Opening Weekend: 160 mil

Total Domestic: 350 mil

I'm probably gonna be proven ridiculously wrong and misguided, but I'm calling it. This will beat Spider-Man 3 and open at $154.7 million. Total domestic? I'll go with $335 million.

K

160 million domestic.

EDIT: That total was meant to reflect opening weekend.

Opening Weekend: 167.3 mil

Total Domestic: 391 mil

IMAX: 92 mil


i will adjust numbers one more time prior to tdk release

$158 million opening weekend.

$408 million total domestic.

Friday: $64 mil
Saturday: $52 mil
Sunday: $41 mil
Opening Weekendl: $157 mil

Total Domestic: $346 mil

My guess (domestic):

Opening weekend: $97m
Total: $284m

The opening weekend might be higher, but without a midweek opening, and the somewhat crowded field (not much opening the same weekend, but many "competing" films still in wide release), I will be surprised to see it that much higher.

People certainly have some high expectations for this film. Will you all deem it a "disapointment" if it 'only' makes something like $225-250 million (which would be great)?

Don't forget, though, that there are basically an entire day's worth of sold-out showings at many theater starting at midnight on Thursday and rocking straight through the night into Friday. However, these gains will probably be offset by the 2.5 hour runtime causing fewer showings overall.

With the buzz for this, though, the movie is going to do well. It will certainly earn enough to be considered a success AND it's critical buzz is off the charts. It will warrent a sequel and it will (from the sound of it) give us THE DEFINITIVE Batman film.

Anything on top of that is gravy.


-Doc

Well, Im gonna say:
3-Day Opening Weekend: $156 million
Overall Domestic: $437 million
international Box Office: $363 million

TOTAL= $800 million

Opening weekend: $85 Million
Full domestic run: $175

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opening: $115-$125, would love to see $150
total dom: $350-$375, would love to see over $400

i think the very dark storyline will prevent many parents who took kids to the Spideys from this one (at least on opening).

Imax 3 am shows have been selling out... yeah, this is going to smash the spider.

Opening Weekend: $83 million
Total Domestic: $230 million

I don't doubt this is going to be a GREAT movie...what I doubt is that a large portion of the mainstream will go to see it again, since it's more of an epic drama than "summer popcorn flick'. A lot of people are going to be turned off by it.

Keep in mind, folks that if THE DARK KNIGHT rakes in close to $100 million on opening weekend, that will be TWICE what BATMAN BEGINS did on its opening weekend.

Opening $130 million weekend.
Total Domestic - $340 million

My (soon to be way far) prediction:

Opening Weekend Gross: $120 million

Total Domestic Gross: $260 million

Using the Pirates films as a barometer to gauge the success of TDK, since DMC was huge thanks to pent-up demand for a further tale:

Opening weekend: $162m
Domestic: $377m (I think it could have a shot at breaking $400. PotC: DMC did and that was a long film too)
Overseas: $390m

Overall: $767m

Opening 130mil
Total Domestic 330mil

Hey, I'm all over this. But didn't the last one make just 200M plus some change? Is it really possible this can make 100 plus million more? I was actually surprised "Begins" did as little business as it did. I just wrote it off as too dark for most (??) And this looks ten times darker. Goody So I just don't know anymore.

Well, I think anticipation for this is above the level of Batman Begins.
It's not crazy to think this could do $100 million more than Batman Begins or possibly twice what BB did.
Other sequels that did quite a bit more than the original/predecessor:
Austin Powers 2
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Rambo 2
T2
Matrix 2

I think Spider-man 3 will still have the opening weekend record after TDK debuts. The big difference between these 2 films is Spidey 3 kicked off the Summer season with 0 competition. TDK will still be dealing with several Summer movies playing in their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weekends. The following week, Step Brothers and The X-Files both open. The week after that, The Mummy 3 opens. All of those films could do very well on opening weekend.


Spider-man 3 opening weekend numbers:

It earned $151 million, the rest of the top 10 combined for about $27.5 million.

Spider-man 3's first 3 day earnings:

Friday: $59.8 million
Saturday: $51.3 million
Sunday: $39.8 million

The numbers above are also the highest single day totals ever for those specific days.

I think TDK will beat the original Spider-man's opening and come in with $115 million. It'll end up at or very close to $300 million. Indy 4 wins the Summer box office competition.

On a side note, Tim Burton's Batman earned $251 million in the US during its run. Adjusted for inflation, it comes to $433 million, which puts it at #47 all-time.

I think anyone who's predicting $400m+ domestically is out of their mind, though I'd love to be proven wrong.

I will go with $120m opening weekend. I am going to say 415m domestic.

While this is a darker film and it has a long runtime, it is still a PG-13 rated batman movie so it can't be THAT dark and long runtimes have not stopped movies in the past.

Really?


I'll go with 270 domestic.

Don't be fooled by the rating (which means nothing nowadays in terms of violence)...TDK is an extremely dark film. Heath Ledger can make himself scarier than Jason Voorhees just with his voice and laughter.