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The Dark Knight" hits theaters in a little over a week and almost all of the 1,500 midnight Thursday night showings have already sold out-Prompting theaters to add both 3am and 6am pre-opening show times to meet demand...

Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons has more...

Fandango reports that "TDK" is due to be the year's top advance ticket-seller in wide release and is already easily outpacing 08's "Iron Man," "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "Sex and the City" at the same point in those films' sales cycles.

MovieTickets.com reports that the pre-sales for the film's tickets are already higher than such major openers as "Spider-Man 3", "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Passion of the Christ ".

Tracking figures posted at Hollywood Elsewhere on Tuesday showed a 31% 'first choice' rating, a figure that will only go up as next week approaches - probably hitting towards 40% on the day of release. In comparison, the 'first choice' figures on the day of release was 31% for "Iron Man", 26% for "WALL-E" and "Wanted", and 14% for "The Incredible Hulk "."Indiana Jones" and "Iron Man" hold the biggest three-day openings of the year so far with $100.1 million and $98.6 million respectively.

...there hangs a question mark over its ability to smash those records. Mostly this is due to the film's very dark subject matter keeping the pre-teen crowd away and the 2.5 hour run time limiting sessions.

I personally think the films building positive buzz-will help the flick to overcome its longer running time...Plus the sequel will probably still be in theaters beyond Labor Day...