Hollywood Road

During the working days of this week, the box office trend of "Dark City" is very stable. In one day on Thursday, it took another US$21.56 million from North America, and the North American box office reached US$340.24 million, which is about to exceed US$350 million. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

Anyone who knows something about this industry knows that with the arrival of a new weekend, the North American box office of "Dark City" will inevitably break through the $400 million mark.

Compared with "Dark City", the North American box office of Vin Diesel's "Fast and Furious 6" has been falling all the way, and it only received less than 6 million US dollars in four working days. Many forecasting agencies in the Hollywood industry have confirmed that this film The film's final North American box office will not exceed $180 million.

A new weekend is coming, and every weekend of the North American summer holiday is a festival for movie fans.

Since schools in North America have not yet had summer vacation, Friday is also a working day. During the daytime, the attendance rate of various theaters in North America is only slightly higher than that of the previous four working days, and has not increased significantly. And a large number of people after school crowded into the theater. They don't have to go to school and work tomorrow, and they can watch their favorite movies at will.

In a cinema in Long Island, New York, Fernandez, the night shift manager, had just handed over shifts with his colleagues and came to the ticket counter when a large group of movie fans poured into the theater, many of them queued up in front of several ticket counters , as the staff handover has not yet ended, there are only two open ticket windows at this time, resulting in two long queues immediately forming in the theater hall.

Fernandez looked at the time, came to a ticket window that was not open, and took away the sign that the ticket was not sold temporarily. The two long queues and many customers who entered the theater one after another rushed to his side like a tidal wave. There was a long line.

A girl who looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old at most was ranked first, and a boy was standing behind her. Judging from their intimate appearance, they should be a couple.

After working in the theater for a long time and dealing with all kinds of people, Fernandez thinks he still has a good way of seeing people.

"Hello..." Fernandez asked with a professional smile on his face, "Is there anything I can do to help you?"

The young girl handed over a hundred-dollar bill and said, "I want two movie tickets.

"

"Which movie?" Fernandez asked patiently.

""Dark City"!" The girl didn't even think about it, "Two "Dark City"!"

Fernandez clicked on the ticket vending machine, and two movie tickets for "City of Darkness" were quickly printed. At the same time, he took the girl's dollar bills and skillfully completed the change work.

The girl took the change and movie tickets, pulled her boyfriend, and happily left.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses came from behind and said directly to Fernandez, "I want a movie ticket for "Dark City"!"

While Fernandez was waiting for the ticket machine to issue tickets, he heard the man muttering to himself, "I watched it once last week, and I watched it again this week. How can I watch such a good movie twice."

After dismissing the middle-aged man wearing glasses, a brown-haired boy behind walked to the counter and said in the most concise way, ""Dark City", five tickets, thank you!"

Fernandez is proficient in business and quickly sold many movie tickets for "Dark City".

"Murphy Stanton's film has been shown for the second week." He murmured to himself, "There are still so many people buying tickets. It seems that the box office this weekend will not be bad."

"Hello……"

At this time, a woman in her thirties came over, "I want two copies of "Amazing..."

Before she finished speaking, a man behind said with a sad face, "Honey, let's watch "Dark City".

"

Fernandez did not issue a ticket immediately. He has seen too many such differences of opinion in the past.

"What's so good about that dark movie?"

It is clear,

This woman is the leader of the two, "Leonardo DiCaprio is my god!"

Regardless of the objections of the man behind, she said to Fernandez again, "I want two movie tickets for "The Great Gatsby"!"

Hearing this, Fernandez issued a ticket immediately. After all, there were many people queuing up behind the two, and he had no time for these two to waste here.

Later, some people came to buy movie tickets for "The Great Gatsby". These people were mainly women in their thirties and older audiences.

As the duty manager of the operation department, Fernandez quickly figured out what was going on. Women in their thirties should all be fans of Leonardo DiCaprio. This age group can be pushed back fifteen or sixteen years. They were in their teenage years. At that time, "Titanic" was popular all over the world. With the role of Jack Dawson, Leonardo DiCaprio fascinated thousands of girls.

As for audiences of older age groups, they should be coming for the name "The Great Gatsby". He can't remember how many times this film has been remade, but there are always three or four times, and there must be some age Big movie fans have deep feelings for this adapted film, come and watch the latest remake, and find out the feelings of the year.

However, compared to "Dark City" which caters to both men and women, and whose main audience is mainly people aged 16 to 50, "The Great Gatsby" is obviously much smaller.

Of course, Fernandez also knows that Leonardo DiCaprio, as a Hollywood superstar, cannot be ignored.

Working in front of the counter for half an hour, Fernandez secretly observed that the audience who came to see "The Great Gatsby" was still mainly Leonardo DiCaprio fans, but the film's The on-site sales of movie tickets can only be said to be relatively average.

He didn't know about the vending machine. The counter he worked at sold about 12 tickets for "The Great Gatsby" within half an hour. This kind of data is actually not bad, but good or bad often happens. It is all compared, in the same time, "Dark City" sold 55 tickets!

Fernandez didn't think much about it, because the popularity of the two films was clear at a glance.

An employee came over, Fernandez handed over the window to him, went to the sales department, saw that everything was normal, went back to his duty office, just pulled out his chair and sat down, someone knocked on the door and walked in .

The one who came in was a theater investigator, who would come here every weekend, so Fernandez was very familiar with him, and asked, "Strange, is your work efficiency very high today?"

"Not every movie has the frightening opening weekend audience of 'Dark City'."

The investigator named Strange took a glass of water from the water dispenser, came to sit down opposite Fernandez, and said, "The audience of "The Great Gatsby" just finished is about 20, according to the company's percentage A five to ten percent sample survey stipulates that it is enough for me to ask two people for their opinion."

Speaking of this, Strange couldn't help complaining a few words, "It's crazy to ask more than ten audience members like last week! I only have one person! How can I stop so many people at the same time? That movie Damn movie, damn Murphy-Stanton! Driving us theater investigators crazy!"

Fernandez consoled, "It's a good thing he only makes one movie a year!"

"Hmm! Hmm!" Strange nodded hurriedly, as if he had survived a catastrophe, "If his movie is released twice a year, then I will definitely resign. This job is really not for people!"

Fernandez could see clearly that Strange still complained about the huge workload last weekend.

"By the way, Strange." He changed the subject in a timely manner, "How's the reputation of "The Great Gatsby"? Take your field survey today as an example."

Strange shook his head. "So-so. I feel like Leonardo DiCaprio is going to plummet at the box office after eating out his own fans and those of the previous remakes."

"Can you tell me more about it?" Fernandez still asked, "The specific scoring situation."

"According to my statistics." Strange thought for a while, and said, "The overall score of "The Great Gatsby" is at most B+, which is today. If it takes three days on the weekend, it may slip to B. .”

Fernandez nodded, "The audience's reputation is average."

"It's just average." Strange shook his head again, "In front of "Dark City", there is not much competition at all, and besides Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, the promotion There are too few points."

"Didn't the heroine say she was Murphy Stanton's first love girlfriend?" Fernandez also paid attention to some gossip.

"How many years ago did it happen? How many people will pay attention?" Strange acted like an expert, "How can the ex-girlfriend compare to the current girlfriend? After Carey Mulligan broke the news himself, Gal Gadot It was announced in London that Dark City would enter the Oscars, quickly drawing the attention of the media and fans away."

Fernandez asked curiously, "This Israeli woman is said to be very powerful and resourceful."

"Do you think..." Strange asked back, "Without certain means, can Murphy-Stanton be so reliable?"

The time of Friday is fleeting. In today's highly intelligent and networked era, whether it is the ticket sales of theaters or the audience's word-of-mouth comments, they will be counted as soon as possible, and then passed on to relevant people or companies. hand.

Early on Saturday morning, when the crew of "The Great Gatsby" was waiting to board the plane in the VIP room at New York's Kennedy Airport, a relevant statistical report was sent over.