Hollywood Road

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 In one day on Thursday, another US$21.56 million was withdrawn from North America.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

As long as anyone who knows the industry knows that with the arrival of a new weekend, the North American box office of "Dark City" will inevitably surpass the $400 million mark.

Compared with "Dark City", Van Diesel's "Fast and Furious 6" has a declining North American box office, earning less than $6 million in four working days. Many forecasting agencies in the Hollywood industry have already affirmed this film. The film's final North American box office will not exceed 180 million US dollars.

A new weekend is here, and every weekend in the North American summer vacation is a festival for movie fans.

Since the schools in North America have not yet closed for 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 the previous four working days, and has not risen significantly. However, as night falls, we leave work. A large number of people squeezed into the theater after school. They don't have to go to school and work tomorrow. They can watch their favorite movies wantonly.

In a theater on Long Island, New York, Fernandez, the night shift manager, just finished the shift with his colleagues and came to the ticket counter. A large number of movie fans flooded into the theater. Quite a few of them came to the ticket counter and queue , Because the employee handover has not yet ended, there are only two ticket windows open at this time, resulting in two long lines in the theater hall immediately.

Fernandez took a look at the time, came to an unopened ticket window, and took away the sign that was not selling tickets. The two long lines and many customers who entered the theater one after another came to him like a tide. There was a long line.

A girl who seemed to be at most sixteen or seventeen was ranked first. Standing behind her was a boy. Judging from the closeness of the two, it should be a couple.

After working in the theater for a long time, and dealing with all kinds of people, Fernandez thinks he is very good at seeing people.

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

The young girl handed 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 pieces of "Dark City"!"

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

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

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

While Fernandez was waiting for the ticket vending machine to issue the tickets, he heard this person muttering there, "I watched it once last week, and watched it again this week. Why should I watch such a good movie twice."

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

Fernandez was proficient in his business and soon sold multiple movie tickets for "The Dark City".

"Murphy Stanton has been screened for the second week." He muttered to himself, "There are still so many people buying tickets. It seems that the box office this weekend is not bad."

"Hello there……"

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

Before she finished speaking, the man behind said grimly, "My dear, let's watch "The Dark City"."

Fernandez didn't issue the vote immediately. He had seen too many different opinions in the past.

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

Obviously, this woman is the leader of the two people, "Leonardo DiCaprio is my male god!"

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

Hearing this, Fernandez immediately issued the ticket. After all, there are still many people in line behind the two, and he has no time to let these two people waste here.

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

As the duty manager of the operations department, Fernandez quickly figured out what was going on. Women in their thirties should all be fans of Leonardo DiCaprio. This age group has been pushed forward for 15 or 6 years. They are in their teenage years. At that time, "Titanic" took the world by storm. Leonardo DiCaprio was captivated by the role of Jack Dawson.

As for the older audience, it should be for the name "The Great Gatsby". He can't remember how many remakes of this film, but there are always three or four times. It must be of a certain age. Big movie fans have deep feelings for this adaptation of the film, come to see the latest remake, look for the feelings of the year.

However, compared to "Dark City", which has an all-male-female audience, with a population of 16 to 50 as the main audience, "The Great Gatsby" is obviously much smaller.

Of course, Fernandez also knows that Leonardo DiCaprio, as a Hollywood superstar, has its own appealing power that cannot be ignored.

After spending half an hour in front of the counter, Fernandez had secretly observed that the audience who came to watch "The Great Gatsby" were still mainly Leonardo DiCaprio fans. The on-site sales of movie tickets can only be said to be relatively general.

He didn’t know about the vending machine. The counter where he worked, probably sold 12 tickets for "The Great Gatsby" in half an hour. Such data is actually not bad, but it is often good or bad. They are all compared. In the same time, "Dark City" sold 55 tickets!

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

An employee came over, Fernandez handed the window to him, and went to the sales department to turn around. Seeing that everything was normal, he returned to his duty office, just opened the chair and sat down, someone knocked on the door and walked in. .

It was a cinema investigator who came in. The other party would come here every weekend, so Fernandez was very familiar with him and asked, "Strange, is your work efficient today?"

"Not every film has as many terrifying audiences as the first weekend of "The Dark City."

The investigator named Strange took a glass of water from the drinking fountain, came to sit down opposite Fernandez, and said, "The "Great Gatsby" that just left the scene has only 20 viewers. According to the company's percent The five to ten percent sampling survey stipulates that it is enough for me to ask two people for their opinions."

Speaking of this, Strange couldn't help complaining a few words, "Like last week, it's crazy to ask more than ten viewers in a show! I am only one! How can I stop so many people at the same time? Damn movie, **** Murphy Stanton! It's driving us cinema investigators crazy!"

Fernandez comforted, "Fortunately, he only makes one movie a year!"

"Hmm! Hmm!" Strange nodded his head hurriedly, as if he was left behind. "If his movie is released twice a year, then I will definitely quit my job. This job is really not done by anyone!"

Fernandez can see clearly that Strange still has complaints about the overwhelming workload last weekend.

"By the way, Strange." He changed the subject at the right time, "How is the reputation of "The Great Gatsby"? As far as your field survey sampling is concerned today."

Strange shook his head, "It's normal. I feel that Leonardo DiCaprio will have a plummeting box office after consuming his fans and fans of the previous remakes."

"Can you tell me more specifically?" Fernandez 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+. This is today. If there are three days on the weekend, it may fall to B. ."

Fernandez nodded, "The audience's word of mouth is average."

"It's just so average." Strange shook his head again. "In front of "Dark City", there is not much competitiveness at all, and the film, except for Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire, promotes There are too few points."

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

"How many years ago? How many people will pay attention?" Strange was an expert. "How can the ex-girlfriend compare to the current girlfriend? After Kerry Mulligan broke the news, Gal Gadot It was announced in London that "Dark City" will participate in the Oscar competition, quickly drew the attention of the media and movie fans away."

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

"Do you think..." Strange asked rhetorically, "Is there no definite means to make Murphy Stanton so reliable?"

One day on Friday is fleeting. In today’s highly intelligent and networked era, whether it’s the ticket sales of the theater or the audience’s word-of-mouth comments, the statistics will be released as soon as possible, and then passed to relevant people or companies. Hands.

On Saturday morning, when the crew of "The Great Gatsby" was waiting for boarding in the VIP room of New York's Kennedy Airport, a piece of relevant statistics was also sent over.