Warner Home Video has announced that it will release Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight on DVD on December 9th in single-disc (MSRP $28.98), double-disc ($34.98), and Blu-ray (MSRP $35.99) editions. Note that the Blu-ray version, which contains all the extras included on the two-disc Special Edition is priced only a dollar higher, an indication of how serious
Unlike Christopher Nolan’s first Batman film, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight has had an extraordinary impact on graphic novel sales in both the bookstore and direct markets. Although the growth in sales of Batman graphic novels have been somewhat overshadowed by the astronomical rise in the number of copies of Watchmen sold in the wake of the release of the trailer for the Watchmen movie that accompanied The Dark Knight in theaters, it is worth remembering that there were no fewer than five Batman volumes in the BookScan Top Twenty lists of graphic novels sold in bookstores for both July and August (see “BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novels for August”). Retailers interviewed by ICv2 for the next Graphic Novel Guide compared sales of Batman graphic novels in the wake of The Dark Knight to sales of Frank Miller’s Sin City books after the release of the Sin City movie, and it is important to remember that the release of Sin City on DVD reinvigorated sales of the Sin City graphic novels in a major way (see “The DVD Effect Materializes”).
Along with the normal sort of trailers, galleries and TV spots, the extras on The Dark Knight two-disc Special Edition and the Blu-ray disc include a “Gotham Uncovered” documentary, plus three featurettes, “Batman Tech: The Incredible Gadgets,” “Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight,” and six episodes of "
