The Batman | March 4, 2022 | Warner Bros. | Certified Fresh on RT | 7th Most Profitable Movie of 2023

[cax16]

 

[Gavin Feng]

March opening record as long as reviews are positive.

[belblazer]

 

And purple for the third movie >>>

[thesmoothknight]

 

[excel1]

22 minutes ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

200m is still hard. Only 8 films have done it. 5 are MCU/Avengers adjacent. Two are Star Wars. Jurassic World is the outlier but that was a nostalgic smash.

 

BVS is still the highest opening Batman movie and that had hook of a Superman team-up. Ironically, the 17th, 18th and 19th biggest openings are Batman. BVS (166), Dark Knight Rises (160.8m), Dark Knight (158.4m). Of course TDKR has impacted by the tragedy but safe to say, it likely wasn't coming near 200m.

 

160-170ish seems right? (Iron Man 3 did 174m and Civil War did 179m). 

 

Context matters greatly. 

 

1989 - Batman: opening weekend record

1992 - Batman Returns: opening weekend record

1995 - Batman Forever: opening weekend record

1997 - Batman & Robin: top 10 all-time opening

2005 - Batman Begins: meh opening weekend

2008 - The Dark Knight: opening weekend record

2012: The Dark Knight Rises: would have - easily - set the opening weekend admissions record sans massacre. Could not keep up with Avengers 3D.

 

It boggles my mind how people STILL discount the impact of 3D and price inflation with opening weekend evaluation. Hollywood Reporter in 2012 noted Avengers 2012 opening w/o 3D surcharge was $170m flat. TDKR easily would have beaten that.

 

So lets be real - with solo Batman, we are talking cinematic royalty. It is a totally different level than a 9 year old Iron Man movie.

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

7 minutes ago, excel1 said:

 

Context matters greatly. 

 

1989 - Batman: opening weekend record

1992 - Batman Returns: opening weekend record

1995 - Batman Forever: opening weekend record

1997 - Batman & Robin: top 10 all-time opening

2005 - Batman Begins: meh opening weekend

2008 - The Dark Knight: opening weekend record

2012: The Dark Knight Rises: would have - easily - set the opening weekend admissions record sans massacre. Could not keep up with Avengers 3D.

 

It boggles my mind how people STILL discount the impact of 3D and price inflation with opening weekend evaluation. Hollywood Reporter in 2012 noted Avengers 2012 opening w/o 3D surcharge was $170m flat. TDKR easily would have beaten that.

 

So lets be real - with solo Batman, we are talking cinematic royalty. It is a totally different level than a 9 year old Iron Man movie.

This doesn't have major 3D subcharge and inflation would boost BVS to what? 10m more? Still under 180m

[belblazer]

11 minutes ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

This doesn't have major 3D subcharge and inflation would boost BVS to what? 10m more? Still under 180m

$193M (+$27M).

[BestPicturePlutoNash]

17 minutes ago, belblazer said:

$193M (+$27M).

So still under 200

 

Do you have numbers for this? The Numbers has it 178 for 3day 

[XXR vs XXR]

1 hour ago, Gavin Feng said:

March opening record as long as reviews are positive.

 

If this was a club, I'd be out. BATB has the March record just under $175M. The Batman will do really well but I'm calling it now that it's not opening over TDK or TDKR. 

[excel1]

1 hour ago, BestPicturePlutoNash said:

This doesn't have major 3D subcharge and inflation would boost BVS to what? 10m more? Still under 180m

 

TDK and TDKR also did have modern sneaks, which start at 7 PM and add significant money to gross.

 

Good reviews and this does $225m or more no doubt. 

[grim22]

8 minutes ago, excel1 said:

 

TDK and TDKR also did have modern sneaks, which start at 7 PM and add significant money to gross.

 

Good reviews and this does $225m or more no doubt. 

TDK and TDKR didn't have sneaks which started at 7pm. TDKR had the entire trilogy at a few theaters which started at 7pm, but otherwise both were midnights only.

[JonahVex]

There's 0 chance it opens to $200 mil, $150m would be a magnificent achievement for the first movie

[JonahVex]

24 minutes ago, excel1 said:

 

TDK and TDKR also did have modern sneaks, which start at 7 PM and add significant money to gross.

 

Good reviews and this does $225m or more no doubt. 

Great reviews and it opens to 150m

[cax16]

100-130m and I’m good.

[Madhuvan]

I see it opening around 150m+ rn. Buzz is insane.

[excel1]

38 minutes ago, grim22 said:

TDK and TDKR didn't have sneaks which started at 7pm. TDKR had the entire trilogy at a few theaters which started at 7pm, but otherwise both were midnights only.

 

My post should have said didn't*. TDKRs $30.6m midnight gross was midnight only and without 3D. With 3D and 7 PM showings, would have been record 

[WittyUsername]

It would be great if this had one of the top 10 opening weekends. 

[XXR vs XXR]

3 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

It would be great if this had one of the top 10 opening weekends. 

 

Domestic only, that would be over $191.3M (AOU). If you go "single market" openings, it would be $201M (IW - China). 

 

Edited January 21, 2022 by RiddlerXXR

[35MM-18]

Put me down for $185 million OW.

[Grebacio]