Dark Knight Outpacing Online Pre-Sale Recordholders

When Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight opens Friday--it will be huge.

And many of those ticket sales are being made in advance. MovieTickets.com, for example, reports that over 700 performances of Dark Knight are already sold out in North America, including over 270 performances in Los Angeles and New York City. The Dark Knight is outselling three of the online ticket seller's top-performing films of all-time at the same point in the sales cycle, including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Spider-Man 3 and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Over at online rival Fandango.com, over 500 showtimes of The Dark Knight are already sold out.

MovieTickets.com’s Top-10 Performing Films of All-Time
1. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

 

2. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

4. The Passion of The Christ

5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

6. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

8. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

9. Matrix Reloaded

10. Spider-Man 3

 

Fandango's weekend ticket sales (as of 7/15/08 2:00 p.m. PT) :

 

Movie Fandango User Rating % Fandango Sales

 

The Dark Knight “Go” 90%

Mamma Mia! “Go” 3%

Hellboy II: The Golden Army “Go” 2%

Journey to the Center of the Earth “Go” 2%

Wall-E “Go” 1%