Hollywood Hunter

Facing the momentum of "Batman: The Dark Knight", all other films in the same period of this summer have become a complete foil that is not worth mentioning.

After the first day of record, countless people inside and outside Hollywood are watching the box office numbers of this super blockbuster every day.

USD 23.76 million on the first day.

$24.33 million on Saturday.

$20.39 million on Sunday.

In just three days of the first weekend, the cumulative box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" quickly rushed to a high of $68.38 million.

Coming to the working day, the film’s box office momentum remained unabated.

In the end, when the first week from June 7 to June 13 ends, "Batman: The Dark Knight" unsurprisingly set a new weekly box office record, and achieved an unprecedented first week of breaking 100 million.

US$102.07 million.

This is the first seven days of the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

In seven days, "Batman: The Dark Knight" jumped to the second place in the 1991 North American box office rankings, second only to the $118 million in the early-year Valentine's Day film "Anti-Wild Stars" that was on the verge of decline.

Facing the amazing box office of this super blockbuster film exceeding 100 million in the first week, most Hollywood filmmakers have a strong sense of powerlessness.

Once upon a time, as long as a movie can achieve a total box office of over 100 million in North America, it is enough for everyone to celebrate. However, it seems that in a blink of an eye, it seems that the movie box office breaking 100 million has become so simple.

Most people actually understand that this is just an illusion.

In 1991, the schedule was nearly halfway. For the time being, the North American theaters only produced two North American films that had a box office of more than 100 million dollars, "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Batman: The Dark Knight".

However, the box office momentum of "Batman: The Dark Knight" really makes too many people feel unattainable.

It's not that no one has imagined that the "Batman" series or the DC movie universe will fail after the stunning opening of "Batman: Hour of War". The entire project invested 160 million US dollars, which was simply unimaginable in the past few years.

Even with the popularity of the first one, the sequel can recover huge costs through omni-channel operations without any problem. However, if the film operation cycle is too long, this project is doomed to be a failure.

Now, all those who hold certain expectations are only disappointed.

In the first week of $102 million, the local box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is almost impossible to be less than $300 million.

300 million US dollars, it happens to be the cost line of this super blockbuster to recover the entire budget through the local box office.

According to the box office data of the first week, not many people would doubt that this project will not only recover the entire budget through the North American theater screening, but also enough to achieve partial profit.

At the same time, various types of toys, posters, records, and video games related to "Batman: The Dark Knight" were also on sale at the same time.

This sequel completely destroyed Batman’s Bat Motor, Batmobile and Bat Fighter from the beginning of the car chase to the final hanging of dirty bombs away from the city, making many fans feel distressed.

However, other character props specially used for derivative product development also appeared in the film.

Even Cindy Crawford, who appeared as a guest, launched the same character figure in the film. Because the supermodel's popularity in the film was not predicted in advance, it came from various retail channels two days after the film opened. News of out of stock.

After rough statistics, the sales of various peripheral products of "Batman: The Dark Knight" totaled 170 million US dollars in just one week.

Compared to "Batman: Hour of War"'s $130 million in the same period, sales have increased by more than 30%.

In addition, 21 overseas countries and regions that are simultaneously screened cover major overseas ticket warehouses such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, and Australia. After some statistics, the box office in the first week also reached 130 million US dollars.

So, just in the first week of the painting, the global box office number of "Batman: The Dark Knight" reached 230 million US dollars.

In the early 1990s, the World Trade Organization had not yet been established, and the film markets of various overseas countries were relatively closed.

However, on average, "Batman: The Dark Knight", a blockbuster movie that overseas cinemas are vying to introduce, has a box office share recovered through overseas markets that can roughly maintain around 35%.

According to the step-sharing rules signed by the American distributors and the theaters, the approximate profit ratio of peripheral derivative sales, and the average share ratio of overseas box office, after a comprehensive calculation, "Batman: The Dark Knight" will only be released for one week. The funds recovered by the channel have reached 140 million US dollars.

It took back $140 million in seven days. Although the box office dropped significantly after the film entered its second week, the project was destined to quickly turn to profitability.

The spectators who joined the excitement just kept an eye on the box office data of "Batman: The Dark Knight". Professionals who are familiar with the details of the operation of the Hollywood film project can clearly see this movie, which has invested a huge amount of US$160 million, in just over a week. It has shown the momentum of making big profits.

Hollywood has never lacked followers.

Facing the success of the dc movie universe, other studios subconsciously began to look for similar projects.

Then, everyone discovered again that the two major comics giants in North America, whether it is DC or Marvel, are no longer their targets.

Marvel Comics is completely in the hands of Simon Westeros as a gold mine. Not only does he not intend to "mining", but also has no intention of letting other studios do it.

Lost the three giants of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, the dc comics, which were almost sold in the 1980s, showed a strict guard against the copyright of their own superheroes and tried to contact Time Warner’s copyright system. Without exception, all filmmakers ended up hitting a wall.

Because of the long-term downturn in the comics industry, in this era, apart from Marvel and DC, there are really no large-scale comic companies in the United States. Many years later, the dark horse comic company and image comic company, which followed Marvel and DC, were either still in the early stages of development or had not yet been established.

Although many people also understand that the key to the success of the dc movie universe is not in ‘dc’ but in ‘universe’.

Moreover, Daenerys Entertainment is far ahead of the film production technology and philosophy of this era, and it is also the key to the success of the dc film universe.

However, various Hollywood studios, after contacting Marvel and dc on copyright to no avail, began to look for some small comic companies, planning to cultivate some original comic content by themselves.

When the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" was released in the first week, the third part of the series "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" was officially approved and the preliminary preparations began.

In fact, at the beginning of the project, Simon had planned and completed the plot of the trilogy.

Now, Jane de Bont has proved that he is enough to support the production of this series. The hero and the heroine of the film and other major creators have also signed long-term contracts. There is no need to pay for the film because of the big box office sales. Wrangling. Therefore, the start of the third part basically started the practical process such as supporting cast and movie scenes.

In just two "Batman", a large number of actors who were originally unknown or tepid have become popular. With the opening of the third part, any role in the plan has become a major Hollywood agency doing everything possible. To strive for goals.

Of course, the plan will never catch up with the changes. It is necessary to make certain changes to the third part according to the accumulation of the first two parts, but the main line will not change.

Compared to the second Easter egg, "Batman: The Dark Knight" will officially become a crossover episode.

Intersection set of Batman and Wonder Woman.

The villain of the film adopts a model similar to the one main boss of the previous two movies and the other one or two small bosses.

In addition to the clown, the first super female villain in the series, the Plant Girl, will appear in the third part.

Of course, Simon will not make the Plant Girl like the Uma Thurman produced by Tim Burton, which looks cheap like a coser, but intends to be the same as the role of Catwoman, the same reference The Poison Ivy setting in the memory game version of "Batman: Arkham Knight": a red shirt with only one button, barefoot and long legs, really covered with the green skin of tiny vines.

With a strange but irresistible sexy.

The Poison Ivy in "Batman: Arkham Knight" almost saved the existence of Gotham City in the end, purifying the nerve agent released by the Scarecrow by inducing plants.

In Nolan's version of "Batman: The Dark Knight", the focus is on the clown's handling of people's hearts, but in the comics setting, the clown is actually a poison expert who surpasses the scarecrow.

According to Simon’s small-to-large setting of the first part of the trilogy to fight the gangsters, the second part to save the city, and the third part to save the world, the planned "Batman: The Dark Knight" will be a clown Try to destroy the existence of the world.

Batman will join forces with Wonder Woman and Catwoman, who came to Gotham to find the mother box, and cooperate with the Plant Ivy who finally woke up to fight the clown's conspiracy.

Compared to the unplanned rush of the dc movie universe in my memory, this time, the three mother boxes will become the key to connect the entire dc movie universe in advance.

At the same time, in the third part of the plan, because of the participation of Poison Ivy, a true superpower who can control plants, and the final transformation of the clown affected by the mother box, the use of special effects will be upgraded to a higher level.

Batman's own equipment will also be upgraded again, and a powerful Bat armor will appear.

The cg technology of Daenerys's special effects is much beyond the original time and space. However, in order to achieve the planned special effects as perfectly as possible, Simon plans to reserve three years for the third part.

Three years of continuous research and development has brought Daenerys's cg technology to a higher level.

Of course, this also means that "Batman: The Dark Knight" will be released in the summer of 1994.

However, during this period, Daenerys and Warner Bros. will jointly launch "The Flash", "Wonder Woman" and the restarted version of "Superman."

Therefore, although it has to wait three years, the progress of the dc movie universe will not stagnate.

With the commercial potential shown by the "Batman" series, slowing down, and crafting each part of the series more carefully, it is better than eagerly launching more films that continue to squeeze the market potential and even cause audience fatigue many.

After the first week, the second week from June 14th to June 20th will soon end.

The number of new films opened this week has been reduced to one. Disney’s youth comedy "Girls on Holiday" tells the story of a group of girls who died unexpectedly during the holidays of an elderly nanny in order to avoid the restraint of their parents.

Compared with the two new films of Universal Pictures "Jungle Fever" and Fox comedy "The Ugly", which opened less than 1,300 screens last week, the number of opening screens of "Holiday Girl" reached 1,806, compared to Disney In the past conservative release strategy, this time the number of screens has also increased significantly.

As a whole, Hollywood is probably more and more able to appreciate the benefits of full distribution and even saturated distribution.

However, just like last week's two new films, even if the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" dropped significantly the following week, under the general trend, "Holiday Girl Love" is still just a foil.

In the end, the second week after the release of "Batman: The Dark Knight", the box office dropped 41%, and again earned $60.18 million.

Within two weeks of its release, the film’s cumulative box office reached $162.25 million.

Although not as good as "Batman: Hour of War" the next week's box office reversal trend, this is also everyone's expectation.

It broke 100 million in the first week. If there is not much decline in the next week, then this series will be completely against the sky.

In fact, compared to the usual fall of more than 50% in the next week of saturated commercial blockbusters in memory, the fall of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is controlled at 41% next week, which is still very rare.

The total box office figure of US$162.25 million in two weeks is basically the same as the box office figure that achieved a reverse decline in the next week.

As long as the next box office decline is narrowed again, it is not impossible for this sequel to hit the US$400 million box office mark in North America again.

For two consecutive weeks, Time Warner's stock price has been steadily rising due to the commercial success of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

In order to create momentum for the upcoming stock issuance, the second week of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is over, and Time Warner can't wait to announce that it will hold a grand celebration party on June 22.

The time is actually the Saturday of the third week of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

These days, Daenerys Entertainment’s film business and the integration of Daenerys and mca keep Simon busy almost every day from morning to night.

However, as the creator of the dc movie universe and the super signature of the series, "Batman: The Dark Knight" is going to hold a celebration party. It is natural that Simon cannot be absent, otherwise there will be "Daenerys and Time Warner's uneven distribution of benefits. The saying goes that "the movie universe plans to advance, fear of being changed."

In fact, similar arguments have never disappeared.

After all, the interests involved in the dc movie universe are too huge. A "Batman: Hour of War" has an expected net profit scale of more than $1 billion, which is equivalent to a year's net profit income of a top 500 corporate giant in the world.

Judging from the various public data, the profit scale of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is not much lower than that of the first episode.

Even if Time Warner can take half of the proceeds this time, in many people’s eyes, the IP of "Batman" was originally Warner's. Time Warner has always suffered a big loss in this business with Daenerys. .

In fact, if Daenerys and Time Warner have no ambiguity in the cooperation of the dc movie universe, this is a nonsense with eyes open.

However, Simon, through the right distribution of benefits, including cooperation with Warner's projects outside the DC Cinematic Universe, has well controlled this suspicion without further deterioration.

Of course the interests are touching.

However, if the price of turning a face is likely to be a beating, you will still have a very good harvest without turning your face, and a slightly sane person will probably choose to stay still.

Simon, as the absolute controller of Daenerys Entertainment, was able to directly choose a way of confrontation that hurts both sides because Alistar Records concealed the sales of the original soundtrack of "Bodyguard".

Time Warner, as a public company, coupled with Steve Ross being under heavy pressure from outside shareholders and other high-level internal factions at this time, it is impossible for him to make an overly aggressive move.

Because Simon has proved in the original "Bodyguard" soundtrack incident that Daenerys Entertainment will only be tougher if the partner does not follow the rules.