The film market is a place where the old and the new replace each other very quickly, and so-called evergreen films do not exist at all.
No matter which country's film market it is, there will always be a transition between the old and the new.
Newly released films always occupy the living space of already released films, showing their fangs to these "old predecessors".
This is especially true in Hollywood.
As the most competitive film market in the world, most of the time, as long as the quality and publicity of newly released films are good enough, they can easily defeat the already released films.
The success of "Titanic" winning the box office championship for 15 consecutive weeks, or "ET" winning the championship for 16 consecutive weeks, are not replicable.
That's the case with the new film The Dark Knight.
Although the painting style is too dark, there are also many criticisms in the media.
Many media outlets have called for the film to be reclassified back to R.
Some competitors also mobilized fans of the old version of Batman to protest against the Nolan version.
If Heath Ledger hadn't passed away, it would be difficult to make a fuss about a dead person.
Then there will definitely be a debate about the new version of the Joker versus the old version played by Jack Nicholson.
But the quality of the film is guaranteed, the publicity and promotion are also quite good, coupled with the powerful charm of the Joker.
As this weekend passes, The Dark Knight will automatically become the new winner.
With a box office of $158 million in its first weekend, the film became the new darling of the 2008 summer season.
Just as Nanaya expected, with the rise of "The Dark Knight", the box office of "Inferno", which had been relatively stable, took a sharp dive.
Um...
It seems that this cannot be said. After all, there was not much box office left for "Inferno".
Although it's a small number, at least there are still people watching.
Now, as soon as "The Dark Knight" was released, no one watched it.
But even so, the film still tops the annual rankings.
But "The Dark Knight" is definitely the strongest challenger to "Inferno" among all the movies this year.
At the same time, affected by "The Dark Knight", other summer movies have experienced significant declines to varying degrees.
Only animated films such as "Kung Fu Panda" and "Wall-E" still have relatively strong box office curves.
So far, the 2008 summer season is more than halfway through, and most of the summer blockbusters have already been released.
There are huge differences between these films in terms of box office and audience reputation.
Among them, "The Confused Detective" and the like are clearly at the bottom of the list.
Masterpieces like "Wall-E" have received numerous praises from audiences and critics.
But no matter how highly "Wall-E" is praised, it is still a little bit inferior to "The Dark Knight".
This gap mainly comes from the fan group.
The most obvious is on IMDB. Due to a large number of fans giving it full marks, the score of "The Dark Knight" has remained at 10 points.
This is nothing to worry about. Many movies will experience a brief period of slowness when they are first released.
But "The Dark Knight" is different. The fans that Mr. Wayne has accumulated over decades are not accumulated in vain.
Therefore, the awesome "The Dark Knight" has maintained its 10-point rating and remains standing.
At the same time, Nolan, as a director, also began to attract attention from fans, and titles such as "God Nolan" began to spread among fans.
This has caused dissatisfaction among some fans of classic old movies.
Especially fans of "The Godfather", their movies have always been ranked first on the website's list.
Who the hell is this "Dark Knight" that dares to bark in front of "The Godfather"? !
And Nolan, you shameless little thief, how dare you deify yourself in front of the great God Coppola?
So a silent war began.
Fans of "The Dark Knight" and fans of "The Godfather" began to use IMBD as a battlefield and launched a brutal fight.
Regarding this battle of cheating scores on IMDB, Shion also asked Nanaya about his attitude.
You should know that the current score of "Purgatory" on the website is as high as 8.96 points.
Of course, with the active participation of a huge network of internet trolls, this IMDB score is meaningless.
But Shion still felt that there seemed to be something to be done about this matter.
However, Nanaya was not interested in this matter at all.
Points and the like are just empty names. "Purgatory's Flames" has already earned enough fame and money.
There is no need to get involved in such troublesome matters.
Besides, The Dark Knight was already tumultuous enough on its own, and getting involved in such muddy waters would do Washimine no good at all.
However, no matter what troubles "The Dark Knight" will experience.
In the year 2008, Christopher Nolan, like Seven Nights, was destined to be a great success.
However, unlike Christopher Nolan, who embarked on a North American promotional tour to promote his film, Seven Nights began his work in the United States after the premiere of "The Dark Knight".
Nanaya's most important task during his visit to the United States this time is to attend the San Diego Comic-Con in July.
Attending the premiere of The Dark Knight should actually be considered a private matter.
This year's San Diego Comic-Con also kicked off in San Diego.
As an important publicity base for Hollywood, Washimine Entertainment will certainly not miss this event.
As the main force in Washimine Entertainment, Nanaya will certainly not miss this year's press conference.
At this year's comic convention, Washimine Entertainment still divided its booth into two sections: Type-Moon and Marvel.
On the opening day of the anime exhibition, Nanaya led all the current main actors of the Type-Moon Video Universe to appear in the Washimine Entertainment exhibition area.
The media reporting on the scene directly described this promotional event as "Holy Grail War Carnival, Masters and Servants gathered together".
In comparison, Marvel's side is a bit shabby.
Although "Iron Man", "Black Widow", "Hulk" and "Captain America" also appeared on the booth.
But the Avengers, who haven't even assembled the original six, did lack a bit of momentum.
This feeling is especially true when Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo are both considered half-Moon people.
But this does not affect the enthusiasm of fans. The number of visitors to the Marvel exhibition is not much less than that of the Type-Moon next door.
This shows that after two movies, Marvel has accumulated considerable popularity.
After all, Marvel is an old IP that has been popular in the United States since World War II.
Even though the comics industry has been increasingly sluggish in recent years, the influence of this IP has always existed.
As Marvel Studios began to get back on track, these heroes who had been sleeping in the memories of Americans' childhood began to reappear in front of the public.
The press conferences held by major companies at the San Diego Comic-Con are still the highlights of the convention every year.
However, because the first phase of the Type-Moon Film and Television Universe has just ended, the focus of this year's Washimine Entertainment press conference is obviously not on this.
But Type-Moon still gave a lot to the thousands of media and audiences at the scene.
But at the beginning of the press conference, the first thing to appear was neither Marvel nor Type-Moon, but some small projects that Washimine Entertainment had just launched recently.
Most of these movies are low-budget horror films and are not very eye-catching.
But as warm-up films, these movies still fulfilled their mission well.
At the same time, these movies can be regarded as a signal sent by Washimine to the outside world.
This shows that Washimine is actively expanding its strength and is no longer a film company that relies on just two series to conquer the world.
However, there is still one very interesting movie among them, that is "Superhero" directed by James Gunn and "The Vampire Diaries" directed by Taika Waititi.
Of course, today's movie fans don't know this future Marvel weirdo director duo, and have little interest in these two films.
However, Nanaya believes that the audience will like these two movies.
In Nanaya's memory, "Superhero" also won the Most Popular Actress Award at the San Diego Film Festival.
Obviously, this movie is very much to the taste of these otakus, although the actress who won the award was tragically shot in the head in the movie.
Following these small projects, the Marvel unit came on stage.
The opening scene is, of course, Marvel Studios' blockbuster film this year, "Captain America."
Marvel released a new trailer for the film and announced the release date of the film - November 7, 2008.
This was a very ordinary day, so ordinary that it didn't seem like the day a big-budget movie with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars should be released.
But if someone observes carefully, they will find that just three days before this movie was released, the 2008 US presidential election happened to end.
Apparently Marvel has decided to take advantage of Obama's popularity.
In order to cooperate with the publicity, Washimine Entertainment even found Comrade Obama himself, hoping that he could cooperate and help with publicity during the election.
Although the chances of winning are very high, Obama has not yet taken the position of commander-in-chief.
The other party naturally agreed to this kind of thing that could expand their influence.
Besides, the movie "Captain America", from the characters to the plot to the core of the story, is full of the flavor of America from beginning to end.
It can be said that it is complementary to Obama's own campaign charter.
As for whether O'Connor himself will become the American leader that everyone expects, that is none of Marvel's business.
Anyway, by the time the second Captain America movie comes out, the core content of the movie is to question the US government.
After all, the political hot topic at that time was no longer the new era of America, but the distrust of government regulation.
As the embodiment of the American spirit, Captain America naturally has to follow the footsteps of the American people and do what the people say.
Otherwise, how can Nanaya make money, right?