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He’s kerpowed the Joker and put the Penguin on ice, but Batman faces a new adversary — the mayor of an oil-producing Turkish town. Huseyin Kalkan, leader of the city of Batman in southeastern Turkey, plans to sue Christopher Nolan, director of the latest Batman movie “The... 

Elvis Presley may have left the building three decades ago, but he raked in more money last year than many living titans of the music industry. For the second year in a row, Presley topped the Forbes magazine’s list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities, hauling in $52 million last... 

The last time a movie topped a half-billion dollars at the domestic box office, it sailed away with most of the Oscars. That was “Titanic” 11 years back. This time, it’s “The Dark Knight,” a critically acclaimed film but a genre picture that will be a... 

“The Dark Knight” on Sunday became the second movie in Hollywood history to top $500 million at the domestic box office, raising its total to $502.4 million, according to estimates from distributor Warner Bros. The film hit that mark in just over six weeks, half the time... 

It took four of Hollywood’s biggest stars to take down Batman. The DreamWorks-Paramount comedy “Tropic Thunder” — with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black and Tom Cruise — debuted at No. 1 with $26 million, bumping “The Dark Knight”... 

Add another entry for “The Dark Knight” in Hollywood’s record books: The Batman sequel has climbed past $400 million at the box office in just 18 days, the fastest pace ever, a studio executive said Tuesday. As of Monday, “The Dark Knight” had taken in... 

It posted the biggest opening weekend in Hollywood history. It scored the biggest opening week in Hollywood history. It didn’t come close to toppling Titanic. The box-office tale of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest might help explain why reaching $600 million,...