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Paramount Pictures Building.

The marketing manager took the summarized box office data and submitted it to Shirley Lansing.

"The Dark Knight is down, 489 million in North America, and 978 million globally."-The original space-time North America broke 500 million, and the global 1.01 billion.

When Lyman led the "Iron Man" crew to work hard, "The Dark Knight" officially came to an end.

More than 900 million box office is also amazed by Hollywood practitioners.

Comparing the box office of the first "The Mystery of Xia Ying" with less than 400 million yuan, the second one is simply a metamorphosis, a surge that violates market common sense.

Then, the movie refreshed a series of achievements at hand-

The fastest total global IMAX theater revenue reached the $20 million mark: 11 days (more than 16 days in "Harry Potter 5");

Break through the 400 million USD mark at the fastest: 18 days;

Became the fourth best-selling film in North American history (the film was released for 6 and a half weeks, squeezing out the US$466 million from "Star Wars").

Not to mention, with such a short screening period, it has become the No. 1 box office for the Super British theme. Compared with the top box office works before the new millennium, "The Dark Knight" has only been screened in North America for 8 weeks, and it takes the shortest time. "Star Wars" and "Titanic" are the same for 3, 4 months or even half a year. It is only a matter of time before the breakthrough of 1 billion, and even more box office.

But Warner does not pursue these fictitious things. Under the market choice, the attendance rate of "The Dark Knight" in the last week was less than 10%, which still reduced a large number of screens and concentrated the audience.

In other words, strong support not only means that the theater cannot make room for new films, and it will not make much profit. Warner itself does the same, so why continue to hang it.

Still the same sentence, the market is booming, there are more film sources, and there is no money to release old films.

After the film was drawn, Warner immediately held a press conference to tout some of the film crew's creators and continue to add fame to the restarted Batman series.

At the same time, many media close to Warner took the initiative to provide good coverage.

"The "Dark Knight" is finished, and Batman has another screen miracle."

"977 million box office broke the record of the Super British theme, surpassing the 904 million of "Spider-Man 3", becoming the champion of the Super British ranking."

"Nolan's movies are all in stock, and the unique style is loved by movie fans."

The media clamor is second. The most influential thing for Paramount is that their ace project "Transformers" has accumulated 660 million worldwide, which is more than 40 million less than the initial first week.

Shirley Lansing flipped through the market data at hand and resisted the urge to shred.

After all, the box office doesn't compare well. In the peripheral market, Transformers is a toy series created by Hasbro, and the peripheral derivatives of "The Dark Knight" are only licensed and profitable.

Not to mention such a project, let Warner eat more than 2 billion inside and outside, how can this make people not jealous.

Invigorating business, channel demand, etc., are extremely beneficial to Warner.

In such a comparison, the progress of the production business after the acquisition of DreamWorks does not seem so happy.

I think I have confidence, and it does prove the success of the merger, but...Where can Shirley Lansing think of "The Dark Knight" selling for such a lot of money?

Columbia can't even think of it.

The prestige created by the "Spider-Man" trilogy was instantly overwhelmed by Batman.

The two are compared with quality reputation and film critics' evaluation, and they are not on the same level-both named and profitable, the influence on the audience is really different.

Shirley Lansing was a little envious of Warner's good luck.

It didn't take long for "Superman" to fail, and a more fierce "Dark Knight" appeared.

"You said...Can you learn from the style in "Transformers"?"

Shirley Lansing pondered for a moment, looking expectantly at the production manager.

Hollywood? It's not ashamed to study what to do.

In fact, many studios have similar ideas, just ask you, who is not jealous when watching such a work?

This is also the reason why Warner takes the wrong path. It is not that they are stupid, but that Nolan's future is too bright.

After all, there are too many roles under DC with a sense of mission. In the unlikely event that a "Dark Knight" comes out again, wouldn't it be extremely cool-crush the market and beat the peers.

Which studio can withstand this temptation?Can't stand it.

"..."

The production manager was called, but when he heard this question, his mouth twitched.

He has become accustomed to his boss who doesn't know much about the specific filming.

What's amazing is that Shirley Lansing is very accurate, except for some bad luck in the past two years. When she first took over the company, her results were very impressive.

But it is still hard for him to imagine how a toy adaptation project like "Transformers" can imitate the style of "The Dark Knight", just as he can't imagine Michael Bay can make a deep film that gives the so-called postmodern epic. Tragic.

Could it be that Optimus Prime yelled and directed everything at me, Decepticons, don’t hurt other people, and then bear the fate of being misunderstood and exiled, hiding in the dark, or the car people no longer being cool, a A justice Lingran insisted on his beliefs and did not give the actor a chance to pretend to be forced. In the first part of the actor, he drove the bumblebee to pick up girls. There was no half-division of family and national sentiments and mission responsibilities.

The two are not the same way.

The upper limit of the subject matter lies there. Michael Bay does not know the so-called action scenes and big scenes. Who watches his movies? Does everyone forget his fiasco in "Escape from the Clone"?

The audience clearly knew that watching his movie was just for fun, and didn't want to use their brains. As a result, the foreplay was too long, and the old talk about cloning theory and social consciousness about the entanglement of human cloning. Being sprayed half-dead by the audience-don't play if you can't play depth, what the hell is going on.

Shirley Lansing reacted quickly after speaking a stupid thing for a short time.

Yes, the toys for children, with cool special effects that allow the audience to enter the theater, "Transformers" does not follow the proven successful routines.

Innovation means risk. It means that the market is unpredictable and risk cannot be predicted. In doing so, can you completely believe that the director's ability can conquer the audience while conquering the market?

There are too many uncontrollable factors.

Shirley Lansing coughed and quickly passed the topic by herself.

"Remember to check the accounts with Hasbro, and notify the distribution department that the promotion of "Beowulf" can be started, and agree to use Angelina-Jolie as a gimmick to publish a notice."

Well, it's the gimmick that CG is naked.

Although Angelina Jolie had just married Pete not long before she wanted to contribute her body on the big screen, she didn't care if she wanted to come.

In fact, all the protagonists in this film only provide dubbing and body modeling, which is a combination of real people and animation.

According to Paramount, warm up in advance and wait until November to be directly sent to the theater. The rest is to watch the audience not accept it. Anyway, they still have some confidence in the film.

Just as the five major cities were aiming at the Christmas time and starting competition again, the long-prepared Lions Gate also showed its fangs for the first time.

"Twilight" produced by Firefly and released by Lionsgate will land on the North American theaters on September 21.

This wasn't a big deal at all. It was just a release. At best, I saw the two leading companies of the second-tier studios, Firefly and Lionsgate, join forces again.

But nothing deserves special attention.

After all, is it September and October? The Big Five don't take it seriously.

Of course, from another point of view, Lionsgate also wants its own works to be squeezed into Christmas, but after a long time arguing with the cinema dealers, they can't get enough opening screens, so they naturally take a step back and release them in advance.

This is also a bit depressing for their studios that are not covered by first-class resources.

If it is the off-season, Lionsgate can win more than 3,500 screens for "Twilight", then at Christmas, it would be nice to have 2,000 yuan to pick up the rest of several other companies.

There is no way, this is the hard gap between the foundation and the strength, the theater chain always has to pursue profit.

But the next operation makes the five big ones unable to understand.

Because Lionsgate has not contacted Columbia, Universal, or other film studios that it often cooperates with-after setting the file, it should initially discuss overseas distribution matters, unless "Twilight" does not want overseas markets at all, but how is this possible.

Then, it was revealed that Lionsgate had signed distribution terms with distributors around the world, which caused an earthquake in Hollywood.