Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
According to Media by Numbers, Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight continues to break box office records as it passed the $400 million in just 18 days. This smashes the existing record held by Shrek 2, which needed 43 days to accumulate that kind of gross.
The Dark Knight coined in $6.28 million in 4,266 cinemas on Monday, increasing its overall haul to $400,038,494. The movie has reached the #8 spot already on the all-time domestic blockbuster list and will surpass Spider-Man ($403.7 million) on Tuesday.
Globally, despite not yet being released in all major markets, The Dark Knight has earned $202.5 million with the worldwide box office standing at $602.5 million.
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Hostel director Eli Roth has been cast as the baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter Sgt. Donnie Donowitz in Tarantino’s upcoming WWII drama Inglorious Bastards writes 
I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.