Chapter 2301： Top of the Forbidden City

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"Good afternoon, welcome, may I ask what I can do for you?" The cinema in July is always so busy, there are people filming long queues in the cinema all the time, and the service staff at the counter, Chris Goldface With a skilful smile on his face, he welcomes the next guest.

"What time is the next 'Pirates of the Dream'?" the boy of a young couple asked, and the girl looked up at the timetable displayed on the screen above. Half of them were "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", and the other half had three Two-thirds are "Inception" and one-third are "Toy Story 3", "Despicable Me" and "Eclipse".

"Sorry, there are no tickets for the next 'Inception' at 2:30." The computer screen in front of Chris King is still the schedule of "Inception", and the last customer also wanted to watch "Inception" "Dream Space", so he didn't change the screen at all, "The closest to now is at 11:30 in the evening, do you need anything?"

The girl obviously didn't expect it, she pointed to the screen above, "Isn't there four games in the afternoon, all the tickets are gone?" This is a bit incredible.

"Yes, it's all sold out." Chris King still smiled. He has answered similar questions no less than thirty times today. In fact, there are only the last three tickets left at 11:30 p.m. . "If you choose to watch the movie in the afternoon, there are still tickets for 'Pirates of the Caribbean 4' at 5 o'clock and 'Despicable Me' at 3 o'clock."

"I told you to make an appointment in advance! Look at it." The girl complained to the boy, who seemed helpless too. "I thought it was the second week of its release, and the tickets are definitely not so tight. Who knows it's still so popular." The boy comforted his girlfriend and asked, "Would you like to watch 'Pirates of the Caribbean 4'?"

While speaking, the boy also looked at Chris King and asked, "Is there still a ticket in the Caribbean?"

"Yes, at five," Chris King replied politely.

The boy's expression was very funny, some surprised and some funny. "Isn't it the premiere yesterday? Why are the tickets so hard to sell today." "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" held a grand premiere yesterday. Logically speaking, tickets should be very nervous today, but it was unexpected. , there are still remaining tickets for the next game. "How?" The boy looked at his girlfriend again.

The girl shook her head, "Pirates of the Caribbean without Evan, boring. Let's go to another movie theater."

The boy did not refute, he also thought the same way. It's hard for me and my girlfriend to both want to watch the same movie. It's really rare. Usually, the two of them often argue about which work they should watch. Today, both of them want to watch "Inception". It's a no-brainer. The boy looked at Chris King again, "Here you can check it out for me. Are there any tickets for Inception nearby? I mean, before four o'clock."

"Of course." Chris King said with a smile, his hands quickly searching on the computer, but after a while, he said. "On Lexington Avenue, there are still tickets for the 'Inception' that starts at 4:30. This is the closest time to now."

"4:30?" The boy repeated, looking at his girlfriend inquiringly, "It's acceptable." The girl also nodded, and then the boy said "thank you" to Chris King, and went with his girlfriend. Turn away.

Chris King moved his head a little, and a colleague next to him asked in a low voice, "Inception again?" Chris King nodded with a smile.

Although "Pirates of the Caribbean" entered the second week of its screening and ushered in the world premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", which made the film in the cinema still focus on "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", but unexpectedly, "Pirates of the Caribbean" 4" Although the venue is full, the speed of ticket issuance is obviously very slow, and the ticket issuance speed of "Inception" is still high in the next week, and the inquiry rate is far ahead. As cinema workers, they felt the audience's attention to these two works for the first time.

"It seems that this matchup turned out to be unexpectedly easy." Chris King replied with a smile, causing all the colleagues next to him to laugh. Chris King moved for a while, and another customer came over. He looked away and smiled hurriedly, "Good afternoon, welcome here, may I ask what I can do for you?"

"Excuse me, what time is the latest Inception game?" The guest's question made the smile on Chris King's face even wider, and he could even feel the joking glances from his colleagues around him.

Such scenes can be seen everywhere on the North American theaters in the third week of July, which is also the result of the head-to-head battle between "Inception" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" on the Forbidden City.

With a $40 million opening weekend, "Pirates of the Caribbean 4"'s debut was a flop, which was expected but not so catastrophically.

In fact, compared with the $30 million premiere box office of "Prince of Persia: The Blade of Time", the premiere data of "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" has recovered somewhat. However, the previous three jewels in the series are the first, and the "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" premiere has recovered somewhat. The competition for "Inception" is so fierce, the 40 million premiere figure has become very ugly.

From this data, it can be seen that the loss of fans of "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" is very serious. The box office of the second and third films that premiered over 100 million yuan directly plunged by nearly two-thirds. The Iron Triangle led by Evan Bell Absence was the fatal blow for the fourth installment.

But even so, the pirates still retain a group of fans, whether these fans are for the pirates, because they are curious about Penn Lecce played by Penn Lecce, or because of the so-called Avengers. generated interest, but these fans eventually walked into the cinema, took out their wallets, and chose to support "Pirates of the Caribbean 4". However, such die-hards are too few and too few, because most of the die-hards of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series are die-hards of Evan Bell!

Under such a premiere box office data, "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" in North America is 300 million, and even 200 million US dollars has become uncertain. The tragic opening of the box office and the bleak reputation made "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" on the verge of being sunk as soon as it set off. Now Disney can count on the next week's decline not to be too heroic, and then the overseas box office. It broke out, otherwise, maybe the $250 million investment would give Robert Eagle and Jerry Bruckheimer a headache.

In addition to the premiere data of "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" in the third week of July, the second week of "Inception" dropped, which not only determines the future box office trend of "Inception", Whether it is an explosive fan or a long-term blockbuster; at the same time, it will also influence the final result of "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" against "Inception".

Judging from the feedback from the film market, "Pirates of the Caribbean" relied on a strong word of mouth and the resurgence of entering the theater for the second time to find answers, and handed over an answer sheet that is enough to compete with "Pirates of the Caribbean 4". The results also verified this superficial phenomenon. The number of theaters for "Inception" in the second week of its release did not drop, but increased, from 3,800 to 4,000. It can be seen that the confidence of Eleven Studio and Warner Bros. has risen. In the end, the box office drop of "Pirates of Dreams" was not only controlled within a gratifying 40%, but also strongly controlled at 30%, and won 125 million. Horrible results for the dollar.

The reason why this result is "appalling" is not only because the 30% drop has become the lowest drop in the history of films with a premiere box office of more than 100 million, but the box office figure of 125 million US dollars has also become It is the first work in North American film history to break the 100 million box office for the first time in a week, far behind the 92 million box office record held by the previous "Dark Knight"! This is absolutely an unprecedented situation.

The record of "The Dark Knight" breaking the $200 million threshold in four days was shortened to three days by "Inception"; the memory of "The Dark Knight" breaking the threshold of 250 million in seven days was shortened to six days by "Inception"; The terrifying figure of "Knight" breaking through the 300 million mark in nine days was unprecedentedly completed by "Inception" within eight days!

Two weeks after its release, the cumulative box office of "Inception" has reached 360 million US dollars, reaching this figure in 14 days is slightly ahead of "The Dark Knight", which suddenly makes people exclaim, is it "Inception" Space" is going to break the previous record of "The Dark Knight" again, and even hit the unprecedented sturdy data of "Avatar"? This is just too scary!

Facing the impact of "Pirates of the Caribbean 4"Pirates of Dreams" declared his victory to everyone with a perfect answer!

"Pirates of the Caribbean 4" not only failed to have an effective impact on "Inception", but even because of Evan Bell's "empathy effect", it stimulated the box office of "Inception" to complete an unprecedented super explosion! The box office drop of "Inception" is only 30%. This is the first time in the history of the film that the box office of the premiere exceeds 100 million to control the drop below 40%. Avatar's 2 percent drop in the second week and 9 percent drop in the third week were comparable! Moreover, "Pirates of the Caribbean 4" is still in the quagmire of its own box office, and the premiere data of 40 million US dollars makes the continuation of the series has become precarious.

Compared with the decline of "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", the rise of "Pirates of the Dream" can be said to stand on a new historical height on the shoulders of opponents. Powerful opponents have stimulated powerful potential. "Dream Space" achieved a win-win situation.

There is no doubt that the decisive battle on the top of the Forbidden City ended with a great victory for "Pirates of Dreams"!

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