{"id":1392124,"date":"2022-03-21T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392124"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:30:12","slug":"box-office-the-batman-1-for-third-straight-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/box-office-the-batman-1-for-third-straight-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: &#039;The Batman&#039; #1 for Third Straight Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbox-office-the-batman-1-for-third-straight-week%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">\u201cThe Batman\u201d is still going strong three weeks into its theatrical run, with a tight grip on the top spot at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Pattinson\u2019s debut as the Dark Knight earned an additional $36.8 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. It also slid past the $300 million mark ahead of projections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Warner Bros. film is the highest grossing movie of 2022 and the second highest since the beginning of the pandemic (first place goes to \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Batman,\u201d directed by Matt Reeves, also picked up $49.1 million internationally this weekend, bringing its global total to $598.1 million. The only place \u201cThe Batman\u201d seems to be stumbling is in China where it earned $12.1 million in its first weekend. But about 43% of cinemas in China are closed due to the pandemic and \u201cThe Batman\u201d still did slightly better than \u201cUnchartered\u201d which also opened there this weekend to $10.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Batman\u201d cost an estimated $200 million to make, not counting the many millions spent on marketing. But it is already a win for Warner Bros., which took at hit at the box office in 2021 because all of its films were released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>It also helps that marketplace competition has been slim. The biggest competitor this weekend was the anime \u201cJujutsu Kaisen 0,\u201d which was released by Crunchyroll and Funimation, and took in an estimated $17.7 million in its first weekend in North America, where it was playing on 2,748 screens. The Japanese film is based on a best-selling manga and available to watch dubbed or with subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFans made this movie a big hit this weekend,\u201d said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. \u201cIt shows how passionate fans of anime are and how beautiful these films are when presented on the big screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The horror film \u201cX\u201d also debuted this weekend on 2,865 screens and is projected to gross around $4.4 million. Directed by Ti West and distributed by A24, \u201cX\u201d is about a group of people who are terrorized while shooting a pornographic film.<\/p>\n<p>Focus Features launched the crime drama \u201cThe Outfit,\u201d starring Mark Rylance in 1,324 locations. It made an estimated $1.5 million. And outside of the top 10, Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions had \u201cAlice,\u201d the Sundance breakout about an enslaved woman who gets transported to 1973, which made $176,120 from 170 locations.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Batman\u201d is still going strong three weeks into its theatrical run, with a tight grip on the top spot at the box office. 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