Hollywood Road

After flying to Vancouver, Canada, Murphy and the crew still participated in various activities step by step to increase the exposure of the film to attract more audiences to the theater, such as interviews on TV programs and media interviews, as well as on the Internet and on-site Interacting with movie fans during the event is a common method of publicity and promotion.

"Dark City" also started its third week of release in North America. In the past ten days, the film has taken 466.84 million US dollars from North America. In this era when the average ticket price is only 8.3 US dollars, it means More than 50 million North American viewers have seen this film.

Although there is still a considerable gap from the potential 150 million film consumers in North America, a film cannot be liked by everyone. After this period of screening, "Dark City" cannot get rid of its inherent market Regularity, heat and momentum gradually slowed down.

This new Monday, the single-day box office of "Dark City" dropped to 11 million US dollars; on the Tuesday when Murphy arrived in Vancouver, the box office increased slightly because of the traditional theater discount day, and he harvested 12.6 million US dollars; , The single-day box office of the film fell again, down to 10.3 million US dollars; on Thursday, the single-day box office of "Dark City" fell below 10 million US dollars for the first time, closing at 9.8 million US dollars.

Before the arrival of the third weekend, after 15 days of screenings, the cumulative North American box office of "Dark City" reached 510.54 million U.S. dollars, breaking the record of "The Avengers" with a score of 500 million U.S. dollars in 14 days. "The original North American box office record of US$500 million in 23 days.

Although "Dark City" has an astonishing box office harvest, it will face a series of competitors next.

On May 16, Paramount Pictures' "Star Trek 2: Into Darkness" will be released; on May 23, Summit Entertainment's "Now You See Me" will join the summer fray; on May 31, Sony Columbia The film industry's super masterpiece "Shocking Crisis" preempted the Memorial Day schedule...

"The movie "Shallow Crisis," Kara Firth said, looking away from the window, looking at Murphy, "Sony Columbia Pictures invested 150 million U.S. dollars in production costs, and another 80 million U.S. dollars Publicity and distribution costs..."

This is the voyage back to Los Angeles, the last stop of the crew’s publicity in North America. Kara Firth flew to Seattle to represent 20th Century Fox to hold a small celebration party of 500 million dollars. The box office of 500 million dollars is enough to make "Dark City" ranks among the top five in the North American box office list!

In fact, in front of "Dark City", there are only three films left: "Avengers", "Titanic" and "Avatar".

However, the North American box office of the three films is high enough, and it is not easy to surpass. "The Avengers" was 623.35 million U.S. dollars, "Titanic" was 658.67 million U.S. dollars,

"Avatar" $760.5 million!

Hearing Kara Firth's words, Murphy came back to his senses and said, "Sony Columbia Pictures is really big."

"Sony Columbia Pictures wants to save itself." Kara Firth is very familiar with the industry's situation, "Although "The Amazing Spider-Man" has recovered its cost and made some profits, it is far from what Sony Columbia Pictures expected. Can find a way to create other series of brands, otherwise..."

Kara Firth shrugged and shook her head again, "This time they brought in Roland Emmerich, and Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx co-starred, plus the topical theme of capturing the White House , there is still some hope of success.”

Murphy didn't want to see Sony Columbia Pictures succeed, but what the other party said was that it was one of the six major Hollywood companies. A skinny camel was bigger than a horse. "They'd better jump off a building at a loss."

"It's not easy to win Sony Columbia Pictures." Kara Firth had known Murphy's thoughts for a long time, and said in a low voice, "Sony Entertainment will not divest and sell it easily."

"I know." How could Murphy not be aware of this, and asked, "Is the second part of "The Amazing Spider-Man" in production?"

"Yeah." Kara Firth nodded, "It is said that it is already filming, and it is estimated that it will be released in summer next year."

Murphy frowned slightly, "Next year's summer vacation..."

If it develops according to the normal situation, Sony Columbia Pictures killed Sister Stone's Gwen Stacy in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", and this series died, and Spider-Man encountered the lowest point since its birth...

and then? Then Sony Columbia Pictures approached Marvel Pictures, and the little spider was rescued by Marvel Dafa, and appeared in "Captain America 3" with an amazing posture. The eyeballs were shocked, and the popularity soared.

Sony Columbia Pictures and Marvel Pictures immediately launched a new "Spider-Man" series, and also specially marked the name "Return", and brought Iron Man Tony Stark to help out...

Although Murphy didn't see this movie, but thinking with his toes, he also knew that as long as the quality of the movie is above the passing line, the box office will definitely not be bad. Five or six years or even ten years.

"How can Sony Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios not cooperate?"

This can be said to be the key. Murphy needs to think about it carefully and find a suitable opportunity. He is very clear about the importance of "Spider-Man" to the entire Marvel. Once Sony Columbia Pictures proposes to let the little spider return to the Marvel family, The possibility of Marvel's rejection is very small.

After thinking for a while, he couldn't find any clues, and it was impossible to solve this kind of thing in a short while, so he simply threw it aside for the time being.

Back in Los Angeles, Murphy's publicity work came to an end temporarily. Even though Gal Gadot was still running around in the Far East, and his home seemed a little deserted, he hid in the manor, keeping the high-walled compound and tight security from the media. Apart from caring about the box office situation of "City of Darkness", he basically ignored work matters for the time being, and it can be regarded as entering a short vacation time.

"Dark City" also spent its third weekend in the theater market in North America, and also ushered in "Star Trek 2: Into Darkness", a very strong competitor. The "Star Trek" series is the most famous in the world. One of the best sci-fi film and television series, it has a history of more than fifty years and has cultivated a large number of loyal fans.

The latest "Darkness and Infinity" is the second part of the restart series. In the three days of the weekend, it got 21.62 million US dollars, 26.94 million US dollars and 21.6 million US dollars respectively, and gained nearly 71 million US dollars in the first weekend box office in North America.

This box office figure can be said to be quite good, but it can't stop "Dark City" from achieving three consecutive North American box office achievements. In the past three days, "Dark City" has cut 22.6 million US dollars and 27.5 million US dollars respectively. It continued to lead the North American box office charts with $73.2 million.

So far, the North American box office of "Dark City" has reached 583.74 million US dollars!

US$600 million in North America is just around the corner!

At the same time, the overseas box office is also growing by leaps and bounds. The film's release area has expanded to 111 regions, and it collected more than 260 million U.S. dollars in one week last week.

The global box office of "Dark City" is close to 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, reaching 1.46756 billion U.S. dollars, gradually approaching "The Avengers", which ranks third in the global box office list, and achieved 1.51881 billion yuan for "The Avengers". Surpassing the global box office in US dollars is inevitable.

On the other hand, "Dark City" has always been at the highest level of praise, whether it is audience reputation or media evaluation.

Even after three weeks of release, the film's ratings from theater audiences have remained firmly at the level of A+. The authoritative media's comprehensive evaluation MetaCritic has included more than 110 media reviews, but the overall score is still as high as 88 points!

Rotten Tomatoes, the two most representative websites on the Internet, has more than 100 film critics and film reviews. The freshness of the film is 95%, and the average score is 8.9 points!

On IMDB, movie fans gave "Dark City" praise and high scores like crazy. Although as time went by, the number of people who saw the movie doubled, and the number of rating users on IMDB also increased by more than ten times. The average score of "Dark City" will inevitably gradually decrease, but the average score of IMDB users is still as high as 9.5 points!

Such a super high score also makes "Dark City" surpass films such as "The Godfather" and "Shawshank's Redemption" without any suspense, and ranks No. 1 on the TOP250 list of the IMDB website without any suspense!

With such an excellent reputation, "Dark City" is doomed to be an extremely dazzling existence, even if some people want to ignore it.

Looking at the super high score of "Dark City" on the IMDB website, Christian Franklin frowned. The box office and word-of-mouth of this film are simply amazing. Beyond, and heading straight for Titanic and Avatar...

But the box office is not what he cares most about. The IMDB score is what matters. "Dark City" has a score of 9.5 points, firmly surpassing "The Shawshank Redemption" and taking the first place in the TOP250 list!

Christian Franklin is not only a very die-hard "Shawshank Redemption" fan, but also the discussion group leader of the IMDB section.

In their hearts, "The Shawshank Redemption" is not a movie, but a belief!

Christian Franklin's faith was challenged at the scene, how could Christian Franklin be reconciled, "The Shawshank Redemption" ranked first in the TOP250, but at the beginning he mobilized countless fans and scored countless ultra-low scores for "The Godfather" before grabbing it How could it be possible to give up to a purely commercial film like "Dark City" now?

"Dark City" wants to take the top 250 throne, have you asked if they are fans of "Shawshank Redemption"?