In a statement released by the IMAX corporation:

IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience has crossed the $55 million mark in worldwide gross box office receipts after its seventh week of release. As of Friday, the film reached a total of $43.2 million from 101 IMAX screens domestically and $12 million from 41 IMAX screens internationally.

“The exceptional box office performance of The Dark Night in IMAX® theatres is contributing to the film’s very strong legs and fantastic summer theatrical run,” said Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. “Many repeat customers are experiencing the film in IMAX theatres.”

“Chris Nolan’s innovative vision is taking IMAX’s format to new heights, and his film’s impact on ticket sales is unprecedented,” said IMAX Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs Richard L. Gelfond and Bradley J. Wechsler. “The ability to cross this milestone so quickly shows us that more people are visiting IMAX theatres than ever before, underscoring the real potential and appetite for The IMAX Experience®.”

Here’s the next big record that is beyond everyone’s expectations - The Dark Knight has notched up a massive $500m in domestic sales in only 45 days, after an $11m weekend taking. It took Titanic, the only film that has sold more than the Dark Knight and the only other film to break the half a billion barrier, 91 days to do that.

To add to this, The Dark Knight has now made $921m worldwide (major overseas releases came out much later than the US), putting in 9th in the all time worldwide best sellers.

Source: Coming Soon

Despite being bounced from the weekend’s top spot by Topic Thunder ($25.8m beating $16.3m), The Dark Knight has amassed a massive $471.5m in five weeks - flying past Star Wars to become the second highest domestic grossing movie of all time. Batman dealt a double blow by keeping the animated Clone Wars in third place for the weekend ($14.1m).

Source: Box Office Mojo

For the fourth consecutive week The Dark Knight has topped the weekend box office, last week it fended off The Mummy, this week it held back the Pineapple Express. With sales of $7.6m, $10.5m and $7.9m, The Dark Knight amassed a weekend total of $26m, beating the Pineapple Express’ $22.4m, and overtaking Shrek 2 with a gross of $440m to become the third biggest selling movie of all time. Star Wars sits pretty above it with $460m - it’s only a matter of time!

Source: Box Office Mojo

Here is the next big milestone in The Dark Knight’s all encompassing success at the Box Office - it is now officially the fastest movie to reach the coveted $400m mark, doing so in just 18 days.

Would you like to know what the previous record was? Shrek 2 did this same feat, only a full 25 days later, taking a whopping 43 days. The Dark Knight has more than cut that in half, and it’s still taking in $6m in monday sales, whilst moving up to 8th on the all time gross chart.

Contributing Sources: /Film, Media By Numbers

Thanks Tim.

Sadly our caped crusader lost the top spot to The Mummy this Friday; taking $12.7m versus Brendan Fraser’s $15.3m. However, coming back to the forefont on Saturday - Batman returned to the top with a take of $17.4m against Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’s $14.7m.

The weekend figures added another $43.8m to the TDK total and touching distance of the coveted $400m record. The Mummy made $42.4m, a close second, but a poor opening weekend for the movie.