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It is not only Marvel Comics and Twentieth Century Fox who cares about the films released this weekend, even Warner Bros. people are also staring at the conditions of Thor and Chaos City, especially the condition of Thor, and even the top of Warner Bros. The focus of attention, everyone knows that the more successful Marvel's superhero films, the more incompetent the contrasting Warner Bros. and DC comics.

On Saturday morning, Warner Bros’ CEO Bruce Rosenblum did not take a break, but instead asked Diego Harris to meet in the company’s office.

"Have you seen the latest box office statistics?" Bruce Rosenblum was sitting in a large office chair, looking at Diego Harris on the opposite side, and asked, "Thor and "City of Chaos" yesterday box office."

"Murphy Stanton is suppressed!"

Thinking of the other party’s conditions for the lion’s open mouth, Diego Harris still feels a little unhappy. Even if Marvel’s film sales are not good for DC Comics, he still feels guilty, "Thor." On the first day, he received $23.6 million, and "City of Chaos" was only $22.8 million."

Having said this, he couldn't help but shook his head, "Murphy Stanton is not invincible."

Bruce Rosenblum smiled and did not agree with Diego Harris. His opinion is just the opposite. The Marvel superhero movie may stumble this time, slowing down the pace of rapid development, and maybe even more. Give DC superhero movies a chance to surpass.

"Diego, have you noticed?" he asked.

"What?" Diego Harris asked puzzledly. "Pay attention to what?"

"The first day box office of "Thor" is indeed higher than that of "City of Chaos"." Bruce Rosenblum said lightly, "but the current box office calculation rules are to include the early box office."

Diego Harris immediately understood what Bruce Rosenblum meant, and said, "The box office of "Thor" in the early stage was nearly twice that of "City of Chaos", the gap was close to 3 million U.S. dollars, and the box office of both sides on the first day The difference is less than one million dollars..."

Bruce Rosenblum nodded slightly.

"That is to say..." Diego Harris continued, "Without Thursday's advance show, in one day on Friday, "City of Chaos" has a higher box office than "Thor"?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Bruce Rosenblum thought for a while and said, "Thor is an adapted movie, and "City of Chaos" is an original movie..."

When it comes to original movies, Bruce Rosenblum's face changed slightly, but he quickly returned to normal. "It's normal that the box office of "Thor" is higher than "City of Chaos"."

Diego Harris fully agrees with this point. Original movies were relatively ordinary when they were released.

Bruce Rosenblum said with certainty, "So, this time Marvel's superhero movie may encounter a lot of trouble, and we have a chance to catch up!"

He said again, "Have you seen the specific word-of-mouth statistics?"

Without waiting for Diego Harris to answer, Bruce Rosenblum pushed him a piece of information, and then said, "I got the latest statistics this morning! In terms of audience word-of-mouth, CinemaScore audience ratings, "Chaos "City" is the highest'A+', "Thor" only has'B'..."

Bruce Rosenblum didn't say much, but Diego Harris opened the information and looked at it carefully. This is a relatively complete statistic in terms of word-of-mouth and scoring.

As of this morning, 35,898 users on the IMDB of "City of Chaos" scored an average of 8.7 points; 21578 users of "Thor" scored an average of 7.2 points.

Regarding Rotten Tomatoes, "City of Chaos" includes comments from 75 media and film critics, and the positive rate is as high as 86%, with an average score of 8.2 points; "Thor" includes 42 media and film critics. Comment, the favorable rate is only 61%, only one step away from decay, and the score is 5.6 points which failed.

Authoritative media comprehensively evaluated MetaCritic's media income. "City of Chaos" received a score of 8.1; "Thor" scored 5.4 points!

At present, there are statistics on the popularity of the two films on social media and the Internet. On Facebook and Twitter, the number of reposts related to "City of Chaos" is 225,577, while "Thor" has only 101,211. .

On Google, the number of searches for "City of Chaos" was 657,856 times, and "Thor" was 333,578 times. The gap between the two parties is equally obvious.

Diego Harris is not difficult to find that if you look at the box office on the first day alone, "Thor" seems to be a movie of the same magnitude as "City of Chaos", but it is not difficult to draw a conclusion from the reactions of all aspects-" Compared with "City of Chaos", Thor is not a movie of the same magnitude.

I don’t know why, he thought of "Batman vs. Superman" from "Thor". It was also the first day of box office success, and the market reputation was not good, and then...

Diego Harris immediately realized that "Thor" is very likely to be a situation of driving high and low.

In this data, most of the statistics are not good for Thor, with only one exception.

In terms of the audience statistics for the early stage and the first day of Friday, the proportion of "Thor" audiences under the age of 18 accounted for more than 60%, while "City of Chaos" accounted for less than 40%.

Obviously, "Thor" is more popular with minors than "City of Chaos."

"Foreseeable..." Diego Harris closed the information and said, "The box office of "Thor" will soon go down. It is best to let it lower the audience's expectations for "Avengers."

In order to increase the topicality of "Thor", Marvel Studios has announced that "Avengers" will be released next summer, and Thor will be an extremely important member of it.

If you can hit the "Avengers" of Marvel Comics, it will inevitably frustrate Marvel's entire superhero series, and DC superhero movies will have more opportunities.

"Now on the Internet and the media, negative comments about "Thor" are flying everywhere." Bruce Rosenblum was keenly aware of something, "There must be someone behind it."

Diego Harris could guess some of Bruce Rosenblum's thoughts, and asked, "What do we do?"

Bruce Rosenblum raised his lips and smiled, "Join the ranks of suppressing Marvel!"

Soon, the two agreed to appropriately use some of the resources of Warner and DC Comics to continue to fan the negative reputation of Thor.

After Diego Harris left, Bruce Rosenblum took the information and watched the almost exploding word-of-mouth "City of Chaos", and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart.

He had watched this film before it was screened. After watching it, he had only one feeling. It was similar to the Batman adaptation project that Murphy Stanton showed to Warner Bros. and DC Comics executives at the time, probably. In order to avoid the copyright issue of Batman, the story has changed dramatically from what he had seen at the beginning, but the core of the film has not changed-overcome fear and find yourself!

If this story were put on Batman, what effect would it have?

There is almost no need to think carefully, with Batman's halo blessings, the first day box office of this film must be even higher!

When Murphy Stanton took the information, he was the only one of the top Warner Bros. and DC Comics to read it carefully. Bruce Rosenblum knew very well that compared to the next two, the first one To explain the origin of the protagonist, there are certain restrictions, so the story is not particularly exciting, but the latter part, even if there is only an outline, can still see Murphy Stanton's ambition and ambition.

If these meant huge risks at that time, then the professional reputation and audience reputation of "City of Chaos" is now quite good, does it mean that the next one will be more brilliant?

Bruce Rosenblum couldn’t help but think like that. After all, the outline of the story and the setting of the script left him too deep. Murphy Stanton just took some leftovers from these and cast it. The great brilliance of "Man of Steel"!

Sitting on the spacious office chair, Bruce Rosenblum suddenly felt that throwing away the cooperation with Murphy Stanton might be the biggest wrong decision in his life.

Of course, he cannot change this decision arbitrarily, otherwise the majesty and face of this Warner Bros. CEO will be lost?

Let's take a look again, if the follow-up development of the DC superhero series is not smooth, Murphy Stanton's second success may be able to make people contact Bill Rossis again.

With a long sigh, Bruce Rosenblum put away the information and threw it in a not-so-used file cabinet. He decided not to consider these worries for the time being. It should be the high-level Marvel comics who are worrying now. , Not Warner Bros. and DC Comics.

Beginning on Saturday, a large number of negative reviews about "Thor" appeared on the traditional paper media. The negative reviews of this film spread to every corner of North America almost instantly.

"Mr. Stan Lee, the evaluation of Thor is so bad, what do you think?"

The rush of reporters and paparazzi almost blocked the door of Marvel Pictures. When Stan Lee entered the company, he was surrounded by them, "Is it a mistake to adapt a third-rate comic hero into a movie? Decision?"

Faced with all kinds of questioning questions about "Thor", Stan Lee's face went red and said loudly, "Who said "Thor" failed? Have you seen yesterday's North American box office statistics? Yesterday's single day The box office champion is Thor, not other inexplicable movies!"

These questions almost angered him, and he was still questioned when he won the single-day box office. Is there such a thing?

A "New York Times" reporter squeezed in and said, "The latest attendance shows that today's "Thor" has not expanded the number of screens, the attendance rate has dropped by more than one-third compared to yesterday!"