The time gradually came to the early hours of the morning, and the streets of Los Angeles were obviously much quieter, but the same lights were bright, and the lights all over the city seemed to never rest, especially in the writing department of The Times, the early hours of the morning are often the brightest and brightest times. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But the atmosphere of the newspaper office tonight was very unusual, and the editor-in-chief, who had rarely appeared at this time in the past, not only suddenly came to the newspaper office, but also called the editor-in-chief of several pages into the office.

In the editor-in-chief's office, Michael Parkes, the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times, told several editors, "Tomorrow there will be a special issue." ”

A few editors-in-chief immediately raised their spirits and asked the Los Angeles Times to issue a special issue, which means that something big must have happened today or last week.

An editor-in-chief asked curiously, "What are the types and ......contents of the special issue?"

"Entertainment Special!"

Hearing the words of the editor-in-chief, several editors-in-chief looked at each other suspiciously, the Los Angeles Times, one of the three major newspapers in the United States, is a representative of serious and realistic news, and is a leader in the industry, not a messy, irresponsible entertainment gossip newspaper.

Editor-in-chief Michael Parks didn't continue to confuse them, and directly said, "It's not those gossip news, movie news, mainly Murphy Stanton and "The Dark City"! ”

The editors-in-chief suddenly realized that Murphy Stanton's new film "Dark City" has set off an almost crazy movie-watching craze in North America since its official release on Friday, and in just a few days after its release, it has broken all the records that the North American film market and box office can break.

"I'll write a box office report myself." Editor-in-chief Michael Parks turned his head and instructed his assistant, "When the weekend box office statistics are delivered, bring them as soon as possible." ”

It's been a busy night for any media outlet, especially the editors on the entertainment page, who have barely slept all night, racking their brains about how to change their tactics to praise Murphy Stanton and his new super, "The Dark City."

The night over the city gradually faded, the black curtain slowly retreated, the eastern sky just showed a line of white, and a newspaper was transported to the newsstands and newspaper delivery people, not only Los Angeles, but also a large newspaper like the "Los Angeles Times", which has a complete distribution network all over the United States, and will appear in every corner of the United States in a timely manner.

As the sun lit up the streets of Burbank, Kevin Feige walked into the Marvel Studios office building here and went straight into his office.

As soon as he sat down, his assistant brought up the brewed coffee and today's work schedule at the same time, Kevin Feige took a sip of the coffee, the temperature was just right, and he couldn't help but nod.

Putting down the coffee cup, Kevin Feige called out to the assistant who was about to leave, "Get me a copy of today's major newspapers." ”

Knowing her boss's habits, the female assistant immediately answered, "Boss, the Los Angeles Times has added a special issue of Dark City. ”

Kevin Feige didn't answer immediately, but the county picked up the work diary and looked at it, looked through the schedule, and saw that there was nothing urgent to deal with, so he said, "Get me a copy of the Los Angeles Times first." ”

The female assistant hurried to the door, took a copy of today's Los Angeles Times from the newspaper rack, put it on the desk in front of Kevin Feige, and walked out of the office after seeing that the boss had no other instructions.

After taking today's "Los Angeles Times", Kevin Feige didn't look at the other parts, just took the special issue and flipped through it.

"This week, North America ushered in the traditional summer film file, and there will be high-profile super blockbusters released at the beginning of each summer file, and "The Avengers", which was released on the first weekend of last summer's file, has achieved extremely dazzling results, which also makes the beginning of this year's summer file more exciting!"

In the midst of all the antiquation, the long-awaited Hollywood superstar director Murphy Stanton's new film "Dark City" landed in 4,660 theaters in North America last Friday with a super-large-scale screening range, and collected $242.9 million at the box office in three days over the weekend, with a single box office of $52,124. Twentieth Century Fox and Stanton's $220 million investment has been recouped in the blink of an eye. ”

"From the early screening of Thursday's North American premiere, "Dark City" has declared its determination to create a box office miracle as a winner, with a figure of $45.8 million, surpassing the $43.5 million early box office set by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" two years ago, and becoming the king of the new box office in North America. The next day of its premiere on Friday was equally impressive, with "Dark City" grossing $102.6 million (including early screenings) to become the all-time single-day box office leader, followed by $75.5 million on Saturday and $64.8 million on Sunday in North America, setting a new North American single-day box office record on Saturday and Sunday! ”

"The glory of "Dark City" has come to this point, and it is difficult to repeat it, and statistics are the most real and direct response."

"The largest opening of the film - 4,660 theaters; Highest advance box office receipts - $45.8 million; The largest advance premiere - with 3,860 theaters grossed $45.8 million; Midnight premiere in the largest IMAX theater - $4.21 million in 185 IMAX theaters; the highest single-day box office in history - $102.6 million; Highest Saturday box office in history - $75.5 million; Highest Sunday box office in history - $64.8 million; Highest IMAX theatrical opening weekend box office - $42.37 million; The fastest time to exceed $200 million - two days and 14 hours ......"

"Due to the box office success of "The Dark City", the total box office of the North American film market this weekend also set a new record. Originally, the first weekend of May 2012 - the release weekend of "The Avengers" - was the highest grossing weekend in the United States, with a total output of $249 million, but this weekend in the face of the strong market popularity of "The Dark City", the North American film market was fully stimulated, and the total box office of the film market reached a total of 289.5 million US dollars, making this week the highest weekend in the history of the Hollywood film market! ”

"Each of these titles is a testament to the commercial success that Dark City is doing today. As for the reasons for the success of the film, this newspaper summarized the following points - the audience of the film is 52% male, and the proportion of male and female audiences is relatively balanced, that is to say, the film is both male and female; Director Murphy Stanton's ultra-high-quality "City of Chaos" has become the champion of online on-demand and DVD rental in the past two years after its theaters, and has attracted a group of loyal viewers for today's "Dark City"; Murphy Stanton himself has a huge fan base and terrifying box office appeal that is rare in the directorial industry; The magician played by James Franco is a god's performance, coupled with Margot Robbie, who also plays well, together with wonderful acting skills, to support this film. ”

"In terms of word-of-mouth, CinemaScore has always maintained the highest score of A+ for cinema audiences. IMDB has an average score of 9.7 for fans, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 9.1 for critics, and MetaCritic has included 89 media scores, giving "Dark City" a comprehensive score of 88 points. Among them, the media that gave the film a full score of 100 include "Variety", "Empire", "Entertainment Weekly", "Hollywood Reporter" and "Time", a total of 46 large media. ”

"Next weekend, the North American box office of "Dark City" is set to break the $300 million mark, and according to the current situation, it is very likely that it will win the 2013 summer box office championship, and it remains to be seen whether the film can take away the title of the best grossing summer film from "The Avengers......"

Seeing this, Kevin Feige put down the newspaper in his hand, and the series of box office records created by "The Avengers" before only lasted for a short year, and then collapsed under the strong impact of Murphy Stanton and his "Dark City", which made him, the CEO of Marvel Studios, feel very uncomfortable.

But at the same time, he also had a sense of luck that Walt Disney's decision-makers accepted his suggestion and postponed "Iron Man 3" to the Christmas schedule, otherwise it would collide directly with Murphy Stanton's "Dark City", and the best result would be a lose-lose situation.

"Lose-lose?" Kevin Feige shook his head and told him reasonably, "Iron Man 3 will definitely fail!" ”

Even he felt that even if "The Avengers" and this "Dark City" were confronted, nothing good would come out.

Stan Lee's idiot also suggested that "Iron Man 3" be placed at the beginning of this summer file, and collide head-on with Murphy Stanton's film, which is simply old and confused! This is simply a great situation that wants to bury the Marvel superhero movie!

It's a good thing that the people in the distribution department at Walt Disney aren't as stupid as this old fool!

Kevin Feige shook his head, and suddenly thought of one thing, some people are more stupid than Stan Lee, who starts to have a less bright head and likes to be in the limelight when he gets older, and that is the original decision-making level of Warner Bros. and DC Comics.

For some salary and revenue sharing, he gave up Murphy Stanton and chose to use Zack Snyder to take charge of the entire DC superhero movie series when the situation was good, but the result was bloody, and the current DC comic movie situation is so bad that even Ben Affleck wants to quit Batman......

This has also indirectly long been the current good situation of Marvel superhero movies.

What if Murphy Stanton had been at the helm of the entire DC series? Kevin Feige can't imagine it......

"Dark City" was a box office hit in the first weekend, attracting the attention of countless people and becoming a hot topic in the media.