The might of the knight

Batman now billion-dollar man? It would seem so. Like the fictional character Bruce Wayne, the latest Batman movie is now worth over a billion dollars. Warner Bros. made the announcement that The Dark Knight has made a worldwide gross of $1,001,082,160 -- about $533 million in the US and $567 million overseas. That’s not even figuring in DVD and merchandise sales yet! It has now become one of only four films in history to go over the billion mark with other members of the club being Titanic, Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King and Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. In fact, The Dark Knight is the second highest grossing film of all time behind Titanic. I think it’s interesting to note that both the third installment of Lord Of The Rings and Titanic won the Oscar for best picture, yet The Dark Knight didn’t even get a nomination. Okay, I swear I’ll stop bitching about it now. In more Batman news, director Chris Nolan’s next project will be the sci-fi action pic Inception which he is adapting from his original screenplay. Rumor has it that Nolan signed a deal with Warner Bros saying they would make/finance his Inception film if the next project he did after that was Batman 3. Clever man.