How The Batman's Box Office Ranks Against Past Dark Knight Movies
Robert Pattinson's debut as the Caped Crusader in The Batman had a big $134 million opening weekend at the domestic box office, but how does that compare to the rest of the Batman movies or other comic book movies? While Gotham's Dark Knight is one of the most popular cinematic characters in history, the movies featuring him don't actually have the strongest box office track record.
Ths big screen plan for DC Comics characters has been unclear ever since Warner Bros. abandoned Zack Snyder's original DCEU plan, and now with multiple changes in direction, the release of the Snyder Cut, stand-alone movies like Joker, and now another new continuity with The Batman, the DC multiverse is clearly growing, even if it's still not clear which direction it's growing in. Regardless, with Robert Pattinson's first appearance as Batman and both Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck reviving their interpretations of the character in The Flash movie later this year, it's a big year for cinematic Batman.
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It may only be the first weekend at the box office, so even with a strong $134 million domestic turnout, the movie's full box office performance isn't clear yet, it's the best opening weekend numbers seen by a DC movie since 2016. Just how does that compare to other similar movies and how successful will it be?
The Batman's $134 million box office opening is the biggest first-weekend haul in 2021 and the second-highest opening since the start of the pandemic, behind Spider-Man: No Way Home, which opened to a much higher $260 million and went on to become one of the top-grossing movies of all time. The Batman's total box office gross will ultimately depend on how much momentum it
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