hollywood draw

There was a strange atmosphere on the plane. Even if Wayne explained it again and again, people kept sending him congratulations.

It was not until even Zach Schneider left him with a complicated expression on his face that Nina and the others became quiet.

The atmosphere afterwards became a little abnormal. The group did not, as usual, and could not wait to take the time to rest when they got on the plane, and there was no chatting or laughing at each other. Almost all small groups were formed, talking about box office numbers in a low voice, and from time to time, they even looked at the director's position with various eyes.

Tim Burton's mood is also complicated. If you talk about the Batman movies or the superhero movies, you can't avoid his first successful work in 1989.

Now, this young man has only spent one weekend to overwhelm the glory of the previous two Batman movies, and has caused a movie viewing frenzy in North America with a familiar superhero in North America and even the whole world.

From the beginning of the plane today, the group was almost holding a few newspapers, and Tim Burton himself was no exception. It can be seen from the various newspapers and magazines in the newspaper booth that the editors of the newspaper must have been working overnight so that all the paper media could be news about the movies.

Unlike others, he and Wayne also had a telegram sent by Warner Bros. It not only contained box office numbers, but also had specific analysis of various moviegoers.

After winning $35.88 million on the first day, "Batman: The Moment of War" has soared all the way on Saturday, continuing to maintain a very high attendance rate. First-tier cities have reached a level of hard to get tickets, and the box office on the same day closed at $22.1 million again.

The theaters finally stopped being congested on Sunday because Monday was a weekday and consumed a lot of heat in the first two days. They won $15.8 million again on that day, and the box office trend was very healthy.

"Batman: The Moment of War" was released for three days, and it hit $73.78 million in the first weekend. Faced with Batman who was pushed back this time, the media gave a unified title, "The King of Darkness once again crushed the beginning of the summer season after "The Joker"!"

"Die Hard 3" released at the same time as Batman is neither performing nor popular. If you don't look at the results of your competitor Batman, the box office of more than 22 million US dollars in the first weekend of this film will not meet expectations at most, and there will be no possibility of recovering costs or even making profits in the future.

But after putting the two films together, everyone will find that "Batman: The Moment of War" completely crushed "Die Hard 3", almost squeezing the other party with little market share.

If it weren't for the film's true approach to the summer season, Bruce Wesley still had some appeal, and he might have faced an embarrassing situation of reducing the scale of screenings after the first weekend.

There are many factors that have caused the box office miracle of "Batman: The Moment of War", but the most important reason is that even Wayne himself has to admit that the over-intensive bombing of publicity and marketing has driven many family and teenage fans into the theater.

You should know that since it is PG13 rating, parents are completely relieved that the movie will not have a bad impact on their children. Once they watch the movie collectively on weekends, they will have at least three or four movie tickets.

The same is true for teenagers. In the Warner Bros. investigation report, it was shown that groups of teenagers would have several movie tickets to watch at a time, and there was repeated viewing at the beginning of the movie screening.

Compared with these two groups, Wayne's main movie fans, young people aged 18 to 30, have not yet made any efforts. They are more rational in watching movies. Many people choose to postpone the movie viewing plan.

This is also the confidence of Wayne and Warner Bros. in the subsequent box office trend. The audience on the first weekend was almost all impatient teenagers, with the highest enthusiasm and free time.

"The profits of those movie derivatives are simply terrifying!" Tim Burton saw that Wayne was not sleeping, sat next to him and sighed. "Warner Brothers may have made a lot of money this time, oh, no, you are also one of the bosses of Warner Brothers."

"The cake in this market is too big." Wayne nodded slightly, also jealous of the profits of various derivatives. "Even if I had a premonition at the beginning, I gave those equipment enough shots, but I didn't expect that the bat armor and masks could be sold out. Those teenagers were too crazy."

On the fax they received, Warner Bros.'s clear peripheral statistics, the various props that appeared in the movie alone sold nearly $65 million in sales.

Needless to say, the sold-out Bat Armor and Mask were directly sold, even the expensive Bat Vehicles were directly picked up by someone. Then Warner Bros. started the ordering activity, and seven or eight of these cars had been pre-ordered.

"This is simply huge profit, Wayne." Tim Burton looked out the window and sighed sincerely: "In addition to the terrifying profits of animated feature films, you have created the second one! Look, I guess there will be many superhero movies next summer. The benefits are too great, and those companies can't help it."

“It’s hard.”

Wayne doesn't agree with his point of view. If there are many follow-up productions, he still believes it. Just like when he was shooting horror films, there have been many shoddy American mill plasma horror films this year.

Why is Hollywood increasingly called assembly line? Various collective productions account for a large part of the reason. If you compare them carefully, you will find that many successful movies are very similar. This is a group of production companies that are good at summarizing successful experiences, and they are directly trapped in nesting dolls.

"Tim, if you want to make superhero movies well, the investment is too high. This is destined to be a game that small companies can play. The investment in a movie can make those small and medium-sized companies go bankrupt and liquidate, and this level can screen out most followers."

"Don't forget, besides Warner Bros., there are five giants who are eyeing each other." Tim Burton has been in the industry for so many years and knows the virtues of the production company. "They won't let the Warner Bros. take over the huge benefits. By the way, I heard that you have a good relationship with Steven Spielberg? I'm afraid DreamWorks also have the strength to produce."

"Then let them do it. No one can understand the difficulties if they don't fall hard." Wayne's lips curled up, with obvious mockery. "Even if someone can solve the IP problem, they won't really think that superhero movies have become mainstream, right?"

His words woke Tim Burton up suddenly. Yes, in this era, only he and Wayne had made superhero movies. There were too many difficulties that needed to be prepared in this, and it would never be copied in a few months.

Moreover, the most important point is that the mainstream commercial films nowadays are science fiction, action, war, and epic movies. Even comedy and horror movies, two types that are good at making big fortunes with small numbers, are better than non-mainstream niche superheroes.

"Tim, "Batman: The Moment of War" was successful because the three of Justice's reputation is so great that people ignore the situation of superhero movies. And there is also a very important point. Without you accumulating fans in the two predecessors in 1989 and 1991, I wouldn't dare to try it easily this time."

To put it bluntly, there is a reason why he dared to try Batman early this time. This Gothic genius director has fully expanded Batman's influence and allowed movie fans to accept it and watch superhero movies on the big screen.

This is equivalent to making a production on the other party's shoulders. The three most famous superheroes in DC, Diana Prinz, is a woman. Unless the status of women is greatly improved, he will never touch it under the current social ideology. The big production of a single female protagonist is recognized as the one who touches and dies.

Clark Kent has an invincible influence and is well-deserved as the world's number one superhero, but the special effects problem is too big. In Wayne's idea, it will take two years to wait until the computer special effects are popular before starting to produce them.

The rest is Bruce Wayne. Whether it is in terms of production cost or shooting difficulty, this is the best candidate, not to mention that the genius director on the opposite side has helped him expand his influence enough.

"No, Wayne, you're doing better than me." Tim Burton was deeply touched by this. "After "Batman Returns", I realized one thing: not all movies need to be over-personalized. The Gothic style is very good, and fans also highly recognize it, but over-abuse is not necessarily the case."

What he admires the most about the young people around him is that he can restrain his own production style.

All North America knows that Wayne Greenberg's directorial style must be the core of the dark and serious story. The film analyzes human nature and social issues in a lot, and there are also essential large-scale shots that allow the audience to release their emotions. Typical academic multi-line narrative techniques, etc.

But this time, "Batman: The Moment of War" ensured that most of his production style was retained, but it perfectly restrained his own desires and allowed the film to have a large audience. Otherwise, the R-level film would be the best choice for such a bitter and revengeful character story.

It is never a shame to compromise in the market. The director who holds his so-called artistic attributes cannot achieve such great success as him.

"Mr. Burton, the plane is about to land. Please go back to your own position and take safety measures."

The two of them ignored the time during the chatting of each other without realizing it, and the flight attendant had to come over and remind him politely.

"Okay, I'm back, Wayne, are you ready to be surrounded by reporters? Ha, those reporters will never let you go easily." Tim Burton spread his hands and returned to his position while teasing.

Just as he said, the airport staff reminded them as soon as the plane stopped on the runway. Not only were there a large group of movie fans waiting in the waiting hall, but hundreds of media reporters were waiting.

The airport has insufficient security personnel, so they should wait a few minutes before the police arrive and get off the plane.