Chapter 721： market saturation

Aaron Eckhart, born in California on March 12, 1968, is an American film and television actor. His works are "The Cheapest Men", "Never Compromise", "Love You Hopelessly"...

Nolan flipped through his resume and saw a rather decent-looking man coming in.

With a long face, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a high nose bridge, I feel like I can play a positive role.

In the entertainment industry, looks and temperament can be said to complement each other.

If you look bad - like the pirate actors in "Pirates of the Caribbean" with different looks, there is almost no way out of change except to be a harlequin.

Therefore, let's not say anything else, this image at least meets the standard of the role.

After all, there's no way the prosecutor's role would allow a... well, odd-looking person to get in.

In the audition room, Lyman was also curious about Nolan's choice.

At first glance, Lyman saw that this man was the original actor in the role of Harvey.

When he thought there would be a change, Nolan seemed to be satisfied with him.

At least, the few people who had been interviewed before had not asked me so carefully.

Views on the character, understanding of Bruce Wayne, and do you have anything to say about the reconstruction of the Gotham order in "Mystery of the Shadow" - in the first part, Rachel and Wayne discuss the criminal in the car.. ....

Since Aaron Eckhart was able to squeeze into the fourth round of auditions, he naturally knew a lot about the project and answered in a well-organized manner.

Plus, he's deliberately imitating the role of a prosecutor. The sense of substitution is quite good, and it looks more like a character template.

Soon, Nolan asked him to go out and wait for news.

As soon as they left, he asked, "What do you think?"

"Didn't you already have an interest?"

Nolan picked up his resume and put it aside.

In the afternoon, Allen's agent came after being notified.

Although the white man, who is also around 30 years old, tried his best to remain calm, some small actions betrayed his psychological urgency and joy.

You must know that Aaron Eckhart is now only a second- or third-rate male star who has appeared in several movies. His works are not well-known, his public image is almost non-existent, and he has few opportunities to act.

Even if it's not a supporting role in a much-anticipated masterpiece like "The Dark Knight", he is willing to negotiate.

For actors, there is not much power and space to choose before they have achieved something.

After a few greetings, Allen's agent took the initiative to say: "Mr. Rust, we have studied Batman very seriously, and Allen himself is very happy to participate in "The Dark Knight"..." - We promise, how much is the salary?

Lyman easily read the core of the words from it, he replied: "Let's talk about the schedule first, there are about 4 months of preparation and filming time in the middle, and the role of prosecutor Harvey is relatively heavy, at least in the The crew is on set for two to two and a half months, so... how about $3 million?"

"In this case, we have no problem."

Before making the offer, Johnson had inquired about Aaron Eckhart's past performance prices and reported it to Lyman.

This guy really doesn't have much qualifications, and the salary for playing a leading role is less than 3 million US dollars. Now playing a male partner to 3 million is already an excellent salary in the industry.

Of course, this is also because the role of Harvey is one of the turning points in advancing the plot, and the selection needs to be careful.

"So, now let's talk about our requirements," Lehman continued: "Keep exercising and maintain your body. If possible, think more about the speeches and tone of high-level civil servants. There are several public statements in the play, which were shot well. The momentum must be sufficient at the time, other than that, there is basically nothing to do. Learn more about the characters."

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In the first week, after "300" easily won 81.46 million US dollars with a cavalier attitude, the next week began to decline due to the consumption of potential audiences.

Monday, November 18, 12.23 million;

Tuesday, November 19, 10.87 million;

Wednesday, November 20, 8.23 ​​million;

......

However, even if the box office slips, other films in the same period, old and new, are not so good in comparison.

From November 18th to November 24th, the market share of the North American theater market this week, only one "300" shared 26% of the cake, and more than 20 other films shared the remaining %. 74.

Therefore, when the box office data for the new week is released, many people are already psychologically prepared-

"300" accumulated 18.23 million in the second weekend, and 48.96 million in 7 days once again secured the weekly box office champion.

And the subsequent rankings have changed a lot.

Due to the lack of new films with box-office competitiveness in the market, the penguin cartoon "Happy Feet" produced by Warner Bros. Pictures directly won 41.53 million in the first weekend and ranked second, while the latest 007 series "Casino Royale" continued to follow closely. Later, it won 40.83 million box office.

According to the follow-up market forecast data released by the North American box office statistics agency, "Happy Feet" should be able to break the box office revenue of 80 million US dollars in the next weekend, and "Casino Royale" is 75 million US dollars.

Although "Casino Royale" ranked third at the North American box office and did not even compete with a single animated film, its distributor, Columbia, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Group, said (the two businesses are officially parallel) that the film is in overseas markets. The box office has always been higher than the North American results.

According to the current audience reputation alone, it is expected that it will soon surpass the 007 film box office record set by "Die Another Day" in 2002 - "Die Another Day" starring Pierce Brosnan has so far earned 4.32 at the global box office. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

As for why Colombia is so confident in relying on overseas markets, in addition to the fact that the original 007 series is highly accepted in overseas countries, it is also because the joining of this version of the new 007 has not been boycotted by the fan community——

As the actor of the sixth generation 007, Daniel Craig withstood the huge pressure and doubts from the outside world. I remember when it was announced that he would play the new 007, Bond fans and the media all over the world questioned him, and some even sneered, saying that he was not handsome enough, that he was too short, and that he had yellow hair... . But when the film came out, Craig's performance shut up anyone who questioned him.

In addition, the Bond girl played by Eva is also different from the previous Bond girls as a vase set off. Instead, she conquered the audience with her calm mind and methods. Therefore, Colombia is really confident in the film, even if there is no competition in the domestic market.

Then, the sci-fi thriller "The Dimension Effect" starring the famous black movie star Denzel Washington earned $27.82 million at the weekend box office, ranking fourth on the list.

Among the newly released films, the religious-themed film "The Nativity", which depicts the love story of Jesus' parents, is also more eye-catching, and ranked fifth on the list with a weekend box office of $10.36 million. Comedy "A Shiny Christmas" came in sixth with $8.7 million.

With Christmas still a few weeks away from the Thanksgiving holiday, Hollywood studios aren't putting out box-office hits this week, given that most American households are currently busy with pre-Christmas shopping.

But the 12 top-grossing North American films this weekend grossed about $112.6 million at the box office, up about 8 percent from the same period last year.

This proves that the action of adding canvases and building multiple shadow halls in the cinema line is correct.

Hollywood's film market has continued to develop in recent years and has not yet reached its saturation value Apart from other things, a non-prime time schedule can have such momentum, doesn't it mean that the production business is booming , high-quality film sources are more and more recognized by the audience.

You know, just the top few on the box office list, every movie has a market potential of breaking 100 million in North America and 300 million in the world.

This kind of achievement was placed 3 or 4 years ago, and all of them were high-box-office works only in summer and Christmas.

A seemingly simple concept of comparison is enough to excite most investors who are interested in making money in the film and television industry.

In other words, when the audience base is far from exceeding the threshold, it can support many high-box office works and really release the market. What kind of results will it have?

After all, over 100 million at the box office used to be a goal pursued by too many filmmakers but difficult to achieve, but now it has become a small threshold for a slightly decent movie to be able to sell well in the middle.

All industry insiders believe that the box office record of the future film market will only get higher and higher, and the cumulative box office will become faster and faster. At least, the market market is improving every year...