Despite movie-goers fearing going to the cinemas as the fallout of the tragic Aurora shooting and the Olympic coverage this past weekend keeping people at home, The Dark Knight Rises is silently setting a couple of records. Yesterday it became the third fastest movie to cross $300 million at the domestic Box Office. I believe it has a shot at $400 million in a final tally at the domestic Box Office. That would put it exactly where I estimated it long before the movie's release. Around the world, it has already made near $600 million.
This would still be considered a lack-luster performance considering the hype that reached a fever pitch shortly before the movie was released. All it took was for one madman to suppress all that and inspire a lot of other idiots to spook the audiences in the days that followed the tragedy to scare movie-goers away.
