hollywood draw

"Director Greenberg, can you talk about the candidates for the Flash..."

"Wayne, Wayne, "The Dark Knight" was in a situation where tickets were hard to come by as soon as it was released today. Have you expected the hot scenes so far?"

"Hey, Director Greenberg, how much do you expect the first weekend of The Dark Knights to be in the box office, can you surpass The Joker......"

Faced with dozens of reporters, Wayne had sunglasses stuck on his face. Under Sergei's escort, he lowered his head and moved out of the airport hall with difficulty. He didn't breathe a long sigh after getting in the car.

"Are those tangled guys crazy? Hell!"

While tidying up his suit, Sergei looked back with lingering fear. Just outside the car window, there were at least more than forty reporters and paparazzi looking at them with expectations.

Taking off the sunglasses from his face and still to the side, Wayne smiled and shook his head. "Where are the rest of the crew?"

"The main actors such as Chris and Nami were surrounded by those crazy media reporters in the airport hall for interviews. It is expected that there are not a few dozen minutes, so don't try to get rid of those reporters easily."

He lowered his head and checked his briefcase with him, and Nina replied, "Do you want to wait for them? Charles is still inside. I saw Julia and other members of the team behind the scenes, who were already in the car just like us."

"We won't wait, let's go back to the hotel first, Sergey, and before going up, we will buy me all the newspapers from the mainstream media."

After raising his wrist to look at the time, Wayne was eager to know the feedback after the film was released, so he nodded to the driver. The car drove from the airport toward the Waldorf Associate Hotel under the gaze of dozens of reporters.

“What are the activities to arrange today?”

While the car was driving, looking at the street scene of Big Apple City that was constantly retreating, Wayne looked back at the assistant lady who was flipping the work record book and asked casually.

"At 7 o'clock in the evening, the crew members went to the Imperial Theater together and had a fan meeting. After the end, the crew was divided into two, and we had to visit a local radio station before nine o'clock to participate in an interview column. Chris and the others went to Times Square, where there was a large Batman-themed roadshow..."

With Nina's slow voice, Wayne closed his eyes unconsciously. He was fully prepared. Going out to promote a roadshow is not an easy task at all, but for the film's box office and subsequent income, these cannot be avoided in Hollywood.

Fortunately, because of its excessive attention, the media and audiences have also locked their attention on those big stars. Wayne is just a director after all, and his role and appeal in publicity are mainly based on stars standing in front of the stage.

"Boss?boss? We're here."

Feeling Nina's call, Wayne opened his eyes and shook his head gently. "Damn, I'm asleep, let's go."

Fortunately, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel attaches great importance to customer privacy and does not allow media reporters to enter the hotel lobby, which once again avoids some trouble.

Taking the elevator to the presidential suite, Nina knew what her boss was concerned about, so she turned on the computer to check the emails as soon as possible. When she saw the line of numbers, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"The box office of more than 17 million US dollars in advance is far exceeding the estimated $12 million that Warner Bros.."

After looking at Wayne sitting on the sofa and smoking silently, Nina knew he was listening to his report and continued: "Warner Bros. and a third-party survey company collected data analysis from the early stage, showing that more than 97% of the audience gave A or A or above the Dark Knights. The proportion of fans who scored B and B for the film was less than three%.

"Well, it seems that there will be no problem with the reputation of the movie fans."

Nodding with confidence, Wayne breathed a sigh of relief. Regardless of the media and so-called professionals in the circle, he praised "The Dark Knight" to heaven. In his heart, it is not as good as real fans' feedback. The reputation of fans is important. They are the main consumer groups of the film. Whether the subsequent box office can explode stably depends entirely on the opinions of these major consumer groups.

"The Dark Knight has just been released for less than a day, and now there are many comments on IMDB." After switching the computer web page, Nina skillfully reported the relevant information. "The current video's rating is 9.7 points, but as more and more people have watched the video, this super high score will inevitably decline."

Warner Bros. and Wayne attaches great importance to the emerging platform of the Internet. As the influence of this movie database becomes greater and greater, the invisible publicity role will become more and more important as its influence, especially the message board above, which is also the focus of their movie online promotion.

Everything is moving in the most ideal direction, and the information I get is also good, which makes Wayne feel very good.

“Boss, newspaper.”

Sergei held a large stack of newspapers and piled them on the coffee table. He had just read it briefly on the road, and almost all the media were singing praises to "The Dark Knight", whether it was an authoritative media or an entertainment tabloid.

Nina also pushed her glasses at this time, walked over, picked up a picture of "The New Yorker" with a very influential influence in the Big Apple City. When she looked at the newspaper, she found the famous film critic David Denby's analysis and interpretation of the movie "The Dark Knight".

"In 1940, Warner Bros., who was still in the big studio era, had already started to produce the movie about "Batman", and later produced "Batman" in 1943 and "Batman and Robin" in 1949. After the time came, the feature film "Batman" was remade again. It can be seen that Warner Bros. attaches no change in the importance of Batman for decades.

As time gradually moved to 1989, which was closer to us, Warner Bros. joined forces with Gothic director Tim Burton to produce the more successful box office "Batman", and also filmed "Batman Return" in the second year. According to statistics from historical data, there are countless movies, cartoons, and TV series about "Batman".

However, all the previous film and television adaptations about "Batman" turned into ordinary things in front of Wayne Greenberg's "Batman: The Dark Knight". Since I watched this great movie again last night, I fell into deep doubts. Why is only this "Dark Knight" the only one of the masterpieces of so many versions of "Batman" over the past few decades?

"Magic work, ah, boss, this local film critic in New York has given you a very high review of the movie." Nina looked at her boss. Seeing that the other party put down the newspaper in her hand, a proud smile appeared on her face. She knew that in the face of unanimous praise from the media and the film critics, her boss was in a very good mood.

"Do you still need to continue listening? I think this critic's analysis is excellent."

"Read on." Wayne nodded, crossed his arms against his chest, leaned against the sofa and closed his eyes. Everyone liked to listen to good words, and he was no exception.

“Ok.”

The assistant lady once again looked at "The New Yorker" in her hand, and continued to read it at the beginning without any rush. "The internal preview film critics scored 9 points professionally, and the fans scored 1 A+ in advance. The emerging online movie database IMDB, with a movie score of 9.7 points. She rushed to this authoritative data website's top 250 must-see movies, third place! It is one of the only two superhero movies on this list. It is worth mentioning that the other is Wayne Greenberg's other masterpiece "The Joker", which ranks second on this list!

From all aspects, it can be said that Wayne's superhero movies and other large-scene science fiction films and action movies are completely different from the same dimension. In my opinion, whether it is all the DC point movies of Warner Bros. in the past few decades, or more superhero movies may appear in the future, it is the best superhero adaptation movie, no matter what!

To summarize the greatness of "The Dark Knight", there are only three words in terms of professionalism, gap, chaos, and rhythm. These three words always run through the two and a half hours of movies, without any deviation. First of all, the gap. As an audience member, his emotions were already controlled by Wayne from the first second of his viewing of the movie. The audience felt that he should go east, but he insisted on going west.

The audience thinks that Batman Bruce Wayne should be praised on the altar. He insists on making Batman a crossing rat and being wanted by the whole city. Looking around the world, only Wayne dares to play like this. This is a master's absolute confidence in the control of movies.

The film only had five minutes at the beginning, and there were many contrasts in a short period of time, which firmly attracted the attention of all the audience. Whether it was the arrangement of the clown himself at the bank robbery scene or the smokeless bomb in the bank manager's mouth that was full of absurdity and funnyness from the scene to the story, the whole film attracted the audience's appetite from the fifth minute, and such contrast was constantly staged throughout the film.

When the clown appeared for the second time, he was in a frenzy with the gang. This is the characteristic of the clown in the movie, evil chaos. This was vividly expressed by the clown at the first hour of the movie. He grabbed hundreds of millions of dollars, but was burned out by the fire he didn't care about. The purpose of his crime was not for money at all.

On the contrary, the clown looks down on criminals who commit crimes for money at all. All his motives for crime can be summarized in a classic line. "This city needs a higher-level criminal!" So, good people, he has to do it, bad guys, he has to do it. This is the connotation of chaotic evil. Even just a few words can turn the pure good guy, Harvey, from the Knight of Light in Gotham City, into a two-faced man!

More importantly, the reason why the character of Joker is full of charm, and the reason why I became a masterpiece of "The Dark Knight" is because Wayne controls the rhythm of the film, and almost every frame of the picture is just right. The superb rhythm also allows every movie fan to get the movie viewing experience he wants in the movie. Overall, this is a great work that cannot be missed. I recommend every movie fan to go to the theater to enjoy this movie feast in person! --- David Denby."

David Dembie's praise for this long film review, which directly put the film into the sky. At the same time, she did not forget to advertise the film at the end of the film review. Other places are not clear, but as far as the surroundings of the Big Apple City are concerned, the influence of this well-known film critic is absolutely very great.

Not only this New Yorker, but other authoritative media are also filled with praise for the movie. Nina put down the newspaper in her hand, glanced at her boss with a smile on her face, shrugged her shoulders, and picked up another one. Usually, Naomi Watts did this, but today it was obvious that she had to do it herself.

"Batman: The Dark Knight is like a gorgeous movie viewing feast of dark epics. Wayne Greenberg, the perfect maker of Hollywood's light and shadow charm! Looking at the entire film "The Dark Knight", it is still a typical Greenberg-style movie. The whole film is dark and depressing but does not make people desperate. It is difficult for people to classify this movie into a commercial film with an in-depth interpretation of human nature and social corners, as well as a warning to crime and law.

In other words, this movie has surpassed the simple attributes of commercial films or art films. Wayne Greenberg used a superhero to fully demonstrate the audience the art of film, what it should have been! From the golden 1980s in Hollywood to the present, this movie is definitely one of the top three! "Los Angeles Times"--Kenneth Tulan."

"Wayne Greenberg makes the boundaries between commercial popcorn and art films blur, and at the same time makes the discussion between the two meaningless. As long as you watch this brilliant and great movie, every movie fan will express such feelings. Whether it is the law, crime, social issues, terrorism, or the real effects discussed in the film, as well as the exciting and amazing action scenes and car chase scenes, it makes the film look so good that it is hard to refuse. "The Hollywood Reporter" - Todd McCarthy."

"Do you still want to continue? Boss, other film critics' columns, say the same thing." Nina looked up and asked while flipping through the newspaper on the coffee table.

"Okay, enough..."

Just as he was about to go back to the bedroom to change his clothes, he had just gotten up, the phone next to the assistant lady rang, so he just sat down again.

"...Okay, I'll say to him, OK, then that's it, bye."

Nina habitually covered her mouth and hung up the phone. She looked at Wayne at the first time and said, "It's a coincidence that the post-production work of the second part of the Matrix has been completed. Warner Brothers asks you for your opinion and the schedule to be released on which schedule to watch the video."

"Where is Zach and the others?" Wayne raised one hand and gently scratched the stubble on his chin, asking while thinking.

"The third part is still being filmed in Australia," Nina replied: "Warner Brothers means that after the release schedule is set, the main crew members will return to Los Angeles to participate in the pre-screening publicity work of the film."

Wayne suddenly laughed. "Nina, I remember, Miramax has a movie that has a great reputation for preview in the summer of this year? Help me check their release dates..."

For a capitalist, the best revenge is of course to make money and even lose a large amount of investment. People like them all have one common characteristic, that is, they always put interests first, even higher than life.

"Boss, do you want it?" Nina asked subconsciously, and Sui closed her mouth tightly. She knew her boss quite well. This was a man who was very cautious in some aspects. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but express her deep sympathy for the fat man far away in Los Angeles.

Warner Bros. has been making Miramax so many times over the past few months. If Disney hadn't finally taken action and resolved some ubiquitous troubles, it is unknown whether several of Miramax's projects being filmed can be successfully completed.

Now that the other party is just about to release his ambitions and want to turn around with the film that has a great reputation in the preview, his boss has plotted against him again, poor fat man.

The crew of "The Dark Knight" in New York started a promotional campaign for the film amid the media and fans' praise. The film was released for a day and was already well received. What is very rare is that this time the praise was not only the reputation of the movie fans, but even the critics who usually like to sing against the movie fans' opinions also said good things about the film.

Throughout Friday, all the theaters in North America where the film "The Dark Knight" were screened into a certain kind of crazy mood. Warner Brothers had a very keen sense of smell. When the film was released on the first day, various hot scenes of queues appeared, their media immediately took action and began to report on the lively scenes in the cinema.

Time passed quietly as it drips, almost the whole of Hollywood was staring at this film, and they all wanted to know how high the first day of this "Dark Knight" could be.

The dazzling sunlight gradually rose. On Saturday morning, the door of Miramax's office was pushed open from outside. A middle-aged white man with a strong figure walked in with a magazine in his hand. "Harvey, don't you care about the box office of "The Dark Knight"? Give it."

Bob Weinstein pulled the chair in front of his desk, sat down, and threw the magazine on the table. This is the latest issue of "Premiere" this morning, which detailed the updates of all the theater markets this week.

"Plus with the early box office on Thursday, it would be over 50 million US dollars..."

Picking up the magazine on the table, Harvey Weinstein muttered softly as he flipped. Judging from the standards of this era, if a big-selling film can have a box office of over 100 million US dollars in the first weekend, it means that there is no need to worry about whether to sell. In his estimate, if the box office on the first day can exceed 50 million US dollars, the first week of "The Dark Knight" will definitely have a box office of over 100 million US dollars.

At the same time, this should be Warner Bros.’s expectation for the film, with a single box office of over 50 million US dollars and a first week of over 100 million US dollars. Maybe this film can really compete with the next weekend’s "Jurassic Park 2".

The sound of the magazine flipping suddenly stopped, and Harvey Weinstein's eyes paused suddenly, and his pupils quickly dilated, as if he had seen some incredible scenes. Then he raised his head in disbelief and looked at his brother opposite him.

"I know, it's hard to believe it, right?" Bob Weinstein shrugged and looked at his brother and said, "That's right, it's $84.36 million! It's not the first weekend box office, this number is just the first day box office! This time, Warner Bros. and Wayne Greenberg are going to make a lot of money!"

The report from "Premiere" magazine is very clear that "The Dark Knight" has a box office of about 17.2 million US dollars in advance. According to the North American box office statistics rules, the early box office income must also be calculated on the first day, so there is a figure of 84.36 million US dollars.

I'm afraid no one would have thought that on Friday day, "The Dark Knight" would have swept the horror figure of $67.16 million in the entire North American theater market. This figure has completely surpassed the first weekend box office results of many big-name films.

Harvey Weinstein frowned deeply. Now this "Dark Knight" has shown huge market potential, and there is "Jurassic Park 2" behind it. This masterpiece that is destined to be bad at the box office is waiting. In this way, it is best to change some of Miramax's plans.

"The three previews of "The Mind Catcher" have achieved explosive reputation. Whether it is the professional ratings of film critics or the ratings of fans participating in the preview, they are all excellent. However, we cannot use this film to gamble. You can communicate with the theater company immediately. "The Mind Catcher" originally scheduled to be released in mid-June, we will postpone it until December!"

"Have you, are you a little too cautious?"

Bob Weinstein didn't understand why the other party had such a big reaction when he just saw the first day of "The Dark Knight". It's only mid-to-late May, and when his film is released, it's almost impossible to be influenced by "The Dark Knight".

Shaking his head vigorously, Harvey Weinstein's face was extremely serious. "If you don't know Wayne, once his films show a trend of popularity, they cannot be analyzed by market rules. Moreover, his films are different from those summer popcorns, and their stamina is quite strong."

Obviously, Bob Weinstein has his own opinion. "But, isn't "Jurassic Park 2" released next weekend? Universal Pictures and Warner Bros., Wayne Greenberg and Steven Spielberg collided head-on, 90% of it was a loss-making ending for both fans to divert. We can..."

"Shut up, Bob, do what I said!"

After slapping the table twice, Harvey Weinstein directly interrupted his younger brother, his attitude as tough as ever and could not be refuted.

Both sides are hurt? Movie fans are diverted? Go to hell. He now has a strong premonition that the old Jewish man is very likely to fall into trouble this time. For the dark madman who appears to be extremely sunny and unpredictable in the darkness, he just wants to stay away from the other party.

"Ok." Bob Weinstein nodded helplessly, seeing the other person's face become very ugly, he stood up and walked out of the office.

However, before ten minutes passed, the office door was pushed open by Bob Weinstein again. This time, his face was gone, his eyes were filled with horror, and he said in a hurry: "Warner Brothers just released the release schedule of the second part of the Matrix through the media. Damn, they lined up the movie until mid-June, the same weekend as "The Mind Catcher"!"

"Shit!"

Harvey Weinstein swears. Now he is extremely grateful for his decision. He knows that Wayne's dark venomous snake will not let him go easily. The first part of "The Matrix" is really too successful. The large amount of reputation and popularity accumulated in the past is ready to lose all Miramax's investment!

"Go to contact the theater alliance, go now, we will change the file until December!"