[American Entertainment] Bright life

When "Julie and Julia" was released in North America on August 60.00th, the overall shooting progress of "Inception" was only [-]%, and Grace couldn't get away, but the third pseudo-trailer related to Little Lemon was very interesting. Publicity, and there is Meryl in "Julie and Julia".In this way, in the summer vacation where commercial films are rampant, many viewers who are looking for relaxation still choose "Julie and Julia".

In the first three days of the weekend, "Julie and Julia" exceeded the expectations of many professionals and earned $3210 million. As a life comedy with a budget of only $4000 million, this achievement is very impressive, not to mention that it opened in the first week. The number of theaters drawn is only 2354, so the box office of a single theater is 1.38 US dollars, which is higher than this weekend's North American box office champion "Special Forces: Rise of Cobra".

This popular movie "Special Forces: The Rise of Cobra", which was changed based on the animation that was originally produced for toys, opened in 4007 theaters in North America. It's a good result, but you must know that the budget of "Special Forces" can be as high as 5471 million U.S. dollars, and the post-publicity expenses have not been included.

Comparing it like this is actually not very meaningful. After all, one popcorn movie and the other is a life comedy movie, but most of the time box office and data are used by many people to measure whether a movie is good or bad, and whether it is worth watching or not. .Obviously, in this comparison, the results of "Julie and Julia" are eye-catching. In addition, in terms of word-of-mouth, "Julie and Julia" also won the first place: IMDB's 1763 viewers gave 8.6 points, YAHOO's 9 The comprehensive evaluation of domestic media was B+, and the overall evaluation of 1216 audiences was A-.

Audience comments such as:

' There's no shortage of entertainment value, and Meryl Streep's performance, in particular, is both caustic and funny.As for Grace Green, she is not as handsome as in the trailer, but she is unexpectedly close to reality, like a lovely ordinary person. '

'Originally, as long as this kind of movie can be watched, it's fine, but I didn't expect it to be so good! '

'While watching the movie, I was thinking that if Julie and Julia met, they would become very good friends. I didn't expect the ending that the director arranged for them, but they didn't meet. It's a pity. '

'Meryl Streep's Julia is optimistic and unrestrained, which is enviable and yearning, while Grace Green's Julie was not particularly pleasing at the beginning, especially against Julia, but watching her casually While writing a blog, the whole person gradually became more confident, and couldn't help liking her, and felt that she was shining in the end, that's great! '

'I just want to ask if the director still plans to make Dr. Green's Michelin three-star chef? '

'Well, Grace Green is cute as clumsy. '

'...'

The evaluation basically gave favorable comments across the board, and professional film critics, such as "Variety" magazine said: ""Julie and Julia" is one of the most gentle and charming American movies in the past ten years. Its theme An element of bonding and unity for dinner parties, friendships, and marriages."

"Austin Chronicle" reviewed: "A romantic comedy."

The "Chicago Sun-Times" commented: "Simple but thought-provoking. The performances of the two actresses complement each other perfectly."

Driven by this good reputation, the weekend box office of "Julie and Julia" in the second week was 2398 million US dollars, a drop of only 25.3%. 2628 theaters have nothing to do with it—the first-weekend box office of "Julie and Julia" undoubtedly gave Columbia Films a shot in the arm. Naturally, they want to strike while the iron is hot to increase the number of theaters. As of now, "With Julia" has a North American box office of nearly 7500 million. For a light comedy film with an investment of only 4000 million US dollars, it can be said that it has a double harvest at the box office and word of mouth.

It is worth mentioning that this week's weekend box office narrowly overwhelmed "Special Forces: Rise of Cobra" and ranked second, and the top movie was the newly released science fiction movie "District [-]".

"When you finish filming "Inception", you may be able to catch up with the end of the promotion period of "Julie and Julia", but Columbia Pictures is still very satisfied with the current box office and word-of-mouth feedback, so you don't need to have Pressure." Sterling called Grace after receiving the data feedback and said, before Grace could answer, he suddenly changed his face, "What you heard above is what I called the scene, God knows, How many scenes have I said to the outside world."

Grace asked concisely: "Are you proud?"

"I'm obviously complaining——Fine, I won a DVD revenue sharing contract because Columbia Pictures realized that you can bring a lot of selling points just by being handsome." Sterling didn't go against his will and said he couldn't understand Now it's the 'G-spot' for movie fans, after all, it can be seen from Lian San's pseudo-trailer and the response to Aston Martin's commercials.

Grace: "Oh."

Sterling: "...will you die if you say thank you?"

Grace replied confidently: "No, but it will be uncomfortable."

Sterling didn't want to talk, and silently hung up the phone, and then five minutes later, he had to sit down and start writing an email.Who made him so angry and confused just now that he didn't finish what he wanted to explain to Grace. "Julie and Julia" focuses on the North American market. Overseas, the release date of "Julie and Julia" has been set to the end of September and October, nearly two months later than in North America, so Sterling It is said that when Grace finishes filming "Inception" in October, she will still be able to catch up with the end of the promotional period.

In addition, "Growth Education", which in Sterling's opinion is an independent low-cost literary film that does not pursue box office at all, but only pursues awards, will participate in the London Film Festival in August, and will be held in Canada in September Toronto Film Festival.Don't think about the London Film Festival, but Sterling referred to Grace's filming schedule. When the Toronto Film Festival was held, "Inception" was filmed in the Canadian Rockies. Sterling hoped that Grace could spare Time to go to the Toronto Film Festival and stand for "Growth Education".

Sterling still pays more attention to the film "Growing Education". It won the Audience Award-World Film Unit-Feature Film at this year's Sundance Film Festival-the world's premier independent film festival, and was widely acclaimed.This gave Sterling a new idea. He wanted to see if Grace could support an independent film. Considering that Grace is now gradually proving that she has the ability to carry the box office, and the box office appeal is also increasing day by day. What is needed now is to prove the ability to carry the box office alone. ("Enchanted" is also counted as one), as well as awards (this year seems to be very likely to win awards), you can advance, then if you can support independent films, it means that there is more room for development.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Grace herself will not lose the chain.

Sterling is very worried when he thinks of this. He now has the best card, but the card is also very likely to be rotten in an instant. It is no wonder he is not worried.

By the way, she is still in love now.

Sterling had a moment to email Angus Green and tell him 'hey, your sister is in a relationship, you know that? ' thought, but this thought was suppressed by him.It’s not because of his conscience, but because he thinks that Angus Green probably already knew it. It’s just because of Grace. Note that it’s Grace, not Leonardo DiCaprio, who is filming “Inception” , so no action was taken.

It can only be said that what Sterling thought was right:

"Grace, what are you looking at?" When the crew was about to start filming a new scene, Leonardo noticed that Grace was looking around, and asked her curiously.

Grace withdrew her gaze and defined the person Angus sent: "Shadows."

"Shadow, what shadow?" Leonardo asked curiously, but Grace, who made things so dramatic, didn't tell him.Leonardo didn't get the answer, so he looked around in the direction Grace was looking at. He didn't find anything unusual... Could it be that the IQ gap between him and Grace is so large?

Leonardo felt that it was better not to admit this, to deceive oneself and others, so Leonardo did not ask the bottom line.

What can I say, well done?

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The scene of "Inception" in Los Angeles, including the use of "props" - the giant "Vientiane Ring" - is the scene where gravity changes in the second layer of dreams. The set is built on a giant rotatable "Vientiane Ring" device.When the entire corridor began to rotate and tilt, the actors only had to adjust their balance naturally, while the fixed camera made it look like the direction of gravity was changing-after the scene was filmed, it rolled again Location, to the Canadian Rockies.

After filming in the Rocky Mountains of Canada, I returned to Los Angeles, and some scenes had to be completed in the studio. This lasted more than four months, and "Inception" completed all filming in early October.

The frequent location changes of "Inception" can be said to be comparable to "Quantum of Solace" filmed by Grace. "Quantum of Solace" was filmed all over Italy, London, Austria, Panama, and Mexico. and Chile.

The above is a digression, the key is that "Inception" has finished.

Next, some serious problems should come or will come.