The Dark Knight Rises: Biggest 2D Opening of All Time?

Ready for another round of wall-to-wall packed movie theaters? New pre-release tracking predicts Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises could very likely surpass the $158.4 million opening of The Dark Knight, which had the biggest three-day domestic debut of all time when it opened.

Rises will be hitting theaters on July 20, the same debut weekend as The Dark Knight in 2008. To this day, TDK remains the top domestic opener in terms of 2D feature films. Since then, two 3D pics -- this summer's The Avengers and last year's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 -- have taken the No. 1 and No. 2 spots with $207.4 million and $169.2 million, respectively.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, TDKR's overall tracking numbers come close to The Avengers,' but the latter had an added boost of 3D ticket sales. However, Nolan's final Bat-chapter will also screen in several hundred IMAX theaters, which charge at a premium. (Over an hour of the movie was shot using IMAX cameras.) What's more, the film clocks in at 164 minutes -- 21 minutes more than The Avengers and 12 more than The Dark Knight.

Females are reportedly less interested in seeing The Dark Knight Rises than The Avengers, but Warner Bros. still has two weeks to court this demo.

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Nolan: No JLA Movie or Batman Reboot for Me

While doing press for the impending release of The Dark Knight Rises, director Christopher Nolan was asked if he was involved with Warner Bros.' planned Justice League of America movie.

"No, none at all," Nolan said, according to Entertainment Weekly. "We’re finished with all we’re doing with Batman. This is the end of our take on this character. ... I’ve got no plans to do anything more, and certainly, no involvement with any Justice League project."

This lack of any future involvement with Batman movies also extends to any potential reboot of the character, which contradicts past reports that he would essentially godfather the franchise's future.

"Obviously, Warners will have to decide in the future what they’re going to do with him," said Nolan, adding that he and his team have told the Batman story they wanted to tell and the character will live on for future filmmakers to interpret.

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Dark Knight Rises Tickets Go on Sale Monday

Can't wait to see The Dark Knight Rises? Well, we've got good news for you. Warner Bros. tweeted today that tickets for the final Christopher Nolan-directed Batman film go on sale this Monday, June 11! Tickets will be available for both standard and IMAX screenings.

Furthermore, AMC Theatres reveals that The Dark Knight Rises has an epic running time of 2 hours and 45 minutes. The theater chain will also host a marathon of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises starting July 19. (TDKR opens July 20.) Tickets for the marathon go on sale at AMC Theatres at 12:00pm EDT on June 11.

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Christopher Nolan's Catwoman Concerns

Director Christopher Nolan was initially reluctant to include Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. So what prompted the change of heart?

In an interview with Empire (pointed out via /Film and CBM, Nolan credits his brother and TDKR co-screenwriter Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan with helping him see the value of including the feline fatale. "I was nervous about how she would fit into our world. But Jonah was very much convinced that there would be a great way to do it and eventually turned me around," said Nolan. "Once I got my head around the idea of looking at that character through the prism of our films, saying, 'Who could that person be in real-life?' we figured it out. She's a bit of a con-woman, something of a grifter. A hard-edged kind of criminal."

Jonathan Nolan added, "Chris often comes from a position of, 'Why should we do this?' You know, presumed guilty. But I said, 'What we're endeavouring to do here is tell a complete take on the Batman mythos'. And a complete take of the Batman mythos without the character for me was sacrilegious. You've gotta gave her, because she has a delicious greyness to her that helps define who Batman is. She keeps wavering on this line of, 'Is she a good guy or a bad guy?' Well, she's kind of neither. And that's why, to me, that relationship and that character only enhances the universe - and the Batman character." He also said that "Anne Hathaway threatens to steal the show."

And what about the much-hyped secret ending of The Dark Knight Rises?

David Goyer, who co-plotted the Batman trilogy with the Brothers Nolan, said the final scene of The Dark Knight Rises is "completely unchanged" from the one the filmmakers envisioned years earlier at the start of the franchise's reboot. "We both knew in our hearts that we were onto something special. I have to tell you, having finally seen everything strung together a little while ago and seeing that scene, I got a complete lump in my throat."

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