Batman Box Office Collection Day 3: Robert Pattinson’s film lands at $128.5 million in first weekend

Robert Pattinson’s “The Batman” grossed a whopping $128.5 million at the box office in North America, making it only the second pandemic-era film to cross the $100 million mark in a single weekend. The feat was first achieved by ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, which made a historic $260 million debut last December. The film, based on the DC Comics character Batman, is the biggest opener of 2022 and the highest-grossing film in North America after just one weekend in theaters. It marks the second biggest opening of the COVID-19 pandemic era, after only another superhero film “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.

Pattinson’s moody take on the Caped Crusader is shaping up to be a commercial winner for Warner Bros., which spent $200 million to produce the film and several million more in marketing and distribution costs. “Bringing ‘The Batman’ to the big screen isn’t cheap, and achieving profitability won’t be easy,” notes Variety.

“The Batman” might also have benefited because the comic book adaptation is playing exclusively in theaters. For Warner Bros., which opted to start its entire 2021 theatrical film slate simultaneously on HBO Max, “The Batman” marks a divergence as the studio’s first film in more than a year that only Available to watch in cinemas.

The film may also have been helped by the fact that it garnered a PG-13 rating. R instead, and was therefore able to capture a key demographic of young men, fueling the poor recovery of the North American box office.

Directed by Matt Reeves, the film, with a budget of $200 million, stars British actor Robert Pattinson in the dual role of Gotham City’s vigilante detective and his alter ego, alongside reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne, Zoe Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright. John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard and Jaime Lawson.