Made in Hollywood

In the ensuing period, although "Attack of the Clones" received bad reviews from the audience to the media, it still relied on the influence of Star Wars and the relationship between the release of the week to firmly suppress the "Two Towers" around the show, the two films. Except for Monday’s outstanding performance on Memorial Day, the box office fell below $10 million in a single day in the following three working days.

In particular, "The Two Towers", because of the gradual cooling of the hot movie-watching boom, the film's single-day box office has fallen to less than US$5 million on weekdays.

Entering the first weekend of June, although the weekend box office gap between the two films is huge, "Attack of the Clones" won the second weekend box office championship by an absolute advantage, but the decline of the two shows completely different the trend of.

The former has an average audience reputation. The cinema audience's praise rate is only 71%, and the cinemascore audience score is a-, which directly led to the box office diving rate of 51% the next weekend, and only got 39.2 million US dollars.

Although the box office of "Two Towers" at the same weekend was less than half of its box office, compared with the US$22.6 million in the fourth weekend, the US$13.56 million this weekend was only a 40% drop!

Don't forget, "Attack of the Clones" has only been released for two weekends, and "The Twin Towers≮♂, Raiders" has reached its fifth weekend.

Earlier, many people hoped that the Star Wars series could end Duke’s dominance in summer in recent years. However, the box office trends of the two films clearly proved that the final North American box office and global box office of the two parties , Will not stay at the same level at all.

Even people outside the film industry can see that "Attack of the Clones" simply cannot challenge "Two Towers" from the box office market.

Duke and Ivanka's Australian vacation trip came to an end. The two met Tina Fei, who had arrived from New Zealand, and returned to Los Angeles together. However, when they left Los Angeles International Airport, they were chased by reporters and paparazzi because they did not take a private jet.

These crazy guys even shouted loudly for Duke and Ivanka to put on the looks of affection, so that they could show affection in front of their cameras.

Unfortunately, whether it is Duke or Ivanka. They have no interest at all. They are completely different from Hollywood-style couples. Although this relationship is destined to be unable to be low-key, there is no interest in showing any. Those couples who show affection in the media and all public places, in fact, most people know that they The so-called affection can only be used for show.

Duke does not need to increase his exposure in this way. Even if the director needs to stand in front of the screen most of the time, he is not interested in actively exposing his private life; Ivanka is somewhat disgusted with being a star. Her mind is more on business.

Although Duke would not deliberately hide from the media when he went around in the past, he had no obligation to cooperate with them.

Back in Los Angeles, Ivanka began to prepare for the company's relocation to Los Angeles. She eventually chose Burbank as the company's address. Under the coordination of Duke, she leased a small office building from Warner as the company's permanent address.

Duke can't help most of these things. And he still has his own work to be busy. The special effects production of "The Return of the King" is almost complete. He needs to cut the first cut sample into the version he needs.

At the same time, the "Attack of the Clones", which had only been glamorous for two weeks, had a general box office trend and was ended by the newly released "Spider-Man", a Marvel superhero film produced and released by Sony Columbia Pictures. After the release, despite being sprayed by countless film critics. But it really shows the power of superhero movies.

In the first three days of the first weekend in North America, "Spider-Man" broke the record of North American film history just created by Duke for US$114.84 million, becoming the second North American movie ever to exceed US$100 million at the weekend box office.

However, although the response was huge this time. But public opinion is not as strong as it was in "The Two Towers". The reason is actually very simple. The second one is not as strong as the first one who eats crabs.

However, "The Two Towers" has not been particularly affected. After more than a month of screening, the film's rate of film placement and the number of theaters have already dropped. It is also a super large production. Under the circumstance of guarantee, how can a one-month movie be compared with the movie just released?

The explosion of "Spider-Man" benefited not only Sony Columbia Pictures, but also Marvel Comics, Peter Parker and Wolverine, instantly making Marvel's superheroes dazzling, the eyes of countless film companies' attention They all invested in the Marvel headquarters in New York, but after Marvel received Duke’s investment, there is no shortage of funds in the short term, especially the final universe plan thrown by Duke, which made Marvel’s senior executives ambitious and ready to build a Wei brand superhero movies.

Although this is still in the planning stage on paper, Marvel does not want to sell its children anymore. Spider-Man and the X-Men have already made them regret it.

With the help of "Spider-Man", in mid-June, Marvel Pictures officially announced the establishment. In order to get closer to Hollywood, Marvel specially placed the address of this film company in Burbank and in Duke's With support, Kevin Fitch became the first CEO of Marvel Pictures.

"Marvel has only one purpose for establishing a film company."

At the press conference for the establishment of the film company, Kevin Fitch said to countless reporters, "To make a superhero movie that belongs to Marvel, our initial plan is to launch the first superhero movie within 3 to 4 years."

"Can you ask about Marvel's specific plans?" A reporter asked immediately, "What was the first superhero movie?"

"Of course there is a plan."

Just finished Kevin Fitch's words, another reporter asked, "The film industry is not the comics industry. Is it too risky for Marvel to enter the film industry rashly?"

"Of course we know the risks involved, and we have formulated a sound plan for this."

Speaking of this, Kevin Fitch timely led the topic to Duke sitting next to him, "The whole plan comes from Director Rosenberg, and Director Rosenberg will be the supervisor and implementer of the entire film plan. One. With Rosenberg's director, Marvel has full confidence in Marvel superhero movies."

The reporter immediately turned his target to Duke, but Duke chose the issue of his old acquaintances.

Sarah from the Los Angeles Times asked the question that the two sides had communicated well for a long time, "Can you tell me what the first superhero movie of Marvel Studios is?"

For the completely newbie Marvel Pictures, the success or failure of the first superhero movie is extremely important, so there is no surprise in what Duke said, "Tony? Stark, Iron Man!"

"When will this movie come out soon?"

"We need three to four years to prepare!"

Marvel Pictures is a new company, and this is a series of plans. Can you hurry up without making enough preparations? That's a choice that laymen would only make.

"Mr. Fitch just said that Marvel has a series of plans, what are they?"

"You saw it when "Iron Man" was released..."

After the press conference, there was a regular reception. The reception was chosen at the Annabel Hotel, which is not far away.

This hotel is not only very close to the headquarters of Marvel Studios, but also not far from the Warner Building, just over a mile, and Warner Bros. CEO Doug Walter, who will take office next month, also arrived at the reception.

Although Marvel and Warner's DC are cooperative and competitive, they have more time to compete. The two sides have been rivals for decades.

"Duke, I don't know what to say."

Facing the largest shareholder of Marvel and the largest individual shareholder of Warner Bros., Doug Walter was a little helpless, "DC Superman and Batman movies are waiting for salvation, but you, a shareholder, have gone with Marvel. together."

Although the words were not serious, Duke still heard dissatisfaction from it.

This is normal, and whoever is about to sit on the CEO will have some opinions.

"Doug, there are some things I wanted to wait for you to become the ceo, we will talk more carefully..."

Just now, someone came over to say hello. Duke had no choice but to interrupt what he said to Doug Walter, and exchanged a few words with him. When the man was sent away, when he turned his head, he saw Doug Walter. The female companion stopped the person who came to greet him, obviously couldn't wait.

Originally, Duke wanted to wait for Doug Walter to take over as CEO next month, but now that the other party has determined that he will take over, he talked about it again, and just exchanged it.

However, this is not a place to talk.

Just beside, Tina Fei had already called the hotel to request a reception room. Duke and Doug Walter stopped staying, left the banquet hall and walked directly into the reception room.

"Duke, do you have ideas for DC superheroes?"

As soon as he sat down, Doug Walter couldn't wait to say, "Our superhero movies have been in decline for too long, and it has been a long time since people have forgotten the brilliance they once created."

For the superhero movies before the new millennium, only Superman and Batman have achieved great success, but these two series fell on the fourth, for the whole series consideration, Warner Bros. finally had to temporarily seal.

"From the time when "Batman and Robin" failed, I was thinking about superhero movies."

Hearing Duke's words, Doug Walter's eyes lit up immediately, "So you are interested in directing superhero movies?"

In his opinion, if anyone can save dc comics and movies, that person must be Duke.

"Doug, the current special effects technology is developing very fast, and the ability of superheroes is getting easier and easier to show on the big screen, and..."

Duke simply said a few words, and then said, "I think that in a period in the future, superhero movies will become the mainstream of the market. Warner Bros. and DC should have a long-term systematic plan for this!" (to be continued. .)

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