Click Here To Promote Anything On The Above PlaceLos Angeles, March 4 - Warner Bros. highly-anticipated DC superhero movie, "The Batman", starring Robert Pattinson, has begun its domestic as well as overseas box office journey, as expected, on a high note.
The Matt Reeves-directed scored a super $21.6 million in the domestic (North America) previews that include Thursday night shows, and limited Tuesday and Wednesday Imax previews. The opening of "The Batman" becomes the second biggest for a Hollywood film during the covid-19 pandemic after "Spider-Man: No Way Home's" $50 million Thursday previews.
"The Batman" also takes the second biggest preview opening for a solo Batman movie of all time. It is only behind "The Dark Knight Rises" ($30.6M) and beats "The Dark Knight" ($18.5M). As compared to the DC movies, "The Batman" is the 3rd biggest after "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Batman v Superman" ($27.7M).
Ranked as the darkest Batman movie of all time, "The Batman" is expected to score over $100 million in the opening weekend, which will make it only the second pic. during the pandemic to open with the said total, and first for Warner Bros. since "It" which earned $123 million over its Fri-Sun debut in September 2017.
The $200 million event movie centers on Bruce Wayne's (Pattinson) earlier days of fighting crime and is a rogues' gallery of Batman characters. Paul Dano plays the Riddler, a serial killer pursued by Batman, while Zoë Kravitz plays Catwoman and Colin Farrell appears as the Penguin.
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