hollywood melon man

Chapter 708 Creating a Record

On a new day, Gilbert Jr. leads the creators on a North American promotional tour.

Starting from Los Angeles, heading eastwards, and ending in New York, the promotion has been carried out in eight cities.

If The Dark Knight wants to be a big hit at the box office, it must rely on the North American market. In fact, all commercial blockbusters must conquer the North American market, and only by conquering the North American market can they conquer the world.

"The Dark Knight" is a very special type of film. It is a superhero movie, but it is not as easy and simple as "Spider-Man" and "Iron Man".

In fact, Gilbert Jr. received a lot of negative reviews about The Dark Knight, and this is the North American market. There are many such cases in other markets, so we must do a good job in publicity and promotion.

While the North American market was booming with releases, The Dark Knight was also being released simultaneously in other parts of the world.

The Dark Knight landed in the UK, and the headline of the entertainment section of The Times commented: "A milestone in superhero movies, the undisputed No. 1."

The Dark Knight landed in France, and the French film industry called on the French people to resist the invasion of Hollywood. But French moviegoers entered the theaters faster than Paris surrendered, and there was no way to stop them.

The French people had already pledged their loyalty before the great Guibert arrived in Paris.

The Ferlogère newspaper cried wolf and declared that little Guibert was invincible. In short, The Dark Knight was a considerable success in France.

Germany's Berliner Zeitung said: "The era of superhero movies seems to be coming. At this time, Gilbert's The Dark Knight seems to tell people that this is what a superhero movie should look like."

The Italian newspaper Torino focused on Gilbert's Italian origins: "Some might say that Italian filmmakers are no longer as good as they used to be.

But Gilbert Jr. used The Dark Knight to show everyone that Italian gangs have never died in Hollywood. "

Along with the media's praise, the box office also took off collectively.

Thanks to Gilbert Jr.'s strong box office appeal, even though superhero movies would not be well received outside of North America, "The Dark Knight" avoided this embarrassment.

In its first week in the UK, The Dark Knight grossed $2230 million. A Fleet Street reporter even photographed Prince William and his girlfriend Kate going on a date to watch The Dark Knight together.

However, when she came out of the cinema afterwards, Kate's face didn't seem to be very good. She probably couldn't stand the heavy style of "The Dark Knight".

The film continued to achieve excellent box office results, earning $1862 million in France in its first week, $2336 million in Germany in its first week, and $897 million in Italy in its first week.

The remaining 2442 European markets grossed a total of million US dollars. Starting next week, the film will continue to land in other European markets and continue to expand its screening scale.

As for other overseas markets, the Chinese mainland market achieved a first-week box office revenue of 1063 million US dollars, equivalent to more than million RMB.

The Korean market also achieved a result of 1033 million US dollars. Although the island market did not have many audiences, it still achieved a first-week box office result of 1327 million US dollars.

The remaining markets including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, etc., together earned a first-week box office of 1125 million US dollars.

Without exception, "The Dark Knight" received a lot of positive reviews in the media in these countries, and it was a complete success.

Including the markets in Oceania, Central and South America such as Australia, Mexico, and Brazil, "The Dark Knight" grossed $1 million in its first overseas week.

But even so, it still cannot compare with the performance in the North American market.

Because of the large-scale promotion in the early stage, too many audiences were driven into the cinema. On Friday alone, "The Dark Knight" raked in 6953 million US dollars in North American box office, setting a record for North American single-day box office.

The box office revenue on that day was more than many movies earned in a week, and almost all mainstream media newspapers in North America reported on the wave of movie-watching sparked by "The Dark Knight."

On the second day, The Dark Knight's box office dropped slightly, earning $6423 million in a single day. On the third day, the popularity of The Dark Knight finally declined, and there were basically no queues in the slightly remote theaters.

However, after continuous publicity and the word-of-mouth from audiences who have seen the film in IMAX, tickets for The Dark Knight in IMAX format are still hard to come by.

Even though IMAX asked the 187 IMAX theaters in North America to increase the number of screenings as much as possible, from a.m. to the last show at : p.m., it still could not meet the audience's demand.

Many movie fans who were unable to buy IMAX tickets collectively rushed to IMAX's official website, demanding that more screenings be added, causing the official website to be paralyzed for a time.

IMAX's operations director had to come out and apologize, saying that he had tried his best to coordinate, but tickets for IMAX theaters were still hard to get.

Reporters noticed that when the operations director came out to apologize, he couldn't suppress the smile on his face. He was clearly smiling, but he was also entitled to smile.

IMAX then announced a partnership with Regal Cinemas and AMG Cinemas to promote the construction of IMAX theaters in North America.

After the experiment with "The Dark Knight", IMAX fully believed that IMAX technology was already suitable for Hollywood, and it was time to take bigger steps.

In fact, after seeing the huge success of "The Dark Knight" relying on IMAX, many films that were being planned or filmed began to consider whether to use IMAX technology.

Obviously, this technology will increase the cost of movies, but the rewards are also high.

Especially after "The Dark Knight" successfully topped the North American weekly box office with a box office of 4835 million US dollars on the third day and 1 million US dollars in the first week.

That’s right, The Dark Knight breaks records again.

《魔戒3：王者归来》曾经创造1.51亿美元的首周票房，震撼了整个好莱坞。过了几年，这个票房纪录被《蜘蛛侠3》的1亿6740万美元打破。

But Spider-Man 3 only held this record for one year. When The Dark Knight was released, Gilbert Jr. took back the record with a first-week box office of 1 million U.S. dollars.

After the first week box office came out, all discussions about "The Dark Knight" became more lively.

What’s even more rare is that after achieving such a high first-week box office, “The Dark Knight” actually maintained a high score of 9.5 on IMDB, surpassing “The Godfather 1” and “The Shawshank Redemption”, as well as Gilbert Jr.’s own “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”.

However, this made fans of "The Godfather" quite dissatisfied. A senior fan of "The Godfather" wrote a long article on IMDB, denouncing "The Dark Knight" as a disgrace to the film market.

This in turn caused dissatisfaction among fans of "The Dark Knight" and fans of Little Gilbert. Little Gilbert's army began to take action and fight with fans of "The Godfather" on the Internet, which naturally included the act of brushing scores.

Movie fans kept giving high scores to "The Dark Knight" and low scores to "The Godfather", so that the score of "The Godfather" dropped to 9.0 and was surpassed by "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King".

Seeing that they could not win, fans of "The Godfather" began to stir up trouble, pretending to be fans of "The Dark Knight" and attacking "The Shawshank Redemption" and other films on the list.

Thus, a big online rating war began, and the ratings of various films dropped rapidly. However, because many people gave "The Dark Knight" a full score, it still maintained its first place on the IMDB list.

Fans of "The Dark Knight" and Gilbert Jr. vowed that the same thing that happened with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" must not happen again this time.

Such a wonderful movie should be at the top of the list.

Currently, IMDB has temporarily closed the rating function, but this cannot stop fans from arguing on the Internet.

This is the Internet age, and it seems that people's emotions are more easily excited.

(End of this chapter)