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Search for: Offline summarization (match summaries) Hybrid summarization Online summarization Offline summarization (match articles) U.S. World Finance Sci/Tech Entertainment Sports View Today's Images Back to Archive Index About Newsblaster About today's run Newsblaster in Press Academic Papers Article Sources: washingtonpost.com (125 articles) nytimes.com (97 articles) seattletimes. nwsource.com (88 articles) boston.com (75 articles) cbc.ca (75 articles) news.bbc.co.uk (72 articles) latimes.com (67 articles) baltimoresun.com (39 articles) abcnews.go.com (33 articles) foxnews.com (31 articles) msnbc.msn.com (27 articles) suntimes.com (26 articles) timesonline.co.uk (26 articles) haaretz.com (24 articles) nypost.com (19 articles) ft.com (16 articles) cnn.com (15 articles) sfgate.com (12 articles) technology. timesonline.co.uk (12 articles) topics.nytimes.com (10 articles) dallasnews.com (6 articles) cbsnews.com (5 articles)	'Dark Knight' has record opening Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English Batman film The Dark Knight has set a box office record for best opening weekend ever at the US box office, distributor Warner Bros has said. (article 5) Hollywood set an overall revenue record of $253 million for a three-day weekend, beating the $218.4 million haul over the weekend of July 7, 2006, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers. (article 1) That bested the 2005 performance of " Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith which took in $16.9 million during its midnight debut in 2,915 venues. (article 6) The Dark Knight broke the previous record of $151m, which was set last summer by Sony's Spider-Man 3 and dominated the weekend, outperforming Universal's Mamma Mia, which generated $27.6m. (article 7) Talladega duo looks back on boyhood Opening day record for Dark Knight ' Matthew Goode: A jolly old English gent. (article 8) Dan Fellman said the latest Batman movie might break the opening-weekend record of $151.1 million, also held by Spider-Man 3. (article 4) When Katie Holmes turned down her role in " The Dark Knight many people asked: Why? A revival franchise like Batman, under the auspicious pairing of director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, seemed a no-brainer for box-office success. (article 10) Other summaries about this story: Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English (1 articles) [compare] Summary from Canada, from articles in English (1 articles) [compare] Summary from United States, from articles in English (9 articles) [compare] Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords Knight, Batman, Dark, Ledger, movie Source articles 'Dark Knight' Sets Box Office Record With $155M (Washington Post, 07/20/2008, 653 words) 'Dark Knight' has record opening (L.A. Times, 07/21/2008, 867 words) ABC News: 'Dark Knight' Sets Box Office Record With $66.4M (ABCNews, 07/19/2008, 342 words) Batman's joust with the Joker sets box office record (cbc.ca, 07/19/2008, 248 words) Batman film takes a record $155m (BBC News, 07/20/2008, 94 words) Midnight stampede to 'The Dark Knight' sets record (Washington Post, 07/20/2008, 220 words) ‘Dark Knight’ sets record with $155m weekend (ft.com, 07/20/2008, 429 words) Chicago Sun-Times :: Movies :: (suntimes.com, 07/20/2008, 523 words) Ledger's compelling Joker thrills, saddens fans (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 07/18/2008, 716 words) ABC News: The Replacements: New Actors, Old Roles (ABCNews, 07/18/2008, 391 words) Gyllenhaal denies throwing Holmes under Batmobile :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Cindy Pearlman (suntimes.com, 07/19/2008, 474 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu