Chapter 694

As time goes by, the streets of Los Angeles are much quieter, but the lights are as bright as ever. The lights in the city seem to never rest, especially in the scriptwriting Department of the times. Early morning is often the brightest time.

But the atmosphere of this evening's newspaper office is very unusual. The editor in chief, who rarely appeared at this time in the past, not only came to the newspaper office suddenly, but also called several page editors to the office.

In the editor's office, Michael parks, the editor in chief of the Los Angeles Times, told several editors, "we'll add a special issue tomorrow."

Several chief editors immediately raised their spirits to let the Los Angeles Times issue a special issue, which means that something extraordinary must have happened today or last week.

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

"Entertainment special!"

After hearing the chief editor's words, several chief editors looked at each other in disbelief. The Los Angeles Times is one of the three largest newspapers in the United States. It is not only a representative of serious and realistic news, but also a leader in the industry. It is not a messy and irresponsible entertainment gossip newspaper.

Editor in chief Michael parks didn't continue to confuse them. He said, "it's not the gossip. It's the movie news. It's mainly Murphy Stanton and dark city!"

Editors suddenly realized that since Murphy Stanton's new film "dark city" was officially released on Friday, it has set off an almost crazy film viewing boom in North America. In just a few days, it has broken all the records that can be broken in the North American film market and box office. Not surprisingly, the box office of the first weekend will also be an amazing number, giving such directors and films additional distribution Special issue, it should be.

"I'll write a box office express myself." Editor in chief Michael parks turned to his assistant and said, "when the box office statistics arrive at the weekend, bring them here as soon as possible."

For any media, it's a busy night, especially for the editors of the entertainment section, who hardly sleep all night, racking their brains to think about how to change the pattern and praise Murphy Stanton and his new blockbuster "dark city".

The night over the city gradually faded, and the dark curtain slowly faded away. As soon as the sky in the East appeared a line of white, a newspaper was delivered to the newsstands and senders. It's not only Los Angeles, but also big newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, which have perfect distribution networks all over the United States, and will appear in every corner of the United States in time .

As the sun shines on the streets of Burbank, Kevin Fitch walks into the office building of Marvel pictures and directly into his office.

As soon as he sat down, his assistant brought up the coffee and today's work schedule at the same time. Kevin Fitch took a sip of the coffee and nodded at the right temperature.

As he put down his coffee cup, Kevin Fitch called out to his assistant who was about to leave. "Bring me a copy of today's major newspapers."

Knowing her boss's habits, the assistant immediately said, "boss, the Los Angeles Times has added a special issue of dark city."

Kevin Fitch didn't answer immediately. Instead, he picked up his work diary, looked at his schedule, saw that there was no urgent need to deal with things, and then said, "bring me a copy of the Los Angeles Times first."

The assistant quickly went to the door, took a copy of today's Los Angeles Times from the newspaper rack, put it on the desk in front of Kevin Fitch, saw that the boss had no other orders, and walked out of the office.

Taking today's Los Angeles Times, Kevin Fitch didn't read other parts. Instead, he took the special issue and read it.

"This week, North America ushered in the traditional film summer program. At the beginning of each summer program, there will be a blockbuster show. The Avengers alliance, which was released on the first weekend of last year's summer program, has achieved extremely brilliant results, which makes this year's summer program even more exciting!"

"In the spotlight, Murphy Stanton's new film" city of darkness ", which has long been expected by fans, was shown in 4660 cinemas in North America on Friday with a super large-scale screening range. It grossed $242.9 million in three days over the weekend, with a single box office as high as $52124. It has not only successfully won the top box office in North America, but also made a breakthrough All the way to break the box office records and become the highest box office movie in Hollywood history at the premiere weekend. In the 20th century, Fox and Stanton studios' investment of up to $220 million has been recovered in a flash. "

"Starting from the early show in North America on Thursday, the box office of" dark city "announced its determination to create a box office miracle as a winner. The figure of $45.8 million surpassed the $43.5 million of" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows "set two years ago, and became the new king of early show in North America. Next, on Friday's premiere day, the box office of "dark city" reached US $126.6 million (including advance show) in one day, and won the title of one-day box office champion in film history. Then, in the two days of Saturday and Sunday, the film won US $75.5 million and US $64.8 million respectively in North America, setting a new one-day box office record in North America on Saturday and Sunday! ”"It's hard to add the glory of the city of darkness. Statistics are the most real and direct response."

"The largest opening record - 4660 cinemas; the highest advance box office revenue - 45.8 million US dollars; the largest advance Premiere - 45.8 million US dollars with 3860 cinema lines; the largest IMAX cinema premiere at midnight - 185 IMAX cinemas get 4.21 million US dollars; the highest single day box office revenue in history - 126 million US dollars; the highest Saturday box office revenue in history - 75.5 million US dollars." The highest weekly box office revenue in history -- 64.8 million US dollars; the highest weekend box office revenue of IMAX giant screen cinema premiere -- 42.37 million US dollars; the fastest time to break through 200 million US dollars -- two days and 14 hours.... "

"Due to the box office success of dark city, the total box office of North American film market also set a new record this weekend. Originally, the first weekend in May 2012, the Avengers weekend, was the highest total box office weekend in the U.S. movie market, with an output of US $249 million. However, this weekend, in the face of the strong market heat of dark city, the North American film market was fully boosted, with a total box office of US $289.5 million, making this week the biggest weekend box office in the history of Hollywood movie market High weekend

"Each of these titles proves the great commercial success of dark city today. As for the reasons for the success of the film, this paper summarizes the following points: men account for 52% of the audience of the film, and the proportion of male and female audience is relatively balanced, that is to say, men and women kill each other; after the cinema line, Murphy Stanton's super high quality "city of chaos" has become the champion of VOD and DVD rental in recent two years, which has attracted a lot of attention for today's "city of darkness" He is a loyal audience; Murphy Stanton himself has a huge fan group and a terrible box office appeal rarely seen in the directing world; the magician played by James Franco can be called a God's performance, and Margot Robbie, who also plays well, together with his wonderful acting skills, has propped up the film. "

"In terms of word-of-mouth, cinemascore's audience rating has always remained at the highest level of a +; the average score of IMDB fans is 9.7; the freshness of rotten tomatoes is 97%, and the average score of film critics is 9.1; the comprehensive evaluation of authoritative media has included 89 media ratings, and the comprehensive score of" dark city "is as high as 88, which can be said to be a great cheer. Among them, 46 large-scale media, including variety, Empire, entertainment weekly, Hollywood Reporter and time, gave the film a full score of 100. "

"Next weekend, the box office of" dark city "in North America will definitely break through the $300 million mark. According to the current situation, it is very likely that it will win the summer box office title in 2013. It remains to be seen whether the film can take the title of the best summer film from the Avengers..."

Seeing this, Kevin Fitch put down his newspaper. A series of box office records created before "Avengers" only lasted for a short period of one year. In this way, he collapsed under the strong impact of Murphy Stanton and his "dark city", which made him the CEO of Marvel film, very unhappy.

But at the same time, he also has a sense of luck. The decision-makers of Walt Disney accept their own suggestions and postpone "Iron Man 3" to the Christmas schedule. Otherwise, they will directly collide with Murphy Stanton's "city of darkness", and the best result is that they will lose both sides.

"Lose both?" Kevin Fitch shook his head and told him clearly, "Iron Man 3 is going to be a total failure!"

Even he felt that even if "Avengers" and this "dark city" against, there will be no good results.

Stan Lee, a fool, also suggested that iron man 3 should be put at the beginning of this summer season and collide head-on with Murphy Stanton's film. It's just an old fool! This is to ruin the marvel superhero movie!

Fortunately, the people in the Distribution Department of Walt Disney are not as stupid as this old fool!

Kevin Fitch shakes his head and suddenly comes up with one thing. Some people are more stupid than Stan Lee, who is not very smart when he gets old. That's the decision-makers of Warner Brothers and DC Comics.

For the sake of some film remuneration and revenue sharing, they gave up Murphy Stanton and chose Zac Schneider to take charge of the whole DC superhero film series in a very good situation. As a result, they were devastated. Today's DC has changed the film situation, and even Ben Affleck wants to quit Batman

This indirectly has long been a good situation for Marvel superhero movies.

What if Murphy Stanton has been in charge of the entire DC series? Kevin Fitch can't imagine

The box office of "city of darkness" exploded in the first weekend, attracting countless people's attention and becoming a hot spot in the media.