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The plane landed successfully in Phoenix, and there were still media reporters flocking in the airport lobby. After the news that the Dark Knight's box office exceeded 200 million US dollars on the first weekend of the film crew, all of them became the focus of media pursuit.

The number of 200 million is unprecedented in persuasion and the influence it causes is unprecedented. Unfortunately, something that destined to disappoint the reporters happened. Wayne, one of the protagonists, took a special passage after getting off the plane and rushed into the car to the hotel.

Fortunately, except for director Wayne, everyone else was there, and everyone was surrounded by excited reporters, as well as movie fans surrounded by airport security personnel, constantly answering various questions. This time, even the staff behind the scenes were not spared.

Compared to the crew who wandered between pain and joy, Wayne was talking about something while driving quietly towards the Hilton Hotel.

According to the original plan, he also had the task of accepting media interviews. The purpose of the promotion of "The Dark Knight" was to increase exposure. In order for the movie to have more box office, he is of course no exception.

But as soon as he got off the plane, he first received congratulatory calls from several senior executives of Warner Bros., and then some calls from friends in the circle. It can be said that the phone ringing has not stopped. He simply handed over the crew to Charles Rowan, took Nina and Sergey with him, chose to leave alone, and return to the hotel first.

"You have to come back to the movie premiere, it's best to come back a few days before the premiere." Zach Schneider's voice rang out on the phone. Obviously, his main purpose was not to congratulate, but to "The Matrix 2: Reloading" released next month.

"I will try my best to rush back to Los Angeles." Looking at the street scene that kept retreating outside the car window, Wayne thought for a moment and replied: "The promotional mission of "The Dark Knight" is also very heavy, so I will try to make time."

Not only the relevant matters about the release of "The Matrix", but in fact, the 20th Century Fox has also been urging "X-Men" and some of the work of "Charlie's Angels". After the hot release of "The Dark Knight", he will withdraw from the publicity team early and return to Los Angeles to handle other tasks.

"The preview of "The Matrix 2: Reloading" has some unpleasant sounds." Zach Schneider on the other end of the phone had an unabashed resentment in his voice. "Several critics said that the film should increase philosophical thinking, rather than the show-off effects, action scenes and coolness in order to please the audience, a group of dogs..."

Listening to the complaints from the phone, Wayne showed a sarcastic smile on his lips and said bluntly to the microphone: "Let those people's opinions go hell, ignore their ideas, Zach. This is a commercial science fiction film. We need to please, first of all, ordinary audiences, and have never been those so-called professionals. As long as those audiences are willing to pay for tickets, purchase surroundings, and buy everything about "The Matrix", let the critics just go and make it."

Of course, he knew that Zach Schneider had some minor emotions, mainly because the first movie "The Matrix" was so successful. At that time, as a dark horse no one was optimistic about, this movie not only won the weekly box office championship in the theater market, but also rose all the way in professional ratings, and received praise from countless film critics.

To put it bluntly, this is a pure American entertainment movie, wrapped in those sarcastic garments, almost no different from traditional American science fiction popcorn.

If you have to talk about the characteristics, it is the way the movie uses special effects and the refreshing fighting style. The audience has long been aesthetically fatigued by American-style action scenes. The kung fu routines are everywhere in this movie. In the eyes of the audience, it is not only gorgeous and agile, but also makes them feel cool after being combined with the cyberpunk style.

This is the main reason why the movie can succeed. What are the so-called artistic elements such as human nature thinking, philosophical thinking, etc., at most, are embellishments. If you keep holding on to these things, the movie will be getting further and further away from the audience.

Unlike traditional American science fiction films, "The Matrix" has added many new elements, and the crew has put a lot of effort into the makeup of several protagonists. The appearance of several protagonists is cool enough, especially Neo who wears windbreakers and sunglasses, and Charlize Theron, who always shows two long legs, always whenever there is an action scene. In front of the camera, it is so cool that male movie fans drool.

Although the movie is covered with the guise of science fiction wasteland and is full of various mysterious dialogues, as long as you observe, this story has never deviated from the traditional routine of Hollywood movies. For example, the savior saves the world and all mankind. Although this setting is cliché, this is the routine that best suits the tastes of mainstream audiences. Even if it takes more than ten or twenty years, it is still common in movies.

In fact, what Wayne admires most is the explosion Bet. Almost as soon as all of this guy's works are released, they will be mocked by the film critics. Those people are no longer just commenting on movies, and they are brainlessly belittled, and even directly attack Michael Between them.

But the fact is that after experiencing an unforgettable failure, Blast Be is still the madman who only knows how to explode. It is because of the clichéd plot and the explosion art that stimulates nerves. After several major productions, the production company made a fortune and made himself successfully turn over.

Therefore, Wayne's goal is to choose Greenberg Studio's investment project, that is, commercialization, and all the films invested in the studio are to earn more profits and continuously increase his own weight.

After comforting Zach Schneider, Wayne came to the hotel room, plunged into the bedroom and took a break, and fell asleep within a while.

"Last weekend, North America's annual traditional summer season finally ushered in the long-awaited "Batman: Dark Knight", which movie fans have been looking forward to. After the summer season starts every year, super big productions will be released under the high attention almost every weekend. This is the most important period in North America. But this year, major Hollywood production companies announced early that they had avoided May. The reason for this result is that the scheduled release of "Batman: Dark Knight"..."

Located in an office on the upper floor of Times Square in New York, Kevin Tessulhara smiled and picked up the coffee and took a sip. She never looked away from the Los Angeles Times. The entertainment section specially issued a special issue for the Dark Knight.

"Amid the attention of everyone, Wayne Greenberg and his new film "Batman: The Dark Knight" landed in 3,700 theaters in North America on a large scale early Friday morning. After three days of the first weekend, the box office was 20.81 million US dollars, and the box office of a single museum exceeded 54,000 US dollars, ranking first in the North American box office rankings without any suspense!

The 200 million dollar figure is exactly the total investment of Warner Bros. in "Batman: The Dark Knight". Wayne Greenberg frantically broke all the box office records, and it also means that in just three days, the large amount of funds invested by Warner Bros. in the film was easily collected. Such a market performance is like a dream.

It was also due to the box office outbreak of "Batman: Dark Knight" that the total box office output value of the North American theater market last weekend set a new record, becoming the highest total box office weekend in the North American film market so far. "Batman: Dark Knight" crushed the market performance and strongly led the total market of the North American film market this weekend, reaching an astonishing US$249.8 million, creating unprecedented results.

The reason why "Batman: The Dark Knight" achieved such results in the first weekend was that according to the investigation of our newspaper, some necessary conditions were discovered. The basic contribution of the fans was made up of director Wayne Greenberg or several hardcore fans starring several movies. They are basically young people with movie-watching habits and consumption abilities. They are also the main force who chooses to enter the theater at the first time.

What is surprising is that family fans. As we all know, the family fans have always been the largest potential consumer group in Hollywood movies. They can be found in every work that has achieved super high box office results. In the past few years, Wayne Greenberg had not had a deep connection with this movie viewing group due to his production style, but this time there has been obvious changes. "Batman: The Dark Knight" became the first choice for countless family entertainment and gatherings in North America last weekend.

According to data analysis by a third-party survey company, the fan composition of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is very balanced, with male audiences accounting for about 57%, and female audiences accounting for about 53%. At the same time, the audience covers seven to sixty years old. It can be said that the film is rare to take both men, women, young and old. This situation is the first time in Wayne Greenberg's works.

At the same time, it cannot be ignored that the previous work of "Batman" and the excellent works of director Wayne Greenberg in previous years have laid a solid foundation for the current movie "Batman: The Dark Knight". The concept that Greenberg's production is equivalent to a fine movie has almost become a subconscious idea of ​​movie fans. The strong brand effect of film directors is also one of the reasons why the movie box office has been rising.

Because of the special style of the films directed before, once Wayne Greenberg's movies are offline, they usually become the main force in video tape rental transactions. They have dominated the video tape market for many years, providing him with a huge fan base. This has also given him a huge hard-core fan organization that is rare in the director and a terrifying box office appeal. With the blessing of various favorable reasons, the movie has an unprecedented first weekend of over 200 million.

In terms of film reputation, the emerging authoritative online movie database IMDB has a viewer score of between 9.7 and 9.6. It took only three days to rank third in the top 250 must-see movies. It is worth mentioning that the second place is also a film directed by Wayne Greenberg. "The Joker" in 1993. Among the TOP250 list, the only one ranked above Wayne's top movie is "The Godfather"!

This newspaper has collected the scores of films by more than 90 authoritative entertainment media on the market. Overall, the average score of professional media is as high as 90. It can be said that this movie not only won the explosive audience reputation, but also received unanimous recognition from professionals including film critics. In particular, a number of authoritative large media such as "The New Yorker", "Hollywood Reporter", "Variety Show", "Premiere", "Los Angeles Times", and "Time", which directly gave the film a full score of 100!

"Batman: The Dark Knight" is still crushing the market. Professionals from many professional forecasting agencies claim that before Friday, the total box office of this film in North America will definitely exceed the $300 million mark, and all box office records will be raised to an unattainable level by Wayne Greenbergra!

According to the current market trend, if the new film "Jurassic Park 2" released this weekend cannot stop the pace of "Batman: The Dark Knight", the 1997 North American summer box office champion was booked almost at the beginning of the summer. According to the news revealed by Warner Bros., the film will simultaneously enter dozens of overseas markets this weekend. As for the global box office results of the film, whether it can become the third movie with a net worth of over one billion dollars, or even break Wayne Greenberg's previous record, it is very possible..."

When Kevin Tesuhara saw this, she threw the newspaper back on her desk with a smile on her face. She could see that there were other newspapers and magazines on the table, including almost all mainstream media in North America. Faced with the $200 million box office in the first weekend of "The Dark Knight", most of them tacitly chose to issue additional special issues, report and analyze them.

Due to the composition of Time Warner's media group, Warner Brothers occupies a very important position. As the head of Time Warner's media group, he is now very sure that the young man was implementing the 10 billion market blueprint he had drawn at that time, which made him feel very proud because he and that young man first laid a solid foundation for the DC universe.

The great success of every movie of Warner Bros. is not only related to the stock price of Warner Bros., but also affects the market value of Time Warner. Now Kevin Tessulhara believes that if it continues to develop smoothly in accordance with the plan, Time Warner, the media group, is very likely to gain the world's first market value in his hands.

He stood up from behind his desk and walked a few steps to the wide floor-to-ceiling window. He looked at the busy Times Square outside the window, muttering in a low voice: "e on, Wayne, that's it, keep on doing it. You're less than thirty years old, and we have plenty of time to create a more brilliant future..."

The same special issue of the Los Angeles Times, in different people's eyes, was completely different. In the CEO office of Universal Studios' headquarters building, CEO Ron Mayer slowly put the newspaper on the table and fell into deep self-doubt.

It was him who insisted on his own initiative to put "Jurassic Park 2" on the next weekend of "The Dark Knight" and he also offered more than $50 million in early promotion funds for "Jurassic Park 2". At least before seeing this historically-created $200 million weekend box office figure, he was still very confident.

But now, he has the illusion of bad luck. Under the strong competition of "The Dark Knight", can the first weekend box office of "Jurassic Park 2" achieve similar results? I'm afraid even director Steven Spielberg would not dare to boast about this Haikou.

Starting from March, the hot box office results of "The King of Talk" are the source of all Ron Mayer's confidence. Previously, the criticism caused to him by the Hulk's bloody plunge gradually disappeared with the success of "The King of Talk".

He needs to defeat "Batman" head-on in "Jurassic Park 2". Only if such a decision continues to succeed and defeat Warner Bros., who has the largest revenue in recent years, is the best way for him to prove his ability to the board of directors. The success of just "The King of Talks" is not enough.

But the shaky $200 million in the newspaper made his confidence less firm. Ron Mayer knew very well that if his plan this time made Jurassic Park 2 fail to meet the company's expected results, it would be far from being a fall. I'm afraid that the shareholder representatives of the board of directors would vote for themselves at the first time.

At that time, the bloody pounce of "Hulk" will be revealed again, and the director could have been turned over the blame for the failure. If "Jurassic Park 2" does not meet the expected results this time, no one is more responsible than him.

Sitting in the office chair, Ron Mayer frowned, deeply wondering if he really made the wrong move this time.

"Dangdangdangdangdang"

The office door was gently knocked, and after a few sounds, a white woman in a professional suit walked in without any polite greetings. The woman sat at the desk, staring at Universal Pictures with serious eyes, and said directly: "We must change the schedule of "Jurassic Park 2", which must!"

"Catherine, does Steven know you want to do this?" Ron Mayer shook his head, sighed in his heart, looked at the woman in front of him, and said, "It's too late. Catherine, the company has invested more than $50 million in the promotion and marketing of "Jurassic Park 2". If you announce the change of the release schedule now, not only will this part of the investment be wasted, but the theater company will not be willing to do it."

"Shit, others choose to avoid the dark madman from afar, where are you?" Catherine Kennedy curled his lips, with obvious anger in his voice. "Ron, I have consulted many third-party companies today. According to the current market trend, once "Jurassic Park 2" is released as scheduled, it will be face-to-face with Wayne Greenberg's "Dark Knight" face to face. An 80% chance of being a movie fan diversion, and both sides will be injured!"

As a woman and the most successful female producer in Hollywood, Catherine Kennedy has her own unique market vision. The projects she produced by herself have rarely failed, and in terms of ability, she definitely exceeds 90% of the men in the circle.

As early as the early 1980s, she established the famous Amperelin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg. As a producer, her first step in filming was "Alien E.T" which was successful in that year! Such as "Schindler's List", "Jurassic Park", "The Dream of the Bridge", and even "The Pretty Beauty" that held up the big mouth, and "The Tornado" that was successful in the previous year, all of which were written by this woman.

And this woman is also a rare and powerful figure who can achieve great success in Hollywood, a place dominated by patriarchal power. Whether it is the subsequent "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural", "The Miserable Munich", "The World War", "The Legend of the Lost Ark", "The Past of Benjamin Button", "The Adventures of Tintin", and even she was the main planner of restarting "Star Wars", and finally she sat on the position of CEO of Lucasfilm, which shows her level of excellence!

Faced with the anger in the woman's tone, Ron Mayer twitched twice, but chose to ease the atmosphere, and simply showed a smile and joked: "There is an 80% chance that the movie fans will be diverted, and both sides will be injured? Isn't there a 20% chance that the Dark Knight will be suppressed? Don't worry, Catherine..."

"No, you were wrong!"

Catherine Kennedy sneered twice, shook his head, and interrupted him before the other party could finish his words. "The remaining twenty percent is that "The Dark Knight" remains strong the next weekend, and our "Jurassic Park 2" can only be a foil for a great record! We will run with you for the next few weeks!"

"No, you should believe Steven."

Ron Mayer's face also became quite ugly, and he replied stiffly. "Just as I said, there is no time to change any plans now. Go back and prepare for the premiere. We should all believe in Steven's ability. He has succeeded countless times and will never fall on a young back!"

Catherine Kennedy looked at the other person deeply, calmed down, stood up and walked directly outside the office without saying hello.

It was not until she left Universal Studios that she parked the car on the side of the road and angrily slapped the steering wheel. "A idiot!"

In fact, she had tried to communicate with her old partner Steven Spielberg before, but that stubborn guy would rather risk falling into trouble than agree with her plan. This is the main reason why she went to Universal Studios alone.

From the perspective of the market, isn’t it right to stop losses in time? Catherine Kennedy sighed helplessly and started the car again. The premiere of "Jurassic Park 2" is about to be announced. Since nothing can be changed, I can only make more preparations on my side.