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‘The Dark Knight’ Gets It’s Re-Release and Oscar Campaign
Warner Bros. has announced that they are officially re-releasing ‘The Dark Knight’ in theaters and IMAX on January 23rd, 2009. Â We reported a few months back that this was happening, but an official date wasn’t set.
Says Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Pictures President of Domestic Distribution: “‘The Dark Knight’ is a crowning achievement in every sense of the word. We wanted to provide one more opportunity for moviegoers to experience it on the big screen as it was meant to be seen.”
The film has already broken so many box office records, and it sits at the #2 spot on the alltime domestic box office chart. Â It’s still about $70 million behind ‘Titanic’. Â With this re-release, it could, potentially, break that record, too, and it will undoubtedly top $1 billion worldwide.
Also, over at Dark Campaign, a grassroots effort to get ‘The Dark Knight’ a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards. Â They’ve put together a little video that you can check out here:
What do you think? Â Does ‘The Dark Knight’ have a shot in hell of toppling ‘Titanic’ or getting a Best Picture nomination? Â If you had to pick between those two, which would you rather see? Â Let us know by commenting below!
Sources: Variety, Dark Campaign
Personally, I think it’ll make 30-40 million TOPS! By the time the film is re-released it will have more than a month on DVD. The only real reason to see it in theaters would be soley for the IMAX experience, other than that I don’t see why anyone would be compelled to see it in a regular theater.
It might get a best picture nod, but I don’t think it will win.
Movie releases slow down in January which will help the cause. But the killer is the DVD will be out for over a month by then and pretty much everyone on Earth will own it! Why go pay to see a movie you have sitting on the shelf at home. Unless your going to see it on the IMAX screen… Then I will ask this..”WHY are you paying $14.00 to watch a movie you have at home??????”
I don’t see it making over $20 million if that.
I’m an idealist, I’d like to think it would top Titanic! Having the movie on dvd will keep a lot of people from going to see the movie, but the way I see it, unless you own a movie theater, you’ll never get the same feeling watching the movie at home. No matter how fancy your tv and speaker set up is! I have a ton of movies on DVD I would love to see in a movie theater again. So I will definitely go out and see the movie again before all I have is the DVD to watch.
The Dark Knight very well could top Titanic, especially with the re-release in theaters. I don’t see traditional movie theaters doing that well because of DVD sales, but the IMAX theaters will be popping just like Stephen said (I’m there).
Even though I am definitely purchasing the movie on Blu-Ray-I still have to see it on the Mega screen or IMAX or even make a day trip up to Chicago to see it on the best IMAX around. (sorry Wehrenberg) I truly believe there are a ton of people (believe it or not) that have not seen it and want to see it in the theater or just loved it as much as I did and cannot freaking wait to see it on the big screen again. I am with ya Harlo!