Chapter 988: A Feast for Fans

With Disney announcing this year's summer "The Avengers" due to the needs of peripheral publicity, it will be sent back to theaters again, and the North American film market in 2012 has also ushered in the most important schedule outside the summer - the holiday file.

Starting in mid-November, the North American film market ended the relatively quiet situation of the past two months, and a variety of blockbuster films of different themes and scales will continue to hit the audience's attention.

For many Hollywood studios, the remaining two months are also a key sprint period for seat scheduling.

According to Hollywood's statistical method, the box office generated by the "Twilight" series will not be counted to Matthew's studio, but to the head of the distributor, Walt Disney.

Disney is vying for Hollywood's No. 1 box office of the year, and has also invested a lot of resources in the promotion of "Twilight: Breaking Dawn (Part II)".

In addition, no one can ignore that after the screening of the first three "Twilight", this series has cultivated a large number of twilight fans, even vampire-themed fans.

"After a series of bombardments, if you don't live in Antarctica, it's hard to ignore the rise of the vampire epidemic" - this is the lamentation of the American media in early November about the new peak of the "vampire phenomenon" brought about by the "Twilight" movie.

From its first installment in 2008 to its fourth in 2011, the vampire-themed series has sparked an almost hysterical movie-going frenzy in the United States and around the world, and has risen into a film market spectacle and cultural phenomenon in a continuous craze.

In fact, the vampire theme has always had a classic "antecedent" on the big and small screens, and it is also a long-standing manifestation of American popular culture since the Middle Ages, their pale, fanged and blood-sucking special way of life make them a threat to human civilization, and at the same time, the eternal life and love of vampires often make them a mixture of demons and romance, and the provocation of the same body contrast is an important reason for the spread of vampire culture to this day.

But the leap in popularity in the pop market and on the modern screen is still due to the screening of the "Twilight" series of films.

Vampires, a product derived from the Western Middle Ages, have been portrayed as monsters, horrors and deviants in literary and artistic works, and after the successive successes of several films in "Twilight", they have become a projection of the imagination of perfect love and an expression of high moral self-discipline.

In the film's depiction, the vampire race is first of all a species with perfect bodies and amazing beauty, immortality, youth and immortality, as well as superhuman abilities and a sense of justice, and secondly, they have a noble bloodline and a rich social status.

The vampires appear as a complete middle-class family, and they also represent the basic values of small-town women and girls in North America: handsome, reliable, stable, and most importantly, wealthy.

The mysterious Edward and the low-key and beautiful Bella of the heroes and heroines not only meet the elements of traditional love movies such as talented women, love at first sight, and heroes saving beauty, but also meet women's ultimate imagination of men and love: loyalty, firmness, and eternal presence in critical moments.

Extreme, exaggerated, eternal, beautiful, sexy, eternally young, uncompromising – medieval vampires are increasingly washed away by modern technology and values, summing up such a physique, providing imaginative comfort to ordinary humans.

These also contributed to the commercial success of the "Twilight" series beyond all romance films.

If the success of the Harry Potter series brought children's magic into the cultural centers of the world, then the rise of the Twilight series mutated vampire culture and made it one of the core cultures of the American public.

Like "Vampire Diaries" on the C channel, it is simply a copy of the "Twilight" series, and it still has countless fans.

The second part of "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" landed in North American theaters the weekend before Thanksgiving.

In the previous weekend, "007: Skyfall" had already started a fierce competition for holiday files.

This Bond movie is menacing, Bond's 50th anniversary, the first IMAX 007 film, "Dr. Q" made his first appearance since 2002's "Die Another Day", and "M"'s retirement, etc., are full of topics.

The North American box office of $88.36 million in the opening weekend also announced the strength of the film itself.

Even the Twilight series has a very different audience from the Bond films, and the pressure can be felt.

On the Internet, there is even a voice condemning "Twilight: Under Dawn".

"The Braindead series is finally coming to an end!"

"I don't even bother to scold this series. ”

"The Twilight series is destined to be an indelible stain on Matthew's life. ”

"From next year, I won't be able to see this brain fragment at all. ”

There are even fans who see through the appearance, go straight to the essence, and hit the nail on the head: there may never be a movie in this world again, and it doesn't matter how good it is!

What's more, cheering on social media: I'm not religious, but I'm going to shout: Hallelujah! We don't have to put up with these anxious, self-righteous, blasphemous movies about vampire lore anymore.

But Matthew ignored these voices from the fans, because he knew that they were the voices of male fans, the unwilling roars of men who were about to accompany their wives or girlfriends to the theater to watch "Twilight: Under Dawn".

He expressed his deep sympathy for this and warmly welcomed them to contribute a share of the box office.

There are some things that can't be avoided, just like once on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, he saw the news on the Internet, how many tragic male compatriots want to accompany their girlfriends to watch "Little Times".

Look, it's just a little money and two hours of patience.

If you don't look at it, the problem will be serious.

Therefore, the previous "Twilight" has maintained a relatively stable proportion of male audiences.

After the main actors ended their promotional activities around the world, "Twilight: Breaking Dawn (Part II)", the final chapter of the "Twilight" series, which has been highly anticipated by countless female fans, held a grand movie premiere at the Santa Monica Commercial Plaza in Los Angeles.

Matthew, as an investor and producer, will not be absent from such a grand event.

However, the protagonists of this premiere were Bella and Edward, and Matthew just led Margot Robbie quickly across the red carpet and gave a brief interview in the media area.

In the face of many media reporters, Matthew knows how to sensationalize and knows how to say it, which is best in line with his own interests.

"This is our final goodbye and a dream ending. In any case, I will dedicate the audience to the most satisfying film. ”

Matthew's words were marked with obvious sentimentality and reluctance, as if fans would regret it for the rest of their lives when they saw the dawn (below), "There are a lot of battle scenes in this movie, which has not been shown in the previous films. The battles will be very tragic, the scenes of the film will be very grand, and it should be said that this movie is the most spectacular in the whole of "Twilight". ”

Margot Robbie took Matthew's arm, and as before, didn't say a word from beginning to end, it seems that after such a long time, media reporters are used to her always appearing next to Matthew, and they also think that Matthew, a playboy, has finally found the right person and began to retract.

Matthew didn't say much, and soon entered theaters, and the entire "Twilight" series came to an end.

The story of this part continues the ending of the previous one, when Bella, who has fulfilled her wish to become a vampire, has just begun to experience a new life, but the Vampire nobleman Volturi family believes that she and Edward's daughter Renysmay are "vampire children".

According to the rules, vampire children are not allowed to exist because they cannot control their thirst for blood, they are extremely powerful, and they cannot grow up.

In fact, Renysme is a hybrid of human and vampire, and in order to protect her daughter from being harmed by the Volturi family, the Karen family travels far and wide to seek the support and help of their kind, and a battle of "superpowers" between vampires begins......

Although he is the investor of the film, as an adult male viewer, Matthew's first thought after watching the premiere of this film is that he has finally had enough of this series of movies that never seems to end, and he will never have to watch it again!

It can't be helped, because making money requires investment and publicity, but that doesn't make him like the Twilight series.

Investing in Twilight is purely commercial.

But female fans are rejoicing at this film, and after the official release, Matthew got the statistics, CinemaScore gave an audience word-of-mouth survey of A, and among female viewers under the age of 25, it has an A+ evaluation.

Of course, another statistic shows why.

According to the survey, 79 percent of the film's audience is female, 21 percent of the male audience is the lowest percentage in the series, and in the age group, more than half of the audience is under the age of 25.

With the loyal support of fans as always, "Breaking Dawn" opened $39.6 million at the box office just in advance, and then, including Friday's box office statistics, the film earned $72.2 million in North America on its first day of filming!

Of course, fan movies can't last, and the single-day harvest of "Breaking Dawn" plummeted to $43.5 million the next day.

Coupled with Sunday's harvest, "Breaking Dawn (Part II)" earned $148.7 million in 4,270 theaters in the first three days of its opening weekend, squeezing out "Skyfall", which earned $41.1 million that weekend, and topped the North American box office charts.

This is also a remarkable achievement: the "Twilight Scar" series became the first film series in film history to have three films open for more than $130 million.

In terms of overseas markets, the attraction of "Breaking Dawn (Part II)" was extremely eye-catching, and it was simultaneously released in 61 other countries and regions, earning $212.05 million.

Similarly, "Breaking Dawn (Part II)" also surpassed "Skyfall" and became the global box office champion of the week.