Chapter 681

Whether it was James Franco or James Franco now, sometimes his strange behaviors are hard to understand, such as running around the garden with Seth Logan naked. The New York Times once said that he is "the most gay heterosexual, and the most heterosexual homosexual."

Even after marrying Lily Collins, some rumors and gossip about James Franco's sexual orientation have never disappeared.

CAA is no doubt the master of propaganda and packaging, even in this respect, James Franco has found a reasonable bright coat.

"Performance artist James Franco: free release!"

"Performance artist? Yes, this is really the unknown side of James Franco, because in addition to the unique spiritual world, he is still a good young man who works hard to make progress. In August of last year, flaunt magazine published an excellent buttock, which really made people doubt the meaning behind James Franco's "spring burst" behavior. The first three sentences of flaunt's interview are very classic, and they are written like this. "

"On my desktop, James Franco's butt just stares at me like that, as if he's about to fart in my face. I feel like I've been doing it for weeks, and I really want to do it well. But unfortunately, this two-dimensional butt can never choke with me. "

The packaging given by the publicity experts is still freedom, and freedom is also the best pass for Hollywood and even the country.

"There is no limit to the freedom of art. Since many people know James Franco in all aspects, they need to change their perspective. For both James Franco and those who like him, freedom is released, and freedom is the life-saving straw of artists

Driven by many promoters, this article quickly spread to every corner of North America through the ubiquitous Internet. Although James Franco is not a superstar like little Robert Downey, he is also in the middle of the second line and the first line, which has attracted people's attention. The content of the article naturally aroused strong repercussions from many fans.

They have published their views on various websites with this article.

"How can I not love you, James!"

Because of his personality, James Franco has a good reputation among fans.

"I used to feel that James Franco was a bit absent-minded, but now I find that this kind of absent-minded is really powerful!"

"James Franco is so good! Support him

"Yes, support James, support his new movie!"

As expected, how could fans not mention James Franco's latest work?

"My favorite is actor James Franco. I'm sure I'll support dark city at the beginning of summer vacation!"

"How can a movie like" dark city "not be seen? The role of James is so charming

"I don't know where I can get tickets for this movie now!"

"Yes! Does anyone know when the advance sale of movie tickets for "dark city" will start

People everywhere on the Internet are asking about it. After two years of fermentation, and the tireless promotion and marketing of dark city since last year, more and more fans are paying attention to when they can buy tickets for the film.

Three weeks before the film was officially released, 20th century fox, together with the three major commercial theaters in North America and Amazon, IMDB, boxofficemojo and other websites, officially announced that the pre-sale business of "dark city" began.

Just on the day of the opening of the pre-sale of these websites, just half an hour later, fans swarmed in and paralyzed the ticket sales pages of IMDB and boxofficemojo.

"What a wet blanket!"

In the IMDB discussion group, a fan complained in the chat group, "if you don't go to the website, you haven't bought tickets yet!"

"Me too!"

"Me too! I'm in such a hurry! What should I do if I can't get tickets in advance? "

Daisy came out of nowhere. "You haven't got it yet? I've got two tickets already

"Give me one!"

"Boss, let one come out!"

"I can only say I'm sorry!" Daisy continued to speak, "the extra one is for friends. IMDB and boxofficemojo are not available. Go to Amazon and eBay. Maybe someone will grab it and sell it!"

A fan suddenly said, "good news, the ticketing web pages of IMDB and boxofficemojo can go up!"

The chat group was quiet for a moment. It seemed that all the people went to the website to grab tickets, but after a few minutes, all the former people came back.

"I @ @, it's only a long time, the tickets in advance are sold out!"

"Less than three hours! There are more than 3000 advance shows in North America, but I can't buy a ticket! "Daisy came out, too. "You didn't get tickets? I feel sorry for you... "

"Boss..." Someone begged, "transfer a ticket."

"Even if I want to transfer." Daisy wrote rather helplessly, "we are not in the same city."

"For Murphy and this city of darkness!" The man swore, "I'll fly to Los Angeles!"

Daisy was speechless and had to say, "you'd better go to the e-commerce website to see if anyone wants to transfer the ticket after grabbing it."

"I just went to see it!" Another said, "someone's selling advance ticketing codes on eBay,! #￥#%……”

The guy uttered a rude remark and said, "they're asking for $200 for $16 IMAX tickets!"

And someone said, "there are people on Amazon who sell it for 300 dollars!"

"Are they crazy?"

"They're not crazy!" One person said, "you see, the tickets for the early show were robbed less than three hours, and it's hard to get tickets for some popular shows on the opening day. The movie" dark city "is obviously going to be a box office blockbuster!"

"I think that's probably the case." Daisy reminded her team members, "if you want to see the advance show, you'd better try your luck on Amazon and eBay. I don't think you can buy tickets for two hundred dollars and three hundred dollars in a few days!"

"Ah I'll go and have a look. I'll eat hamburger next month

"I don't think we can get it."

"I'll go too."

The discussion group was quiet again.

Just like what happened in the discussion group, on the day of dark city's pre-sale, more than 3000 advance tickets were sold out in the United States, and the first weekend's pre-sale was also very hot.

This situation was far beyond the expectation of Fox and the three major commercial theaters in the 20th century. After urgent communication, they decided to add a new scene for "dark city"!

Originally, there were more than 4300 premiere theaters for the film, and after the addition, the number reached more than 4600, which also created the largest number of open picture theaters in North America in the history of Hollywood films.

The pre-sale of "dark city" is very hot. Of course, 20th Century Fox doesn't mind continuing to add fuel and fire. This situation has been quickly spread by the media.

"Tickets for Murphy Stanton's new film are on sale three weeks in advance, and it's very popular for fans to buy tickets for dark city!"

The report in the Los Angeles Times has attracted more fans' attention to the film.

"Although the film" city of darkness "will be released on May 3 in three weeks, fans eager to see the outstanding new work of Murphy Stanton have started to buy tickets on the Internet. Fandango, an online movie ticket distributor, said that the advance tickets for Murphy Stanton's film have run out. In order to meet the needs of fans, major cinemas across the United States will increase their screening at 3 a.m. "

"Fandango has been selling tickets for" dark city "since last Sunday. Ted Hong, vice president of its sales department, said:" this is the peak of online pre-sale. This kind of hot scene is of great significance. It shows that the film is wonderful and that fans can't wait to see Murphy Stanton's new film. " Fandango conducted a public opinion survey in January on people's greatest interest in this year's blockbuster. At that time, the trailer "hobbit 2: the smooch wasteland" ranked first, and "city of darkness" ranked second. But now "the city of darkness" easily takes back its first place

"Box office tracking agency in North America"‘ Exhibitor.Relations ’Jeff Bok, an analyst with the company, said the advance sale of tickets for Murphy Stanton's "dark city" was predictable. "This film is accompanied by an unprecedented wave of advertising, such as viral marketing," Jeff Bok said He also attributed the upsurge of pre-sale tickets to the inevitable result of the city of chaos's successive dominance of the Internet on demand and DVD rental market

"According to Jeff Bok's prediction, the first week box office of the film produced by Stanton studio and released by 20th century fox is bound to exceed 150 million dollars!"

"Now, the question on every fan's tongue is, can this film catch up with the first week box office record of Avengers, which is close to 210 million dollars? "It's really hard to break this record, but we hope to break it," bock said

Generally speaking, the hot commodity will become more hot after being greatly exaggerated, and the city of darkness is no exception.

In the following period of time, North American movie fans found a sad fact that they couldn't make a ticket booking call at all times. They turned to the Internet and the booking pages on IMDB and boxofficemojo couldn't be linked Fandango.com There was a crash.

In the first week of pre-sale, dark city sold $63 million in North America!

This figure is still increasing rapidly as the release time of the film approaches. By the end of October, the pre-sale box office of the film in North America easily exceeded that of the Avengers, breaking through 90 million US dollars, creating a pre-sale record in North American film history."The New York Times directly said in French:" it is estimated that the box office of "dark city" in North America will be guaranteed at the bottom of $160 million in the first weekend, and the upper limit is Suspense

All this will be revealed after the film is released.

On May 3, 2013, Murphy led all the members of the cast to gather at Lincoln Art Center in New York, and "city of darkness" is about to start!