The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with the studios’ actual figures for the weekend. Click here for the full top 12 film’s box office results.
This was a bittersweet weekend for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final installment of his Batman films, returning Christian Bale to the Caped Crusader’s cowl, joined by Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Morgan Freeman. After the brutal shootings in Aurora, Colorado on Friday, what should have been a fun and exciting weekend of moviegoing turned into a somber and more subdued affair where all movies seemed to be affected.
Following Warner Bros.’ lead to be sensitive to the families of the victims, all the major studios decided to hold off on reporting box office estimates throughout the weekend, but today, the studio reports that Nolan’s latest brought in $160.9 million from 4,404 theaters. It’s the best opening ever for a 2D title, beating The Dark Knight‘s $158.4 million opening, and the third-biggest debut overall domestically, trailing just Marvel’s The Avengers ($207.4 million) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($169.2 million). $19 million of the total came from 332 IMAX theaters the movie is playing in. The Dark Knight Rises, which received a CinemaScore of A, took in $75.5 million on Friday, $44.9 million on Saturday and another $40.2 million on Sunday.
Internationally, The Dark Knight Rises earned $88 million from 17 markets for a worldwide total of $249 million after one weekend. IMAX screens contributed $4.8 million overseas.
Back to North America, second place went to last week’s #1 Ice Age: Continental Drift, which dropped 56.2% in ticket sales with $20.4 million. The animated sequel has earned $88.8 million after two weeks. Having already reached $440.9 million internationally, the film’s worldwide total is now at $529.3 million.
With the introduction of another comic-based action movie, Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man (Sony) took a big 68.6% plunge in its third weekend, taking third place with $10.9 million to push its domestic gross to $228.6 million. It also added another $29.8 million overseas to bring its international total to $386 million and its global total to $614 million.
Universal’s Ted dropped a spot to fourth with $10 million in its fourth weekend for a total of $180.4 million.
DisneyPixar’s Brave rounded out the top five, adding another $6 million its fifth weekend. The movie has earned a total of $208.8 million so far domestically.
Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike remained in sixth place with $4.3 million and has reached $101.96 million after four weeks.
In limited release, Lauren Greenfield’s riches-to-rags doc The Queen of Versailles (Magnolia) opened in three theaters in New York and Los Angeles, where it brought in just over $51 thousand, an average of $17 thousand per site.
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