Despite the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater during a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” the film took in about $162 million in North America, the New York Times reported today.
Warner Bros. announced it would hold off reporting the film’s opening grosses until Monday, but the information was leaked to several media outlets.
“Out of respect for the victims and their families,” the studio said in a statement to ABC News. “Warner Bros. Pictures will not be reporting box office numbers for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ throughout the weekend. Box office numbers will be released on Monday.”
This is an unprecedented move because the practice of releasing box office numbers for an opening weekend is standard for Warner Bros. and most major Hollywood studios.
James Holmes, 24, is accused of opening fire on unsuspecting moviegoers Friday during a sold-out midnight screening of the new “Batman” film at a mall in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. Police said the alleged shooter was wearing a gas mask and was dressed in body armor.
“My heart aches and breaks for the lives taken and altered by this unfathomably senseless act,” said Anne Hathaway in a statement, according to People Magazine. Hathaway plays Catwoman in the film. “I am at a loss for words how to express my sorrow. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.”
“Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them,” Christian Bale, who plays Bruce Wayne/Batman in “The Dark Knight Rises,” said in a statement Saturday.
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