axumblade said:
sguy78 said:
axumblade said:
sguy78 said:
axumblade said:
sguy78 said:
It looks to be very front loaded. |
Unless it's in limited release, movies are always frontloaded...
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Some more than others. The Dark Knight was a rarity in that it had a huge opening weekend, and still had tremendous legs.
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I agree it had legs. They weren't tremendous though. After the 11th week, the movie was well out of the top 15 after 2 1/2 months. I'm not saying that it wasn't a major success, just that the legs on it weren't that strong in comparison to a movie like Slumdog Millionaire, which was in the top 15 from November until April.
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Sure, there are movies with more legs. TDK had a rare combination of a huge opening, as well as extended legs. Also, the summer season is much more competitive than the January to April time frame. There were most likely much lower grosses for Slumdog Millionaire to compete with than TDK had against it, and TDK had a much higher gross without question.
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I never questioned the gross of the movie. As I said, legs on almost every movie suck. The Dark Knight was hardly an exception. Considering that movie theaters look to get rid of titles as quickly as possible, it did pretty well for itself I guess. It's legs made the movie go from a 7 million dollar gross to over 100 million. That's what legs are. Not grossing almost all of the money during the first 10 weeks and then disappearing.
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Well, it was one of those movies that had a progressively increasing theater count that didn't hurt. I believe it won the Academy Award for best picture if I'm not mistaken; which also adds to the legs during awards season. I'm not sure because I haven't paid that award any attention since Saving Private Ryan lost out.
