Made in Hollywood

After finalizing the live shooting of the crew at the Pentagon, Duke took a special day off after returning to Los Angeles. When he was bored at home, Scarlett Johansson paid special attention to the release of "This Man From Earth".

She was sitting in front of the computer in the lounge, drinking juice, and said to Duke, "This data is so bleak that I have to sympathize with David Ellison."

Sitting on a high-backed sofa, Duke was flipping through a "Transformers" cartoon. Hearing Scarlett's words, he couldn't help but raised his head and asked, "Tell me about the specific data."

After all, this is a movie that David Ellison snatched from him. If Duke wants to see "This Man From Earth" sells, it must be fake.

""This Man Comes From Earth" has been in theaters for ten days now, and it has collected 28,521 US dollars in 126 theaters in North America, and the box office has not exceeded 3,000 US dollars in ten days.

Speaking of this, Scarlett Johansson shook his head and said again, "Imdb score is very high, with 8.4 points, but unfortunately because there are too few people who rate, only less than 500 people score."

For a movie, the fewer people who rate it, the higher the imdb score is. This is a very simple truth, and it is also the main reason for the high db score in "This Man comes from the Earth".

Duke couldn't help being a little curious, "With such a low box office, the theater has not forced a downgrade?"

"I'm looking for someone to ask." Scarlett picked up her cell phone, dialed a number, said a few words, hung up and said to Duke, "The Warner Distribution Department said, "This Man Comes From Earth" If there is no major improvement in the box office this weekend, it will be withdrawn by the theaters."

She changed into an expert tone. "There can be no improvement at all. In a few days on the weekend, the North American box office of "This Man From Earth" will not exceed $50,000."

"Um..." Duke nodded, his eyes falling back to the comic book.

"The box office is so bad..."

This time the curious person was replaced by Scarlett. She turned off the computer and dragged a chair. Sitting next to Duke, he asked, "Why did you fancy him in the first place?"

"I have read his novels. The settings are absurd, but they are also somewhat interesting." Duke thought for a while, and said, "I think this film may have a certain market if it is introduced to the disc and rental market. You should know that some cut films will find their own audience in the rental market. They often generate a lot of income."

"Like Quentin Tastino's film?" Scarlett immediately thought of the famous cut film director.

Duke turned a new page and said without looking up, "Almost, some films are not suitable for the atmosphere of the theater. Many of Quentin's films, discs and video tapes often far exceed the North American box office, and perhaps there is this. Reasons."

If you only look at Quentin Tastino's box office, it must be very strange why he can always get investment and why the Weinstein brothers support him so much. But if you look at his offline income, you will understand that this is normal.

The same news as Scarlett Johansson inquired. Two weeks after "This Man Comes From Earth" was released, it was forced offline by various theater companies in North America, ending the short screening trip.

What stays in front of David Ellison is the bleak data of $32,567 from 126 theaters, of which at least half will be intercepted by the theaters, relative to his investment. Really better than nothing.

Putting down the data report, David Ellison frowned. The more he thought about it, the more he felt wrong. The thoughts in his head unconsciously moved closer to the direction of the conspiracy, feeling that he seemed to be on Duke Rosenberg’s. when. I bought a movie of no value.

He thumped down the table heavily, venting a few traces of depression in his chest. This loss is not too important to him. After all, the North American box office of "I Am A Legend" is about to pass the 200 million dollar mark, and the global box office has already exceeded it. The income of 400 million US dollars far exceeds these losses.

Just thinking of losing to Duke Rosenberg again inexplicably, he couldn't feel comfortable in his heart.

Even when he saw the film "This Man Comes From Earth", he felt angry.

He seemed to understand David Ellison’s mind well, and the head of the distribution department sitting opposite him, said in a timely manner, “Mr. Ellison, a disc distribution company has contacted Sky Film Studio and wanted to buy The offline copyright of "This Man From Earth" was broken."

"Oh?" David Ellison raised his head, looked at him, and asked, "How much do they bid?"

"300,000 dollars."

In the person in charge, this is a very reasonable price. After all, the box office of "This Man Comes From Earth" is here, and it is impossible to sell at a high price. "I think this price is okay, and it can also recover some of our losses. ."

Since a few days ago, David Ellison didn’t want to see this film that was destined to bring him shame anymore. He just thought about it for less than ten seconds, waved his hand and said, “Sell them All right."

"I will deal with it now."

A few days later, Duke heard new news from Scarlett Johansson that "This Man From Earth" was bought offline by Netflix from David Ellison for $300,000. copyright……

Although some sigh that Netflix may have picked up a big bargain, Duke didn't care too much. While he was busy preparing for "Transformers", he paid more attention to the film market and put his eyes on the movie market. "The Dark Knight".

Starting in July, "The Dark Knight" has been gradually shrinking in North America in terms of theater scale and box office numbers. The cumulative North American box office number for the entire July was 14.19 million U.S. dollars, and in August it dropped to 7.65 million U.S. dollars. At the beginning of September, the film’s North American box office reached 567.66 million U.S. dollars. Although it is getting closer and closer to the 600 million U.S. dollar mark, the growth rate is getting weaker and weaker.

Before the end, even Duke and Warner Bros. can't tell whether the North American box office can surpass the second-placed "Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King".

However, in terms of global box office, "The Dark Knight" certainly cannot surpass "Lord of the Rings 3: Return of the King".

The overseas response of this darkened film has not been as good as that in North America, and it remained the same until September. Not to mention the overseas box office of the film surpassing "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King", can it reach the 600 million of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" The box office figure of $36.4 million is a very big question.

To date, the overseas box office of "The Dark Knight" has totaled 561.22 million US dollars, which still has not exceeded the North American box office. However, the sum of the two amounts to US$1.128.88 million, which is enough to satisfy Duke and Warner Bros.

On the other hand, the reputation of the film has always been high, and the audience praise rate has always been maintained at more than 90%, and it continues to rank first in imdb's top250 ranking.

Of course, this is related to the fact that the imdb website has not released the scoring and comments of the two videos.

The war between the fans of "The Dark Knight" and the fans of "The Godfather" has spread from imdb to all corners of the Internet. As long as the websites related to film and television, you can see the two factions of fans fighting, and the war shows The trend of continuous expansion, as time goes by, more and more fans of Duke who are not "Dark Knight" have joined it.

I have to say that the number of Duke fans is huge, facing the fans of "The Godfather", it is completely overwhelming.

There is often a post or comment attacking Duke and the "Dark Knight" on the Internet, and a dozen or so remarks attacking him will soon follow.

"Duke Blow" gradually spread from North America and spread to movie audiences all over the world.

It can be said that no director, including James Cameron and Steven Spielberg, can win the heartfelt support of so many fans as a director like Duke.

This is a unique phenomenon in film history.

Even among the fans on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Duke gradually added the elegant name of "Du God".

Of course, if there are fans, there are blacks. The war triggered by "The Dark Knight" inevitably spread to the Internet over there.

However, a piece of news released by the China Film Group quickly attracted the attention of all fans.

In mid-September, China Film Group officially announced that Duke’s new live-action film "Transformers" will hold its world premiere in Shanghai next June, and China Film Group has reached an agreement with Warner Bros. and Duke himself. Two Chinese actors appeared in this super big production.

The post-80s generation has risen and is becoming an intermediate force in this society. The "Transformers" animation that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s is undoubtedly an indelible memory in these people's hearts, coupled with a special global The premiere and the appearance of two of his own actors immediately aroused the enthusiasm of countless people.

This is just the first step for the China Film Group and Warner Bros. Greater China to promote their products. Since this market is important, Warner will naturally spare no effort to promote its own flagship products.

Duke's film is undoubtedly the signature of Warner Bros.

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, no one knows the power and appeal of "Transformers" better than Duke. To put it an exaggeration, as long as the special effects are guaranteed, Optimus Prime and Megatron can appear on the stage, countless post-80s One generation will pay for the "Transformers" movie.

The introduction of Chinese actors is not only Warner’s suggestion, but also the market demand for the film. Duke will not object to it. However, although the two actors who participated in "Transformers" are not so good at soy sauce, the weight of the role is not important. Time is quite limited.

In fact, it is more symbolic.

As for the selection of actors, Duke’s requirements are simple. Actors should be handsome and actresses should be beautiful. At the same time, there should be no scandals. It is best to speak English fluently.

In this regard, he only made a request, and China Film Group and Warner Greater China are still responsible. (To be continued...)