With the end of the weekend and the arrival of the weekdays, even if the box office of "Two Towers Shock" exceeded 100 million in the first weekend, the theaters increased the number of theaters and screening rates, and it inevitably declined. However, the market was already warmed up by "The Rings Expedition" last year. Except for the US version of "The Hell" performing slightly better in the same period, "Two Towers Shock" has no substantial competitors at all.

Even the performance of the American version of "The Hell" which changed the heroine compared to the past can be ignored.

After all, the first weekend of "Twin Towers" had a box office of $13.03 million, while the American version of "Hell" was only $17 million.

On Monday, the American version of "The Hell" dropped directly to $1.02 million in a single-day box office due to the compression of the screening rate, while "The Twin Towers" only fell by 40% on its first working day, closing at $20.71 million due to the increase in screening rate and theater count.

Although the box office of "Twin Towers" showed a continuous decline in the next few days, it was generally stable at this stage. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, they received $19.75 million, $19.53 million and $18.66 million in North America respectively.

When "The Twin Towers" was released for a full week, the box office in North America accumulated $185.75 million!

This video completely shows a trend of crushing the market.

Whether it is art theaters or commercial theater chains; whether it is the border town of Washington State in the northwest or the beach area in Miami in the southeast, the shadow of "Two Towers Shock" can be seen in all theaters. People gather together, and whether or not they watch "Two Towers Shock" must be one of the topics of discussion.

Especially in school, those who have not watched this movie will be vaguely rejected and are considered to be people who cannot keep up with the trend of the times.

Duke's movies are indeed not popular with older housewives. However, they are popular with many young girls and working women.

In this world, publicity has a huge and even a key role in promoting the commercial success of a movie. But no matter how fierce the publicity offensive is, it can not be as good reputation as word of mouth, which can attract people to enter the theater.

Since "The Rings Expedition", the series has created a good enough reputation for audiences, and "The Twin Towers" is even more amazing. When a movie forms a movie viewing craze, it will indeed arouse some people's rebelliousness, but it can drive the curiosity of much more audiences, allowing them to enter the theater to contribute box office, and even become firm fans, paying a lot of money on peripheral products.

The two pieces of the Lord of the Rings that have been released are typical of them. Moreover, the rating of pg-13 also makes the audience of the film wide enough.

Before the second weekend, the crew was split into two, and Duke led some members to Europe to promote the film's European journey, while the other part continued to announce in major cities in North America.

Today's Hollywood movies will definitely be a bit exaggerated if they conquer the whole world, but no one will deny it if they can't find an opponent around the world.

Duke and his group's first stop was Cannes, France. Although "Twin Towers" did not sign up for the competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival, it will also be screened during the festival.

Although he has no interest in the three major European film festivals, Duke will not deny their influence, and screening in Cannes is also the established publicity strategy of Warner Bros.

But no one expected it. "The Twin Towers" stole the limelight at the Cannes Film Festival. The film premiered in Cannes happened to be on the same afternoon as Roman Polansky's "Pianist". The film promoted by the organizer was ignored by both the media and the fans. There were not many audiences and reporters on both sides of the premiere red carpet, so I can only say that it is better than nothing.

On the other hand, the scene was even more grand than the opening ceremony of this Cannes Film Festival. The waiting fans lined up from the Festival Palace to the opposite beach. The reporters in the interview area were crowded with people, and there were slight physical frictions at any time because of grabbing the position. If it weren't for this kind of occasion, someone would have been facing each other.

Just like the response caused by two films among ordinary audiences. There are hot crowds here, and not far from next door, "The Pianist" is deserted.

"It has to be said that the best art directors in the world gathered in Cannes, but were stolen by a commercial director from Hollywood."

France's Le Figaro made a comment on this the next day, "I don't know what the organizing committee thought, but it actually agreed to be screened by "The Twin Towers" during the film festival. Do they really think that the works participating in the competition unit can suppress Duke Rosenberg? Facts have proved that the organizing committee of this Cannes Film Festival made a big joke!"

When "The Twin Towers" was screened in Cannes for three consecutive days and the movie tickets were hard to come by, Le Figaro spoke again, "All the films participating in the competition unit are not as strong as the movie "The Twin Towers". Even if you don't want to admit it, it will have to be a formal reality. Duke Rosenberg will defeat the entire Cannes Film Festival alone."

Sitting on the balcony of the hotel room, Duke looked at the yacht marina opposite. This was his first time to come to Cannes and his first time participating in a European film festival, but he was destined to be a passerby.

“The support the organizing committee has provided to us is decreasing.”

Tina Fei, opposite, put down her coffee, withdrew her eyes from a distance, and said, "The difficulties we encounter are increasing."

"It's normal." Duke slowly stirred in the coffee cup with a spoon. "For the Cannes Film Festival, we are simply disruptors."

Anyone would be unhappy if they were stolen by a movie that only used the help of a film festival to promote it.

Tina Fei's cell phone suddenly rang. She pressed the answer button and said a few words, then hung up the phone and said to Duke, "The guests are here, they are in the cafe on the first floor."

"Let's go down."

What Duke wants to meet is the customer introduced by Warner.

In the cafe on the first floor, Warner's people went to the hotel lobby to wait for Duke. Among the two people who were waiting quietly, one of them was a little uneasy.

"Old Liu..." said the slightly younger man, "You have also experienced many big scenes. If any major director in China is not polite to see you, why are you suddenly nervous?"

"Can they compete with him?"

This middle-aged man named Lao Liu knew that the young man opposite had been in China and did not know much about the foreign film market. He simply explained, "Do you know how much box office his movie got in North America in three days? More than 100 million US dollars! Do you know how much the final box office of his last movie was? 1.1 billion US dollars!"

"$1.1 billion!" The young man couldn't help but open his mouth, "His movie has a higher box office than our total domestic box office in the past two years?"

"This is just the box office!" Old Liu sighed and said with emotion, "Do you know the surroundings of the movie? It is said that all the surroundings of his last movie have sold $1 billion!"

"How much?" the young man seemed to be unable to believe it, "1 billion US dollars? Are those toys around? Can they be sold for so much money? They are all worthless things."

"It's really not worth it in China..." Old Liu shook his head, "but in Hollywood, the profit margins around him can exceed 50%.

The young man took a breath and a movie has a profit of $500 million in just surroundings...

Lao Liu said again, "Do you know how much is the director's salary for a movie?"

"I read domestic reports that some Hollywood superstars can get $20 million in pay. I heard that this is Hollywood's top salary."

Hearing the young man's words, Old Liu shook his head, raised two fingers to him and shook it, "The most conservative estimate is that he took away $200 million in dividends from the previous video!"

The young man almost squirted out the coffee that had just been drunk in his mouth. He quickly swallowed it and said, "200 million US dollars, is that possible?"

"Only more than no matter!" Old Liu said with confidence, "Although he has never won an Oscar, the status and treatment he enjoys in Hollywood and the United States is only higher than Spielberg."

Having said this, footsteps came not far away. The two of them turned around and looked and stood up quickly.

"This is director Duke Rosenberg, this is Miss Tina Fee."

"This is Smith Liu, this is Johnson Han..."

Warner's people gave a brief introduction to both parties, then sat aside, and said no more. He came from the Warner headquarters in North America, and knew Duke's temper and personality very well, and would not rashly interfere in such incidents.

This is a meeting within the scope of work. Duke didn't go around in circles and asked directly, "Mr. Liu, Mr. Han, you found me through Warner. Is there anything wrong?"

“That’s how it is.”

These two people are obviously mainly Smith Liu, and there is no problem with English listening. "Since 1995, our group company has introduced you "Brave the Deadly Island", "Life and Death Hour", "Save the Soldier Ryan", "The Matrix" and "The Ring Protection Team" directed by you. These films have received a great response in China. Director Rosenberg, like Director Spielberg and Director Cameron, you are the most familiar Hollywood directors in the domestic audience."

Duke looked at the other party. He was no longer used to this way of speaking, and he wanted to go straight.

Fortunately, the other party did not ask him to wait for more, and then said, "The leader of our group hopes to invite director Rosenberg to participate in the premiere of your video we introduced at the right time. This is also a film cultural exchange between China and the United States."

Duke was not surprised when he heard this invitation. It was natural for him to achieve his achievements. Since last year Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman went there to promote "Mold Rouge", Hollywood's top actors and directors have gradually realized the vastness of that market.

Especially with Paramount Pictures as the leader, major Hollywood companies gradually established Far East branches, and several of them also established liaison offices in the north. Although the other party's film industry is extremely backward, the market is cultivated. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!