Revolution Portal: Because it won’t be televised.

The Dark Knight has broken into the record books with an astounding $66 million U.S. box office take for just Friday alone.

The previous record holder for a single day had been Spider-Man 3, which earned a healthy $59.8 million the day that it opened in 2007. 

If the Batman Begins sequel keeps going at this pace, it is destined to smash the three day weekend record.  That feat was also achieved by Spidey 3 last year, when it brought in $151.1 mill during the trio of days.

The Dark Knight has not only outshined Batman Begins in box office take, but also with the critics.   The 2005 restart of the franchise has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 84%, while this year’s entry has topped that with a 94% score altogether.

With the incredible Friday take, the whispers that Heath Ledger will receive a posthumous Oscar nomination for his work in the new film are growing exponentially. 

It looks like Arrested Development, one of the few shows which actually deserves the hyperbolic praised heaped upon it, is going to return in movie form.

The closest fans have gotten to any sort of reunion was witnessing the pairing of Michael Cera and Jason Bateman in Juno.  However, while the stars were both quite funny in the flick, they didn’t share a single second of screentime. 

So it didn’t really hit the spot for AD junkies.

 “After months of speculation, I think we have finally figured out for sure that we are indeed doing an Arrested Development movie,” Bluth family patriarch Jeffrey Tambor told Entertainment Weekly at the Hellboy 2 premiere. 

“I am very excited about that. I love that cast and crew and I felt like we had more to say.”

There’s no word yet on whether Tambor is referring to a made-for-television movie on a big screen version.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be releasing David Mamet’s Redbelt on August 26, according to a confirmed report at HDR.

Like most Mamet directed films, the mixed martial arts flick unfortunately flew under the radar and grossed a little less than 2,500,000 domestically in the USA.

Redbelt did well with the critics, however, garnering a solid 72% with the ”top critics” over at Rotten Tomatoes. 

“The glue that holds it together is Ejiofor’s muscular performance as a man whose principles may be about to feel the brass knuckles of reality,” gushed the Toronto Star’s Peter Howell.

“Watching Redbelt is like watching a chess game. As Mamet manipulates his characters, it’s involving and occasionally thrilling, but it never makes you feel much,” bemoaned Chris Hewitt of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. 

Redbelt on Blu-ray will carry an SRP of $38.96.  Full specs have yet to be announced. 

Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted has yet to be released — it’s due to hit the theaters on June 27 — but that’s not stopping the comparisons to 1999’s The Matrix from flying around.

The director of Night Watch and Day Watch certainly understands why people would compare the two superstylish films, but he insists that the two are wholly different animals.

Asked whether his first English language movies was the next level of the John Woo and The Matrix style, the director pointed out the differences.

“No, it’s just different. It’s very different because it’s drama driven. Drama drives the action and entertainment. It’s an ancient Greek tragedy dressed as an action movie,” said Bekmambetov.

“It’s another type of food. It’s a different meal. It’s not the same,” he told Moviesonline.ca later in the interview. 

“There’s no sense of humor in The Matrix at all. It’s very serious. It’s interesting. It’s totally inhuman. We are very funny.”

LucasArts has been around since before half of the staff at Revolution Portal were born, but in their heyday, their graphic adventure games could not be beat.

PR manager Chris Norris and Fracture assistant producer Jeffrey Gullett recently talked to Eurogamer about the potential of bringing some of those classic titles back for either Wii and DS.

“We have looked at it,” Norris explained . “It is something we are continually looking at - new venues to put out our library of games on. We’re not announcing anything about that because honestly I don’t know anything about it.”

Then Gullett said something that doesn’t make a whole of sense.

“The cart size of the DS makes it impossible to put out ports of any of our old graphic adventures,” claims Gullett. “There’s literally not enough room on those carts to put the games out.”

Anybody familiar with Homebrew knows exactly how easy it is to fit some of those titles on a DS.  After all, Manic Mansion fit on just a few floppy discs back in the late 80’s.

“It could still happen,” Gullett added. “We’ve got a lot of pride in our heritage and it’s definitely something we’re still leaving open.”