Ticket prices go up as ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ rises

NIDA DAR

KARACHI: The Dark Knight is rising this weekend, the ticket prices too are skyrocketing.

A hardcore love of Batman may prove to be an expensive habit this weekend, as some scalpers are reportedly seeking $100 for opening night tickets of "The Dark Knight Rises," according to media reports.

The highly anticipated sequel of "The Dark Knight" and "Batman Begins" is already having quite a good showing at the box office.

Midnight showings at IMAX theaters in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio and Massachusetts are all already sold out.

eBay and Craigslist scalpers and professional ticket resellers are doing a land-office business, according to media published reports on Wednesday.

Media outlets noted this morning that one eBay seller in Los Angeles is asking $125 per ticket, while another in that city is offering two tickets for $300.

Another ticket seller in Council Bluffs, Iowa is asking $140. So far no one is taking those sellers up on their outlandish offers.

Most ticket resellers are actually asking $35-40 for them.

Deadline.com’s Nikki Finke said on Thursday that ticket presales for the movie had already grown to $25 million and accounted for 80-85 percent of all tickets purchased online.

Now that over 60,000 tickets have already been sold in advance, the trilogy has already surpassed the AMC marathon-event record nearly twice in numbers. Seeing the increasing demand, AMC is continuing to add ShowTime until the last moment.

Whether the movie will live up to its expectations remains to be seen, not to mention the high prices of the tickets.