Batman sequal raises $100 million more than Barack Obama - will the media notice?

Batman sequel breaks box office records:

The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan’s gritty Batman sequel, raked in $155 million between Friday and Sunday, outselling the previous top weekend grosser, 2007’s Spider-Man 3, by more than $4 million and driving the movie business to a record $253 million weekend.

By comparison, Obama only raised $54 million in June  (revised downward here).

But both still BOMB compared to the million 3G iPhones Apple sold within the first three days of their release last month (estimated $200-$300 million)

I’ll have to ask the New York Times first, but is it OK to ask how we can afford to drop a half a billion bucks on ephemeral bullshit if our economy is in such dire shape?