my movie years

Chapter 236 The Global Box Office Explodes Together

"The Dark Knight" achieved such dazzling results in the first week, which amazed many people in the industry.

However, this is not the end and the end. In North America, "The Dark Knight" took a box office of 1.73 million U.S. dollars in the next week.

The film beats out this Friday's "Tomorrowland," directed by Brad Bird and starring George Clooney.

There is no suspense, "The Dark Knight" won the box office again, and it has been two consecutive weeks.

The total North American box office of the film also reached 4.7 million U.S. dollars, temporarily ranking first in the North American box office list.

Although it won the weekly box office champion consecutively, it can be noticed that compared with the first week, the box office of the second week has dropped sharply.

This is understandable, as mentioned repeatedly above, in today's fast-paced commercial society, the box office of a commercial blockbuster in the first week can account for one-third or more of the total box office.

Now, authoritative North American data agencies predict that the North American box office of "The Dark Knight" is expected to exceed 6.5 million US dollars.

If it does break through, "The Dark Knight" will break the North American box office record for a superhero movie set by "Avengers 1."

Even trying, "The Dark Knight" could challenge "Avatar"'s $6.62 million North American box office record.

No.3 on the North American box office list this week is "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron".

What's worse, because of the super high quality of "The Dark Knight", and its artistic achievement that does not match the superhero movie, let this film complete the heavy blow to all Marvel movies.

Seeing this situation, the executives of Disney and Marvel couldn't help but wonder, did they really go wrong by taking the easy and younger route?

"I don't think it's wrong, you know, "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" didn't fail, the film is still a huge success in the global film market."

Kevin Fitch, as the person in charge of the entire Marvel universe, naturally has to speak out.

Since the concept of the Marvel Universe has been a big success, Kevin Feige has become the hottest person in Disney and even Hollywood.

I don't know how many people are staring at his position and want to replace him.

In fact, Kevin Fitch also has ambitions. He dreams of being the president of Disney.The position of the president of the world's number one media group is very attractive.

Although Kevin Feige does not lack competitors, most of these competitions are benign competitions that can make Disney better and better.

But today seems to be different, a vice president of Disney stood up and said: "Although the Marvel Cinematic Universe has indeed achieved great success.

However, we must also pay attention to the reaction of the market. The audience is tired of superhero movies that are lighthearted and funny.

The mainstream of the market in the future must be movies with profound themes and dark atmosphere like "The Dark Knight". "

""The Dark Knight" is just an exception, and even the Chinese director can't guarantee that he can replicate the success of "The Dark Knight" again." Kevin Fitch retorted.

Robert Iger waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, don't argue."

Seeing the two calm down, Robert Iger continued: "We are Disney, and we made our fortunes with animated films, and I deeply understand how popular films for all ages are suitable for younger ages.

Although "The Dark Knight" has achieved brilliant success, it is only temporary. The last laugh must be us Disney and Marvel. "

The media group that can bring Disney to the number one in the world has influence all over the world. Although Robert Iger despises Zhang Hao, his vision and ability are second to none.

In the previous life in 2008, two superhero movies were born.A "Dark Knight", known as the ceiling of superhero movies.An "Iron Man" is the pioneering work of Marvel movies.

People at the time would never have imagined that the "Dark Knight" series, which had just achieved great success, was the last glory of DC movies.

And the Marvel represented by "Iron Man" has the last laugh and has become the superhero movie feelings of a generation.

Of course, after Robert Iger retired in the previous life and Kevin Feige was idled, Disney made frequent tricks, and the fourth phase of Marvel was as bad as it could be.

In addition, there are various ZZ correct products that ruined many classics of the same year, such as the dreadlocked mermaid who looks like an alien.

Now, DC with the participation of Zhang Hao is giving a basin of cold water to the brilliant Disney, so that Disney and Marvel can calm down.

After calming down, Hollywood companies generally have two approaches, one is to study the secret of the rival company's success, and the other is to continue to stick to the path they imagined.
If it is other Hollywood companies, it is probably the first one, research and then imitate, the next time I see a Marvel superhero movie, I am afraid it will become a dark style.

But Disney is Disney, not anyone else, and Robert Iger and Kevin Feige firmly believe that the course they have chosen is the right one.

It's just that this confidence has been shaken a bit after "The Dark Knight" hit overseas theaters on a large scale this weekend.

The North American side has won the weekly box office champion for two consecutive weeks, and the Chinese side is the same.

"The Dark Knight" grossed 7.93 million in the next week, and the total box office in the mainland reached 15.59 billion, equivalent to 2.22 million US dollars.

There are many reasons for this. One is that the previous work "Batman: Beginning of War" performed well at the box office in the Mainland, earning more than 14 billion at the box office.

The second is that Zhang Hao has a strong appeal in the mainland market and has the support of the largest number of movie fans.

The third is that, as many film critics, film bloggers and movie fans have said, this film is so impeccable that it urges people to go to the cinema.

In addition, there is another situation that is very common in schools and young people, and that is to follow the crowd.

After all, when the classmates and friends around you are talking about "The Dark Knight", in order to get together and have something to talk to everyone, you will most likely go to the cinema to watch "The Dark Knight".

If there are pretty girls interested in The Dark Knight, all the better.

But there are very few such girls. After all, even Zhang Hao's die-hard fans like Ye Xiaoyi can't stand the heavy style of "The Dark Knight".

Having achieved great success in these two markets, "The Dark Knight" also landed in other regions of the world this weekend.

In the Asian market where Zhang Hao has a strong appeal, the results of "The Dark Knight" simply blinded everyone's eyes.

It was released in South Korea for three days and directly took in a box office of 1460 million U.S. dollars.

Although Little Days has always been a desert of super-British movies, I really like "The Dark Knight" with such a brutal style.

Coupled with Zhang Hao's strong appeal in the small life market.It also grossed $3120 million.

The Hong Kong and Taiwan regions combined contributed 472 million US dollars at the box office, and the Southeast Asian region also contributed 1255 million US dollars at the box office.

Over its three-day opening weekend elsewhere, the film took in $667 million in Brazil, $886 million in Mexico, $1394 million in France, $1672 million in Germany and $2789 million in the United Kingdom.

In Australia, because of the participation of Australian actor Heath Ledger, the film earned US$2160 million, setting a record for the first week of box office for a Hollywood film in the Australian market.

With such momentum, "The Dark Knight" this week, including the box office in North America and the mainland, took in a global box office of 4.45 million US dollars.

Without any suspense, "The Dark Knight" won the global weekly box office champion for two consecutive weeks, and media newspapers around the world also praised the film.

Hong Kong Island's "Ming Pao" opined: "Among the Hollywood superhero films, "The Dark Knight" is particularly well shot.

It's very thrilling and thrilling, and it's no joke, and the excellent real shooting effect uses real materials to form compelling visual effects, and the standards in front of and behind the scenes are extremely high. "

The British "Times" directly quoted the original words of several fans interviewed.

"The Dark Knight is a rare masterpiece."

"Biggest surprise of the summer and year so far."

"Undoubtedly the best film of 2015".

The French "Le Figaro" also sang a rare praise for a Hollywood film: "When was the last time you saw a blockbuster that was impeccable, thought-provoking, bold and tense, and always entertaining?" ?”

More importantly, with this week's good results, the film's global box office totaled 8.51 million US dollars, second only to "Fast and Furious 14.73", which won 7 billion US dollars, ranking second in the global annual box office list.

"Fast and Furious 7" relies on intense drag racing action scenes, which can be called a cool summer popcorn blockbuster. In addition, Paul Walker's death was hyped by the producer to be well-known around the world, which created the best score in the series.

This is the power of the dead, making a commercial film such a huge success.

However, people in the Hollywood industry suddenly discovered that the directors of "Fast and Furious 7" and "The Dark Knight" are all Chinese or Chinese.

This year can be said to be the Year of the Chinese in Hollywood, so Zhang Hao, Wen Ziren from "Fast and Furious 7", and Justin Lin became representatives of the Hollywood Chinese gang for a while.

There are many factions in Hollywood, such as the British gang, representative figures Christian Bale, Daniel Day Lewis.

For example, the Australian Gang, representatives Mel Jebson, Nicole Kidman, and now Heath Ledger.

There are also traditional Italian gangs, Irish gangs, and the largest group of Jewish groups.

Steven Spielberg, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, the Jewish community is everywhere in Hollywood.

And now, the Hollywood Chinese Gang headed by Zhang Hao has also quietly risen. In recent years, the film projects that the Chinese Gang is responsible for have made more money than each other.

Regardless of whether there is so-called discrimination or not, it is actually very simple in Hollywood. As long as it can bring benefits to the film company, it is not a problem for the president of the film company to even perform a striptease for you.

Of course, I'm not sure what the picture of Jeff Robinoff's fat body, twisting his waist and dancing a striptease looks like, it won't be a very good picture.

(End of this chapter)