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A Dark Night

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By Jenny Li

Story Published: Jul 19, 2008 at 6:53 PM CDT

Story Updated: Jul 19, 2008 at 8:56 PM CDT

Fans hoping to see the new Batman sequel at a Bloomington movie theater had a dark night because of a power failure. The outage just before seven Friday night hit parts of Bloomington including the Galaxy 14 Cine movie theater, disappointing hundreds of moviegoers with tickets to a 7:10 opening-day showing of ``The Dark Knight.''

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Leroy Chambers of Bloomington told the Associate Press, two teenagers did a finger puppet show on the screen for about 30 minutes, improvising dialogue for Batman and Joker before ushers cleared the theater.

Ameren spokesman Leigh Morris says the outage was caused by an equipment failure.

"The Dark Knight'' set a single-day box office record by taking in more than $66 million on opening day.

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Sunday, Jul 20 at 12:54 AM CM wrote ...

LOOK AT IT THIS WAY; YOU SAVED SOME BUCKS BY THAT HAPPENING. I FEEL IT WOULD BE A POPULAR MOVIE BUT WITH THE DEATH OF "JOKER" FROM DRUGS IT HAS MADE ITSELF MORE POPULAR. IT DOES NOT MATTER IF THEY WERE PRESCRIPTION OR NOT..HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS TAKING...IT IS TOO BAD HE THREW HIS LIFE AWAY LIKE THAT