'The Batman' begins with a whopping $57 million on opening day at domestic box-office

'The Batman' sees Robert Pattinson as the seventh actor to don the cowl of the Caped Crusader in a live-action movie. 

Los Angeles: Robert Pattinson-starrer 'The Batman' finally hit movie theatres this weekend and has grossed a whopping $57 million from 4,417 locations in its opening day, though that's a sum that includes $21.6 million from Thursday's preview screenings.

The DC adaptation is tracking to open somewhere between $120 million and $130 million for the weekend. With more than $50 million already in the bank, 'The Batman' is already the biggest opening weekend of 2022, with aUncharted' standing at a distant second with a $44 million three-day debut.

It's yet another demonstration that superhero appointment viewing is in a league of its own for moviegoers, reports variety.com.

Compared to the franchise's recent history, that figure would fall short of the opening weekend totals for Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight' ($158 million) and 'The Dark Knight Rises' ($160 million), as well as that of Zack Snyder's crossover showdown 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' ($166 million).

However, 'The Batman' is not a sequel like those films; instead, it's a whole cloth reboot of the property, with a new cast, a new mood and a new story. Nolan's reboot, 'Batman Begins', opened to $48 million in 2005 -- a number that 'The Batman' is more than doubling.