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"I have already contacted all the judges I know, and they have all agreed to support you."

"Thank you!"

Looking at Roger Ebert sitting in a wheelchair, Gilbert Jr. expressed his sincere gratitude.

Regardless of how the outside world views this film critic, Roger Ebert has always been nice to little Gilbert. Even if he has been pretending for twenty years, he still has genuine feelings for him.

Roger Ebert looked at Anne Hathaway and said, "My nephew watched the film for me. You have a great chance of winning an Oscar.

But there are a few points you need to pay attention to.”

"You go ahead." Anne Hathaway listened carefully.

Roger Ebert advised: "Don't comment on any sensitive topics, that's the first point. Second, you can put up the logo of women's freedom and progress.

Feminism is becoming more and more popular in Hollywood nowadays, and "Gravity" is your one-man show, so you can connect the two.

In addition, you can also show that you care about current popular issues such as freedom, equality and inclusion. Although Oscar doesn't like this, he is affected by it."

Anne Hathaway nodded to show that she understood.

Roger Albert turned around and begged little Gilbert: "The only thing I'm worried about is my unreliable children. I just ask you to take care of them more, and I'll be relieved."

"Don't worry, I will."

Seeing that Roger Ebert was in a bad mental state, Gilbert Jr. and Anne Hathaway did not stay long and soon left.

"Now you've secured the Oscar for Best Actress," Gilbert Jr. said.

Anne Hathaway sighed: "I didn't expect that Mr. Albert is already like this. He must be suffering from illness!"

"Yes!"

Gilbert Jr. also lamented: "An era has ended."

Roger Ebert rose from the era of print and television media to become the most influential film critic. At that time, he could influence the viewing choices of millions of viewers and could call the shots.

But now with the advent of the Internet era and the mobile Internet era, media information is highly developed.

Audiences have more channels to learn about the movies they want to watch, and more ordinary people are involved in film reviews, such as Peter, the IMDB critic with millions of fans, and Sexy Rebecca, a die-hard fan of Little Gilbert.

As the times change, those traditional film critics have gradually failed to keep up with the times and are slowly being eliminated.

However, these film critics can still play a role during the awards season, but their influence on summer commercial films is minimal.

As expected, the film "Gravity" received unanimous praise from many film critics thanks to Roger Ebert's contact.

But the most important thing for Disney is that the film can still achieve good box office results.

In fact, the fact that Gilbert Jr. is going to spend $1.2 million to make a space thriller movie and strive for an Oscar makes it easy for people to think that Gilbert Jr. is also going to turn into an awards-seeking maniac to cater to the Oscars.

This is also one of the reasons why the outside world previously questioned the failure of the film. In addition to the tight production time, it was also believed that Gilbert Jr.'s logic in rushing for awards would be inconsistent with the logic of commercial films.

However, even if an A-level blockbuster film with an investment of $1.2 million wins an Oscar, it will not be profitable.

But those who were pessimistic before the release of Gravity would never have thought that Gravity would actually earn over $100 million in North American box office in its first week. Many big-selling commercial films did not perform as well as Gravity in their first week. Can a film with such performance be considered a failure?
Not only that, the film also set off a wave of space movies around the world.

The British newspaper The Times praised the film: "It is a perfect combination of film art and technology. Little Gilbert has provided a perfect teaching for filmmakers all over the world."

The French newspaper Le Monde also praised: "In an IMAX 3D cinema in Paris, some audiences even fought over a movie ticket.

Unparalleled visual experience, thrilling journey.

Little Gilbert is God's gift to the world, and it is a privilege for our times that he should live in our time."

Media such as Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport, Spain's Il Ferroca, and Germany's Deutsche Welle have all given the film rave reviews.

What’s more important is that movie fans like it. A Romanian fan who just walked out of the cinema excitedly said that this was the best space movie he had ever seen.

However, a Russian fan angrily expressed that Russia would never do such a thing and that the Americans were doing something similar.

However, after calming down, the fan said that the film was indeed very exciting and the heroine was very beautiful, and he would watch it again.

A Chinese movie fan said that the fact that the heroine in the film finally returned to Earth on the Shenzhou spacecraft proved that China has become a major space power.

More Chinese movie fans also said that they really liked the design of the scenes for the Tiangong and Shenzhou spacecraft. Gilbert Jr. is worthy of being the favorite Hollywood director of Chinese movie fans and he knows what they want.

Korean movie fans, Japanese movie fans, Australian movie fans, wherever the movie was released in the world, the vast majority of fans in these places were conquered by the movie.

Under such circumstances, "Gravity" grossed 2 million US dollars in its first week overseas, and this is already the second week of its release in North America.

In its second week in North America, Jason Bourne was unable to compete with Gravity, which earned $4 million in four days and $3604 million in its second weekend.

Not only did it successfully retain its weekly box office championship, it also successfully pushed the film's North American box office to $1 million. Including overseas box office, the film's global box office reached $9694 million.

This achievement is unimaginable, considering that Gravity is an original film. Even if it was directed by Gilbert Jr., it is still an original film.

There is no need to say much about how difficult it is for original Hollywood films to survive. Even if they are not dead, they are basically paralyzed in bed with no hope of survival.

But just when all the big Hollywood companies were constantly looking for adaptations and sequels, Gilbert Jr. happened to come up with such an original movie, and the box office was so high that it really made these big Hollywood companies stop and think.

But they will continue to adapt or make sequels.

The reason is simple, he can make original movies because his name is Little Gilbert. If you change other commercial film directors, they will fail in minutes.

It is not difficult to understand why Disney treats little Gilbert as a treasure. He is really amazing.

Whether it is an adaptation or a sequel, they are all very successful. The most important thing is the originality, which is extremely precious in Hollywood.

Of course, after being shocked by the excellent box office performance of Gravity, those anti-Gilbert fans and media soon came up with a new point of view.

That is, the box office of "Gravity" was too high and it was not suitable for the Oscars.

This is not nonsense, it is well known that Oscar does not like high-grossing movies, because they think that high box office means you are too commercial, and commercial is exactly the word that Oscar hates the most.

So these people started to hype up the box office of "Gravity" again, hoping to make it known to the whole world, including the Oscars.

Don't you want to win an Oscar? But your movie's box office performance is so high, do you think the Oscar will hate you? (End of this chapter)