The shooting incident in front of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood can be said to have profoundly changed the film exhibition industry in North America, and all the films released this new weekend, even if they are all-age films like "Despicable Me 2", the audience is not allowed to wear any fancy costumes, let alone helmets or masks, such as Gru's frozen gun toys around the movie, and they are also not allowed to be brought into the venue. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

All the dangers involved had to be kept out of the theater.

As for "Dark City", which is still being screened in theaters, the security check is even stricter, and any costume that is reminiscent of a magician is not allowed to enter.

Affected by the shooting incident in front of the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, the North American box office of "Dark City" also continued to decline.

On the weekday before the weekend, "Dark City" had slipped below a million dollars at the weekday box office, making it its first appearance despite being in North America for twelve weeks.

The negative impact naturally continued to this weekend, and with the addition of the weekend effect, the box office revenue of "Dark City" on Friday rose, earning more than $2.2 million, but compared with the previous Friday, the decline was as high as 65%; By Saturday, "The Dark City" continued its slow growth momentum, earning nearly $3 million in a single day; On Sunday, it was down normally, closing at $2 million.

Over the course of three days over the weekend, "The Dark City" earned $7.22 million in North America, a 63 percent plunge from last weekend, which also created the largest weekly box office drop for "The Dark City" since its release in North America.

However, "Dark City" still ranks fifth in the North American box office list for the time being, and the North American box office has finally crossed the threshold of $700 million, reaching a total of $703.68 million.

But compared with the box office record of more than $760 million set by "Avatar", there is still a huge gap.

Judging from the current situation, dragged down by the shooting at the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood, it has become almost impossible for "Dark City" to surpass "Avatar" at the North American box office.

These sudden accidents are not something that Murphy or any film company can control, and the film industry has always been affected by the social environment.

Fortunately, the negative impact of the shooting at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood is the largest in North America, and it is much worse overseas, except for some countries and regions in Europe, "Dark City" has not been dragged down too significantly in most overseas markets, and the market trend is still stable.

The market for "Dark City" outside of North America has increased to more than 120 countries and regions, and after the first weekend of July, it won another $21.8 million from many overseas markets, plus $7.22 million in North America that same weekend, bringing the global box office to a total of $2,193.74 million.

This global box office figure finally announced that "Dark City" surpassed "Titanic" with $2,186.77 million, just like the North American box office charts, and also became the second place in the global box office rankings.

Similarly, "Dark City" is still quite far from the $2,778.97 million of "Avatar", which ranks first in the global box office.

Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox can only hope that in the long-term screening, the box office trend of "Dark City" can go very steadily, otherwise there is no chance to surpass "Avatar" at all.

In fact, Murphy is very clear that if "Dark City" is shot with 3D technology, 35% of the screen versions are screened in North America, and overseas regions, especially some countries, are fully promoting the 3D version, perhaps "Dark City" may eventually surpass "Avatar".

But there is another possibility, because the film's picture style and action design are extremely unsuitable for 3D, and once 3D technology and a large-scale 3D version are adopted, the reputation of "Dark City" may collapse, and it is impossible to draw a god-like box office trend.

Even if this is only possible, Murphy still didn't do it, on the one hand, he doesn't need to raise the ticket price, discredit his reputation, and lower the so-called style, compared to the extra box office, the reputation and appeal represented by the brand Murphy Stanton is more important, and it is more difficult to establish, he has paid for it for more than ten years!

On the other hand, it is secondary, but it also has a certain impact, because Murphy was a victim of this kind of film that is not suitable for the use of 3D technology, but in order to increase the ticket price, it is made into 3D.

Presumably in that era, people who watched "Batman v Superman" and "Spy 5" like him would feel the same way.

"Batman v Superman" doesn't talk about the content, the already black picture can be described as a mess after using 3D.

If this is bearable, then when it comes to watching "Spy 5", 3D brings more than destruction, which simply makes 3D movies stink among veteran fans.

I remember when I was in college, he was still crazy obsessed with film noir, and a classmate who was a few levels higher recommended a spy film, because that classmate always played games, and felt that this film was particularly awesome, absolutely close to the feeling of a real agent, this film was "Bourne's Identity", and the domestic translation at that time was called "Spy Shadows".

Murphy watched the "Spy Shadow" series for the first time, and was shocked by the shaking picture and the sound of the screen clicking bones, it is no exaggeration to say that this lens is really comfortable, not dizzy at all, but the movie called "The Mystery of the Floating City" that he watched later was also handheld, which made him want to vomit.

It's not just the mood, it's really a physiological reaction, I have to admire the shooting skills of some directors, it's huge, but it just doesn't make you dizzy, and it's not okay if you don't accept it.

Therefore, when he first entered Hollywood, Murphy also considered the "Spy" series, but he started too late, and the film rights to the novel "Bourne's Identity" had already been bought, and he was still a giant Hollywood company, so he had to die.

The first three parts of this series are absolute classics, masterpieces of hand-held photography commercial films, but it's a pity that the later ones are ......

Especially the fifth part, it's super speechless.

At that time, when the film was released, the classmate had already gone abroad for further study, and the two only had occasional contact, and one day Murphy suddenly received words from the other party, and then said a bunch of emotional experiences with foreign girls that he didn't care about, and he casually coped with a few words.

was about to hang up the phone later, and the other party suddenly said that he had watched "Spy Shadow 5".

Murphy warned at the time, saying don't spoilers. The classmate said that this one is really back, the camera is shaking, absolutely the style of the first trilogy of "Spy Shadows", the one that shakes when watching the movie, so cool that I want to vomit, it's all big close-ups.

Murphy asked him, "Are you looking at 3D?" Want to throw up?

The classmate said, "How can there be 3D in this film?" It's funny! There's no 3D version.,2D looks like I want to vomit.,It's so cool.。

Murphy praised it directly, and he was not envious, after all, he had to wait a month for it to be released in China, and he only hoped that the filmmaker would not make a 3D version.

The classmate said, how can you get 3D? The 3D version of this film will kill you......

Then, "Spy 5" was released, and Murphy was ready to buy tickets to see it as soon as possible, and suddenly I found me. Exercise. He. Mom, it's really 3D, I searched all over the city where the school is located, but there is no theater to show the 2D version, and then I went to the Internet to check the neighboring city, and there is still no 2D, all 3D versions!

He really doesn't know what the filmmaker thinks, yes, 3D ticket prices are high, and you can get more money by sharing the account, after all, Universal Pictures made a 3D version of "Fast and Furious 7" and made a lot of money here, but have you considered the shooting style of "Spy Shadows"? Did you read it yourself when you made a 3D copy?

This approach of the filmmaker is simply an insult to the director and the audience, yes, you have reason to say that you are a full-standard version, and the poster says, but does the theater have a 2D film schedule?

So, looking tired, wanting to vomit, falling asleep, vomiting, very nauseous, dizzy to death, disgusting and wanting to sleep...... the style and rhythm of "Spy Shadow" can make the audience fall asleep?

Murphy believes that it is not because of the plot, but because of the visual fatigue of the audience caused by the strange combination of shaking the lens + 3D version, the camera is shaking for 2 hours and playing games without dizziness 3D, and the elite warriors can't bear it.

There is a situation that has been and is still going on, and the development of 3D in East Asia is far faster than that of North America!

The number of 3D screens in Asia accounts for more than 70% of the total number of screens, and it has been increasing year after year, and North America accounts for about 35%, which has reached a bottleneck stage and has a downward trend year by year.

I believe many people know how the proportion of 3D screens in Asia came about, I want to study in the last year of college, Murphy wants to find a screen in the theater to show 2D films, it will be particularly moving, the filmmaker said that the 3-4 line audience is not 3D and do not watch, please don't treat the audience as fools, okay? It was also said that 3D was for anti-piracy, and he wanted to ask the person who said this to believe it himself?

The 3D technology has ruined all his expectations for the "Spy" series.

Therefore, in films that are not suitable for 3D technology, Murphy will not touch 3D.

He wouldn't let a shoddy 3D version ruin the golden sign he's worked so hard to build for decades.

"The Dark City" has seen a sharp decline at the box office in North America, and after the shooting at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, this can be said to be expected by everyone, but there are always situations in this world that people do not expect.

On Monday afternoon, Murphy had watched the latest North American and overseas statistics for "The Dark City" sent by Twentieth Century Fox, and was just about to go around the garden when he received a call from Bill Rothes.

"Robert just got the news from the police." His tone was urgent, "The magician has committed another crime!" ”