Hollywood Drawing

It's a new working day, and Steven Spielberg isn't even bothered by the mass media coverage of Wayne and Batman: The Dark Knight, and everyone choosing to ignore their Jurassic Park 2. The mentality is unbalanced, and the publicity and distribution plan arranged by Universal Pictures is still stably carried out.

Just like this ABC channel talk column, even if the host deliberately or unintentionally wanted to provoke a topic between him and Wayne, the good Jewish guy didn't pick up a similar topic.

Obviously, in Steven Spielberg's mind, this is not a life-and-death competition. On the contrary, in his mind, as long as "Jurassic Park 2" can maintain the current box office trend, it is enough to guarantee this. This film has made him and Universal Pictures a lot of profits. As for some of the current remarks in the media, he basically chooses to ignore them.

As if in the media, the bombardment and popularity of Wayne and "Batman: The Dark Knight" were not enough. At about 4:00 p.m. on Monday, after being confirmed by multiple theater companies, Warner Bros. , again released a piece of heavy news, "Batman: The Dark Knight" as of 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the North American box office officially exceeded 400 million US dollars!

Once the news was released, the entire Hollywood fell into silence for a short time, but at the same time, the media's various hype about Wayne and "Jurassic Park 2" were directly pushed to the high nest.

Only two hours later, some evening newspapers have put the titles of "Hollywood's first $400 million Mr." and "the first $400 million director in film history", etc., and can't wait to put them on Wayne's head. Knowing that this day will always come, but the moment when it really arrives, it still detonated public opinion throughout North America.

From newspapers and magazines to radio stations, from live TV to online platforms, the figure of "400 million US dollars" has become a hot topic of national discussion.

This made the cinematic flow, which started to slow down significantly after the beginning of the working day, began to slowly rebound from the evening. Herd mentality is the biggest characteristic of human nature. One after another, there are people who never watch movies at all. Because of the curiosity of Batman talking about production around them, they choose to go to the theater.

And this is just the beginning. Warner Bros. marketing department noticed this situation for the first time. Their latest analysis is that in the next few days, there will be more similar audiences, because of curiosity and herd mentality, they will go into the theater to buy tickets Viewing.

When the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" reached 400 million US dollars, there was basically no time for Wayne to react. Nina's private phone in his hand began to ring continuously, all kinds of blessings and congratulations, constantly Came from the phone.

As North America's first director with a box office of 400 million US dollars, everyone in the circle knows that Wayne's name will be firmly written into the history of Hollywood films, even if only by virtue of being the first to reach this number. What's more, the movie "Batman: The Dark Knight" still has a very large market potential. Who can guarantee the final box office result of this movie, can it reach 500 million? 600 million?

In the face of congratulations calls from friends in the circle, Nina responded politely one by one, but in the face of a large number of media interview requests that came suddenly, she refused. Warner Bros. has a perfect publicity plan for "The Dark Knight", and they are about to board a plane to Seattle, so it's impossible to stop for an interview.

"Batman: The Dark Knight"'s second weekend box office performance was extremely strong, and "Jurassic Park 2", which was released in the first week, has been firmly suppressed by the former for three days, but in terms of size It is also an out-and-out behemoth. Under the competition of these two works, all other films in the theater market simply disappeared, and not even a single film with a box office of more than one million dollars appeared.

It's like the boss and the second child had a fight, and the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth disappeared inexplicably. Especially after the arrival of Monday, with huge media reports, the cinema market was completely destroyed by " Batman: The Dark Knight dominates, except for Jurassic Park 2, which still retains a certain amount of traffic, other movies have basically disappeared in the theaters.

The hot movie viewing trend of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is not only in North America, but just before boarding the plane, Nina also received an email from Warner Bros., which was just a rough count of Warner Bros. The overseas box office results in the first weekend of its release were simultaneously released in dozens of countries and regions. The film also occupied the local theater market as soon as it appeared, and it became the first choice for fans.

The first to bear the brunt is the United Kingdom, a region with cultural attributes that are very similar to North America. The release of "Batman: The Dark Knight" last Friday caused a huge sensation in the British Isles. With the promotion and blessing of major actors such as Ann Bell, in the first three days of the first weekend, they smashed the box office of 20.87 million US dollars, and won the weekend box office champion of the British Isles cinema market with great strength.

It is not followed by Europe and other places, but Australia, which is relatively sparsely populated, ranked second in the overseas box office. After three days in the first weekend, it opened a terrifying box office of 14.6 million US dollars.

In addition to the traditional European countries and regions of the British Isles, Germany is $5.6 million, France is $5.45 million, Spain is $4.32 million, Italy is $3.75 million, Sweden is $1.8 million, Denmark is $1.69 million, and the Netherlands is $1.45 million...

Many small European countries are limited by population and regional restrictions, and the box office figures alone are inconspicuous, but when the box office figures of these countries are added together, when viewed as a whole, people will draw a conclusion that the birthplace of this film art , has gradually become a new dumping ground for Hollywood movies to some extent. The film has achieved good results in Europe and successfully reached the box office champion in various regions. This does not surprise Wayne. After all, if it really counts, everyone belongs to the Western world. Although there are many differences in cultural attributes. But at least in most places, what is expressed in the film is well understood by audiences in these regions.

What really surprised him were the two small places in Asia, Bangzi and Benzi. Especially in the score of Bangzi, it earned $5.6 million in three days in the first weekend, and the same movie viewing event also appeared in the book, taking $4.7 million from the theater market in three days.

Aside from the stick that has always taken North America as a father, although this outbreak is somewhat unexpected, it is not difficult to figure it out if you think about it carefully. But the book market has always been a market for wonderful films. Here, Hollywood movies are not the most popular first choice. The movies that often create higher box office results are their localized animations.

So when Wayne saw "Batman: The Dark Knight", after the book's uncharacteristically high box office receipts, he was surprised.

In addition, as a good neighbor of Los Angeles, Mexico, this is the traditional place for hi Hollywood movies. Since its release, "Batman: The Dark Knight" has triggered a movie viewing frenzy throughout Mexico, and received a crazy 13.2 million from here in the first weekend. Dollar.

As the main dumping ground of Hollywood movies in Latin America, Brazil's achievements are also not to be underestimated. The Latin American audience's pursuit of Hollywood blockbusters has allowed the film's box office to exceed 10 million US dollars in the first three days of the first weekend.

In other smaller overseas countries, the same situation is almost always happening. "Batman: The Dark Knight" seems to have some kind of magic. As long as it is released locally, the box office market will completely fall under the iron hoof of the dark storm in North America. .

All the regions where "Batman: The Dark Knight" is released have basically become the local weekend box office champions. Batman has a great potential to sweep the world, and the countries participating in the screening of this film have been non-stop since Monday. increasing.

"It's only been three days since the opening weekend, and the total overseas box office revenue has reached 197 million US dollars! Holys**t!" Nina, who has always been calm, grew up involuntarily when she saw the rough total box office statistics. mouth. "If you add the $400 million that North America has already received, the global box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" has almost reached $600 million!"

No one will blame the assistant's exclamation. Several members of the core behind-the-scenes team also inevitably fell into a frenzy on the plane after hearing the news.

600 million US dollars, and relative to the screening time of "Batman: The Dark Knight", this achievement can be regarded as a starting point. Now everyone is full of confidence in the film, and they are extremely confident that this film can surpass the box office of "Joker" and "The Dark Knight". "Jurassic Park".

This is a usually successful movie in Hollywood. After a long-term screening in the theater market, it may not be able to reach the box office figures, but this is just their starting point. I believe that "Batman: The Dark Knight" after a long time of screening , the final box office drop will definitely be a new world record.

Wayne's face was also visibly happy, and of course he knew that, even if he achieved a high box office result now, he would not be able to stay on the throne of the number one box office in film history for a long time, as long as December came, Until most of next year, the global cinema market will be dominated by another legend.

But so what? People often remember only the first person with outstanding achievements. This "Batman: The Dark Knight" has completely made him an indelible movie memory of this era.

Countless people sneer at Hollywood movies, especially those streamlined popcorn movies, but for a film director, the most intuitive feeling for the audience to measure its greatness is the box office score, and the higher the box office score, the more It must be that the director's works are more widely spread, and the connection between the two is inevitable.

In terms of his views on movies, Wayne's standards have not changed. Of course, he does not despise those art films that are really full of artistic attributes, but he does not shoot such films. His idea has always been that a movie must be aimed at an audience, and the universal standard for measuring the quality of a movie is its commercial performance.

Especially for a movie with huge investment like "Batman: The Dark Knight", it is an inevitable choice to compromise with business, to entertain oneself, and to shoot independent literary films for niche movie lovers, compared with There are two completely different forms of expression, and naturally there is no comparison. As long as the other films are aimed at the mass market, success or failure, if the box office is the most recognized criterion for judging, it is pure hooliganism.

When he learned that the combined global box office has successfully reached about 600 million US dollars, Wayne's eyes have passed the 1.074 billion US dollars of "Joker" and the 1.099 billion US dollars of "Jurassic Park". There is only one imaginary enemy for him, and that is the big ship that does not exist yet, although he knows that no matter how much fantasies and efforts he tries, he will never have any chance to achieve such results.

"Batman: The Dark Knight" has already got the most perfect start ever, and if he still aims at the level of the global box office of more than 1 billion US dollars, he will definitely not be reconciled.

"Warner Bros. has already started engagements with two toy giants, Hasbro and Lego, regarding the toy licensing of Batman: The Dark Knight."

When the plane was calm again, Nina saw that Wayne didn't want to close his eyes and rested, and began to report some news to him in a low voice. "According to John Gray, Hasbro's offer for a 10-year toy license for Batman: The Dark Knight alone is as high as $45 million!" "Wait!"

Wayne jumped up and sat up, and the sudden movement startled the assistant. But Nina had followed him for so many years, and she had obviously gotten used to his surprises at times. She knew that maybe it was her inadvertent words that gave this man some hints or associations.

"Hasbro? You mean the Hasbro with Transformers and Special Forces?"

"That's right." The assistant nodded.

"After getting off the plane, let Jimmy go and investigate." Wayne scratched his chin lightly with one hand, with a thoughtful expression on his face, and instructed: "Look at the "Transformers" film and television copyright of Hasbro's toys , Is the film and television copyright of "My Little Pony" and the film and television copyright of "Special Forces" still in Hasbro's hands?"

In fact, he has little hope for these copyrights. Such well-known IPs, which have long been famous in North America and even in the world, have a high probability of being acquired by the production companies in the circle, but in his In my memory, the most well-known childhood feelings represent "Transformers", which was not taken over by Bangbei until around 2007. As for the year in which the film and television copyright was sold by Hasbro, it is not clear.

That's why he wanted to try it out and asked Jimmy to investigate. After all, no one would know better than him. If he didn't take the opportunity to acquire enough copyrights before the turn of the century, it would cost ten times as much in the future. The sky-high price makes it difficult to obtain high-quality copyrights for various adaptations. By then, the slightly more famous novels, comics, and other things that can be made into film and television have already been divided up by the six giants.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel fortunate that the copyrights that he had successively won by Jimmy in the past two years, as long as these things are adapted into film and television one after another and achieve the expected results, then his Greenberg studio will definitely become his own. The most important chess piece in the hand, a chess piece that has grown to be able to influence Time Warner to make major decisions.

"I have to remind you, Boss." Nina nodded and agreed, and after thinking for a while, she looked at his glasses and said in a serious tone, "There is a big money-eating Blue Sky Studio in your name. The studio can only do some outsourced animation rendering work and commercials, and it is far from being self-sufficient. It can be seen that the day of self-sufficiency is still far away.

Greenberg Studio, in the next two years, plans to launch multiple film investments in a row, and one "Lord of the Rings" is destined to be a big hole. If Jimmy continues to follow your wishes, it will be much higher than the current market price. Buying various film and television copyrights at a price, you will soon face the problem of whether to sell the stocks under your name to subsidize the studio's development plan. "

Shaking his head with a slight smile, Wayne said helplessly, "Don't worry, I promise not to make you worry about it."

After closing his eyes and entering a state of rest, he actually has a rough calculation in his mind, but if he really has the opportunity to buy some copyrights that are destined to be a great success, in fact, let alone selling Internet stocks under his name, Even if he takes a loan from the bank, he will buy it.

Objectively, he is no longer the young man who just stepped out of school. Basically, he has passed the stage where he will have nothing to do for money. Look at the "Batman: The Dark Knight" that is sweeping the world, although he can get it from this movie. The amount of money received is considerable, but with the success of this film, as long as he wants to take a loan, there will be countless banks lining up to send large sums of money. After all, no one will doubt his repayment ability. ?

When the overseas box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" was announced by Warner Bros. through its media the next day, the media has begun to speculate on a large scale how long it will take the film to surpass "Joker" and "Jurassic Park" ", and many media have carried out activities beyond time speculation in newspapers, and continue to use the popularity of the film to create topics to attract readers' attention.

Under the attention of the media and a number of film practitioners in the circle, the North American box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" has made great progress while firmly suppressing "Jurassic Park 2". After entering the second working day after its release, the box office on Monday finally fell below 10 million US dollars. The film received 9.62 million US dollars on that day. The North American box office officially exceeded 400 million US dollars, and the total box office reached 408.64 million US dollars.

Everyone knows that this is the normal box office trend, but it is far from the box office end of "Batman: The Dark Knight". In the following three days, in the countless media carnivals in North America, "Batman: The Dark Knight" Taking another $8.75 million, $8.4 million and $8.15 million, the North American box office totals $433.94 million!

Two weeks after the film officially landed on the theater market, it has undisputedly become the champion of the North American box office list, and with the arrival of the weekend off, it continues to create its box office miracle.

Up to now, all kinds of unbelievable hymns have been put on Wayne's head by the media without reservation. This is a box office miracle that Hollywood has never seen before. Everyone knows that it will be the most difficult to get rid of. broken record.

The next weekend will also be the last weekend for "Batman: The Dark Knight" to dominate the theatrical market, and other big-budget films will be released one after another, such as "My Best Friend's Wedding", a Sony Columbia movie. 's summer romance blockbuster.

"That dark lunatic Wayne Greenberg, the North American box office of this movie should be running for more than $500 million!"

In an office at Sony's Columbia headquarters at 10202 West Washington Avenue in Los Angeles, Paul, the head of the distribution department, dropped the newspaper in his hand and sighed in a low voice. "Shit, this will be a record that is almost impossible to break, that lunatic!" And sitting on the other side of the office lounge area is a rare yellow man in this circle, he is not tall and slightly obvious Bloated, wearing a suit on him always gives the illusion of a little dissonance, and he is the son of Sony Columbia's ceo.

"Paul, no, no, no." Da Hexiong obviously heard the whispering of the other party, he immediately stretched out a hand and shook it left and right, looked at the other party with a serious expression, and said, "What we need to pay attention to is that we are not Batman: The Dark Knight, Wayne Greenberg's dark superhero, has ravaged the world, and no one has been able to successfully imitate it yet."

Looking at the ceo in confusion, Paul thought that the other party was worried about their "My Best Friend's Wedding" which will be released next Friday, shrugged and said: "Don't worry, after nearly three weeks of "Batman: The Dark Knight" The crazy screening in North America has basically released the market potential. Even if the subsequent box office is high, it must be accumulated after a long screening time. It will not have too much influence on our films. , the audiences for the two films are completely different.”

This "My Best Friend's Wedding" has performed very well after the consecutive previews held by Sony Columbia, both in the critics' ratings and in the audience's word of mouth, and the production cost of this film is less than 50 million US dollars. The project ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ belongs to the purest romance, and there is absolutely no life-and-death competition with the superhero Batman.

After several trial screenings of the film, Sony Columbia gave it an internal market rating of A, indicating that the film has every chance to explode at the box office. Such romantic films usually have a longer screening life. Insiders are very optimistic about the profitability of the film.

"No, Paul." Unexpectedly, Da Hexiong shook his head again, this time he simply put down his finger and clicked lightly on the corner of the newspaper that Paul had just dropped. "What we need to pay attention to is this."

"Jurassic Park 2?"

Looking at the box office bulletin of "Jurassic Park 2" in the corner of the newspaper, Paul frowned and picked up the newspaper again. It is very clear from the above report that after a full week of screening, "Jurassic Park 2" has now made $135 million at the box office, which is only a limited amount lower than "Batman: The Dark Knight" almost every day.

According to data released by a number of third-party forecasting companies in the newspaper, this sci-fi thriller with dinosaurs as the protagonist will end up at about $200 million at the North American box office. This weekend, "Jurassic World 2" will also Landed in dozens of overseas regional cinema markets, also due to the squeeze of "Batman: The Dark Knight", the global box office is predicted to be between 500 million and 600 million US dollars.

The situation is now obvious. This Steven Spielberg sequel is not a work of the same magnitude as "Batman: The Dark Knight" at the box office. The achievements that "Jurassic Park 2" has achieved so far must not be classified as unsuccessful.

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