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13 July 2008 9:24 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
There's very little doubt about what movie will have the longest lines next weekend. The Dark Knight may break the all-time opening weekend record. Then again, it might not, if a lot of people, believing it will break the opening weekend record, don't want to screw with the long lines. Maybe they'll stay away completely, or maybe, having spent all that time in line just to see sold out theaters for The Dark Knight, they'll see something else instead.
The summer movie season has a few weeks where it seems as though one movie has a weekend all to itself, but it's hardly the case here. In fact, with all the talk surrounding how The Dark Knight might make $160, $180 million dollars in three days - speculation based primarily on geeked-up hope more than anything else - it's worth pointing out that of the top three films of all time in terms of stratospheric debuts,
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Colin Boyd
1 article from 2008