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Article: With 'Dark Knight,' Hollywood's Brightest Weekend Ever
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- The Washington Post
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- July 21, 2008
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Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood's box office
superheroes. "The Dark Knight" took in a record $155.34 million in
its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for
"Spider-Man 3" in May 2007 and pacing Hollywood to its biggest
weekend ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.
"We knew it would be big, but we never expected to dominate the
marketplace like we did," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for
Warner Bros., which released "The Dark Knight." The movie should
shoot past the $200 million mark by the end of the week, he said.
Hollywood set an overall revenue record of $253 million for a
three-day weekend, beating the $218.4 million haul over the ...