THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
- Era
- BATMAN
- Genres
- Crime / Thriller
- Released
- 2012-07-20
- Runtime
- 2h 44m
SIGNAL SUMMARY
- Released
- 2012-07-20
- Runtime
- 2h 44m
- Budget
- $250M
- Worldwide gross
- $1.11B
- IMDb
- 8.4 (2.0M votes)
- RT critics
- 87%
- Metacritic
- 78
- Oscars
- 0 wins / 0 noms
THE LOUDEST SIGNAL
Rank Nolan's films by worldwide gross and this one sits at #1: $1.11B, the biggest earner of his career. Rank the same films by Academy attention and it vanishes — 0 nominations, 0 wins. Of the 2 Nolan films that crossed the billion-dollar line, The Dark Knight drew 8 nominations; this one drew none. The Academy was the one audience that never responded.
ASCENT PROTOCOL
Everything about this film climbs. Its structure — "Linear with an eight-year jump; over an hour shot in IMAX." — fits a story that starts at the bottom of a pit and spends 2h 44m getting out, the longest runtime of the trilogy. The filmmaking climbs too: each film in the trilogy commits more of the frame to IMAX than the last.
- 2005 — Anamorphic 35mm; rebuilt the comic-book film as crime epic.
- 2008 — First major feature to shoot sequences on IMAX 65mm cameras (~28 minutes).
- 2012 — ~72 minutes of IMAX 65mm footage — a record at the time.
CASE CLOSED
Three films, one continuous story: 2005–2012. A saga that begins with Bruce Wayne at the bottom of a well ends 7h 36m of screen time later with the emblem rebuilt and the mantle handed on. The totals below close out the whole run.