Its OW minus midnights will be able to match DMC legs. So that gives it about 450m as Jack alluded too.

Its OW minus midnights will be able to match DMC legs. So that gives it about 450m as Jack alluded too.

Why should we drop the midnight admissions, though? I'm sure many people saw Pirates at midnight, too.

It was before the midnight explosion,

All right, if you say so.

Too complex for me, I s'pose. Dead Man's Chest opened to 164 million adjusted and finished with 511 million, and I was hoping The Dark Knight Rises could have a similar run after its 160 million dollar start. But I s'pose it's doomed to a less impressive run, is what everyone is saying.

I will take TDKR's BO downtime for this week at the most but if we just keep on saying that the legs were also impacted by the shooting (specially after this week) then I disagree. It did loose a lot of potential about $20m-$30m OW which would translate to $60m-$70m total and that is a HUGE amount, but if doesn't cross $500m then there is a big disappointment tragedy or not.

As long as the media continues obsessing over it, then it's a valid issue. Yesterday had a crazy amount of media coverage. Might as well have been the day of the shooting with how much they were talking about it. My immediate reaction on Friday morning was that this could end up sub-$350m. I'd be happy with $400m, especially since it seems to be kicking TDK's ass in foreign markets. Could end up making more money worldwide than TDK even with "only" $400m domestic.

Maine police: Batman ‘copycat’ suspect planned to shoot employer

The suspect in an unusual traffic stop Sunday night in Maine seems to have been influenced by last weekend’s horrific shootings in Colorado, in the fourth arrest connected to showings of “The Dark Knight Rises,” the movie at which the shootings took place.

That same evening, authorities in Los Angeles arrested a 52-year-old man attending the film after he shouted “Does anyone have a gun?” and “I should go off like in Colorado,” while customers evacuated a movie complex in Pennsylvania after someone yelled “Bomb!” following fights in a bathroom and a VIP seating section. And a 26-year-old homeless man was arrested for disrupting a showing in Sierra Visa, Ariz.

As WCSH-TV reported Tuesday, Timothy Courtois was pulled over Sunday night for driving at 112 miles an hour on the Maine Turnpike, in a black Ford Mustang he allegedly bought after watching the film and planned to modify so that it could outrun authorities.

Courtois told state police he was driving to Derry, N.H., to shoot a former employer. Police found four handguns, several boxes of ammunition, and an AK-47 assault rifle inside the car, an arsenal allegedly similar to the one Aurora shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes had at the time of the massacre last Friday that left 12 people dead and 58 others wounded.

The Portland Press Herald reported that a subsequent search of his apartment produced more boxes of ammunition and more weapons, including a fully automatic machine gun, with a scope and tripod. Save for the machine gun, all the other guns in the home were obtained legally.

Courtois also said he had attended the film with a loaded gun in his backpack. A spokesperson for the theater told WCSH they could not confirm that allegation, and that it generally does not allow people to enter with backpacks.

All of this must be part of Disney's plan to ensure TDKR doesn't beat Avengers.

OMG I'm so cruel and insane to think that!!!!11

For those who think the film isn't getting blamed by the media and public, here is a lawsuit against WB by someone who was in the theater and didn't get shot:

http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/24/james-hol ... -shooting/

Fact is that this was a nuclear bomb against the film. No one wanted to accept it, but that's the truth. Only saving grace is the film seems to have good WOM. Otherwise it would be headed for a sub-350 total.

All of this must be part of Disney's plan to ensure TDKR doesn't beat Avengers.

OMG I'm so cruel and insane to think that!!!!11