In contrast, whether it is the box office rankings of the mainland, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, or the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Russia, and India, the attention it receives is all regional, and people from other countries and regions rarely care about it except for people in their own countries or regions. Only North America, the world's largest box office market, which is almost the center of the world's film industry, has attracted the attention of countless media reporters, film critics, and movie fans around the world.

The week from July 21 to July 27 is actually just a very ordinary week of the year, but because of the victory of "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army", "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" and the world-famous "Batman 2: The Dark Knight" film history premiere theater scale shocking landing, but this week occupies an extraordinary significance in the hearts of media reporters, film critics, and movie fans.

In the sixth week of its release, will "Wild Ages: Rise of the Apes" be able to withstand the onslaught of "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" and "Mamma Mia" in the unusually severe box office battle? Because of the Hiss. Can "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight", which won huge attention after Ledger's unexpected death, live up to people's expectations and reap the explosive debut results matched by the "strong contender for the box office champion of the year"? And can it break the series of records set by "Wild Wild: The Rise of the Ape"? Too many people are waiting for the final answer.

While people are waiting, film companies including Summit Entertainment, Warner, and Universal Pictures are going all out to build momentum for their respective films, and they are bound to get the results they want in the next box office war.

Although the "Harry Potter" series is Warner's most gold-absorbing super gold mine, it is the representative and signature of Warner's superhero movies. Especially in "Batman Prequel: The Mystery of the Shadows", it won a double harvest of word-of-mouth and box office. After making "Batman" successfully get out of the quagmire. Warners cares about "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" no less than "Harry. Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" can be described as outrageous in its promotional strategy.

Like many super blockbusters, the publicity team behind "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" has begun a systematic and precise publicity layout long before the filming of the film, and then with the preparation and filming process of the film, the official website has been opened, corner information has been announced one after another, the first villain Joker has opened a troublesome campaign website, difficult Scrabble and spelling bees, and large-scale fan calls

Of course, Hiss. Ledger's death in January was an accident. This accident brought more attention to the film, as Hiss. Ledger's posthumous work has invisibly driven the desire of movie fans and audiences to flock to the theater to watch the movie. Hope.

The shrewd and capable "The Dark Knight" publicity team naturally did not ignore this excellent hype element, quickly adjusted the publicity strategy, and took the opportunity to build momentum after natural and man-made disasters. Ledger plays the clown who surpasses Christian. Batman, played by Bale, became the center of the film's publicity. Stills, trailers, and the crew's external rhetoric all revolve around "Joker" Heath. Ledger's look and topic unfolded.

Later, when Warners secretly decided to put "Harry. After Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was postponed from November 21 this autumn to next year, Warner's promotional resources and publicity center are all tilted towards "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight". As the official global release date of "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" approaches, the promotional activities of all aspects of the film are concentrated in the final sprint stage, and the most fierce publicity offensive has broken out in one fell swoop. For a while, the air was filled with a large area of imminent fiery atmosphere.

And under the fierce propaganda of Warner. "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" has also received results that have lived up to expectations.

Vice President of Michael. Oher said that as early as three weeks before the release, many midnight screenings had sold out, and according to the sales results of their website in the same period, the sales of "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" tickets were much better than last year's "Spider-Man 3", as much as six times higher, and eight times higher than "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" before.

Movie ticketing website spokesman Harry. Medved predicted that many people would go to work sleepily on Friday, July 25, because "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" will have a midnight premiere on the evening of July 24.

Medved said that the midnight tickets for the IMAX version of "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" were all sold out three weeks ago, and a Warner executive estimated that the IMAX advance box office alone was as high as $3.5 million.

Not only that, but the 3:30 a.m. show also sold about the same, and some places, even because of excessive demand, have begun to sell tickets for the 6 a.m. show.

Compared with ordinary movies, such a hot ticket-buying scene is really terrifying, and people can't help but think of the crazy scene before the release of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" 6 weeks ago.

According to statistics, the advance tickets for "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" have far exceeded those of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4", "Iron Man", "Desire. Looking at the city", "Robot Wall-E".

"This is the second-fastest blockbuster selling in tickets this year, and the second-fastest blockbuster in history, and it's crazy again after a month and a half, it's unbelievable." Medved couldn't hide his admiration that 65% of the movie tickets sold were for "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" - "This movie hasn't even been released yet." ”

Such a hot pre-sale scene has fully predicted that another large-scale movie-watching storm after "Wild Story: Rise of the Ape" is about to unstoppably descend on North America and the world.

Therefore, because "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" has the largest opening record in history with 4,366 theater screening halls, far exceeding the 3,956 of "Wild Story: Rise of the Ape Race", it suddenly made many people think of an extremely ridiculous, extremely incredible, but according to the current situation, it is very likely to become a reality.

The idea of this idea immediately made countless media reporters, film critics, and movie fans and viewers excited. The original box office myth of "Wild Wild: Rise of the Ape" was terrifying enough. If you refresh the record. That's worth it.

Warners and the crew of "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" are naturally very excited about this, and the situation of the film is now very hot has greatly exceeded their original expectations.

Previously, "Batman Prequel: The Mystery of the Shadows", which was released in 05, achieved a North American box office of 205 million and a global box office of $371 million.

Due to the outstanding reputation of "Shadow Mystery", Warner does have high hopes for the box office of "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight", but such high hopes are not high enough to surpass the crazy box office results of "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes".

In fact, Warner's box office expectation for "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" is to break $300 million in North America and $550 million worldwide.

And because of the fierce competition in blockbuster summer blockbusters such as "Wild Story: Rise of the Ape", "Mamma Mia", "Hellboy 2: Golden Army", "Wanted", "Confused Detective", "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D", "Robot Wall-E" and so on. Internally, Warners only estimated the opening weekend of "The Dark Knight" at between $90 million and $100 million.

This expectation has far exceeded that of its predecessor, and it is important to know that "Batman: Shadow Mystery" only grossed $48.7 million in its opening weekend, and even if you add the two days of early release, it only accumulated $72.9 million in five days.

However, after seeing the hot pre-sale record, Warner and many box office forecasters began to think that the film could make at least $130 million.

As for whether it can beat the previous record of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes", it depends on the actual performance of this movie.

Although it is extremely incredible, the vague possibility of existence makes Warner full of expectations.

In contrast, fans of "Wild Tales: Rise of the Apes" are worried, although everyone knows that sooner or later the so-called record will be broken. But this time also came too quickly, as a fan who likes and supports "Savage: Rise of the Apes". Who wouldn't want the record set by Savage Tal: Rise of the Apes to last longer.

"It must not be exceeded!" Some fans are looking forward to it.

In different psychology, the time finally came to July 25, and soon, the box office on July 25 was also released.

"Oh, sure enough, it exceeded." Warner Director of Distribution. Fellman looked excitedly at the box office data in front of him. Ledger's unexpected death and the critical acclaim he received for his brilliant performance in the film gave Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight the possibility of a spectacular box office result, which he was looking forward to, but he didn't expect it to happen.

$63.71 million, this is the first-day box office of "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" on July 25, which smashed the first-day box office record and single-day box office record of $61.84 million in North American film history set by "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes" on June 20 in one fell swoop.

Although after the hot pre-sale, everyone knew that another movie-watching frenzy was about to sweep North America and the world, and the 410 additional theaters of "Batman Episode 2: The Dark Knight" made it have a great possibility of breaking the premiere box office of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes", but when it really came true, it was as unbelievable as a dream.

After all, possibility, possibility, is only possibility, "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes" was already beyond people's imagination at the beginning, and it was too difficult to surpass it, but "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" did it, $63.71 million, creating a new box office myth beyond the conventional! The single-day box office has surpassed the first-weekend box office of "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow". and set a box office record for the largest IMAX theater and zero o'clock premiere with 94 theaters and $640,000.

Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine that it has brought shock to the world, and the major media in North America have reported on it one after another.

"There's no better summer blockbuster than this", "Nolan's powerful, irresistible Batman sequel was replaced by Heath. Ledger's Joker in History Adds to the Fire", "Definitely the Most Emotional, Adult Superhero Movie", "Radiant and Vertiginous" Rotten Tomatoes Freshness 94%, Media Overall Score 82, Yahoo! Score A-! Seventeen of the major national media outlets gave a perfect score of 100. is also like "Savage Tales: The Rise of the Ape Race". At the same time as the box office was a big hit. The film has received a good reputation from critics.

And with an IMDB score of 9.6 points, it surpassed the 9.5 points of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" and occupied the top spot in IMDB?TOP250.

Cinnabar. Fellman said: "Wow, that's crazy, we all know it's going to be very hot, but we never thought he'd be as crazy as he is now. There's a movie that's so acclaimed and acclaimed, and it's time to pay tribute to Nolan, when he was planning the film. He was a true dreamer. It's really fun to talk to the actors in the film, because they're all going to tell you how special it is to work with Nolan. ”

In this regard, fans of "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes" are naturally disappointed, damn it, "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" really surpassed "Wild Ages: Rise of the Apes" at the box office on the first day.

However, it is gratifying that although "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" achieved an extremely excellent midnight box office of $18.12 million, it did not exceed the $19.26 million of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes", and only surpassed the $16.9 million of "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith".

Meantime. "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" has a 96% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes website, and Yahoo has an A on the side. The media has a comprehensive score of 89, which is exaggerated to an indescribable good reputation, which is obviously much stronger than "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight".

And this is only the first day of release, and there are still two days to go, and the extra $1.87 million at the box office of "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" is not much.

After the first day, the topic of whether "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" can break the series of box office myths set by "Wild Stories: Rise of the Apes" in the first weekend has become more and more hot, and given that "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" has a new first-day record, it is natural that many people think that it can be broken. But there are also no less than those who agree that it will be difficult for "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" to surpass "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" at the box office in the first week, depending on the actual box office.

In the eyes of the film industry, although the first day of "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" was hot enough, it was difficult for it to set a new industry record. Ledger, judging from the all-round influence of the film and the shock of the film, "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" obviously has a big gap with "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes". As a more rational result, "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" grossed nearly $150 million, breaking the box office of "Harry. Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban set the record for the highest opening weekend in Warner history ($93.7 million).

The various opinions are very lively, can they finally catch up? In the midst of higher attention, the box office battle on July 26 quickly came to an end.

$46.65 million, this is the Saturday box office of "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight", as predicted by industry insiders, "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" did not create another miracle after all, and the box office fell by 26.78% the next day in the case of creating a new box office myth on the first day, which is already lower than the original box office of "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes" of 49.64 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office of $110.3 million in two days is also lower than that of "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes" of 111.4 million US dollars, failed to refresh the record of breaking 100 million in the specific time.

The release of this result instantly made the original shouting of "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" break the box office of the opening weekend of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" suddenly fell silent, and the birds were silent, as long as they were not fools, they understood at this time that after the sharp decline, the possibility of "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" overtaking was very small.

And the fans of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" raised their chins proudly, they have enough reason to do so, to surpass "Wild Story: Rise of the Monkeys", Nolan and his "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" is still far behind?

The numbers don't lie, and the gap between Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight and Wild Ages: Rise of the Apes is starting to emerge at this moment.

Then, sure enough, on Sunday, "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" collected another $42.54 million at the box office, although it surpassed the $39.9 million of "Spider-Man 3", it once again lagged behind the $45.65 million of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes".

As a result, "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" finally earned a total of $152.9 million at the box office in the three days of the weekend from July 25 to July 27, which exceeded the $151.1 million of "Spider-Man 3", but the desire to break the film history record of $157.1 million set by "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" was ruthlessly shattered.

Is Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight not strong enough? Of course not. The $19.26 million midnight show beat the $16.9 million of "Star Wars Prequel III: Revenge of the Sith." The first-day box office of $63.71 million beat the $61.84 million of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes". The $42.54 million Sunday box office surpassed the $39.9 million of "Spider-Man 3", the opening weekend box office of $152.9 million surpassed the $151.1 million of "Spider-Man 3", and the $6.21 million box office of 94 giant screen theaters beat the record of $4.7 million set by "Spider-Man 3", and the highest opening record in July history: surpassing 2006's "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Soul Coffin" The $135 million debut box office is the highest IMAX theater midnight box office record in history at $640,000 Without "Wild Days: Rise of the Apes," "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" would undoubtedly engrave a new miracle.

As Dan. Fellman sighed when he saw the box office figures: "For anyone who has worked on this film, this is the pinnacle of their career, and it's been a great enough journey." We've done the best we can, it's just that Savage Tales: Rise of the Apes is too strong. ”

"Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" was undoubtedly the North American box office champion of the week, and despite the loss, the media sang its praises. It's just that without breaking many mythological records of "Wild Days: Rise of the Apes" in the first week, there will be no more voices about whether "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" can become the annual box office champion in North America and around the world.

Needless to say in North America, "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight", which was behind in the first week, will hardly have a chance to overtake it if it is inferior to "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" in all aspects.

Globally, "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight" also got off to a strong start in overseas markets over the weekend, grossing $41.12 million in just 4,470 screenings in 20 countries and regions. It will land in the Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom next week, but it is still far from winning Wild Stories: Rise of the Apes.

Speaking of which. The overseas box office of the "Batman" series of movies has always been mediocre, and it is not as popular with global audiences as superhero films such as "Spider-Man" and "X-Men", and the overseas box office of "Mystery of the Heroes" in 05 is already the best overseas performance among the first five "Batman" films. So far, the first five adaptations of the "Batman" series have only $700 million at the overseas box office, and all of them together are not as much as "Wild Stories: Rise of the Apes". Although "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" will advance by leaps and bounds due to many factors, it is really difficult to surpass "Wild Ages: Rise of the Apes".

Let's ask, based on the situation in North America and overseas, how does "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" surpass "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" at the annual box office.

At this point, fans of "Wild Wild: Rise of the Ape Race" can finally let go of a worried heart and continue to maintain the pride of the glory of "Wild Story: Rise of the Ape Race".

In fact, fans of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" are more concerned about the box office performance of "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" this week than paying attention to the box office data of "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight".

$22.61 million, this is the box office of "Wild Stories: Rise of the Apes" on the weekend from July 25th to July 27th, although it is not as good as "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight", nor as good as "Mamma Mia" at $25.74 million, but the 30.76% decline makes "Wild Wilds: Rise of the Apes" beat "Hellboy 2: Golden Army" at $21.23 million, "Wanted" at $15.21 million, "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D" at $11.94 million, and "Confused Detective" at $11.32 million , which still occupies the third place in the North American box office charts in the sixth week of its release.

The weekly box office of $33.65 million also brought the cumulative box office of "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes" to $628 million, surpassing "Titanic" and becoming the new box office champion in North American film history.

Is it time for the unprecedented box office myth that "Savage: Rise of the Apes" set off this summer to come to an end?

$22.61 million, $33.65 million, $628 million, "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes" uses actual data to make the most shocking cry, no, it's not time to end yet. (To be continued......)

PS: I read the novel last night and read it all night, crazy, friends, what about you?