With the smoke of this Christmas box office war, time has unconsciously come to the end of 2007, and December 28, the last weekend of 2007, is destined to be no ordinary day for Hollywood.

Since the end of the era of giant production and distribution in the early days of Hollywood, the eight major film companies have gradually evolved into the current six, but in the long history of these decades, they have always maintained a tacit understanding with each other, that is, they will not release three global A-rated films at the same time to compete with each other, the reason is, first, this will squeeze each other's box office, and secondly, the world's leading movies like Warner, which are huge, will not produce more than 10 top movies a year, If it is concentrated in the same time period, it will be illuminated by the box office emptiness of the theater in other months.

And this time, something surprising happened to everyone, just a week after the release of "I Am Legend", which has an investment and promotion cost of more than 200 million, three global films of the same scale appeared together.

According to the original plan, Disney is preparing to sacrifice their other legendary series of movies "National Treasure 2", in an attempt to win their tenth single-week box office title this year, and Paramount also took out the magic art blockbuster "Rejuvenation" at the bottom of the box to be released at the end of the year, and will compete with this year's movie heroes at the Oscars.

The stars of these two films, Nicolas Cage and Brad Pitt, are both Hollywood legends that can be compared to Will Smith of "I Am Legend", and these three actors have never competed at the same time......

In such a situation, anyone thinks that the miracle of "Life of Pi" should come to an end.

No one expected that after the launch of "I Am Legend", Warner would once again come up with one of the three major series that they dominated the world film industry...... The second installment of the Batman series remastered by British genius director Christopher Nolan - "The Dark Knight".

The film has already had a small test screening in several theaters before, and almost all critics who have seen the film agree that it is a Batman movie like no other in history, even if it is better than Iron Man, who has been recognized as the No. 1 superhero movie.

A year ago, Christopher Nolan's fourth Hollywood film "Deadly Magic" lost to "Iron Man", and received a regret that "this is the first failed ...... in the history of British genius directing", but even so, Christopher Nolan has also exceeded 100 million at the box office for the third time in a row since "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night", and Li Xiaole is known as the "new generation of directors".

"Christopher Nolan is really not inferior to Li Xiaole~~~" Jingguan is recognized as the most talented super director in the circle, but after the failure of "Deadly Magic" at the Oscars, there is still a lot of questioning and irony.

What made him feel even more uncomfortable was that because Li Xiaole's "Iron Man" was too popular, Warner decided to let him shoot "The Dark Knight" in advance to follow the trend, follow the trend? Jokes, does he Christopher Nolan need to follow suit? He has never made movies in the style he wants, and those Wall Street Yankees know a fart.

But these are not over, Li Xiaole invited his "clown" actor Heath Ledger to play the villain of a British drama "Sherlock", which was sought after by countless people, and even Heath Ledger was full of praise when he mentioned Li Xiaole.

For all this, although Christopher Nolan is a gentleman and gentle to the outside, he is highly motivated inside, and vows to break this doubt, not only to wash away the shame of losing to Li Xiaole a year ago, but also to prove himself~!

10 months have passed, and he has returned with the "peerless doubles" Christian Bale and Heath Ledger among the British actors, Gary Oldman, the "film all-rounder", and the great black movie star Morgan Freeman.

This Batman movie, which cost 150 million yuan in production and 100 million yuan in publicity, has been well received by almost everyone since its small-scale test screening in early December, and countless people have praised the film as better than Li Xiaole's "Iron Man" last year, believing that it is a great movie that surpasses the superhero theme.

And the performance of the clown played by Heath Ledger surpasses his style in "Sherlock".

Later in the film's production, Nolan was still in discussions with Warners to see if he could put the "Dark Knight" on next summer's slot, because he felt that the Christmas period might not match the film's box office potential.

But Jeff Robinoff's order to him was: "All the post-production work must be done by Christmas, ready to be released, and we will see how the Black Pearl film reacts in the market." ”

This made Nolan very unhappy, his movie release was decided by someone else's movie, which was not the most disappointing thing for him, what disappointed him the most was that Warner united with five other studios to sue Black Pearl in court, and Black Pearl's "Avengers" was in vain~~

What he wants most is for "The Dark Knight" to compete with "The Avengers...... But this time, Li Xiaole could only come up with an unpopular Indian movie, which made him not excited at all, but now, with the growth of the box office of "Life of Pi", he is getting more and more excited, and he finds that this movie is a blockbuster that can be compared with "The Dark Knight"~!

These days, as the box office of "Life of Pi" continues to rise, Nolan is extremely looking forward to a head-to-head showdown with Li Xiaole, and Warner finally announced that he can play at this time, which makes him feel extremely excited, and he can finally have a fair fight with Li Xiaole.

Christmas has just ended, on December 27th, Warner held a huge press conference for the release of "The Dark Knight", announcing that the film will officially premiere in the last weekend of 2007~!

And at the press conference, it was clear that all the media were concerned with the same issue.

"May I ask Director Nolan, what do you think of the current box office record of 20 million for 19 consecutive days of "Life of Pi", and are you confident that the miracle of this movie will end?"

Nolan looked at the female reporter from Fox TV who asked this question in the audience, and smiled gently: "I don't know, I've already seen "Life of Pi", it is indeed a very great movie, I don't want to end its box office record, why do I want to do this?" I think the audience can watch both of my films and that of Li Xiaole at the same time, because both movies are worth the $10 you have to go to the cinema. ”

This non-conflicting answer disappointed the reporters at the scene, and it was obvious that they wanted a more exciting answer, so another reporter stood up and asked:

"Director Nolan, as we all know, you and Li Xiaole are the two best directors in the new generation, and now Li Xiaole's "Life of Pi" has a North American box office of more than 300 million and is about to 400 million, and the global box office has exceeded 500 million, can you predict the box office of "The Dark Knight"?"

As soon as this question was asked, the scene fell silent, you must know that Li Xiaole, a madman, is most famous for predicting his box office before the movie is released, and every prediction can come true, if Nolan can do the same, it will be fun.

"Hmm...... It's hard to predict. Nolan groaned.

Just when everyone looked at each other helplessly, thinking that this English gentleman would not be as imposing as that Chinese boy, and he might not be able to get any hot materials this time, he suddenly saw Nolan on the stage looking at all of them, and said in a low tone like a gambling curse:

"Since "Life of Pi" has now won 300 million box office in North America, then "The Dark Knight" should have 600 million box office~~"

600 million box office~!? The scene was in an uproar~~! It turns out that this gentle and elegant British director also has a temper, and he and Li Xiaole are on the bar this time~!

"Almost everyone is interested in going to the cinema to watch Nolan's new film, and they are also interested in Li Xiaole's "Life of Pi", because they compare these two talented directors ~~ Of course, everyone is more inclined to "Batman", because the superhero will be more attractive than the Indian teenager anyway, and of course, the 'Joker' is also more charming than the Bengal tiger~~"

Looking at the live reporter of the pirate station on the TV, he commented excitedly, so that Lei Ting, who was sitting on the sofa, couldn't help but turn his head to look at Li Xiaole and joked:

"People's TV stations are all cheering for their bosses, why don't you give you face as a pirate station."

"I'm not one of the Big Six's dictators, and the Pirate Desk is highly self-controlled." Li Xiaole glared and said, he really didn't expect his idol Nolan to publicly challenge him and learn from him to release such wild words, which was really surprising to him......

"They compare your tiger to Heath Ledger, do you think we still have a show?" Lei Ting asked Li Xiaole curiously, now that "Youth Pi" has won an amazing box office, Black Pearl Company not only did not lose money, but also conservatively estimated that it also made a profit of close to 200 million.

Now that Black Pearl has completely gotten rid of the crisis, the only suspense now is how much energy this movie has, so that the film alliance under Black Pearl can draw a specific direction of development.

"If you want me to say it...... Li Xiaole looked at Nolan on the screen and smiled:

"Originally, my expectation should be about 500 million at the box office in North America, but now it looks like there should be 600 million, Nolan is actually helping us, and those fans who watched "Batman" wanted to scold me, at least they had to go to the cinema to watch "Life of Pi" to scold me more happily."

Although a number of blockbusters are released together, it will make the summer slots empty in the next few months and even next year, but it does make the entire film market vibrant, if it weren't for the birth of "Youth Pi", "I Am Legend" would not have won the fifth place in single-day film history at the box office.

There are many fans who want to go to the cinema to watch "Youth Pi" but can't buy tickets, so they go to watch "I Am Legend", which adds points to this movie, of course, at the same time, fans of "I Am Legend" will also see the special channel queuing up to buy "Youth Pi", and have the urge to see this movie.

To put it bluntly, this is a two-way stimulus, which is also one of the advantages of this futures rush model.

And the release of Nolan's "The Dark Knight" will definitely achieve such an effect, the two movies will stimulate each other and explode into a more huge response, the two sides who have the most benefits after the end, Nolan's declaration just now seems to be impulsive, in fact, he must have seen this as a smart person, it seems that he really wants to have a fair fight with himself.