Hollywood Road

Time gradually approached the early morning, and the streets of Los Angeles were obviously much quieter, but the lights were still brightly lit, and the lights all over the city seemed to never rest, especially in the Times screenwriter department, early morning is often the time when the lights are brightest and brightest.

But the atmosphere of the newspaper office tonight was very unusual. The editor-in-chief who rarely appeared at this time in the past not only came to the newspaper office suddenly, but also called the editor-in-chief of several pages into the office.

In the editor-in-chief's office, Michael Parks, the editor-in-chief of the "Los Angeles Times", ordered several editors, "Tomorrow, a special issue will be published."

Several editors immediately raised their spirits, allowing the "Los Angeles Times" to issue additional special issues, which meant that something extraordinary must have happened today or last week.

A chief editor asked curiously, "The type and content of the special issue..."

"Entertainment Special!"

Hearing the editor-in-chief's words, several editor-in-chiefs looked at each other suspiciously. The "Los Angeles Times" is one of the three major newspapers in the United States. It is a representative of serious and realistic news, and it is a leader in the industry. Isn't it What a mess, irresponsible entertainment gossip newspaper.

Editor-in-Chief Michael Parkes did not continue to confuse them, and said directly, "It's not the gossip news, the movie news, mainly Murphy Stanton and "Dark City"!"

The editors suddenly realized that since Murphy Stanton's new film "Dark City" was officially released on Friday, it has set off an almost crazy movie-watching boom in North America. In just a few days after its release, it broke the North American film market And all the records that can be broken at the box office, if nothing else, the box office in the first weekend will also be an astonishing figure. It is entirely appropriate to issue a special issue for such a director and film.

"I will personally write a box office bulletin." Editor-in-chief Michael Parks turned to his assistant, "After the weekend box office statistics are delivered, I will bring them here as soon as possible."

It's a busy night for any media, especially the entertainment editors, who stayed up almost all night trying to figure out how to praise Murphy Stanton and his new release. Super masterpiece "Dark City".

The night that shrouded the city gradually faded, the darkness slowly receded, and just as a line of white appeared in the eastern sky, newspapers were delivered to newsstands and newspaper deliverers, not just in the city of Los Angeles, like the Los Angeles Times "This kind of big newspaper has a complete distribution network all over the United States, and it will appear in every corner of the United States in time.

As the sun lit up the streets of Burbank, Kevin Feige walked into the Marvel Studios office building here and straight into his own office.

Just after sitting down, his assistant brought up the brewed coffee and today's work schedule at the same time. Kevin Fitch took a sip of the coffee, the temperature was just right, and he couldn't help nodding.

Putting down the coffee cup, Kevin Fitch called to the assistant who was about to leave, "Bring me a copy of today's major newspapers."

Knowing her boss' habits, the female assistant immediately answered, "Boss, the "Los Angeles Times" has published a special issue of "Dark City."

Kevin Fitch didn't answer immediately, but the county picked up the work log and looked at it, browsed the schedule, and saw that there was nothing urgent to deal with, so he said, "Give me a copy of the Los Angeles Times first." "come on."

The female assistant hurried to the door, took a copy of today's "Los Angeles Times" from the newspaper shelf, and put it on the desk in front of Kevin Feige. Seeing that the boss had no other orders, she walked out of the office .

After picking up today's "Los Angeles Times", Kevin Fitch didn't look at other parts, he took the special issue directly and flipped through it.

"This week, North America ushered in the traditional summer movie season. At the beginning of each summer season, there will be high-profile super masterpieces released. The "Avengers", which was released on the first weekend of the summer season last year, achieved extremely dazzling results. , It also makes the beginning of this year's summer vacation even more exciting!"

"Amid all the anticipation, the long-awaited Hollywood super director Murphy Stanton's new film "Dark City\

,"Last Friday, with a super-large-scale screening, it landed in 4,660 theaters in North America. It received a box office of 242.9 million U.S. dollars in three days over the weekend, and the box office of a single theater was as high as 52,124 U.S. dollars. It broke all the box office records all the way and became the highest-grossing film in the opening weekend in Hollywood history. The investment of 220 million U.S. dollars by 20th Century Fox and Stanton Studios has been recovered in a blink of an eye.

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"From the early screenings of the North American premiere on Thursday, the box office of "Dark City" has declared its determination to create a box office miracle as a winner. The figure of 45.8 million US dollars surpassed that of "Harry Potter and Death." "Under the Hallows" set a record of US$43.5 million in advance box office two years ago, and became the new box office king in North America. The performance on the premiere day on Friday was also extraordinary. The box office reached 102.6 million U.S. dollars (including early screenings), and then won the title of single-day box office champion in film history. In the following two days on Saturday and Sunday, the film won 75.5 million U.S. dollars and 64.8 million US dollars, setting a new North American Saturday and Sunday single-day box office record!"

"The glory of "Dark City" is so far, it is difficult to add it, statistics are the most true and direct response."

"Largest opening - 4,660 theaters; Highest early opening - $45.8 million; Largest early opening - $45.8 million in 3,860 theaters; Largest imax midnight opening - Cinema Harvest $4.21 million; highest single-day box office revenue in history-$102.6 million; highest Saturday box office revenue in history-$75.5 million; highest Sunday box office revenue in history-$64.8 million; highest imax giant screen theater premiere Weekend box office - 42.37 million US dollars; the fastest time to break through 200 million US dollars - two days and fourteen hours..."

"Due to the good box office of "Dark City", the total box office of the North American film market this weekend has also set a new record. Originally, the first weekend of May 2012-the opening weekend of "The Avengers"-is the total box office of the American film market. It was the weekend with the highest box office, with an output of 249 million US dollars. However, in the face of the strong market enthusiasm of "Dark City" this weekend, the North American film market was fully stimulated, and the total box office of the film market reached 289.5 million US dollars. Week became the highest-grossing weekend in Hollywood history!"

"Each of the above titles is a testament to the enormous commercial success of Dark City today.

Regarding the reasons for the film's success, this newspaper has summarized the following points - 52% of the film's audience is male, and the proportion of male and female audiences is relatively balanced, which means that the film is male-female; director Murphy- Stanton's ultra-high-quality "City of Chaos" has become the online on-demand and DVD rental champion in the past two years after the theaters, and has won a group of loyal audiences for "Dark City" today; Murphy Stanton himself even It has a rare huge fan group in the director's world and a terrifying box office appeal; the magician played by James Franco can be called a divine performance, coupled with Margot Robbie who also performed well, together they are wonderful. His acting skills supported the film. "

"In terms of word-of-mouth, the on-site ratings of theater audiences have always remained at the highest level of a+; the average rating of imdb fans is 9.7; the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 97%, the average rating of film critics is 9.1 points, and the authoritative media's comprehensive evaluation metacritic has included 80% Nine media outlets rated "Dark City" with an overall score of 88 points, which can be said to be applauded. Among them, the media that gave the film a perfect score of 100 include "Variety Show", "Empire", "Entertainment Weekly", "Hollywood A total of 46 large media including The Reporter and Time."

"The North American box office of "Dark City" will definitely break through the 300 million US dollars next weekend. Judging from the current situation, it is very possible to win the box office champion in the summer of 2013. As for whether the film can take away the box office from "The Avengers" The best summer movie title remains to be seen..."

Seeing this, Kevin Fitch put down the newspaper in his hand. The series of box office records created by "The Avengers" only lasted for a short year. The collapse under the strong impact of "Dark City" made him, the CEO of Marvel Pictures, very uncomfortable.

But at the same time, he also has a feeling of luck that Walt Disney's decision-makers accepted his suggestion and postponed "Iron Man 3" to the Christmas schedule, otherwise it would directly collide with Murphy Stanton's "Dark City". Together, the best result is both losers.

"Both lose?" Kevin Feige shook his head, telling him rationally, "Iron Man 3 will definitely fail!"

He even felt that even if the "Avengers" and this "Dark City" faced each other, there would be no good results.

Stan Lee, that idiot, also suggested that "Iron Man 3" should be put at the beginning of this summer's file, and directly collide with Murphy Stanton's film, what a fool! This is simply a great situation that wants to ruin the Marvel superhero movie!

Good thing the people in Walt Disney Publishing aren't as stupid as this old fool!

Kevin Fitch shook his head, and suddenly thought of one thing, some people are more stupid than Stan Lee, who is not very smart after getting old, but he likes to show off, that is the original decision-makers of Warner Bros. and DC Comics.

For some remuneration and revenue sharing, Murphy Stanton was given up when the situation was very good, and Zack Snyder was chosen to take charge of the entire DC superhero movie series. The situation of the manga movie is so bad that even Ben Affleck wants to resign as Batman...

This also indirectly led to the great situation of Marvel superhero movies today.

What if Murphy Stanton has been in charge of the entire DC series? Kevin Feige can't imagine...

"Dark City" hit the box office in the first weekend, attracted the attention of countless people, and became a hot spot in the media.