Pineapple Express Sets Wednesday Box Office Record for August
The new Judd Apatow-produced comedy scored $12.5 million on its
opening day. For once, here's a box office record that The Dark
Knight doesn't own. According to Variety, the stoner comedy
Pineapple Express opened big to the record-breaking tune of
$12.5 million, is a new Wednesday record for the month of
August.  The David Gordon Green-directed comedy beat out The
Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, which took in $8.5 million
in its August 2004 opening Wednesday.  The Sisterhood of the
Traveling Pants 2 also fared well on its opening day, taking in
$5.8 million on Wednesday. The first film took in $9 million
during its whole opening weekend.  The Dark Knight grossed
another $5 million on Wednesday, putting its total at $410.7
million. Analysts predict the film will end up with a domestic
gross just over $500 million, surpassing Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope's $460 million to be the second-highest-grossing film
of all time, behind Titanic an