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Dark Knight Rises: Warners Has No Plans to Pull Film Following Colorado Tragedy, but Future Cloudy

The Dark Knight Rises' once-bright, perhaps-historic box-office prospects have clouded in the wake of the shooting at a Colorado theater that left at least 12 dead.

"Nothing like this has ever happened," Exhibitor Relations' Jeff Bock said Friday.

Bock's firm was reporting that the Christopher Nolan comic-book epic grossed about $27 million in Friday midnight screenings, a stunning debut numbers-wise that felt beside the point as the news from the Rocky Mountain state sunk in.

"I don't know if the first weekend would be affected," Dergarabedian said. "If it's presold, it's presold."

Bock said the first signs of audience erosion would probably start to be felt on Sunday.