hollywood melon man

Chapter 737 Time is like running water

In fact, Scarlett alone can hold the box office, and there is a good movie called "Lucy". When the time comes, it can be made and directed by other directors.

But the movie that Gilbert Jr. prepared for Scarlett to compete for an Oscar was another movie.

But I hope that the Oscar judges will be able to ignore the fact that Scarlett Johansson starred in a superhero movie and give her this recognition.

But it shouldn’t be difficult to think about this, after all, Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor award for “Joker”.

Scarlett is not starring in a superhero movie yet, but if she does a good job in the park, it shouldn't be difficult for her to win the Best Actress trophy.

There were no very competitive films in March. "Street Fighter Legends: The Legend of Chun-Li", which was released in the same period as "Knives Out", had a box office of just over 1500 million US dollars in three weeks.

However, in the third week of "Knives Out", the film did not retain the weekly box office championship, but was defeated by the new film "Marriage Operation: Wedding".

"How's it going, little Gilbert? My new film is pretty good, isn't it?"

Anne Hathaway is very happy about "Wedding Wars", a low-budget romantic comedy she co-starred with Kate Hudson.

It grossed $2230 million in its first week, successfully defeating "Knives Out" and taking the weekly box office championship.

Little Gilbert satisfied Anne Hathaway: “Wow, our elf princess is so amazing that she can defeat the famous Little Gilbert.

It’s really not easy! "

"Cluck, cluck, cluck..." Anne Hathaway laughed like a hen.

“That’s right, of course the Elf Princess is powerful.

But our Hollywood directors also have to work hard and strive!"

"Hahaha, okay, okay."

A little joking around is harmless, but the headlines in the media are very interesting.

For example, The Hollywood Reporter used the headline "Little Gilbert Defeated by His Five Wives" to report that Wedding Wars ended Knives Out's three consecutive championships.

However, by the end of this week, Knives Out had grossed $1 million in North America and $4360 million worldwide.

For a film that cost $4000 million and whose publicity and promotion revenue did not exceed $1 million, this result is actually quite good.

I believe it is not difficult to make a profit through box office, and the key to profit from suspense films is the copyright market.

Although there are many video websites such as Xigua Video and Netflix nowadays, the DVD market is still the most important peripheral revenue for Hollywood movies.

But for fans of Gilbert Jr., this result is hardly satisfactory.

After all, The Dark Knight grossed $13 billion worldwide, making it the top box office hit in North America and around the world last year. Movie fans used this movie to fight against haters and won a great victory.

There is a saying among fans that maybe Gilbert Jr. doesn't need the North American and global box office champions, but movie fans do.

Because no matter how many box office champions Gilbert Jr. has, those stubborn haters still refuse to acknowledge his achievements. So movie fans need Gilbert Jr. to keep winning box office champions to slap the haters in the face.

In this respect, Gilbert Jr. is treated the same as Faker, the former League of Legends e-sports player.

No matter how many championships Faker wins, some idiots in LPL always have a way of talking. After the ancient champions came the custom champions, and after the custom champions came the industry champions.

Faker has his limits just like Gilbert, but the words of haters have no limits.

By the way, Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, has been acquired by Banana Company and has become one of its subsidiaries.

Little Gilbert is not a very enthusiastic gamer, but he is aware of the e-sports wave brought about by League of Legends, so he took the initiative.

It is April, and two new films, "Earth Dad" and "Monsters vs. Aliens", were released on April 4. However, these two films did not make much splash and basically did not cause any response.

On April 4, the movie "Dragon Ball: Evolution" adapted from the Japanese comic was released. The movie also had the participation of Hong Kong actor Yun Fat Chow, but he also had little presence.

In recent years, Hollywood has been so short of themes that it has to look to Japanese comics for inspiration, but most of the films produced are unsightly.

Kenneth Turan, who was once a well-known Gilbert hater but now changes track and becomes a Gilbert fan, strongly criticized him.

He believes that Hollywood does not lack originality, but that filmmakers are lazy.

Kenneth Turan also used Knives Out as an example: "It turns out that as long as you create with your heart, you will always come up with a good story.

Little Gilbert is an example of taking movies and audiences seriously and not deceiving them anymore."

Those film directors who were scolded felt wronged. You said it lightly, but how many little Gilberts are there in Hollywood? There is only one.

In fact, it’s not the film directors’ fault. Instead, the biggest responsibility lies with the film companies.

Hollywood creators have never lacked originality, but film companies have rejected overly risky options for safety reasons.

Film companies prefer to choose genres that have been proven in the film market, thus making safe investments.

Not to mention the film companies, even Gilbert Jr. himself is actually equally conservative.

Cantaloupe Studios receives approximately one thousand scripts from major Hollywood screenwriters and directors every year.

These screenwriters and directors hope that Gilbert Jr. will be interested in their scripts and get investment.

But in reality, have any of these scripts been put into preparation or recommended? The answer is none.

The scripts that can get investment and recommendations are basically those written by Gilbert Jr. himself, or those written by screenwriters hired by Gilbert Jr.

The backlog of scripts in those Hollywood giants is as numerous as mountains and seas. There are more than 100,000 scripts gathering dust in Disney's script library, but not many of them are put into the project establishment stage.

So it’s not that directors and screenwriters lack originality, but the conservatism of film companies that stifles this originality.

If you want to do what Gilbert did, you must at least have some achievements, such as two consecutive hit movies, before you are qualified to tell the film company that you want to create.

Let’s talk about Kenneth Turan again. After the famous film critic Roger Ebert retired due to health reasons, he took over the market of Little Gilbert.

Now he has become the number one fan of Gilbert Jr., and he praises almost every movie of Gilbert Jr.

His shameless boasting made many people in the industry feel ashamed, but he was unexpectedly welcomed by fans of Gilbert Jr.

Perhaps it was this kind of dog-licking boasting that made movie fans gradually forget that Kenneth Turan used to specifically smear Gilbert Jr.

It can be seen that as long as there is benefit to be gained, there is no obstacle for people to change their stance.

After all these small-scale films, the market finally welcomed a heavyweight movie, "Captain America" ​​produced by Marvel Studios.

The film was produced by Gilbert Jr. and Kevin Feige, and directed by Joe Johnston.

Starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Hugo Weaving and others, with Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel Jackson making guest appearances.

It will be released in North American theaters on April 4th.

Before the film was released, a premiere was held in New York, which happens to be the home of Marvel Comics.

(End of this chapter)