There’s been plenty of debate within nerd circles and regular human reporting scenes about whether “The Dark Knight” can best the box-office record held by James Cameron’s “Titanic” both in North America and worldwide.
The latest from the Hollywood Reporter is saying, no way.
In North America is does sort of seem plausible. The “Titanic” haul is $600,788,188 for Canada and the U.S. and “The Dark Knight” is not that far behind at the #3 spot with $441,541,000. However, HR says that Warner Bros. themselves predict that ‘TDK’ will max out around the $520 million mark landing the #2 spot (for NA).
Internationally, ‘TDK’ still has a ways to go. Worldwide, Titanic grossed $1,8 billion dollars. Christopher Nolan’s Batman sequel has grossed, $704,728,497 million worldwide making #29 on the all-time world box-office list. Meanwhile that $704 and change international mark makes ‘TDK’ the second-highest grossing movie of the year behind “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” which took in $776 million worldwide.
Considering Warner Bros. estimates, it looks like ‘TDK’ will just out best ‘Indy 4’ by less than $10 million dollars if all goes according to plan and take the top-grossing film of 2008 award, which considering all the hype and good press, it better (considering how negatively ‘Indy 4’ was reviewed). Time will tell though and nothing is set in stone… (but we like to make fun graphics regardless).