[US Entertainment] Superstar

Chapter 281 Box Office Champion

"The New York Film Critics Association and the National Academy of Film Critics have both obtained it!" Robert said excitedly, "These two associations have a large number of Oscar Academy judges, and now they have a great advantage."

Two heavyweight awards have only been announced now, and the only overlapping winners are Tom Hanks and Eve Campbell.

The former is the first Lian Zhuang actor in film history. After winning Oscars for two consecutive years, he seems to have spent all his luck. It is undoubtedly more difficult to win three Oscars than landing on the moon.

And Eve has the quality of the film, as well as some compensation tickets and newcomer tickets, and it seems that the momentum is gradually gaining momentum.

Unlike Best Actress, female supporting roles are usually reserved for young people or older people with more seniority, and Eve is just in the range of supporting newcomers.

Oscar is the American Academy of Film and Science, and has a certain obligation to create stars and cultivate reserve talents.

A young actress like Eve who has good acting skills and can carry the box office is simply the future of Hollywood. She can be active in the front line of the Oscar awards season for decades!

The compensation vote refers to the fact that some Oscar judges compensated the votes in their hands for the role of Petunia Lane in "Almost Famous" because "Mulholland Drive" could not make it to the Olympics.

Now it seems that film critics like Eve's performance very much, and they also showed special love for several movies. For example, Steven Soderbergh has come up with two movies this year, one "Never Compromise" , Another "Poison-pin-net-network" has a very strong momentum.

On the contrary, "Gladiator" does not have much advantage on the side of film critics, but a foreign language film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" focuses on other levels, not only competing for the best foreign language film, but also participating in other awards.

In addition, "Chocolate" and "Almost Famous" both received multiple nominations, but not many won.

The main reason is that the rest of the films have been screened in various ways, which left a deep impression on both film critics and film lovers.

However, in order for "Almost Famous" to be released uniformly across North America, only insiders have seen the movie, and no screenings have been held at all. As a result, many film critics have not seen the movie yet.

During Thanksgiving, not everyone is willing to go to the theater to watch a movie. For them, it is not a pastime, but a job.

Because the film's release time was very close to the voting time for the Film Critics Association Awards, many people did not vote at all.

Cameron Crowe's film is facing a lot of competition. There was the epic blockbuster "Gladiator" that pursued freedom and ordinary legends of heroes, and "Drug-pin-Network" that focused on reality and showed the impact of drugs on American society. A huge threat, and a mother who relied on her courage and perseverance to win "Never Compromise", the largest civil case in American history.

As for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", although it was very popular with Americans, it is 2000 after all, and the invisible xenophobia is very serious. At most, it can be nominated for an Oscar. As for the statuette who won the best picture, there is no hope.

Now film critics are still powerful, and they have a lot of energy in the awards season, and they can influence a film's journey to the Olympics.

In more than ten years, the role of film critics will be greatly reduced, and audiences will pay more attention to the evaluations of the general public, rather than the group of them.Even when it comes to the awards season, no matter how much the film critics praise it, it will not help, just like "Boyhood", which swept all the Film Critics Association Awards, has no harvest.

Since she is living in today's era, Eve wants to solve the things that can be solved as soon as possible, otherwise it will be more difficult to compete in the Olympic Games in the future.

She doesn't want to wait until the age of 60 and still struggle for her first Oscar.

Robert said silently: "Originally Columbia Pictures wanted to hold premieres in London, Paris, Tokyo, and Sydney, but Evan and I rejected this proposal for you at the same time."

The North American box office is important, but the overseas box office should not be underestimated either.

At this time, the overseas box office can be equal to the North American box office most of the time, and sometimes it can even be a bit higher.

If you want to achieve a high box office, it is very narrow to only focus on the North American market.

Now the concept of global simultaneous release is actually rather vague. Many films are released one after another, as long as they are not too far apart. After all, Hollywood is the center of entertainment in the world, and the various promotions, box office figures, and awards of films here will be used as the basis for the film. The influence radiates to the whole world.

"Thank you for your understanding. December is already very busy. Relying on the popularity of the awards season for Austrian movies in December, it should bring enough heat to the movies." Eve felt very lucky. North America is enough torture, and if you go to other cities around the world, it will be a real pain.

It's impossible to do these things with a salary of only 100 million US dollars.

Keanu agreed: "The overseas box office should be quite good now, but I don't know the exact figure."

"After all, the statistics are carried out abroad, and we don't have the figures for the time being, but judging from the local feedback, the film schedule and the attendance are not bad."

At present, most movie theaters are not connected to the Internet to update the box office figures in real time, and the theaters report the numbers themselves, so these reports may be delayed a lot and not too fast.

Eve's films have broken through the $[-] million mark many times around the world, and they have always been the type of small hits. There has never been a big hit like the box office of [-] billion.

She is looking forward to the day when the global box office will be announced, and she also hopes that the awards season will radiate overseas faster.

When Keanu flew to Sydney to continue filming, Eve also checked out of the airport hotel, and she was going home to catch up on sleep.

Flying all over North America, I was exhausted. The point is that I still have road shows in theaters in various cities, which is more tiring than flying.

Even though she is very young and has been exercising all the time, she still can't sustain such a promotional activity.

Fortunately, next month's "Legally Blonde" does not have roadshow provisions in the terms, otherwise it would be too sad to run promotions during Christmas and New Year's Day.

At the same time, in the office building of Sony Pictures, President Amy Pascal unscrewed the door, threw his bag aside, and prepared to start his day's work.

As one of the few female executives in Hollywood, she has to perform better than those male executives, so she has no free time at all.

Even during the previous weekend, I was still worried about the company's business situation and lost my hair for the follow-up projects.

Now the two films produced by the company are rushing towards the Olympics, but the original "Never Compromise" has already been released in the first half of the year. Even if it wins the Oscar, it will not be able to promote box office growth. We can only see if the sales of discs will increase. Increase.

On the contrary, this "Almost Famous" just happened to be released during the awards season, so the box office benefited a lot.

If the audience at first entered the cinema only because of the two stars Eve and Keanu, then the audience after that came because of the good reputation.

Amy Pascal sat on a chair, holding the coffee made by the assistant in her hand, and then looked at the pile of data reports and work schedules in front of her and started working.

Today happened to be Monday, and last weekend's box office statistics quickly appeared in front of her.

During the Thanksgiving holiday, "Almost Famous" made great efforts in the later stage, but it still couldn't completely make up for the disadvantages of the first half, and ranked second on the weekend box office list.

"Should we be able to win the championship?" Amy Pascal said to himself. If this movie can't win the championship, it must be a data error.

People all over the world are watching to see if Keanu and Eve can really pull up the movie box office.

If he can, that will really establish his position as a first-line superstar.

Although Keanu was also called a superstar before, it was all because of "The Matrix". He did not prove his appeal in other films.

So this superstar is relatively imaginary, and it just so happens that this literary film has become the key to testing the quality of a superstar.

The box office in the first week is already amazing enough, and there is almost no problem breaking [-] million or [-] million.But a prediction is always a prediction, and it is only true if it is actually fulfilled.

Now when Amy Pascal saw the title of the number one box office movie, a big smile appeared on his face.

It's so predictable, there's no difficulty at all!

"Almost Famous" really achieved a counterattack at the box office in the second week of its release, and successfully won the champion of the North American box office market this week.

It took a total of 2980 million U.S. dollars at the box office in the three days of the next weekend. Compared with the previous week, there must be a gap. After all, the holiday bonus is too large. This time, the decline was controlled at 32%, which was the smallest decline among the top ten.

On the one hand, word-of-mouth continued to ferment, and on the other hand, due to the increase in the number of theaters showing the film, more than 200 theaters were added for screenings this week, bringing the total number of theaters to a terrifying 3083.

And its biggest competitor "The Grinch" continued to plummet by 48% this week, closing at $1965 million in three days. The gap is obvious, and it is almost impossible to surpass it again.

Comparing the stamina of a literary film with a commercial film is really overkill, they are not at the same level at all.

"Now our goal should be to reach the annual championship, the decline is so good."

In two weeks, the cumulative North American box office of "Almost Famous" has reached 1.18 million U.S. dollars, and the momentum is even stronger than the commercial blockbusters in the summer, which makes everyone look forward to the birth of a miracle.

Amy Pascal put down the North American box office report with satisfaction, and then her eyes were attracted by the world box office report.

It turns out that "Almost Famous" is not only the weekly box office champion in North America, but also the champion of the global box office chart this week!

In addition to North America, it was also released in the UK this Friday, earning 810 million pounds in three days and becoming the box office champion.

The size of the film market of the two is different, and there is a natural difference in box office numbers.

Amy Pascal watched it all the way, and she was surprised to find that this movie won the championship in 5 movie markets around the world, and several others came in second, and it will be released in overseas markets next week. The box office is really scary!

The author has something to say: My younger brother came to my city to play in the past two days, and I was very tired every day before typing. Fortunately, I can resume normal updates tomorrow.

Sprinkle flowers to celebrate~~~