Warner Bros. will release The Dark Knight Rises on even more screens overseas than it did The Dark Knight.
Variety reports that the studio will roll out TDKR on 15,000 international screens starting July 20, nearly 4000 more than The Dark Knight was on back in 2008. The reason for this is that, unlike blockbusters such as The Avengers and the Harry Potter films, The Dark Knight made most of its fortune domestically rather than from abroad. The Dark Knight may rank 4th on the all-time domestic box office list, but it's only in 35th place on the international all-time hit list.
The Dark Knight Rises has a couple of big factors, though, that will likely prevent it from making Avengers-sized numbers abroad. First, the film has a 2 hour, 45 minute running time, which limits the number of times a day a movie can be shown (hence upping the screen count). Also, Batman simply has more appeal domestically than he does internationally given the grosses for all the Batman movies to date, not just the Nolan ones.
Source : ign[dot]com
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