International Box Office: The Dark Knight Rises nears $850m worldwide

August 16, 2012 by | 3 Comments

rises selena bruce Image The Dark Knight Rises took home its 4th consecutive #1 spot around the world. In 2nd place Ted continued to play well while in 3rd we have a new entry from Hong Kong, The Silent War.

The Dark Knight Rises, now running in 58 territories, was down 47% with $35.1 million over the weekend. So far internationally the flick has grossed $446.6 million, just shy of the $468.6 million made by The Dark Knight back in 2008. While the film might have a hard time reaching the $600 million I was anticipating a few weeks ago, it should easily vault over its predecessor by a good $80 million or more internationally. Worldwide the superhero epic stands at $841.2 million which makes it the 2nd biggest hit of the year so far. Now I’ll be honest with you guys, a week ago I was ready to bet The Dark Knight Rises would have no trouble going over the $1 billion mark, now I’m not so sure.

Mark Wahlberg in Ted 2012 Movie Image The pot-smoking teddy bear called Ted landed in 2nd place with $19.9 million or about $2000 more than the flick in 3rd place (yes, that close). This one was down a more subtle 39% and has so far made $117.1 million internationally. The good news here is Ted only runs in about 25 territories currently, that means we should expect a lot more from Ted in the coming weeks. Worldwide it has $326.8 million, very good for any R-rated comedy.

An espionage thriller set in the 1950′s and adapted from a novel, at least according to IMDB, The Silent War comes in 3rd from Hong Kong with an impressive $19.9 million opening from just 3 territories.

Total Recall was up 67% from last week, mainly thanks to the 26 new markets showing the film. That means $18.9 million for an international total of $28.2 million. The original 1990 Total Recall generated $141.9 million internationally, a number that seems within reach for the remake, at least for now.

Rounding out the top 5 was Brave, down just 7% with $17.8 million from 40 territories. The still expanding animated flick has $148.3 million internationally and $376.1 million worldwide. Brave is last no more among past Pixar films (11th actually out of 13).

Oh but wait, there’s more, Ice Age: Continental Drift came in 6th after the worst drop in the top 10 (51%). Good or bad, the flick made $16.2 million from 62 markets for a glorious international total of $624.3 million (3nd best of all time for an animation). Worldwide we have $770 million meaning Ice Age: Continental Drift is the 3rd highest grossing film of the year so far.

In case you were wondering, worldwide this year The Avengers is 1st ($1.46 billion), The Amazing Spider-Man 4th ($691.3 million) while The Hunger Games is 5th ($684.5 million).

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  • Ron

    It had 446+ after Sunday internationally and as off this morning 396+ million in north america, I’m sure it will tack on another 10-12 million overseas this week and another 2 million in NA today/tonight (which puts it around (having it around 855+ million as of tonight) before the weekend where it will make around 15-18 million internationally and make about 10 million in North America (putting at around 883+ million total world wide by end of this weekend). It’s just now opening in the United Arab Emirates due to ramadan, where it’s one of the most anticipated movies of the year and that’s with a less anticipated movie like Amazing Spider Man making over 10+ million I believe already. Also still has China which it doesn’t open in till August 27th. Also Pakistan on Aug.20th, Greece on Aug.21st, Italy on Aug.29th, along with a few other countries it’s just opening in this week or will be in coming 2 week span. Think it top out around 430-450 million in NA and 600-620 million internationally, and finish around 1.03 to 1.07 billion total before they will stop tracking it.

    • Alex

      True but see, that’s the problem, I thought it would do 1.1 billion, instead it will just probably pass the mark with a few millions (10-20, maybe 30). Still a great gross, mind you.

  • Archie Khan

    I strongly believe it will pass the $600 million, because, it’s domestic end of weekly box office takings is small amount, though, it will still continue accrue the money to pass $533 million, which Dark Knight made. The sort of box office it makes a week, something around $30-35 millions and I’ve worked a permutation, after two months, the figure will change, it took a knock-back from the shooting, but, still continued to make money domestically. I believe it can beat Avengers domestic and taken that the Avengers has been around more than 16 weeks, Dark Knight Rises will do the same, so take each week’s domestic box office takings, based upon an average of $30+million a week for the next 3 months or more, it will still pass the Avengers domestic. The international markets is doing really well and I believe that it will make more than the domestic box office. As more countries will be soon showing Dark Knight Rises, the foreign box office takings will exponentially increase and it will pass $700+million, because, each country will keep it running for more than 4 months and the millions it makes, even small, it all adds up in the end of 5 months or less, when movies gradually begin to stop screening, so it will continue to make more abroad and could beat the Avengers $800 million. I put the final Worldwide Box Office total somewhere near $1.3+4 billion, it has plenty of time to make more money at the box office, it’s only been in cinema over 4 weeks and another 3 and half months more box office takings, the final figure will be more.