The Dark Knight will be returning in full-force to American movie theaters in January, but it won't need that push to reach a huge box office benchmark. Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke reports that Batman and friends will hit the $1 billion worldwide mark any day now, which will give it the fourth-highest global gross of all time (behind Titanic, Return of the King and Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest).
Finke writes, "Warner Bros tells me that it's already reached $997.5 ($528.5 million domestically and $469 million internationally) since its North American release on July 18th." The secretly interesting part is that The Dark Knight is just $80 million behind Titanic's gross, a number it couldn't match if it were on its way out of theaters now, but might have a shot at breaking with its re-release in January.
So now that the election is over and it's still a couple of weeks before the gluttony of Thanksgiving, it's clearly time for a Dark Knight billionaire's celebration! I'll bring the cheap champagne if you provide the caviar.
