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‘Batman’ Posts 2022’s Biggest Open as Warner Focuses on Theaters
- Director Matt Reeves’s movie establishes new spinoff potential
- $128.5 million take trails only ‘No Way Home’ in pandemic era
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Warner Bros. highly anticipated superhero reboot “The Batman” brought cheer to movie theaters this weekend, showing that Sony Group’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was more than a one-off success for the industry after two years of pain coping with Covid-19.
The film generated $128.5 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales in its opening weekend, Warner Bros. said Sunday, proving once again that film fans have an insatiable appetite for comic-book superheroes. The performance makes “The Batman” the top-grossing domestic release of 2022 thus far, said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst at market researcher Comscore Inc.