[US Entertainment] Kise's Hollywood Diary

Since on the way back to the apartment, Frank was excitedly swiping K, Vincent had to turn on the car music, trying to overwhelm the excited and high-pitched voice of the manager.

"Oh, Cindy, you should really check out the current movie section, it's so exciting!" Frank rarely drove, but sat in the back seat with Vincent, happily using his mobile phone to surf the Internet.

"Look, this person said it well. You can't use the high tear point as an excuse that inspirational movies can't deceive tears. Of course, in the absence of car accidents, cancer and airplane accidents, it can still make people cry. , "The Pentium Era" is already a successful inspirational film."

Frank smacked his lips and said with a snort, "Obviously, this netizen's understanding is not deep enough. How can he stay on such a superficial level?"

Movie reviews from magazines and newspapers will not be available until the next day at the earliest, but various film critics and media professionals who have registered on social networks and have verified their real names have already released their film review articles in advance.

The official account of "Premiere" has already issued a summary of the film reviews of "The Pentium Era". Of course, the full text of the film reviews will naturally not be available until the release of the new issue of "Premiere".

"The slightly too long film length does not make people feel procrastinated. This length is just enough to tell about four lives, one dream. It perfectly restores the development of the automobile industry in the early 20th century. Next, the lead actor Vincent has not been concealed at all for his protagonist's aura, on the contrary, his performance deserves a four and a half star evaluation! The remaining half point is deducted for his too perfect figure."

In addition to the short version of film reviews given by the official accounts of some magazines after the premiere, some professional individual film critics also published various evaluations of the July summer file.No spoilers are involved, but it allows the audience to clearly see the pros and cons of the work, and puts the right to buy movie tickets in their own hands.

And this time, the movie critics all talked about the same question—whether Vincent's appearance and figure will affect the audience's judgment on the quality of the movie?

For good-looking actors, they are usually easier to gain the audience's favorability and eye-catching. The most typical example is Leonardo DiCaprio. "Titanic" made him, and he also made the mythical "Titanic".No matter how big a beer belly Leonardo has or how long a beard is, in the hearts of the audience, he is still the magnificent painter Jack.

Just as much as Leonardo himself wanted to get rid of the ingrained image that Jack brought, so much did he struggle to remodel.

At least everyone knows that what Leonardo wants most now is a statuette trophy, even to the point where he doesn't care about his personal image at all.

But actors with God-given good looks are not very popular with the academy judges.It is enough for a male actor to have a world-famous Leonardo as a special case. Among the actresses, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and other good-looking or even goddess-level actors are also facing this dilemma.You must know that their youth is limited, and the conditions for actresses who can be selected as leading actresses are also harsh-faced with fewer and fewer opportunities and increasingly fierce competition, such actresses have almost no choice : Only pretend to be ugly.Play some characters that break through your own image to form a contrast, at least you can no longer make people focus on your own appearance and figure.

In such a "big environment", there are already a lot of people in the k-movie comment area saying that they want to go to the cinema to "see the truth", what kind of plot and expressiveness can cover Vincent's appearance, and " How did the [-] points and [-] point deducted from "Premiere" and "Variety Show" come from?

On the other side, the melon eaters went to Leonardo's agent Schulte's K homepage to leave a message:

"Schulte, please be careful! With the highest salary and dividends among Hollywood agents every year, our Leo is now fat, thin, handsome and ugly!"

"Yangou Tourist Group is here for a visit, drop! This station is Leonardo DiCaprio Station. Passengers who want to get off, please take your personal belongings and get off. Next stop: Nicole Kidman! Passengers who like Miss Nicole, please hold on to the handrails, the sightseeing bus is about to speed up!"

"I originally thought that after Leonardo died, I would give up the entire Hollywood forest, but after Vincent appeared, I found that I could give up all the handsome guys in the world for him! I want to contribute to the box office too!"

"The Oscar judges are really blind. They all have wrinkled beards and Zara, so they can't see the good of others. Let alone, I have to comfort Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, although they are now It’s also an old handsome guy!”

It is not an invariable rule that actors with good looks cannot get the votes of the academy judges.

For example, Hollywood's eternal master actor-Marlon Brando.In 1951, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for "A Streetcar Named Desire". Two years later, at the 26th Oscar, Brando was nominated again for his wonderful performance in "Julius Caesar".

You know, at this time Marlon Brando is in the best state of his life, not only referring to his energy and acting ability, but also Brando's appearance at the peak state!By the time of the 27th Oscars, the 30-year-old Marlon Brando finally won the Oscar for Best Actor with his extremely outstanding performance in "On the Waterfront"!

Of course, it is undeniable that the level of 30-year-old Marlon Brando is still a level that many young actors of the same age cannot reach today.Otherwise, there will not be a large number of young actors who have worked so hard but can only get one nomination. Oscars are harsh and cruel most of the time-the lucky ones are really too few and too few!

No matter how much it is said, it is better to wait for the box office and premiere film reviews on the first day of the next day. Compared with the situation where Mr. Manager is still unable to fall asleep at two o'clock in the middle of the night, he returned to the apartment and took off his makeup and took a bath. Vincent held the same fragrant Fini nestled under the quilt and fell asleep after a while.

The last weekend in July is the third day of the release of "The Pentium Age", which is also the third day of the release of "Tomb Raider 2".No one expected that such a cruel "public trial" would usher in such an ordinary sunny summer day——

On the first day of the former, less than 4000 theaters were screened simultaneously, while "Tomb Raider 2", which was launched in more than 8000 theaters, pinned all the hopes of Paramount Pictures on the summer vacation. The production cost and public relations expenses of not less than 5000 million U.S. dollars have won a weekend box office ranking that is even worse than "The Pentium Era", ranking fifth!

By the way, "Tomb Raider 2" is only less than 210 million away from the sixth place at the box office!

The first place is still "Jedi Men 2". Although "Jedi Men 2" released last week had a 45% drop, it still occupied the top box office this week with a box office of 3650 million US dollars in the second week. bit!

However, in the summer scuffle between big names and big productions from all walks of life, "The Pentium Era", which should have been reserved for a cannon fodder seat, has become a clear stream in the summer file, like a cool night breeze on a summer night, although it comes lightly. , but still took away $2680 million in the opening box office.

You know, this is a feature film that Universal Pictures and Gary Rose have made up their minds to win the award, which is a large part of the reason why "The Pentium Age" is not suitable for participating in the summer melee.On the contrary, this movie is more suitable for a slightly longer screening line, and the trickling screening mode can see the long-term box office cumulative effect.

For ordinary popcorn movies, the nearly two-hour set is a bit unbearable for the audience-it’s hard to say, no matter how good a director is, he can’t export a movie that can attract all the audience without distraction, playing with mobile phones, or going to the toilet. Come!

But such an achievement is enough for Universal Pictures and the crew of "The Pentium Era" to celebrate up and down. Although there is still a long way to go, facing such a good start is undoubtedly a good sign that can inspire everyone !

"The Pentium Era" and Universal Pictures happily opened a champagne celebratory reception and got Gary Rose drunk, while Paramount Pictures on the other side was completely covered in dark clouds and full of gloom.

Between the brilliant record of "Tomb Raider 1" and a lot of praise and praise titles and a lot of newspaper and magazine headlines, such as "Movie with the most action scenes by an actress in film history", "Angelina Jolie for the perfect show The character did not hesitate to have breast augmentation to 36d", and even pulled Demi Moore out to give a sense of presence at the extreme of the release, because these two actresses were once candidates for the heroine of "Tomb Raider".

Two years later, it was the turn of "Tomb Raider 2" to be released. Not only did it fail to match the record of "Tomb Raider 1", but even when the production cost was half that of the first film, which was about to reach 2200 million U.S. dollars, Only got less than [-] million US dollars in the first week of the box office!

This is even more embarrassing than being slapped face to face!

You know, "Tomb Raider 2" is one of the focuses of Hollywood's summer vacation, and it is also a movie that appears in various advertisements every day. However, it turned out that the overall attendance rate was less than 30%, and it was only 58% on Rotten Tomatoes. The freshness completely declared the failure of "Tomb Raider 2".

This is not only the failure of the "Tomb Raider" series, but also the failure of Paramount. This year's summer hegemony, Paramount, which only participated in the battle with only one movie, almost lost its position as the eight giants of Hollywood!

In the second week of its release, "The Age of Pentium" was released. With the ratings rising and various authoritative film review websites blowing out critics, the imdb score rose from the initial 7.7 points to 8 points. You must know that "The Best Picture" won the Oscar in 2001. The score of "A Beautiful Mind" in imdb is also 8 points!The scoring list for each age group of "The Pentium Era" also shows that not only young people under the age of 25 scored an average score of more than 8.1 points for "The Pentium Era", but the middle-aged score did not fall below 7.8 points, and The most unexpected is the stage between 25 and 40 years old. Their high score can be as high as 8.4, and their low score can be as low as 7.6 points.

After a second-week box office drop of no more than 15%, "The Age of Pentium" has surpassed "Bad Boys 2" to become the box office champion in the first week of August.This means that if the drop of no more than 35% can be maintained in the next two weeks, then the box office of "The Pentium Era" will surprise everyone with a cumulative box office of [-] million US dollars!

At the same time, while the movie was being screened, the articles about Vincent's performance in "The Pentium Era" published by various film critics, magazines and newspapers have now received feedback from the audience——

Hollywood Diary (40)

Feeney has grown up a bit, and I joked the other day that when I was going to walk the red carpet with Feeney next time, Frank was so scared that he almost crushed Feeney's little bottle.

"You can't do this, Vincent!"

Mr. Economist stood firm and loud against me.

"I don't even want to see the day when you and Finny fight for Filin!"