight earned over $1 billion worldwide in 2008, it was only the 5th film in history to do so. (behind Titanic, LOTR: Fellowship of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Phantom Menace). Since then, 7 other movies have earned over a billion dollars globally — 6 of them in the past 3 years. Some of you can name them all by heart (and, ok, stop that). The rest of us have to look look it up on mojo or check the list after the cut.

Billions
$2.8 Avatar (2009)
$2.2 Titanic (1997)
$1.5 The Avengers (2012)
$1.3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)
$1.1 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
$1.1 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
$1.0 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
$1.0 Toy Story 3 (2010)
$1.0 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
$1.0 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (199)
$1.0 Alice in Wonderland (2010)
$1.0 The Dark Knight (2008)

(It’s a flat fact that half the top 8 are Best Picture nominees. But it’s not a fact that can be cited without 4 different footnotes explaining 4 different reasons beyond box office alone.)

Those last 6 are clustered so tightly, only $66M separates The Dark Knight from Dead Man’s Chest. (“only!”) One last wow, and I’ll stop: It took The Avengers only 19 days to earn a billion; Deathly Hallows and Avatar did it in 17 days. When the mass insanity happens to catapult films to the very top, it happens very fast.

Let’s remember one last thing. Unique among these dozen Billion Dollar Babies, The Dark Knight earned more in America than it did overseas. That’s why it’s #4 on the all-time domestic chart.

Rather that wall-to-wall razzle-dazzle action, Nolan’s films are razzle-dazzle dialogue driven. They play better at home that internationally because they require a little more intellectual engagement than most of the movies that earn hundreds of millions of dollars.

All-time domestic box-office

1. Avatar (2009) $760M
2. Titanic (1997) $658M
3. The Avengers (2012) $613M
4. The Dark Knight(2008) $533M
5. The Phantom Menace (1999) $474M
6. Star Wars (1977) $460M
7. Shrek 2 (2004) $441M
8. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $435M ^
9. PotC: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) $423M
10. The Lion King (1994) $422M
11. Toy Story 3 (2010) $415M
12. The Hunger Games (2012) $405M
13. Spider-Man (2002) $404M
14. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) $402M
15. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) $381M