In a chain of theaters in Brooklyn, New York, people sit sparsely in rows of seats, unusually quiet, and try not to disturb each other, just busy with their own things, there is a bright light on the screen, and their godless eyes will show focus, casually glance at the screen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On the screen, the superhero masterpiece "Catwoman" jointly produced by Warner Bros. and DC Comics is being screened.

Off the screen, the audience was dumbfounded, except for the occasional drooling over Halle Berry's sexy and hot body, and seemed to forget that they were watching a movie.

The audience with a poor degree of tolerance chose to leave the show early, less than half of the film was screened, and one-fifth of the audience had already left.

More people stayed, not because the film was interesting, or because they wanted to respect the creator's hard work, they didn't have such awareness, they were just boring to pass the time.

Christopher's companion had long since left the scene to find a girlfriend, he was single and had nothing to do, so he simply stayed, and unlike most people's blank eyes, his eyes were always bright.

"Hmm...... There are 17 rows of seats with 32 seats in each row, and there are 48 lights on the ceiling. Christopher looked up and counted again, "It's 50 lights!" ”

Then, he stared at the big screen, "There is a black dot in the bottom left corner of the screen that always appears, and the frequency is about 1 minute and 35 seconds. ”

A black man sitting in the same row suddenly stretched, looked up at the screen, and felt that every time he woke up, the film seemed like it had just begun.

"This movie is made for the seats in the cinema!"

After complaining, the black man finally couldn't help it, stood up and left early.

At this time, in the front row, someone couldn't help it and said, "This movie is really bad!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the man in front turned around and glared angrily, "Do you have any quality?" Can you respect others? Say what you say! Didn't you see everyone else sleeping? ”

Next to this man, a girl slept really soundly.

The girl's name is Lina, and she has been suffering from insomnia for several days, but now she can finally fall asleep.

In front, there was a person who had just been awakened from his sleep, looked around in a trance, and finally remembered that he was in the movie theater, and asked his companion next to him, "How is the movie "Catwoman"?" ”

My companion blinked, "Popcorn is crispy." ”

"Anything else?" Seeing the empty popcorn bucket, he asked, "Is that all?" ”

"Ah......" the companion pointed to a person playing with his mobile phone in front of him, and said in a low voice, "The boot password of his latest version of Nokia mobile phone is 789477, from the beginning of the movie to the present, he has sent twelve text messages, and he has also played the Pac-Man game until it is almost cleared!" ”

The person who woke up understood that this guy hadn't watched a movie at all!

There was a sudden scolding sound in front, and it turned out that the guy who was playing with the mobile phone had automatically turned off his mobile phone, "X's, the mobile phone is out of battery, and the movie is still playing!" ”

He wanted to reach out and move the mouse to see how long this tattered movie would be over, but unfortunately this was a movie theater, not his own computer.

The movie was finally over, Morrison ended his torment and shook his tired head, which was not caused by watching the movie, but the guy in front of him, who had been looking east and west, up and down, and let him be bored to watch with him, this guy has looked at his watch every one to two minutes since he sat down, a total of 72 times.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this number.

"Morrison, is this the movie you invited us to see?"

Hearing the angry questioning of the two companions next to him, and then looking at the number representing the dollar on the movie ticket in his hand, Morrison's tears were about to flow, he invited two good friends to watch the movie, and when he went out, he had to invite them to dinner to make amends, is there any reason for it?

"I'm x, I'm done?"

A sleepy voice sounded from behind, "Why didn't you wake me up?" ”

He saw his energetic companion and said, "You can watch such a bad movie?" ”

The companion nodded with a pained face, "Well, I'm done." ”

"I'm rubbing, you're so good, I'm convinced!" He took out his wallet, took out a hundred dollars, and handed it over, "You won, this is the $100 we bet, for you." ”

The companion didn't pick it up, and pushed it back directly, "Forget it, I don't want it, don't tell people that I've seen this film......"

Finally made it to the end, Christopher walked out of the theater and ran into an investigator who stuffed a figure of Catwoman over, "Can you talk about the film you just watched?" ”

Christopher glanced at the figure in disgust, nodded and said, "Yes." It can be summed up in one sentence, it sucks! Very bad! Super sucks! ”

Later, when the other party asked about the rating, he did not hesitate to give a D rating.

Before walking out of the theater, Christopher happened to come across a trash can, and without thinking about it, he threw a black-skinned Catwoman figure figure into the trash can.

Quite a few fans walked out of the theater where "Catwoman" was shown with extreme dissatisfaction, and they needed a place to vent, and film and television websites led by IMDB became the most suitable platform.

"Halle Berry is not Catwoman at all, she's just selling meat."

"All kinds of procrastination, all kinds of boredom, all kinds of posturing."

In just half a day on Friday, the IMDB score of "Catwoman" plummeted to 4.1 points, and all kinds of bad reviews were simply miserable.

In stark contrast, it is "Deadpool" next door, with a strong reputation, even if it is released for a week, in terms of attendance and audience numbers, "Catwoman" has exploded.

When this Friday passed, on the newly released single-day box office statistics, "Deadpool" beat "Catwoman" with an absolute advantage of $17.25 million, beating "Catwoman" with $5.02 million, and easily won the North American box office champion on the day.

The situation of "Catwoman" is in decline.

The most direct response is the theater, the major theater companies from Saturday, immediately lowered the "Catwoman" scheduling rate, as a new release of a production cost of up to 100 million US dollars of the masterpiece, its scheduling rate fell to 30 percent, on the other hand, the strong reputation and box office trend of "Deadpool", the scheduling rate has increased, with 35 percent of the film scheduling, completed the comprehensive surpassing of "Catwoman".

"Cinemas also need to make a profit......"

Inside a clubhouse in Burbank, Bruce Rosenblum sat on the couch and said to Diego Harris across the street, "There's no way they're going to throw away a lot of revenue for the sake of their relationship with Warner Bros." ”

Diego Harris nodded and said, "Twentieth Century Fox doesn't have a bad relationship with the theater chain either. ”

"Catwoman......" Bruce Rosenblum sighed, "it's hard to turn the tables around." ”

As the CEO of DC Comics, Diego Harris doesn't want to see this situation but knows that Bruce Rosenblum is telling the truth.

DC Comics will definitely plant a big heel on Catwoman.

"As far as I know," said Diego Harris, "Bruce Berman has been calling the executives of the three cinema companies from last night to this morning, and the results have been ......"

He snorted and shook his head.

"The advantages of Deadpool are too obvious." Bruce Rosenblum said pointedly, "Bruce Berman is taking Murphy Stanton too lightly. ”

Diego Harris is silent, isn't he the same?

"I think," he was a little heavy, "we should find a way to save Superman Returns, and if Bruce Berman is allowed to continue to operate it, the project could probably become Catwoman again." ”

"Catwoman" pounced, after all, it was only an accessory to the "Batman" series, but if "Superman Returns" pounced, the consequences were unimaginable, Superman is not only the benchmark of DC Comics, but also the most well-known superhero in the world, and the trump card in the hands of DC Comics and Warner Bros.

"How to save?" Bruce Rosenblum asked rhetorically, "Diego, you didn't know Bruce Berman on the first day, you should know his work style, authoritarianism, power lust, and want to meddle in any work, he won't let us really get involved in the Superman Return series." ”

"So what to do?" Diego Harris was anxious, "Are we going to sit back and watch Superman fail again?" ”

"Bruce Berman is the CEO and has a large number of supporters at the top of the company and the group of companies," Bruce Rosenblum shook his head, "how are the two of us going up against him?" Unless he's no longer the CEO of Warner Bros. ”

"It's hard," Diego Harris now completely regrets that he shouldn't have supported Bruce Berman as CEO of Warner Bros. in the first place, a seemingly ambitious reboot of the DC Comics hero movie, but simply has no talent to match his ambitions, "and he still has a ......long tenure ahead of him"

Bruce Rosenblum suddenly looked up, "What if he makes mistakes on two big projects in quick succession?" Especially "Superman Returns". ”

The film cost more than $250 million to produce alone, and if it fails, it will definitely not be something that a few senior executives of the company can bear.

"But ......" Diego Harris has been working at DC Comics and has a true love for DC's comic book heroes, "this ...... This can cause irreversible damage to Superman. ”

"But his downfall could win a real turnaround for DC Comics!" Bruce Rosenblum stood up, "You didn't take Murphy Stanton seriously, you didn't give a damn about his claims and ideas, you didn't even read his plan much, and you followed Bruce Berman's request to return it, but ......"

He pointed to his chest, "I looked!" At the time, it was still a theory, and no one could prove that Murphy Stanton's plan would succeed. Now, Deadpool proves to us what he's capable of! ”

"Do you think he can save DC movies?" Diego Harris asked urgently.

Bruce Rosenblum shook his head, "It might be an exaggeration to say that he is saved, but I think he can turn the DC series around." (To be continued.) )