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After such an unforgettable Valentine's Day, the two separated.

Grace has to go back to Los Angeles, she still has the cover of "Vanity Fair" to shoot, other than that she doesn't seem to have any other planned itinerary, and Leonardo, he has to do global promotion for "Shutter Island", This is essential, although he really wanted to run away like this and make old Martin angry, but unfortunately he was still "reckless" in the end, and had to try his best to persuade Martin Scorsese to stop letting Grace cross the line To give him the idea of ​​being a screenwriter, Italian gangster movie scripts should find more professional screenwriters-Martin Scorsese said it casually at the time, but after chatting with Grace, he was really moved Yes, his original subject matter was gangsters, but since "The Departed" in 06, he hasn't made any more gangster movies. Even though he already has an established shooting plan, it doesn't stop him from wanting to make another one. It's a gangster movie, so the old man lobbied Grace as soon as it came out, and Leonardo was going to be doubled up.

Let's put aside the Italian gangster movie that says the wind is the rain, let's watch the "Shutter Island" in front of us.

This movie is led by Leonardo, coupled with Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams and other green leaves, the lineup also has a considerable scale.Coupled with the golden signature of Martin Scorsese, as well as the first feature film directed after winning the Oscar for best director, and the first attempt at thriller gimmicks in more than 40 years of filming, "Shutter Island" was released on this ordinary day in February. In the movie schedule, it got off to a good start, winning two consecutive weekend box office in North America, with a total of 2 million U.S. dollars in two weeks.

Such an achievement is naturally not the best among the films Leonardo has made, but it is the highest among all the films directed by Martin Scorsese.In the third week of the film's release, the time has entered March, and the latest release in this week is "Alice in Wonderland" produced by Disney.

At that time, Disney strongly invited Grace to play Alice, but in the end they did not reach a consensus: Tim Burton, the director of "Alice in Wonderland", already had a favorite candidate at that time, and Grace had no feeling for the script, and it happened that Meili Hall invited her to star in "Julie and Julia".Not to mention the real situation, when Disney promoted this second movie after "Avatar" to be released in ordinary theaters, 3D, and IMAX-3D specifications, it also mentioned this passing incident incidentally, as a A publicity point.

Missing the film, which earned $1.16 million in North America in three days in its opening weekend, was no regret for Grace. Although the box office of "Alice in Wonderland" was a blowout, the word of mouth can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.

The "Los Angeles Times" commented: "Burton's version of Alice's story has innovations, but the essence of the original book has disappeared."

"Entertainment Weekly" thinks so: "The concept that the whole movie wants to convey to the audience is quite vague and confusing."

In addition, the technical evaluation was not satisfactory. The "San Francisco Chronicle" said: "3D gimmicks, boring CG, and outdated fantasy elements."

In addition, the performance of the actors was also criticized by film critics. On the whole, "Alice in Wonderland" seems to have fallen into an embarrassing situation, but for Disney, the success of "Alice in Wonderland" at the box office and gimmicks is a To be honest, so I went all the way to the dark. In addition to the sequel of "Magic Romance" that was put on the agenda, Disney began to establish a project at the end of last year for the adaptation of "Sleeping Beauty", tentatively named "Maleficent". " film project, and Sterling began formal negotiations.

Not to mention that Maleficent is a female devil with horns on her head, green skin and can transform into a black and purple dragon. Just because this is not a sequel movie, it is enough to make the sequel movie shrouded in the near future. Sterling has a relatively high impression score first.

Of course, Sterling was not prepared to hang himself on the Disney tree.After Maleficent, another non-sequel project came up for Sterling, Gravity.

Warner Bros. also wants to get on the 3D ship that is riding the wind and waves to level the ground, so there is this space science fiction thriller "Gravity", one of its directors and screenwriters is Alfonso Cuarón.The Mexican director is behind critically acclaimed films such as "Your Mother, Too," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," and "Children of Men."It is worth mentioning that he also contributed the voice-over to "Quantum of Solace", together with another director, Guillermo del Toro.

It is not difficult to understand that Sterling became very interested when he saw the director's name.As for "Gravity", the story tells that when the male astronaut leader and one of his female colleagues walked out of the cabin on the Earth space station, the debris from the satellite explosion hit the space station, except for the two astronauts who left the cabin , everyone else died, and after that, the two surviving astronauts had to find ways to return to Earth... It can be said that there are only a few characters in this movie, and the most important thing is only these two surviving astronauts, and It is the female astronaut who is carried out from beginning to end, and the second half of the script is basically her one-man show alone.

With the addition of the wonderful script, character setting, and director, Sterling had no reason not to be tempted. He almost had to cut it first and play later, so he agreed instead of Grace.At the critical moment, Sterling still had a bit of reason, and this bit of reason told him that the correct way should be to stabilize the producer first, then go back and show the script to Grace, and when Grace agrees, he will formally give it to the producer. reply.

Why does it sound like Sterling, who has advanced on the road to a gold medal agent, is still a bit pitiful?It must be an illusion.

Well, this is an illusion, because Grace agreed without hesitation after reading the script.So this can actually be seen as Sterling's influence on whether Grace will accept the script or not, so don't expect to have the same power as other agents who can bypass the client and decide to accept the movie for the client.

If Sterling can't let go, then look sideways at Leonardo's agent and former agents next door.It has been good for more than a year. The number of brokers has stabilized at one, and has not been changed as frequently as before.

Having said that, the signing of "Gravity" has not been as fast as the decision to accept the filming. In addition to arguing about the salary and benefits, there is another thing because this year's Oscar Awards Ceremony will be held .

Sterling didn't ask much of Grace, except for one: "I don't ask you to be like the other nominees when the camera is on you, but you have to be a little nervous, Dr. Green." , just don't put on a calm 'I live in a world full of goldfish' face at least, okay?"

It’s not because Sterling said this because of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. Grace’s expression of squinting at her close-up camera was labeled as such after the fact. The comparison pictures at that time were all popular on Twitter and Facebook. Woke up.In Sterling's view, this does not seem to be something to be particularly proud of.

After listening to Sterling's words, Grace immediately gave him a "don't be stupid" look that could almost be visualized.

Sterling: "...This doesn't work either. For the same reason, you can still roll your eyes, even under your nose. Let's put it this way, if you really don't have the definition of nervousness before the result is announced, you can ask your boyfriend Mr. DiCaprio learn a lesson."

This - don't you know why the flag should not be set up casually?Leonardo was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 94 for "A Different Sky", and then won two Oscars for "The Aviator" (2005) and "Blood Diamond" (2007) Best Actor nominations... note the keyword 'nominated'.Although Grace's filming time is short, she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress last year for "Suspicion of Child Abuse". Ci, Sterling asked Grace to learn from Leonardo, do you still have to learn his disappointed expression after not winning the award?That's abusive, okay?

Know what is more cruel?That is, in the future, Grace will be nominated for Best Actress one after another but just won't win, following in the footsteps of her boyfriend.

The derivative meaning of this is that at this Academy Awards ceremony, the Best Actress Award was finally awarded to Sandra Bullock, who had just won the Golden Globe for "All About Steve" the day before. Raspberry Award for Best Actress.

——Grace is only nominated but not awarded for the first time√

Good things come along with bad things. Although she didn't get an Oscar statuette, it didn't seem to affect Warner Bros.'s willingness to offer her a high salary of 500 million US dollars for joining "Gravity", and This is just the remuneration, and the share will be calculated separately.You must know that the shadow of the current economic crisis has not completely dissipated, and there are very few female stars who can get such a high salary in recent years.

Leonardo had read the script of "Gravity" and thought it was a good challenge for Grace, but when the news came out that Warner had intended to invite Robert Downey Jr. to play the surviving man After the astronaut, Leonardo rolled his eyes silently in his heart, why is he the co-actor again, he still haunts him, right?

Couldn't his bespoke ring be done any faster?