In the following time, although "The Clones' Offensive" was criticized from the audience to the media, it still relied on the influence of Star Wars and its relationship with the release of the week, firmly suppressed the "Twin Towers Shock" that was released for four weeks. In addition to the outstanding performance of Monday's Memorial Day, the two movies all fell below $10 million in the following three working days.↗,

Especially "The Twin Towers", as the hot movie viewing craze is gradually cooling down, the single-day box office of the film has dropped to less than 5 million US dollars on weekdays.

Entering the first weekend of June, although the weekend box office gap between the two films was huge, and "The Clone Offense" won the second weekend box office championship with an absolute advantage, the declines of the two showed a completely different trend.

The former has a fair reputation for audiences, with a mediocre audience rate of only 71% and an inemasore audience score of a-, which directly led to a drop in the box office of the following weekend, reaching 51% and only received 39.2 million US dollars.

Although the box office of "Twin Towers" was less than half of its last weekend, it only fell by 40% compared to the $22.6 million this weekend's $13.56 million this weekend!

Don't forget that "Occurrence of the Clone" has only been released for two weekends, and "Twin Towers" has reached its fifth weekend.

Previously, many people hoped that the Star Wars series could end the situation where Duke dominated the summer season in recent years, but the box office trends of the two films are clearly proof that the final North American box office and global box office of both sides will not stay at the same level at all.

Even outside the film industry, it can be seen that "The Clone Offense" cannot challenge "The Twin Towers" from the box office market at all.

Duke and Ivanka's Australian vacation trip was over. The two met with Tina Fey, who had come from New Zealand, and returned to Los Angeles together. However, when they left Los Angeles International Airport, they were surrounded by reporters and paparazzi because they did not take a private plane.

These crazy guys even shouted loudly that Duke and Ivanka would pose in love, and fortunately show their love in front of their cameras.

Unfortunately, neither Duke nor Ivanka were interested. They were completely different from Hollywood couples. Although this relationship was destined to be unable to be low-key, they did not have any interest in showing off. In fact, most people know that their so-called love can only be used for show.

Duke does not need to increase his exposure in this way. Even though the director needs to stand in front of the screen most of the time now, he is not interested in actively exposing his private life; Ivanka is a little disgusted with becoming a star. Her mind is more focused on business.

Although Duke did not deliberately avoid the media when he was around, he did not cooperate with their obligations.

Back in Los Angeles, Ivanka began to prepare for the company's relocation to Los Angeles. She finally chose Burbank as the company's address. Under Duke's coordination, she rented a small office building in Warner as the company's permanent address.

Duke is not very helpful in most of these things. Moreover, he still has his own work and needs to be busy. The special effects production of "Return of the King" is almost completed. He needs to cut the first sample into the version he needs.

At the same time, the box office trend of "Occurrence of the Clone", which has only been popular for two weeks, was ended by the newly released "Spider-Man". This Marvel superhero movie produced and distributed by Sony Columbia Pictures, was sprayed out by countless critics after it was released, but it truly showed the power of superhero movies.

In the first three days of North America's first weekend, "Spider-Man" set a record in North American film history for $114.84 million, becoming the second film in history in history to exceed $100 million on the North American weekend box office.

However, although the response this time was huge, the public opinion was not as strong as in "The Twin Towers". The reason was actually very simple. The second one who had received more than 100 million yuan in popularity was not as good as the first one to take the lead.

However, "The Twin Towers" has not been particularly affected. After all, after more than a month of screening, the film has dropped in terms of screening rate and theater number. It is also a super big production. With the guaranteed quality and promotion of the film, how can a film that has been released for one month be compared with the newly released film?

"Spider-Man" has benefited from not only Sony Columbia Pictures, but also Marvel Comics. Peter Parker and Wolverines instantly made Marvel's superheroes dazzling. Countless film companies have focused their attention on Marvel headquarters in New York. However, after Marvel received Duke's investment, it will not lack funds in the short term. In particular, the ultimate universe plan thrown out by Duke has made Marvel's senior executives ambitious and ready to create a superhero movie belonging to the Marvel brand.

Although this is still in the paper planning stage, Marvel does not want to sell its children anymore, and Spider-Man and the Men have already made them regret it.

With the help of Spider-Man, Marvel Studios was officially announced in mid-June. In order to get close to Hollywood, Marvel specially placed the address of this film subsidiary in Burbank. With Duke's support, Kevin Feige became Marvel Studios' first eO.

"Marvel set up a film company with only one purpose."

At the press conference for the establishment of the film company, Kevin Feige said to countless reporters, "Our preliminary plan is to launch the first superhero movie within 3 to 4 years."

"Can you ask about Marvel's specific plans?" a reporter immediately asked, "What is the first superhero movie?"

“Of course there is a plan.”

Just as Kevin Feige finished speaking, another reporter asked, "The film industry is not the comics industry. Is it too risky to enter the film industry?"

"We certainly know the risks and have developed a complete plan for this."

Speaking of this, Kevin Feige directed the topic to Duke sitting next to him at the right time. "The entire plan comes from director Rosenberg, who will be one of the supervisors and implementers of the entire film plan. With director Rosenberg at that time, Marvel is full of confidence in Marvel superhero movies."

The reporter immediately turned his target to Duke, but Duke chose an old acquaintance.

Sarah from the Los Angeles Times asked a question that the two sides had communicated well long ago, "Can they reveal what Marvel Studios' first superhero movie was?"

For Marvel Studios, who are completely new to the world, the success or failure of the first superhero movie is extremely important, so there is no surprise in what Duke said, "Tony Stark, Iron Man!"

"When will this movie be released as soon as possible?"

“We need three to four years to prepare!”

Marvel Studios is a new company, and these are some plans. If you don’t make enough preparations, you will rush to get started? That’s a choice that only laymen will make.

"Mr. Feige just said that Marvel has a series of plans. What is it?"

“You saw it when Iron Man is released…”

After the press conference, there was also a regular reception party, which was chosen at the Annabelle Hotel, which was not very far away.

Not only is this hotel very close to the Marvel Studios headquarters, but it is not far from the Warner Building, just a little over a mile, and EO Doug Walter, who will take over the Warner Bros. next month, also arrived at the reception.

Although Marvel and Warner's D are a cooperative and competitive relationship, they have more time to compete, and the two sides have been stalemates for decades.

"Duke, I don't know what to say."

Facing Marvel's largest shareholder and Warner Bros.'s largest individual shareholder, Doug Walter was quite helpless, "D's Superman and Batman movies are waiting for redemption, but you, the shareholder, came with Marvel."

Although he didn't say anything seriously, Duke still heard dissatisfaction from it.

This is normal. If anyone is about to take the eO, they will have some opinions.

"Doug, I originally wanted to wait for you to become eO and let's talk about some things carefully..."

As soon as he said this, someone came to say hello. Duke had to interrupt what he said to Doug Watt, and greeted him a few words. When he sent the man away, he turned around and saw Doug Watt stop the person who came to say hello to him, obviously he couldn't wait.

Originally, Duke wanted to wait until Doug Walter officially took over EO next month and then discuss it in depth, but now the other party has confirmed that he will take over, so he started talking again, so he might as well communicate.

However, this is not a place to talk.

Just next to it, Tina Fei had called the hotel to ask for a reception room. Duke and Doug Walter no longer stopped, left the banquet hall and walked directly into the reception room.

"Duke, do you have any ideas about D's superhero?"

Just as he sat down, Doug Walter couldn't wait to say, "Our superhero movies have been sinking for too long, and they have forgotten the glory they have created."

In the superhero movies before the new millennium, only Superman and Batman have achieved great success, but both series fell to the fourth part. In order to consider the entire series, Warner Bros. finally had to temporarily seal it.

“I’ve been thinking about superhero movies since Batman and Robin failed.”

Hearing Duke's words, Doug Walter's eyes lit up immediately, "So you are interested in directing a superhero movie?"

In his opinion, if someone can save D's comics movie, that person is Duke.

"Doug, the current special effects technology is developing very fast, and the ability of superheroes is becoming easier and easier to show on the big screen, and..."

Duke said a few simple words, and then said, "I think in the future, superhero movies will become the mainstream of the market. Warner Bros. and D should have a long-term systematic plan for this!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!