Not a chance. You might get a $10 or $15M bump, but $100M? That’s 10M fanboys–most of which have probably seen it over and over already. Fanboys are fanatic, but they’re not stupid, and they would see what such an effort was–a transparent attempt to beat an arbitrary record by milking the good will of the fans. They would just wait for the DVD.
I haven’t seen *The Dark Knight *because… well, because I’m fucking lazy, 'kay?
Ehhh, maybe not, but keep in mind that the film is still raking in close to a mil each day, it could easily get another 50 or 60 by the end of its normal run.
UPDATE:
Looks like they are going to attempt a re-release in January.
Not necessarily for the 600million push but for the Oscar push.
But I think it will definately put it over the top (domestic box office that is).
If I go see it again, it’ll be in a regular theater. While the scenes actually shot in IMAX were cool, the constant changing aspect ratio for non-imax scenes was extremely annoying, especially when they would have a 35mm scene followed by YET ANOTHER (SERIOUSLY they used the same shot at least 15 times) IMAX shot of the Chicago skyline, and then back to 35mm.
Supposedly according to what I’ve heard there are a total of 6 scenes that were shot in IMAX for DK, but besides the city panoramic ones I’d be hard pressed to tell you which ones they were. Perhaps the
Sky hook scene?
I think they’ll push for Heath Ledger to get an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor (which I think he’ll get and maybe even win depending on the caliber of performance in the big Oscar bait movies coming up) plus rerelease the movie.
Right on, Guanolad. Thats why I watch movies on ‘Tight-arse Tuesdays’.
Is Tuesday a UK wide phenomena for cheap tickets? I only ever hit the cinemas on Tuesdays for that reason (forgetting entirely about the 2 for 1 tickets on Wednesday I could have had for the past 11 months with my Orange mobile phone :smack: )