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Chapter 655: The Ultimate Film Industry (Revision)

The end of the main film, as usual, is the easter egg that everyone expects.

The upcoming "Suicide Squad" Easter egg, which will be released at the end of the year, has already appeared in the first "Batman: The War Moment". This time, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" has only one Easter egg, but it has greatly excited all DC fans in the screening hall of the Chinese theater.

In a corner of the city street that obviously experienced a car chase war, a burly figure in a cloak suit reached out and pulled open the roof cover of the Batmobile that was almost scrapped with flames. Batman in the car slowly stood up, and the two DC's strongest superheroes confronted each other on the big screen for the first time.

Without lines, this is enough.

The screen was completely dark, and in a short period of time, thunderous applause quickly rang out in the screening hall, and the applause lasted for more than a minute until the host took the film's main creators to sit on the stage, and then he slowly stopped.

During the media interaction session, the first reporter of Variety Show, who was named after the first name, did not rush to mention Rivian Phoenix's superb performance of the clown, nor did he feel the charm of Nicole Kidman playing the Poison Ivy Girl, but asked how the shocking Vine Ring special effects scene in the film was created.

Generally speaking, the more panoramic CG special effects are, the easier it is to produce. However, in the video just now, the scene where the poisonous ivy woman gave birth to ancient vines tangled around the entire Gotham. Whether it is the buds of vines drilled out of the asphalt pavement, the thick vines embracing the two of them tangled around the entire building, or many buildings cannot bear the vines growing wildly and collapsed. Every shot and every detail gives people a sense of fineness that is difficult to distinguish between real and false in the scene. It seems that a modern metropolis is really wrapped by crazy green vines growing in a short period of time.

The most important point is that this special effects scene still occurs during the day. Anyone who knows a little bit of knowledge understands that compared with the same type of night CG scene, the difficulty of making CG screens and rendering workloads during the day will be greatly improved, which naturally means more budgets.

In fact, the production budget of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" was only over three minutes long, and the production cost of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" reached $135 million, and this was still based on the Australian government's huge tax refund. Otherwise, the production budget of this Batman movie would exceed $150 million.

Huge film production budgets are usually not equal to the quality of the film, as evidenced by many Hollywood blockbusters.

However, after Daenerys Entertainment has continuously produced six DC movie universe blockbusters such as "Batman: The Moment of War", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Wonder Woman", "The Flash", "Superman", and "Cylinder Bones", and the accumulation of bombshells such as "Terminator 2" and "Jurassic Park" over the years, the development and application of the Hollywood film industry has reached the extreme of this era.

Therefore, the dazzling special effects scenes that still shock the audience after several DC blockbusters in succession are actually just a natural result.

The Hollywood peers who have been chasing Daenerys Entertainment over the years are actually being pulled further and further away.

Not to mention the rest, just that Daenerys Special Effects has two large rendering farms with computing power that exceeds most supercomputers in the world, which are not something other Hollywood film companies and unique special effects studios can have.

Not only in terms of technology, Daenerys Entertainment has already completed the training and integration of multiple super bombs in the preliminary planning, formal production, and post-promotion of film projects, forming a complete film industry flow operation system.

The first impression the assembly line gives the public is often mediocre, but it is definitely not the case.

The Daenerys Entertainment operation system, which meets the highest standards, strives for excellence in the production requirements of every step of its bombshell. Even if the movie itself is not very outstanding, it can obtain more commercial benefits to the greatest extent through strong post-production promotion.

This inevitably leads to a problem.

Can't other Hollywood studios imitate it?

Of course no problem.

However, whether you can successfully imitate is the biggest problem.

After Disney's Marvel Cinema Universe was successful in the original time and space, various Hollywood cinema universes came one after another, such as DC Cinema Universe, Monster Cinema Universe, Transformers Universe, etc. Even the DC Cinema Universe with the most hope of copying the Marvel mode ended in failure.

The DC problem is obvious.

The excessive interference of Warner senior executives, lack of perfect production ideas, lack of trust in the main creators, etc.

Looking at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the success of "Iron Man" in 2008 was actually just a coincidence. Neither Marvel itself nor Paramount, who was originally responsible for the release, had much confidence in this project. When "Iron Man" was a big hit at the box office, Paramount, who had the opportunity to win Marvel, was still hesitant, but was picked by Disney.

Disney, who won the Marvel Cinematic Universe, truly played this good hand to the extreme.

Even if many people publicly criticize Disney as an assembly line, they cannot erase the Marvel Cinema Universe that is destined to leave a brilliant mark in the history of world movies.

The same is true for Daenerys Entertainment today.

Simon has absolute control over Daenerys Entertainment and has a clear and firm production plan for the new DC movie universe. Time Warner and Daenerys can provide all projects with the best production and promotional resources, all of which are the fundamentals of the success of DC movie universe.

Not only that, the production and promotional experience accumulated by a series of DC movie universe blockbusters was also successfully applied by Simon to many projects under Daenerys Entertainment's "Jurassic Park" series, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, "Mission Impossible" series and other projects. These successful super bombs eventually created the Daenerys Entertainment Group, which was extremely powerful in Hollywood at this time.

After the premiere, the reputation of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" was officially lifted the ban the next day.

The commentary of "The Hollywood Reporter" in "There are still only two types of movies in Hollywood, one is the DC movie universe and the other is the other movies" is very classically summarizing the praises of most media for "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises".

Mainstream print media such as "Variety Show", "Los Angeles Times", "New York Times", "Boston Globe", and "Chicago Tribune" all gave high praise to the finale of this Batman single-player trilogy.

The amazingness of the film is definitely not just the further outstanding special effects after the previous six DC blockbusters, the exciting plot that is linked together, the harsh pursuit of details under the atmosphere, the clown portrayed by Revan Phoenix, Nicole Kidman's Poison Ivy Girl, etc., have all become the objects that many film critics have focused on.

In the end, the media rating of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" reached an astonishing 9.7 points, 0.1 points higher than the 9.6 points of the first film "Batman: The Moment of War", which surprised fans that year. Considering that Hollywood sequels often cannot break through the common phenomenon of previous works, the media reputation of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" is even more rare.

On Thursday night, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" officially opened in North America with 3,515 screens, and the number of screens opened also hit a new high.

Friday, June 3.

On the first day of the mass release of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", the box office data of the North American film market in the previous week was also successfully released.

Last Friday's two new films, "The Blues Cowgirl" and "The Princess and the Goblin", did not splash any water. Therefore, from May 27 to June 2, North American theaters will basically be fully utilized by several old films.

"The Speed ​​of Life and Death" starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Brock won the first place in the single-week box office list without any suspense. Due to the lack of competition for new films, the film's weekly box office fell by only 21%, and it collected another $25.39 million, with a cumulative box office of two weeks reaching $57.56 million.

Simon originally expected that the box office decline of "Life and Death" this week could be controlled within 20%, and the 21% weekly decline was slightly lower than expected. Obviously, although no other strong competitors entered the market during the same period, the film was still affected by "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises". Audiences' expectations for this DC movie universe's super bombshell have largely caused the market to cool down the week before the film was released.

"Star Gate" directed by Michael Bay continues to dominate the second place on the list. In the third week of its release, the decline of the film also narrowed to 23%, earning $19.45 million. The cumulative box office reached $81.32 million in three weeks, which is not far from the 100 million yuan threshold.

The western film "Macau Gambler" starring Mel Gibson ranked third, with a drop of only 22% this week. However, the box office of "Macau Gambler" was too low, with a box office of only $16.15 million in the next week, and a cumulative box office of $36.87 million in two weeks, which is only comparable to the first week of "Star Gate" of $36.61 million.

Considering the strong impact of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" on June 3, the total box office of "Gambling Man Ma Huali" in North America is likely to stop below $60 million. Relying on the local box office, Warner can only barely recover the film's $30 million in publicity and promotion investment, and huge losses are inevitable.

When a new box office week kicks off, North American media and the public are almost entirely attracted by Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.

After the stunning reputation of one-sided opening on Thursday, on Friday, the first day of its massive release, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" relied on 3,515 yuan to open the screen and scored another record-breaking box office of $26.13 million.

The box office of $26.13 million on the first day of the painting, almost most Hollywood filmmakers burst into tears. Many Hollywood movies may not have so many box offices in a week, but "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" only took one day.

The media spared no effort to follow the trend and hype, and the public's viewing habits that have been formed by the DC movie universe have further boosted the film's phenomenon-level viewing craze.

From June 3 to June 5, three days in the first weekend, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" won $78.37 million, which was also a record first weekend box office result.

From June 3 to June 9, the first week of box office was released. The seven-day box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" finally reached $127.63 million.

Destroy and destroy, and it is like a broken bamboo.

Faced with the strong crushing of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", the box office of "Life and Death Hour" and "Star Gate" that were originally in good box office momentum were directly cut in the new week, with a drop of 49% and 53% respectively, and the single-week box office directly fell to $12.93 million and $9.21 million.

However, Mel Gibson's "The Gambler of Ma Huali" is even more miserable.

The box office start, which was not high, faced with the impact of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", the third week of release fell by 57%. The box office in a single week plummeted from $16.15 million last week to $6.93 million. Not to mention the box office expectation of $60 million last week, it is difficult to even get through the threshold of $50 million.

As for other movies such as "When a Man Falls in Love with a Woman" starring Meg Ryan and Spike Lee's "Deep Racial Love", they were hit to the edge of the lower stage at one time.

The same is true for Daenerys Entertainment's "Detective's Aircraft Head".

"Detective Aircraft Head" originally successfully crossed the 90 million box office threshold with a box office of $3.17 million from May 27 to June 2. The box office in the new week also fell by 53%, with only $1.49 million in a single week, with a cumulative box office of $92.39 million.

Although Daenerys Entertainment still retains 325 screens for this film, it is expected that it will only receive a box office of about $5 million at the following time. The final box office of "Detective Aircraft Head" will be around $97 million, only one step away from the 100 million box office club.

Speaking of which, as long as Simon is willing, Daenerys Entertainment can cross this threshold. It is just that for the sake of suppressing Jim Carrey, Simon did not approve some plans proposed by the "Detective Aircraft Head" promotion team.

Regardless of the situation of other films, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" was a box office success in the first week. Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner Group jointly held a grand celebration party at the first time, and the location was still at the employee activity center of Daenerys Cinema, Mali, on Saturday, June 11.

Although he no longer directly governs Time Warner's film business, Terry Semer still came to Los Angeles from New York on the day of the celebration party.

Simon had dinner with his family at Dumei Point Manor, and did not arrive at Daenerys Cinema until around 9:30, but he did not intend to stay at the party for too long.

Meeting Terry Semer, who still didn't leave at the party, quickly talked about the recent hot DreamWorks matters in Hollywood.

The DreamWorks, planned by Steven Spielberg and the other three, have begun to look for a partner issuer.

In the original time and space, DreamWorks' early partner was Paramount Pictures. This time, in addition to Daenerys, MGM and Disney, the other four of the seven major Hollywood companies, Columbia, Paramount, Warner and Fox, all extended olive branches to DreamWorks.

Terry Semer also called Simon for this purpose to test his attitude towards Warner's cooperation with DreamWorks. After all, the news that the three DreamWorks announced the establishment of this large studio on the day of the premiere of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" clearly had some intentions against Daenerys Entertainment.

Simon didn't comment on this.

If Warner Bros. wins the agency distribution rights for the films produced by DreamWorks, it may show a prosperous situation in the short term, continuing to support the momentum of the two strong forces in Hollywood Warner and Daenerys, which still does not deviate from Simon's plan. As for the long-term impact, the worst thing is that some plans will be adjusted according to the specific situation in the future.
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