MUMBAI: Gauging the pre-booking sales of Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Night Rises, it looks like the film will take over The Avengers as the highest grossing action hero film of all time.

It has been reported that the tickets are being sold for $100 mostly, with an exception of the screening at Manhattan‘s Lincoln Square Theater selling them for $114. The tickets went on sale last week and the opening night was promptly sold out.

The Avengers had an amazing success rate at the box office when it released worldwide on 11 April and went on to earn $1.42 billion globally.

The film stars Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, and Michael Caine in prominent roles.

The Dark Knight Rises is to hit the screens on 20 July.