Here is the Oz BO chart:

Most Popular Films For Period Weekend, July 19 - 22, 2012
WIR = Weeks In Release
No WIR Title $ %
Total $
1 1 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (M), WARNER BROS [628/ $24,048] 15,102,045 N/A
15,102,045
2 3 TED (MA15+), UNIVERSAL [360/ $7,875] 2,834,923 -58%
28,655,023
3 4 ICE AGE 4: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG), FOX [362/ $3,220] 1,165,478 -71%
25,515,175
4 3 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (M), SONY PICTURES [451/ $2,064] 930,772 -75%
15,749,724
5 5 BRAVE (PG), WALT DISNEY [215/ $2,744] 590,011 -70%
15,606,693
6 5 SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (M), UNIVERSAL [215/ $2,455] 527,774 -63%
19,042,828
7 2 HYSTERIA (M), EONE /HOPSCOTCH [79/ $3,092] 244,236 -24%
781,808
8 3 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG), PARAMOUNT [180/ $1,009] 181,553 -71%
2,797,503
9 5 THE THREE STOOGES (PG), FOX [135/ $972] 131,236 -78%
3,417,594
10 5 A ROYAL AFFAIR (M), MADMAN [37/ $2,718] 100,583 -25%
1,077,743
11 2 NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN (MA15+), ICON [42/ $2,042] 85,779 -42%
344,635
12 1 THE DOOR (M), RIALTO [23/ $3,000] 69,008 N/A
69,008
13 2 COCKTAIL (M), EROS AUSTRALIA [16/ $3,351] 53,608 -70%
299,045
14 13 THE WAY (PG), UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT [25/ $1,489] 37,222 3%
2,015,571
15 6 MARGARET (MA15+), FOX [8/ $4,134] 33,069 -29%
224,229
16 7 PROMETHEUS (M), FOX [27/ $1,219] 32,903 -80%
18,036,998
17 4 WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (M), EONE /HOPSCOTCH [23/ $1,377] 31,667 -38%
355,902
18 1 BOLSHOI BALLET: RAYMONDA (EX), SHARMILL [19/ $1,272] 24,163 N/A
24,163
19 6 TAKE THIS WALTZ (MA15+), EONE /HOPSCOTCH [20/ $1,100] 21,995 -39%
609,653
20 3 I AM ELEVEN (G), PROUD MOTHER PICTURES [7/ $2,875] 20,128 -17%
85,072

As you can see - the drops for the other films are HUGE!! Doesnt make the US drops seem bad at all.

Idk. I'd imagine though there might be some paranoia it shouldn't be anywhere close to the level it is in the US because a) the incident happened here so there is some sense of removal, and b) most foreign countries (or at least Europe, I think) see America as gun-happy nation where the likelihood of this happening here is just significantly magnified by the comparative laxity of our gun control laws leading many to the "that wouldn't happen here" conclusion.

On the flipside it obviously is an international story, with foreign premieres being cancelled and all, but that just serves to heighten awareness of the film itself without having to deal with the dampening effect of pervasive paranoia on the same level.

I know that the premiere in Paris was supposed to be Friday, and it was cancelled.

I think that is GREAT number from 17 markets. I don't see it being effected to degree of it being noticeable in OS markets where the markets have grown huge already.

I see a $650m+ total with this, the movie have a lot of action will sell easily in a lot of foreign markets. The problem being the WOM as everyone knows TDK in OS as well thanks to Joker's amazing performance. There are few of my friends who saw TDK only after hearing about Joker and they are not interested going to this one. Again this is a minuscule data so it hardly matters but if this becomes similar there could be a problem with its legs.

Yesterday at the midnight showing there were security guards at the entrance to the screen who checked all your bags and pockets and 3 security guards stayed inside for the whole showing.

$122.1m/$248.2m

Is it just me or the overseas gross is growing pretty slowly? It's still just at $248M after 10 days? HP8 made that in less than 3 days.

This has a staggered release whereas DH2 did not. Batman is also nowhere near as popular as Potter overseas and it also doesn't have 3D boosting its gross. Terrible comparison all the way around.

So has it finally opened in all/most of its markets now?

Vast majority, although it has a huge one remaining: China. Hopefully it does get released there. They've been flip-flopping back and forth about whether it would be released. Most recent news is that they were working on the dubbed version of it, so hopefully that is a sign that the release will happen.

its opening in italy in late august which is a good release date considering the market is dead in the summer. That should add 15M minimum.

I think OS BO was affected by Olympics and so we can expect great legs in most markets. I think with summer weekdays its making 575M+ from existing markets. China/Italy should take it close to 700M. Not bad at all for a Batman film.

That is a good number but not as impressive as last weekend's numbers. I do think good legs will follow for $500m OS total from holdovers but I don't see $700m OS total as of now. It has only few key markets left to open, so $600m OS looks like a good scenario at this point. Unless China explodes and adds another $100m to its OS total.

Really damn good for a Batman movie. Who would have thought these numbers would be realistic just 7 years after BB made $166m? These numbers are even more impressive when you consider it isn't cheating with 3D like so many other overseas juggernauts.



According to some posters at BO.com who are in China, the hype for it is massive over there. One of them said it could make $100m like M:I4 did. That would be incredible if it happens.

Yeah that is a possibility but not guaranteed. Plus China is not as consistent with legs as Japan so even with a big opening it is not guaranteed to reach $100m there at this point given the hype movie got over at KJ I can see another US type Internet hype expecting huge numbers.

haha yeah. I'd be happy with $50m. Anything is better than the big fat $0 that TDK got from China.

UK - Second Weekend

£7,275,558 (-49.3%)

Total to date - £30,551,765

Comparisons

Avengers - £8,121,916 (£29,851,680)
TDK - £6,737,306 (£25,374,829)

The Friday box office would have been affected by the Olympic Opening Ceremony. The TV broadcast had the highest ratings in 14 years with nearly half the population watching at one point.

A bigger than expected drop this weekend but Olympics might have had some effect this weekend still a great number in UK.

Thats a great number for the UK.

the film is underwhelming overseas as well. Lower than expected opening weekends in most countries and steep drops in most holdovers. Not good at all

It is not "underwhelming" overseas. It could have done better considering how well TDK was received, it still has GREAT openings at almost all the places. I am more concerned about the holds and considering its weekend was impacted by Olympics it might see better holds.

I sort of agree.

The first weekend was massive but the 2nd weekend is underwhelming...

The film has nearly doubled what the previous film did overseas at the same point in its run, so I fail to see how this one is going to fail to pass 468M.

Should pass 2 million admissions by the end of its second weekend in Germany.

New number:

$378,400,000

it feels like it should be doing better