‘The Batman’ Wings In With $5.3M From Early Overseas Play; Sets Warner Bros Pandemic Records

deadline.com:

Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman is just beginning to spread its wings overseas, and has a running international box office total of $5.3M across two days and from only eight markets.

The Matt Reeves-directed Robert Pattinson-starrer is adding 47 markets today and a further 19 on Friday.After debuting to $1.7M in Korea on Tuesday — and taking advantage of a public holiday there — it set Warner Bros’ best launch day during the pandemic, the second best debut for a Batman movie since The Dark Knight Rises, and an industry best in the country for 2022 so far.Rollout continued Wednesday with France launching to $1.4M.

Including previews, the market cume is $2.1M which is the best opening of the year and the biggest pandemic opening for a Warner Bros film there.

The results are at the same level as The Dark Knight, and ahead of Dune (+42%) and Aquaman (+72%). In Sweden, The Batman grossed $414K on opening day Wednesday, good for 28% more than The Dark Knight and more than double that of Dune. Indonesia gave The Batman a 91% share of the market on Wednesday with $362K for the best Batman debut ever, as well as WB’s best of the pandemic.Belgium brought $193K to Gotham with PLFs representing 42% of the opening day.