After the premiere, The Dark Knight opened 4,480 theaters in North America, setting a new record for the North American film market.

Not only Warner Bros., but the market is also full of confidence in the Dark Knight.

The quality of the film is excellent, the publicity and marketing efforts are strong enough, and the audience in this era is much more tolerant than after being bombarded with all kinds of complicated information to the point of weakness.

On Thursday night, theaters with Dark Knight screenings were flooded with fans.

Some nimble traders have sniffed out the business opportunities.

In the bustling business district of North Hollywood, street oil artist Lisa came to the vicinity of the theater with carefully prepared tools to set up a stall by car, and carefully selected a location to ensure that she could see the poster of the clown above the theater gate when she turned her head.

Lisa erects a display shelf with the contents of the business and the price written on it.

Before the shelves were set, two young men came over, and the long-haired ones looked at the shelves, pointed to the theater and asked, "Can you draw me as a clown?" ”

Lisa said, "Of course. ”

Long hair sat down on a folding chair: "Come on." ”

As soon as Lisa picked up the makeup pen, another young man said, "And me." ”

Two dollars fell into a box on one side.

Before Lisa finished the painting, another couple came, also going to the cinema, and one of the men looked at the miserable white clown makeup with long hair that was almost finished, and said, "I'm going to be a clown too." ”

"I'll have to wait a while." Lisa said.

The man glanced at his phone: "There is still some time until the midnight screening, we can wait." ”

Lisa hurried to her work, and when she looked up again, she noticed that there were several more people, all of whom wanted to become clowns tonight.

It's also a bustling city that never sleeps, and Lisa wouldn't dare to stay alone so late in other places.

Ten minutes later, there were six or seven people lining up to paint clowns here in Lisa.

With the passage of time, not to mention the theater, even the booth of Lisa was full of people.

The box in which Lisa collected the money was piled up with all kinds of small denomination dollar bills.

Approaching the Dark Knight showtime, the people surrounding Lisa, as if they had made an appointment, disappeared almost at the same time.

Lisa quickly collected the money and various tools and put them in the car parked on the side of the road.

She was going to go back and rest early, and she was going to continue to come here tomorrow, and look at the hot situation tonight, this business could be done for at least a few weeks.

That clown is very easy to paint, and the money is easy to earn.

Lisa made a lot of money by taking advantage of the popularity, remembered a few friends, took out her mobile phone and called: "I found a good business......"

Before she finished speaking, she preemptively said, "Lisa, you know what?" Tonight I made nearly $300 in Burbank by painting the clown in oil paint, just for the clown played by Martin Davis! ”

Lisa found that her friend was not stupid, and said with a smile: "Me too, continue tomorrow!" ”

On this night, there may be more than 100,000 clowns haunting the United States, and some of them are making money from street paint.

In an AMG theater in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cook, the night shift manager, saw all the people in the theater disperse and asked the ticket seller: "Are all the tickets for the three theaters sold out?" ”

"The Dark Knight's largest theater No. 1 and No. 2 are all sold out." The conductor said quickly: "Half of the tickets for 'Mamma Mia' in the No. 3 general hall are sold. ”

This weekend, not only "The Dark Knight" was released, but also "Mamma Mia" starring Meryl Streep.

The No. 1 and No. 2 theaters were full, and Cook was not very relieved, so he handed over a few words to the ticket counter and went over there to see it in person.

He specifically checked the security doors and safe passages of the two theaters, which were unimpeded.

I went around to the front door again, and entered the passage of the theater to take a look, and under the blue-black tone of the movie, it was densely packed with human heads.

There are too many people watching the Dark Knight Midnight show.

Suddenly, a person in a nearby seat turned down and was probably going to the toilet, rushing a little in a hurry, almost hitting Cook head-on.

Cook saw a miserable white face and a blood-red mouth, and subconsciously sighed.

The sound attracted many people around to look at it.

There were so many faces as white and blood-red, all of them clowns who stepped on horses.

Cook hurriedly exited the theater, and couldn't say much to these crazy fans.

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At the Avalon Bar on Sunset Boulevard, Nolan unties his tie, picks up his glass, and clinks with Martin: "Cheers." ”

Martin clinked glasses with Charles Rowan next to him: "Together." ”

The three big men drank the whiskey from their glasses.

Nolan took the initiative to pick up the wine bottle and poured it for the three of them one by one, in the past two years, he has been under tremendous pressure, and he needs to vent at this moment: "Martin, Charles, respect for success!" ”

Charles laughed: "We are a great success!" ”

Martin exclaimed, "We're going to break the North American weekend box office record!" ”

All the feedback from all sides was good news, so the three of them came out to celebrate while waiting for more good news.

Nolan drank a lot, plus the pressure was released, and said: "When I see the person who looked down on me back then, I will ask him a question, do you know how much the Dark Knight box office had in the first week?" Whether he knows it or not, I'll tell him a staggering number myself. ”

Martin grabbed Nolan by the shoulder and said, "How's it going, Chris, I'm right, right?" We ......" He just wanted to say two, but when he saw Charles Rowan, he temporarily changed his words: "The three of us work closely together, invincible, and can shock the world!" ”

Charles slapped the wine table: "Well said, the Dark Knight is the first time the three of us have worked together, but it will never be the last!" ”

The phonephones rang almost simultaneously.

Martin took it out and took a look, and the most conspicuous figure on it was a number: $19.93 million!

Nolan laughed uncontrollably, his hands slapping the table almost frantically, and he didn't care if the bottle was poured, letting the whiskey fall to the floor.

Only those who have really carried the investment pressure of more than $300 million can understand his relaxed feelings at the moment.

This is the Dark Knight's midnight box office.

Martin's face was also full of smiles, there was no way, he just couldn't help but be happy, because he signed a guaranteed plus share salary model.

Nolan looked up and asked, "What was the previous midnight record?" “

Martin specifically checked: "The $16.9 million of Star Wars Prequel 3, we have $3 million more than them!" ”

Nolan actually knew, just wanted to confirm it, slammed the table hard, and said, "We've got Star Wars!" ”

Charles said: "We're going to set records! ”

Martin shook his fist hard and yelled, "Tomorrow I'll do Spider-Man 3." ”

The single-day box office record in North America belongs to Peter Parker.

Charles answered: "Not just tomorrow, we will surpass Spider-Man in three days of the weekend!" ”

Martin stood up, pulled Nolan and Charles up again, and said, "Change places, let's celebrate in the second half." ”

Nolan was surprised: "How to celebrate?" ”

Martin led the way forward: "After the excitement, you will be tired, take you to wash your face, sober your mind." ”

Charles had vaguely heard: "Night Club? ”

The trio came out the back door, got into Charles's car, and headed straight for the Night Club.

Now, Wes Cress is getting old and rarely goes out anymore, two French directors, Aga and Zommi, have temporarily left Hollywood, and the only really active members of the Face Gang are the bastard trio.

If the opportunity is right, it is necessary to recruit new talents, not to mention being able to be like Nicholson and Leonardo, at least to form mutual assistance in their careers.

Halfway through, Martin called Nicholson and said, "Jack, come out and wash your face." ”

Meryl Streep's voice came from the earpiece: "It's so late, who called?" Is there a sense of public morality? ”

Martin drank the wine, and with the stimulation of the good news, he was excited, and immediately raised his voice: "Jack, didn't you say that it was the last time to be with Meryl at METGALA?" ”

"I mean the last one of the month." Nicholson's face was not red and he was not panting: "Wait for me, I'll go to you right away, what needs to be done is done, it's time to wash your face and be sober." ”

It didn't take long for the four of them to meet at the Night Club and enjoy the facial cleanser service.

Nolan and Charles quickly became intoxicated.

I even made an appointment with Martin and Nicholson to come back when I had time.

After setting a new box office record for midnight screenings, The Dark Knight hit 4,480 theaters in North America on Friday morning, with many commercial theaters queuing up for tickets.

Now it is the hottest summer file in the North American film market, with great publicity before the screening, good results, and word-of-mouth after the screening.

Among the nearly 100 film reviews included on the Rotten Tomatoes website, almost unanimously praised, the freshness on the first day of release was as high as 98%, the MTC media comprehensive score was 92 points, and the IMDB score was temporarily as high as 9.6.

All these blessings come together to naturally create a box office myth!

After the North American premiere, "The Dark Knight" reported $72.87 million, breaking the North American single-day box office record of $5,984 for "Spider-Man 3" in one fell swoop.

The popularity and success of this film is unstoppable.

More and more clowns appeared on the streets of various cities in North America, and most people's eyes were focused on the Joker, and Batman became the Joker's tool man as expected.

On major movie websites and media, there are too many praises for Martin to count.

"Martin has created the first villain in film history!"

"Hats off to Martin, he's got us a classic character!"

The praise must be matched with the outstanding box office, otherwise the praise is meaningless.

Three days after the weekend, the Dark Knight unsurprisingly overtook Mamma Mia in the same schedule and sat on the throne of the North American box office chart.

And the box office is a staggering number!

The Dark Knight opened its opening weekend with $172 million, surpassing Spider-Man 3's $151 million, setting a new North American weekend box office record!

In the extremely competitive North American film market, the Dark Knight has become the most beautiful cub!

Star Wars, Spider-Man and pirates have all become defeated soldiers.

(End of chapter)