The Dark Knightbroke the all-time opening weekend box office record grossing $158.4 million (including Thursday night midnight sales). Led by The Dark Knight, the overall box office climbed to more than $255 million in ticket sales making it the best weekend in movie history. The Dark Knight also broke 2 other records, highest gross for Thursday midnight showings ($18.5 million) and biggest single opening day ($67.9 million).  As I said Thursday, the new Batman flick was a tricky one to predict, and my prediction was too low. This is one time I’m happy to be wrong. I’m a huge fan of this film and it deserves the title. Other new releases, Mamma Mia! And Space Chimps, grossed $27.6 million and $7.3 million respectively, both within striking distance of my predictions of $26 million and $8 million. As far as holdovers go, my predictions were right on target. Take a look at the chart below.

         

 

 

Outside of the top 10, as predicted, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has almost caught up to Iron Man in overall domestic gross, putting them both in position to be the highest grossing film of the year so far. None of this really matters however due to the fact that The Dark Knight should easily beat them both out by a significant amount.