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Technicolor Contributes to Record-Breaking Box Office

Technicolor provided key services to every film in the top 10 of the record-breaking July 18-20 weekend. The unprecedented results for a three-day holiday weekend were led by Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight, which broke all records over a non-holiday three-day weekend—grossing an official $158.3 million. Other new opening films Technicolor served include Space Chimps and Mamma Mia!, which became the top opener in film history for a musical.

The domestic box office racked up an unprecedented $250 million or more in ticket sales, making July 18-20 the biggest three-day weekend ever in terms of total grosses.

Technicolor provided a combination of best-in-class creative and technical services in both the film and digital arena, including front-end negative processing and dailies, digital intermediates, theatrical release printing and digital cinema services. Technicolor provided digital intermediates and digital cinema services to half of the 10 highest grossing films.

Technicolor produced a near record volume of theatrical release prints for The Dark Knight from worldwide locations. Digital intermediates were produced by Los Angeles and New York facilities for Mamma Mia!, Hancock, Space Chimps and Kung Fu Panda. Technicolor’s Rome lab provided digital intermediate film-out services for Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Technicolor also produced worldwide film prints for Mamma Mia! Hellboy 2, and Kung Fu Panda.