hollywood draw

The cinemas that continued to fill up early on Friday morning were not just the one in downtown Los Angeles, but almost all of North America were performing the same drama. With the massive increase in the number of theaters in North America since the 1990s, similar hot scenes have not appeared for a long time.

Today is not a day off. Strictly speaking, the day when the film was released was Friday, and 80% of young fans all need work, which further reflects the persuasiveness of such a hot scene.

The crew who had already boarded the plane to make up for sleep did not know what influence their video had, but in the CEO office of the Warner Building, Burbank, the media capital, Jeff Robinoff had an unhidden smile on his face and just hung up the phone.

"How is it? Or good news?" Bruce Rosenblum, who was sitting opposite the work, also looked excited and stared at the other party.

"We sent investigators from all over the country to call the company. The situation is the same, full, full, or full!" With a strong fist, Jeff Robinov corrected his face and seriously reminded the distribution supervisor across the table: "I guess before getting off work today, the three major theater companies will call you. If you want more copies of the movie, you must be prepared!"

"Don't worry, you're all ready."

This is Wayne's film. Although the theater alliance led by the three major theater companies has opened a super-large release scale of 3,700 theaters, it is obviously not enough in the eyes of Warner Bros., so the distribution department printed one thousand more copies of the movie at the beginning, preparing for the film's first weekend.

When I got the box office numbers that were ahead of the game this morning, Bruce Rosenblum knew that the preparations he made would not be wasted.

The average attendance rate of 3,300 North American advanced games exceeded 75%. This number is too terrifying. This is the attendance rate achieved on Thursday night this week!

"The box office of the game is more than 17.2 million US dollars in advance, and the box office of a single museum almost exceeded 6,000 US dollars." Bruce Rosenblum's voice was unstoppable. "This is a result that only appears when only one screening is released. This "Dark Knight" can be said to be creating miracles as soon as it was released!"

If this situation continues, both of them know that the box office of a single restaurant exceeded 10,000 on Friday, which is almost a foregone conclusion. This also means that all the early publicity of Warner Bros. and Wayne is worth it, and the market feedback can no longer be described as ideal, and it is simply a perfect start.

Jeff Robinoff whistled, bent down and opened the desk drawer, reached out to take out two thick cigars, and threw them to one across the table.

When both of them leaned against the office chair and enjoyed the victory cigar, Bruce Rosenblum said: "I have emailed Wayne's assistant this morning when they landed, and they will be shocked by these statistics, haha."

"Yes, if nothing unexpected happens, before the release of "Jurassic Park 2"." Jeff Robinoff turned from behind his desk, walked to the window and looked at the media capital outside, held a cigar and opened his hands, making an action to embrace the world. "The entire North American theater market will be from "The Dark Knight", all of them!"

No one dares to underestimate Steven Spielberg. Even if "The Dark Knight" has a super perfect start, no one dares to underestimate that good-looking man. Even if Wayne has been famous for box office sales since his debut, it does not damage the strong confidence of the people in the circle for the old Jewish man.

After all, the leader of the three DreamWorks has used too many box office miracles to prove his film profitability in the past few years.

"Who wins and loses will have to be better than ever." On the contrary, although Bruce Rosenblum also knows Steven Spielberg's power, he obviously has more confidence in Wayne. "Let's increase the publicity of the video, and I will let Batman's logo hang around the streets and alleys of North America!"

"Go and do it."

Last night's early box office numbers, one-sided reputations from fans, and the good news that they received this morning also gave Jeff Robinoff a lot of confidence. He turned around and looked at the director of distribution in Warner Bros. and said loudly:

"Let's go and do everything possible to spread the information about "The Dark Knight" to the ears of every potential movie fan! After the box office on the first day comes out, I will propose at the board meeting tomorrow to add 20 million US dollars in publicity and distribution funds for the film! Go and do it, Bruce."

The start of "The Dark Knight" is really so good, so good that it's unbelievable. The entire Warner Bros., and even the entire Hollywood know that this second Batman movie will definitely have a box office explosion, but I'm afraid no one would have thought that it would explode so violently from the beginning.

It can be said that early on Friday morning, as soon as the film appeared in the theater market, the theaters that were screening "Dark Knight" were full, and the wonder of queuing up to buy tickets. This film completely ignored the impact of working days or not, and even more ignored the so-called market rules. Just half a day passed, and there was a situation where tickets were hard to come by in the theater.

"Sorry, ma'am, the latest episodes of "The Dark Knight" will not be available until after 5 o'clock in the afternoon!!"

The numb ticket sales staff said to the girl in front of them many times.

"What?!" The girl obviously didn't expect that she raised her wrist and looked at the time. It was just past lunch time. If you waited after five o'clock in the afternoon, wouldn't it take more than four hours? "God, can you help? I'm just afraid that I can't buy a ticket when I watch it tomorrow, so I specially asked for leave to watch "The Dark Knight", e on, don't let me wait for so long! Please."

"I'm sorry, ma'am, you can wait in the lobby for a while." The ticket seller was helpless. The similar situation started before lunch, and he explained it tirelessly. "Maybe there may be movie fans who refund tickets in the middle. However, I suggest you buy the show at 5:15, otherwise you may have to buy the show after 9:00 in the evening!"

"Okay, give me a ticket for 5:15, thank you." The girl knew that it was unrealistic to wait for someone to return the ticket in the middle, because he had asked before he came in, and the scalper at the entrance of the theater had no tickets in his hand.

Holding the movie ticket in her hand, she turned around and thought about whether to go home to rest for a while. Her eyes were fixed on the entrance of the tickets, but she could not move.

There were two straight lines there, and fans entered the venue in an orderly manner under the command of a girl and a black boy in a security uniform. This scene was not surprising. What made her feel shocked was that these people were wearing uniform T-shirts and uniform baseball caps.

The pure black T-shirt is very conspicuous, with a huge bat printed on the front and a line of letters at the back: "Wayne Greenberg diesel fan! The baseball cap is also very distinctive, with two letters on it: DC.

"Excuse me."

The girl who was about to leave stopped walking and turned around and asked the ticket sales staff again, "Did those people book tickets in advance?"

The staff tried hard to look at it, with a look of sudden enlightenment. "You are talking about Schroeder and Daisy? They are the leaders of Wayne's fan organization. They don't have to buy tickets. There are three theaters that were booked two weeks ago. Pay attention, the movie tickets they use are different from what you have."

As the staff explained, she realized that the fans wearing uniform clothes started to watch the movie in an orderly manner from the opening of the theater in the morning. After the end of the show, the same dressed crowd would come again. The process has lasted for half a day and will continue, and it is expected to end until the end of the last movie in the theater in the evening.

The same interests and hobbies represent a common language. If you watch the movie in an organized and unified manner, you don’t have to grab those popular movie tickets by yourself. The most important thing is that these people wear the same commemorative T-shirts and the same commemorative baseball caps and look at them with envious eyes, but there are more than girls. The fans waiting in the lobby and rest area are almost all the same eyes.

It is better to act than to move. The girl held the movie ticket tightly and walked towards the busy black man with curious eyes, raised her hand and patted him on the back.

"Hello, I'm Noah, Noah Francis." Seeing the black boy turn around, she introduced herself directly, and then pointed to the clothes and hats on the other party. "I was attracted by these, you are so cool!"

"Uh...thank you." Schroeder looked at the cheerful white girl. He was sure that he did not see common discrimination in the other party's eyes, which made him smile with his passionate smile and reveal two rows of snow-white teeth. "Noah, is there anything wrong?"

"You are so cool. What do you need to do if you want to join you?" The girl reached out and touched the T-shirt on the other party again with a close smile, and said enviously: "Just join you, you can watch movies together, and you can have these fun things that you can't buy on the market, right?"

"Of course." Schroeder nodded subconsciously, then reacted and said, "I mean, we can certainly have these things when we join us. Do you know IMDB? We are all hardcore fans of Wayne, and we all met through this online movie database. There."

As he said that, he pointed to Daisy who was chatting with the ticket inspector not far away. "It's that girl who started organizing everyone together a few years ago. Because everyone is a hardcore fan of Wayne, everyone can chat normally. If you want to join, the premise is, are you a fan of Wayne?"

“yes!”

The girl waved her arms excitedly, nodded continuously like a chicken pecking at rice, and did not forget to show the movie tickets I just bought. "I am a Wayne fan. I have watched every movie of him more than once. Today I also took a special leave to watch "The Dark Knight". What do I need to do if I want to join the company? When can I give me a set of clothes and hats? Do we have other benefits in our organization? Have you ever met Wayne himself?"

Facing the enthusiastic and cheerful girl who kept asking questions, Schroeder smiled and raised his hands and made a surrender gesture. "Okay, come with me, I'll take you to see Daisy, and you'll ask her the rest."

At the same time, he also called out with joy in his heart. Now this movie fan organization is expanding at a terrifying speed. Even if the threshold for joining the organization has become higher, people will continue to join them.

Schroeder believes that if this continues, only members of Los Angeles may have to book two theaters separately when Wayne’s new movie is released next time. He has grown up with the fan organization, and every time he joins someone, he can get an unparalleled sense of accomplishment.

It is not just this theater that is in a movie viewing frenzy like a hard-to-find ticket, nor is it just Los Angeles. This has become a common phenomenon. It seems that all North America has fallen into a certain fanatical mood. This emotion has scared the crew members led by Wayne as soon as they get off the plane!