Vol 2 Chapter 553: Big difference in the weekend box office

"Just yesterday, the second weekend of the 2005 summer vacation in North America ended. Due to the poor performance of the only large-scale film "The Heroes of Air Combat", the overall market went down. Fortunately, "Batman" was screened next weekend. ": Hour of War" maintained a stable trend, avoiding last weekend’s second week of the summer with the lowest gross box office ever."
It just started on Monday, and last weekend’s box office rankings were sent to countless readers with comments and reports from numerous media such as "Premier" and "New York Times".
The media also used similar titles-last weekend "Batman: Hour of War" easily regained the championship, "Heroes of Air Combat" lost the start, and "Kings of Heaven" slipped out of the top five box office charts.
The box office briefing was also delivered to Duke's manor. Scarlett Johansson, who stayed here last night, was drinking morning tea and reading the morning paper, feeling quite comfortable.
In the absence of Mrs. Leah, Duke can let her live here, indicating that the relationship between the two parties has taken a big step forward.
Of course, seeing her own film win the competition, and the two nasty opponents failed, also made her happy.
"On the second weekend of the summer vacation, neither the newly released films nor the expanded films were able to set off a big wave. The market is still dominated by the old films. The Batman series directed by the famous director Duke Rosenberg restarts. The work "Batman: Hour of War" performed very well this weekend, falling only 43% compared to the opening weekend, and then collected $39.24 million, easily regaining the title of weekend champion."
"The famous IT giant Larry Ellison’s son David Ellison invested only 8.86 million US dollars in the first weekend of "Air Combat Hero", which was seriously lower than outside expectations and only one-fourteenth of its huge production cost. Although it ranks second in the box office list, it is hard to say that it has satisfied the producers and investors."
"The Hero of the Air" was selected to be released on the next weekend of "Batman: Hour of War". It was originally looked down upon by many people in the industry. However, David Ellison, who had just taken over the trust fund, had sufficient funds in his hands. Next, the film finally chose this extremely bad schedule."
"This film about air combat during World War I was released on a large scale in North America on Friday. It only received $2.02 million in the midnight show, which was a poor performance. Then the film began to be released in North America on a scale of nearly 3,300 theaters. The income of the day was $4.12 million. There is a huge gap between Walt Disney’s $12 million expectation."
"On Saturday, "Air Combat Heroes" was affected by the extremely poor reputation of the audience, and the box office dropped significantly, with only 2.62 million US dollars. The film continued to decline on Sunday and only received 2.12 million US dollars that day. According to the film’s poor reputation, Forecast. Its final North American box office may hardly exceed 30 million US dollars."
"The proportion of women in the first weekend of the film is overwhelming, accounting for 55%. After the first three days, word-of-mouth in all aspects has dropped significantly. The cinema score (cinemascore) is c and the popcorn index is only 53%. , The freshness rating given by 111 media on the Rotten Tomatoes website fell to 23%, an average of only 4.5 points; 43 media outlets from Quan Media’s metacritic scored 34 points."
"Besides. "Heroes of Air Combat" has also encountered large-scale negative reviews by the media.
"The St. Louis Post criticized the director for being overwhelmed by such a script. He failed to arouse any interest in the characters in the film. The Portland Oregonian did not believe that the film was not entertaining. The film has rich colors, no lack of action scenes and brilliant special effects. James Franco’s performance is sometimes dazzling and sometimes bad, but it is very catchy, but the whole film is nothing wonderful. "Variety" criticizes the whole film. None of the characters in the movie seem to be interesting for a moment, which is a fatal flaw for the movie."
"Compared to "Air Combat Heroes." "Batman: Hour of War" performed strongly. It continued the steady trend of Duke Rosenborg's movies. After taking another $39.24 million the following weekend, the film’s North American box office cumulative has reached 1 At $43.31 million, the final North American box office is expected to hit $250 million."
See here. Scarlett Johansson closed the newspaper and fell out of the top five in the box office list of "The Kingdoms of Heaven", which did not allow her to raise any interest at all.
She picked up the fork and put a few pieces of fruit from the plate into her mouth. After swallowing, she drank the lipstick tea again. Her eyes turned to Duke, who was sitting across from her. Since breakfast, he kept answering the phone. There seems to be something very important.
In fact, Scarlett really wanted to read him the things in the newspaper, but she had known Duke for more than ten years and was definitely one of the people who knew him best. She knew that Duke at work hated being interrupted.
"Is there anything important?"
Seeing Duke turning off his cell phone, Scarlett, driven by curiosity, couldn't help asking, "I'm so busy early in the morning."
"Tina's call."
Putting the phone aside, Duke picked up the coffee cup and said before drinking, "Some business negotiations."
"Oh..." Scarlett nodded, cleverly did not continue to ask.
She knew that Duke had many other jobs besides filming, and Tina Fei was undoubtedly his agent.
Duke didn’t eat much, and the breakfast was over quickly. He stood up and walked outside the dining room. Scarlett Johansson followed from behind, just half a step behind, and walked close to him. .
"Don't you need to work today?"
Turning his head and looking at Scarlett, Duke asked softly, "I remember your training has just begun."
"No need to go today."
Walking out of the eye-shaped villa, Scarlett took Duke's arm naturally, "Jimmy Carter wants to train my two stunt doubles, and gave me a vacation."
The black Bentley drove over slowly at this time. Scarlett looked at Duke and asked, "Are you going to work?"
"Go to the studio," Duke didn't say anything after looking at Scarlett's hand holding his arm tightly, "I have to go to Warner and Marvel Studios."
Scarlett became interested immediately, "Are you going to start preparing for "Iron Man"?"
She has been waiting for this movie, waiting for the third collaboration with Duke. Except for the two films where she played soy sauce as a child, she has never officially starred in Duke's film.
For Scarlett Johansson, who saw Duke step by step from an ordinary director to one of the most outstanding directors in the world, this is what makes her most regrettable.
In fact, she knew very well that if she really played rogues as she did when she was a child, she would have appeared in Duke's films a long time ago, but the relationship between the two at that time was not as harmonious as it is now because of the conversation and other factors. Duke looked at Mrs. Leah's sake and made her star in a movie, but each other will only turn indifferent.
That's not the result Scarlett Johansson wanted.
"Can I go with you?" she asked tentatively.
Duke turned his head and glanced at the blonde girl. Scarlett, who was less than 21 years old, had long since disappeared from the naughty she had when she was a child, and was honestly like a sheep in front of him most of the time.
However, Duke is very clear that these are appearances, otherwise she would not do those things on the Oscar night, and become the fuse for him to break up with Ivanka Trump.
Of course, until now, Duke will not put this matter on Scarlett's head. As she said, the problem between him and Ivanka was not Scarlett or any other Even if the woman's problem didn't come out, the two would go further and further away.
"I promise!" Scarlett raised a hand, "I will never make trouble."
Having said this, her eyes suddenly rolled, and she used the tone of more than ten years ago, "I will definitely be an egg."
Hearing these words, Duke remembered Scarlett when he was a child, and couldn't help shaking his head, and walked towards the car that had already been parked in front of the door. Scarlett Johansson immediately followed.
The two went to the Duke’s studio first, and then to the Warner Building. Because of the movie being released and Scarlett Johansson’s existence, the paparazzi and reporters sneak shots were indispensable. Duke didn’t care, and focused his energy. work part.
However, Scarlett was carefully observing, especially after entering the Warner Building, those Warner employees looked into Duke’s eyes as if they were looking at the omnipotent savior. Those who consciously could speak were scrambling to get ahead. He greeted him, and whenever Duke nodded slightly in response, those people always showed contented smiles. It seemed that Duke's response to them was something very proud of.
Isn’t it normal to be respected by dragging a failed movie series back from below the cliff?
Scarlett knows Duke’s weight in Warner, leaving behind his status as a major shareholder, not to mention the film’s influence alone, that other directors cooperating with Warner can’t catch up with in a car, and even say that he can influence it. The choice of Warner CEO is not exaggerated.
After all, she grew up with Mrs. Leah. Scarlett still knows a little about business. She was sure that without Duke's support, any Warner CEO would not be able to sit firmly under his ass.
Duke Studios, Warner Bros., Marvel Studios...Duke has been transitioning continuously in one day, except for the upcoming official preparations of "Iron Man", and also about Walt Disney's negotiations with the other side and Pixar Studios Of negotiation.
Warner Bros. accepted Duke's opinion, and the people from the Far East branch have made formal contact with the opposite person.
Of course, this kind of thing will not have an immediate result, after all, the amount of investment involved is really a bit large.
Moreover, the reputation of Warner World is not as good as Disneyland.
As for the Pixar studio negotiations, after a long wrangling, Duke, Steve Jobs and Time Warner have found a lot of consensus. Although they have not yet reached an agreement, their differences have been reduced to the price range. .
In addition, there is also the overseas release of "Batman: Hour of War", which may be specially arranged by David Ellison. Like "Batman: Hour of War", it will be registered on a large scale from next weekend. overseas market. (To be continued...)
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