Will The Batman Make $1 Billion At The Box Office? Why It's Unlikely
The Batman is having an impressive box office run, but making $1 billion might be out of the question for the movie. Ten years after his last solo movie, The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is finally back for an adventure not part of any shared universe. After Ben Affleck tackled the hero in the crossover films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, director Matt Reeves brought the hero back to his origins in a film focused on Batman's detective side.
The Batman tells the story of the masked vigilante's second year in Gotham City. While it avoids famous tropes of an origin story, The Batman features an inexperienced Bruce Wayne who is still learning from his mistakes. Robert Pattinson played a younger, angrier version of Batman, and delivered a performance that could define the character for years to come.
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As a point-of-view-driven movie nearly three hours long and with no connection to a larger universe, many believed that The Batman would have a hard time at the box office. At a time when films are struggling to draw audiences back to movie theaters, the impression was created that only spectacle movies full of characters are capable of making solid numbers at the box office. After Spider-Man: No Way Home’s astonishing success even for the pre-pandemic era, this perception became even more common.
The Batman opened with $134M at the domestic box office. For comparison, The Dark Knight Rises and The Dark Knight opened with $160M and $155M respectively. Considering international earnings, Matt Reeve's Batman movie had an opening weekend (Friday to Sunday) of $258.2M. This was the second-best domestic opening for a film since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,
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