Chapter 535: Over 300 million worldwide
"Look at this..."
"What is this?" Tom Cruise took over the script and invited Gilbert and Ivanka to sit down in the living room. After the servants served coffee, he briefly read the script.
"Don't tell me, I like the role of Joel very much. Now that I am a father, I can understand that feeling. But the role of Ellie will probably take a lot of effort."
"Yes," little Gilbert put down the coffee in his hand and said, "I'm afraid you have to help me get it. I need to cooperate with the audition.
I want to see who the young actor can be without showing shyness in front of the superstar Tom. "
Tom Cruise smiled and said: "I'm also curious..."
"Those, I'll leave the script to you. Remember to keep it secret, and don't let Mary steal it." Little Gilbert joked.
Tom Cruise laughed: "Don't worry, it won't happen."
The project was finalized in this way. Little Gilbert still has things to be busy with, and it is estimated that he will have no vacation time this summer.
In fact, not only Ellie, but Sarah, a character who doesn't have many roles, also needs a lot of thinking.
The rest of the roles are easy to decide, after all, there are so many actors, you can always find the right one.
The movie "The Last of Us" can be regarded as another brand-new attempt by Gilbert Little after "The Last of Us". "Wushuang" is a Hong Kong film transformed into a Hollywood film, and the effect is good.
"The Last of Us" was adapted from a game into a movie, but there have been examples before, and the adaptation of "Tomb Raider" was considered a success.
The "Mystery of the Talisman" series starring Cheng Long incorporates some of the "Uncharted" style.
Although the game of "The Last of Us" has not yet been released, it does not prevent Little Gilbert from adapting it.
Of course, now it has to be called an original script.
It was precisely because it was an original script that Gilbert Jr. chose Tom Cruise to star. There are really few people in Hollywood who can single-handedly star in an original movie with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Time passed by the second weekend of "Beginners", and the film once again took in a box office of 33.529 million US dollars that weekend, achieving two consecutive weekly box office wins without any suspense.
The North American box office of the film also reached 139.904 million US dollars. For a Batman IP that has died once, this box office can even be said to be quite outstanding.
After two weeks of outstanding performance, Warner Pictures no longer hesitated and immediately invested more resources in overseas markets. The film will be released on a large scale around the world next weekend.
In order to build momentum for the overseas release, Warner Pictures adopted Gilbert Jr.'s suggestion and held an overseas premiere at the Grand Theater in London, England.
Director Gilbert Jr., Christian Bale, Jennifer Connelly, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman and other starring actors all attended the London premiere.
Of course, the most eye-catching thing about the premiere was that several of the main stars of this year’s Champions League champion Arsenal attended the premiere.
When fans saw Vieira, Henry, Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie and other stars on the red carpet, you can imagine the feeling of surprise.
This is also the effect that little Gilbert wants to create. Football can also be linked to movies.
Perhaps with the support of the stars, "Batman Begins" earned a box office of US$142.203 million in its first week of large-scale overseas release.
Including the US$28.944 million received in North America this week, the box office of "Beginners" this week reached US$171.147 million.
Coupled with the previous accumulated box office in North America, the film's global box office has reached US$311.051 million, already surpassing the US$252.068 million of "Batman and Robin".
Of course, this is not the end. The film has just begun to be released on a large scale overseas, and it can also grab a lot of box office in the future.
As for "Kingdom of Heaven", it has been completely forgotten, and it has failed to make a splash at the overseas box office. The box office is not strong, and it is unrealistic to expect to sell the copyright to repay the money. Twentieth Century Fox doesn't seem to care. On the contrary, several Wall Street film funds are brain-burning and have been tricked by Hollywood again.
It’s amazing to say that Wall Street’s film funds are cheated by Hollywood every year, but they invest every year, and copyrights never tire of it.
Talking back to "Kingdom of Heaven", poor box office performance directly affected its cost recovery. To put it simply, we just can’t get back our money.
In this day and age, box office revenue already accounts for a small part of movie revenue.
But why film companies still value box office so much? It’s simple. Box office represents the commercial value of the film. If your movie has low box office, it means the movie has low commercial value.
In this way, how can peripheral products, copyrights and other things be sold at high prices?
George Lucas once told executives at Twentieth Century Fox that the "Star Wars" movies are advertisements for peripheral products.
But in fact, most movies are actually advertisements, and the box office represents the popularity and commercial potential of the movie.
Therefore, it is basically impossible for "Kingdom of Heaven" to realize its return on copyright, and the global box office has not exceeded 100 million US dollars!
A reporter interviewed Ridley Scott and asked him what he thought of the failure of "Kingdom of Heaven."
Ridley Scott angrily criticized 20th Century Fox executives: "A group of people who don't understand movies completely ruined my movie. "Kingdom" should have been better."
It is said that the executives of 20th Century Fox were very unhappy when they heard this. It is unreasonable for your director to mess up the movie because of us.
As a result, the two parties fell into a war of words, but after Ridley Scott passed the "Kingdom of Heaven" project, the film company's trust in him was reduced again.
The next movie may have even less autonomy than this one.
And this week, "Beginner", which has been arrogant for two weeks, finally takes the top spot at the box office next week, and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is released.
With the support of two super popular stars, the movie made a box office of US$50.342 million in its first weekend, which is a pretty good result.
The movie looks good, the action scenes are exciting, and the setting of the spy couple is also very interesting. Together with the handsome Brad Pitt and the beautiful and sexy Angelina Jolie, they attracted many movie fans.
But the tidbits about this film are what the public is happy to hear.
Gossip websites broke the news that there were actually a lot of scenes of two people exercising in the film, but they had to be deleted in order to get a PG-13 rating.
Now the San Fernando Valley has found a new job, filming a sports version of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." Moreover, the porn stars in the San Fernando Valley are no worse than Angelina Jolie, or even more exciting.
This is not the most explosive thing on gossip websites. A crew member who did not want to be named said that the passionate scenes in it are all real.
Sometimes the two leading actors get excited, and the entire crew has to wait until they are finished before shooting other scenes.
Such tidbits arouse people's imagination, and then they will go to the cinema out of curiosity. It has to be said that this is also a means of hype.
Before the film was released, Angelina Jolie had a falling out with Brad Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston.
Needless to say, it is naturally because of men.
As for the purpose of the quarrel, Jennifer Aniston needs to be popular, while Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt need to attract traffic to the movie.
It can be said that the two parties hit it off immediately and it was a win-win situation.
This kind of off-beat propaganda method is quite effective, but it should not be used too much, otherwise it will easily arouse resentment.
(End of chapter)