Chapter 419

In the face of "Batman: The Dark Knight" overwhelming, other films in the same period of this summer season are all reduced to a complete foil that is not worth mentioning.

After the record opening day, countless people inside and outside Hollywood are watching the box office figures of this super blockbuster every day.

$23.76 million on the first day.

$24.33 million on Saturday.

20.39 million on Sunday.

Just three days after the first weekend, the cumulative box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" quickly hit a high of $68.38 million.

On weekdays, the box office momentum of the film remains unchanged.

Finally, at the end of the first week from June 7 to June 13, "Batman: The Dark Knight" created a new weekly box office record without any doubt, and achieved an unprecedented first week break of 100 million.

US $102.07 million.

This is the box office of Batman: the dark knight in its first week and seven days.

In seven days, "Batman: The Dark Knight" jumped to the second place in the 1991 North American box office ranking, after the $118 million of the upcoming Valentine's day film "fight smart star" at the beginning of the year.

In the face of this super blockbuster's box office exceeding 100 million yuan in the first week, most Hollywood filmmakers have a strong sense of powerlessness.

Once upon a time, as long as a film can achieve a total box office of more than 100 million in North America, it is enough for everyone to celebrate. However, it seems that in the twinkling of an eye, the box office of the film has become so simple.

Most people actually understand that this is just an illusion.

In 1991, nearly half of the schedule was completed, and the North American cinemas only produced two North American films with a box office of more than $100 million, namely "fight smart" and "Batman: The Dark Knight".

However, "Batman: Dark Knight" box office momentum, it is to let too many people feel elusive.

It's not that no one has imagined that Batman Series or DC movie universe will fail after the amazing opening of Batman: the moment of war. The whole project invested 160 million US dollars, which was unimaginable in the past few years.

Even with the popularity of the first film, the sequel has no problem in recovering huge costs through Omni channel operation. However, if the film cycle is too long, the project is doomed to be a failure.

Now, all those who hold certain expectations are left with disappointment.

The first week's $102 million box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is almost impossible to be less than $300 million.

US $300 million is just the cost line for this super blockbuster to recover its full budget through the local box office.

According to the box office data of the first week, not many people doubt that the project can not only recover the full budget, but also achieve partial profits through the North American cinema.

Meanwhile, all kinds of toys, posters, records and video games related to "Batman: The Dark Knight" are also on sale at the same time.

This sequel, from the beginning of the car chase war to the end of hanging dirty bombs away from the city, can be said to destroy Batman's bat motorcycle, Batmobile and bat fighter all over again, so that many fans are greatly distressed.

However, there are other character props specially used for derivatives development in the film.

Even Cindy Crawford, a guest star, has launched the same role in the film. Because she didn't predict the popularity of the supermodel in the film in advance, the news that the film was out of stock came from various retail channels two days after it was painted.

According to rough statistics, the total sales volume of various peripheral products of Batman: Dark Knight reached 170 million US dollars in just one week.

Compared with $130 million in the same period of "Batman: the moment of war," sales have increased by more than 30%.

In addition, the box office of 21 overseas countries and regions that are showing simultaneously has reached 130 million US dollars in the first week, because they cover the major overseas ticket warehouses such as Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and Australia.

So, just in its first week, Batman: The Dark Knight grossed $230 million worldwide.

In the early 1990s, the world trade organization had not yet been established, and the film markets of various overseas countries were relatively closed.

However, on average, Batman: The Dark Knight, a blockbuster that overseas theaters are scrambling to introduce, can recover about 35% of the box office share through overseas markets.

According to the ladder sharing rules signed by the U.S. local distributors and theaters, the approximate profit ratio of peripheral derivatives sales, and the average share ratio of overseas box office, it can be calculated that Batman: the dark knight has only been released for one week, and the funds expected to be recovered from various channels have reached $140 million.

It took seven days to recover US $140 million. Although the box office of the film fell sharply in the second week, the project is destined to turn to profitability quickly.

The onlookers just keep a close eye on the box office data of Batman: the dark knight. Professionals who are familiar with the operation details of Hollywood film projects can clearly see that the film, which has invested 160 million US dollars, has shown a momentum of making a lot of money in just over a week.Hollywood has never lacked followers.

Faced with the success of DC movie universe, other studios subconsciously began to look for similar projects.

Then, everyone once again found that the two major cartoon giants in North America, DC and marvel, are no longer the objects they can reach.

Marvel comics is completely hidden in Simon westrow's hands as a gold mine. Not only does he not intend to "mine", but also he does not mean to let other studios work for him.

DC Comics, which lost Batman, Superman and wonder woman and almost sold themselves in the 1980s, even showed a state of strict guard against the copyright of their own superheroes. All the producers who tried to contact time warner with the copyright ended up in failure.

Because of the long-term recession of the comic industry, in this era, apart from marvel and DC, there are no other large-scale comic companies in the United States. Many years later, Black Horse Comics and Image Comics, which followed marvel and DC, were either in the early stage of development or not yet established.

Although many people also understand that the key to the success of DC movies in the universe lies not in "DC", but in "the universe".

Moreover, Denise entertainment is far ahead of the film production technology and concept of this era, which is also the key to the success of DC film universe.

However, after contacting marvel and DC for copyright, Hollywood studios are still looking for some small comic companies to support some original comic content.

When the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" came out in the first week, the third film of the series "Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight" was officially approved, and the preparatory work began.

In fact, at the beginning of the project, Simon had already planned the plot of the trilogy.

Now, Jane de bond has proved that he can support the production of this series, and the film's leading actor and heroine and other major creators have signed long-term contracts. There is no need to haggle over the film's pay just because of the box office sales. Therefore, the launch of the third film has basically started the practical process of supporting role selection and movie scene.

In just two short films, Batman has become a hit for a large number of unknown or lukewarm actors. With the opening of the third film, any role in the plan has become the goal of Hollywood's major brokerage companies.

Of course, the plan will never catch up with the changes. It is necessary to adapt to the accumulation of the first two parts and make certain changes to the third part, but the main line will not change.

Batman: The Dark Knight will officially become a crossover, compared with the second film, the egg.

The intersection of Batman and wonder woman.

The villain of the film adopts a mode similar to that of a main boss plus one or two other small bosses in the first two films.

In addition to the clown, the third series will also appear the first super female villain, poison ivy girl.

Simon, of course, will not make the poison ivy that Tim Burton's UMA Thurman looks cheap as Coser. Instead, he intends to make the same role setting as cat girl. He also refers to the poison ivy setting in Batman: the Arkham knight in memory: a red shirt with only one button, barefoot, long legs and full of thin legs The green skin of the little vine.

With a strange but irresistible wonderful sexy.

The poison ivy girl in Batman: the knight of Arkham almost saves Gotham's existence in the end, and purifies the nerve poison released by Scarecrow through sending out plants.

In Nolan's version of Batman: The Dark Knight, the focus is on the clown's manipulation of people's hearts, but in the cartoon setting, the clown actually goes beyond the Scarecrow's expert level of poison use.

According to Simon's trilogy, the first is to crack down on gangsters, the second is to save the city, and the third is to save the world, which is designed from small to large. In the planned Batman: The Dark Knight, the clown will be an existence trying to destroy the world.

Batman will come to Gotham to find the mother box of magic woman and cat woman, together with the last wake up poison vine girl, fight against the clown's plot.

This time, the three mother boxes will become the key to connect the whole DC movie universe ahead of time.

At the same time, in the third part of the plan, because the poison vine girl, a real super power who can control plants, participates in it, and the clown's final transformation is affected by the mother box, the special effects application will be upgraded to another level.

Batman's own equipment will be upgraded again, and the powerful bat armor will appear.

The CG technology of daenerys special effects is far beyond the original time and space. However, in order to achieve the planned special effects as perfectly as possible, Simon plans to reserve three years for the third film.

Three years of continuous research and development, enough danilisi special effects CG technology to a higher level.

Of course, that means Batman: The Dark Knight will be released in the summer of 1994.

In the meantime, though, Denise and Warner Bros. will join forces to launch flash, wonder woman and the rebooted version of Superman.Therefore, although we have to wait for three years, the progress of DC movie universe will not stop.

With the commercial potential of Batman Series, it is much better to slow down the pace and to be more meticulous in every part of the series than to be impatient to launch more films to continuously squeeze the market potential and even cause the audience's aesthetic fatigue.

After the first week, the second week, from June 14 to June 20, will soon be over.

This week's new film has been reduced to one, Disney's youth comedy "holiday girl love", which tells the stories of a group of girls during the holiday after the accidental death of their elderly nanny in order to avoid the constraints of their parents.

Compared with Universal Pictures jungle fever and fox comedy ugly, which opened less than 1300 screens last week, holiday girl has opened 1806 screens. Compared with Disney's conservative distribution strategy, the number of screens has also increased significantly.

Hollywood as a whole is probably more and more able to realize the benefits of full distribution and even saturated distribution.

However, like last week's two new films, even if the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" dropped significantly next week, "holiday girl" is still just a foil.

In the end, "Batman: The Dark Knight" fell 41% at the box office the next week after it was released, earning another $60.18 million.

In two weeks, the cumulative box office of the film reached 162.25 million US dollars.

Although it was not as bad as the box office in Batman: the moment of the war went down the next week, it was also expected by everyone.

If the first week breaks 100 million, if there is not too much decline in the next week, then this series will go against the weather completely.

In fact, compared with the usual 50% drop in the next week of saturated commercial blockbusters, Batman: The Dark Knight's next week drop of 41% is still very rare.

The total box office figure of US $162.25 million in two weeks is basically the same as the box office data of the first week when the box office reversed.

As long as the next box office decline trend is narrowed again, it is not impossible for this sequel to hit the $400 million box office mark in North America again.

For two weeks in a row, Time Warner's share price has been steadily rising due to the commercial success of Batman: the dark knight.

Time warner can't wait to announce that it will hold a grand celebration party on June 22 when Batman: The Dark Knight's second week of release ends in an attempt to boost the stock market.

It's actually Saturday, the third week of Batman: the dark knight.

These days, the film business of dannilis entertainment and the integration of dannilis and MCA make Simon busy from morning to night almost every day.

However, as the creator of the DC movie universe and the super brand of the series, "Batman: The Dark Knight" is going to hold a celebration party, Simon can't be absent. Otherwise, there will surely be a saying that "daenerys and Time Warner's interests are unevenly distributed, and the promotion of the DC movie universe plan is afraid of change".

In fact, similar arguments have never disappeared.

After all, the interests involved in the DC movie universe are too huge. Batman: the moment of war, with an expected net profit of more than 1 billion US dollars, has been equivalent to the net profit of a top 500 enterprise giant in the world in one year.

Judging from various public data, "Batman: The Dark Knight", the profit scale is not much lower than the first song.

Even if time warner can take half of the revenue this time, in the eyes of many people, the IP of Batman is Warner's, and Time Warner has always suffered a big loss in the business with Denise.

In fact, if danielis and Time Warner don't have any differences in the cooperation of DC movie universe, it's a lie with open eyes.

However, Simon managed to keep the rift under control through the right distribution of benefits, including cooperation with Warner on projects outside the DC movie universe.

Of course, interests move people.

However, if the price of turning over is likely to be like flying eggs, if it doesn't turn over, we still have a very good harvest. People with a little sense will probably choose to move rather than be quiet.

Simon, as the absolute controller of danielis entertainment, could have chosen a way to fight against each other because allista records concealed the sales of "bodyguard" original records.

As a listed company, Time Warner is under heavy pressure from external shareholders and other faction leaders, so it is impossible for Steve Roth to tear his face too fiercely.

Because Simon has proved in the original "bodyguard" original record incident that if the partners don't obey the rules, Denise entertainment will only be more tough.