This Summer's Box Office Best

27-08-2008 11:05

It seems that blockbuster summer is becoming a bit of a tradition as the big budget pictures rolled into cinemas and, unlike last year, enjoyed major critical and commercial success.

We watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte reunite after four years, the Chronicles of Narnia, Harrison Ford squeeze into his original Indy costume and we all stood and applauded the brilliance of Heath Ledger as the box office grossed $6.7 billion.

So here at FemaleFirst we took a look back over this great summer of film, which started way back in May, to find which movies did the business at the box office.

Dominating cinema screens all over the world as you can imagine The Dark Knight is not only the biggest film of the summer but the biggest film of 2008.

Already one of the most anticipated movies of the year, which saw Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan return to the franchise, interest was further heightened by the sudden death of actor Heath Ledger.

With Ledger producing an outstanding performance creating an iconic character and Bale's Batman fighting a few demons of his own The Dark Knight has quite rightly been labelled the best superhero movie of all time.

With an actor who had never had a major box office hit, despite being one of the best actors of his generation, and based on the lesser Marvel Comic characters Iron Man had a lot stacked against it.