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A little more trivia ahead of the Quantum of Solace press conference:

The press conference of "Quantum of Solace" was on January 2008, 1. In the month before that, the weight of the American film industry was second only to the Golden Globe Awards of the Oscars. The award ceremony was held on January 25 with news The format of the press conference was held.This is undoubtedly affected by the screenwriter's strike that has not yet ended. Compared with the red carpet shine in previous years, it is quite deserted.

"Atonement" won Best Picture, Drama and Best Score, while Grace was nominated for Best Actress, Musical/Comedy, which went to French actress Marion Cotillard.

The nominations for the 80th Academy Awards were also announced on the 23rd. Atonement is nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Cirissa Ronan), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design and Best Original Score.Enchanted, starring Grace, paled in comparison, nominated only for Best Original Song.

However, as a commercial film, "Enchanted" has done its best.Being nominated at the Academy Awards is the icing on the cake for Enchanted.

——As of a few days ago, the global box office of "Enchanted" has reached 8000 million US dollars. As a commercial film with a budget of only [-] million US dollars, the return on investment of "Enchanted" is roughly calculated ( The ratio of profit to investment cost) is as high as [-].

Of course, this is just a rough calculation. The cost of "Enchanted" is naturally more than 8000 million US dollars. In addition to the budget cost, there are also publicity costs, but I must say that the publicity cost of "Enchanted" is not high, but the effect achieved But it made other film companies look sideways, and of course the total box office also.

Sterling doesn't really hold out much hope that Grace will be nominated for Best Actress again at the Academy Awards.If you don't report your hopes, you don't report your hopes, but you can't stop working because the chance of being nominated is not high.When Grace went to film "Suspected Child Abuse", Sterling and WMA did their homework in private. Now it seems that they have done nothing, but in the long run, Grace has unlimited potential, so let's get familiar with it now , See you in the future.

In addition, Grace was not nominated, but the Academy invited her as an award presenter and hoped that she could sing "That's How You Know" at the award ceremony.

However, the Academy Awards ceremony will be held on February 2, which conflicts with Grace's schedule, and Sterling expressed his refusal on behalf of his client.Speaking of "ten moves and rejections", Sterling has really done a lot of ten moves and rejections since the hit of "Enchanted", such as endorsements, talk shows, and subsequent script invitations, etc. wait.

The reasons are complicated, and the main reason is that Grace’s schedule is tight. She is basically on the move. Growth Education", waiting in line to shoot.Also, "Mamma Mia" will be released in July this year, while "Quantum of Solace" will be released in November, and "Suspicion of Child Abuse" should be scheduled for December.

Of course, there are also those who are negotiating.Sterling is negotiating a contract with Disney recently, and when Grace is sent to Italy, he will go back to "gnaw" on Disney's tough bone.

Hey, why is it related to Italy again?

This has to talk about some other trivial things that Grace participated in the filming before she officially entered the crew of "Quantum of Solace".

In "Quantum of Solace", Camille, played by Grace, is not only the first Bond girl who has not slept with Bond, but also has a lot of "martial arts" in the film. Among the previous Bond girls, in terms of martial arts, It is also among the best.

This requires high martial arts moves, but Grace's swordsmanship is quite good.

Speaking of this, maybe we have to ask how Grace passed the audition.Well, there were four casting directors during the audition. Before Grace showed off her swordsmanship, one of the casting directors asked about her specialty. Grace showed her "specialty" and then... nothing more.

Therefore, Grace had to receive systematic training in Italy before officially entering the filming group.At the same time, the crew will also transfer from Pinewood Studios to Italy for location shooting. Not only that, "Quantum of Solace" will move to more location locations in the future, including Panama, Chile, Mexico and Austria in addition to Italy and the United Kingdom. wait.

Considering that the training is closed, and the coaches in charge of training Grace are the top in the industry, and it needs to be accelerated in a short period of time, Sterling feels that nothing will happen in these four weeks, so he Feel free to fly back to Los Angeles.

At this time, the news about the press conference has been released one after another.

When the press conference was held, Sterling was waiting outside. When the reporters filed out, he also deliberately observed their expressions to see who had cried-this is an exaggerated rhetorical technique. But Sterling believes that Grace can do it—surprisingly, the reporters are mostly relaxed.

Sterling was still thinking, could it be that Grace has restrained herself?After Sterling read the released report, he knew that he really thought too much, and why did the photo of Grace "hugging left and right" become the most used picture?

This has to be said, after the news of the "Quantum of Solace" press conference came out, there was a lot of reaction on the Internet.In addition, in addition to the paper media, the pictures released successively on the major news websites are more complete and clearer, and the news is more diverse. This is part of the premise.

——"Dr. Green takes all men and women, showing the demeanor of Miss Bond"!I just want to ask if it is possible not to have such a misleading title. You have the ability to match the title and make the title come true!

——Upstairs is calm, thinking from another angle, Miss Bond's acceptance is very wide, maybe one day MGM will resolutely let go of her real filming.

——Thinking about it from another angle, just relying on Dr. Green's long legs, no, it's the aura. In this Mr. Bond movie, I began to think that Mr. Bond is the main sexy, and Dr. Green Focus on wisdom.

——Speaking of the issue of aura, Dr. Green's aura is [-] meters, whoever is weaker.Look at Meryl, look at Leonardo, look at the reporters - [with attached picture] [with attached picture] [with attached picture]

——I'm looking forward to the future, let everyone in the entertainment industry become Dr. Green's "defeated opponent"!

——Wait, why are you focusing on this picture?I admit that Grace has the strongest aura, the longest legs, and the best looks, but what deserves more attention than this, isn't it what she said?Just like she can see so many problems from Daniel's cufflinks; another example is the same kind of people she said.

——Can I say that I pretended that I didn't see the remarks of "if you don't agree with me, you will engage in IQ crushing"?

——Can I say that I pretended that I didn't see the statement of 'the aliens have great ambitions, and the earth is in danger'?

——Can I say I'm pretending I didn't see that 'Dr. Green wants cultural invasion of all human beings' statement?

——The earth is in danger, and you need to be cautious when speaking, so let’s talk about Dr. Green’s aura.

—Oh, uh, all right.

Solemnly declare, this is just a comment on Grace's personal fan forum. Grace has not been so "demonized" outside, otherwise the National Security Agency would have found it long ago.

Just kidding, but it's true that Grace has become a fan again.

In fact, with the rising box office of "Enchanted", the fake trailer of 007 came out, and the news release after the press conference, etc., the number of fans on Grace's Facebook continued to increase, even though Grace Facebook is still empty, and the last time she logged on to Facebook was the scandal, but one speech by Grace is enough to reminisce for a long time.

Sterling also did not volunteer to help manage Grace’s Facebook. Although this is the norm (agents or assistants help manage celebrities’ social accounts), Sterling will not “ask for trouble” and he will Can't imitate Grace's style.The agent just looks at the number of fans, and then he has the bottom line to fight for a better contract for his client, such as a contract with Disney.

Disney wants to get Grace's "script priority", that is to say, under the same conditions, Grace has priority over scripts from other film companies, and consider the scripts sent by Disney.In return, Disney will also give priority to promoting Grace in the films produced or distributed by their company under the same conditions.

Disney will have such considerations. One is that Grace is now one of the most popular and promising stars of tomorrow in Hollywood. She doesn't play her cards according to common sense, but not only the movie fans follow her, but also the media seems to be particularly conniving to her. Even though she only has two movies released at the moment, Disney can’t deny that “Enchanted Romance” can achieve a lot more box office results than they expected at the beginning, and Grace contributed a box office appeal beyond their imagination. Look at the present In the new 007 series of movies, her attention has surpassed that of Bond. How many stars of tomorrow can do it?Under such circumstances, Disney naturally has to act first to attract such a rising star to its own territory as soon as possible; moreover, so far no media has uncovered Grace's family background, and the other seven giants I don't know, but because of the relationship between "Enchanted", Disney naturally knows part of it.Although it is not particularly clear, it is enough to know that she has a prominent background. Disney will never get along with big capitalists. After all, an important part of the movie is the "investor".

Taken together, it's not surprising that Disney has such considerations.

Sterling knew better in his heart, so he was very stable in the negotiation with Disney, and he was afraid of whoever was talking.

Think about it, when he was arguing with MGM and Grace's salary, Sterling abruptly raised the original 200 million to one-half more, and even let the producer of "Quantum of Solace" Barbara Bara Brockoni called him a vampire in private, which shows that Mr. Broccone is very accomplished in this area.

So it's not surprising that Disney executives felt the same way as Barbara Broccone later on.

However, all things generate and restrain each other. When Sterling was satisfied with the contract and flew from Los Angeles to Italy to find Grace, who he knew was undergoing arduous training, he followed the staff at the training base to the field where Grace was. A venue for training flying car skills.

Sterling didn't know why he had already started to have a bad feeling. Now he finally remembered Grace's novice driver Green's extraordinary performance as a novice driver.God bless him, his client doesn't bring that style to the training ground.

This time God seems to have heard Sterling's prayers. When they got to the place, Sterling saw Grace, she was talking with the coach in charge of training her in front of a sports car, instead of driving scary in the venue.

After listening for a while, Sterling... didn't understand what they were saying at all. Considering that the coach was Italian, Sterling decisively turned around and asked the staff who brought him over: "What are they talking about?"

The staff thought for a while and answered him: "I can only tell you that they are discussing how to modify this car." He didn't hear the specific technical terms very clearly, and besides, he is not in this business.

"Oh." Sterling responded casually, and then suddenly raised his voice, "What did you say?"

The staff gave Sterling a strange look. They didn't seem to understand why he reacted so strongly, but they still explained kindly: "Just modify the car to make it run faster and have higher performance."

"I know what 'modified vehicle' means. I mean my client. Shouldn't Dr. Green be training how to drive here?" Sterling came to his senses after speaking. Do you need training?

At this time, Grace finished talking with the coach, and turned her head to say hello to Sterling: "Nice to meet you, Derek."

Sterling's eyelids twitched, and he asked blankly, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Italian English, do as Romans do." When Grace spoke again, she had already switched her accent to her usual Oxford accent, and considering that she added an Irish accent to her accent in "Atonement", in "Enchanted" uses the accent of the Upper East Side of New York, and "Mamma Mia" also learned Greek, and "Suspicious Child Abuse" has the same accent as Meryl, adding a New York accent, but it is not the same as "Magic" The one used in Romance is not the same, and in "Quantum of Solace", Camille's mother tongue is Spanish, so when she speaks English, she has to be Spanish...so please call her—accent little Prince.

Sterling didn't want to know what else Grace did when she went to the country to do as the Romans did. He just wanted to ask: What about the agreed-upon 'God is with me'?