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BREAKING… UPDATE: Warner Bros Pictures just issued this statement confirming what I reported first:
“Out of respect for the victims and their families, 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.”
EXCLUSIVE 3:15 PM: I’ve just been told by a Warner Bros spokeswoman that the studio may do this “out of sensitivity to people”. Through midday today the studio was reporting The Dark Knight Rises grosses internationally and domestically as usual. Now it may suspend its box office reporting all weekend for Christopher Nolan’s final Batman trilogy installment. A final decision has not yet been made. It would be a highly unusual step for a company in the movie business that’s part of publicly owned Time Warner. And it is certainly the studio’s right to stay mute the rest of the weekend. However, the numbers will still get out because Rentrak reports grosses all through the weekend. So reporters like me will know how The Dark Knight Rises is doing.
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I like this call. While the info will get out, the studio is not going to participate in letting the shooter know how much damage he did in his terrible quest for notoriety. Call me crazy, I like the gesture.
While it’s a tasteful thing to do (although more a symbolic gesture since the numbers will get out anyway), it certainly doesn’t “let the shooter know” anything. Nor does “damage” seem like an appropriate way to talk about box office numbers when so much actual damage took place. The movie will make what it makes and unless the numbers are flat out dismal, nobody will ever know if and how much this had an effect on attendance.
So you rather they NOT take any action?
They do the right thing and all you can do is critisize?
The entertainment industry; movies, tv, video games strive to make even more violent content. Young people see video violence tens of thousands of times. You would be in denial to claim that such exposure to violence has no negative effects on people. However,
DO NOT expect the entertainment industry to take any responsibility or stop the lucrative business of selling violence.
I also believe it is a kind ‘gesture’ and sensitive to victims and readers. Well Done if you go thru with it Warner.
So you think that this monster, hiding in a human body is going to be listening to the news media and is really concerned about box office results???
Let’s be real, he was concerned with killing people.
Here’s an idea, how about Nikki follows the lead of Time Warner and holds off reporting the numbers until Monday too? Seems like a respectful thing to do…
THANK CHRIST WE WILL HAVE RIVAL EXECS IN TIMES LIKE THIS.
Yes I agree, I Always Thank Christ… for every day i’m still above the ground and breathing.
I like the idea of the gesture too. This way they can avoid having to make any form of comment about something as ‘trivial’ as box office in the face of the tragedy in Colorado. The box office is still vitally important to them but avoiding comment seems a good plan.
“And it is certainly the studio’s right to stay mute the rest of the weekend. However, the numbers will still get out because every Hollywood studio follows Rentrak’s reporting of grosses. So rival studios will tell reporters like me how The Dark Knight Rises is doing.”
So I wrote something to write something, knowing it meant nothing in the end. Solid work, internet.
Whatever, don’t care who releases them as long as they’re released. I’ve already seen the movie 2 times going out tomorrow for my 3rd. One lunatic won’t stop me from enjoying the movies.
ridiculous
A very considerate and elegant decision on the part of Warner Bros. Sensitive acknowledgment that this is not the time to be openly counting coin or practicing business as usual.
Always knew Warner Bro was one classy studio. Never read anything negative about the studio giving films cheap budgets or paying their actors and other talents cheaply neither
They are just saying they are not going to brag about the zillions of dollars they made while it could be twisted and perceived in a way that the shooting was good for business.
If Warner Bros. was truely SENSITIVE to the Colorado Tragedy they would suspend”The Dark Knight Rises” priemeres especially Midnite showings. Yeah it would cost them some money, Too Bad, since they are responsible for oproducing trash like this movie.
I’ve been boycotting Hollywood for several years due to the preponderance of “Gratuitous Violence” in their products.
Boycotting except for apparently following inside-Hollywood websites and commenting on them?
Confused…you’ve been boycotting Hollywood for years but you hang out on Deadline Hollywood for…what reason then?
So you haven’t seen a movie you call “trash”. A movie which actually makes the case against violence?
Why should Warner Bros. let a terrorist dictate their actions?
A “trash” movie you probably haven’t seen and that millions of people want to see because it’s going to bring them joy. People that can tell the difference between a work of fiction, masterful or not, and reality. Just because one deranged individual out of millions goes crazy, it doesn’t mean that everyone is potentially an homicidal maniac. It’s like this EVERY SINGLE TIME. One person goes on a homicidal spree and videogames/movies/music and what not is blamed as the cause because maybe he played one or was a big fan of something. It’s one person out of dozens of millions, apparently most of us can tell the difference and just enjoy different sorts of entertainment.
TDKR is bad but selling weapons everywhere and to basically anyone is fine? Waging war is allowed by governments and that’s not a problem? Wars that deliver images of violence, that are much worse than the “gratuitous” ones of Hollywood, on our TV screens everyday. And yet, that is legal.
You people really have got to take your head out of your asses and start thinking about real issues about modern society, not entertainment. Try to teach the children how to separate reality from fiction, not blind them even more with his kind of idiotic talk.
I saw it. While I don’t consider it trash it is as every bit as violent as this person claims. They have a right to their opinion. There is something to be said for how desensitized Americans have become to violence. We don’t care about wars we fight overseas, we don’t care if something bad happens to someone else. Only if it happens to you usually.
Guys, c’mon, don’t feed the trolls.
You are boycotting Hollywood but posting on a website that is nothing but Hollywood? How smart is that? Furthermore you call it trash when you haven’t actually seen it since a boycott would preclude you from doing that. I’m thinking you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
I think they should release numbers to spite the psycho killer. Don’t give him this kind of power.
Who gives a fuck how much money the movie makes?
Actually in this case it justifies a reason to compensate 100% for every single person who suffered that night. While it is OBVIOUSLY NOT Warners or the movie makers fault, but politically for Hollywood this is a chance to thank the public for making moviegoing an enjoyable event.
The people that spent 250,000,000 on it, perhaps?
So why stop there? If they’re so concerned, don’t show the film. What does the decision accomplish? Behind the scenes, they’re still counting like crazy…but they’ll feel good about themselves…they’ve “done something”.
It saddens and angers me that one psycho has managed to dampen my excitement over seeing this movie. I hope others will not allow this one guy to keep us from doing what we do. That’s allowing him to win.
You are right on Jake! I am doing my best to keep that sorry bastard from winning. I was hoping for a day of celebration. I wanted to see on the news how there were huge crowds queueing up, box office records smashed, fans adoring. I have been anxiously awaiting this movie since the credits rolled on the last one. Yet this one psycho gets to ruin the joyous spirit for millions. I’m with you. Don’t let this lone nutjob ruin it for you or anyone else.
My condolences and sympathy for all the people who endured that nightmare. God be with you.
I was going to go watch the movie but I’m not anymore certainly not this weekend because I just think I wouldn’t enjoy it that much knowing people were murdered trying to enjoy the film. So sad.
It’s hard to believe that anybody could do something as awful as shooting at unarmed unsuspecting movie goers. I don’t blame the movie nor the studio. The Paris premiere has been canceled. I think that was a wise move. I understand that many US theatres are requesting no costumes.
As for the numbers? They really are irrelevant compared to the tragedy that took place.
hollywood puts out a lot of shit. violence, vampires and vulgarity rules hollywood today. add in the violence of video games, rap and hip hop music, “gansta” style and it is no wonder that kids growing up with this crap while parents either enjoy it too or are clueless, some turn out to be violent and hateful themselves. this dark knight flick was rated ok for 12 year olds? if we are going to have a rating system, then hollywood is incapable of running that system. it’s like letting prisoners run a prison. wake up america. if our economy goes down the drain, chaos and anarchy are not far off, and that would not be good. nope, very, very, very bad.
When I watched it today a girl no more than 17 or 18 came in with 4 kids under 8 years old to see this movie. I kinda thought “wtf?” but then I remembered I am in America where people think that stuff like this doesn’t have any effect on kids.
You know what has inspired more death and violence amongst humanity over the years more than guns and media combined? Religion. So why don’t we ban God?
Religion yes, belief in God, not so much. But I agree. If we all lived in a wacky alternate-history earth, where religion didn’t exist, but where somehow uptight conservatives still DID, and they made a movie of the Bible, you can be certain that the wacky mirror-universe right wingers would be all: “A movie about murder, rape, incest, animal abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse, cannibalism and torture? Who wants to see THAT garbage?”
You know what sucks? That everyone who put 4 years of hard work and passion into this movie is being overshadowed by what one crazy psycho did. I saw the film and it was amazing. Great plot, acting, action, directing, and dialogues. Kudos to Warno Britgers for pulling out ads and not reporting on the film this whole weekend
It is not as though Warner had to make a big sacrifice by delaying the numbers. If they really waned to do something, they could open a victims fund from the weekend box office.
It’s WB, they wll. They always do.
This is an empty gesture. They don’t have to publicize the box office numbers Nikki and every other site will do it for them. They only feel sad about what happened because it’s going to dent their opening weekend gross and now they won’t make more than Avengers made. That’s all they feel bad about. If they wanted to show real courage they’d have pulled the movie from every theater this weekend and told every theater not to show it until next Friday at noon that would be a sign of real respect for the victims.
Maybe they shouldn’t show it till Saturday at noon. Maybe they shouldn’t show it till Thursday at noon. Hey, maybe Thursday at midnight. Glad you know the exact nuance of “respect” that’ll make the victims feel better.
Also, what’s this “they only feel sad about what happened because it’s going to dent their opening weekend gross”? You seem to be implying they should feel sorrier (by your definition), and pointlessly give up millions of dollars, because… they’re responsible for what happened? Their movie sent out secret preview beams that caused the gunman to become violent? What?
The people who made this movie did nothing but make a movie. By all reports, a good movie. They owe no more than you or I do to anybody. Perhaps out of respect for the victims you should give up a week’s paycheck? Not sure what it’ll accomplish, but you’re as “responsible” as anybody, so make some sacrifices, right?
Your opinion on the studio might be true but suggesting they pull the movie until next Friday is thoughtless and asinine. I don’t know how that shows respect for the victims and it’s a ridiculous suggestion overall.
Please explain yourself. So the families of the victims can mourn and forget about the incident and then be reminded of it in 7 days?
Why is no one commenting on the accessibility of all those weapons? Guns are too readily available in America, Period. Every couple of years we get a lunatic who shoots up a bunch of people. The movie did not do this, guns did.
Inanimate objects did not kill 12 people. An individual who is possibly crazy or just plain homicidal used the guns as a means to an end. He apparently also rigged his apartment with explosives or explosive devices. If guns were not accessible to him, he could just as easily have used one of the explosives. Guns are not the problem. The individual was the problem.
You have to admit, though, the easy availability of guns and ammo make it much easier to go on a shooting spree.
IF you are insane enough to do so…
Or have been so marinated in an environment of hate, violence and destruction that it becomes normal to you, and you cannot separate fantasy from reality.
This makes little sense. Whenever an act of volence causes a change in behavior, whether it’s waiting a few days to report earnings, or ramping up security when nothing is going to happen, the perpetrator wins. It’s just another show on the stage.
How come so many people are blaming the movie for this event? You DO realize he didn’t actually watch the movie? The movie itself had NOTHING to do with this man’s actions. He picked THIS movie becuase it would be the MOST packed and give him the most potential victims and thereby give him the most attention. The movie itself is irrelevant to his actions. It merely gave him the targets. Had he snapped 6 months prior, this shooting would have occurred during The Avengers. So can some of you get a freaking clue and stop being so pompous and self rigtheous? I know it makes you feel better about yourself, but people are dead out there. Have enough respect to get a clue.
Actually, The Avengers came out in May, so 6 months ago it would not have happened during The Avengers.
If WB truly wanted the numbers suspended, they would simply tell Rentrak not to report the numbers through their system. Rentrak would still collect the grossed but not report them through their online system and only provide them to WB who would then publicize the official figures on Monday. It is really very easy to do. They do this all the time for sneaks and previews. Rentrak works for the studios and would be obligated to do this for their client. There is no “right to know” box office numbers. They are provided at the discretion of the studios.
I’m glad Warner Bros. is trying to make a kind and respectful gesture, but I think that the buisness side of things should be kept separate from this after the terrible tragedy.