The Dark Knight Rises added $64 million to its domestic total and $122.1 million from 17,000 locations in 57 overseas markets, upping its international gross to $248.2 million. The worldwide gross after two weeks is $537 million for the Christopher Nolan movie.
There were worries after a lower-than-expected $18 million from the box office on Friday that the Colorado shootings and the start of the Olympics had put a damper on the movie’s reception. While The Dark Knight Rises was tracking off of initial projections, a positive $25 million Saturday (which was up overall for the movie industry) put it in a more positive position.
The weekend is still off roughly 25 percent from last year’s comparable frame, but the Saturday comeback was seen as a sign of endurance by some studio executives and suggests the Friday result may have had as much to do with the opening ceremony of the Olympics in London as moviegoers’ reluctance to return to the theaters. The latter is an important point, since research firm NRG polled movie goers late in the week which showed that between 20 percent and 25 percent of moviegoers said they were hesitant to return to theaters in the wake of the Colorado movie shootings in which 13 have died and 57 were injured.
Source: The Wrap
