Chapter 655: Film Industry Acme
The hearty feature film ends, and as usual, it is the easter egg that everyone is looking forward to.
The easter egg of "Suicide Squad", which will be released at the end of the year, has already appeared in the first "Batman: Time to War", and the finale of this trilogy has only one easter egg, but it has greatly excited all DC fans in the screening hall of the Chinese theater.
On a corner of a city street that has obviously experienced a car chase, a burly figure in a cape and suit reaches out to tear open the roof of the Batmobile, which is almost scrapped in the flames, and Batman in the car slowly stands up, and the two strongest superheroes in DC face each other on the big screen for the first time.
There are no lines, but that's enough.
The picture of the big screen was completely darkened, and after a short interval, thunderous applause immediately sounded in the screening hall, which lasted for more than a minute until the host took several main creators of the film to sit firmly on the stage, and then it slowly fell.
In the media interactive session, the first "Variety" reporter named in the screening hall did not rush to ask about Raven Phoenix's superb interpretation of the Joker, nor did he mention Nicole Kidman's amorous play of Poison Ivy, but immediately asked how the shocking special effects scene of vines around the city in the film was made.
Generally speaking, the more panoramic CG special effects, the easier it is to make, but in the film just now, the scene where the poison ivy girl gives birth to ancient vines entwining the entire Gotham, whether it is the budding vines drilled out of the asphalt pavement, or the thick vines that the two people hug wrap around the entire building, or many buildings are unbearable to withstand the crazy growth of vines and collapse and collapse, every shot, every detail, gives people an immersive and difficult to distinguish sense of fineness, as if there is really a modern city wrapped in a short period of time by crazy green vines.
The most important point is that this part of the special effects scene still takes place during the day, and anyone who knows a little knows knows that compared with the same type of night CG scene, the daytime special effects will greatly increase the difficulty of CG screen production and rendering workload, which naturally means more budget.
In fact, just a little more than three minutes of special effects scenes around the city burned $12 million in production budgets, and the production cost of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" reached $135 million, and this is still on top of the huge 15% tax rebate given by the Australian government. Otherwise, the production budget of the Batman movie would have exceeded $150 million.
Huge production budgets rarely equate to the quality of a film, as evidenced by Hollywood's many box office fiascos.
However, after Daenerys Entertainment has continuously produced six DC cinematic universe blockbusters such as "Batman: Time to War", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Wonder Woman", "The Flash", "Superman", and "Cyborg", coupled with the accumulation of blockbuster films such as "Terminator 2" and "Jurassic Park" over the years, the development and application of Hollywood's powerful film industry has reached the extreme of this era.
Therefore, the dazzling special effects scenes that "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" can still shock the audience after many consecutive DC blockbusters are actually just a matter of course.
The Hollywood counterparts who have been chasing Daenerys Entertainment all these years are actually being pulled farther and farther away.
If nothing else, Daenerys VFX's two large render farms with computing power exceeding most of the world's supercomputers are not something that other Hollywood studios and lone special effects studios can have.
Not only in terms of technology, Daenerys Entertainment has formed a complete streamlined operation system for the film industry through the experience of many super blockbusters in all processes such as pre-planning, formal production, and post-publicity and distribution of film projects.
The first impression of an assembly line to the public is often mediocre, but it is not.
The streamlined operation system of Daenerys Entertainment Film Industry with the highest standards can ensure the excellence of a series of blockbuster projects under Daenerys Entertainment to the greatest extent. Even, even if the movie itself is not too brilliant, it can maximize more commercial benefits through strong post-production.
There is a problem here.
Can't other Hollywood studios imitate it?
Imitation is certainly fine.
Whether it can succeed or not is the big question.
After the success of Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe in the original time and space, various Hollywood cinematic universes came one after another, such as the DC Cinematic Universe, the Monster Cinematic Universe, the Transformers Cinematic Universe, etc., and so on, but even the DC Cinematic Universe, which is the most promising to replicate the Marvel model, failed to succeed.
The problem with DC is obvious.
Warner's top management is overly interfering, lacks perfect production ideas, lacks trust in the main creators, and so on.
Looking at the Marvel Cinematic Universe again, the success of "Iron Man" in 2008 is obviously just an accident, neither Marvel itself nor Paramount, which was originally responsible for the distribution, did not have much confidence in this project. When "Iron Man" was a box office hit, Paramount, which initially had a chance to win Marvel, was still hesitating, and was picked by Disney.
Disney, who got the Marvel Cinematic Universe, really played this good hand to the extreme.
No matter how many people publicly criticize Disney as an assembly line operation, it cannot erase the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is destined to leave a brilliant mark in the history of world cinema.
The same is true for Daenerys Entertainment now.
Simon has absolute control over Daenerys Entertainment, a clear and firm vision for the new DC Cinematic Universe, and Time Warner and Daenerys can provide the best quality production and publicity resources for all projects, all of which are fundamental to the success of the DC Cinematic Universe.
Not only that, the production and publicity experience accumulated by a series of DC Cinematic Universe blockbusters has also been successfully applied by Simon to Daenerys Entertainment's "Jurassic Park" series, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, "Mission Impossible" series and many other projects.
After the premiere, the word-of-mouth of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" officially lifted the ban the next day.
The Hollywood Reporter's comment that "there are still only two movies in Hollywood, one is the DC Cinematic Universe and the other is other films", very classically sums up most of the media's praise for "Batman: The Dark Knight".
Variety, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune and other mainstream print media have all given high praise to the finale of Batman's one-man trilogy.
The amazing thing about the film is definitely not only the outstanding special effects that are still further after the previous six DC blockbusters, the interlocking and wonderful plots in one go, the demanding pursuit of details under the atmosphere, the clown portrayed by Raven Phoenix, Nicole Kidman's Poison Ivy, etc., have become the focus of many film critics.
In the end, the preliminary comprehensive media score of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" reached an astonishing 9.7, which was 0.1 points higher than the comprehensive media score of 9.6 points in the early days of the release of the first "Batman: Time to War", which amazed fans. Considering that Hollywood sequels often fail to break through the common phenomenon of their predecessors, the media reputation of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" is even more rare.
On Thursday night, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" was rolled out on 3,515 screens across North America, and the number of screens opened also reached a new high.
On Friday, June 3, the first day of the large-scale release of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", the box office data of the previous week in the North American film market was also released.
Last Friday's two new films, "Blues Cowgirl" and "The Princess and the Goblin," failed to make any splashes, so the week from May 27 to June 2 was basically full of several old films.
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock's "Life and Death" undoubtedly topped the single-week list, but due to the lack of competition for new films, the weekly box office fell by only 21%, and another $25.39 million was collected, bringing the two-week box office to a total of $57.56 million.
Simon had expected the box office decline to be controlled within 20%, and the 21% weekly decline was slightly lower than expected, obviously, although there were no other strong competitors entering the market during the same period, the film was still affected by "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", and the audience's anticipation of this DC cinematic universe super blockbuster largely caused the market to cool down in the week before the film's release.
Michael Bay's "Stargate" continued to rank second on the list, and in the third week of its release, the decline also narrowed to 23%, earning $19.45 million, and the film's cumulative box office reached $81.32 million last week, which is not far from the threshold of 100 million yuan.
Mel Gibson's western "Gambler Maharaja" ranked third, and the decline this week was also only a very good 22%, but the film's start box office was too low, and the box office in the second week was only $16.15 million, and the cumulative box office performance of $36.87 million in two weeks was only comparable to the box office of "Stargate" in the first week of $36.61 million.
Considering the strong impact of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", which opened on June 3, the total North American box office of "Gambler Ma Huali" is likely to stop at less than $60 million. Relying on the local box office, Warner could only barely recover the film's $30 million investment in publicity, and huge losses were inevitable.
When a new box office week begins, almost all of the North American media and public attention is drawn to Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.
After a one-sided and stunning word-of-mouth start on Thursday, on Friday, the first day of its massive release, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" relied on 3,515 opening screens to earn a record-breaking $26.13 million on its first day of box office.
The box office result of $26.13 million on the first day of the film almost brought tears to the eyes of most Hollywood filmmakers, and everyone's movies may not get so much in a week.
The media spared no effort to hype, and the public's movie-watching habits that have been formed in the DC Cinematic Universe have further boosted the phenomenal popularity of the film.
In the end, in the first three days of the first weekend from June 3 to June 5, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" earned $78.37 million, which was also another record box office result.
From June 3rd to June 9th, the box office of the first week was released, and the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" reached $127.63 million in the first seven days.
In the face of the strong crushing of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", the box office of "Stargate" and "Life and Death", which originally had a very good box office momentum, were directly cut in half in the new week, with a decline of 53% and 49% respectively.
However, Mel Gibson's "Gambler Ma Huali" is even more miserable, the box office base is not high, but the decline in the third week of release is as high as 57%, and the single-week box office plummeted from $16.15 million last week to $6.93 million, not to mention the original box office expectation of $60 million after last week, and now it is difficult to even cross the threshold of $50 million.
As for other films such as "When a Man Falls in Love with a Woman" starring Meg Ryan and Spike Lee's "Racial Love", they were hit to the bottom of the bracket at one time.
The same is true for Daenerys Entertainment's "Detective Plane", which originally crossed the 90 million box office threshold with a box office income of $3.17 million in the week from May 27 to June 2, and the box office in the new week also fell by 53% under the impact of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", with a single-week box office of only $1.49 million and 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 get another box office of about $5 million at most, and the final box office of "Detective Plane Head" will be around $97 million, which is one step away from the 100 million yuan box office club.
Daenerys Entertainment could certainly have taken this step if he wanted to, but for the sake of suppressing Jim Carrey, Simon did not approve some of the plans proposed by the "Detective Plane" publicity team.
Regardless of the rest of the film, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises was a huge first-week box office success, and Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner Group immediately co-hosted a gala celebration party at the Daenerys Studios Staff Center on Saturday, June 11.
Although he no longer directly manages Time Warner's film business, Terry Semel made a special trip from New York to Los Angeles on the day of the celebration party.
The Steven Spielberg trio planned DreamWorks were already looking for a co-publisher at this time. In the original time and space, DreamWorks' early partner was Paramount Pictures, this time, Columbia, Paramount, Warner and Fox all expressed interest, and Terry Semel had previously called Simon to test his attitude towards Warner's cooperation with DreamWorks, after all, the DreamWorks Triumvirate announced the establishment of this big studio on the day of the premiere of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", which obviously has some intentions for Daenerys Entertainment.
Simon was noncommittal.
Warner's seizure of the agency distribution rights for DreamWorks' films may be able to show a wave of prosperity in the short term, continuing to support the momentum of Warner and Daenerys, which still does not deviate from Simon's plan.
As for the long-term impact, it is important to make appropriate adjustments to some of the plans according to the specific circumstances of the future.