Hollywood Road

The shooting in front of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood has profoundly changed the North American film screening industry. All the new films released this weekend, even films of all ages like "Despicable Me 2", should not be worn by the audience. Fancy outfits enter the arena, not to mention wearing helmets or masks, like Gru's frozen gun toys in the surroundings of the movie, and they are also not allowed to be brought in.

All factors that may be involved in risk must be isolated outside the theater.

As for "Dark City", which is still showing in theaters, the security check is more stringent. Any outfit that is thought of as a magician is not allowed to enter the venue.

Affected by the shooting in front of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, the North American box office of "Dark City" has also continued to decline.

On a working day before this weekend, the single-day box office of "Dark City" had fallen below one million dollars. Although it had been screened in North America for twelve weeks, it was the first time it appeared.

The negative impact naturally continued to this weekend. With the addition of the weekend effect, the box office revenue of "Dark City" rose on Friday, with more than 2.2 million U.S. dollars, but compared to the previous Friday, the drop was as high as Sixty-five percent; On Saturday, "Dark City" continued its slow growth momentum, with a single-day harvest close to 3 million U.S. dollars; on Sunday, it fell normally and reported 2 million U.S. dollars.

Over the three days of the weekend, "Dark City" earned US$7.22 million in North America, a 63% drop compared to the previous weekend. This also created the largest single week of "Dark City" since its release in North America. Box office decline.

However, "Dark City" is temporarily ranked fifth in the North American box office rankings, and the North American box office has finally passed the threshold of 700 million U.S. dollars, reaching a total of 73.68 million U.S. dollars.

But compared with the box office record of more than $760 million created by "Avatar", there is still a huge gap.

Judging from the current situation, dragged down by the shooting at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, the North American box office of "Dark City" wants to surpass "Avatar" has almost become an impossible task.

These sudden unexpected situations cannot be controlled by Murphy or any film company. The film industry has always been affected by the social environment.

Fortunately, the negative impact of the Hollywood Chinese Theater shooting incident is the largest in North America, and it is much worse than overseas. Except for some European countries and regions, "Dark City" has not been significantly affected in most overseas markets. Dragged down, the market trend remains stable.

The screening market of "Dark City" outside North America has increased to more than 120 countries and regions. After the first weekend of July, it once again won US$21.8 million from many overseas markets. In the same weekend last year, the US$7.22 million was collected in North America, and the global box office totaled US$2.19374 million.

This global box office figure finally announced that "Dark City" surpassed "Titanic"'s $2.186.77 billion, and just like the North American box office rankings, it also became the second place in the global box office rankings.

Similarly, "Dark City" is still a considerable distance from the global box office ranking No. 1 "Avatar" of US$2.77897 billion. In the case of a severe blow to the North American market, it wants to be completed at the global box office. Surpassing "Avatar" is also very difficult.

Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox can only hope that in the long-term screening, the box office trend of "Dark City" can go very stable, otherwise there is no chance of surpassing "Avatar".

In fact, Murphy knows very well that if the "Dark City" uses 3D technology to shoot, 35% of the screen version in North America, overseas regions, especially some countries, fully promote the 3D version, perhaps "Dark City" "The City" may eventually surpass "Avatar".

But there is also another possibility, because the picture style and action design of the film are extremely unsuitable for 3D. Once 3D technology and a large-scale 3D version are adopted, the reputation of "Dark City" may collapse and it is impossible. Draw a god-like box office trend.

Even if this is only possible, Murphy still did not do it. On the one hand, he now has no need to raise the ticket price, discredit his reputation, and reduce the so-called style. Compared with the extra box office, Murphy-Stein The reputation and appeal of the brand represented by Dunton are more important and more difficult to establish. He has spent more than ten years for this!

On the other hand, it is secondary, but it also has a certain impact, because Murphy used to be a victim of this kind of 3D technology that is not suitable for the use of 3D technology, but to increase the price of the movie.

I must have seen "Batman v Superman" and "The Bournemouth 5" like him in that era.

"Batman vs. Superman" doesn't say what the content is, the original black screen can be described as a mess after using 3D.

If this can be tolerated, when it comes to watching "The Bournemouth 5", 3D brings more than devastation, and it makes 3D movies stinky among senior movie fans.

I remember that when he was in college, he was still crazy about film noir. Some senior classmates recommended an agent film, because that classmate always played games and thought this film was really awesome, absolutely close to the real agent. I feel that this movie is "The Identity of Byrne", and the domestic translation at that time was called "The Bourne Shadows".

It was the first time Murphy watched the Bourne Shadow series. At that time, it was shocked by the shaking picture and the sound of the full screen cracking the bones. It is no exaggeration to say that the camera shakes really comfortably, and it is not dizzy at all. , But later watched a movie called "Floating City Mystery" which was also hand-held, but it made him feel nauseous.

It's not only the mood, but it's really a physiological reaction. I have to admire the shooting skills of some directors, which are extremely awkward, but they just don't make you dizzy or dissatisfied.

Therefore, when he first entered Hollywood, Murphy also considered the "Bourne Shadows" series, but he started too late. The film copyright of the novel "Bourne's Identity" has long been bought, or Hollywood's giant company had to die.

The first three parts of this series are absolute classics, masterpieces of hand-held photography commercial films, but the next few...

Especially the fifth part, it is super speechless.

When the film was released, the classmate had already gone abroad for further studies. The two had only occasional contact. One day Murphy suddenly received a word from each other and said a bunch of emotional experiences with foreign girls that he didn't care about. , He casually dealt with a few words.

After I was about to hang up, the other party suddenly said that he had watched "The Bournemouth 5".

Murphy warned at the time, saying you don't **** be spoiled. The classmate said that this movie is really back, the camera shake is not good, the style of the first trilogy of "Bourne Bourne," is absolutely the style of the first three parts of "The Bourne", the one that shakes when watching the movie is so refreshing, it is so refreshing, and it is full of close-ups.

Murphy asked him, are you looking at 3D? Can you feel nauseous?

The student said how could this film have 3D? Hilarious! There is no 3d version, and I feel a little nauseous in 2d, which is so cool.

Murphy praised it directly, but couldn't be envious. After all, it had to wait a month before it was released in China. I only hope that the film party will not get the 3D version.

That classmate said, how could it be possible to get 3D? The 3D version on this film will kill people...

Then, "The Bourne Shadow 5" was released, and Murphy was going to buy tickets to watch it as soon as possible. Suddenly I found out that my **** mother was really 3D. I searched the city where the school is located, but there was no one. The 2D version is shown in the theater, and then go to the Internet to check if there is another city nearby, or there is no 2D, it is all 3D!

He really doesn’t know what the film crew thinks, yes, 3d fares are high, and split accounts can get more money. After all, when Universal Pictures produced a 3d version of "Fast and Furious 7" back then, it made a lot of money. But have you considered the shooting style of "The Bourne"? Did you watch it when you converted the 3d copy?

This approach of the film crew is simply an insult to the director and the audience. Yes, you have reason to say that you are a full-standard version. The poster says, but does the theater have 2D lineup?

So, watching tired, nauseous, falling asleep, vomiting, nauseous, dizzy to death, nauseous wanting to sleep... The style and rhythm of "The Bourne" can make the audience fall asleep?

Murphy believes that it is not because of the plot, but because of the visual fatigue of the audience caused by the strange combination of shaking the camera + 3d version. The camera shakes for 2 hours to play the game without fainting 3D, and the elite fighters can't hold it. Okay.

There is a situation, both in the past and now, that the development speed of 3D in East Asia far exceeds that of North America!

The number of 3D screens in Asia accounts for more than 70% of the total number of screens, and it has been increasing year after year. The North American region accounts for about 35%. It has reached the bottleneck stage and has a trend of declining year by year.

I believe many people know how such a high proportion of 3D screens in Asia came from. I want to go to college until the last year. Murphy would be particularly moved if he wanted to find a screen showing 2D movies in the theater. The film party said 3-4 The online audience is not watching in 3D, please don't treat the audience as a fool, okay? It is also said that 3d is to prevent piracy. He wants to ask the person who said this if he believes it?

The previous 3D technology ruined all his expectations for the "Bourne Bourne" series.

Therefore, in movies that are not suitable for 3D technology, Murphy will not touch 3D.

He will not let the inferior 3D version ruin the golden sign he has worked so hard to create over decades.

The box office of "Dark City" fell sharply in North America. After the shooting at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, this can be said to be in everyone's expectations, but there are always some things in the world that are unexpected.

On Monday afternoon, Murphy had seen the latest North American and overseas statistics of "The Dark City" sent by Twentieth Century Fox. Just as he was about to go around the garden, he received a call from Bill Rossis.

"Robert just got the news from the police." He said in a hurry, "The magician has committed another crime!"