Made in Hollywood

The pre-publicity of this film was too full, and it also aroused the curiosity of countless people, causing quite a lot of viewers to want to enter the theater for the first time to witness the true nature of "The Dark Knight". The early stage of the film and Friday Monday Days of screenings consumed enough enthusiasm. When Saturday passed and Sunday arrived, the statistics of Saturday box office data inevitably declined.

However, the decline is not large, and it will not affect the box office trend of The Dark Knight too much.

On Saturday, the film received 64.67 million U.S. dollars in North America, which not only tops the crowd, but also has the second highest single-day box office in the North American film market.

On Sunday, the popularity of "The Dark Knight" finally really declined. There was basically no queuing in front of ordinary 2d theaters. However, after two days of word-of-mouth fermentation, the shocking effect of imax screening has been widely circulated among movie fans. The 100 theaters under the imax company show "The Dark Knight" 24/7, which still cannot meet the needs of movie fans. It is hard to find a ticket for imax.

Because of his busy schedule, Norman Shearer didn’t go to see the advance show and didn’t pay enough attention to imax. He just went to see the ordinary 2d version on Friday. Hearing the description of imax by colleagues and friends, he regretted it. Wrong choice.

On Sunday morning, Shearer sat at the computer desk ∫→, refreshing the movie ticketing websites over and over again, but all the websites were ruthlessly reminding him-imax has no tickets today and no tickets tomorrow!

"How could this be?" He patted his forehead vigorously, "I really have a pig head!"

Shut down all the booking websites, Shearer opened Google and searched, took out his mobile phone and dialed the booking number of imax company.

"I would like to ask, when will there be tickets for "The Dark Knight" in the Los Angeles area?"

"Sorry, sir."

There was a nice female voice on the phone, but she said something Norman Shearer didn't want to hear. "The Los Angeles area is temporarily short of tickets and will have to wait until next Thursday at the earliest."

"next Thursday?"

Frowning, Norman Shearer thought of a way and said, "I'm the head of Duke Rosenberg's Los Angeles Fans Association, look..."

"Sorry. There is no ticket now."

Hearing this, Norman Shearer had to book a ticket for Thursday first, said thank you again, and then hung up the phone.

I couldn't book the tickets for today's imax, and there was nothing to do for the time being, Norman Shearer stopped thinking about it, and simply opened the Google webpage, searched for news about "The Dark Knight".

Among them, a report about imxa attracted his attention.

The protagonist of the report is the chairman of the board of directors of imax. He talked about the recent lack of tickets for "The Dark Knight", "Not only will there be no box office this weekend, there will be no tickets for the next three days, and every seat has been sold. We expanded the screening area as much as possible, and the attendance rate reached One hundred percent, there has never been a film with such a big appeal."

Seeing this, Norman Hiller felt better. After all, supporting directors and films can be widely welcomed, which is something every fan will be happy about.

As the mood improves. He thought of more things. Just now, when he logged on the imdb website, he found that under the attack of some people with special thoughts, the imdb score of "The Dark Knight" dropped to 9.9 points. He wanted to call on more people to rate imdb. . Try to increase the score again, and at the worst, let the score decline slower. We must ensure that imdb's top 250 position is first, and the original "Lord of the Rings 3: Return of the King" situation cannot be repeated.

Back then, it was the "Godfather" gang of brainy fans who kept scoring a point and brushing down "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King".

As one of the heads of Duke Rosenberg’s Los Angeles Fan Association. Norman Shearer has been paying attention to these, and from those user names that brushed a point, he faintly saw some id that left an impression at the beginning.

If it weren't for these people's super low scores, "The Dark Knight" would definitely not drop from 10 to 9.9 so quickly.

Staring at the computer screen, with one hand resting his chin, Norman Shearer thought for a while and gradually made up his mind.

He logged in to his mailbox, selected all members of the Fan Club, and sent a group email, calling on all those with voting rights to score 10 points for "The Dark Knight" and give its top 250 opponent, "The Godfather". one cent!

"Only defense but not counterattack, it has never been the style of Duke Rosenberg fans!"

Just after sending the email, Norman Shearer got so many replies, he couldn't help laughing.

A silent online competition has just begun.

Time slowly came to Sunday night, New York was brightly lit, as if it would never rest, especially in the Times building, where night is often the busiest time.

In the editor-in-chief's office, editor-in-chief Brian Beman instructed several editor-in-chief, "A special issue will be issued tomorrow."

Several editor-in-chief immediately raised their spirits to allow the New York Times to issue a special issue, which means that something extraordinary must have happened today or last week.

An editor in chief curiously asked, "The type and content of the special issue..."

"Entertainment Special!"

Hearing these words from the editor-in-chief, several editor-in-chief glanced at each other suspiciously. There are very few examples of the New York Times issuing entertainment special issues.

Brian Beman did not continue to make them wait, and said directly, "The Dark Knight and Duke Rosenberg."

The editor-in-chief suddenly realized that this film has now set off such a big craze in North America. Within a few days of its release, it broke all records that can be broken in the North American film market and the box office. If nothing else, the box office in the first weekend will also be an amazing number. It is entirely appropriate to issue additional special issues for such directors and films.

"I will personally write a box office newsletter." Brian Beman turned his head and told the assistant, "When the box office statistics arrive on the weekend, I will get it as soon as possible."

For any media, this is a busy night, especially the editors of the entertainment section. They slept almost all night, racking their brains to think about how to change their patterns to praise Duke Rosenberg and his. new movie.

As soon as the sky turned white, newspapers were delivered to newsstands and delivery people, such as the New York Times. It will appear in every corner of the United States in time.

When the sun was illuminating the streets of Manhattan, Irene Lauder walked into her office.

Just sitting down, her assistant delivered the brewed coffee and today's work schedule at the same time, Irene Lauder took a sip of the coffee, the temperature was just right, and she couldn't help nodding.

Put down the coffee cup. Irene noticed that the assistant had not left, and asked, "Lilith, something else?"

Knowing the habits of her boss, Lilith said directly, "Today's "New York Times" added a special issue of "The Dark Knight."

Irene Lauder glanced through the schedule, and there was nothing urgent to deal with, and then said, "Bring a copy."

Lilith hurried to the door. I took a copy of today's "New York Times" from the newspaper shelf and placed it on the desk in front of Irene.

After taking the newspaper, Irene did not go to read the other parts, but directly took the special issue and looked through it.

"The long-awaited "Dark Knight" last Friday with an ultra-large-scale screening range, entered 4460 theaters in North America. It collected 192.26 million U.S. dollars in box office for three days on the weekend and as high as 43,107 U.S. dollars in single hall box office. It successfully appeared this weekend At the same time as the box office champion, it also broke various box office records along the way. It became the highest-grossing movie at the premiere weekend in Hollywood history. Warner Bros.’s $150 million investment was recovered in an instant."

"From the midnight on the early morning of the premiere day, the box office of "The Dark Knight" declared its determination to create a box office miracle as a winner. The figure of $22.18 million exceeded that of "Star Wars Prequel 3: Sith". "Vengeance" set a box office of $16.5 million in the midnight show in 2005, and became the new box office king at the midnight show. Following the performance on the premiere day. "The Dark Knight" reached a box office of 68.36 million dollars a day, and then won the movie The title of single-day box office champion in history. Together with the US$18.87 million won in advance, the cumulative North American box office totaled US$211.13 million, making it the fastest film in North America to break US$200 million."

"The glory of "The Dark Knight" has reached this point, no matter how hard it is. Statistics are the most true and direct response."

"The record for the largest paintings-4460; the highest early box office revenue-18.87 million U.S. dollars; the largest midnight premiere-with 3,160 theaters earning $22.18 million in the box office; the largest imax theater premiered at midnight-125 imax cinema earns 920,000 US dollars; the highest single-day box office revenue in history-69.36 million US dollars; the highest Saturday box office revenue in history-64.67 million US dollars; the highest Sunday box office revenue in history-59.23 million US dollars; the highest imax giant screen theater premiere Weekend box office-9.87 million US dollars; the fastest time to break 200 million US dollars-four days..."

"Because of the excellent box office of "The Dark Knight", the total box office of the North American film market this weekend also set a new record. Originally, the second weekend of July 2006-"Pirates of the Caribbean 3" screening weekend-was the total box office of the US film market. The highest weekend, the output value reached 219 million US dollars, but this weekend, driven by the "Dark Knight", the US film market box office reached 239.5 million US dollars, this week became the highest box office weekend in the history of the Hollywood movie market!"

"Each of the above titles can prove the great commercial success of "The Dark Knight" today. As for the reasons for the success of the film, this newspaper summarizes the following points-the audience of the film, men accounted for 52% , The ratio of male to female audience is relatively balanced, which means that the film will kill both males and females; Duke’s ultra-high-quality "Batman: Hour of War" has attracted a loyal audience for today's "Dark Knight"; Duke Rosenberg has a director A huge fan group rare in the world and a terrifying box office appeal; the clown played by Heath Ledger caused a huge topic."

"In terms of word-of-mouth, 69 media gave "The Dark Knight" a comprehensive score of 94 points, and an imdb score of 9.9 points, which can be said to be very popular. Among them, the media that gave the film a perfect score of 100, including "Variety" and "Hollywood Report" A total of 46 major media including "Time" and "Time."

"The box office of "The Dark Knight" will definitely exceed $250 million next weekend. According to the current situation, it is very possible to win the 2007 summer box office championship. As for whether the film can take the best box office from "Spider-Man". The title of the hero movie remains to be seen." (To be continued.)

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