"The City of Darkness is unstoppable, creating miracles in succession, and the strongest start in film history was born."

“Murphy Stanton creates new heights for box office myths and crime action movies.”

"Dark shrouded North America, Chris Dane and the Magicians conquered North American box office rankings..."

Also on Monday, other media were hyping the news. Although "Dark City" was a super big sale on the first weekend and was inseparable from rising ticket prices, the number of movies that exceeded 30 million people on the first weekend also created a new record of North American weekend movie viewing.

"You think "Dark City"..."

In the lounge at the premiere of "Fast and Furious 6" in Budapest, Dwayne Johnson was discussing with Teres Gibson that just received the North American box office news, "Is there any hope to challenge James Cameron's "Avatar" and "Titanic"?"

"It's hard to say." Teres Gibson shook his head slightly. He and Dwayne Johnson have worked with Murphy, "but there is a certain chance."

"I don't think it's possible."

Another person's voice came from next to him, and Paul Walker pulled his chair here and said, "The box office of "Titanic" and "Avatar" is too high. I think other directors except James Cameron himself can't challenge the box office records of these two films."

Dwayne Johnson couldn't help but raise his voice slightly, "That's not necessarily!"

Paul Walker looked disapproving.

"Dark City has won the best box office in film history!" Dwayne Johnson seemed to be very confident in Murphy, "and the reputation of the film was experiencing is not comparable to that of the childish popcorn of last year's "Avengers", and its reputation is no worse than that of "Titanic" and "Avatar" back then. Perhaps it is difficult to catch up with "Avatar", and "Titanic" is still possible."

Terrys Gibson is like a wall-headed man, "Daun makes sense!"

"It doesn't matter if it's reasonable or not." Paul Walker still insists on his own point of view, "What's important is the actual market monetization."

"market……"

Dwayne Johnson was about to speak when suddenly a domineering voice came, "Stop it!"

They turned around and saw exactly Van Diesel's bald head, and the black face that was comparable to Teresan Gibson under the bald head.

Paul Walker and Tyreth Gibson all shut up, and Dwayne Johnson frowned. There have been so many such situations since he joined this series. This ugly bald man is simply fascist!

Terrys Gibson pulled Dwayne Johnson's arm and shook his head slightly at him. Dwayne Johnson turned around and endured it.

Vin Diesel over there seemed to have something to do, so he turned around and left the lounge.

"What a shit!" Dwayne Johnson cursed, "I really think I am a big shot!"

Paul Walker snorted disdainfully, "Don't be as knowledgeable as such a brainless idiot."

"Just think he's a piece of shit." Teres Gibson obviously comforted himself. "You'll be disgusting when you see such shit, so you'll be fine if you can't see it."

Dwayne Johnson and Paul Walker both laughed.

Terrys Gibson looked at the place where Van Diesel disappeared and asked curiously, "Mr. Shit usually has a bad temper, but why did the color change today?"

"It's very simple." Dwayne Johnson shrugged. "The movie we are promoting, the weekend box office we just got is not even a fraction of "Dark City."

Paul Walker added, "A considerable part of the investment in the film was from Vin Diesel. The box office numbers are not good now, so he must be under a lot of pressure."

"So that's how it is!" Teres Gibson suddenly realized.

Everyone in the crew knows that the box office of "Fast and Furious 6" plummeted by more than 70% on the first weekend compared to the first weekend, and was hit by "Dark City". It only earned more than 22 million US dollars in three days last weekend, almost creating the highest box office drop in the next weekend for commercial blockbusters with production costs of more than 150 million US dollars in North America.

As one of the producers and investors, Van Diesel is in a good mood and that is the one who sees him.

Paul Walker suddenly said, "This morning, I heard Vin Diesel mutter, saying that the next film would require more money, and then choose the time when Murphy Stanton's new film was released, and compete with him."

Dwayne Johnson said disdainfully, "What is he? How can he compare to Murphy Stanton? Although I participated in this series, I have worked with Murphy. He is the kind of director who can be admired by throwing an idea on the set. He never bullies on the set, and is impressed by his talent. Vin Diesel puts him in front of him...hum! Hum..."

He snorted a few disdainfully, and Dawn Johnson gave a thumbs up first, "If Murphy is this..."

He then reversed his fingers, his thumb down, and said, "Vin Diesel is not even this!"

Probably because I have had enough of Vin Diesel's unreasonable behavior in the "Fast and Furious" crew over the years. Even though Terrys Gibson knew that these two people were exaggerating, they were both with personal emotions, they kept nodding.

While nodding, Teres Gibson also said, "I have worked with Murphy and have seen how great a director and producer he is. Vin Diesel is really not worth mentioning in front of him."

"Fast and Furious 6" fell sharply on the weekend's box office. Faced with the behemoth of "Dark City", other films released at the same time are not much better. Except for these two films, no film has a North American box office of more than 10 million US dollars, and the market is basically dominated by "Dark City".

Not only North America, but on Monday night, Murphy also received a rough box office report from overseas regions that were released at the same time. The situation was just like North America, and it was also very good.

In the sparsely populated Australia, "Dark City" has a surprising box office of nearly $15 million in one week; as the most important film market in Latin America, Brazil was easily captured by "Dark City" and earned more than $13 million in four days of release; Mexico, not far from Los Angeles, is completely Hollywood's back garden, "Dark City" won the box office championship that week, scoring $19.5 million!

As the dumping place of Hollywood movies, the European film market has completely fallen. All countries where "Dark City" are released are the box office champions of the week without exception!

In the first week of its release, France contributed $21.4 million, Germany received $14.2 million, Spain received $13.5 million, Italy exceeded $11 million...

In the UK, it even made its debut after "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" with a box office revenue of US$31 million!

The commercial box office revenue of "Dark City" has been a great victory worldwide!

With just one weekend of release, the total overseas box office revenue of this film has reached 412 million US dollars. Together with the record first weekend box office in North America, the global box office of "Dark City" has reached more than 630 million US dollars!

This is a box office figure that 99% of Hollywood movies, even movies around the world, cannot be obtained during a complete theater screening period.

At the same time, various peripheral products in the film were also sold. Just Chris Dane's Mercedes-Benz concept motorcycle, sold nearly 10,000 units in North America in just three days after it was launched!

Murphy also received a rough sales report on peripheral products, various film-related products. After the first week of release, sales in North America easily exceeded more than $100 million.

Not only that, the studio jointly established by Twentieth Century Fox and Stanton Studios are also conducting relevant authorization negotiations with multiple manufacturers. Just the toy doll authorization, Mattel, Lego and Hasbro are competing for extremely fiercely. The quotation of copyright fees for ten years has reached US$30 million!

There are more negotiations waiting for Twentieth Century Fox and Stanton Studios.

On the other hand, Murphy and Cara Fais have always maintained close contact, paying close attention to and participating in the post-screening promotional and marketing work of "Dark City".

Since he is in his current position, Murphy will of course have more ideas.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, he is a genius and a rare genius director in Hollywood, but Murphy is very clear that he must make his fame and grades more reliable in the remaining time, so that the future path will be better!

For a film director who prefers commercialism, the most intuitive thing is the box office.

He is not a box office theory, and he also knows the serious consequences of box office theory, but he is more clear that since he directs and produces movies facing the market and audience, rather than entertaining and enjoying himself, throwing the box office aside without talking about it, there must be something wrong with his head.

Since the first day of box office was released, Murphy's goal has been to target a real master James Cameron!

"Dark City" has both reputation and box office hits, and he really wants to give it a try. Can he challenge James Cameron's two commercial masterpieces, especially the relatively easy "Titanic".

Even though this is very difficult, after all, "Dark City" does not have a 3D version, and it does not have as advantage as "Avatar" in terms of ticket prices.

“No 3d…”

On the plane to Seattle, James Franko looked at Murphy and said, "But we have imax."

"There are not enough imax theaters." Murphy spread his hands, "There are only 200 stores in North America, how can it compare to 3D?"

"Who can you blame?" James Franco said mercilessly, "Don't forget, Murphy, you don't use 3D technology!"
Chapter completed!