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The Batman's Second Weekend is a Win

The Second Weekend Drop and What You Need to Know

By SkylerPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Numbers are in for The Batman, and people are already talking about the second-weekend drop. Yet, is the drop all that awful as some are making it out to be? The short and simple answer is a resounding no! There are two reasons why.

First, let us put the film into comparison with other Batman films. A practice as such is not unusual in business. One must ask if the film is performing better or worse than its predecessors. How and why of film production often rests on this. Batman Forever outperformed Batman Returns, causing Warner Bros. to favor that tone. Hence, they keep Joel Schumacher and only up the ante of the film's camp. When you look at the data, The Batman does not have the worse second-weekend drop amongst other films about our Dark Knight Detective.

1.) Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (69.1%) 2.) Batman & Robin (63.3%) 3.) The Dark Knight Rises (61.4%) 4.) The Dark Knight (52.5%) 5.) The Batman (50.4%) 6.) Batman Forever (44.7%) 7.) Batman Returns (44.3%) 8.) Batman Begins (43.4%) 9.) Batman (25.7%)

Matt Reeves' The Batman has only the fifth-biggest second-weekend drop of all the films. One can see it beats out two of the Christopher Nolan films. Beating out the critically disowned Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Batman & Robin ought to come of no surprise. Now take the percentage out of the equation. The Batman rakes in more dough on its second weekend than the others, save for The Dark Knight. Now, this is not taking inflation into account. Therefore, our caped-crusader has done worse at the box office.

The next reason is second-weekend drops can be indicators of a film's possible success at the box office. Yet, huge dips do not guarantee failure. Look at the numbers again. The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises dropped more. In the end, both movies join the billion-dollar club. You can look at other films as well, like Harry Potter, for example. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 drops 72% on its second weekend! Nonetheless, this film also joins the billion-dollar club. Fifty Shades of Grey has a drop of 73.9% but made enough money in the end to greenlight a sequel.

Take a gander at Robert Pattinson's lesser films. Of course, these are the films deterring immature, toxic man-children from seeing The Batman. Three of the Twilight films have at least a 69% second-weekend drop. One of these films is the first sequel, yet it made enough, in the end, to spawn several more sequels. Say what you will of these films. It is of no importance if you dislike them. You cannot deny that these films made a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars.

In the end, this 50.4% drop accounts for nothing. Especially when one takes into the handicap of the pandemic, an HBO Max streaming in April, inflation, and dare I say whiny, gatekeeping fan-boys who refuse to see it. Keep in mind The Batman has no real competition in its release. Furthermore, even with the pandemic this Batman film has the highest domestic theatre release, with 4,417 theatres Finally, do not forget the second-weekend drop does not take into account international numbers. In the end, foreign market will most likely make up half of the film's total gross. Of course, we all want to see The Batman be a success, with more sequels on the way from Matt Reeves. No doubt, it is already looking to be that way.

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Skyler

Full-time worker, history student and an avid comic book nerd.

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