Although it is believed that a 2D movie like "The Dark Knight" cannot surpass "Titanic" in box office, Duke will not ignore the power of this movie. After all, in just two weeks of release, the North American box office of this movie was close to $400 million. ※%,

Overseas, "The Dark Knight" is indeed as Duke expected, and the box office in North America is slightly lighter than that in North America, but the data obtained is still impressive.

In the three days of its first weekend overseas, the film received $6.57 million in Brazil, $8.68 million in Mexico, $12.94 million in France, $15.62 million in Germany, and $26.09 million in the UK...

In Australia, Heath Ledger's hometown, the Dark Knights earned $18.72 million in the first weekend, setting a new Australian weekend box office record.

And at the just-concluded Brisbane Film Festival, the organizing committee awarded the Heath Ledger Chavel Award in recognition of his contribution to the Australian film industry.

All of these have stimulated Australian audiences to pay attention to "The Dark Knight".

However, "The Dark Knight" has been treated coldly in one of the most important box office markets in Hollywood. The Japanese have always been unaware of superhero movies, and the Batman series is no exception. The film only earned less than $3 million in Japan on its first weekend.

Even so, the film captured $185.66 million from overseas in the first weekend, becoming the first film to ignite the global market this year.

With North America and overseas addition, the total box office of "The Dark Knight" easily exceeded $500 million, reaching $561.32 million.

Although the overseas box office is a bit dull compared to North America, "The Dark Knight" has a very popular reputation in various countries.

Hong Kong's Oriental Daily believes that in the Hollywood super hero film, "The Dark Knight" was particularly exciting. It is very strange and thrilling, and it is not a joke. The excellent G special effects are complemented by real materials to form a forced visual effect, and the level of front and behind the scenes is extremely high.

The British Times directly reposted the original words of several movie fans interviewed, "The Dark Knight is a rare masterpiece", "the biggest surprise this summer and so far", and "the best film of 2008."

French Le Figaro also sang a hymn to a Hollywood film when the last time you saw an impeccable, bold, nervous and always entertaining blockbuster?

Crazy box office and reputation bring more than just huge benefits. Warner Bros.'s considerations for the future, especially some plans for D's superhero movie style.

"Audiences are always looking for fresh thrills, and I think they are, to a certain extent, tired of the kind of superhero movies in the past."

In the Warner Bros. conference room, Jamie Johnson said while looking at the introductory information, "The success of "The Dark Knight" can bring us many tips. I think the future superhero movies can be made more serious and realistic, rather than taking the funny route like Marvel."

“The Dark Knight brings more than just financial gains to Warner Bros..”

Doug Walter, who was sitting at the top of the conference table, looked at Duke and said, "There are also the elements of how to make a superhero movie."

All executives are nodding. Since there is a successful template, of course, we must continue to make the template according to this template.

Vice President Robert Solomon also spoke, "I think the next D superhero movie can eliminate those 'fun' components more, and the style is more serious and dark."

Many people's eyes turned to Duke. The D superhero movie, which was originally almost on the verge of ruin, has now created a glory that has never been before in this genre, making D's superheroes a hot topic again...

There is no doubt about how to go about the future of D superhero movies, Duke has the right to speak in heavyweight.

Serious? "The Dark Knight" is not serious at all!

After closing the new "Superman" script in his hand, Duke looked at the people sitting on both sides of the conference table and said, "I think the script is set up well, showing the superhuman side, so that Clark Kent can regain his own approach, but there is one thing..."

Everyone held their ears up, Superman is one of the biggest signs of D Comics and Warner Bros.

"I think the content of the script is too dark. Superman is no longer Superman." Duke thought for a while and said, "Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne are two completely different characters, and it is not appropriate to apply the style of "Dark Knight" to the new version of "Superman".

He looked at Doug Walter, "I think it's not a wise choice to remove the 'fun' stuff from the film and create the rest of the D superhero movies in a serious and dark style."

The darkened style can be used, but according to the management of Warner Bros., the superheroes of D will become sad characters and will strictly follow the principle of "not funny".

This kind of follow-up behavior is obviously an overcorrection.

Duke knew very well that Hollywood was a very serious circle.

For example, Hollywood once saw the success of "Avatar", but only focused on its 3D effect, so it decided to release as many 3D works as possible in the theater. Several major companies saw the success of "Inception", but did not think so. It turned out that the audience liked to watch high-quality original science fiction movies. What they thought was, let us remake movies such as "Veoron" and "Comprehensive Memories"...

The success of "Dark Knight" has not only brought Warner Bros. to the trend of following the D superhero movie, but other companies have faster action. For example, Sony Columbia Pictures, which obtained the copyright of "Zorro's Mask" from DreamWorks, has just announced the official launch of the sequel this Monday after several years of hardship due to various problems. It also claims that the new version of "Zorro" will not be a traditional robber film, but will be closer to "Dark Knight" style, which will show the character's personality with a new backstory, realistic style and emotion as the core."

Even with the crazy advancement of "The Dark Knight" in North America, some companies and market research agencies believe that viewers no longer like "interesting" superheroes.

Robert Solomon seemed to disagree with Duke's words and said, "But "The Dark Knight"..."

"I did use dark style and realistic techniques in The Dark Knight, but these must be followed by one principle," Duke directly interrupted Robert Solomon's words, slightly raising his voice, "What they bring must be exciting, lively, and interesting big-screen entertainment!"

Even if it is dark and realistic, "The Dark Knight" is a highly entertaining commercial masterpiece!

He is a major shareholder of Warner Bros. and a member of the board of directors of Time Warner. The success or failure of D superhero movies is directly related to Duke's personal interests. He does not want to see the works in this series, and he goes further and further on the road of blind darkening as he once did.

As he just said, the darkened style can be used properly, but the "interesting" content must not be completely eliminated.

Duke raised his voice again to strengthen his tone, "I'm not wasting time here to quote the funny lines and scenes from The Dark Knight, all of you have seen this film and have their own preferences, anyone who thinks the movie is very serious, either never saw it or just hates the performances of Michael Kane and Lawrence Fishburne."

Then he looked to the first of the conference table, "When shooting, I once told Doug that this series would be suitable for teenagers and even children around 13 years old, and I did the same when shooting and producing it."

Although MPAA will also be public relations, the grading of "Dark Knight" PG-13 is enough to illustrate many problems.

"The Dark Knight" is indeed heavy, but it has nothing to do with seriousness. Seriousness is often the opposite of entertainment.

As we all know, entertainment and pg-13 ratings are one of the basic conditions for a film to sell well.

"The Dark Knight" can become a box office blockbuster not because they are serious, dark, and gloomy, but because most of its content is high-quality, meticulously thoughtful, and ingeniously conceived entertainment works, as well as exciting thrillers, tangible humor, and fascinating characters.

This film does touch on dark themes and also has characters who are burdened by their own mental disorders, but the overall picture is still full of vitality and humor.

Some people think that the reason why "The Dark Knight" has achieved such a great success is because it is "sloppy, serious and realistic", which is an oversimplified view.

Just like the former "The Sixth Sense" earned nearly $300 million in North America, it was not because of the shocking plot; "Avatar" made $2.7 billion worldwide, it was not because it was just a 3D movie.

"Duke, if you don't follow the style of "The Dark Knight"." Doug Walter looked at him and asked, "Then your opinion is..."

Frowning slightly, Duke thought about it for a few seconds, and then said, "There are many reasons for the success or failure of a movie, and it is dangerous to always blame it for a certain factor. In addition, the important point is that popular movies, especially super popular movies, are so popular because they are all full-scale entertainment works with certain qualities."

"I think the dark style can be used, but not abused," Duke said at the end. "We can let Clark Kent find himself, but we can't let him fall into pain like Bruce Wayne, and other characters such as Aquaman and Wonder Woman are even more inappropriate."

Compared to Marvel's relatively relaxed and entertaining route, although the heroes of D are more bitter, if they all turn black, the audience will inevitably feel bored.
Chapter completed!