![]() On paper and in a vacuum, that would suggest $128 million is as soft in 2022 as $116 million was for Man of Steel in 2013. The new Batman movie was initially slated at a more modest budget for a modern superhero movie with $100 million, but according to Variety, Reeves’ superhero movie actually cost $200 million. Rebuilding the BatĪll of this provides an interesting context for The Batman’s relative success. That is a key reason audiences are seeing a new and rebooted Batman starring Robert Pattinson inside of a decade since Christian Bale hung up the cape in July 2012. At the end of its run, BvS crossed “only” $873.6 million. And that industry poll was borne out by the fact that despite opening slightly higher than Rises, Batman v Superman failed to match the gross of either of Nolan’s last two Dark Knight pictures, never mind The Avengers. For context, the Halle Berry-starring Catwoman and 2011’s Green Lantern also received “B” grades from CinemaScore. Anything below a “B+” is considered bad for word of mouth. More lethal for the film, it received a “B” CinemaScore. Hence it going on to gross $1 billion.īatman v Superman, by contrast, was infamously slammed by most critics and currently sits at a dismal 29 percent positive score on Rotten Tomatoes. But, probably more importantly to a studio hoping to relaunch a billion-dollar franchise, it received a sterling “A” grade from the industry pollsters at CinemaScore, suggesting audiences largely liked the movie. Rises received 87 percent positive reviews, as aggregated by the website Rotten Tomatoes. Instead Batman v Superman managed to open slightly above Dark Knight Rises but earn little of that movie’s general goodwill, or good word of mouth. That number was considered “soft” for a modern superhero blockbuster starring an A-list character in the 2010s, so putting Ben Affleck’s Batman in the sequel was intended to jumpstart the “DC Extended Universe” with box office comparable to an Avengers movie, or at least Nolan’s rapturously received Dark Knight sequels. When BvS opened in 2016, it came out less than four years after Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises opened at $160 million and went on to gross more than $1 billion worldwide (the second Batman movie to do so after the even more popular The Dark Knight from 2008).Ĭonversely, Batman v Superman followed what was seen as an underperformance for a modern Superman movie in Man of Steel, the Zack Snyder-directed 2013 reboot that was meant to imitate The Dark Knight yet opened at $116.6 million. However, expectations, and the public perception of the health and popularity of a franchise, is everything-and The Batman appears to be surer footing in that regard than the largely rejected BvS. And the last film the character headlined in live-action was 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and that movie was viewed as a disappointment by the studio despite opening at a hefty $166 million. If one were to only count live-action movies in which the name “Batman” appears on-screen, The Batman is the lowest grossing Batman debut since 2005’s Batman Begins, which opened nearly 20 years ago at $48.8 million. How The Batman Box Office Compares to Previous Dark Knights In that way, the new release’s box office provides an interesting case study in the modern lifecycle of Hollywood franchises, particularly in an era where no cinematic saga ever really ends-it just gets rebooted and recast, sometimes twice within a single decade. All while The Batman did little beyond promising audiences more of what they’ve already seen, but darker. This also makes it WB’s biggest hit since Joker in October 2019. can crow about given that it is a decidedly more somber and intimate depiction of the character than audiences have previously seen, and one that comes attached to a potentially intimidating three-hour running time. That news marks The Batman as a notable success in its opening days, and one which Warner Bros. ![]() But while that total might indicate a disparity between the current popularity of the Bat and Spider, The Batman is nevertheless only the second movie to open north of $100 million since the COVID-19 pandemic first crippled cinemas back in March 2020, and it is also the biggest tentpole theater owners have seen in the first quarter of 2022. It feels important to remind fans of that fact given some seem agitated on social media that The Batmanfailed to do Spidey numbers. The opening is the largest any movie has seen at the box office since Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home in December, which debuted at $260.1 million. ![]() Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the ninth solo live-action Dark Knight film, stands poised to gross $128.5 million this weekend. It turns out Batman is both the hero movie theaters need and deserve in March 2022.
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