{"id":38349,"date":"2012-07-30T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=38349"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:01:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:01:06","slug":"boxoffice-jul-30-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-jul-30-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: ‘Dark Knight’ Still Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the tragic shooting in Colorado and inconsistent word-or-mouth, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ easily nabbed the #1 spot this weekend with $64 million. The ten-day totals for this trilogy-closer are north of $289 million domestically, which give the film a whopping $537.7 worldwide total. While this haul is large enough to deem the $250 million comic book movie a success, its 10-day total is down $24 million from that of its 2008 predecessor, ‘The Dark Knight<\/a>‘.
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‘The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong>‘ brought in a nice chunk of change this weekend, but it was just about the only movie that did. The #2 slot wasn’t filled by either of the new openers, but rather by the three-week-old family flick ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift<\/strong>‘, which added another $13.3 million to its total. Unfortunately, that’s not enough to make up for last weekend’s lost profits caused by the Colorado shooting. After 17 days, ‘Continental Drift’ has only earned $114.8 million.<\/p>\n

This weekend’s two wide openers finished in the third and fourth spots. ‘The Watch<\/strong>‘ earned $13 million and ‘Step Up: Revolution<\/strong>‘ earned $11.8 million. After Ben Stiller’s ensemble comedy ‘Tower Heist<\/a>‘ underperformed last fall, the actor’s days of being a big star may be over. You can surround him by as many famous co-stars as you’d like, but he’s still not going to give you a very big return.<\/p>\n

Even with the help of 3D ticket prices, ‘Step Up: Revolution’ failed to do much business. Disney once owned the franchise, but sold it off to Summit when ‘Step Up 3<\/a>‘ opened to a measly $15.8 million. Bad buy, Summit.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the Top 5 was Universal’s five-week-old ‘Ted<\/strong>‘. The crude, R-rated Seth MacFarlane comedy has now brought in $193.6 million. The execs at Fox who passed on the $50 million flick must be kicking themselves right now.<\/p>\n

On 13 screens, Fox Searchlight’s ‘Ruby Sparks<\/strong>‘ pulled a nice $152,000. Written and directed by team behind ‘Little Miss Sunshine<\/a>‘, the Paul Dano \/ Zoe Kazan comedy will expand across the U.S. over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

On just three screens, the grizzly NC-17 thriller ‘Killer Joe<\/strong>‘ brought in $37,900. With that restrictive rating, as curious as you may be, I wouldn’t expect ‘Joe’ to come around to your neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Finally, the 2012 Sundance musical documentary ‘Searching for Sugar Man<\/strong>‘ earned $28,500 on just three screens.<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h5>\n

1. ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ (Warner Bros.) – $64,075,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ (Fox) – $13,300,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘The Watch’ (Fox) – $13,000,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘Step Up Revolution’ (Summit) – $11,800,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘Ted’ (Universal) – $7,353,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ (Sony) – $6,800,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘Brave’ (Buena Vista) – $4,237,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘Magic Mike’ (Warner Bros.) – $2,580,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘Savages’ (Universal) – $1,753,000<\/p>\n

10. ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ – $1,387,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the tragic shooting in Colorado and inconsistent word-or-mouth, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ easily nabbed the #1 spot this weekend with $64 million. The ten-day totals for this trilogy-closer are north of $289 million domestically, which give the film a whopping $537.7 worldwide total. While this haul is large enough to deem the $250 million…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":38372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[707,178,343,5093,5423,5424,964,4828,5273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38349"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38666,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions\/38666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}