THE DARK KNIGHT Returns on January 23rd
One day after the Academy Award nominations are announced for 2009 and Warner Bros. will re-release THE DARK KNIGHT with a nationwide U.S. release on January 23rd. No word on whether the movie will be returning to U.K. cinema's. Clearly WB are hopeful for nominations for both the movie and Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker. Of course, any nominations for the film will generate general interest with those of the viewing public who might have dismissed a comic book movie the first time around and will also bring a celebratory feeling for comic book geeks who are seeing their medium recognized in quite a way it has never been before. The move almost guarantees THE DARK KNIGHT will cross $1 billion worldwide as it's only $4 million short of that figure. It will stand beside TITANIC, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST as the only movies to ever achieve this. If THE DARK KNIGHT can generate $77 million (a very healthy gross for a normal release should we not forget but this movie does keep breaking records) then it will become the biggest film of all time in the U.S, surpassing TITANIC's $600 million gross. On 23rd of Jan, the movies INKHEART and UNDERWORLD 3 will have competition from a giant they didn't quite expect they would have to face.