Hollywood Road

"Everyone, I think everyone has got the news. In a day yesterday, Friday, the Hollywood movie "Dark City" that used the most IMAX lenses so far took 100 million 260 million from the North American market in more than 4,600 theaters. Ten thousand U.S. dollars!"

Putting down the documents in his hands, Richard Gelfond, the head of IMX's Los Angeles branch, stood up, as if he wanted to strengthen his tone in this way, "This is the latest North American single-day box office record, and there are also Credit to IMAX Corporation.”

All eyes in the conference room were on Richard Gelfond.

After clearing his throat, Richard Gelfond said, "North American Proximity Pictures contributed $16.88 million of it! And the average attendance rate of all IMAX theaters exceeded 95%!"

As soon as these words fell, there was a wave of applause in the conference room.

Looking at the excited subordinates, Richard Gelfond also felt a little emotional. This move was obviously right. The other party tossed the IMAX camera like that back then, and installed it on a high-speed car. He was not without doubts, after all The number of such cameras in the entire IAMX company can be counted on one hand. If there is any damage, it is difficult for him to explain to the head office.

Now it seems that there was no objection at the beginning, but choosing to support Murphy Stanton, you did the right thing!

The applause gradually extinguished, and with a slight cough, Richard Gelfond sat down again and said, "From now on, we will fully cooperate with Twentieth Century Fox's publicity work. The head office has already called me to inform me that IMAX The company will invest as much resources as possible in "Dark City", and all IMAX theaters in North America will join the ranks of showing "Dark City", and the number of theaters showing "Dark City" throughout the day will also increase from 80 The number of homes has increased to 140!"

After urging a few more specific work matters, Richard Gelfond announced the end of the meeting, returned to his office, looked at the poster of "Dark City" hanging on the wall, and gradually had other thoughts in his heart.

Murphy Stanton seems to be a somewhat old-school director, completely different from technical directors like James Cameron and Robert Zemeckis. In fact, his understanding and application of new film technology is no better than these A technical director is poor, and he even feels that Murphy Stanton has a technical soul hidden in his bones!

The fact is obvious that Murphy Stanton can infinitely magnify the advantages of IMAX technology in his own films. No matter what, he must promote IMAX to continue to cooperate with Murphy Stanton and Stanton Studio.

Thinking of this, Richard Gelfond picked up the phone, dialed Murphy Stanton's number, waited for an assistant to transfer the phone to the other party, smiled and said a few words of congratulations.

As long as the other party is willing to continue to cooperate with IMAX, let alone a few words of congratulations, Richard Gelfond is willing to be his driver for a period of time.

Although after a one-day screening on Friday, the attendance rate of "Dark City" generally dropped on Saturday. By the afternoon, there were basically no queues in front of ordinary 2D theaters, but IMAX theaters were different, and the attendance rate remained high. It is still high, and there is a slight increase from Friday. After two days of word-of-mouth fermentation, the shocking effect of the IMAX screening has been widely circulated among movie fans. Still unable to meet the needs of movie fans, IMAX tickets are hard to come by.

Because of his busy work, Alex Clement didn't go to see the advance show, and he didn't pay enough attention to IMAX. He just watched the ordinary 2D version on Friday and heard the description of IMAX from his colleagues and friends. Regret for making the wrong choice.

On Saturday afternoon, Alex Clement sat at the computer desk, refreshing various movie ticketing websites over and over again, but all the websites were mercilessly reminding him that the IMAX version of "Dark City" was unavailable today. ticket,

There are no tickets for tomorrow!

"How could this be?" Alex Clement patted his forehead hard, "I really have a pig's head!"

Turning off all booking websites, Alex Clement opened Google and searched, took out his mobile phone and called IMAX's booking number.

"I want to ask, when will the tickets for "Dark City" in the Los Angeles area be available?"

"Sorry, sir."

A nice female voice rang through the phone, but what she said was something Alex Clement didn't want to hear, "The Los Angeles area is temporarily short of tickets, and it will have to wait until next Monday at the earliest."

"Next Mon?"

Frowning, Alex Clement was a little distressed. Next Monday is a working day, and he still has to go to work. After thinking about it, he said, "Excuse me, if I increase the fare, can I get an extra seat ticket? "

He has heard from his friends before that the IMAX theaters in the Los Angeles area are extremely popular. In order to maximize their profits and appease the fans who can't buy tickets for "Dark City" and refuse to leave, some IMAX theaters are in the theater. Some chairs were placed on the empty seats in the front row, and extra seat tickets were sold to fans.

Although these locations are not particularly good, they are still very marketable under the temptation of the IMAX version of "Dark City".

"Sorry, there are no tickets for now." The nice female voice rang through the receiver again, "Additional tickets will have to wait until Monday at the earliest!"

Hearing this, Alex Clement had no choice but to decide whether to book tickets for Monday's IMAX version of the movie, so he had to say thank you, and then hung up the phone.

Unable to book IMAX tickets for today or tomorrow, and having nothing to do for the time being, Alex Clement stopped thinking about it, and simply opened the Google webpage, searched and looked for news about "Dark City".

Among them, a report about IMXA attracted his attention.

The protagonist of the report is the chairman of the board of directors of IMAX Corporation. He talked about the lack of tickets for "The Dark Knight" recently, "Not only are there no tickets for Saturday, but there are also no tickets for tomorrow and Sunday. Even the IMAX tickets for next Monday and next Tuesday are nearly 90% sold. We try to expand the scope of screenings as much as possible, but the fans are too enthusiastic. There has never been a film like "Dark City". Great appeal.

"

Seeing this, Alex Clement immediately realized that it was not good. "Dark City" even sold out the IMAX movie tickets for next Tuesday and next Wednesday? If you wait by yourself, you don't know when you will wait.

He turned off the computer webpage, thought for a while, gritted his teeth, and made a decision.

Alex Clement picked up the phone, dialed a number again, waited for the other end to connect, put on a smile, and said, "Director, it's me, Alex, that... There is something I want to ask you in advance."

Hearing the voice of "Let's talk" on the other end of the phone, Alex Clement said, "On Monday, my father and mother came to visit me from Louisiana, and I would like to take a day off to go to the airport. Pick them up."

The computer seemed to ponder for a while, but finally agreed, "Yes."

Alex Clement was overjoyed, but controlled his emotions, and said, "Thank you, Director."

The other end said 'um', then hung up the phone, Alex Clement also put down the phone, clenched his fists and shouted, "YSE!"

After shouting, he picked up the phone again, dialed the booking number of the IMAX company, and booked the movie ticket for the IMAX version of "Dark City" on the earliest Monday!

"Murphy is not human at all!" Alex Clement sat on the computer chair contentedly and said, "He is a god!"

Alex Clement is not the only one who has such an idea. Many Murphy fans agree with similar views. On IMDB, Daisy’s short comment on the second day on Friday afternoon was highly praised by countless people. In the comment section of "City of Darkness", it became the most favorable comment among movie fans.

""Dark City" is a nerve-wracking masterpiece. Murphy also used this film to officially announce that he has left the ranks of earth directors and has become one of the gods! James also announced his separation from the ranks of mortals. - Franco and Margot Robbie, their performances are divine!"

In just over a day, this short comment received tens of thousands of likes!

In a detached house in Los Angeles, Daisy glanced at the 9.7 IMDB score of "Dark City", turned off the computer, walked out of the study, and came to her dressing room, looking at herself through the huge mirror, Especially that shiny blond hair that is smooth and straight.

Since she became an adult at the age of eighteen, she has lived alone in Los Angeles. From her deceased grandfather, she inherited this house with thousands of square feet and a large amount of property. Although she worked in the middle, it did not last long. After all, the money in her hand Enough to keep her at ease, and she's paid off a lot in recent years as the head of Murphy-Stanton's IMDB discussion group.

Daisy has enough financial foundation to do what she wants to do and realize some messy ideas.

But she just thought about more thoughts, which had never become a reality before, until the magician appeared, and the magician seemed to enlighten her, making her understand that being a bad person can still be so charming and frightening.

If there is anything in this world besides Murphy Stanton's movies that can fascinate her, it is this ultimate evil!

"Magician, magician..."

Daisy changed into the magician's dress she bought. Although it was a movie accessory, it was well-made. "Why is there no magician in this world!"

This is what makes her feel most regretful. Magicians only exist in Murphy's movies, in Murphy's creations, and in Murphy's imagination. After all, they are not people in the real world.

"Since there is no magician in the world, why can't a real magician be created?"

Thinking of this, Daisy picked up a pair of sharp scissors from the dressing table, slowly lifted them, and placed them on her neck.