LOS ANGELES — ¡°The Dark Knight Rises¡± earned $160.9 million over the weekend, making it the biggest 2-D opening ever, following a mass shooting at a Colorado screening of the Batman film.
Warner Bros. said Monday that the final installment of director Christopher Nolan¡¯s Batman trilogy earned $160,887,295.
The opening makes ¡°Dark Knight Rises¡± the biggest 2-D opening ever ahead of its 2008 predecessor, ¡°The Dark Knight.¡± It also gives the film the third-largest opening after the 3-D films ¡°The Avengers¡± with $207.4 million and ¡°Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2¡± with $169.2 million.
The debut puts ¡°Dark Knight Rises¡± slightly below box office expectations going into the weekend, which ranged from $170 million to $200 million.