Summer 2008 Box Office on Record-Setting Pace
The Dark Knight courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures; Iron Man courtesy Paramount Pictures
The Dark Knight
ruled theaters, but the summer box office was not dark at all.
According to
The Hollywood Reporter, summer 2008 can go down in history with a record domestic gross, thanks to the $300 million-plus hauls of Knight,
Iron Man and
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Though last summer had four films cross the $300 milestone,
Knight made up for the deficit with its own record-setting performance, which includes four consecutive weeks at No. 1.
By the close of Labor Day weekend, domestic intake is projected to surpass $4 billion.
