During this week's week, the box office trend of "Dark City" was very stable, and on Thursday, another $21.56 million was taken from North America, bringing the total North American box office to $340.24 million, which is about to exceed $350 million. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Anyone familiar with the industry knows that with the arrival of a new weekend, the North American box office of "Dark City" is bound to cross the $400 million mark.

Compared to "The Dark City", Vin Diesel's "Fast and Furious 6" has been declining at the North American box office, earning less than $6 million in four working days, and many forecasters in the Hollywood industry have confirmed that the final North American box office of this film will not exceed $180 million.

A new weekend is coming, and every weekend in the North American summer season is a festival for movie fans.

Since schools in North America have not yet had summer vacation, and Friday is also a working day, during the day, the attendance rate of various theaters in North America has only increased slightly compared with the previous four working days, and has not increased significantly, but as soon as night falls, a large number of people after work and school crowd into the theaters, and they don't have to go to school and work tomorrow, they can watch their favorite movies wantonly.

In a theater on Long Island, New York, Fernandez, who is the manager on duty at night, has just finished handing over the shift with his colleagues, and when he came to the ticket counter, there happened to be a large number of fans pouring into the theater before and after, and a considerable number of them came to line up in front of several ticket counters.

Fernandez looked at the time, came to a ticket window that was not open, and took away the sign that was not for ticket sales, and the two long lines and many customers who entered the theater one after another poured to his side like a tidal wave, forming a long line.

A girl who looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old at most was in first place, and standing behind her was a boy, judging from the intimacy of the two, it should be a couple.

After working in the theater for a long time and dealing with all kinds of people, Fernandez thinks he still has a good way of seeing people.

"Hello...... Fernández asked, with a professional smile on his face, "Is there anything I can do to help you?" ”

The young girl handed over a hundred-dollar bill and said, "I want two movie tickets." ”

"Which movie?" Fernández asked patiently.

"Dark City!" The girl didn't even think about it, "Two copies of "Dark City"! ”

Fernandez clicked on the ticket machine, and the two movie tickets for "Dark City" were quickly printed, while he took the girl's dollar bill and skillfully completed the change work.

The girl took the change and movie tickets, pulled her boyfriend, and left happily.

A middle-aged man with glasses came from behind and said directly to Fernandez, "I want a movie ticket for "Dark City"! ”

Just as Fernandez was waiting for the ticket machine to issue the ticket, he heard the man himself muttering there, "I watched it once last week, and I watched it again this week, how can I watch such a good movie twice." ”

Sending away the middle-aged man with glasses, a brown-haired boy in the back walked to the counter and said in the most concise way, ""Dark City, five tickets, thank you!" ”

Fernandez was skilled in business and quickly sold several tickets to the Dark City.

"It's been two weeks since the Murphy Stanton film was screened." He himself was muttering in his mind, "There are still so many people buying tickets, and it seems that the box office this weekend is not bad." ”

"Hello ......"

At this time, a woman in her thirties came over and said, "I want two copies of "The Great ......"

Before she finished speaking, a man behind her said with a sad face, "Honey, let's watch "Dark City". ”

Fernandez didn't issue the ticket immediately, and he'd seen too many of these disagreements in the past.

"What's so good about that black movie?"

It is clear that this woman is the dominant of the two, "Leonardo DiCaprio is my male god!" ”

Ignoring the opposition of the man behind her, she said to Fernandez again, "I want two tickets to The Great Gatsby!" ”

Hearing this, Fernandez immediately issued a ticket, after all, there were still many people in line behind the two, and he didn't have time to let these two people waste here.

Subsequently, people came to buy tickets for "The Great Gatsby", and these people were mainly women in their thirties and older audiences.

As the duty manager of the operations department, Fernandez quickly figured out what was going on, women in their thirties should be fans of Leonardo DiCaprio, this age group is pushed forward fifteen or sixteen years, they are in their teenage years, at that time "Titanic" swept the world, Leonardo DiCaprio with the role of Jack Dawson, fascinated thousands of girls.

As for the older audience, it should be for the name "The Great Gatsby", he can't remember how many times this film has been remade, but there are always three or four times, there must be some older fans who have deep feelings for this adaptation, come to see the latest remake, and look for the feelings of the year.

However, compared with "Dark City", which is both male and female, with people between the ages of 16 and 50 as the main audience, "The Great Gatsby" is obviously much more niche.

Of course, Fernandez also knows that Leonardo DiCaprio's own appeal as a superstar in Hollywood cannot be ignored.

After working for half an hour at the counter, Fernandez secretly observed that the audience who came to see "The Great Gatsby" was still mainly fans of Leonardo DiCaprio, but the on-site ticket sales of this film can only be said to be relatively average.

He didn't know about the vending machine, the counter where he worked, in half an hour, sold about 12 tickets for "The Great Gatsby", such data is actually not bad, but the good and bad are often compared, in the same time, "The Dark City" sold 55 tickets!

Fernandez didn't think much of it, because the popularity of the two films was clear at a glance.

An employee came over, Fernández handed over the window to him to be in charge, went to the sales department again, saw that everything was normal, went back to his duty office, and just pulled out a chair and sat down, someone knocked on the door and walked in.

Coming in was a cinema investigator who came here every weekend, so Fernandez was familiar with him and asked, "Strange, how productive are you today?" ”

"Not every film has as many scary audiences as Dark City's opening weekend."

The investigator named Strange took a glass of water from the water cooler, sat down across from Fernandez, and said, "There are only about 20 viewers of The Great Gatsby that have just ended, and according to the company's 5 to 10 percent sample survey rules, it is enough for me to ask two people for their opinions." ”

Speaking of this, Strange couldn't help but complain a few words, "Like last week, it's crazy to ask more than ten viewers in a show!" I'm just one person! How can you stop so many people at the same time? That damn movie, damn Murphy Stanton! Driving us cinema investigators crazy! ”

Fernández comforted, "It's a good thing he only makes one film a year!" ”

"Hmmm! Well! Strange nodded busily, as if he had survived the catastrophe, "If his movies were released twice a year, then I would definitely quit, this job is really not done by people!" ”

Fernandes is well aware that Strange is still complaining about last weekend's oversized workload.

"By the way, Strange." He changed the subject at the right time, "How is the reputation of "The Great Gatsby"? In terms of your fieldwork sampling today. ”

Strange shook his head, "Usually. I have a feeling that Leonardo DiCaprio will plummet at the box office after consuming his own fans and fans of previous remakes. ”

"Can you elaborate on that?" Fernandez still asked, "What about the rating?" ”

"According to my statistics here." Strange thought for a moment and said, "The Great Gatsby's on-site comprehensive score is B+ at best, this is today, if it is three days on the weekend, it may slip to B." ”

Fernandez nodded, "The audience has an average reputation." ”

"It's just pretty average." Strange shook his head again, "In front of "Dark City", there is not much competition at all, and the film has too few publicity points except for Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. ”

"Didn't that heroine say it's Murphy Stanton's first girlfriend?" Fernandez also pays attention to some gossip.

"How many years ago? How many people will be concerned? Strange is an expert, "How can an ex-girlfriend compare to a current girlfriend?" After Carey Mulligan broke the news himself, Gal Gadot announced in London that "Dark City" would compete for the Oscars, which quickly pulled the attention of the media and fans away. ”

Fernández asked curiously, "This Israeli woman is said to be very powerful and very powerful. ”

"Do you think ......," Strange asked rhetorically, "can you see Murphy Stanton so firmly without certain means?" ”

In today's highly intelligent and networked era, whether it is the ticket sales of theaters or the audience's word-of-mouth comments, they will be counted as soon as possible, and then passed on to relevant people or companies.

Early Saturday morning, when the crew of "The Great Gatsby" was waiting for boarding in the VIP lounge of New York's JFK Airport, a relevant statistical statistic was also delivered.