Hollywood Road

After arriving in Vancouver, Canada, Murphy and the crew continued to participate in various activities step by step, increasing the exposure of the film to attract more audiences to the theater, such as interviews on TV shows and media interviews, as well as on the Internet and on-site. Interactions with fans during the event are some of the commonly used methods of promotion.

"Dark City" also began its third week of release in North America. In the previous ten days, the film had taken US$466.84 million from North America. In this era when the average ticket price is only US$8.3, it means More than 50 million North American viewers have seen this film.

Although there is still a considerable gap between the potential 150 million film consumers in North America, a film cannot be liked by everyone. After this time of screening, "Dark City" cannot escape the inherent market. Regularity, heat and momentum gradually slowed down.

New this Monday, the single-day box office of "Dark City" dropped to 11 million U.S. dollars; on the Tuesday of Murphy's arrival in Vancouver, due to the traditional theater discount day, the box office increased slightly and received 12.6 million U.S. dollars; on Wednesday , The film’s single-day box office fell again, dropping to 10.3 million U.S. dollars; on Thursday, the single-day box office of "Dark City" fell below 10 million U.S. dollars for the first time, closing at 9.8 million U.S. dollars.

Before the third weekend, after fifteen days of screening, the North American box office of "Dark City" reached a total of 510.54 million U.S. dollars, breaking the "Avengers" with a score of 500 million U.S. dollars in 14 days. "The original North American box office record of $500 million in 23 days.

Although "Dark City" has an amazing rate of reaping the box office, it still faces a series of competitors.

On May 16, Paramount Pictures’ "Star Trek 2: Diablo Unbounded" will be released; on May 23, Summit Entertainment’s "Now You See Me" will join the summer camp; May 31, Sony Columbia The film industry’s super masterpiece "Shocking Crisis" seized the memorial day schedule...

"The film "Shocking Crisis"," Carla Faith regained his gaze from the window, looked at Murphy, and said, "Sony Columbia Pictures invested 150 million US dollars in production costs, and there are up to 80 million US dollars in production costs. Publicity and distribution costs..."

This is the voyage back to Los Angeles. The last stop of the crew’s North American publicity. Carla Fess flew to Seattle to organize a small $500 million celebration party on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox. The $500 million box office result was enough to make "Dark City" ranks among the top five in the North American box office chart!

In fact, in front of "Dark City", there are only three films, "Avengers", "Titanic" and "Avatar".

However, the North American box office of the three films is high enough, it is not easy to surpass, "Avengers" US$ 623.35 million, "Titanic" US$ 658.67 million, and "Avatar" US$ 760.5 million!

Hearing Carla Faith's words, Murphy came back to his senses and said, "Sony Columbia Pictures is such a big deal."

"Sony Columbia Pictures wants to save itself." Carla Faith knows the industry's situation very well. "Although "The Amazing Spider-Man" has recovered costs and has some profits, it is far from meeting the expectations of Sony Columbia Pictures. They only Can think of a way to create other series of brands, otherwise..."

Carla Firth shrugged and shook his head again, "This time they found Roland Emmerich, and Channing Tatum and Jamie Fox played together, plus topical themes of the White House. , There is still some hope of success."

Murphy does not want to see the success of Sony Columbia Pictures, but the other party said it is one of the six major Hollywood companies. The lean camel is bigger than the horse.

"It's not easy to win Sony Columbia Pictures." Carla Faith knew Murphy's mind for a long time and said in a low voice, "Sony Entertainment will not sell it easily."

"I know." Murphy didn't know this, and asked, "Is the second part of "The Amazing Spider-Man" being made?"

"Yeah." Carla Faith nodded. "It is said that the filming is already in progress. It is estimated that the film will be released next year."

Murphy frowned slightly, "Next year's summer vacation..."

If it develops according to normal conditions, Sony Columbia Pictures killed Gervin Stacy of Stone Sister in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", and this series will die, and Spider-Man has encountered the lowest point since its birth...

and then? Then Sony Columbia Pictures went to Marvel Pictures. Little Spider was rescued by Marvel Dafa and appeared in "Captain America 3" in an unusually stunning posture. He played the role of a mouthpiece in the scene where the pupils at the airport were making appointments. A startled eyeball, his popularity skyrocketed.

Sony Columbia Pictures and Marvel Pictures immediately launched a new "Spider-Man" series, and also specially named "Return", and brought in Iron Man Tony Stark to help...

Although Murphy did not see the film, he thought with his toes and knew that as long as the quality of the film is above the pass line, the box office is absolutely not bad. Sony Columbia Pictures will take advantage of this to temporarily get out of the predicament, at least it can support it. Five or six years or even more than ten years.

"How can Sony Columbia Pictures and Marvel Pictures not cooperate?"

This can be said to be the key. Murphy needs to think carefully and look for suitable opportunities. He is very clear about the importance of "Spider-Man" to the entire Marvel. Once Sony Columbia Pictures proposes to let the little spider return to the Marvel family, The possibility of Marvel's rejection is very small.

After thinking for a while, he couldn't find any clues, this kind of thing couldn't be solved in a short while, so he just left it aside for the time being.

Back in Los Angeles, Murphy’s propaganda work came to an end temporarily. Even though Gal Gadot was still running around in the Far East and his home seemed a bit deserted, he hid in the manor, letting the high-wall compound and strict security cut off the media. In addition to caring about the box office of "Dark City", he basically ignored work matters for the time being, and entered a short vacation time.

"Dark City" also spent the third weekend in the theater market in North America, and also ushered in "Star Trek 2: Dark Unbounded", a very powerful competitor. The "Star Trek" series is the most famous in the world. One of the sci-fi film and television series developed to now has a history of more than 50 years and has cultivated a large number of loyal fans.

The latest release of "Darkness Unbounded" belongs to the second part of the restart series. In the three days of the weekend, they received 21.62 million U.S. dollars, 26.94 million U.S. dollars and 21.6 million U.S. dollars, and received nearly 71 million U.S. dollars in the first weekend box office in North America.

This box office figure can be said to be quite good, but it is unable to prevent "Dark City" from achieving its third consecutive title in the North American box office. In the three days of "Dark City", it has cut 22.6 million US dollars and 27.5 million respectively. US dollars and 23.1 million US dollars, continue to lead the North American box office rankings with 73.2 million US dollars.

So far, the North American box office of "Dark City" has reached 583.74 million U.S. dollars!

Six hundred million dollars in North America is at hand!

At the same time, the overseas box office is also booming. The film's release area has expanded to 111, and it collected more than 260 million US dollars in one week last week.

The global box office of "Dark City" has approached 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, reaching 1.4675.56 billion U.S. dollars. It is gradually approaching "The Avengers", which ranks third in the global box office list, and has achieved 1.518.81 million against "The Avengers". It is inevitable that the US dollar will surpass the global box office.

On the other hand, "Dark City" is always at the highest level of praise, whether it is audience praise or media evaluation.

Even if it was released for three weeks, the CinemaScore audience rating of the film has always been firmly at the A+ level. The authoritative media comprehensively evaluated the number of media comments included in MetaCritic, which has exceeded 110, but the overall score is still as high as 88 points!

Two of the most representative websites on the Internet, Rotten Tomatoes counts more than 100 film critics, and the film is 95% fresh, with an average score of 8.9!

On IMDB, movie fans gave "Dark City" praise and high scores as if they were crazy. Although over time, the number of people who saw the film doubled and the number of users rated on IMDB also doubled more than ten times. The average score of "Dark City" will inevitably decrease gradually, but the average score of IMDB users is still as high as 9.5!

Such a super high score also makes "Dark City" unsurprisingly overwhelming films such as "The Godfather" and "Shawshank's Redemption", and ranks first on the IMDB website's TOP250 list without any suspense!

Such an excellent reputation is destined to be an extremely dazzling existence, even if some people want to ignore it.

Seeing the high ratings of "Dark City" on the IMDB website, Christian Franklin frowned. The box office and word-of-mouth of this film are simply amazing, and the box office will be full of the "Avengers" at most next week. Go beyond, and go straight to "Titanic" and "Avatar"...

But the box office is not what he cares most about. IMDB's score is that "Dark City" has a score of 9.5 points, which firmly surpassed "Shawshank's Redemption" and took the first place in the TOP250 ranking!

Christian Franklin is not only a fan of the very **** "Shawshank's Redemption", he is also the discussion group leader of the IMDB section.

In their hearts, "Shawshank's Redemption" is not a movie, but a belief!

Faith on the scene was challenged. How could Christian Franklin be willing to be the top 250 in "Shawshank's Redemption", but he mobilized countless fans at the beginning and scored countless ultra-low scores for "The Godfather". After coming, how could it be possible to give a purely commercial movie like "The Dark City" for nothing?

"Dark City" wants to take the top spot of TOP250, have they asked their fans of "Shawshank's Redemption"?