Hollywood Hunter

The hearty and positive film ended, as usual, the eggs that everyone expected.

The "Suicide Squad" eggs that will be released at the end of the year have already appeared in the first "Batman: Moment of War". This trilogy finale has only one egg, but it is all DC in the Chinese theater screening hall. Fans are very excited.

A corner of a city street that obviously experienced a car chase battle, a burly figure in a cloaked suit reached out and pulled off the roof of a bat car that was almost scrapped by the fire. Batman inside the car slowly stood up, the two DCs were the strongest Superheroes confront each other for the first time on the big screen.

Without lines, this is enough.

The screen on the big screen was completely dark. After a short interval, thunderous applause immediately sounded in the screening hall. The applause continued for more than a minute until the host took the film with several main creators and sat on the stage, which slowly fell.

In the media interaction session, the first reporter of the variety show in the screening hall was not anxious to ask Ruifan Phoenix's superb interpretation of the clown, nor did he mention the style of Nicole Kidman playing the poison ivy. Ten thousand kinds, but the first time to ask how the shocking vines around the city special effects scenes are made.

Generally speaking, the more panoramic CG special effects, the easier it is to produce, but in the movie just now, the poison ivy girl gave birth to ancient vines winding the entire Gotham scene, whether it is a vine sprout drilled from the asphalt road, or a thick vine that the two hugged Entangling the whole building, or many buildings are unbearable to withstand the growth of vines and collapse and collapse, every shot, every detail, gives people a sense of immersion that adds indiscriminate fineness, it seems that there is really a modern city in a short time The inside is wrapped around by wildly growing green vines.

The most important point is that this part of the special effects scene still occurs in the daytime. Anyone who knows a little bit knows that compared with the same type of night CG scenes, the daytime special effects will greatly increase the difficulty of CG screen production and rendering workload, which naturally means With more budget.

In fact, just over three minutes of the vines around the city special effects scene burned the $12 million production budget, and the production cost of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" also reached $135 million, and this is still in Australia. The government gave a 15% tax refund on the basis.Otherwise, the production budget for this Batman movie will exceed $150 million.

The huge production budget rarely equates to movie quality, as evidenced by many blockbuster bombers in Hollywood.

However, Daenerys Entertainment is continuously producing the six DC movie universes of "Batman: The War Time", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Wonder Woman", "The Flash", "Superman" and "Steel Bone" After the blockbuster film, coupled with the accumulation of blockbuster films such as "Terminator 2" and "Jurassic Park" over the years, the development and use of Hollywood's powerful film industry has reached the extreme of this era.

Therefore, the dazzling special effects scene of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" that can still give the audience a sense of shock after a series of DC blockbusters is actually just a matter of course.

The Hollywood counterparts who have been chasing Daenerys for entertainment all these years are actually being pulled farther and farther.

Not to mention the other, only the two large rendering farms under the Daenerys special effects' computing power surpass that of most of the world's supercomputers, which other Hollywood film companies and independent effect studios can't have.

Not only in terms of technology, Daenerys Entertainment has been through a number of super blockbusters in all the processes of film project planning, official production, and post-promotion, and has formed a complete set of film industry flow. Operating system.

The first impression of the assembly line to the public is usually mediocre, but in reality it is not.

The streamlined operation system of the Daenerys Entertainment Film Industry that meets the highest standards can ensure the excellence of a series of blockbuster projects under Daenerys Entertainment.Even, even in the case of the movie itself is not too brilliant, you can get the most commercial income through the strong late announcement.

There is inevitably a problem here.

Can't other Hollywood studios imitate it?

Imitation is of course no problem.

The success is the big question.

After the great success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe under the original Disney, Disney’s various movie universes came one after another, such as the DC Movie Universe, Monster Movie Universe, Transformers Movie Universe, and so on. As a result, even the most promising copy of the Marvel Mode DC The film universe failed.

The problem with DC is obvious.

Warner executives interfered excessively, lacked sound production ideas, lacked trust in the original creators, etc.

Looking at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the success of "Iron Man" in 2008 is obviously just an accident. Both Marvel itself and Paramount, which was originally responsible for distribution, did not have much confidence in this project.When "Iron Man" sold at the box office, Paramount, who had the opportunity to win Marvel at the beginning, was still hesitant, and was picked by Disney.

Disney, who has won the Marvel Cinematic Universe, truly put this good hand to the extreme.

Even if more people publicly criticize the inner center for disguising Disney as a pipeline operation, they cannot obliterate the Marvel movie universe destined to leave a glorious sum in the world film history.

The same is true of Daenerys Entertainment now.

Simon has absolute control of Daenerys Entertainment and a clear and firm production idea for the new DC movie universe. Time Warner and Daenerys can provide the highest quality production and promotional resources for all projects. It is the foundation of the success of the DC movie universe.

Not only that, the accumulated experience of producing and disseminating a series of DC movie cosmic blockbusters has been successfully applied by Simon in the "Jurassic Park" series, "Ninja Turtles" series, "Mission Impossible" by Daenerys Entertainment. In many projects, such as series, these highly successful super blockbusters finally created the Daenerys Entertainment Group, which was very powerful in Hollywood at this time.

After the premiere, the word "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" was officially lifted the next day.

The "Hollywood Reporter" sentence "Hollywood still has only two movies, one is the DC movie universe movie, and the other is the commentary", it is a classic summary of most media's praise for "Batman: The Dark Knight" .

"Variety", "Los Angeles Times", "New York Times", "Boston Globe", "Chicago Tribune" and other mainstream paper media have given this Batman single trilogy finale highly praised .

The film's stunning feature is definitely not just after the previous six DC blockbusters, it still has further outstanding special effects, interlocking and another wonderful plot, the harsh pursuit of details under the atmosphere, the clown shaped by Ruifan Phoenix, Ni But Kidman’s poison ivy, and so on, have become the focus of many film critics.

In the end, "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" had a preliminary media comprehensive score of 9.7, which was 0.1 points higher than the 9.6 points in the initial release of the first "Batman: Moments of War" that surprised movie fans.Considering the general phenomenon that Hollywood sequels often fail to break through the previous game, the media reputation of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" is even more rare.

On Thursday night, "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" was rolled out across 3515 screens in North America, and the number of open screens also reached a new high.

On Friday, June 3, the first day of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" was released on a large scale, the previous week's box office data for the North American movie market was also released.

Last Friday, two new films "Blue Cowgirl" and "Princess and Goblin" failed to splash any water, so from May 27 to June 2 a week, the North American theater line basically consists of several old Full play.

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock starred in "Speed ​​of Life and Death" won the first place in the single-week list without suspense. Because of the lack of competition for new films, the film's box office fell by only 21% during the week and received another 25.39 million US dollars. The two-week box office reached a total of 57.56 million US dollars.

Simon originally expected the box office decline of the film to be controlled within 20%, and the 21% weekly drop was slightly lower than expected. Obviously, although no other strong competitors entered the same period, the film was still subject to "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" As a result, the audience's expectation of this DC movie universe super blockbuster has largely caused the market in the week before the film's release to cool.

The "Stargate" directed by Michael Bay continued to rank second in the list, and the third week of the release, the decline was also narrowed to 23%, the receipt of 19.49 million US dollars, the film last week, the cumulative box office reached 81.32 million US dollars, 100 million yuan away The threshold is not far away.

Mel Gibson starred in the western film "Gambling Horsepower" ranked third, this week's drop is also only a very good 22%, but the film's opening box office is too low, the next week's box office is only 16.15 million US dollars, two The cumulative box office score of 36.87 million US dollars per week is only equivalent to the 36.61 million US dollar at the first week of "Gate of the Stars".

Considering the strong impact of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight", which began painting on June 3, the total box office in North America for "Gambling Horsepower" is likely to stop at less than $60 million.Relying on the local box office, Warner can only barely recover the $30 million investment in the film, and huge losses are inevitable.

When a new box office week opened, almost all North American media and public attention was drawn to Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight.

After the start of one-of-a-kind word-of-mouth on Thursday, the first day of the large-scale release on Friday, "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" relied on 3515 opening screens to win the record-breaking first-day box office of $26.13 million.

The box office score of US$26.13 million on the first day of the painting almost made most Hollywood filmmakers burst into tears. Everyone's movies may not get so many in a week.

The media has spared no effort in hype, and the public's habit of viewing movies in the DC movie universe has further boosted the phenomenon's popularity.

In the end, three days from June 3 to June 5 on the first weekend, "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" had a strong $77.37 million, which was also a record box office record.

From June 3 to June 9, the first week of the box office came out. The seven-day box office of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" received a total of 127.63 million US dollars at the box office.

In the face of the strong crush of "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight", "Star Gate" and "Life and Death Speed", which had very good box office momentum, were directly cut at the box office in the new week, with a decrease of 53% and 49% respectively.

However, Mel Gibson's "Gambling Horsepower" is even more miserable. The box office base, which was not high, fell by 57% in the third week of the release. The single-week box office plummeted from last week's 16.15 million US dollars to $6.93 million, not to mention the box office expectation of $60 million after last week, and now even the $50 million threshold is hard to pass.

As for other films such as "When a Man Loves a Woman" starring Meg Ryan and Spike Lee's "Ethnic Love", they were once hit on the edge of the lower file.

The same is true of Daenerys Entertainment's "Detective Aircraft Head", which originally crossed the 90 million box office threshold with a box office receipt of US$3.17 million a week from May 27 to June 2, and the new week box office was in "Batman: The Dark Knight" The rise of the impact of Rise also reached 53%, with only 1.49 million US dollars left at the box office in a week, and a cumulative total of 92.39 million US dollars at the box office.

Although Daenerys Entertainment still retains 325 screens for this film, it is expected that the follow-up will only get another 5 million US dollars at the box office. The final box office of "Detective Aircraft Head" will be 97 million. The US dollar is one step away from the 100 million yuan box office.

If you want, Daenerys Entertainment can certainly take this step, but for the sake of suppressing Kim Carey, Simon has not approved some of the plans proposed by the "Detective Aircraft Head" announcement team.

Regardless of the situation of other films, "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" was a big success at the box office in the first week. Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner Group jointly organized a grand celebration party for the first time, the location is still in Daenerys Studios The employee activity center is on Saturday, June 11.

Although he no longer directly governs Time Warner's movie business, Terry Semel deliberately rushed from New York to Los Angeles on the celebration party.

The dream factory planned by Steven Spielberg and the three men has already started looking for a co-issuer.In the original space and time, the former partner of DreamWorks was Paramount Pictures. This time, Colombia, Paramount, Warner and Fox all expressed interest. Terry Semel also specifically called Simon for this. Test his attitude towards Warner's cooperation with DreamWorks. After all, the news that the DreamWorks Big Three announced the establishment of this large studio on the day of the premiere of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rise" obviously has some intentions for Daenerys Entertainment. .

Simon was uncomfortable.

Warner snatched the agency distribution rights of the DreamWorks films. In the short term, it may show a wave of prosperity and continue to support the momentum of the two strong sides of Warner and Daenerys. This still does not deviate from Simon's plan.

As for the long-term impact, the big deal is to make appropriate adjustments to certain plans based on specific future conditions.