Weekend Box-Office: 'The Dark Knight Rises' Pulls in $160.8 Million, Third Best Opening Ever

There’s no easy way to go into an article focusing on movie ticket sales considering the events that took place this weekend accompanied by this morning’s first look at 24-year-old James E. Holmes, his hair dyed orange and a dazed look on his face, as he made his first court appearance.

Warner Bros. held off reporting box-office estimates in light of the tragic events that befell the midnight release of The Dark Knight Rises this weekend and as a result this is one of those rare occurrences where I’ll be reporting actual box-office numbers instead of estimates.

Laremy predicted the #1 movie correctly 6 Weeks In A Row

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The Dark Knight Rises is now holds the record for the the third all-time highest opening weekend ever. At $160.8 million it’s the highest opening for a 2-D exclusive release, opening in 4,404 theaters and pulling in $36,532 per.

The daily figures had the film opening at $75.7 million on Friday, $44.9 million on Saturday and $40.2 million on Sunday.

Internationally the film pulled in an estimated $88 million for a total of $248.8 million opening. The budget is said to be somewhere around $250 million and with the wealth of “Here are the Things I Didn’t Like About The Dark Knight Rises” articles popping up today, I’m not sure what kind of legs the pic will have.

Laremy went high with his prediction, coming in at $194 million and several commenters on Thursday gambled and predicted it would break the $207.4 million record set by The Avengers. Among those reader predictions, Steve J came closest with his $160 million prediction.

Weekend: $160.8 million

RottenTomatoes Score: 86%

Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #1 and his prediction of $194 million was $33.2m off for a percentage error of 20.65%.

2. Ice Age: Continental Drift

Ice Age is just crushing it around the world even if it isn’t blowing the doors off here at home. The pic has pulled in a total of $529 worldwide on a budget rumored to be below $100 million.

Weekend: $20.4 million (-56.2% drop) / Cume: $88.8 million / RottenTomatoes: 39%

Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #2 with $29.8 million, which is $9.4m off for a 46.08% error.

3. The Amazing Spider-Man

Well, now that is a mighty drop for Spidey as The Dark Knight Rises clearly stole the superhero thunder this weekend.

Weekend: $10.8 million (-68.4% drop) / Cume: $228.6 million / RottenTomatoes: 74%

Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #3 with $20.8 million, which is $10m off for a 92.59% error.

4. Ted

Hanging on strong, made for a measly $50 million Seth Macfarlane has certainly delivered comedy the people are enjoying.

Weekend: $10 million (-55.4% drop) / Cume: $180.4 million / RottenTomatoes: 68%

Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #4 with $16.8 million, which is $6.8m off for a 68% error.

5. Brave

Brave just passed Ratatouille to become the ninth highest grossing Pixar film of all-time.

Weekend: $6 million (-45.9% drop) / Cume: $208.7 million / RottenTomatoes: 77%

Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #6 with $5.4 million, which is $0.6m off for a 10% error.

6. Magic Mike

Let’s see, a budget of $7 million and it has made $101.9 million without a single penny from the international box-office yet. That’s good… right?

Weekend: $4.2 million (-53% drop) / Cume: $101.9 million / RottenTomatoes: 79%

Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #7 with $4.6 million, which is $0.4m off for a 9.52% error.

7. Savages

Eh, I wasn’t a fan and it would appear this one is going to fade away quietly into the night.

Weekend: $3.3 million (-64.5% drop) / Cume: $40 million / RottenTomatoes: 54%

Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #5 with $5.8 million, which is $2.5m off for a 75.76% error.

8. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection

Tyler Perry continues to print money.

Weekend: $2.2 million (-60% drop) / Cume: $60.2 million / RottenTomatoes: 21%

Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #9 with $2.8 million, which is $0.6m off for a 27.27% error.

9. Moonrise Kingdom

Holding on nicely as this one is still only in 895 theaters.

Weekend: $1.8 million (-51.4% drop) / Cume: $36.0 million / RottenTomatoes: 94%

Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #8 with $4.2 million, which is $2.4m off for a 133.33% error.

10. To Rome with Love

Another limited release, Woody Allen’s latest actually lost 192 theaters and still made the top ten from the 552 it’s still playing in.

Weekend: $1.4 million / Cume: $11.1 million / RottenTomatoes: 45%

Laremy’s rank: Not Ranked

This weekend we have the release of Step Up Revolution and Fox’s comedy The Watch. Anyone care to wager some early predictions?

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Weekend Box-Office: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Pulls in $160.8 Million, Third Best Opening Ever

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