Word: knightly
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Holy gargantuan grosses, Batman! Hollywood has just ridden to the most lucrative moviegoing weekend in film history on the cape of The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan's gritty Batman sequel raked in $155 million between Friday and Sunday, outselling the previous top weekend grosser, 2007's Spider-Man 3, by more than $4 million and driving the movie business to a record $253 million weekend...
While 15 million or so moviegoers are streaming into thousands of multiplex Bat-caves to catch The Dark Knight this weekend, a couple thousand or so are seeing The Exiles at the IFC Center in New York City. (The movie opens over the next few weeks in San Francisco, Santa Fe and Los Angeles.) The gap between Hollywood blockbusters and indie films has never been greater, in exposure, box office revenue and media attention. Yet for intrepid cinephiles, the rewards of Kent Mackenzie's long-lost film are savory, and well worth seeking...
...Seeing it is thus a good deed, for the selfless saints of film preservation and for the part of any moviegoer open to a fresh experience from an old film. So if you're in the vicinity and can't get into The Dark Knight, try Mackenzie's film; it has twice the angst at half the running time. And next week, if it' s a choice between The X Files and The Exiles, take a chance on the little...
...Americans and largely eliminating the need to show up early at theaters, unless you were insistent on a prime seat. Between the two sites - which have begun to sell advance tickets 30 to 45 days in advance for big Hollywood blockbusters - nearly 4,000 midnight showings of The Dark Knight were scheduled. Thousands of weekend screenings have been sold out for days. "The midnight shows, especially, have really taken off in the last few years, and they've been surprisingly crowded," says Fandango spokesman Harry Medved. "Every major release now seems to have some. Hellboy 2 had just...
...Even without its midnight showings, The Dark Knight will play on more screens at more hours than almost any film to date, and box-office returns are projected to be among the biggest of the year. One reason is the Heath Ledger factor. "It's been a very long time since there's been a posthumous performance of an actor that died in an untimely way that promised to be so big and intense and good," says author Mark Harris. "It's a movie with fanboy appeal, but it's also, in an odd way, playing out as a memorial...