"Batman: Mask of the Phantasm" – $6 million budget, $5.6 million box office."Batman & Robin" – $125 million budget, $238 million box office, 1.9x its budget."Batman Begins" – $150 million budget, $358 million box office, 2.3x its budget."Batman Returns" – $80 million budget, $266 million box office, 3.3x its budget."Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" – $263 million budget, $872 million box office, 3.31x its budget."Batman Forever" – $100 million budget, $336 million box office, 3.36x its budget."The LEGO Batman Movie" – $80 million budget, $310 million box office, $3.8x its budget."The Dark Knight Rises" – $230 million budget, $1.08 billion box office, 4.38x its budget."The Dark Knight" – $185 million budget, $1 billion box office, 5.49x its budget."Batman" - $35 million budget, $411 million box office, 11.7x its budget.Also, Adam West's "Batman: The Movie" has very little by way of actual box office figures available, so I am also leaving that one off the list simply because there isn't enough reliable data to do it justice.Ĭaveats in place, here's how the Batman movies stack up in terms of production budget vs.
I am, however, including animated movies that were given exclusive theatrical runs (but not movies like "Batman: The Killing Joke," which was made for Blu-ray but got a limited engagement, for example). It should be noted I am not counting spin-offs such as "Joker," nor am I counting "Justice League" as Batman was only part of the equation, but not sold within the title. That movie's greatest gift was doing well enough to earn a sequel, which took the form of "The Dark Knight" – yet another defining blockbuster for the ages that remains one of the shining examples of what a superhero movie can be beyond the ordinary, ascending to extraordinary heights. That was followed by George Clooney's Bat-nipples in the much-maligned "Batman & Robin," which curbed the franchise for nearly a decade before Christopher Nolan would reinvent it entirely in 2005's "Batman Begins," with Christian Bale now stepping up to play the part. has leaned on the "Batman" franchise with dizzying highs and baffling lows along the way.įollowing the surprisingly dark "Batman Returns," it was Joel Schumacher's turn to bring a bright, neon-soaked vision of Gotham City to life in "Batman Forever," which saw Vil Kilmer taking over as the title character.
This was, in many ways, the first modern blockbuster. "Batman" was a gargantuan box office hit that spawned ridiculous amounts of tie-in products and generated millions upon millions of dollars well beyond ticket sales. with the release of "Batman," which starred Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne alongside Jack Nicholson's Joker in one of the defining blockbusters of cinema history. But the true turning point for the Caped Crusader on screen would come in 1989 from Warner Bros.
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