In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, Daniel Loria, Russ Fischer, and Shawn Robbins dedicate an hour to covering the upcoming release of  The Batman. The title is expected to become only the second film of the pandemic to enjoy a $100 million opening weekend, and the hosts discuss the film’s overall box office potential in an otherwise slow month of March. In the feature segment, the hosts look back at the box office and cultural impact of Batman at the movies. They cover the franchise’s biggest hits and missteps ahead of the latest entry hitting screens this weekend.

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Episode Resources:

• Weekend Box Office Forecast: The Batman Paces for Second $100M+ Pandemic Debut with Potential for Much More
• Batman: A Box Office History
• Cinemark Reports $1.51B in 2021 Revenue, More Than Doubling 2020 Figures

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:22 Cinemark Q4 earnings report
• 02:22 Pre-debut forecast for The Batman
• 08:10 Tim Burton’s Batman hit theaters in 1989
• 14:59 Three years later, The Batman Returns debuted
• 20:18 1995’s Batman Forever 
• 23:43 1997’s Batman and Robin
• 32:13 2005’s Batman Begins 
• 36:50 2008’s The Dark Knight
• 44:15 Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy
• 52:32 Zach Snyder’s Man of Steel
• 56:53 DC’s extended universe films