The Dark Knight Passes Star Wars!

Even though it looks like The Dark Knight is down right now.. It has actually reached a very big milestone. Christopher Nolan's Batman epic has just surpassed Star Wars and is now the second highest domestic grossing film. Even though it fell to Tropic Thunder over the weekend The Dark Knight brought its total in to $471,082,150.

The key to Titanics success was that it had a relatively low first weekend and oddly enough picked up momentum. It also stayed in theaters for a very long time and didn't have much Summer competition. Had The Dark Knight opened back in the same time it may have done better. But we will never know. As for now all we really have to wait for is the news of the upcoming DVD which is predicted to hit sometime this holiday season. So keep it here for more on that.