Home
Superhero Store
Members Area
Learn How
Media
Community
Classifieds
CBM Master List
JoshWildingNewsAndReviews Home : News : Videos : Pictures : Polls : Contact

BOX OFFICE: Warner Bros. Release Official Figures For THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

It appears as if the tragic shooting at a Colorado movie theatre during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises had a big impact on the domestic box office gross of the threequel. However, it still had the third highest opening weekend ever. Hit the jump for the figures.

Follow Josh:
View CBM Profile Follow on Facebook Follow on Twitter Follow on Google
By Josh Wilding - 7/23/2012

Warner Bros. and several other box office tracking agencies decided not to release box office figures over the weekend as a sign of respect to those affected by the shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Unsurprisingly, this tragic event clearly put off many moviegoers in North America as The Dark Knight Rises made a domestic total of $160,887,295 (quite a way off the estimated $180+ million figures thrown around by analysts last week). Regardless, this still gives Christopher Nolan's epic finale the third highest opening weekend ever, below Marvel's The Avengers and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, and above The Dark Knight and The Hunger Games. It earned $75.7 million on Friday, $44.9 million on Saturday and $40.2 million on Sunday. Meanwhile, it opened to $88 million internationally from 17 markets (it opens in another 40 next weekend) which included $22.5 million from the UK, $15.7 million from Korea and $15.5 million from Australia. That gives it a current worldwide cume of $248.9 million. The Dark Knight Rises has received an 'A' CinemaScore rating from audiences and you can read my 5* review of the film by clicking HERE.







Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ "The Dark Knight Rises" is the epic conclusion to filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. The screenplay is written by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer. The film is produced by Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Charles Roven, who previously teamed on “Batman Begins” and the record-breaking blockbuster "The Dark Knight." The executive producers are Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Kevin De La Noy and Thomas Tull, with Jordan Goldberg serving as co-producer. The film is based upon characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Batman was created by Bob Kane.


STARRING:

Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Michael Caine as Alfred
Gary Oldman as Commissioner Jim Gordon
Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
Tom Hardy as Bane
Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle/Catwoman
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake
Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate
Josh Pence as Ra's Al Ghul

RELEASE DATE: July 20th, 2012
Source: Twitter (@ERCboxoffice)
DISCLAIMER: This article was submitted by a volunteer contributor who has agreed to our code of conduct. ComicBookMovie.com is protected from liability under "safe harbor" provisions and will disable users who knowingly commit plagiarism, piracy, trademark or copyright infringement. For expeditious removal, contact us HERE.
2
LIKE!
184 Comments
1 2 3 4
JDUKE25 - 7/23/2012, 2:17 PM
Still good, could've been better.
Jordanstine - 7/23/2012, 2:20 PM
The Dark Knight Rises

Total = $160,887,295

Friday $75,754,897
Saturay $44,931,966
Sunday $40,200,432

What's surprising is that if you take away Friday's midnight number ($30 million), Friday basically is the same number as Saturday.

Too bad no one is ever going to know how much Rises would've done without the shooting, just like no one would ever know how TDK would've done without Ledger's death.
blvdnoise - 7/23/2012, 2:21 PM
I saw it twice.. Such a great film. It's just not fair.
ksommer - 7/23/2012, 2:23 PM
3rd all time is still amazing. That being said, I don't think anything will beat $207 Million until Avengers 2.
StrangerX - 7/23/2012, 2:24 PM
Cool!! Wish it could have been better, just because it was such a great film.
musashi - 7/23/2012, 2:25 PM
We'll never know what kind of impact the tragedy had on TDKR. 160million is very impressive.
ksommer - 7/23/2012, 2:25 PM
I also think that this might be an indicator that the reason why TDK was so impressive (BO wise) is because of the Joker, a more recognizable villian.
Cth - 7/23/2012, 2:25 PM
"We'll never be able to know how much money this tragedy cost Warner Bros.," Exhibitor Relations box-office analyst Jeff Bock said Monday. "I think it's safe to say it [would've made] $15 million-$20 million more if that had never happened."
JDUKE25 - 7/23/2012, 2:26 PM
@ksommer Yeah, I think Avengers 2 will beat Avengers. Tickets will probably be $0.50-1.00 more than it is now when that comes out.
JDUKE25 - 7/23/2012, 2:29 PM
@Vegaking stop talking
third3ye - 7/23/2012, 2:30 PM
The film will make up the lost revenue from the shooting scare over time, this should still be the #4 movie globally after its run. Shame that it took about a $20M hit from the shooting tragedy to take away some of the opening weekend thunder but the movie will do fine in the long run.
stevengil - 7/23/2012, 2:30 PM
I wonder if folks will come out to see the film in the coming weeks. My wife and I saw the movie this weekend. But we still need to take our 2 children who were gone for the weekend. But I basically had to drag my wife to go because she was stuck to the TV watching the shooting coverage.
Gottostophate - 7/23/2012, 2:30 PM
Vegakingblade wow you just want to piss people off dont you. Look what you say about BO it clear you just spiten shit to make people mad. You pathetic man
ksommer - 7/23/2012, 2:31 PM
Since we are talking box office, I could see Marvel re-releasing Avengers a month before Avengers 2 to try and top Titanic and to build more hype.
Xandera - 7/23/2012, 2:31 PM
It did pretty good, all things considered...




Hey Gang, CBM has changed my life and affected my future. Check out my sincere thank you to the website and it's owners by clicking below...


A Thank You Note to my Favourite Website!
Chewtoy - 7/23/2012, 2:32 PM
It did fine, although attendance-wise it did less than The Dark Knight... I'm sure that's largely due to the tragedy, but actually improving beyond TDK's attendance with Bane as the marquee match up was always a long shot.

Now it's about $455m behind The Avengers domestic total... Are there people who still believe it can make up that difference and take the year's box office crown? Personally, I think it's going to have an uphill battle to hit $450m total, let alone in addition to this opening.
Cth - 7/23/2012, 2:32 PM
Look up who Exhibitor Relations are first, then please come back to the thread, ok?
LOL - 7/23/2012, 2:32 PM
thatcoldblackcloud - 7/23/2012, 2:33 PM
---> "...and you can read my 5* review of the film by clicking HERE. "

LOL...SHAMELESS.
marantaz - 7/23/2012, 2:33 PM
No, actually, I think those numbers fall right in line with what was to be expected. Lots of tickets were sold in advance (remember the stories predicting it was outpacing The Avengers in pre-sales?), and the only place that didn't show the movie after the shooting was the theatre in Aurora, as far as I know, so this is about what I expected it to do. I don't think the shooting had much impact at all. I think Ledger's death (and performance) had a greater impact. How much it drops in the next two weeks be the real story.
Chewtoy - 7/23/2012, 2:33 PM
Oh, and again... Spidey plunged 68% this weekend. That's huge. He slammed into a Bat shaped brick wall.
FilmsFan - 7/23/2012, 2:34 PM
Its a Phenomenal film!

A great great experience!

It'll be HUGE eventually!
Without shooting, Avengers record was in serious danger!

Still it's great & as movie is so great & got great reviews & audience reception; it'll do great!!
Jordanstine - 7/23/2012, 2:35 PM
@ERCboxoffice

In 332 IMAX theatres, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES rang up $19,011,476 which is $57,263 per.

So in other words, TDKR did $141.9 million without IMAX.
darkmetal - 7/23/2012, 2:35 PM
Because of the non existent fun factor, it never had a chance of matching Avengers.
ksommer - 7/23/2012, 2:35 PM
@Chewtoy, I don't think it's possible for TDKR to match the 600 million plus. I think it should be happy with $450m domestic. I think it's going to not have the legs that TDK had, it doesn't have as big of critical acclaim.
DragonofDarknessXIII - 7/23/2012, 2:36 PM
Avengers held the biggest box office opening of all time

TDKR held the biggest 2D box office opening of all time.

Either way, we all win.
marvel72 - 7/23/2012, 2:37 PM
it might have a better second week than the first.
superotherside - 7/23/2012, 2:37 PM
Glad it's doing so well, now WB can get serious and make more films on other heroes. Oh but bring on a rebooted Batman!
DragonofDarknessXIII - 7/23/2012, 2:38 PM
It was a team up movie vs a solo movie. Go figure. If anything from DC would have a chance at breaking the box office is a Justice League or Batman/Superman movie.
SandMan101 - 7/23/2012, 2:38 PM
I think the only movie that will beat the avengers record will be the justice league movie!! FTW
LOL - 7/23/2012, 2:39 PM
@FilmsFan... A film is a film. The shooting was already beyond the Avengers vs TDKR box money idiocy when lives have been wasted. Who cares about who did better in box office winnings when some people won't be able to get their lives back together because of what happened. Both movies were good, just enjoy them for what they are, enough said.
kirynthemighty - 7/23/2012, 2:41 PM
me personally i totally agree with Vegakingblade. All that shit is pure speculation. It maybe had an impact and if it did I seriously doubt it was $20 f$*&ing million. Instead of making excuses and getting but hurt about facts you should be proud of TDKR making $160+ million on opening, thats a hell of a feat, why shit all over it with making excuses. say good job Nolan on making an impressive $160 million opening weekend. Jesus and drop the Avengers BS too. I am so sick of the comparison i could freakin vomit. STFU and enjoy the movies and be glad they're making that kind of change so we can enjoy more movies in the future.
IrfonW - 7/23/2012, 2:42 PM
You guys do realise the film has the third highest opening ever?

That's not bad at all
Greengo - 7/23/2012, 2:43 PM
Friday 7pm showing @ IMAX was sold out and when I went it had empty seats.

I think it had a $30million impact. But that's just a guess/opinion.
AsianVersionOfET - 7/23/2012, 2:43 PM
This movie will be remembered for ages.
marvel72 - 7/23/2012, 2:43 PM
its all about the numbers,the numbers we should be thinking about are 12 & 59.
Greengo - 7/23/2012, 2:43 PM
Good point @ marvel72- now go watch it!
JDUKE25 - 7/23/2012, 2:43 PM
@Vegaking what happened to those other 4 or 5 posts you had bashing others agreeing that the shooting had an effect? Oh yeah, you deleted them. Good move. Pretty sure we've all heard your opinion on the matter already. No need to keep saying it over and over again.
Greengo - 7/23/2012, 2:44 PM
@marvel72- good point on both your prev posts
DragonofDarknessXIII - 7/23/2012, 2:45 PM
Without 3D Avengers would had been in the $170 million range pretty close.
UrbanKnight - 7/23/2012, 2:46 PM
Any human with a conscience at least thought about missing the film after fridays tragic events.

At first i dint think it would hurt it THAT bad but if you really think about it, it common sense.

I know a kid that my girlfriend babysits that said his dad didnt take him to see it cuz of what happened.
His dad is a tough guy too!

My parents want to wait to see it. Just look online at ALL those facebook comments of people that want to see it but are scared. This sh!t is real.

Of course it hurt the film, id say by more than a little but that should be the least of our worries.
iJackSparrow - 7/23/2012, 2:46 PM
Congratulations to TDKR and Warner. I find the 3rd part of the trilogy disappointing, but I'm happy to see that while it lost at least $20m - it will be impossible to gauge how much it lost, and that's the truth - it's still a record breaker.

We are all in this together, folks. We all love superhero films and I'm hoping for a speed recovery of all films next weekend, with much better drops.
Gottostophate - 7/23/2012, 2:46 PM
Whatever you want to tell you troll mouth Vegakingblade. I said it before and i say it again. You no better then John Holmes.
ksommer - 7/23/2012, 2:49 PM
@Harold I don't think Avatar will have that big of a box office opening. It had great legs which is why it's the box office champ but it stunk it's opening weekend.
DragonofDarknessXIII - 7/23/2012, 2:50 PM
I just hope Breaking Dawn part 2 don't break this record, or I'll burn all mys sisters Twilight books lol.
Lizardking310 - 7/23/2012, 2:50 PM
my high school aged brother went to see it on saturday and several of his group of friends where not allowed to go by their parents because of fear over the shootings also friday i saw it in imax a couple of weeks ago i tried to buy 2 more tickets for the same showing and it was sold out yet only 3/4 of the theater where full so even people that had paid for their tickets already still didn't go to the theater I'm sure because of fears too, so i know for sure the tragedy affected TDKR box office
iJackSparrow - 7/23/2012, 2:51 PM
@Gottostophate

Comparing Vegakingblade with a serial murder is TOO MUCH. This non-sense NEEDS to stop. Can't you see people how much "meta" the escalation speech at the end of Batman Begins is becoming? Please, and this is to you too Vegakingblade:

RESPECT EACH OTHER.

Peace.
ksommer - 7/23/2012, 2:52 PM
@Urbanknight I for sure was conscious of it. In my showing people got up and left at least 40 times and every time, I was watching to see if they came back. Sucked me out of the movie. People either had to pee non stop or they were fatties needing a lot of food! :)
Gottostophate - 7/23/2012, 2:52 PM
People are sick. Their using this tragedy as a way to say their movie was better than your movie. Yea way to go Avengers. People had to die for you to win.

Also give me a call when Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 or Cap 2 make the numbers. God that stupid talk right their. Who [frick]en cares at this point what movie did better at the BO.
CrimsonReign - 7/23/2012, 2:52 PM
TDK had a boost due to Ledger's death and great performance as Joker and TDKR has been negatively impacted by the psychopathic murderer who put a major damper on people thinking about going. Perhaps it will pick up next weekend??
1 2 3 4

Please log in to post comments.

Don't have an account?
Please Register.

.