‘Dark Knight’: $500M In Record 45 Days

MEDIA BY NUMBERS: DARK KNIGHT SELECTED RECORDS THUS FAR (IN ORDER OF OCCURRENCE):

1. LARGEST NUMBER OF OPENING THEATRES WITH 4,366 (MORE THAN THE 4,362 DEBUT THEATRES OF PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END IN 2007).

2. BIGGEST MIDNIGHT PREVIEW GROSS WITH $18.489 MILLION IN 3,040 THEATRES (THIS BEATS STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH AT $16.9 MILLION IN 2,915 THEATRES IN 2005).

3. BIGGEST IMAX MIDNIGHT PREVIEWS SET AN NEW RECORD WITH $640,000 (THIS AMOUNT WAS APPROPRIATELY INCLUDED IN THE $18.489 MILLION PREVIEW NUMBER).

4. BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY GROSS IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY WITH $67,165,092 (THIS BEATS THE $59,841,919 SET BY SPIDER-MAN 3 IN 2007).

5. BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY WITH $158,411,483 MILLION (THIS BEATS THE $151,116,516 SET BY SPIDER-MAN 3 IN 2007).

6. BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSS FOR AN IMAX RELEASE IN BOX-OFFICE HISTORY WITH $6,214,061 MILLION IN 94 THEATRES ($66,107 PER-THEATRE!) (THIS BEATS THE $4.7 MILLION SET BY SPIDER-MAN 3 IN 2007) – IMAX SHOWING AT FULL CAPACITY $1.9 MILLION ON SATURDAY ALONE.

7. BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY SUNDAY GROSS WITH $43,596,151 (THIS BEATS THE $39,937,865 SET BY SPIDER-MAN 3 ON ITS DEBUT WEEKEND).

8. FASTEST SPRINT TO $200 MILLION DOMESTICALLY IN JUST FIVE DAYS (BEATING PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST, SPIDER-MAN 2, AND STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH WHICH EACH TOOK 8 DAYS TO REACH $200 MILLION).

9. POSTS THE BEST SECOND WEEKEND GROSS EVER AT $75,166,446 (BEATING SHREK 2 AND ITS $72,170,363 SECOND WEEKEND GROSS).

10. CROSSES THE $300 MILLION MARK IN JUST 10 DAYS (BEATING 2006’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST WHICH TOOK 16 DAYS).

11. THE FILM IN IMAX WORLDWIDE CROSSED THE $20 MILLION MARK IN JUST 11 DAYS (BEATING HARRY POTTER 5 WHICH TOOK 16 DAYS).

12. THE FILM CROSSED THE $400 MILLION MARK IN JUST 18 DAYS (BEATS SHREK 2 WHICH TOOK 43 DAYS TO DO IT)

13. BECAME THE SECOND-HIGHEST GROSSING FILM OF ALL-TIME DOMESTICALLY IN JUST 30 DAYS OF RELEASE SURPASSING THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2008 (ON THAT DAY IT HIT $466,365,174 BEATING STAR WARS ($461 MILLION)

14. CROSSED THE $500 MILLION MARK ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 IN A RECORD 45 DAYS

Jim Morrison’s last notebook, Paris 1971

Jim Morrison’s last notebook, Paris 1971 together with one of the final photographs taken of him A very rare and important lot a stenographers spiral bound notebook with 20 pages of handwritten musings, finished and unfinished and reworked poems and lyrics in blue ballpoint pen in the hand of Jim Morrison possibly started prior to his departure from Los Angeles and the majority written during his last days in Paris. Jim Morrison using the alias (part of his name) ‘James Douglas’ arrived in Paris in March 1971 to take a break from performing and the concentrate on his writing. His long-time girlfriend Pamela Courson (who used the name Morrison on occasion) had travelled before him and arranged for them to rent the large 19th century apartment in the Fourth Arrondissement of model and starlet Elizabeth Lariviere known as Zozo, where Jim planned to spend his days writing. Jim had a habit of carrying several spiral bound notebooks with him at all times to jot down notes, poems and ideas as they came to him, he took some of these notebooks with him when he went to Paris. Throughout June of 1971, Jim carried a white plastic shopping bag from the ‘Samaratine’ department store with him wherever he went. It usually contained one or two of his spiral notebooks, some personal photographs, a tape of his 1970 birthday poetry reading, a pack of Marlboros, a lighter a few ballpoint pens and some interviews and articles about The Doors. Jim found it increasingly difficult to write, becoming unsettled, erratic and ultimately ill and resorted to his old ways of drinking hard

Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 Pencils Full Dozen w/box

Don’t Drink.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ekLbFfzg94

Papa – Recovering from African plane crash, nearly killed him

Dark Knight passes Star Wars — now 2nd highest grossing film of all-time!

As of Friday, The Dark Knight’s North American cumulative stood at $459,608,000, just behind Fox’s Star Wars with $460,998,007. No. 1 is still Paramount’s Titanic with $600,788,188.

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