Hollywood Road

At Boston Logan International Airport, the crew headed by Murphy and James Franco were surrounded by media reporters as soon as they walked out of the airport hall. Hundreds of reporters were almost crazy. , and soon surrounded every well-known character in the crew.

The tightest encirclement is still around Murphy and James Franco.

These reporters didn't care whether Murphy wanted to speak or not, and rushed to throw questions one after another. The scene was extremely chaotic, making it difficult to answer.

"Director Stanton, "Dark City" set a new North American second-weekend box office record and broke the US$400 million record the fastest. How many records do you think can be broken in the future?"

""Dark City" has become the second film in North American film history to surpass $100 million at the box office in the second weekend. Are you happy?"

"It is said that your next goal is the Oscars next year, is that true?"

"Are you going to use this film to hit the Oscar for Best Director?"

Questions were asked one after another. Even if Murphy wanted to answer, he had no choice but to break out of the siege and get into the car under the protection of bodyguards.

But after the car started, the reporters still refused to leave, stuck on the road, as if they were on steroids.

Of course, Murphy knew why these reporters were so excited, and some of them chased from New York to Boston. It was all because of the record-breaking box office performance of "Dark City" in North America this past weekend.

In the three days of last weekend, "Dark City" easily won the box office champion of the day. After earning 44.6 million US dollars on Friday, it rebounded again on Saturday and won 45.2 million US dollars. It also took in $36.8 million.

In this way, the combined box office of the three-day weekend was as high as 126.6 million U.S. dollars, easily suppressing the 30.2 million U.S. dollars of "The Great Gatsby". "The same period last year created a North American second-weekend box office record of US$103 million.

At the same time, "Dark City" also broke the record of "The Avengers" breaking $400 million in 14 days by breaking $400 million in eight days.

It is no exaggeration to say that this film has broken almost all box office records in North American film history since its release with an unparalleled momentum of madness.

Within ten days of its release, the North American box office of "Dark City" has accumulated a total of 466.84 million U.S. dollars, which has already touched the threshold of 500 million U.S. dollars in North America.

According to the company's forecast, "Dark City" will enter the ranks of the North American $500 million club this Thursday at the latest and Wednesday at the earliest.

In the face of this crazy box office trend, more and more people are beginning to believe that "Dark City" can completely challenge the positions of "Avatar" and "Titanic" on the North American box office list. - Cameron's monopoly on the top two in the North American box office list.

All of these are the direct reasons for the madness of media reporters.

Murphy led the crew to Boston. Instead of going to the hotel, he first went to an IMAX theater near Boston's Central Plaza to participate in the on-site fan interaction event jointly hosted by IMAX and 20th Century Fox. It was similar to the previous publicity in other cities. The post-screening promotion in Boston is nothing more than running media announcements, interacting with movie fans, and participating in popular local radio and television programs.

After participating in the fan interaction, Murphy and the crew came to the Hilton Hotel in Boston. It was already noon, and an assistant from the crew gave him a fax just sent by 20th Century Fox. The latest overseas box office statistics have been released. up.

"City of Darkness" hit the box office in North America in the first weekend, affecting many countries and regions. There is an obvious situation in the world film market today. For any movie that hits the box office in North America, the box office in other regions is generally quite good. At least not too bad.

Last week, the overseas screening of this film was expanded to more than 90 countries and regions, and in Brazil, Mexico, Australia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, etc., more than 85% of the markets, All of them won the weekly box office champion, and among the more than 30 markets newly released, they won the first place in the weekly box office list without exception!

This week, "Dark City" received another $372.6 million overseas!

Including the 126.6 million US dollars harvested in North America, the global box office has reached a total of 1.11028 billion US dollars!

Whether it's North American media or overseas mainstream media, in the face of the movie-watching frenzy created by "Dark City", they all agree that the global box office of the film is very likely to reach 2 billion US dollars!

But it’s not all good news about this film. Twentieth Century Fox also sent Kara Firth a bad news. audit.

If it was placed five years ago, Twentieth Century Fox wouldn't care too much. After all, even if a Hollywood movie can be sold there and earn tens of millions of dollars at the box office, Hollywood can only get 100% of it. The thirteenth box office share, it can be said that the profit is relatively meager.

But last year, China and the United States just conducted a new round of negotiations on the WTO agreement. Among them, there is a part about movies. The number of sub-account films imported from Hollywood on the other side of the Pacific has increased to 34, and the box office share has doubled to 2%. fifteen!

Unlike other overseas markets, the 25% of the box office share is the part after deducting publicity and distribution costs and taxes, which means that it can basically be regarded as profit.

This latest agreement between China and the United States has also prompted Hollywood, especially the six major companies, to pay more attention to the market on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and want to push super commercial masterpieces into that market.

Murphy couldn't do anything if he couldn't pass the review of the big scissors. He couldn't cut the film to pieces just because of this, right?

For this kind of thing, 20th Century Fox still needs to find a way to publicize it. After all, the standard of the scissors is living, not static.

Murphy's mind was still on the North American promotion of the film, and he was not distracted by these things.

At the same time, Gal Gadot left Europe with the crew and came to Australia to start a promotional tour of the Far East.

"It's a magical country."

When the Gadot flew from Brisbane to Sydney, Margot Robbie sat opposite Gal Gadot, "Wild animals are overrun, shall we go hunting together?"

Gal Gadot shrugged, "This time? No, we have a tight work schedule and no time."

"We can sneak out." Margot Robbie's words were full of temptation, "without letting others know, just the two of us, go out for a day alone, go hunting on my family's farm! You don't know, right now Duan, it is the time when the Australian government hunts kangaroos, as long as they have a special license, they can hunt kangaroos."

She said triumphantly, "Our farm happens to have such a license."

Hearing these words, Gal Gadot was quite surprised, "Isn't the kangaroo a symbol of Australia? I remember that there are kangaroos on the national emblem of Australia, and the government still allows hunting?"

"Of course! This is true. If you don't believe me, you can ask David."

Seeing Gal Gadot was still puzzled, Margot Robbie simply explained, "Many experts believe that too many kangaroos will destroy the ecological environment!"

She said softly, "Kangaroos basically have no natural enemies in Australia, although there used to be a large number of species at the top of the food chain in Australia, such as the Tasmanian tiger. However, overhunting has made them extinct, and then the colonists cleaned up species like Australian dingoes. Such natural enemies. Now, the grass and woods are a rich granary, with a lot of grass and water, but kangaroos have few natural enemies, except for cars."

"Forget it." Gal Gadot shook his head, "Let's talk about it when we have a chance."

After meeting Murphy, although she was no longer a strict qualityist, she was still a little bit against hunting.

Margot Robbie complained intentionally, "Like Murphy, your mind is full of work."

She is a little tired from the continuous work, and she really wants to relax, and the film is now well-known, let alone active promotion. The media are scrambling to report news related to "Dark City". She felt a little embarrassed when she saw it.

For example, when they were in France, the French media touted that "Dark City" was the most successful Hollywood movie, and Murphy was the most successful young Hollywood director. He and "Dark City" made other similar movies look Silly and childish, they are all weak.

The British media believes that "Dark City" is indeed a sharp big production with great ambitions, and it will be a great epic production.

And the Australian media in her hometown, unwilling to fall behind their European counterparts, praised "Dark City" as strong, persuasive, intoxicating, and completely conquered the audience. Murphy Stanton is even more talented director!

Margot Robbie admits there is some truth to the media hype, but it's a little too much...

The plane soon arrived in Sydney. When rushing to the hotel, Margot Robbie and Gal Gadot made a car, and as soon as they got in the car, they raised the baffle of the nanny car to isolate the front and rear compartments.

"Are you really not interested in hunting?" Margot Robbie asked again.

Gal Gadot shook his head, "Not at all interested."

"Honey..." Margot Robbie moved a little closer to Gal Gadot, and said in her ear, "I think you're used to being a prey, that's why you don't like hunters."

"What?" Gal Gadot turned to look at her, "What joke are you talking about?"

Margot Robbie stared at Gal Gadot, "Isn't it? You have always been Murphy's prey, hunted wantonly by him, have you forgotten how to be a hunter?"

Gal Gadot instantly understood what she meant, and couldn't help rolling her eyes. She didn't mind talking to Margot Robbie about this, after all, it had been discussed many times before.

"Do you think someone like Murphy..." She shrugged, "will be my prey?"

Margot Robbie didn't answer, but instead said, "You can find prey that suits you!"