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Running out of the circle of reporters, Ebert immediately called the culprit who caused him to be surrounded: "Where are you now?"

"I slipped away as soon as the movie ended, and now I'm lying on a big comfortable bed." Leonardo laughed, "You were surrounded by reporters?"

"Dear Leo, are you gloating? Don't forget who brought the trouble here!" Ebert rolled his huge eyes, "You pat your ass and leave, leaving me a mess. Elizabeth Banks was about to be questioned and cried by those annoying reporters, although she didn't bother me, I didn't even have the courage to talk to her..."

"Sorry, sorry." Leonardo apologized without sincerity, "Tomorrow I will ask my agent to clarify my relationship with Banks, it is really troublesome."

"At least I have the consciousness of a big star, okay?"

Hearing Leonardo's indifferent voice, Ebert just wanted to sigh. Sure enough, the wayward star is the most troublesome creature on this planet, bar none.

However, Leonardo promised to help Banks deal with this trouble anyway, and Ebert was finally relieved. In any case, he did not want to be an accomplice in destroying Banks' marriage.

Compared with this matter, Ebert is more concerned about Leonardo's mood.

When he tentatively asked Leonardo if he felt better, Leonardo's answer almost made him twist his nose: "My mood seems to be worse."

But Leonardo's next sentence turned Ebert's anger into joy.

"Because this movie made me want to cry." Leonardo said, "Your performance is very good. If Toby sees the movie, he will definitely regret that he didn't insist on taking this role."

"Whether he regrets it or not, the role of Rhett Pollard is already mine."

"Man, you're confident."

"Each each other."

The two ended the call after bragging about each other. Leonardo continued to play the game of eagle and chicken with the reporters. Ebert was preparing for the further promotion of "The Age of Pentium". In just three days, he He has traveled all over the big cities on the east coast of the United States. Fortunately, he has already painted his face during the promotion of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Every time he passes by the airport of a certain city, many fans pick him up and drop him off. Most of the people are looking forward to the release of "The Pentium Era".

The word-of-mouth of the film really spread when the famous film critic Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun" published a film review in a column.Roger Ebert is a well-known film critic in Hollywood and has won the Pulitzer Prize, the highest honor in journalism. The book "Great Movies" that Ebert often read before is a collection of Roger's film reviews.

Roger’s great authority in the industry of film critics can be seen just from a set of statistics—his film reviews have been published and reprinted by more than 200 newspapers around the world, his original star-making techniques and his set of “relatively, not The "absolute" review method is also the reason why he maintains his authority in the film critic industry.

Roger gave "The Pentium Age" three stars.The reason for the deduction of points is that the content of this movie is too lengthy, the foreshadowing plot is too long, the rhythm of the climax part is a bit abrupt, and some parts of the movie are too preachy.

But for the merits of the film, Roger did not hesitate to give praise.The film brilliantly restores the development of the American auto industry in the first 20 years of the last century, and the attitude of the rich family that went bankrupt overnight when despair comes is also a highlight. , the fate and struggle of the characters are also vividly displayed.

In terms of actors, the most valued by Roger is naturally Ebert. He spent five or six lines in the film review pointing out all the highlights of Ebert's performance, without missing anything. In Roger's concise but full of praise In words, Ebert can feel the film critic's appreciation for him, which makes him very encouraged.

You know, Roger has been battling thyroid and salivary gland cancer for a year, and there are only a few movies that have the opportunity to get his comment. "The Pentium Age" is definitely the lucky one among the lucky ones.

And Leonardo's scandal caused "The Pentium Era" to attract attention before it was released on a large scale. Some media that are eager to pay attention to gossip have shifted from the breakup incident between Leonardo and Gisele Bundchen to A new actor named Elizabeth Banks, as the place where this major gossip took place, the movie "The Pentium Age" also appeared in the reports of most gossip tabloids across the United States.

As the leading actor, Ebert also played an indelible role in expanding the media's publicity. In view of his arrogant attitude of not cooperating with the interview at the premiere, the "News of the World" and "National Enquirer" as representatives The steadfast "Ebert Black" spared no effort to discredit Ebert in their reports and bad-mouth the movie, but from the negative side, their reports also promoted the movie in disguise. In any case, "The Pentium Era" is their A hurdle that can never be bypassed.

Amid all the turmoil, on July 7, "The Pentium Era" was quietly released in more than 25 theaters across the United States.

This week's releases include Miramax's "Miramax 3D: Game Over" from Dimensions, Paramount Pictures' "Tomb Raider 2," and "The Age of Rise." It was released on the same day, but the number of registered theaters and the number of films scheduled are much higher than that of "The Pentium Era". However, since Universal Pictures chose to release this film in a very competitive summer time slot, it also shows Universal's respect for the film. confidence.

The box office results of "The Pentium Era" did not disappoint Universal Pictures.

It was released for three days, and the movie ranked second on the weekend box office list, with a box office score of 2555 million US dollars, second only to the 3 million US dollars of "Agent Prodigy 3250D: Game Over" released on the same day.

Although there is still a big gap compared with the No.1 "Agent Prodigy 3D: The End of the Game", the list of lists below "The Pentium Era" is enough to make people feel the magic of this movie.

No.3和No.4分别是上映三周的《加勒比海盗》和上映两周的《绝地战警2》，这两部电影本周末的票房成绩咬得很紧，《绝地战警2》仅以40万美元的差距屈居第四，周五到周日的三天这部电影一共取得了2200万美元的票房，上映9天累计票房已经达到8845万美元。

There is no doubt that this will be another Will Smith movie with a box office of over [-] million.

As a black movie star, Will Smith's achievements are remarkable.He has won several Grammy Awards, and soon became one of the highest-grossing actors in Hollywood after moving to the big screen.Before "Jedi Men 2", the cumulative box office of Will Smith's "Jedi Men", "Independence Day", "Men in Black", "Public Enemy" and other films has reached 25 billion US dollars, of which " "Independence Day" took the double box office champion in 3.06 with a box office of 8.17 million in North America and 1996 million worldwide.

In terms of statistics, Will Smith undoubtedly created a box office myth.

Although "Boxing King Ali" released in 01 only achieved a box office score of more than 5000 million US dollars in North America, this movie gave Will Smith his first Oscar nomination.

For all the movies in the summer file, the works marked with Will Smith are undoubtedly a hurdle they are trying to cross.

Even though this week is only the second week of the release of "Bad Men 2", the box office drop is almost predictable, but for a drama film like "The Pentium Age" that does not have a box office advantage, this blockbuster still has a strong sense. dominance.

In the end, "The Pentium Era" handed over a perfect answer.

The box office of $2555 million in the first week is really not a big deal in the blockbuster summer season, but considering that it is an award-winning feature film after all, it is not easy to achieve such a result.

The most important thing is that the box office of feature films is often steady. It is not like a commercial blockbuster that has a huge box office in the first week, and the drop can reach 50% or more in the second week. There was a slight increase.

Universal Pictures and Gary Rose finally let go of their tight hearts.

Of course, even if "The Pentium Era" achieved the No. 2 weekend box office ranking, it did not cause much disturbance in the media, but for those viewers who are confused about which movie to choose during the summer vacation Well, the results of the three-day premiere of this movie can really add a lot of chips in their hearts. When they don't know which movie to choose, they will naturally think of "The Pentium Era".

This week, all the attention in Hollywood is on "Tomb Raider 2", which was a disastrous box office failure.Paramount's hopeful attempt to grab a slice of the box office war in the summer slots only grossed $2176 million in three days over the weekend, ranking fifth in this week's box office rankings!

Paramount Pictures was stunned from top to bottom!

The production cost was US$9000 million, and the box office in the first week was US$2176 million!It's not even as good as "The Pentium Era".Considering the characteristics of the commercial blockbuster "Tomb Raider 2", if nothing unexpected happens, the box office next week may not even reach 1000 million US dollars.

For the ambitious Paramount, this is undoubtedly a slap in the face from reality.

Paramount's distribution executives had no choice but to explain the box office failure with the lame "We didn't expect the level of competition to be like this, and this is our first time."

You know, the previous film of this film creatively achieved a box office of more than 4600 million U.S. dollars in its first week of release, and even set a box office record for a game-adapted film. Compared with before and after, this year's Paramount is indeed a bit miserable.

The box office blockbusters that stirred up waves throughout the summer of 2003 have almost nothing to do with Paramount. So far, Paramount has only one movie with a box office of over [-] million, starring Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron. "Stealing the Sky and Changing the Sun", the box office of this movie is worth over [-] million, but it only exceeded a few hundred thousand dollars. Compared with Universal, Disney and Columbia, which are at the top of the box office list, Paramount, which is also the top eight in Hollywood The performance in this year's summer file can be called tragic.