With the roar of a huge engine, a business jet slid lightning across the runway, soared into the sky, and quickly climbed into the stratosphere, and the passengers in the cabin were notified by the flight attendants to unbuckle their seat belts, and Vin Diesel, with a bright bald head, was no exception, he unbuckled his seat belts and asked the flight attendants for a drink. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The crew of "Fast and Furious 6" was preparing to go to Europe for promotion, and the distributor's Universal Pictures specially provided the crew with this business jet.

The interior of the plane was not too large, but Vin Diesel alone occupied the best four opposite seats in the front cabin, everyone else sat in the back, and none of the actors could sit with him.

Vin Diesel heard the people behind him muttering and looked back at Dwayne Johnson, nicknamed The Rock, who was joking with Michelle Rodriguez, but stopped for a moment when he saw him turn his eyes.

Vin Diesel is quite satisfied with the reaction of these people, because he is the real boss of this crew and series!

As for whether the rookies in the back will feel domineering, he doesn't care, what are those little actors? I'm about to kill the series, and if it weren't for his return like a savior, would the Fast and Furious series have where it is now? Counting on such rookies? Are you kidding.

The crew under his control is first and foremost to implement his will.

Vin Diesel knows that he is very domineering, and the rest of the crew is privately dissatisfied, but this is his style, if he is not satisfied, he can quit the crew, can this group of rookies find the opportunity to play the main role in addition to this series?

The cabin was unusually quiet, Vin Diesel picked up the wine glass sent by the flight attendant, took a sip of wine, and suddenly sounded that today is Saturday, at this time, yesterday's box office statistics should be released, and someone sent a laptop and opened his mailbox.

Sure enough, in the new email in the mailbox, there was a letter from Universal Pictures, titled North American Friday Box Office Express.

"There should be 10 million dollars left in a single day......

Vin Diesel suddenly felt a little nervous, the box office of "Fast and Furious 6" had more than $97 million in the first weekend, even if it was average, the single-day box office for three days on the weekend was more than $30 million, and yesterday's single-day box office of $10 million was already a big drop, and if it fell by $10 million, it would really be a cliff-jumping drop.

He is well aware that the nervous mood is the strong oppression from Murphy Stanton's "Dark City".

After a day of screening, this noir crime movie exploded in word-of-mouth and became a super masterpiece in the mouths of fans, even professional film critics who have never been accustomed to watching commercial films have lost their face and knelt down one by one to worship.

Other films, including Fast & Furious 6, which grossed quite well at the first weekend, can only tremble in the shadow of "The Dark City."

Vin Diesel moved his mouse and opened the email, which was presented in a multi-page situation, and it was Murphy Stanton's "The Dark City" that appeared on the front page, which was no surprise, the only thing that surprised Vin Diesel was the box office of the film, which grossed as much as $102.6 million on Friday!

The single-day box office exceeded 100 million US dollars!

It's not a three-day weekend, it's a box office result on the first day of release! This surprised Vin Diesel, who is also a hugely invested action commercial blockbuster, "Fast and Furious 6" only got more than $97 million in three days over the weekend, and "Dark City" exceeded 100 million in just one day......

"People really can't compare with people." Vin Diesel shook his bald head, "Compared to Murphy Stanton, what is his crew?" ”

Fortunately, there is only one Murphy Stanton in Hollywood.

He knows very well that "Dark City" is completely different from "The Avengers", which was a big hit last summer, that is a character-led film, and the director's role in it is limited, while "Dark City" is a complete directorial work, the former is also likely to succeed without Joss Whedon, and the probability is not small, and the latter would not have had the current box office and word-of-mouth explosion without Murphy Stanton.

Vin Diesel couldn't help but take a look at some introductions at the back of the box office, the audience of "Dark City" has an on-site score of A+, and IMDB has a score of 9.7 for the time being, because the number of rating users is sufficient, and it has entered the TOP250, currently in the first place, Rotten Tomatoes has a freshness of 97%, and the authoritative media comprehensive evaluation MetaCritic includes 65 media scores, with an average score of 89 points......

Seeing this, Vin Diesel's heart moved, and suddenly remembered one thing, the box office of "Dark City" on the first day seems to have broken a record, right?

He quickly opened the webpage and checked, and sure enough, the box office performance of "Dark City" on the first day of $102.5 million not only broke the North American single-day box office record of $92.1 million set by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", but also logically created the highest Friday box office record in North American film history, and it was also the first film in North American history to break the $100 million mark at the single-day box office.

There is no doubt that Murphy Stanton has engraved his name deeply in film history!

Vin Diesel sighed, knowing that he couldn't compare to Murphy Stanton, and if he kept comparing to Murphy Stanton, he would definitely lose confidence.

He dragged the mouse and clicked on the next page, although he already had a bad premonition, but after all, he still had to watch it, after all, "Fast and Furious 6" had not seen the box office yesterday.

The page flipped, and the second place in the North American box office list yesterday was "Fast and Furious 6", which made Vin Diesel breathe a sigh of relief, but he was still a little disappointed when he saw the box office figures behind.

Eight million nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars!

This is the single-day box office of "Fast and Furious 6" on Friday, which is a fraction of the box office of "Dark City......

Vin Diesel frowned, under the powerful impact of "Dark City", the North American box office of "Fast and Furious 6" seemed to be about to fall off a cliff.

Fortunately, he was mentally prepared so that he would not be very depressed.

The box office statistics of those films later, Vin Diesel didn't bother to watch it again, just turned off the computer, closed his eyes and prepared to sleep, always comparing his own movies with Murphy Stanton's works, that is looking for abuse, it is better to sleep well.

Saturday was a day off, and theaters across the country were packed, with two-thirds of the theaters showing "The Dark City" and nearly 200 IMAX theaters full, a spectacle never seen since IMAX entered Hollywood.

However, IMAX had been prepared for a long time, firstly, they were full of confidence in Murphy, and secondly, the crazy publicity also increased their self-confidence.

As early as a few days ago, IMAX decided to add additional screenings of "Dark City" starting at six o'clock on Saturday morning.

In North America, when popular films are released, in order to maximize revenue, theaters often arrange screenings at "abnormal" times. Advance and midnight screenings have now become a tradition of summer box office blockbusters.

With the popularity of online ticketing making it possible to sell out movie tickets in advance, more than 3,500 theaters across the United States, in addition to IMAX, welcomed their first guests from 6 a.m. in anticipation of the upcoming "Dark City" craze.

And the number of guests in this group is quite large.

"I'm here to see James Franco's magician."

"It's Murphy's film, and of course I'm going to watch it."

"IMDB's rating is very high, isn't such a film worth watching?"

People who walked into the theater early in the morning had their own reasons, but they bought tickets to support "Dark City".

The staff of the theater in those prosperous areas have also begun to enter the busiest stage, and an IMAX theater manager complained about the popularity of "Dark City" in an interview with media reporters.

"I worked until three o'clock in the morning last night, and I got up at half past five this morning, and I didn't even go home." He pointed to his dark circles, "I didn't sleep well at all!" ”

"Attendance is good?" The reporter asked again.

The theater manager smiled and said directly, "Last night's evening show was not only full, but there were still many people who didn't have tickets and refused to leave, so we had to temporarily add more than a dozen chairs in the theater." ”

He sighed, "This has never happened in IMAX theaters, and the company should have approached Murphy Stanton sooner." ”

However, the attendance rate of "Dark City" on Saturday dropped significantly, and the early screening and the one-day screening on Friday consumed too much enthusiasm from the audience, which is a very normal market law.

And with the increase in the number of audiences who come to the theater because of the spread of word-of-mouth, some bad reviews are inevitable.

"Sixty points at most, and if it's not a movie by a superstar Hollywood director, I don't think it's even fifty points. I love films like "Iron Man" very much, but this "Dark City" is so disappointing, who likes those dark and desperate content? And it's not refreshing enough, and the crooked magician is annoying. ”

"It's not interesting at all, it's just that motorcycle is still getting along, a boring movie makes a beautiful woman and a handsome guy crazy, it's hard to see and scary."

There is no movie in this world that can satisfy all audiences and fans, and it is normal for a dark style film like this to be hated by people, and then it is normal for it to have bad reviews.

Besides, such bad reviews are rare among many moviegoers.

Like Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox, they didn't pay attention to these at all, because the number of bad reviews was so small that it was completely negligible!

Compared with the very few bad reviews, "Dark City" has not only been recognized and praised by the vast majority of fans, but some partners such as IMAX are also ready to urgently mobilize resources to fully support the film.