hollywood melon man

Chapter 535: Over Million Worldwide

"check it out……"

"What is this?" Tom Cruise took the script and invited Gilbert Jr. and Ivanka to sit in the living room. After the servant served coffee, he also took a rough look at the script.

"Don't mention it. I really like the role of Joel. I'm a father now and 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’ll have to help me get it. The audition requires cooperation.

I want to see who is the little actor who can stand up to the superstar Tom without showing any fear. "

Tom Cruise laughed and said, "I'm curious too..."

"Then, the scripts are left to you. Remember to keep it secret and don't let Mary steal it." Little Gilbert made a joke.

Tom Cruise laughed: "Don't worry, it won't happen."

The project has been finalized, and Gilbert Jr. still has other things to do, so he probably won’t have any vacation time this summer.

In fact, it's not just Ellie. Sarah, a character with few scenes, also requires some thought.

The rest of the roles are easy to decide. After all, there are so many actors and you can always find the right one.

The Last of Us is another new attempt by Gilbert Jr. after The Last of Us, which was a Hong Kong film adapted into a Hollywood film with good results.

"The Last of Us" was adapted from a game into a movie, but there have been examples of this before, and the adaptation of "Tomb Raider" was considered a successful one.

The "Mystery of the Talisman" series starring Cheng Long incorporates some of the style of "Uncharted".

Although the game of "The Last of Us" has not been released yet, it does not prevent Gilbert from adapting it.

Of course, now it has to be called an original script.

Precisely because it was an original script, Gilbert Jr. chose Tom Cruise to play the leading role. There are really not many people in Hollywood who can single-handedly lead an original movie with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

As time passed the second weekend of "Beat the Boys", the film once again took in $3352.9 million at the box office, unsurprisingly winning the weekly box office championship for two consecutive times.

The film's North American box office also reached 1 million US dollars. For the Batman IP that died once, this box office can even be said to be quite outstanding.

After two weeks of outstanding performance, Warner Bros. 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 Bros. adopted Gilbert Jr.'s suggestion and held an overseas premiere at the London Coliseum in the UK.

Director Gilbert Jr. and starring actors including Christian Bale, Jennifer Connelly, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman and others attended the London premiere.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing about the premiere was that several main stars of this year's Champions League champion Arsenal attended the premiere.

When fans saw stars like Vieira, Henry, Fabregas, Van Persie and others on the red carpet, one can imagine how surprised they were.

This is also the effect that Gilbert Jr. wants to create, football can also be linked to movies.

Perhaps with the support of the stars, "Batman Begins" earned 1 million US dollars in the first week of its large-scale overseas release.

Combined with the $2894.4 million it earned in North America this week, the box office for "Batman Begins" this week reached $1 million.

Combined with the previous accumulated box office in North America, the film's global box office has reached 3 million US dollars, surpassing "Batman & Robin"'s 1105.1 million US dollars.

Of course, this is not the end. The film has just begun to be released overseas on a large scale and will still earn a lot of box office revenue later.

As for Kingdom of Heaven, it has been completely forgotten, and the overseas box office has not made any splash. The box office is not good, and it is unrealistic to expect to make a profit by selling the copyright. 20th Century Fox does not seem to care, but several Wall Street film funds are racking their brains and being cheated by Hollywood again.

It’s amazing that Wall Street’s film funds are cheated by Hollywood every year, but they still invest every year and never get tired of copyright.

Back to Kingdom of Heaven, the poor box office performance directly affected its ability to recover its costs. In short, it failed to recover its investment.

In this day and age, box office revenue accounts for a small portion of film revenue.

But why do movie companies still value box office so much? It's simple. Box office represents the commercial value of the film. If your movie's box office is low, it means the commercial value of the movie is low.

In that case, how can peripheral products, copyrights and other things be sold at high prices?

George Lucas once told senior executives of 20th Century Fox that the "Star Wars" movies were advertisements for peripheral products.

But in reality, 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 make a profit from the copyright, as the global box office has not even exceeded 100 million US dollars!

A reporter interviewed Ridley Scott and asked him what he thought about the failure of Kingdom of Heaven.

Ridley Scott angrily criticized the top executives of 20th Century Fox: "A group of people who don't understand movies have completely ruined my movie. Kingdom of Heaven should have been better."

It is said that the senior executives of 20th Century Fox were very unhappy when they heard this. They said that it was unreasonable for you, the director, to blame us for messing up the movie.

The two sides then engaged in a war of words, but after the project "Kingdom of Heaven", the film company's trust in Ridley Scott decreased again.

The next film may have even less autonomy than "Kingdom of Heaven".

This week, "Batman Begins", which had been arrogant for two weeks, finally took the box office champion throne next week, while "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie was released.

With the support of two super popular stars, the film grossed 5034.2 million US dollars in its first weekend, which is a very good result.

The film is pretty good, the action scenes are exciting, and the setting of the spy couple is also very interesting. With the handsome Brad Pitt and the beautiful and sexy Angelina Jolie, it has attracted many fans.

However, the gossip about this film is what the public enjoys hearing.

The gossip website revealed that there were actually a lot of sports scenes between two people in the film, but they had to be cut in order to get a PG-13 rating.

Now the San Fernando Valley has found a new job, it can go to shoot a sports version of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". Besides, the porn stars in the San Fernando Valley are no worse than Angelina Jolie, and even more exciting.

This is not the most explosive news on the gossip websites. A crew member who did not want to be named said that the passionate scenes in the film were real.

Sometimes when the two leading actors are in the mood, the entire crew has to wait until they finish before they can shoot other shots.

Such gossip arouses people's endless reverie, and then they will go to the cinema out of curiosity. It has to be said that this is also a means of hype.

That’s not all. Before the film was released, Angelina Jolie had a quarrel with Brad Pitt’s ex-wife Jennifer Aniston.

Needless to say, it’s naturally because of men.

The purpose of the quarrel is that Jennifer Aniston needs popularity, while Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt need to attract traffic to the movie.

The two sides hit it off and it was a win-win situation.

This unconventional way of promotion is quite effective, but it should not be used too often, otherwise it will easily cause resentment.

(End of this chapter)