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It's not just Marvel Comics and Twentieth Century Fox who care about the films released this weekend, even Warner Bros. people are staring at "Thor" and "City of Chaos", especially the situation of "Thor", which is the focus of Warner Bros. high-level attention, everyone knows that the more successful Marvel's superhero films are, the more incompetent Warner Bros. and DC Comics become. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Early Saturday morning, Warner Bros. CEO Bruce Rosenblum did not rest, but asked Diego Harris to meet in the company's office.

"Have you seen the latest box office statistics?" Bruce Rosenblum sat in a wide office chair, looked at Diego Harris across from him, and asked, "'Thor' and 'City of Mayhem' box office yesterday." ”

"Murphy Stanton is suppressed!"

Thinking of the other party's conditions when the lion opened his mouth, Diego Harris was still a little unhappy in his heart, even if Marvel's blockbuster was not good for DC Comics, he still had a bad feeling, ""Thor" got $23.6 million on the first day, and "City of Chaos" only $22.8 million. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but shake his head, "Murphy Stanton is not invincible either. ”

Bruce Rosenblum smiled and did not agree with Diego Harris's words, his opinion is the opposite, Marvel superhero movies may be planted this time, slow down the pace of rapid development, and maybe give DC superhero movies a chance to surpass.

"Diego, have you noticed?" He asked.

"What?" Puzzled, Diego Harris asked, "Notice what?" ”

"The first-day box office of 'Thor' is indeed higher than 'City of Chaos'." Bruce Rosenblum said lightly, "But the current box office calculation rules are to include the box office in advance." ”

Diego Harris immediately understood what Bruce Rosenblum meant, saying, "The advance box office of 'Thor' was nearly twice as high as that of 'Chaos City,' with a gap of nearly $3 million, and the difference between the two sides on the first day of the box office was less than $1 million......"

Bruce Rosenblum nodded slightly.

"That is...... "Diego Harris continued," "excluding Thursday's early show, in the space of Friday, 'City of Mayhem' will grossing better than 'Thor' in one day's time? ”

"Isn't that obvious?" Bruce Rosenblum thought for a moment and said, "'Thor' is an adaptation of the movie, and 'Chaos City' is an original movie......

When it comes to original movies, Bruce Rosenbrum's face changed slightly, but he quickly returned to normal, "It's normal for Thor's early box office to be higher than 'Chaos City'. ”

Diego Harris fully agrees with this, and the performance of original films at the beginning of their release was relatively average.

Bruce Rosenblum said with great certainty, "So, this time Marvel's superhero movie may be in big trouble, and our chance to catch up is here!" ”

He added, "Have you read the specific word-of-mouth statistics? ”

Without waiting for Diego Harris to answer, Bruce Rosenblum pushed him a copy of the information and said, "I got an updated stat this morning!" In terms of audience word-of-mouth, CinemaScore has the highest 'A+' for "City of Chaos", and "Thor" only has a 'b' ......"

Bruce Rosenblum didn't say much, but Diego Harris opened the information and looked at it carefully, this is a relatively complete statistics in terms of word-of-mouth and ratings.

As of this morning, there are 35,898 users on the IMDB of "City of Chaos", with an average score of 8.7, and "Thor" has 21,578 users with an average score of 7.2.

On Rotten Tomatoes, "City of Chaos" included reviews from 75 media outlets and critics, with a positive rating of 86 percent and an average score of 8.2, while "Thor" included reviews from 42 media outlets and critics, with a positive rating of only 61 percent, just one step away from rotting, and a failing score of 5.6.

In terms of Metacritic media revenue, "City of Chaos" received a score of 8.1, while "Thor" failed with a score of 5.4!

There are also statistics on the popularity of the two films on social media and online, with 225,577 retweets on Facebook and Twitter related to "City of Chaos", compared to 101,211 for "Thor".

On Google, the number of searches for "City of Chaos" is 657,856, while the number of searches for "Thor" is 333,578, and the gap between the two sides is equally significant.

It is not difficult for Diego Harris to find that if you look at the first-day box office alone, "Thor" seems to be a film of the same magnitude as "Chaos City", but based on the reactions of all parties, it is not difficult to come to a conclusion - "Thor" is not the same magnitude film as "Chaos City" compared to "Chaos City" at all.

I don't know why, he thought of "Batman v Superman" from "Thor", which was also a brilliant box office on the first day, with a poor market reputation, and then ......

Diego Harris immediately realized that Thor was most likely a high-to-go situation.

In this information, the vast majority of statistics are unfavorable to "Thor", with only one exception.

In terms of audience statistics for early screenings and Friday's first day, "Thor" accounted for more than 60 percent of the audience under the age of 18, while "City of Chaos" accounted for less than 40 percent.

It's clear that Thor is more popular with minors than City of Chaos.

"Predictably......" Diego Harris said, closing the profile, "the box office of 'Thor' will soon decline, and it is better to let it lower the audience's expectations for 'The Avengers.'" ”

In order to increase the topicality of "Thor", Marvel Studios has announced that "The Avengers" will be released next summer, and Thor will be an extremely important member of it.

If it can hit Marvel Comics' "The Avengers", it will inevitably frustrate Marvel's entire superhero series of movies, and DC superhero movies will get more opportunities.

"Now on the Internet and in the media, negative reviews about Thor are flying everywhere." Bruce Rosenblum was keenly aware of something, "There must be someone behind it." ”

Diego Harris could guess some of Bruce Rosenblum's thoughts and asked, "How do we do that?" ”

Bruce Rosenblum pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly, "Join the ranks of suppressing Marvel!" ”

Soon, the two agreed to appropriately use some of the resources of Warner and DC Comics to continue to fan the negative reputation of "Thor".

After Diego Harris left, Bruce Rosenblum took that information and watched the almost explosive word-of-mouth of "City of Chaos", and an indescribable feeling welled up in his heart.

He watched this film when it was screened, and after watching it, he only had one feeling, how similar it was to the Batman adaptation project that Murphy Stanton showed to Warner Bros. and DC Comics executives, probably to avoid Batman's copyright issues, the story has changed dramatically from what he had seen at the beginning, but the core of the film has not changed - overcome fear and find yourself!

What would have been the effect of this story if it had been placed on Batman?

Hardly have to think about it, with the blessing of Batman's aura, the box office of this film on the first day must be higher!

When Murphy Stanton took that information, he was the only one who read it carefully at Warner Bros. and the top management of DC Comics, and Bruce Rosenblum knew very well that compared with the latter two, the first part would be limited to explain the origin of the protagonist, so the story was not particularly exciting, but the later one, even if it only had an outline, could see Murphy Stanton's ambition and ambition.

If these meant huge risks at that time, then now that "City of Chaos" has a very good reputation for professionalism and audience, does it mean that the next one will be more brilliant?

Bruce Rosenblum couldn't help but think so, after all, he was too impressed by the story synopsis and script setting, and Murphy Stanton just took some scraps from these to create the great glory of "Man of Steel"!

Leaning back in a spacious office chair, Bruce Rosenblum suddenly felt that throwing away his collaboration with Murphy Stanton might be the biggest mistake of his life.

Of course, it is impossible for him to change this decision casually, otherwise wouldn't the majesty and face of this Warner Bros. CEO be gone?

Let's take a look at it, if the follow-up development of the DC superhero series does not go well, the success of Murphy Stanton's second part may allow people to contact Bill Rothes again.

With a long sigh, Bruce Rosenblum put away the material and threw it into a file cabinet that he didn't use very often, deciding not to think about these worries for a while, and now it should be the upper echelons of Marvel Comics who should be troubled, not Warner Bros. and DC Comics.

Since Saturday, there have also been a large number of negative reviews about "Thor" on the traditional print media, and the film's negative reviews have spread to every corner of North America almost instantly.

"Mr. Stan Lee, what do you think of Thor's poor reviews?"

The swarm of reporters and paparazzi almost blocked the door of Marvel Studios, and when Stan Lee entered the company, he was surrounded by them, "Is it a wrong decision to adapt a third-rate comic book hero into a movie?" ”

Faced with all kinds of questioning questions about "Thor", Stan Lee's face turned red and he said loudly, "Who said that "Thor" failed? Have you seen yesterday's North American box office statistics? Yesterday's single-day box office champion was Thor, not other inexplicable films! ”

These questions almost made him angry, and he was questioned about winning the single-day box office championship, is there such a thing?

A New York Times reporter squeezed over and said, "The latest attendance shows that today's Thor is down by more than a third from yesterday without expanding the number of screens!" (To be continued.) )