Hollywood Road

In a chain theater in Brooklyn, New York, people in twos and threes sit sparsely in a dozen rows of seats. They are extremely quiet and try not to disturb each other. They are just busy with their own affairs. Bright lights flash on the screen. Only the godless eyes will show the focal length, and glance at the screen casually.

On the screen, the superhero masterpiece "Catwoman" jointly produced by Warner Bros. and DC Comics is being screened.

Below the screen, the audience was in a daze, except for occasionally drooling at Halle Berry's **** figure, it seemed that they had forgotten that they were watching a movie.

The audience with poor tolerance chose to leave the show early. Less than half of the film was screened, and one-fifth of the audience had already left.

More people stayed, not because of how interesting the film is, or because they have to respect the creators' efforts, nor do they have such awareness, they are simply passing the time boringly.

Christopher's companion had left the field long ago to find a girlfriend. He was single and had nothing to do, so he simply stayed. And unlike most people, his eyes were dull, and his pair of eyes were always piercing.

"Um...there are 17 rows of seats in the theater, each with 32 seats, and there are 48 lights on the ceiling. Oh, no!" Christopher looked up and counted it again seriously, "It's 50 lights!"

Then, he stared at the big screen, "A black dot always appears in the lower left corner of the screen, and the frequency is about once every 1 minute and 35 seconds."

A black man sitting in the same row suddenly stretched his waist, looked up at the screen, and felt that every time he woke up, the film seemed to have just begun.

"This movie was shot for the seats in the cinema!"

After making a complaint, the black man finally couldn't help it, stood up and left the court early and walked away.

At this time, someone in the front row couldn't help but said, "This movie is really bad!"

Just after speaking, the man in front turned and glared, "Do you have any quality? Can you respect others? What do you say! Do you sleep without seeing others?"

Beside this person, a girl is sleeping really nicely.

The girl's name is Lina. She had insomnia for several days, but now she can fall asleep.

In the front, a person had just been awakened from sleep, looked around in a daze, and finally realized that he was in the movie theater, and asked the companion next to him, "How about the movie "Catwoman"?"

The companion blinked, "Popcorn is so crispy."

"Anything else?" Seeing the empty popcorn bucket, he asked again, "Is that all?"

"Ah..." The companion pointed to the person playing with a mobile phone in front, and said in a low voice, "The power-on password of his latest version of Nokia mobile phone is 789477. From the beginning of the movie to the present, he has sent twelve text messages. The Pac-Man game is almost cleared!"

The person who wakes up understands, this guy hasn't watched a movie at all!

Suddenly there was a scolding sound in front. It turned out that the phone of the guy playing with the phone turned off automatically, "X's, the phone is out of power for playing, and the movie is still playing!"

He really wanted to reach out and move his mouse to see how long it would take for this broken movie to end, but it was a pity that this was a movie theater, not his own computer.

The movie was finally over. Morrison ended his suffering and shook his tired head. This was not caused by watching the movie, but the guy in front, who was always looking around, looking up and down. Look, let him watch with him boringly. This guy has watched his watch every one to two minutes since sitting down, a total of 72 times.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this number.

"Morrison, is this the movie you asked us to watch?"

Hearing the angry questioning from the two companions next to him, and then looking at the number on the movie ticket in his hand that represents the US dollar, Morrison’s tears were about to shed. He invited two good friends to watch the movie and had to go out. Is there any reason to invite them to dinner?

"My X, it's over?"

A sleepy voice sounded behind, "Why didn't you wake me up?"

He saw his energetic companion and said, "How can you finish watching such a bad film?"

The companion nodded painfully, "Well, I'm finished."

"I'm rubbing, you're really awesome, I'm taking you!" He took out his wallet, took out one hundred dollars and handed it over, "You won, this is the 100 dollars we bet, here you are."

The companion did not answer, and pushed back, "Forget it, I don't want it, don't tell anyone that I have watched this film..."

Finally insisted to the end, Christopher walked out of the theater and ran into a Cinema.Score investigator head-on. The other party stuffed a catwoman doll over and said, "Can you talk about the movie you just watched?"

Christopher glanced at the figure in disgust, nodded and said, "Yes. It can be summed up in one sentence, it sucks! Very bad! Super bad!"

Then when the other party asked about the score, he did not hesitate to give a D score.

Before leaving the theater, Christopher happened to encounter a trash can. Without even thinking about it, he threw a black-skinned catwoman figure into the trash can.

Quite a few movie fans walked out of the theater where "Catwoman" was shown with extreme dissatisfaction. They needed a place to vent. The film and television websites led by IMDB became the most suitable platform.

"The guy starring Halle Berry is not Catwoman at all, she's just selling meat."

"All kinds of procrastination, all kinds of boring, all kinds of poses."

In just half a day on Friday, the IMDB score of "Catwoman" dropped straight to 4.1 points, and the various bad reviews were simply horrible.

In stark contrast, "Deadpool" next door has a strong reputation. Even if it was released for a week, "Catwoman" was completely popular in terms of attendance and audience numbers.

When this Friday passed, the freshly released single-day box office statistics showed that "Deadpool" with an absolute advantage of 17.25 million U.S. dollars, beat "Catwoman"'s 5.02 million U.S. dollars, and easily regained the North American box office championship of that day.

The situation in "Catwoman" is in decline.

The most direct response was theaters. Starting from Saturday, major theater companies immediately lowered the rate of filming for "Catwoman". As a newly released masterpiece with a production cost of US$100 million, its rate of filming declined. At 30%, on the other hand, "Deadpool", which has a strong reputation and steady box office trend, has increased its filming rate. With 35% of filming, it has completely surpassed "Catwoman".

"The theater party also needs to make a profit..."

In a club in Burbank, Bruce Rosenblum leaned on the sofa and said to the opposite Diego Harris, “They can’t throw away a large sum of money for their relationship with Warner Bros. Receive the number."

Diego Harris nodded and said, "The relationship between Twentieth Century Fox and the theater is not bad."

"Catwoman..." Bruce Rosenblum sighed, "It's hard to come back."

As the CEO of DC Comics, Diego Harris didn't want to see this situation, but knew that Bruce Rosenblum was telling the truth.

DC Comics will definitely have a big somersault on "Catwoman".

"As far as I know," Diego Harris said, "Bruce Berman has been calling the senior executives of the three theater companies from last night to this morning. The effect is..."

He snorted and shook his head.

"The advantages of "Deadpool" are too obvious." Bruce Rosenblum said indifferently, "Bruce Berman despised Murphy Stanton too much."

Diego Harris is silent. Isn't he the same?

"I think," he felt a little heavy, "we should find a way to save "Superman Returns." If Bruce Berman continues to operate, this project is likely to become "Catwoman."

"Catwoman" rushed and rushed. After all, it was only an affiliate of the "Batman" series, but if "Superman Returns" rushed, the consequences would be unimaginable. Superman is not only the benchmark of DC comics, but also the most famous in the world. My superhero is the trump card in the hands of DC Comics and Warner Bros.

"How to save?" Bruce Rosenblum asked back, "Diego, you are not the first day you met Bruce Berman. You should know his work style, he is arbitrary, his desire for power is very heavy, and he wants to intervene in any work. He will not let us really participate in the "Superman Returns" series."

"What should we do then?" Diego Harris was very anxious. "Aren't we sitting back and watching Superman fail again?"

"Bruce Berman is the CEO and has a lot of supporters at the top of the company and group companies," Bruce Rosenblum shook his head. "How do we two fight him? Unless he is no longer Warner Bros. CEO."

"It's difficult," Diego Harris now completely regrets that he shouldn't have supported Bruce Berman as the CEO of Warner Bros. This looks like a talented and ambitious restart of the DC Comics Hero movie, but There is no talent to match his ambition at all. "His term of office is still very long..."

Bruce Rosenblum suddenly looked up, "What if he makes mistakes one after another on two big projects? Especially "Superman Returns."

The production cost of this film alone exceeds 250 million U.S. dollars. If it fails, it will definitely not be able to carry it out of class.

"But..." Diego Harris has been working in DC Comics, and he truly loves DC's comic heroes. "This...this will cause irreversible damage to Superman."

"But his resignation can win a real turn for DC Comics!" Bruce Rosenblum stood up, "You didn't put Murphy Stanton in your eyes at the beginning, and you dismissed his words and ideas. Gu, he didn't read his plan much, so he followed Bruce Berman's request and returned it, but..."

He pointed to his chest, "I saw it! It was still a theory at the time, and no one could prove that Murphy Stanton's plan was successful. Now, "Deadpool" has proven his ability to us!"

"Do you think he can save the DC movie?" Diego Harris asked urgently.

Bruce Rosenblum shook his head, "It might be an exaggeration to say about rescue, but I think he can reverse the trend of the DC series.