DVDs mean 'Dark Knight' won't top 'Titanic'

August 11, 2008 Oh, the delicious irony: an unsinkable boxoffice record for a film called "Titanic." "Titanic" bowed in December 1997 and played strongly well into 1998, cruising into cinematic history on support from females inspired to see the big-screen heroics of Leonardo DiCaprio time after time after time. It's been a boxoffice burst of such unprecedented proportions as to outpace even "Titanic" over a comparable period, stoking speculation of whether the "Titanic" record would finally run into an iceberg.

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