In the face of the momentum of "Batman: The Dark Knight", all other films in the same period of this summer file have been reduced to a complete foil that is not worth mentioning.

After the record-breaking first day, countless people inside and outside Hollywood are watching the blockbuster's box office numbers every day.

$23.76 million on the first day.

$24.33 million on Saturday.

$20.39 million on Sunday.

Just three days after the first weekend, the cumulative box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" quickly rushed to a high of $68.38 million.

Coming to the weekday, the film's box office momentum has not diminished at all.

Finally, when the first week from June 7 to June 13 ended, "Batman: The Dark Knight" set a new weekly box office record without suspense, and achieved an unprecedented first week of 100 million.

$1002.07 million.

That's the seven-day box office of the first week of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

In seven days, "Batman: The Dark Knight" jumped to the second place in the 1991 North American box office list, second only to the $118 million of the Valentine's Day film "Fighting Intelligence", which was already on the verge of decline.

In the face of the amazing box office of this super blockbuster that broke 100 million in the first week, most Hollywood filmmakers have a strong sense of powerlessness.

Once upon a time, as long as a movie can achieve a total box office in North America to exceed 100 million, it is enough for everyone to celebrate. However, it seems that in the blink of an eye, it seems that it is so simple for the movie box office to break 100 million.

Most people actually understand that this is just a delusion.

In 1991, the schedule was nearly halfway through, and the North American theater chain only produced "Fighting Intelligence" and "Batman: The Dark Knight", two films that broke 100 million at the North American box office.

It's just that the box office momentum of "Batman: The Dark Knight" really makes too many people feel unattainable.

It's not that no one imagined that the Batman franchise or the DC Cinematic Universe would fail after the amazement of the opening "Batman: Time to War". The entire project cost $160 million, which would have been unimaginable a few years ago.

Even with the popularity of the first part, there is no problem at all with the sequel recovering huge costs through omni-channel operations. However, if the film runs for too long, the project is doomed to failure.

Now, all those who have some expectations are left with disappointment.

At $102 million in its first week, the domestic box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is almost impossible to fall below $300 million.

$300 million is exactly the cost line for this super blockbuster to recoup its entire budget through the local box office.

Based on the first-week box office figures, not many would doubt that the project would not only recoup the entire budget through theatrical screenings in North America, but also be partially profitable.

At the same time, various types of toys, posters, records, and video games related to "Batman: The Dark Knight" were also put on sale during the same period.

This sequel from the beginning of the car chase to the end of the hanging of a dirty bomb away from the city, it can be said that Batman's Batmobile, Batmobile and Batfighter have all destroyed, which has made many fans feel very distressed.

However, there are also other character props in the film that are specifically used for derivative development.

Even Cindy Crawford, who made a cameo, launched the same character figure in the film, because the supermodel's popularity in the film was not predicted in advance, and the news of being out of stock came from various retail channels two days after the film opened.

According to rough statistics, in just one week, the sales of various types of peripheral products of "Batman: The Dark Knight" reached a total of $170 million.

Compared to the $130 million in the same period for "Batman: Time to War", sales have increased by more than 30%.

In addition, the 21 overseas countries and regions that were released at the same time, because they covered the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, Australia and other major overseas box offices, after some statistics, the box office in the first week also reached 130 million US dollars.

As a result, in just the first week of filming, the global box office figure of "Batman: The Dark Knight" reached $230 million.

In the early nineties, the World Trade Organization had not yet been established, and the film markets of various overseas countries were relatively closed.

However, on average, "Batman: The Dark Knight", a blockbuster that overseas theaters are vying to introduce, can roughly maintain the proportion of box office share recovered through overseas markets at about 35%.

According to the tiered sharing rules signed between the local distributor and the theater chain, the approximate profit ratio of peripheral derivatives sales, and the average share ratio of the overseas box office, "Batman: The Dark Knight" is only released for a week, and it is expected that the funds that can be recovered from various channels have reached 140 million US dollars.

With $140 million recouped in seven days, the project is destined to quickly turn profitable, despite the box office drop significantly after the film enters its second week.

Spectators who are just keeping an eye on the box office data of "Batman: The Dark Knight", and professionals who are familiar with the details of the operation of Hollywood film projects can clearly see that this movie, which has invested a huge investment of $160 million, has already shown the momentum of making a lot of money in just over a week.

There's no shortage of followers in Hollywood.

In the face of the success of the DC Cinematic Universe, other studios subconsciously began to look for similar projects.

Then, everyone once again found that the two major comic book giants in North America, whether it was DC or Marvel, were no longer the objects they could touch.

Marvel Comics is completely hidden in the hands of Simon Westeros as a gold mine, not only does it not intend to 'mine', but it also has no intention of letting other studios do it for him.

DC Comics, which lost the triumvirate of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, and almost sold itself in the 80s, showed a strict defense against its own superhero copyright, and the producers who tried to contact Time Warner for the copyright all ended up hitting a wall.

Because of the long-term recession of the comic industry, in addition to Marvel and DC, there are really no other large-scale comic companies in the United States in this era. Many years later, the dark horse comics company and Image comics, which followed Marvel and DC, were either still in the early stages of development or had not yet been established.

Although many people also understand that the key to the success of the DC Cinematic Universe is not in 'DC', but in 'Universe'.

Moreover, Daenerys Entertainment is far ahead of the filmmaking technology and ideas of this era, and it is also the key to the success of the DC Cinematic Universe.

However, after contacting Marvel and DC for copyright to no avail, Hollywood studios have begun to look for some small comic companies, intending to personally support some original comic content.

When the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" was released in the first week, the third part of the series, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", was officially established and began preliminary preparations.

In fact, at the beginning of the project, Simon had already planned and completed the plot of the trilogy.

Now, Jane de Bont has proven that he is enough to sustain the production of this series, and the film's male and female protagonists and other main creators have also signed long-term contracts, and there is no need to rangle the salary because of the film's box office hit. Therefore, the launch of the third part has basically started the actual process of supporting character casting and movie casting.

In just two "Batman" films, a large number of originally unknown or tepid actors have become popular, and with the opening of the third part, any role in the plan has become a goal that major Hollywood agencies are trying to strive for.

Of course, the plan can never catch up with the changes, and it is necessary to make certain changes to the third part in line with the accumulation of the first two parts, but the main line will not change.

Compared with the easter eggs of the second part, "Batman: The Dark Knight" will officially become a crossover.

A crossover set of Batman and Wonder Woman.

The villain of the film adopts a pattern similar to one main boss and one or two other small bosses in the first two parts.

In addition to the Joker, the third installment will also feature the series' first superfemale villain, Poison Ivy.

Simon, of course, wouldn't make Tim Burton's production of Uma Thurman, who looks cheap like Coser, but intended to be like Catwoman's character, and also refer to the Poison Ivy setting in the game version of Batman: Arkham Knight: red shirt with only one button, barefoot, long legs, and green skin that really crawls with tiny vines.

With a weird but irresistible sense of sexy sexiness.

The Poison Ivy Girl in "Batman: Arkham Knight" almost saved the existence of Gotham City in the end, purifying the nerve agent released by the scarecrow by triggering plants.

In Nolan's version of "Batman: The Dark Knight", the focus is on the Joker's grasp of people's hearts, but in the comic book setting, the Joker is actually beyond the scarecrow's poison expert-level existence.

According to Simon's small-to-large setting of the first part of the trilogy to fight the gangsters, the second to save the city, and the third to save the world, the planned "Batman: The Dark Knight", the Joker will be an existence trying to destroy the world.

Batman will team up with Wonder Woman and Catwoman, who have come to Gotham to find the mother box, and join forces with Poison Ivy, who is the last to awaken, to fight against the Joker's scheme.

Compared with the rambling rush of the DC Cinematic Universe in memory, this time, the three mother boxes will become the key to connect the entire DC Cinematic Universe in advance.

At the same time, the third part of the plan, because of the participation of Poison Ivy Girl, a real superpower who can control plants, and the transformation of the clown who is finally affected by the mother box, the use of special effects will be taken to a higher level.

Batman's own equipment will also be upgraded again, and a powerful Batsuit will appear.

Daenerys' CG technology for special effects is already much beyond the original plane, but in order to achieve the planned special effects as perfectly as possible, Simon plans to set aside three years for the third part.

Three years of continuous research and development are enough for Daenerys's CG technology to take matters to a higher level.

Of course, this also means that "Batman: The Dark Knight" will be released in the summer of 1994.

However, in the meantime, Daenerys and Warner Bros. will team up to launch The Flash, Wonder Woman and a reboot of Superman.

Therefore, although it will take three years to wait, the progress of the DC Cinematic Universe will not stand still.

With the commercial potential of the "Batman" series, slowing down and making each part of the series more refined is much stronger than the impatience to launch more films to continuously squeeze the market potential and even cause the audience's aesthetic fatigue.

After the first week, the second week of theaters from June 14 to June 20 also ended quickly.

The new film that opened this week has been reduced to one, Disney's youth comedy "Holiday Girl's Love", which tells the story of a group of girls during the holiday after the unexpected death of an elderly nanny, in order to avoid the constraints of their parents and conceal all kinds of stories.

Compared with the two new films of Universal Pictures' "Jungle Fever" and the Fox comedy "Ugly", which opened last week with a total of less than 1,300 screens, "Holiday Girl's Love" has reached 1,806 screens, which is a significant increase compared to Disney's previous conservative distribution strategy.

Hollywood as a whole is probably more and more aware of the benefits of full distribution and even saturated distribution.

However, like the two new films last week, even if the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" dropped significantly the following week, "Holiday Girl's Love" is still just a foil under the general trend.

In the end, "Batman: The Dark Knight" fell by 41% at the box office in the second week of its release, earning $60.18 million again.

In two weeks after its release, the film grossed $162.25 million.

Although it is not as good as the trend of the box office reversal in the second week of "Batman: Time to War", this is also expected by everyone.

broke 100 million in the first week, and if there was not much drop in the next week, then this series would be completely against the sky.

In fact, compared with the usual decline of more than 50% in the second week of saturated commercial blockbusters in memory, the decline of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is controlled at 41% in the second week, which is still very rare.

The total box office figure of $162.25 million in two weeks is basically the same as the box office data of the first film that reversed the decline in the second week.

As long as the next box office decline is narrowed again, it is not impossible for this sequel to hit the $400 million box office mark in North America again.

For two weeks in a row, Time Warner's stock price has been steadily rising, influenced by the commercial success of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

In order to build momentum for the upcoming stock issuance, Time Warner couldn't wait to announce that it would hold a grand celebration party on June 22 at the end of the second week of the release of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

The time is actually the Saturday of the third week of the release of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

These days, Daenerys Entertainment's film business and Daenerys' integration with the MCA keep Simon busy almost every day from morning to night.

However, as the pioneer of the DC Cinematic Universe and the super signature of the series, "Batman: The Dark Knight" is going to hold a celebration party, and Simon naturally cannot be absent, otherwise there will definitely be rumors such as 'Daenerys and Time Warner's interests are unevenly distributed, and the advancement of the DC Cinematic Universe plan may be changed'.

In fact, similar rhetoric has never gone away.

After all, the stakes involved in the DC Cinematic Universe are simply too large. A "Batman: Time to War", with an expected net profit of more than $1 billion, is already equivalent to the net profit income of a Fortune 500 leading enterprise giant in a year.

Judging from the various data publicly available, the profit scale of "Batman: The Dark Knight" will not be much lower than that of the first series.

Even if Time Warner can take half of the proceeds this time, in the eyes of many people, the IP of "Batman" was originally Warner's, and Time Warner has always suffered a big loss in this business with Daenerys.

In fact, if there is no disagreement between Daenerys and Time Warner in the DC Cinematic Universe cooperation, it is lying with eyes open.

However, Simon has managed to keep the rift from deteriorating further with just the right distribution of benefits, including working with Warner on projects outside of the DC Cinematic Universe.

The benefits are certainly moving.

However, if the price of turning the face is likely to be a chicken and egg beating, if you don't turn your face, you still have a very good harvest, and people who are a little sensible will probably choose to be still rather than still.

Simon, as the absolute controller of Daenerys Entertainment, could have directly chosen a lose-lose confrontation method because Alista Records concealed the sales of the soundtrack of "Bodyguard".

Time Warner is a publicly traded company, and Steve Ross is under pressure from external shareholders and other internal faction executives at this time, so it is impossible to make too drastic face-tearing moves.

Because Simon has already proved in the original "Bodyguard" soundtrack incident that if the partners don't follow the rules, Daenerys Entertainment will only be tougher.