‘The Dark Knight’ Not Wowing them in Japan
Apparently, Japanese audiences are more interested in the works of Hayao Miyazaki than Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The Dark Knight is performing under expectations in Japan with just $8.7 million in box office receipts after three weeks based on figures at Filmjunk.com.
Compare that with the $93.2 million Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff has earned in just four weeks.
Film critic Chika Minagawa suggests, "The story is very pessimistic. It has a dark and gloomy texture that Japanese movie fans do not find appealing in a ‘comic hero’ film… Japanese movie fans expect such films to be fun and action packed, for the hero to be attractive, for the villain to be loud and outrageous, and for the movie itself to be easy to understand and light."
The Dark Knight will break the $900 million worldwide gross receipts benchmark over the weekend and is likely to break the $500 million domestic mark in September, although possibly fall short of the $550 million Warner Bros. estimated.
Ah, geez! The poor widdle Batman movie might make $1 billion worldwide but not make $550 million in the USA. Give me a break!
Is that the sound of a cash register crying? I believe so.
Hey, money is money.Who cares where the cash is flowing from, as long as it's flowing. ;-)
Speaking of $$$, Box Office Mojo has just posted The Dark Knight at $502,421,000. Not sure if that's for saturdays revenues in US (Aug. 30) or today's (Aug. 31).Thats 44-45 days to pass the $500 mil mark.It took The Titanic 66 days to pass the $400 mil mark. Not sure how long it took to make $600 mil.But it makes you wonder just how far TDK will go.