Dark Knight Rises Box Office Predictions!

[Khuutra]

pezus said:

Khuutra said:
What I want to know is, why are so many of you predicting that the movie will have this huge uptick in Foreign box office takes comapred to the prequel? Batman is just more popular domestically than it is in foreign box offices. I thought this was accepted.

Because most other big film franchises have grown immensely in the foreign market during the last few years (even while they get smaller (sometimes) in USA). Good examples are the Transformers franchise, Pirates, Harry Potter and heck, even Twilight.

Transformers was always more popular internationally, though it's true that Dark of the Moon skyrocketed in foreign markets. Similarly, Harry Potter was always bigger internationally. Pirates has been twice as big internationally as it was domestically since the second freaking movie, which came out a long time ago.

We don't have any indications within the franchiwse itself that Batman will see significant gains internationally vs. domestically. I'm not saying it won't happen. I'm saying that we have no reason, currently, to think it will.

Or to think it will beat out Avengers on opening weekend, while I'm on that point