MGMB - 'The Batman' takes its shot at Spider-Man's pandemic box-office records

Move over, Spider-Man: The latest of Warner Bros. (NYSE:T) many - many - Batmen is ready to take a flight at setting cinematic pandemic records. The Batman - Warner's latest reboot, starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, and featuring Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman - is aiming at a $100 million-plus opening this weekend, perhaps up to $125 million. That would make it only the second pandemic-era film to cross $100 million in a weekend, after December's blockbuster debut of Spider-Man: No Way Home. Sony (NYSE:SONY) had issued a conservative forecast for a $135 million opening back then, but the spider-film opened with a spectacular $260 million. It's since gathered the third-highest domestic gross of all-time, with $781.6 million (and a total of $1.85 billion worldwide). Other wide releases had long ago cleared out of The Batman's weekend, and it's opening in 4,300 screens, so the gritty film faces no

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'The Batman' takes its shot at Spider-Man's pandemic box-office records