"Batman: Time to War" is $71.4 million in three days, which is not as much as the box office achieved by Team America on Friday on Friday, but for DC and Warner, this is an astonishing figure, especially the trend of the box office reversal in the three days of the weekend, which shows the full success of the word-of-mouth explosion.

From top to bottom, both the media and the audience praised director Zhang Tan for bringing a revival to DC Comics.

"This is the first work that DC has announced its return, and we have more plans for the future, Tan is a genius, he changed Batman, and now he is preparing to shoot the remaining two parts of the trilogy. "Time to War" is just a foreshadowing, and the next two parts are the most perfect performance of Batman! ”

The results of the first weekend of the movie came out, and Golvin announced it to the public for the first time.

The filming of the trilogy is all a good job, as early as when Zhang Tan ran to shoot "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", Warner Bros. was already preparing for the follow-up work. DC Comics' superheroes, both in quality and quantity, are no worse than Marvel Comics, and Warner Bros. has never given up on comic movies.

The Dark Knight trilogy is the top priority, but Zhang Tan's directing of the next two parts still depends on the market reaction of the first part. If it does, then the situation will definitely be different; If it is earned, then Zhang Tan's personal director fee will be a sky-high price.

Now, the performance of "Time to War" is very strong, and the director's contract is naturally starting to be signed.

Zhang Tan, who had a break for a while, returned to the front line of directing and directed the next two parts of the trilogy with a 20% global share and such a sky-high directorial fee.

"The next two films of Batman. It will be filmed, and the second part is currently tentatively titled "The-Dark-Knight". The third part is tentatively titled "The-Dark-Knight-Rises", and I took Batman out of the movie's name. It's because TDK is more suitable for the theme of the movie. ”

TDK means Dark Knight, and it is indeed more suitable for the movie than Batman, because Batman in the movie does not look like a superhero, but a knight who walks in the dark.

In particular, the script carefully designed the variations of the Dark Knight (Batman) and the Light Knight (Dante Harvey).

Dante Harvey is the first man in decades to confront criminals in the open, and he is the true hope of Gotham City in Batman's eyes, a knight who walks in the light. However, Dent eventually fell, and Batman had to carry Dent's pot and become a knight walking in the dark in order for Gotham City's hopes not to be broken.

In the original version, Nolan also wanted to use TDK. to get the movie out of the shackles of superheroes, and now Zhang Tan has inherited this choice and still uses the TDK name.

Of course, the TDK name is only used in some countries in Europe and the United States that are familiar with Batman, and the translated names vary from unfamiliar countries and regions. For example, the propaganda in Chinese mainland, translated as "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises".

Not to mention TDK's preparations, let's talk about the upcoming "Time to Go to War".

After the opening weekend in North America exceeded expectations, the second week of "Time to Go to War" expanded to 32 countries and regions around the world.

Chinese mainland is also being released this week.

However, compared to the grand occasion of the "Matrix" series in the mainland. "Time to Go to War" is far inferior in terms of popularity and scale, and the film schedule is also anxiously competing with several other blockbusters, and there is no monopoly.

The total box office during the one-month release period in the mainland failed to reach 1 billion. It stopped at 975 million yuan, equivalent to 148.69 million US dollars.

In fact, it is limited by the malaise of DC Comics in recent years, except in North America. Overseas markets have not made much impressive results, and nearly 150 million in Chinese mainland are excluding North America. "Time to War" is the best performing box office.

In the end, the total overseas box office of "Time to Go to War" earned a total of 312 million US dollars. Nearly half of it is contributed by the Chinese market, which basically relies on Zhang Tan's appeal contribution.

China Film Group, which acts as an agent for distribution, has done a survey, and more than seventy percent of Chinese audiences enter the theater to watch it because the director is Zhang Tan.

More than thirty percent of people don't even know what Batman is.

Compared with the difficulty of overseas markets, in North America, "Time to Go to War" is really coquettish and domineering, winning the championship again with $45.6 million in the second weekend, and then has been declining by about 30% to 40%, released for nearly half a year, and achieved a total box office of $328 million.

The performance of the North American market is higher than that of overseas markets.

So far, "Batman: Time to War" has a global box office of $640 million and an IMDb score of 8.6, announcing a strong revival of DC Comics superhero movies.

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"Tan, you've done Batman so perfectly, we've created a new situation, cheers." Gorwin held a private banquet and invited Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Tan.

Zhang Tan picked up the cup and smiled slightly: ""Time to Go to War" is just a foreshadowing, and when TDK is filmed, it will definitely bring a broader situation and open up overseas markets." ”

"Yes, I think so too." Golvin said excitedly.

The overseas box office of "Time to Go to War" is not as good as the North American box office, which is a rare situation for Hollywood blockbusters, and it is generally the overseas market that earns more box office than North America.

However, it is also very understandable that DC has withered for so many years, and the overseas market has basically been lost.

Now is to conquer the lost ground and restore DC's past grandeur, you must know that DC Comics at its peak beat Marvel, which is like now, being beaten by Marvel Comics.

Gorvin's wife, an old woman and an executive at Warner Bros., was in charge of the financial side of things, and said to Susa with a smile: "Sasha, you are married to an amazing man, Tan is the most talented director in Hollywood, and he makes movies full of charm." ”

Susa glanced at Zhang Tan, who was chatting and laughing with Gorvin, and responded with a smile: "I am proud of his talent, but what I like the most is his personality." I have known Zhang Tan for more than ten years, and he has never changed his original intention, exactly the same as the one I met ten years ago. ”

"There are too few good men like this, I'm jealous of you."

"Haven't you and Gorwin been in love for decades?"

"Oh, I didn't want to say it, Gorwin had been entangled with other women back then, but in the end I proved that he couldn't do without me at all."

Susa's eyes lit up: "How did you prove it?" ”

"I'll tell you ......"

Women are discussing how to tie up men, while men talk about big things and look forward to the future. Golvin is an ambitious guy, and the excellent performance of "Time to Go to War" not only sold well at the box office and exploded in word of mouth, but also opened up the market for DC Comics movies and revitalized the entire DC Comics.

This credit is too great, allowing Gorwin to once again take the initiative in the competition with Warner CEO Kevin Tsujihara.

It won't be long before Golvin can squeeze out the other party and become Warner Bros.'s new leader.

Zhang Tan is indispensable, and Gorwin hopes that Zhang Tan will serve as the creative director of Warner Bros. and be responsible for all of Warner Bros. films.

In this regard, Zhang Tan shook his head and refused: "I don't like to be bound by work, find someone else, in fact, I said before that after the Dark Knight trilogy, I will no longer be involved in superhero movies." I'm not the slightest bit interested in repetitive stuff, sorry, Galvin. ”

This is a half-truth.

Zhang Tan really doesn't like to be bound by work, but it is a lie to say that he doesn't like repetition, and the reason why he doesn't serve as the creative director is that he doesn't really have a big picture.

The devil knows how to shoot the next DC Comics movie, and in the last life, DC had nothing outstanding except for Nolan's trilogy and "Superman: Man of Steel" supervised by Nolan.

This hot potato Zhang Tan won't take it.

He's just here to brush up on the grid, and then turn around in a dashing way - I'll take all the credit, and you can take care of the rest. (To be continued.) )