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It is worth mentioning that Ebert saw a familiar movie on this week's North American box office list, the Chinese film "Fearless", which ranked 219th on the list with a weekly box office of 9 million US dollars. This is the third week of the film's release in the North American market, and the cumulative box office has reached more than 2100 million US dollars. For a non-English film, such a result is very good.

American Sweetheart Jessica Simpson's "The Detective" took in $1180 million at the box office in its first week, which is a good result.

Driven by "The Departed", the film market rose in early October, and the cumulative box office of all the films released in the three days of the weekend exceeded 1 million US dollars again, sweeping away the decline of the film market during this period.

In addition to the excellent box office results, the film also achieved an average score of A- in the media ratings. Many media believe that Martin Scorsese can sweep away the shortcomings of the past and take away his first Oscar.

In fact, in recent years, most of the media's perception of Scorsese's films has been too favorable to the Oscars, but has lost the authentic style unique to Martin Scorsese.In this "The Departed", people once again saw the shadow of Martin Scorsese's consistent style.

Boring, but worth aftertaste, pondering.

For the box office results, Ebert and Leonardo are also very satisfied.After all, this movie is only an Oscar contender, and it was a surprise that it did so well at the box office.This is also Leonardo's most outstanding movie since "Titanic". For Ebert, although the box office performance of this movie has not surpassed his previous box office records, according to the movie's As far as the development trend is concerned, there should be no problem with the box office exceeding [-] million, so that there will be one more movie in Ebert's resume with a box office of over [-] million.

The happiest is the producer Fang Warner Bros.

The purpose of Warner's filming of "The Departed" is for the Oscar trophy. Although we know that the box office performance of the film will not be too bad. After all, Martin Scorsese's films are usually difficult to make a lot of money but will not lose money, but the first week of more than 3000 The achievement of [-] US dollars still shocked Warner Bros.

You know, such a result is quite impressive even if it is placed in the summer file!

If it works properly, there shouldn’t be any problem with the movie’s box office exceeding [-] million. Even after the awards season is over, the movie’s box office will still have a small increase. In this year, when the overall market is weak, this movie hit the top [-] at the annual box office. possible.

In Hollywood, the Weinstein brothers and their Miramax are unparalleled in Oscar public relations. Through operation after operation, the Weinstein brothers not only realized the wish of several big stars to win the Oscar, but also enriched the His network has largely contributed to the growth of the box office of Oscar-winning movies.

This is a skill that makes even big companies envy.But in terms of profit, Miramax still cannot compare with Warner and Universal.

Of course, Ebert believes that if Weinstein is also good at pulling the box office, the big companies will not mind banding together to kill them.

Relatively speaking, Warner rarely produces movies that are easy to be favored by statuettes, and even without Martin Scorsese's fame bonus, Warner would not even participate in the "The Departed Walker" project.

But now, Warner Bros. is very grateful to have made this decision.

Especially when the second, third, and fourth weeks of "The Departed" have always maintained a strong performance, this kind of luck is even stronger.

And just when "The Departed" was doing well in the film market, Ebert and Leonardo also had a quarrel over which movie to watch at night.

"Why don't you just watch "The Departed" and give the film some box office support."

Facing Ebert's proposal, Leonardo just glanced at him suspiciously, and quickly dragged the phone interface with his fingers: "There are so many movies recently, you want to watch the movies you made because your brain is broken, you Forgot how many times we've seen it?"

"The Grudge 2", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel", "The Prestige", "Saw 3"... Leonardo frowned imperceptibly while flipping through the movie list.

He shifted his gaze slightly, and turned to Ebert, who looked calm and breezy, and observed carefully but was obviously in a daze.

With a slight stop of his fingers, Leonardo suddenly said: "Why don't you watch "The Grudge 2", the first film was very good, and the box office of the second film is not too bad."

The US version of "The Grudge 2" was released in the second week of the release of "The Departed". Given that the box office of the previous film exceeded [-] million in the North American market, the producer also reported a positive and optimistic attitude towards the second film.

However, the box office of the first week of the film's release was not satisfactory. It only achieved a box office of 2082 million US dollars in the first week.

You know, horror films have always been favored by major film companies for their low cost and high returns. Lionsgate Films started out with horror films. The "Chain Saw" series has made this company full of money. In the second half of the year, the third part of the "Chain Saw" series will also be released, and it will also form a competitive situation with "The Departed".

"The Grudge" is a very successful series adapted by Hollywood from Japanese horror films. The previous film made a lot of money, but the opening performance of this film is undoubtedly a bit bleak, and the shooting of the next film may be difficult to achieve.

Compared with the bleakness of "The Grudge 2", the box office performance of "The Departed Walker" in the second week of its release is still excellent, maintaining its leading position with a box office score of 2572 million US dollars, and the total box office has reached a surprising 7500 million. Dollar!

If this trend can continue, in just the third week, the movie will achieve its box office goal of over [-] million.

This is also the case. In the third week and the first week of the film’s release, in the face of the onslaught of “The Prestige” and “Chain Saw 3”, the film not only maintained the number one position on the list until the third week. , It even raised the box office score to more than 1 million US dollars.

One month after its release, the box office figure has almost tied Martin Scorsese’s previous box office record. Although the goal of 2 million US dollars is a bit difficult, Warner Bros.’s goal is to take a long-term view, especially after next year’s Oscars. Box office and other revenues are bound to grow substantially.

Facing Leonardo's inquiry, Ebert wrote lightly: "Why support our important competitor? I don't like Japanese things at all."

Leonardo raised his eyebrows, his eyes teasing: "What about "Saw 3", it's an old movie, it shouldn't be too bad."

"A pile of rotten meat flying around, boring."

"Then you won't like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel" either. It's a pity. Well, let's watch "The Prestige". Now you can't think of any reason to refuse."

"Oh!" Ebert showed a surprised expression, "This movie is starring Christian Bale, don't you always dislike him?"

"But besides Bell, there are Hugh Jackman and Edward Norton..." Leonardo smiled and looked at Ebert, "Admit it, Ebert, I have discovered your secret."

Ebert smiled wryly: "Well, I admit..."

"You're afraid of watching horror movies, oh, this really surprised me! I thought you wouldn't be afraid of anything! Well, dear Ebert, now you have something to catch me , treat me better in the future, otherwise...you understand."

"Obey, my master." Ebert put his fingers together and made a salute gesture between his eyebrows.

"..." Leonardo was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head away as if nothing had happened, so he would not admit that he was just electrocuted by Ebert!

Although the way Ebert raised his eyebrows and smiled was really... so handsome!

In the end, Leonardo and Ebert picked a non-horror film on the list and watched it. The film market in October was very deserted. The total market share of "The Departed Walker" could exceed 10 million in the first two weeks of its release, and it has returned to a state of more than 8000 million US dollars in the past few days.

The opposite of the box office is the quality of the movies. The competitiveness of the movies released together in October is relatively weak, and the quality of the movies is far inferior to that of the summer. The two of them can only kill two hours, but they have not learned from the movies. experience something interesting.

"It's really boring. If I knew it, I would have played games at home." Leonardo pulled the hat on his head: "I don't see any comedy at all, but I think this movie is a joke."

"This is what you insist on watching." Ebert pulled Leonardo's clothes and led him away from the crowded cinema.

"Ebert!" Leonardo looked at Ebert with a contemptuous look, "If it weren't for a guy who didn't even dare to watch horror movies, I wouldn't need to go through a bunch of boring movies just to Find one that's less scary."

"...My fault." Ebert touched the position of his heart. He had just seen the creepy eye on the poster of "The Grudge 2" in the movie theater, and he still hasn't recovered yet.Although coming to Hollywood from the Celestial Dynasty more than [-] years later is a relatively mysterious thing, Ebert has always insisted on unwavering materialism in terms of world outlook, outlook on life, and values.

There are no ghosts in the world.

What Ebert lamented was, why do audiences always enjoy this kind of films that scare themselves?

"No, those who make movies are right, and those who love to watch movies are right, Ebert, you are too timid." Leonardo, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, mocked, "Who can imagine , Hollywood star Albert Dawson turned out to be a super coward, the gap between appearance and reality..."

"Like no one knows that cute superstar Leonardo DiCaprio likes to rip off his panties in the middle of the night..."

…"Damn it, Ebert, shut up!"