Lagatar24 Desk
Los Angeles, March 7: Warner Bros.’ gloomy new film “The Batman” has rocketed to the top in North American theatres, becoming the year’s first film to surpass $100 million in its opening weekend.
According to Exhibitor Relations, the latest in a growing series of Batman pictures, this one an especially bleak rendition featuring English actor Robert Pattinson and grossed an estimated $128.5 million from Friday to Sunday. The film was believed to have cost $200 million to make.
Notably, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ from Sony is the only other pandemic-era film to gross more than $100 million in its first weekend. When it first debuted in December, it raked in $260 million in ticket sales.
Apart from this, ‘Uncharted’, a Sony adventure picture starring Tom Holland as an Indiana Jones-style treasure seeker, fell from first to second place, grossing $11 million even as its domestic total surpassed $100 million.
‘Dog’, a buddy comedy from Metro Goldwyn Mayer, came in third with $6 million. ‘Spider-Man’ remained in fourth place, earning $4.4 million in domestic ticket sales in its 12th week. Its foreign profits have now surpassed $1 billion.
While, ‘Death On The Nile’ a murder mystery from the twentieth century, came in fifth, down one spot from the previous week.
