Posted AT 12:10 AM EDT on 23/07/08
Director's Bat-belt included an Imax camera
When director Christopher Nolan began shooting
The Dark Knight, the man behind the latest big-screen instalment of the Batman story unwittingly handed
Imax Corp. a new business model — and probably the biggest box office take the company has ever seen.
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