[American Entertainment] Bright life

Since 2002, after the "Bourne" series set off a new style of spy films and political thrillers with the role of Bourne, Hollywood immediately followed suit.

The spy film project in the hands of Columbia Pictures has actually existed since 2006, but the script was still in Sony at that time, but after some twists and turns, it was transferred to Columbia Pictures, and the script has changed a lot .Because this script was originally built around Tom Cruise, but Tom Cruise not only has a great film contract, but he also has a "Mission: Impossible" series. Because of concerns about overlapping roles, Tom Cruise quit the project.

Of course, there is another very important reason, the pay issue.You must know that Tom Cruise had already joined the $2000 million club before the millennium. After that, in the "Mission: Impossible" series or "War of the Worlds", he directly adopted the model of remuneration + box office sharing. In Impossible 3, after deducting Tom Cruise's remuneration and investors' and movie theaters' share, Paramount made almost no money. Meng's relationship dropped to a freezing point, and it took two years to get better.

Columbia Pictures doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of Paramount, let alone they don't have a movie now, and action movies have been declining in recent years.

In any case, this project can’t be done blindly. When Columbia Pictures was discussing which male star to invite, they didn’t know who had a whim to suggest whether it was possible to replace the male role with a woman so as to be compatible with “Mission: Impossible” "Bourne Shadow" is different, and it may also bring unexpected gains.

Everyone discussed this proposal and found it feasible.

After that, most people think that Angelina Jolie is the most suitable candidate for the leading actress. She can be said to be the number one actress in the field of action movies. Tomb Raider, followed by "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", and "Wanted" in the previous two years can all illustrate her appeal in the action film market.

Angelina Jolie herself also has intentions. Such a movie with an absolute protagonist is what she needs for her postpartum comeback. This time it is not stuck on the pay, even Angelina Jolie was promoted to 2000 million pay. , but the remuneration of female stars has never been comparable to that of male stars, but Angelina Jolie's political leanings, and she wants to rewrite the original plot outline.

This was not a problem at the beginning, the script was originally created for men, but now that the protagonist is replaced by a woman, the outline of the plot will naturally change.In this way, Angelina Jolie's studio got involved, and the problem was here. The outline of the script after roughly changing it was sent to the hands of the studio's senior management. I feel that it is not as good as "Bourne Shadow", because it is so weak, and now it has not become better at all. Could it be that you want to make one, and then stop this project directly?

Columbia Pictures does not want to stop here, so the negotiations with Angelina Jolie will be suspended for the time being. The moment coincides with the pre-release promotion of "Quantum of Solace", and Columbia Pictures is also involved in the production and distribution of this movie. The 007 movie, of course, knows that the script of this movie has been reformed, so they thought of Grace, and also thought that before this, her agent also had cooperation intentions.

This is not an option.

Let's wait and see the response after the release of "Quantum of Solace" first, and everyone has seen the response. From overseas to North America, it only takes two weeks before and after, and North America is only released for three days on the first weekend. The total box office of "Quantum of Solace" It is close to 007 million US dollars. For this film with an investment of 5.9 million US dollars, this can basically be called a return on capital, but is it still in the early stage of its release? According to this posture, "Quantum of Solace" surpassed the previous one. It is only a matter of time before the $[-] million of "Casino Royale", which broke the box office record of the [-] series, will also create a new box office record this time.

Furthermore, for a commercial movie that uses box office to explain everything, this "Quantum of Solace" is far better than any previous 007 movie in terms of word of mouth, and sporadic bad reviews can't hinder it. There have been countless positive reviews, both from critics and audiences.

It is true that the box office and word-of-mouth of commercial movies are not linked in many cases, but it cannot be denied that sometimes bad word-of-mouth will still affect the movie box office to some extent.

In any case, after looking at the word-of-mouth and box office of "Quantum of Solace", Columbia Pictures invited Grace to participate in the production of their spy war project.In addition to valuing Grace's high popularity in Hollywood tomorrow, not today's star, there is also her talent in screenwriting. Doesn't that kind of high-powered spy coincide with her own high IQ setting?

Of course, it’s not that no one has proposed to let Grace participate in the rewriting of the script, and let Angelina Jolie continue to be the leading role... Such a proposal is simply stupid, and it is easy to disagree with both sides, and it ends up being a chicken fly egg. .

Columbia Pictures is desperate, but Sterling is confused. He hasn't mentioned this matter to Grace until now!He wanted to mention it at first, but didn't Grace go to play a dress-up game at that time, and he forgot about it later.

Now, that's embarrassing.

Before it was too late to make up for it, Sterling quickly told Grace about it.

Grace took the original script from Columbia Pictures, looked at it and said, "CIA?"

Sterling reacted: "You mean the department the protagonist belongs to, yes, it's the CIA. Speaking of "The Bourne", Burn originally belonged to the CIA, and "Mission: Impossible" seems to be an original department, but Most of the settings in spy movies have something to do with the CIA, after all, does it have anything to do with international affairs?"

Grace suddenly remembered a spy movie she knew: "Body of Lies, have you seen it?"

"Ah?" Sterling took a while to react. It's not that Sterling didn't know the movie "Body of Lies", but that he wasn't used to Grace talking about movies with him for a while, and it wasn't right. , it was Grace who actually chatted with him about movies like ordinary people... "I know about this movie, but I haven't seen it in theaters, have you seen it?"

Grace replied as a matter of course: "No."

Sterling: "...then why did you bring up this movie?"

Grace raised her head, she thought about it seriously and said, "It's starring Mr. DiCaprio, a very interesting goldfish."

The corner of Sterling's mouth twitched, and just as he was about to say something, he realized a more serious problem: "Wait, have you guys had an intersection recently? How could it be? And dear Dr. Green, does he know what you say about him? ?” Can’t you not casually despise other people’s IQ?Other people's IQ is very innocent, don't want to be hit, okay?

"I think he has his own experience." After Grace said this, she continued to read her script.

Sterling stared at his client's hair for five seconds, and then said out of nowhere: "He actually knows all of Victoria's secrets."

Grace frowned and looked at Mr. Manager. Sterling is not a person who is so easy to subdue. The main reason is that Grace is not kind. She just revealed something like that without telling him the cause and effect. Don't count on him now. Explain it clearly to her, thinking of Sterling like this, he puts his arms around his chest like a bachelor: "Dr. Green, don't you have a high IQ? Think about what this sentence means by yourself, and do you want to accept this script? Of course, what Columbia Pictures means is that they would like you to participate in rewriting the script."

Sterling has also read the script in advance. To be honest, he thinks it is at the same level as the "Quantum of Solace" before it was rewritten. After the Sherlock Holmes script, Sterling's aesthetic level has been greatly improved, and he has a little disdain for this script. It is not on the same level as the spy who kills all directions and is full of suspense.

Grace temporarily put Sterling's words that puzzled her aside, and asked, "Is the rewriting you're talking about based on the original outline of the story, or can it be rewritten directly from the outline of the story?"

"The former," Sterling said uncertainly, and when Grace gave a "don't be stupid" look, Sterling spread his hands and said angrily, "Don't look at me like that, Columbia Pictures must mean that. But when the filming starts, how the script will be finalized, isn’t it up to you? Haven’t you always been good at leading others by the nose? Believe me, this is definitely a compliment.”

"Thank you for your compliment, Derek." Grace said with a very innocent smile, which made Sterling's scalp tingle. He always felt like he stepped on a landmine today, and it was an irregular landmine. I don't know when it will explode.

This feeling made Mr. Manager tighten his strings, but he was still trembling. He still had to do what he had to do, such as wrangling with Columbia Pictures.At this time, Sterling doesn't really hope that this matter will be settled so quickly, because there are still more than half a month before the nominations for the Golden Globes will be announced, and Grace in "Suspicion of Child Abuse" is likely to win the Golden Globes The nomination for Best Supporting Actress is not low in gold, and it is also a bargaining chip for him to wrestle with Columbia Pictures, and there is also sponsorship from Aston Martin. Go to pay club.

Note that this refers to the remuneration, not the total amount after adding dividends.

This aspect is what Sterling needs to be responsible for, and the time has come to show the professionalism of his agent.At the same time, "Quantum of Solace" continued to reap the box office. Compared with the first weekend, the box office of the second weekend dropped by nearly 40% to 5426 million US dollars. This decline was more affected by the latest "Twilight" The impact of this youth campus version of the vampire love movie, the box office received nearly 7000 million US dollars in the first weekend, can not help but marvel at the influence of the fan base of the original novel.

"Quantum of Solace" is the runner-up, but the cumulative box office has already easily crossed the 1.78 million mark, and the two-week total score of 007 million US dollars also maintains the highest level of the [-] series. Such a result is actually quite impressive Yes, it is only a matter of time before it breaks through [-] million in North America.

At the same time, the global box office of "Quantum of Solace" has reached 5.5 million US dollars, and it will probably take less than a week to surpass the box office of the previous work.This kind of box office trend also makes people in the industry can't help but predict the final box office of "Quantum of Solace". It seems that it did not have much difficulty breaking through 7 million US dollars a year ago. Anyway, this new 007 series The movie will set a new box office record for the 007 series.

And, "Quantum of Solace" entered the top ten rankings of the global box office in 08, which is already a certainty, and now it is unknown where it will be ranked.

Although there is still one month left before the end of 08, in December, awards-winning movies are usually released together, and there are not many block-office-competitive blockbusters released in the schedule, so now the rankings can be ranked one after another. , and it was at this time that people suddenly realized that there were two films starring Grace in the top ten of the global box office this year.

Looking back at every movie she has shown, even "Atonement", which played a small supporting role, has a total box office of more than 17 million US dollars, and these films ("Atonement", "Enchanted" ", "Mamma Mia", "Quantum of Solace") have a total box office of 06 billion US dollars, and two of them are currently in theaters. Looking at it again, since the filming of "Atonement" in 08, it has not been released until now. It was only [-], but just three years!

Not to mention that she has this year's Oscar seeding candidate "Suspected Child Abuse" to be screened, and according to film critics who have watched "Suspected Child Abuse", her performance is enough to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress!

Perhaps it is not appropriate to describe her as a rising star anymore. If there is an award certification in the future, then she will have half a foot on the threshold of the A-list, isn't it?So we have to start as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late to make a good relationship after they really become a-list.

No matter what the other seven major film companies think, anyway, Columbia Pictures is dazzled by the series of data that can't lie. Discuss with Sterling, we can talk about the salary and share.

Sterling still had a reserved look on his face, and it was absolutely impossible to see that this series of reports was fueled by him behind the scenes.Grace Green, the star of the day, sounds more sensual, doesn't it?