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It was the beginning of August when a youth fantasy film "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 4)" from Cantaloupe Studios was released.

After several series of films, the series has accumulated countless fans. Both actors, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, have become global idols with countless fans.

This kind of fan-driven movie's first-week box office is crucial. On the first day of its release, the film earned 7164 million U.S. dollars, a very high first-day box office.

It earned $4035 million and $2645 million on Saturday and Sunday respectively, bringing its North American weekly box office to $1 million, making it a super popular first week.

However, judging from the box office trend which is constantly declining and at a huge rate, it is impossible for the film to continue to maintain its strong box office performance in the future.

This is also normal. This kind of fan-oriented movie depends on its ability to attract fans. Casual audiences generally have no feelings for this kind of movie.

This is the same as the youth movies that are becoming increasingly popular in China. No matter what the plot is, fans go for Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

For Cantaloupe Studios and Disney, as long as the film makes money, the rest doesn't matter at all.

Of course, Disney has also launched related peripheral projects. For example, there is a way to play in Disneyland, participating in the story of "Twilight".

The mode is similar to the gameplay of script-killing games, where players play the characters in the film and experience their stories.

This project is quite popular, and many boys and girls go to Disney just to play this project.

In the same week that "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" was released, "The Avengers" surpassed "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" in North America, ranking fourth in North American box office history with $5 million.

At the same time, the film also surpassed "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" with 17 billion, ranking fourth in the global box office history.

Ahead of "Avengers" were "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" with $18.02 billion, "Titanic" with $3 billion, and "Avatar" with $18.43 billion.

Towards the end of its release, "Avengers" was unable to maintain the super strong box office performance of "Avatar" and began to go downhill.

But considering that the film still has a long period of screening, it can be said that it is quite easy to reach the second place in the box office history.

Gilbert Jr. and James Cameron completely dominated the top of the box office rankings, worthy of being the Hollywood kings.

However, in terms of film output, Gilbert Jr. completely surpasses James Cameron. Almost every one of his films has achieved box office profits and commercial success.

So when discussing on the Internet who is the most successful commercial film director in Hollywood, those who oppose it often point out that the champion in film history is not Gilbert's film.

But in the face of irrefutable commercial achievements, we have to admit that Gilbert Jr. is now the king of Hollywood commercial films.

However, if the topic is expanded to who is the number one director in Hollywood, the debate will become louder.

Although Gilbert won two Oscars for Best Director and made great achievements, people still debate whether he is the best director in Hollywood history.

Gilbert himself doesn't care about these debates. He is busy with the preparations for "The Dark Knight Rises".

Anne Hathaway excitedly announced on social media that she will be starring in Gilbert Jr.'s new movie, saying that it is a role she likes very much.

“After ten years, I’m back to watching a Gilbert Jr. movie again, and it’s a feeling I missed.”

Many fans have speculated about the roles that Anne Hathaway will play, such as Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Talia Al Ghul, etc.

These are all female villains that have appeared in comics and past Batman movies, and they are all very classic.

A large number of fans believed that Anne Hathaway would eventually play Harley Quinn because of an interview with Heath Ledger.

While promoting his new movie on The Ledger Show, Heath Ledger talked about The Dark Knight Rises. "I don't know if I can come back, but I'm in a very close position, and I'd love to continue playing the Joker and take on Batman."

The Joker is coming back? And he's bringing his helper Harley Quinn with him?

It has to be said that this is enough to excite movie fans.

The Joker played by Heath Ledger in the previous film was praised as the most charming villain in film history. After the movie was released, the Joker's popularity was even higher than Batman.

Many fans of The Dark Knight are saying: "It's not that Batman won, it's that the Joker didn't want to play anymore."

Rumor has it that Heath Ledger was unable to get over his role as the Joker, so he received treatment from a psychiatrist and even wanted to commit suicide.

These rumors, which seem true or false, make the character of the Joker even more charming. So fans are also looking forward to the Joker's return.

However, these are just fake news, which Gilbert Jr. and Warner deliberately threw out to attract the attention of movie fans so that the project can have initial exposure.

The actors of the film have returned one after another, and Christian Bale said: "When the story of the third episode begins, I can't wait to return to play Batman.

I love this job and I love this role.”

In fact, in order to get Christian Bale to return, Warner Pictures actually paid out $2000 million in salary and part of the box office share.

I heard that Christian Bale has also taken on a Chinese-language film, working with the great Chinese director Zhang. He talked to Gilbert Jr. about his collaboration with Zhang and said that he felt Zhang was very amateur.

But in fact, Zhang is already one of the few directors in China who has the ability to handle large-scale scenes.

However, unlike the standardized and process-oriented film industry in Hollywood, Master Zhang’s crew, like other Chinese-language film crews, does not have standardized processes.

It's entirely up to the director to do whatever he wants.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on Zhang, after all, he has been doing this for so many years. Chinese-language films lack professional talents. The directors may be good, but the talents in other fields are not as good as those in Hollywood.

The most serious problem is the lack of professional producers.

This was also one of the reasons why Gilbert Jr. suggested that Lao Tian strengthen the training of producers during the last chat with Lao Tian.

Back to "The Dark Knight Rises", after Christian Bale announced his joining the cast, actors such as Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and others announced their return one after another.

Later, Joseph Gordon-Levitt said that he had received an invitation from Gilbert Jr. to play an important role in "The Dark Knight Rises".

Joseph and Gilbert Jr. worked together in "Inception" and their performance was remarkable.

Not long after, another beautiful actress Rachel McAdams also announced that she would join the cast of "The Dark Knight".

And just a few days ago, she switched from Michael Ovitz's agency to Sheena Boone's agency.

It is said that David Ellison almost fainted from anger again. Only then did he realize that the traitor he had been looking for was actually Rachel McAdams.

Mel Gibson broke down and publicly stated on social media that Rachel McAdams was a bitch and a slut, attracting attention from gossip media.

Rachel McAdams did not give in and even used a Chinese idiom: "People go to high places, and water flows to low places."

This idiom made Michael Ovitz very angry. (End of this chapter)