I'm skeptical those who skipped it last weekend will reconsider. Those folks are the ones who'll have the toughest time divorcing the tradgedy from the movie. If anything, they'll see a different film.

I think a 50% drop sounds about right.

Wow. Had this package been delivered, tragedy could've been avoided. The man accused of killing a dozen people at a midnight screening of the 'The Dark Knight Rises' sent a journal detailing the rampage to a University of Colorado psychiatrist prior to the attack, only for it to go untouched in a ca...

@Gitesh Pandya, Editor of Box Office Guru:

$19.5M MON for #DarkKnightRises & 4day total of $180.4M. Huge MON, but down a hefty 20% from TDK's $24.5M in 2008

How does everyone think TDKR will do, second weekend? I'm really not sure.

indy42 wrote:I think, ironically, one effect will be that the drop in the second weekend will be lower (those who dropped out in the first weekend might go see it in the second, etc)

Next weekend might still be too soon. We'll see.

I wonder if the Olympics will affect next weekend. Other than that, I expect somewhere around a 20-30 percent drop in revenue. (Less than usual, certainly - I've been hearing rumors of VERY weak Saturday numbers, so an uptick is almost guaranteed.) Not to margenalize the tradgedy, but it'll be inter...

Heartwarming:

"I just want to finish it, and for all those men, women and children that didn't get to finish it, I want to finish it for them," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/m ... ories.html

FirelordSylar wrote:Sucks to hear about the lame audiences. One of the luster of the Midnight Showings has always been the excitement of the crowd, knowing that you're all experiencing this thing together.

I'm sure some today's tragedy dampened the mood for some.

I'm already seeing the effect of this morning's terrorism on my local cinema. The 7:15 PM showing was a little more than half empty. A theatre employee said (predictably, perhaps) the low attendence was unheard-of for such a blockbuster. Sad day, indeed.