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With the arrival of a new weekday, Steven Spielberg did not even report on Wayne and "Batman: The Dark Knight" on a large scale. Everyone chose to ignore their "Jurassic Park 2" and their mentality was unbalanced, and they were still carrying out the promotional and promotional plan arranged by Universal Studios.

Just like the conversation column of this ABC channel, in the subsequent process, even if the host intentionally or unintentionally wanted to provoke the topic between him and Wayne, the old Jewish man did not answer similar topics.

Obviously, in Steven Spielberg's heart, this is not a life-and-death competition. On the contrary, in his opinion, as long as "Jurassic Park 2" can maintain the current box office trend, it is enough to ensure that the film allows him and Universal Pictures to make a lot of profits. As for some of the current remarks in the media, he basically chose to ignore them.

It seems like it’s not enough to bomb Wayne and "Batman: Dark Knight" in the media. Just around 4 pm on Monday, after confirmation by multiple theater companies, Warner Bros. released another major news in its media. "Batman: Dark Knight" officially exceeded 400 million US dollars by 3 pm!

Once this news was released, the entire Hollywood fell into silence for a short time, but at the same time, it pushed the media's various hype about Wayne and "Jurassic Park 2" directly to the high nest.

Just two hours passed, and some evening newspapers have put the titles of "The First Mr. 400 million US dollars in Hollywood" and "The First Director of 400 million US dollars in film history" and can't wait to get on Wayne's head. Although he knew that this day would always come, the moment of the arrival still triggered public opinion in the entire North American.

From newspapers and magazines to radio stations, from live TV to online platforms, the number "400 million US dollars" has become a hot topic of national discussion.

This caused the traffic of theaters, which had already begun to slow down significantly on the same day, to slowly rise from night. Herd mentality is the biggest feature of human nature. People who never watch movies have begun to gradually become curious because Batman around them talks about birth, so they choose to enter the theater.

And this is just the beginning. The Warner Bros. Marketing Department first noticed this situation. Their latest analysis is that in the next few days, more similar audiences will go to the theater to buy tickets and watch movies because of curiosity and herd mentality.

When the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" reached 400 million US dollars, Wayne was basically not given any time to react. The ringtone of his private phone in Nina's hand began to ring continuously, and various blessings and congratulations kept coming from the phone.

As the first director in North America to have a box office of $400 million, everyone in the circle knows that even with the first achievement to achieve this number, Wayne's name will be firmly written into the history of Hollywood movies. What's more, the movie "Batman: The Dark Knight" still has great market potential when it comes to the momentum. Who can guarantee that the final box office of this movie can reach 500 million or 600 million?

Facing the congratulations calls from friends in the circle, Nina responded politely one by one, but in the face of the sudden large number of media interview requests, she refused. Warner Brothers has a complete promotional plan for "Batman: The Dark Knight", and they are about to board the plane to Seattle, and it is impossible to stop temporarily to accept the exclusive interview.

The box office results of "Batman: The Dark Knight" were extremely strong in the next weekend. Although "Jurassic Park 2" released in the first week have been firmly pressed by the former for three days, it is also an absolute behemoth in terms of size. Under the competition between these two works, other films in the theater market disappeared directly, and even one with a box office of over one million dollars has not appeared.

It's like the boss and the second one fight, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth one disappeared inexplicably, especially after Monday arrived, accompanied by huge media reports, the theater market was completely occupied by "Batman: The Dark Knight". In addition to "Jurassic Park 2", which still retains a certain amount of traffic, other films are basically no trace in the theater.

The hot movie viewing trend of "Batman: The Dark Knight" not only appeared in North America, but also received an email from Warner Bros. It included the first weekend's overseas box office results that Warner Bros. had just roughly counted. It was released in dozens of countries and regions at the same time. As soon as the movie appeared, it dominated the local theater market and became the first choice for movie fans.

The first to be affected is the UK, a region with very similar cultural attributes to North America. As soon as "Batman: The Dark Knight" was released on Friday, it caused a huge sensation in the British Isles. With the promotional support of major actors such as Christian Bale who rushed to the UK, he won 20.87 million US dollars in three days of the first weekend, and won the weekend box office championship in the theater market in the British Isles.

Following closely behind is not Europe and other places, Australia, which is relatively sparsely populated, ranked second in the box office in overseas regions. After three days of the first weekend, it opened a terrifying box office of US$14.6 million.

In addition to the traditional European countries and regions of the British Isles, Germany is $5.6 million, France is $5.45 million, Spain is $4.32 million, Italy is $3.75 million, Sweden is $1.8 million, Denmark is $1.69 million, and Netherlands is $1.45 million...

Many small European countries are limited by population and regional restrictions, and the box office numbers are inconspicuous when they look at the box office numbers in these countries, as a whole, people will come to a conclusion that to some extent, the birthplace of film art has gradually become a new dumping place for Hollywood movies.

Wayne did not actually surprise the movie that achieved good results in Europe and successfully ranked the box office champions in various regions. After all, if we really count it, everyone belongs to the Western world. Although there are many differences in cultural attributes, at least in most places, the audiences in these regions can understand thoroughly what is expressed in the movie.

What really surprised him were the two small places in Asia, Bangzi and Books. Especially with Bangzi's results, he earned $5.6 million in three days in the first weekend, and the same movie viewing event also appeared in the notebook. He took $4.7 million from the theater market in three days.

Putting aside the fact that this outbreak is a bit unexpected, it is not difficult to figure it out if you think about it carefully. However, the market for book has always been a market for strange films. Here Hollywood movies are not the most popular first choice. Movies that often create higher box office results are their localized animations.

So when Wayne saw "Batman: The Dark Knight", he was surprised after the book won a high box office abnormally.

Also, as a good neighbor of Los Angeles, Mexico, this is a traditional private place for Hi Hollywood movies. "Batman: The Dark Knight" has triggered a movie-watching frenzy throughout Mexico since its release, and it received crazily $13.2 million from here on its first weekend.

As the main dumping place of Hollywood movies in Latin America, Brazil's achievements cannot be underestimated. Latin American audiences' pursuit of Hollywood blockbusters made the movie's box office reach more than $10 million in three days on the first weekend.

In other smaller overseas countries, the same situation is almost happening. "Batman: The Dark Knight" seems to have some magic. As long as it is released locally, the box office market will completely fall under the iron hoof of the North American dark storm.

All regions where "Batman: The Dark Knight" are released have basically become local weekend box office champions, with Batman sweeping the world, and the countries participating in the screening of the film have been increasing since Monday.

"It's only three days after the first weekend, and the total overseas box office revenue has reached 197 million US dollars! Holy s**t!" Nina, who has always been calm, couldn't help but grow up when she saw the rough total box office statistics. "If North America has already received 400 million US dollars, the global box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" has almost reached 600 million US dollars!"

No one would blame the assistant lady for her exclamation. After hearing this news, several members of the core team behind the scenes also inevitably fell into fanaticism on the plane.

$600 million, and compared with the screening time of "Batman: The Dark Knight", this achievement can be regarded as a starting point. Now everyone is full of confidence in the film and is extremely confident that the box office of this film can surpass "The Joker" and "Jurassic Park".

This is a movie that is usually successful in Hollywood. It may not necessarily reach box office numbers after long-term screenings in the theater market. This is just their starting point. I believe that after a long period of screenings of "Batman: The Dark Knight", the final box office landing point will definitely be a new world record.

Wayne's face also had a visible happiness on his naked eyes. Of course, he knew in his heart that no matter how high the box office he achieved, he would not be able to stay at the top of the box office in film history for a long time. As long as December arrives, until more than half a year next year, the global theater market will be dominated by another legend.

But so what? People often remember only the first person with outstanding achievements. This "Batman: The Dark Knight" can completely make him an indelible movie memory of this era.

Countless people sneer at Hollywood movies, especially those assembly-based popcorn movies, but for a film director, the most intuitive feeling of the audience's measurement of whether it is great is box office results. The higher the box office results, the greater the spread of the director's works, and the connection between the two is inevitable.

In terms of view of movies, Wayne's standards have never changed. Of course, he would not despise those art films that are truly full of artistic attributes, but he did not shoot such movies. His idea has always been that a movie must be aimed at the audience, and the universal standard for measuring the quality of this movie is commercial achievements.

Especially for movies like "Batman: The Dark Knight", which have huge investments, compromise with business is an inevitable choice. Self-entertainment and independent art films specially filmed for niche movie lovers are completely different forms of expression, so naturally there is no comparison. As long as other movies are successful or failed for mass-market films, if the box office is the most recognized criterion, it is just a hooligan.

When he learned that the global box office had successfully reached about 600 million US dollars, Wayne's eyes had already surpassed the $1.074 billion in "The Joker" and the $1.099 billion in "Jurassic Park". Now he has only one imaginary enemy in his heart, that is, the big ship that does not exist, although he knew that no matter how much he fantasized and worked hard, he would not have any chance to achieve such results.

"Batman: The Dark Knight" has already won the most perfect start in history. If he still sets his goal at the global box office level of just over $1 billion, he will definitely not be willing to accept it.

"Warner Bros. has already started contacting Hasbro and Lego, two toy giants, for the toy license of Batman: The Dark Knight."

When the plane calmed down again, Nina saw that Wayne had no intention of closing her eyes to rest, and whispered to him to report some of the news she received. "The news from John Gray, Hasbro's ten-year toy license quote for the film "Batman: The Dark Knight" was as high as 45 million US dollars!"

"etc!"

Wayne sat up "Teng" and his sudden movement scared the assistant lady. However, Nina has been following him for so many years and has obviously adapted to his sometimes shock. She knew that maybe it was her inadvertent words that gave this man some hint or association.

"Hasbro? You mean the Hasbro who owns Transformers and Special Forces?"

"That's right." The assistant lady nodded.

"After getting off the plane, let Jimmy go and investigate." Wayne gently scratched his chin with one hand, with a thoughtful expression on his face, and ordered: "Look at whether Hasbro's toys' film and television copyright, the film and television copyright of "Little Pony", and the film and television copyright of "Special Forces" are still in Hasbro's hands."

In fact, he has little hope for these copyrights. Such well-known IPs, which have long been famous throughout North America and even the world, are likely to have been acquired by production companies in the circle. However, in his memory, the most well-known childhood sentimental representative "Transformers", was not taken over by the Blast in around 2007. As for when the film and television copyright was sold by Hasbro, it is not clear.

That's why he wanted to try it out and asked Jimmy to investigate. After all, no one would know better than him. If he didn't take the opportunity to acquire enough copyrights before the turn of the century, even if he spent ten or a hundred times the sky-high price in the future, it would be difficult to get high-quality adapted copyrights. By then, the slightly more famous novels, comics and other film-making things that could be used as film and television have long been divided up by the six giants.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be glad that the copyrights that Jimmy had successively won over the past two years, as long as these things were adapted one after another and achieved the expected results, his Greenberg Studio would inevitably become the most important piece in his hands, a piece that grew to influence Time Warner to make major decisions.

"I have to remind you, boss." Nina nodded and agreed, thought for a while before looking at his glasses, and said in a serious tone: "Your name is a big money-friendly Blue Sky Studio. This studio can only do some outsourcing animation renderings and advertising films now, and it is far from reaching the point of being self-sufficient. It can be seen that the day of self-sufficient is still far away.

Greenberg Studio, in the next two years, plans to start investments in multiple movies in succession, and there is also a "Lord of Rings" that is destined to be a big hole. If Jimmy continues to acquire various film and television copyrights at prices far exceeding the current market price, you will soon face the problem of whether to sell your name's stocks to subsidize the studio's development plan."

He chuckled and shook his head, Wayne said helplessly: "Don't worry, I promise that the situation that you will not worry about will occur."

After saying that, he closed his eyes and entered a state of rest. He actually had a rough calculation in his mind, but if he really had the opportunity to buy some copyrights that would be destined to be successful, in fact, he would buy even if he bought a loan from a bank.

Objectively, he is no longer the young man who has just stepped out of school. He has basically passed the stage of having no choice but to take advantage of money. Look at "Batman: The Dark Knight" that is sweeping the world. Although he has a lot of money he can get from this movie, as long as this movie is successful, as long as he wants to get a loan, countless banks will line up to send large amounts of funds. After all, no one will doubt his repayment ability is not?

When the overseas box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" was announced by Warner Bros. through its media the next day, the media began to speculate on how long it would take for the movie to surpass "The Joker" and "Jurassic Park". Many media conducted activities in newspapers that exceeded time speculation, and continued to use the popularity of the movie to create topics to attract readers' attention.

With the attention of the media and a number of film practitioners in the circle, the North American box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" has made great progress while firmly suppressing "Jurassic Park 2". After entering the second working day after its release, the box office on Monday finally fell below tens of millions. The film received $9.62 million on the same day, and the North American box office officially exceeded 400 million, with a total box office of $408.64 million.

Everyone knows that this is the normal box office trend, but it is far from the end of the box office of "Batman: Dark Knight". In the next three days, in countless media carnivals in North America, "Batman: Dark Knight" won another $8.75 million, $8.4 million and $8.15 million, and the North American box office accumulated $433.94 million!

After two weeks of the movie officially landing in the theater market, it has become the champion of the North American box office list without any dispute. With the arrival of the weekend off days, it continues to create its box office miracle.

Up to now, all kinds of incredible hymns have been put on Wayne's head without reservation by the media. This is a box office miracle that has never happened in Hollywood. Everyone knows it in their hearts that it may become the most difficult record to break.

The next weekend is also the last weekend to dominate the theater market in "Batman: The Dark Knight". Other major investment films will be released one after another, such as "My Best Friend's Wedding", a Sony Columbia summer romantic film.

"Wayne Greenberg, the dark madman, the movie's North American box office should be more than $500 million!"

In an office at Sony Columbia headquarters, 10202 West Washington Avenue, Los Angeles, in a Sony Columbia headquarters, Paul, director of the distribution department, dropped the newspaper in his hand and sighed in a low voice. "Shit, this will be a record that is almost impossible to be broken, that lunatic!"

Sitting on the other side of the office rest area is a yellow man who is rare in this circle. He is not tall and slightly bloated. He wears a suit on him, which always gives people the illusion of disharmony. He is a son of Sony Colombia.

"Paul, no, no, no." Oga Yuuo obviously heard the other party's whisper, immediately stretched out one hand and shook it left and right, looking at the other party with a serious expression, and said: "What we need to pay attention to is not "Batman: The Dark Knight" that is raging the world. Wayne Greenberg's dark superhero has been successfully imitated until now."

After reading the book "My Best Friend's Wedding" in confusion, Paul thought the other party was worried about their "My Best Friend's Wedding" released next Friday. He shrugged and said, "Don't worry, "Batman: The Dark Knight" has basically almost released its market potential after nearly three weeks of crazy screenings in North America. Even if the box office is high, it will inevitably accumulate after a long screening time. It will not have much influence on our movies. Besides, the audience of these two films is completely different."

After the successive previews held in Sony Columbia, this film "My Best Friend's Wedding" performed very well, both in terms of critics and audience reputation. This project, which costs less than 50 million US dollars, is the purest romantic love film, and there is no life-and-death competition with the superhero Batman.

After several trials of this movie, Sony Columbia gave a market rating of A-level, indicating that this movie has a chance to explode at the box office. The screening life of this type of romantic romance film is usually relatively long, and the company is very optimistic about the profitability of this movie.

"No, Paul." Unexpectedly, Oga Yu shook his head again, and this time he simply put down his fingers and pointed at the corner of the newspaper that Paul had just thrown down. "We need to pay attention to this is this."

“Jurassic Park 2?”

Looking at the box office news of "Jurassic Park 2" in the corner of the newspaper, Paul frowned and picked up the newspaper again. The report on this is very clear. After a full week of screening, "Jurassic Park 2" has now achieved a box office of $135 million, and its box office is only limited to "Batman: The Dark Knight".

According to data released by several third-party forecasting companies in the newspaper, the final North American box office landing point of this dinosaur-themed thriller will be around $200 million. This weekend, the "Jurassic World 2" will also be available in dozens of overseas theater markets. Also due to the squeeze of "Batman: The Dark Knight", the global box office landing point is predicted to be between $500 million and $600 million.

The situation is now very obvious. This sequel masterpiece by Steven Spielberg is not on the same level as "Batman: The Dark Knight" in box office. But on the other hand, the achievements that this "Jurassic Park 2" have achieved cannot be included in the unsuccessful range.