The Dark Knight Rises tops box office, but no match for The Avengers

The Dark Knight Rises remains the top film in the country after three weeks in theatrical release.

The batman film, distributed by Warner Bros, took $4.266m in its third weekend across 619 screens for a $6,893 screen average.

However, despite its continued strength, The Dark Knight Rises hasn’t been able to top The Avengers in a three-week comparison with the Batman film on $33.047m and The Avengers on $39.033m.

In their respective opening weekends, The Dark Knight Rises was the fourth highest grossing film of all time in its opening weekend, while the Avengers was eighth. Over the first week tally, The  Avengers was third highest grossing film and The Dark Knight Rises was tenth.