In the eyes of the audience you like, "Watchman" is definitely not inferior to "The Dark Knight".

In terms of popular nature, the former is far inferior to the latter.

"Watchman" is the most stylish one of all superhero comics. The films shot look tall and elegant from content to theme, not as vulgar as ordinary superhero movies.

Even the depth of the theme is greater than that of Christopher Nolan's two "Batman".

But there is a fact recognized by the entire film industry that cannot be ignored. Once the film becomes taller, it will face a situation where there are too many songs.

Especially superhero movies with a strong commercial flavor.

The opening performance of "Watchmaker" was good, above Warner Bros.'s expectations, but the decline the following weekend was beyond Warner Bros.'s expectations.

The decline of nearly 70% is thrilling.

The box office of $17.81 million the following weekend was also announced that there would be no miracle after "Watchmen". There was no chance of the box office in North America exceeding $200 million. Even if it exceeded $150 million, it would be a low-probability event.

The production cost of the film alone is as high as US$130 million.

Faced with such a situation, the Warner Brothers' bosses couldn't help but discuss Zach Schneider again.

"As for the current situation, there is no possibility of "Watchman" recovering costs through the box office." Diego Harris, executive president of DC Comics, said: "Strictly speaking, this video is not a success. Regarding director Zach Schneider, we..."

Zach Schneider is the candidate recommended by Charles Rowan. The most experienced and successful producer of Warner Bros. said: "But "Watchmen has not failed either! In addition to the online box office, there are markets such as DVDs. In terms of reputation of the film, profitability is not difficult."

He glanced at Kevin Teshura and said, "Look at the various reputation statistics of "Watchman". Imdb has a 8.2 rating, and the media's comprehensive evaluation is extremely high. The critics' evaluation is positive. Roger Albert even said that this is the best science fiction movie he has ever seen."

Diego Harris' doubts were not dispelled: "The reputation of many movies does not have an inevitable connection with the market."

Charles Rowan spoke again: "It's a small number of movies! Art films with good reputation may have bad box office, and they will also gain offline chats. From the release and even the project is established, they are destined to be a loss of money. However, commercial films with good reputation may have poor box office, even if the box office is not good, they will succeed offline."

He knew who could really make the decision, and said to Kevin Teshura: "The Watcher was also affected by objective factors. Because of the copyright dispute of 20th Century Fox, we have turned a lot of publicity and marketing based on the release in early March into a bubble. The negative impact of postponing the release is objective."

Diego Harris cannot deny this, and it was also expected that Warner Bros. and DC Comics were before the release of "Watchmen".

Changing the release schedule of a movie, especially before it is about to be released, is a taboo in the release of the movie.

Kevin Tesuhara couldn't help frowning when she heard the name of 20th Century Fox. Combined with News Group's acquisition of the entire Warner rush, she felt that the Murdoch family was a group of bad people.

Originally, he was a faction in Time Warner that firmly resisted the acquisition of News Corp. Now that the "Watchmaker" is released, he not only has no favoritism for the Murdoch family and its affiliated News Corp and Twentieth Century Fox, but also has a strong sense of disgust.

"Charles makes sense." Kevin Tessulhara still favors Zach Schneider: "The positive reviews of "Watchmen" far outweigh the negative, and the image style is similar to "The Dark Knight". Zach Schneider is still our first choice when Christopher Nolan refuses to work with us."

Diego Harris said: "But the box office trend of "Watchmen"..."

Kevin Tessulhara asked: "Diego, "The Dark Knight" has more than $1 billion in the world's box office. Is there any superhero movie that has achieved this in the past?"

"Only "The Dark Knight." Diego Harris said from the heart when he thought of the success of the movie: "This is a great success. The future Justice League movie universe, as well as the entire DC comic adaptation movie, should indeed follow this pattern and style."

Kevin Tessulhara said: "Isn't your doubts resolved? As far as Hollywood is concerned, which director has this style besides Christopher Nolan and Zach Schneider?"

Diego Harris finally nodded. It is indeed too early to talk about the success or failure of "Watchmen". Moreover, the comic itself has a problem of high music and low music. The movie has its current situation, and it is not the director's responsibility alone.

Moreover, in the filming and production of "Watchman", Zach Schneider also admired one thing very much. Zach Schneider respects the creation of DC comics very much and makes the movie adaptation conform to the original work as much as possible.

Just like before, when facing the director's choice, Warner Bros.'s management was deeply influenced by the success of "The Dark Knight". Even though "Watchmen"'s box office results were quite average, they still chose to trust Zach Schneider who insisted on the dark wind.

After the meeting, the people participating in the meeting left and went to work hard.

Kevin Tessulhara returned to the office and found out the settlement agreement reached between Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox on "The Watchman", which became less and less happy.

Twentieth Century Fox is clearly taking advantage of others' danger this time. "Watchman" has been preparing for filming, and has been widely promoted since last year. Even if there is a copyright dispute, why didn't you come to your house earlier? You have to wait until the film is about to be released in less than two months!

This is simply pushing "Watchmen" to the cliff, leaving Warner Bros. and DC Comics with no way out and can only accept the conditions of Twentieth Century Fox.

In the past, the 20th Century Fox was not the same style. Since James Murdoch came to Los Angeles from England and took over the 20th Century Fox himself, the company has begun to become aggressive.

Even Kevin Tesuhara had to admit that the 20th Century Fox had the right time to choose this time.

Warner Bros. suffered huge economic losses this time. Maybe someone on the board of directors will attack him and ask him to give an explanation.

Kevin Tesuhara pressed the caller and called the assistant.

"Let's keep an eye on the 20th Century Fox." Kevin Teshura is a descendant of an island country, with a vicious side of the island country: "The specific situation is every three days... no, it is summarized every two days and sent it in time."

The assistant understood what he meant and immediately said, "Yes! I'll allocate people now."

Beverly Hills, Century City, Fox Building.

James Murdoch looked at the latest weekend's box office news and said, "Jim, this time it's done well."

Jim Prous said modestly: "The main reason is that you choose is so good that you can give Warner Bros. strength and no time to use it."

"The Terminator belongs to the 20th Century Fox." James Murdoch has never been a person who swallowed it silently after suffering losses: "We had previously considered our cooperation with Warner Brothers, and based on the friendship between the two parties, we temporarily lent them. As a result, they not only did not accept the affection, but also bit us in turn."

Jim Prouss continued: "This is also my work negligence."

James Murdoch waved his hand: "It has nothing to do with you, it's Warner Bros. who violated the rules of the game."

Hearing the rules of the game, Jim Prous couldn't help but quietly glance at James Murdoch. It seemed that the person in front of him never took the rules of the game seriously and wanted to trample on various rules.

However, with News Corp and the Murdoch family here, this shouldn't be a big deal, right?

After all, Jim Prous is a Fox manager on the surface and does not know much about what James Murdoch does, otherwise he would not have such an idea.

James Murdoch said again: "Warner Bros., you should also keep an eye on the subsequent box office share of "Watchmen" and don't let them tamper with it."

Warner Bros. not only did he spit it out after eating the 20th Century Fox, but he also had to take an interest from Warner Bros.

Jim Prous said quickly: "I can do it. The one in the circle is fine to deal with outsiders. Twentieth Century Fox will not give Warner Bros a chance."

James Murdoch asked at this time: "Also, how are the distribution of summer movies arranged?"

"It's already arranged." Jim Prous briefly introduced: "Starting in May, 20th Century Fox will have new films released every month. May is "Robin Hood"..."

The 20th Century Fox no longer has much hope. In order to reduce losses and avoid the impact of the failure of previous epics, the schedule of "Robin Hood" was specially adjusted from last year's holiday to this year's summer holiday in order to use time to dilute the audience's memory.

James Murdoch asked: "Where is that disaster film, "Super Storm"?"

Jim Prous said: "In June, in order to avoid James Cameron's new film "Avatar", it was scheduled in mid-June."

"James Cameron." James Murdoch thought of his old rival Relativity Entertainment: "I remember that in the promotion of Relativity Entertainment, it is said that "Avatar" invested 500 million US dollars."

Jim Prous thought for a while and said, "This is for external publicity and stimulation. I'm not sure how much investment is yet to be clear."

James Murdoch nodded slightly and asked, "How many videos are there in the summer season of Relativity Entertainment?"

Jeep Prous recalled and said, "The beginning of the summer season is Iron Man 2, followed by "Avatar", "Fast and Furious 4", "Alice in Wonderland", and "Colov Archives", and there seems to be animated feature films..."
Chapter completed!