[US Entertainment] Actor

It can be said that the rise of "The Dark Knight" dropped a big bomb on the calm North American film market!

After the film was released, Ebert's influence in Hollywood was further enhanced, and Heath Ledger took advantage of the momentum of the film to become the hottest actor in July and August. Invitations and film appointments filled mailboxes, promotion activities And advertising endorsement invitations are almost scheduled for the second half of next year.There is no doubt that Hollywood has never lacked businessmen with a keen sense of smell. The momentum shown by "The Dark Knight" this summer is enough to overshadow any other movie. Heath Ledger is the most powerful actor in the movie. If you don't invite him while the market is hot, who knows how much Heath Ledger's value will increase next time!

Just like back then, Ebert clearly wore Givenchy's shirt, but it was Armani who offered him an olive branch in time.It was just a thought in the blink of an eye. Who knew that Ebert would become the most influential actor in Hollywood in one step. It can be said that in the past three years, there will not be an actor who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Ebert. Now he can be said to have There is no price.

Driven by him, Armani, an Italian brand, has taken over half of the North American market, and the brand name is closely linked with Ebert.If Givenchy knew that Ebert, who was still unknown at that time, would bring such a big leap to the brand, I'm afraid I would regret it.

But in Hollywood, that's the norm.Celebrities and endorsed brands are closely tied together. A correct endorser may increase the value of a brand several times, while a wrong decision may sink a brand from then on.

Most importantly, there have been rumors in the industry that Heath Ledger's performance has been appreciated by many professionals. He is very likely to be nominated for next year's Oscar, and it is very possible to win the award.

Other actors in Hollywood who are in a similar situation to Heath Ledger are envious of Heath Ledger's development, but they did not expect that the current hottest niche is full of resentment and not happy at all: "I The recent state is not good, but these jobs are very attractive, I seem to see a lot of dollars flying away with wings..."

"What are you going to do?"

"What else can I do, I can only refuse it completely, alas, what a pity. But my agent plans to arrange some jobs that are not so stressful for me. After all, I have a daughter to raise, and I want to give her the best , These can’t be done without money.”

Albert nodded.During this period of time, the pressure of publicity was relatively high, but Heath Ledger was not defeated. He had already recovered from that state of despair and depression. Return to that state by yourself.

However, perhaps because of the experience of being so desperate that he wanted to die, Ebert feels that the current Heath Ledger has a transparent sense of looking down on everything. His pursuit of career has gradually faded, and he has personally tried to To enjoy life and family, Ebert doesn't know whether this state is good or bad for an actor who is on the rise.

But for better or worse, it's Heath Ledger's own choice.And based on Ebert's understanding of Heath Ledger, he may slow down the steps of filming, but it is absolutely impossible for him to lower his demanding performance quality.

If he can become an actor with a small number of works like Daniel Day Lewis in the future, it's actually not bad.

The third week of the release of "The Dark Knight", Ebert's workload has been significantly reduced, which made him feel relieved. The long-term exhaustion made him want to lie on the bed and sleep hard for three days and three nights , of course, he did the same.

After sleeping in the dark for several days, feeling that his skin condition was gradually returning to normal, Ebert couldn't help but feel more relaxed: "I went to meet fans a while ago, and I was really worried that the makeup wouldn't be able to cover my greasy face. , Now I am still a super handsome guy."

Leonardo snorted coldly when he heard the words: "Ebert, your skin is so thick that it is hard to describe, you are already 28 years old, my God, you still care about your face like a female star, even if it is a little darker and oilier What does it matter?

Ebert raised his eyebrows: "Leo, your attitude is an important reason why you have become so ugly. You don't care about your face, so your face doesn't care about you. If this continues, you will become uglier every day."

Leonardo glanced at him: “Even if I get ugly, I’m a hundred times more handsome than you.”

"Confident Leo." Ebert took the opportunity to rub Leonardo's face, "If there are no lines here, here, and here, I'm afraid it will be more convincing."

"Sure enough, Ebert, I've seen through you a long time ago. Let's just say it, you just despise me."

Well, within 3 minutes, Leonardo's anger was inadvertently ignited by Ebert again.Ebert spread his hands helplessly, and comforted this guy in a good voice: "Leo, dear Leo, don't be angry, okay?"

"Hmph, it's useless."

"Leo, Leo." Ebert's voice was soft and soft, full of tenderness and tenderness. If others listened to it, they would probably lose their direction immediately.But Leonardo has long been used to this guy's sugar-coated bullets, and he was unmoved at all, and his words became sharper: "I know, you must be very proud of breaking the box office record, so you are getting more and more unhappy." Watch me."

Three question marks immediately appeared on Ebert's forehead.

He should have gotten used to his family's Leo's temper of saying that the wind is the rain, and to be honest, he is quite used to it. This should be called-sweet torture?

The smile on the corner of Ebert's lips was caught by Leonardo, and he became even more annoyed: "Ebert Dawson, I am so angry, but you are actually happy? You despise me for having wrinkles on my face, you It’s your fault, you’re very proud of breaking records in your movie, your fault, you still dare to laugh, it’s a big mistake! Ebert, you’re such a bastard!”

Leonardo was furious with serious consequences!

So, after finally recovering from the endless work, Ebert embarked on the road of comforting Leonardo again.Dear Leo also seems to have figured out his temper, when he should be mad, when he should be mad, and when he should be angry, Ebert is exhausted physically and mentally. In the end, he resolutely suppressed this evil thought.

I would rather be tortured eight thousand times by Leo at home than go out to work!

Time gradually moved to August, the third week of "The Dark Knight" was released.The film's box office performance still set off a boom in the North American film market.

No. [-] weekend box office for three consecutive weeks!

In the 17 days since its release, the box office of "The Dark Knight" has accumulated to 4 million U.S. dollars, and the box office of the weekend is 4000 million U.S. dollars.

There is no doubt that this movie will become the best-selling movie in the summer of 2008. In such an extremely competitive period, "The Dark Knight" has completely created a miracle. Before "The Dark Knight", there was no No movie can do that.

Film critics and the media have sung praises for the film. They are very optimistic about the final box office results of the film, especially after seeing that the weekend box office of the film for three weeks can still exceed 5000 million US dollars. The total box office of the film is bound to exceed 5 million US dollars, then...

Warner Bros. is already imagining the grand celebration banquet after the movie's box office exceeded 6 million!

$6 million!If such a result can be achieved, "The Dark Knight" will surely become the highest-grossing movie in Hollywood since the new century. It will break through the series of "Spiderman", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Star Wars Prequels" and create a new era in film history. milestone.

Just thinking about it, the blood of the people who participated in this movie couldn't help but boil.

Ebert was equally excited.

Although his role in the movie as the leading actor is not important, he is the only male number one in the movie after all, and he is the protagonist. The success of the movie is self-evident to him.After the box office results of "The Dark Knight" came out this week, it has become the second movie in Ebert's personal record with a box office of more than 4 million, and it is also the first movie in which he starred in a movie with a box office of more than 4 million.

This movie can fully prove Ebert's personal strength.

In fact, before that, several films in Ebert's resume performed extremely well at the box office. "The Pentium Era" has a box office of nearly 2 million, "Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind" 8000 million, "The Departed" nearly 3 million, and "The Mystery of Heroes" more than 3 million. Most of these films occupied the top ten box office in the year of release. One place, but the box office of "The Dark Knight" is a milestone.

Other movies can only be regarded as excellent, "The Dark Knight" is a complete explosion!

Even the best actors can't guarantee that there will be a movie with a box office of more than 4 million in their resume. Looking at today's Hollywood, there are not many actors who can achieve this achievement.

This film is a guarantee of further advancement in Ebert's career.

This week, there are still new films coming to the film market.Produced by Universal and starring Brendan Fraser, "The Mummy 3" ranked second at the weekend box office with 4245 million yuan.This year is the year of the Olympics, and the Summer Olympics will be hosted in Beijing, so the movie was specially chosen to be released at this time, and Chinese superstars such as Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh were invited to participate. The movie also contains many exotic and magical elements. "The Dark Knight," but it's still pretty good.

However, although the film's box office performance was excellent, it was a disaster in media evaluation.The comprehensive score of the media is 31 points, and the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 10%. The evaluations given by film critics are all C and D, and even B is rare.Undoubtedly, based on word of mouth, the movie's box office results next week may not be too good. After all, the audience's herd mentality has always been serious. No one will endure the ridicule of the people around them to watch a super bad film piece.

The reason why the box office performance of "The Dark Knight" is so good is also due to the word-of-mouth of the audience.

In addition, "The Key Vote" starring Kevin Costner ranked sixth this week with a box office of 630 million US dollars. This is a movie with strong political elements. It satirizes the embarrassment of the Democrats and Republicans in the face of the crucial last vote.But sadly, Kevin Costner's era seems to be over. Since the director's "Dancing with Wolves" in the 90s, after the Oscars, the famous director and actor's road to acting seems to be Accompanied by bad luck, there are many bad films, the quality of the selected films is not as good as before, and very few of the films he starred in can make people's eyes shine.

In short, the weekend box office of more than 600 million US dollars is really not an outstanding result, and Kevin Costner may be silent for a while.

In the blink of an eye, the third week passed quietly, and everyone was looking forward to the fourth week.

Will The Dark Knight continue its strong run from the first three weeks, or will it be beaten by a new release?This question is still an unsolved mystery for the time being, and only the box office results of the fourth week will be revealed.

Perhaps because "The Dark Knight" is too strong, there have been no movies with too strong power in Hollywood in the past few weeks. In the week of August 8, among the newly released movies, only Sony Pictures' "Pineapple Express" and Universal's "Summer of Jeans 8" are slightly well-known. The former is directed by Seth Rogen and James Franco. Starring and screenwriter is Judd Apatow, the famous director of "Knocked Up", this movie is undoubtedly Sony's masterpiece in the summer.The latter is a sequel to the youth movie "Summer of Jeans". The first film made $2 million in the box office without star participation, which gave Universal the idea of ​​​​shooting the second film.

In anticipation, the final box office of "The Dark Knight" has finally been announced!

3103 million dollars!

Still number one!

Although "Pineapple Express" is aggressive, it only made a total of 2240 million US dollars at the box office in the three days of the weekend. "Summer of Jeans 2" is even worse, with a box office of only 1077 million US dollars in the first week.

So far, "The Dark Knight" has been crowned the summer box office champion for four consecutive weeks!

A whole month!

For this reason, "Premiere" magazine even printed a big "Who can stop "Dark Knight"?"

Dominating the box office for a month in a hotly contested summer, The Dark Knight's record is absolutely epic.

In fact, the film's box office performance should have been higher. However, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8 set a 8% audience rating in the United States. The opening ceremony happened to be on Friday, so the Friday box office of "The Dark Knight" To a certain extent, it is affected, but it does not affect the strength of the film.

So far, the movie has broken the record of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" winning the summer title for three consecutive weeks, with a total score of more than 5 million US dollars, reaching 5 million US dollars.

The most important thing is that since its release, "The Dark Knight" has created the second highest box office performance in film history, surpassing the box office performance of "Star Wars Episode 1999" released in 1, which was 4 million US dollars, second only to "Star Wars Episode 7454". Titanic's $6 million.

The movie is still 1 million US dollars away from "Titanic". It is very difficult to surpass, but it is still possible to look forward to it a little bit.

In fact, recently, Ebert, Heath Ledger and the main creators of the film have become numb to the records that have been broken. This is not because of self-confidence. Even now, the assistant director is communicating with Ebert Sometimes they would express their shock greatly, thinking that such a result is "unreal", but there are really too many records, and it seems that the only thing left in front of them is the one that seems difficult to surpass. "Titanic", other records have no meaning.

Last week, Ebert's guess was not wrong. Under the influence of poor reputation and bad reviews from film critics, the weekend box office of "The Mummy 3" was only more than 1600 million US dollars, and the total box office was barely over 7000 million US dollars. Oops.This movie is called the last blockbuster of the summer file, and it is also considered to be the movie most likely to snipe the "Dark Knight" in recent weeks. However, the poor results not only prevent the movie from sniping the "Dark Knight", but also make The producer, Universal, almost lost their underwear.

Quality is undoubtedly the booster of the movie box office. Although "The Mummy 3" has the help of the previous two films, the poor reputation has made a good series wasted, just like the box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2". Records, but the box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" did not even reach 3 million US dollars, which is undoubtedly a huge regret.

The box office of "The Dark Knight" is still strong in the fifth week, but after all, it has been released for five weeks. The total box office of the movie this weekend is only 2100 million US dollars, which is slightly lower than the newly released film "Tropic Thunder". "Tropic Thunder" starred Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Cruise and others. Eye-catching box office results.Of course, it's no small feat that the film has pushed the summer's frenzied "Dark Knight" to No. [-] on the charts.

The total box office of "The Dark Knight" also reached 5 million US dollars.

It can be said that every accumulation of movie box office is creating a record.

By the sixth week, when the film had been released for 38 days, a wonderful reversal shocked the entire North American market.

"The Dark Knight," which grossed $1631 million at the weekend, returned to the top spot, only $2 more than No.21 "Tropic Thunder."

The fifth box office champion!

In the seventh week, the time has come to the end of August, and the box office performance of "The Dark Knight" is still excellent. With a score of 8 million US dollars, the film continued to surpass "Tropic Thunder" and achieved the sixth box office champion since its release!

At this time, the total box office score is close to 6 million US dollars.

All the creators are looking forward to the eighth week.

They believe that Po Liu is not far away.