It’s only fitting one of the biggest movies of the year should warrant a jam-packed Blu-Ray and DVD release. The Dark Knight Rises, the final chapter in Christopher Nolan’s epic, genre-defining Batman trilogy, will be released on home video December 4th. Something tells me a lot of excited fanboys and fangirls will be asking Santa [...]
‘Dark Knight Rises’ Blu-Ray, DVD Releases in Time for Holiday Gifting
September 30, 2012 | Posted by
‘Bourne Legacy’ Overtakes ‘Dark Knight Rises’, But Takes In Less Than Original Projections
August 11, 2012 | Posted by
Universal’s domestic weekend estimate for #1 The Bourne Legacy keeps dropping, from $48M midday Friday to $44M last night to now $41M this morning. And Friday’s figure has fallen from $15M to $14M. Which is cause for concern. Especially for a reboot that cost $125+M, is opening much lower than the last two original Bourne movies with Matt [...]
‘Total Recall’ Trounced By ‘Dark Knight Rises’
August 4, 2012 | Posted by
Based on Friday trends, it looks like Sony Pictures’ reboot of 1990′s iconic Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner Total Recall now starring anything-but-iconic Colin Farrell won’t give Warner Bros’ and Legendary Pictures’ third-weekend-veteran The Dark Knight Rises the tight race Hollywood expected. (Nice to hear from my opinionated gurus again…) But theatrical grosses are still not returning to normal. Instead of the Aurora shooting tragedy spooking box office, the red-hot London [...]
‘Dark Knight Rises’ Continues to Rise in Box-Office with Strong Second Weekend
July 30, 2012 | Posted by
Overseas, the second weekend of Warner Bros‘ and Legendary Pictures’ The Dark Knight Rises generated an estimated $122.1M on nearly 17,000 screens in 57 markets. The international cume to date is now a hefty $248.2M. In North America, its second weekend grossed $64.0M (a -60% drop) and its 10-day total is now $289.0M. (IMAX generated $9M this weekend [...]
Christian Bale in His Most Heroic Role: Visiting Shooting Victims
July 26, 2012 | Posted by
He didn’t need tight-fitting costumes padded with muscle to play this one, but it was his most heroic role ever. Christian Bale, star of the Batman movies, spent hours in an Aurora, Colo., hospital today visiting victims wounded in the massacre at the movie theater showing his latest caped crusader epic, The Dark Knight Rises. [...]
Analyst: ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Ticket Sales Below Projections (Duh!)
July 23, 2012 | Posted by
Ticket sales for Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight Rises came in below projections made before a shooting at a premiere of the movie killed 12 people in Aurora, Colorado, according to an analyst. The movie earned in the range of $155 million to $165 million, estimates Jeff Bock, an analyst for Exhibitor Relations Co. Before [...]
Despite Tragic Start in Colorado, ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Still Has Good Weekend
July 21, 2012 | Posted by
Dark Knight Rises – It may seem callous to post about North American and worldwide box office this weekend after the Colorado movie theater tragedy. And of course our hearts go out to those killed and wounded. (I stayed up all Friday post-midnight/pre-dawn reporting on the shooting as the horrendous event unfolded.) But this is [...]
‘Gangster Squad’ Trailer Pulled Because of Similarity to Batman Shooting
July 21, 2012 | Posted by
After the shooting tragedy in Aurora during the opening night of Dark Knight Rises, Warner Bros. is considering removing scenes from an upcoming film Gangster Squad because a climactic scene in the movie features gunmen shooting up a movie theater from behind the screen. It is the second time this year that a big Hollywood [...]
Batman Director Christopher Nolan: Shooting Is ‘Devastating to Me’
July 21, 2012 | Posted by
The shooting at The Dark Knight Rises early this morning in Colorado was obviously a nightmare for a lot of people, but it had to have been particularly numbing for Christopher Nolan, the director of the film. Christopher Nolan, who grew up in both London and Chicago, has been the director of the entire—and enormously [...]
Batman Shooter James Holmes Told Police He Was ‘The Joker’
July 20, 2012 | Posted by
James Holmes, the 24-year-old former Ph.D. student who shot 71 people in a Colorado movie theater during The Dark Knight Rises, told police that he was The Joker from the Batman movies. “It clearly looks like a deranged individual. He had his hair painted red, he said he was ‘The Joker,’ obviously the enemy of [...]
