“Dark Knight” breaks $400 million

The Associated Press is reporting that “The Dark Knight” has broken $400 million in domestic box office revenue as of Monday, becoming the fastest film ever to $400 million.  “The Dark Knight” is the #8 film of all-time in domestic box office, and stands ready to topple “Spider-Man” as the top comic-book adaptation of all time.

Sure, “The Dark Knight” is awfully, well, dark.  But I think this would put to rest the idea that you need to drastically change the source material from the comic books to come up with a movie that filmgoers will accept.  Nolan filters the Batman material through his own vision, but he hasn’t gone far afield from what comic-book fans want from their Bat-films — and it’s been a huge success.

– Matt Price