During the working days of this week, the box office trend of "Dark City" was very stable. In a day on Thursday, another $21.56 million was taken from North America, and the cumulative box office in North America reached $340.24 million, which is about to exceed $350 million.

Anyone who knows something about this industry knows that with the arrival of a new weekend, the North American box office of "Dark City" will inevitably cross the 400 million US dollars mark.

Compared with "Dark City", Vin Diesel's "Fast and Furious 6"'s box office in North America has been declining, and only earned less than $6 million in four working days. Many Hollywood industry forecast agencies have confirmed that the final North American box office of this film will not exceed $180 million.

The new weekend is here, and every weekend in the North American summer season is a festival for movie fans.

Since schools in North America have not had summer vacation yet, Friday is also a weekday. During the day, the attendance rate of cinemas in North America has only increased slightly compared to the previous four working days, and has not increased significantly. However, as night falls, a large number of people who get off work and get off school squeezed into the cinemas. They don’t have to go to school tomorrow, and they can watch their favorite movies at will.

In a theater on Long Island, New York, Fernandez, who is the night shift manager, had just handed over the shift with his colleagues. When he arrived at the ticket counter, a large number of fans rushed into the theater. A considerable number of people came to queue up in front of several ticket counters. Since the shift handover of employees was not over yet, there were only two ticket windows open at this time, resulting in two long queues immediately lined up in the theater lobby.

Fernandez looked at the time and came to a ticket window that was not open. He took away the signs that were not available for the time being. The two long lines and many customers who entered the theater one after another rushed to his side like a tide, forming a long line.

A girl who looks only sixteen or seventeen years old at most is ranked first. A boy is standing behind her. Judging from the intimate appearance of the two, they should be a couple.

After working in the cinema for a long time and dealing with all kinds of people, Fernandez believes that he is very good at seeing people.

"Hello..." Fernandez asked with a professional smile on his face, "Is there anything that can help you?"

The young girl handed over a hundred dollar bill and said, "I want two movie tickets."

"Which movie?" Fernandez asked patiently.

""Dark City"!" The girl didn't even think about it, "Two pictures of "Dark City"!"

Fernandez clicked on the ticket machine, and two movie tickets for "Dark City" were quickly printed. At the same time, he took the girl's US dollar bill and skillfully completed the change job.

The girl took the change and movie tickets, pulled her boyfriend, and left happily.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses came from behind and said to Fernandez directly, "I want a ticket to the movie "Dark City"!"

Just as Fernandez was waiting for the ticket machine to issue tickets, he heard the man muttering there, "I watched it once last week and again this week. I have to watch such a good movie twice."

Send the middle-aged man wearing glasses away, and a brown-haired boy behind him walked to the counter and said in the simplest way, ""Dark City", five tickets, thank you!"

Fernandez was skilled in business and soon sold several tickets for "Dark City".

"Murphy Stanton's film has been on the second week of the screening." He muttered himself, "There are so many people buying tickets. It seems that the box office this weekend is not bad."

"Hello……"

At this time, a woman in her thirties came over and said, "I want two pictures of "Awesome..."

Before she finished speaking, a man behind her said frowningly, "Dear, let's watch "Dark City".

Fernandez did not issue the ticket immediately. He has seen too many such disagreements in the past.

"What's good about that dark movie?"

It is obvious that this woman is the dominant one among the two, "Leonardo DiCaprio is my male god!"

She ignored the objections of the man behind her and said to Fernandez again, "I want two tickets to the "Awesome Gatsby" movie!"

Hearing this, Fernandez immediately issued the ticket. After all, there were still many people queuing up behind the two, so he didn't have time to let these two people waste here.

Later, someone came to buy tickets for the movie "The Great Gatsby", and these people were basically women in their thirties and older audiences.

As the duty manager of the operations department, Fernandez quickly figured out what was going on. Women in their thirties should be fans of Leonardo DiCaprio. This age group has been forward for fifteen or sixteen years. They were in their girls' age. At that time, "Titanic" was popular all over the world. Leonardo DiCaprio fascinated thousands of girls with the role of Jack Dawson.

As for the older audience, they should be based on the name "The Great Gatsby". He can't remember how many times it was remade in this film, but there are always three or four times. Some older fans must have deep feelings for this adaptation. Come and take a look at the latest remake and find the feelings of the year.

However, compared to "Dark City" who are both male and female, with the main audience of people aged 16 to 50, "The Great Gatsby" is obviously much more niche.

Of course, Fernandez also knows that as Hollywood superstar, Leonardo DiCaprio's appeal cannot be ignored.

After working for half an hour at the counter, Fernandez secretly observed that the audience who watched "The Great Gatsby" was mainly Leonardo DiCaprio's fans, but the ticket sales of this film can only be said to be relatively average.

He didn't know the vending machine that the counter where he worked sold about 12 tickets for "The Great Gatsby" in half an hour. Such data is actually not bad, but the good or bad are often compared. In the same time, "Dark City" sold 55 tickets!

Fernandez didn't think much about it, because the popularity of the two films was obvious at a glance.

An employee came over, and Fernandez handed the window over to him, then went to the product sales department to take a look. Seeing that everything was normal, he went back to his duty office. As soon as he pulled open the chair and sat down, someone knocked on the door and walked in.

The one who came in was a cinema investigator, who came here every weekend, so Fernandez was very familiar with him and asked, "Strange, is your work efficiency very high today?"

“Not every film has as many horrifying audiences as the first weekend of Dark City.”

An investigator named Strange received a glass of water from the water dispenser, sat down opposite Fernandez, and said, "There are only twenty viewers of the "Great Gatsby" that just ended. According to the company's five to ten percent sampling survey regulations, it's enough for me to ask the two people what they think."

Speaking of this, Strange couldn't help but complain, "Like last week, it's crazy to ask more than ten viewers in a game! I'm only one! Why stop so many people at the same time? That damn movie, damn Murphy Stanton! Almost drive us theater investigators crazy!"

Fernandez comforted, "Fortunately he only made one movie a year!"

"Hmm! Yes!" Strange nodded hurriedly, as if he had survived the disaster. "If his movie was released twice a year, I would definitely quit. This job is really not something that humans do!"

Fernandez saw it clearly that Strange still complained about the overload of work last weekend.

"By the way, Strange." He changed the subject in time, "How is the reputation of "The Great Gatsby"? As for your field survey sample today."

Strange shook his head, "It's normal. I feel that Leonardo DiCaprio will drop sharply after consuming his fans and fans of the previous remakes."

"Can you tell me in detail?" Fernandez asked, "the specific rating."

"According to my statistics," Strange thought for a while and said, "The live comprehensive score of "The Great Gatsby" is at most b+. This is today. If it is three days on the weekend, it may slip to b."

Fernandez nodded, "The audience's reputation is average."

"It's just very ordinary." Strange shook his head again, "In front of "Dark City", there is not much competitiveness at all, and the film has too few promotional points except Leonardo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire."

"Didn't that heroine say it was Murphy Stanton's first love girlfriend?" Fernandez also paid attention to some gossip.

"How many years ago did it happen? How many people will pay attention?" Strange looked like an expert style. "How can his ex-girlfriend be as good as his current girlfriend? After Carey Mulligan broke the news himself, Gal Gadot announced in London that "Dark City" will participate in the Oscar competition, quickly pulling away the attention of the media and movie fans."

Fernandez asked curiously, "This Israeli woman is said to be very powerful and has great means."

"You think..." Strange asked back, "Can you see Murphy Stanton so reliable without certain means?"

Friday's day is fleeting. In today's highly intelligent and networked era, whether it is the ticket sales situation of theaters or the word-of-mouth comments of audiences, they will be counted as soon as possible and then passed to the hands of relevant people or companies.
Chapter completed!