On July 20, 2012, during a midnight screening of the film "The Dark Knight Rises" at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, James Eagan Holmes perpetrated a mass shooting, killing 12 and injuring 70 others. It was the second-deadliest shooting in Colorado, and had the largest number of casualties of any U.S. mass shooting until the Orlando nightclub shooting. Christian Bale, who plays Batman in the film, visited several victims in the hospital. The shooting also led to threats of violence across other theaters in the county screening "The Dark Knight Rises," as well as an increase in security in theaters. Holmes is currently serving a sentence of life without parole.