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Half-Blood began by breaking The Dark Knight's Tuesday-midnight-screenings record ($22.2 million to $18.5 million), then from Wednesday through Saturday calmed down and notched daily grosses in the mid-$20 millions. It will finish Sunday night with the year's second highest opening frame, after Transformers 2. Over the five days, Half-Blood Prince didn't come near Revenge of the Fallen's opening $200 million bonanza. But in North America, at least, HP6 may have been seen by nearly as many people; they're just not paying as much to see it. As Nikki Finke notes...
...story follows the Arthurian legend: Arthur (Bradley Dean) marries Guenevere (Erin Davie) to unite war-torn England. To secure peace, Arthur establishes the Knights of the Round Table, who use “might for right.” Entranced by this utopia, a French knight, Lancelot (Maxime de Toledo), leaves his native country to join Arthur’s court. Lancelot becomes the king’s right-hand man—and the queen’s secret lover. Guenevere and Lancelot try to hide their romance, but Arthur’s bastard son, Mordred (Adam Shonkwiler), craving...
...Paramount, its producing studio. That's nearly a third higher than the previous top Wednesday-to-Sunday take - $152.4 million, for Spider-Man 2 in 2004 - and within a hair of the all-time five-day total, $203.7 million (Friday to Tuesday), for last year's The Dark Knight. Add the $200 million or so that this Armageddon for machines picked up in foreign theaters over the same stretch, and you have a $400 million world domination. (We'll add just one more $200 million figure: that's what this T2 cost to produce.) (See pictures of cinema's most...
...Left out were acclaimed movies that did sell a few tickets: The Dark Knight, the highest-grossing film since Titanic, and the Pixar instant-classic WALL-E, which had the top rating among critics of any 2008 release. Another animated feature, DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda, was brimming with brio; and didn't Iron Man parade as much filmmaking skill as any of the nominated five? Not to mention, except skulkingly, under one critic's breath, Speed Racer...
...years when truly popular movies are among the finalists. The biggest ratings in the past 15 years have been when Titanic and LOTR: The Return of the King swept to victory. Ratings were up a bit this year; but if two big audience favorites, Slumdog and The Dark Knight, had gone head to head, the numbers might have been astronomical. This decision is all about ratings. (Watch an interview with Slumdog composer A.R. Rahman...