TDKR - To top avengers opening $$$

By bigscore - 07-20-2012, 10:16 AM - Boxden > The TV and Movie Spot

Coming off the reports that TDKR has had a very good start on foreign soil, Deadline now confirm that the additional $27+M domestic means it will top Marvel's The Avengers' $18.4M in midnight showings earlier this Summer..

It seems the decision to open with 3,700 Thursday midnight showings has paid off for Warner Bros., as The Dark Knight Rises' 2D midnights number shatters the $18.4M generated by Marvel’s 3D epic The Avengers earlier this summer. Joss Whedon's film had held the record for midnight gross set by a superhero movie (the overall record is still held by the final Harry Potter flick). “The West Coast is still selling tickets with some theaters adding 3 AM shows, this is effing huge!” a Warner Bros exec tells Deadline. Reported pre-sales of $30M and international grosses from 9 countries totalling $10.4M, means that’s already $67.4M worldwide for Christopher Nolan's Batman swan-song before it's even in wide release.

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07-20-2012, 10:31 AM

I read somewhere TDKR is expected to do 195 million...I could be wrong

07-20-2012, 01:16 PM

We know it's going to[..] everything already.

07-20-2012, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Matrix

I read somewhere TDKR is expected to do 195 million...I could be wrong

No you're right its projected to have a 195 million dollar weekend. It'll probably be more but who knows how that massacre backlash could turn out.

07-20-2012, 04:22 PM

Originally Posted by TH35

No you're right its projected to have a 195 million dollar weekend. It'll probably be more but who knows how that massacre backlash could turn out.

nicca you're doubting it in every thread. Go to bed.

07-20-2012, 04:38 PM

There is no way in hell that it tops avengers.. Not really a kid friendly movie now shootouts..
/thread

07-20-2012, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by Maroon_Tiger

There is no way in hell that it tops avengers.. Not really a kid friendly movie now shootouts..
/thread

Um... This friday, it has made just about the same amount as The Avengers made on the friday it came out, and it managed to do this WITHOUT 3D.

07-20-2012, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by ThePainkiller

nicca you're doubting it in every thread. Go to bed.

Shut the !! up, you didn't read that I said it'll probably be more than 195 mill?

07-20-2012, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by Maroon_Tiger

There is no way in hell that it tops avengers.. Not really a kid friendly movie now shootouts..
/thread

Get used to it ...it's going to break The Avengers apart. Truth hurts.[pic]

Midnight screenings estimate totals are showing that right now & it's already passed it. The rest is still to come.

06:27 PM

There was another thread about TDKR possibly surpassing Amazing-Spider-Man's opening weekend.

I said then that I didn't give a !! about no !!ty Spider-Man and that we were coming after The Avengers.

Looks like I was right.[pic]

07-20-2012, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by Maroon_Tiger

There is no way in hell that it tops avengers.. Not really a kid friendly movie now shootouts..
/thread

and TDK wasn't a kid friendly movie? Made over a billion dollars.

kids don't give a !! these days.

07-20-2012, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by DaOmega_1

Um... This friday, it has made just about the same amount as The Avengers made on the friday it came out, and it managed to do this WITHOUT 3D.

And if it doesn't beat Avengers you guys will hang your hat on that 3D note as the reason why it didn't.

[pic]

07-20-2012, 07:16 PM

Yeah maybe for midnight sales but not overall.

07-20-2012, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by Michael 1987

Get used to it ...it's going to break The Avengers apart. Truth hurts.[pic]

Midnight screenings estimate totals are showing that right now & it's already passed it. The rest is still to come.

You can't go off of midnight screenings, that is a horrible gage to look at how well a movie will do. Just look at Harry Potter, sitting at 43 million and only finished with 169 million.

07-20-2012, 07:25 PM

I think the Joker showing up and blowing off heads may scare people away from this !!. That or the police presence now surrounding theaters. !! it I'll wait on this one.

07-20-2012, 07:44 PM

Well deserved too

07-20-2012, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Cheeze

And if it doesn't beat Avengers you guys will hang your hat on that 3D note as the reason why it didn't.

[pic]

Well, no. It'd be because of a tragedy that has caused theater chains around the country to bump up security in ways that people might not feel comfortable with, and some folks might be scared because of the tragedy.

07-20-2012, 08:36 PM

aaaahhhh told you fools this was going to blow avengers out the water

07-20-2012, 08:57 PM

People on here really give a !! if one movie beats another movie in ticket sales? What in the !! [pic]

I thought stanning over a rapper was bad.

07-20-2012, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by HYSTERICS

aaaahhhh told you fools this was going to blow avengers out the water

Wait, you got the full weekend gross already?

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