Chapter 630 The weekend with the highest box office
The pre-publicity of this film was too full, and it also aroused the curiosity of countless people, causing a considerable number of audiences to want to enter the theater for the first time to witness the true face of The Dark Knight. The day's screenings have consumed enough enthusiasm, and when Saturday comes over the past Sunday, the statistics of the Saturday box office will inevitably decline.
However, the decline is not large, and it will not affect the box office trend of The Dark Knight too much.
On Saturday, the film received $64.67 million in North America, not only leading the pack, but also the second-highest single-day box office in the North American film market.
On Sunday, the popularity of The Dark Knight finally really declined, and there was basically no queue in front of ordinary 2D theaters. However, after two days of word-of-mouth fermentation, the shocking effect of the IMAX screening has been widely circulated among movie fans. IMAX's 100 theaters show The Dark Knight around the clock, but they still can't meet the needs of fans, and IMAX is hard to get a ticket.
Because of his busy work, Norman Shearer didn't go to the show, and he didn't pay enough attention to IMAX. He just watched the normal 2D version on Friday, and after hearing the descriptions of IMAX by colleagues and friends, he regretted making it. Wrong choice.
On Sunday morning, Shearer sat at the computer desk and refreshed various movie ticketing websites over and over again, but all the websites were ruthlessly reminding him that IMAX has no tickets today, and there will be no tickets tomorrow!
How could this be? He patted his forehead hard, I really have a pig head!
After shutting down all booking sites, Shearer did a Google search, took out his phone and dialed IMAX's booking number.
I would like to ask, when will tickets for The Dark Knight in the Los Angeles area be available?
Sorry, sir.
There was a nice female voice on the phone, but what she said was something Norman Shearer didn't want to hear. The Los Angeles area is temporarily short of tickets and will have to wait until next Thursday at the earliest.
next Thursday?
Frowning his brows, Norman Shearer thought of a solution and said, I'm the head of Duke Rosenberg's Los Angeles Fans Association, you see...
Sorry. There are no tickets for now.
Hearing this, Norman Shearer had to book a ticket for Thursday, said thank you again, and hung up.
I couldn't book today's IMAX tickets, and there was nothing to do for the time being. Norman Shearer stopped thinking about it and simply opened the Google page. The search turned up the news about The Dark Knight.
Among them, a report about IMXA caught his attention.
The protagonist of the report is the chairman of IMAX's board of directors. He talked about the recent shortage of tickets for The Dark Knight, Not only did there not be a box office this weekend, but there are no tickets for the next three days. Every seat has been sold, We expanded the screening range as much as possible, and the attendance rate reached 100%, and a film has never had such a big appeal.
see these. Norman Shearer is in a better mood. After all, the directors and films he supports can be widely welcomed. It's something every fan will be happy about.
As his mood improved, he thought of more things. Just now, he landed on the IMDB website. It was found that under the attack of some people with ulterior motives, the IMDB score of The Dark Knight fell to 9.9 points. He wants to call on more people to score on IMDB, and strive to pull the score up again. At worst, the score will drop. Slow down, we must ensure the first position of IMDB's TOP250, and we cannot let the situation of The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King repeat itself.
At the beginning, the stubborn fans of The Godfather kept scoring one point and brushed The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King down.
As one of the leaders of Duke Rosenberg's Los Angeles Film Fan Association, Norman Shearer has been paying attention to these. From the usernames that have scored one point, he can vaguely see some IDs that left an impression at the beginning.
If it weren't for these people's ultra-low score of one point, The Dark Knight would never have dropped from 10 points to 9.9 points so quickly.
With his eyes fixed on the computer screen and one hand on his chin, Norman Shearer thought for a while, and gradually made up his mind.
He logged in to his mailbox, selected all the members of the Fan Association, and sent a mass email, calling on all those with voting rights to give The Dark Knight a perfect score, and to give its top 250 rival The Godfather a thumbs up one cent!
Only defending and not fighting back is never the style of Duke Rosenberg fans!
Just after sending the email, Norman Shearer got so many replies that he couldn't help laughing.
A silent online competition has just begun.
Time slowly came to Sunday night, New York was brightly lit, as if it would never rest, especially in the Times Building, night is often the busiest time.
In the editor-in-chief's office, editor-in-chief Brian Berman instructed several editor-in-chiefs, A special issue will be issued tomorrow.
Several editor-in-chiefs immediately raised their spirits and allowed the New York Times to issue a special issue, which means that something big must have happened today or last week.
An editor-in-chief asked curiously, The type and content of the special issue...
Entertainment Special!
Hearing the editor-in-chief's words, several editors looked at each other suspiciously. There are very few examples of the New York Times issuing additional entertainment special issues.
Brian Berman didn't keep them waiting, and said directly, The Dark Knight and Duke Rosenberg.
The editor-in-chief suddenly realized that this film has set off such a big craze in North America. It broke all the records that the North American film market and box office can break within a few days of its release. If nothing else, the box office in the first weekend will be an amazing number , to issue a special issue to such a director and film, it is entirely appropriate.
I'll write a box-office report myself. Brian Berman turned his head and instructed his assistant, When the weekend box-office statistics arrive, I'll get it as soon as possible.
It's been a busy night for any media outlet, especially the entertainment editors who stayed up almost all night, racking their brains trying to figure out how to praise Duke Rosenberg and his new movie.
As soon as the sky turns white, newspapers arrive at newsstands and deliverers, big newspapers like The New York Times. It will appear in every corner of the United States in time.
As the sun lit the streets of Manhattan, Erin Lauder walked into her office.
As soon as she sat down, her assistant brought the brewed coffee and today's work schedule at the same time. Irene Lauder took a sip of the coffee, the temperature was just right, and she couldn't help nodding her head.
Put down the coffee cup. Irene found that the assistant hadn't left, and asked, Lilith, is there anything else?
Knowing her boss's habits, Lilith said directly, Today's New York Times has added a special issue of The Dark Knight.
Erin Lauder browsed the schedule, and there was nothing urgent to deal with. Then he said, Bring one over here.
Lilith hurried to the door, took a copy of today's New York Times from the newspaper shelf, and put it on the desk in front of Erin.
Taking the newspaper, Erin didn't read other parts. I took the special issue directly and read it.
The long-awaited Dark Knight by moviegoers hit 4,460 theaters in North America last Friday with a large-scale screening, and received a box office of 192.26 million US dollars in three days over the weekend. The single-house box office was as high as 43,107 US dollars, and it successfully landed this weekend. At the same time as the box office champion, it also broke various box office records all the way, and became the highest-grossing film in Hollywood history for its opening weekend.
From midnight on its premiere day, The Dark Knight has declared its determination to create a box-office miracle as a winner. This figure of $22.18 million surpasses that of Star Wars: Episode 3: The Sith Revenge in 2005 set a record of 16.5 million US dollars at the midnight box office, and became the new midnight box office king. Following its performance on the premiere day, The Dark Knight achieved a one-day box office of 68.36 million US dollars, and then won the movie. The title of the single-day box office champion in history. In addition to the $18.87 million earned in advance, the cumulative North American box office totaled $211.13 million, making it the fastest film in North America to break $200 million.
The glory of The Dark Knight is here, and it can't be more difficult to add. Statistics are the most real and direct response.
The largest opening of the film - 4,460; the highest early box office revenue - $18.87 million; the largest midnight premiere - $22.18 million in 3,160 theaters; the largest IMAX theater midnight premiere - 125 IMAX theaters grossed $920,000; highest single-day box office revenue in history - $69.36 million; highest Saturday box office revenue in history - $64.67 million; highest Sunday box office revenue in history - $59.23 million; highest IMAX giant-screen theater premiere Weekend box office - $9.87 million; fastest time to break $200 million - four days...
Due to the good box office of The Dark Knight, the total box office of the North American film market this weekend also set a new record. Originally, the second weekend of July 2006 - the release weekend of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - was the total box office of the American film market. The highest weekend, the production value reached 219 million US dollars, but this weekend, led by The Dark Knight, the US box office reached 239.5 million US dollars, making this week the highest weekend box office in Hollywood history!
Each of the above titles is testament to the huge commercial success of The Dark Knight. The reasons for the success of the film are summarized as follows - the audience of the film is 52% male. , the proportion of male and female audiences is relatively balanced, which means that the film can kill both males and females; Duke's super-high-quality Batman: War Hour has won a group of loyal audiences for today's Dark Knight; Duke Rosenberg has a director Huge fan base and terrifying box-office appeal that is rare in the world; Heath Ledger's Joker is causing huge buzz.
In terms of word of mouth, 69 media gave The Dark Knight a comprehensive score of 94 points, and IMDB scored as high as 9.9 points, which can be said to be applauded. Among them, the media that gave the film a perfect score of 100 include Variety and The Hollywood Reporter , Time and other 46 major media.
The box office of The Dark Knight will definitely exceed 250 million US dollars next weekend. According to the current situation, it is very likely to win the box office champion in the summer of 2007. As for whether the film can take the best box office from Spider-Man Hero movie title, it remains to be seen. (To be continued~^~)
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