Uh, yes. If you are looking for movies with great plot twists... Those two flicks (not mentioned before) should be on the list as well. Psycho, too, of course. And Body Heat.
If TDKR makes 1.1 billion USD worldwide in the end it will be the "7th highest grossing movie ever unadjusted".That's great. Congrats to the Nolan bros and the WBs.But it's not even close to flicks like HP1 or ID4 that once were the "second highest grossing movies ever". And so on.
He, it's great TDKR will probably make a billion dollars.But one billion dollars is the new 900 million dollars.And 900 million dollars once was the new 800 million dollars.And so on.
In George Lucas' book Blockbusting it says: ROTJ made 309 mio domestic with re-releases and worldwide 476 million. So 167 million overseas seems be be accurate.
Banes death was just a rather cheap plot point. Since the Nolan bros didn't care too much when they wrote that silly script it's just in line with the rest of the movie.
New weekend trend from Germany:Ted (575T), Prometheus (375T), The Dark Knight Rises (250T), Merida/Brave (150T), Ice Age 4 (150T), Lorax (20T),Nothing new, Prometheus just a little bit down from Friday prediction.
"With 87.15 million box office sales during the first five months of 2012, the number of box office sales in France has risen by 5.4% compared to the same period in 2011. After an exceptional April with 48.5%, May confirmed this trend with 16.51 million viewers (+5.1%), but these good results must be put into perspective, since the five first months of 2011 had been disappointing (-11%) and we will have to wait until the second half of 2012 to see whether audience numbers can stay at the high level reached in the last 12 months, which brought in 221.08 million box office sales."