B Means Billion

The Dark Knight crossed the $1 billion dollar mark in worldwide box office receipts--only the fourth film ever to do so reports Variety.

Warner Bros. confirmed that as of Friday afternoon, the combined domestic and international gross had totaled $1,001,082,160 to date - around $533 million domestically and $567 million overseas. Grosses from Ecuador and the IMAX re-release helped nudge the film over the mark which it was $4 million shy of in December.

TDK joins Titanic ($1.842 billion), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.119 billion) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($1.066 billion) in the billions club.