"The Dark Knight Rises" Breaks $500 Million Worldwide

[CBR News]

Despite the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Saturday, Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" had a strong second weekend, breaking $500 million box office gross worldwide.


Full article here.

[Maidman]

Comic Book movies still $$$$!

Bring on Judge DREDD!

[Legato]

Comic Book movies still $$$$!

Bring on Judge DREDD!

Would be interesting to see how that will do

[Castel]

Sure is a lot of threads about this movie.

[Legato]

Sure is a lot of threads about this movie.

Given the number of threads relating to The Avengers when that came out it's not surprising.

[verslibre]

WaveHeater should be showing up anytime.

[Grab Them Cakes]

Not sure where they are getting this “20% - 25% of moviegoers are still hesitant to see the film”. I will guarantee it is much higher than that. The news coverage this incident received defiantly stopped more than 25% of the sheep from going opening weekend and likely a good chuck made the decision not to go at all.

I’ll go conservative and say the incident cost 35% of business thus far (it is likely more especially overseas with primer cancelations):

Current Domestic: $287,851,000
Current International: $248,200,000
Current Total: $536,051,000

35% to these totals:
Domestic: $388,598,850
International: $335,070,000
Total: $723,668,850

[Lord Bravery]

500 million in the first 10 days? What a turkey!

Anyway, i foresee Dredd making around 120 million worldwide. Hopefully. Which would be enough to get a sequel. Of course it has to be good though.

[verslibre]

Not sure where they are getting this “20% - 25% of moviegoers are still hesitant to see the film”. I will guarantee it is much higher than that. The news coverage this incident received defiantly stopped more than 25% of the sheep from going opening weekend and likely a good chuck made the decision not to go at all.

I’ll go conservative and say the incident cost 35% of business thus far (it is likely more especially overseas with primer cancelations):

Current Domestic: $287,851,000
Current International: $248,200,000
Current Total: $536,051,000

35% to these totals:
Domestic: $388,598,850
International: $335,070,000
Total: $723,668,850

That's about where I think the movie would be at had Aurora not happened. Maybe 5-10% less. But this movie will hit a billion worldwide, guaranteed.

Yeah, what a "turkey." LOL!

[Lord Bravery]

I don't think the massacre has taken 200 million off it. No where near that. Maybe 50 million. Why would it effect audiences outside of America?

[Kalen O.]

The thing is, there's no way to know what this movie 'should have made' any more than we can know what TDK would have made without Heath Ledger's death. And honestly, as much as the Aurora shootings probably detracted from box office sales, the hype surrounding Ledger's death added to them, so the 'real' totals for both movies are probably not that far off from each other.

But again, there's really no way to ever determine that for sure, so its all a moot point, really. All anyone can work with are the numbers they actually have.

[Legato]

The thing is, there's no way to know what this movie 'should have made' any more than we can know what TDK would have made without Heath Ledger's death. And honestly, as much as the Aurora shootings probably detracted from box office sales, the hype surrounding Ledger's death added to them, so the 'real' totals for both movies are probably not that far off from each other.

But again, there's really no way to ever determine that for sure, so its all a moot point, really. All anyone can work with are the numbers they actually have.

Same case would be made for Avengers really. Would that movie have made over a billion dollars, had it not been for the build up that the stand alone movies like Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America gave it?

[Alex]

I don't think the massacre has taken 200 million off it. No where near that. Maybe 50 million. Why would it effect audiences outside of America?

American's live in those other countries, and we love shooting up theatres.

[Kalen O.]

Same case would be made for Avengers really. Would that movie have made over a billion dollars, had it not been for the build up that the stand alone movies like Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America gave it?

Apples and oranges, Legato. You can't compare the effects of a carefully strategized franchise plan with the intrusion of real world events. The whole point of releasing the Marvel movies in the manner they did was to maximize exposure to the characters and overall profits. Whereas there was simply no way to plan for Ledger's death and the Aurora shootings, they were an outside stimulus out of anyone's control.

[Grab Them Cakes]

I don't think the massacre has taken 200 million off it. No where near that. Maybe 50 million. Why would it effect audiences outside of America?

This article states 20% - 25% of moviegoers are hesitant to go to the film. As I stated in my previous response I think it is much more but even if you go by the 20% - 25% numbers you're looking at:

20% sales - the movie would be at $643,261,200 (losing $107,210,200 in ticket sales to date)
25% sales - the movie would be at $670,063,750 (losing $134,012,750 in ticket sales to date)

These sheep’s obedience to their sensationalized news cannot be taken lightly.