The Dark Knight Rises was on track to earn $160 million (Dh587 million) in the US, which would be a record for 2D films, over the weekend following a mass shooting at a Colorado screening of the Batman film.
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Dark Knight to break box office record
The film is on track to earn $160 million, which would be a record for 2D films, say insiders
- AP
- Published: 10:58 July 23, 2012
Citing box office insiders, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and other media outlets reported on Sunday that the latest Batman sequel earned $160 to $162 million.
That amount would best the $158.4 million debut of The Dark Knight in 2008 and give Dark Knight Rises the third-highest domestic weekend opening ever after the 3D films The Avengers with $207.4 million and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 with $169.2 million.
The Hollywood Reporter also cited box office sources who said Dark Knight Rises earned $70 million from nine of the 17 countries where it debuted over the weekend, including the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea and Spain.
Tickets for 3D films cost a few more dollars than 2-D screenings, netting extra cash at the box office. Movies released in 3D typically earn under half of their income in 3D screenings, sometimes as little as a third.
Sony, Fox, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Lionsgate joined Dark Knight Rises distributor Warner Bros in publicly withholding their usual revenue reports out of respect for the victims and their families.
Box-office tracking service Rentrak also did not report figures following the Aurora, Colorado, shootings that killed 12 and injured 58 at a midnight screening of the new Batman sequel on Friday.
“This tragedy did not seem to impact the box office in a major way,” said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for Hollywood.com who specializes in box office. “For this film to still be in the rarified air of the top-three openings of all time is phenomenal, given the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the release of this film.”
Dergarabedian noted that the box-office ranking of director Christopher Nolan’s final instalment of his Batman trilogy would not be official until Warner Bros and other studios release their final weekend box-office tallies on Monday.
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