Hoping to keep focus on the film during the height of Oscar season, Warner Bros. is planning to rerelease their summer Batman smash sequel The Dark Knight this January. As a source for The Hollywood Reporter told the trade magazine regarding the film’s rerelease, “It’s just a matter of bringing it back as a reminder for people”. Warner recently admitted to talks with IMAX executives about getting the film back into IMAX during this rerelease as well.

The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale as Batman, the late Heath Ledger as The Joker, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, and Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face, earned about $513 million domestically so far, with $440 million internationally and over $55 million from IMAX. Warner Bros. hopes that the rerelease will help push the movie, the sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins, past the $1 billion mark and perhaps head towards the record set by James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic, with its total worldwide take of $1,842,879,955.

The Dark Knight has been slowly garnering Oscar steam, particularly with the critical praise aimed at Ledger’s performance as the insane clown-faced criminal, and is expected to hit stores on DVD and Blu-Ray in December.

By Costa Koutsoutis, Source; Superhero Hype