hollywood melon man

Chapter 297 The Law of Success

The summer season of 2000 was kicked off by "Gladiator".

The film is directed by Ridley Scott, stars Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix, is produced by DreamWorks and distributed by Universal Pictures.

However, when the film was first released, it encountered strong resistance from Hollywood giants.

The reason is simple, this film is produced by DreamWorks.

When DreamWorks was first established, the Big Three of DreamWorks made it very clear that they were moving towards the goal of becoming one of the top film giants in Hollywood.

However, although the giants compete and cooperate, they have a tacit understanding that no new players are allowed to join the giants' battlefield.

Even if United Artists falls, even if MGM is no longer in glory, Hollywood has changed from the eight majors to the seven majors, and now it is about to become the six majors.

But DreamWorks wants to join the giant's game, which is still something the giant company doesn't agree to.

So although this film was distributed by Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures did not provide sufficient publicity and distribution resources. This makes the movie "Gladiator" look like a large B-level movie in terms of its release scale.

Although there are many works released in the summer season every year, there are only a few that are truly competitive.

While other films were underwhelming, "Gladiator" won two consecutive North American box office titles. But on May 19th, this situation changed.

During the release of "Gladiator", everyone was in turmoil. Ridley Scott was on tenterhooks, and the three giants of DreamWorks were also having a hard time.

However, the film's box office in its first week was pretty good, taking in a box office of US$3481.9 million.

Produced by Melon Studios and distributed by Warner Pictures, Gilbert Jr. serves as producer and directed by Rob Cohen.

"Gladiator" has done well at the box office, so the film has maintained a good number of films in theaters and can continue to collect box office.

The racing crime movie "Fast and Furious" starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Liv Tyler, and Jessica Alba was released this weekend.

But this has touched the nerves of the giants, because DreamWorks' box office success means that DreamWorks can survive for one more day, and the giants don't like it very much.

The film does not even have plans to carry out road show promotion, it will be promoted through online promotion and offline advertising.

Here in the theater chain, everything is based on box office profits.

In fact, according to Warner Pictures, this racing-themed movie with an investment of 3800 million US dollars should be placed in the spring or autumn schedule to avoid summer blockbusters.

Fortunately, although theater chains cooperate closely with giants, they are not a company after all. After all, antitrust laws are not strict.

Warner Pictures has a cautious attitude, which is normal. In fact, from the director to the actors in this film, they are basically second- and third-tier actors in Hollywood, and they are not well-known.

But Gilbert Jr. believed that this racing movie was quite competitive, so he advocated putting it on the summer schedule to try it out.

The giants are working together privately and plan to invest more resources to block this movie.

What Warner Pictures means is to first see how the box office is in the first week before deciding whether to carry out subsequent publicity and distribution work.

Considering the film's production cost of US$100 million, if it can maintain a good box office curve in the future, it will not be a problem to recover the cost or even achieve profitability.

Essentially, this movie falls into the category of B-movies. Although he is a producer, holding a premiere specifically for this is a bit undervalued.

The film did not hold a special premiere, and little Gilbert had no plans to hold a premiere.

For an R-rated film, this first-week box office figure is quite good. After all, not all movies are called "The Matrix," and not all R-rated movies can be hits.

Although Gilbert Jr. is credited as a producer, he basically did not participate in the production of the film. It is normal for Warner Pictures to not have confidence in the film.

But what Warner Pictures didn't expect was that this small-to-medium-cost racing crime movie was a perfect fit for the summer season.

It has all the elements of beautiful women in cars, hot and exciting scenes, and the action scenes are fierce and remarkable, perfectly hitting the G-spot of summer movie fans who don't want to use their brains to think.

As a result, in its first week of release, "The Fast and the Furious" grossed US$4089.5 million at the box office, taking the top spot in the third week of the summer season.

Warner Pictures was shocked. Was this movie so popular?

At this time, Warner Pictures no longer hesitated and quickly contacted Melon Studio to increase investment in the promotion and distribution of the film. Roadshows and TV programs for the creative team were arranged.

During the first week of the movie's release, Liv Tyler happened to be at Cantaloupe Manor and was a little unhappy when she saw Anne Hathaway who was already living in Cantaloupe Manor.

"I originally planned to bring Mary over, but she had a French boyfriend and didn't come after hearing about your name."

Liv Tyler said to little Gilbert while eating shortbread.

Little Gilbert shrugged and said, "What is my name?"

"You have a lustful reputation. Look, if you don't notice, another person has moved in here." Liv Tyler pointed at Anne Hathaway who was going downstairs.

Little Gilbert defended himself: "I let Jacqueline live in the house just to cooperate with the promotion of the movie."

Using scandals to create buzz for movies is not a new method in Hollywood. The most famous person in the entire "Lord of the Rings" cast is little Gilbert, and the others are almost boring.

So the burden of the scandal fell on Gilbert Jr., and the gossip tabloids began to hype his affair with Anne Hathaway.

Some gossip tabloids even compiled a heart-stirring love story about Anne Hathaway's brave pursuit of love. It was so touching that it could be made into a movie. So Anne Hathaway was very cooperative and did not move out of the Melon Manor after the Oscar. Instead, she packed her luggage and moved in directly.

However, Liv Tyler obviously didn't believe this. She complained ruthlessly: "With such a beautiful woman in front of you, and a pair of long legs, I don't believe you can resist the temptation."

"Uh!" Little Gilbert was speechless.

Liv Tyler is indeed right. Such a beautiful woman lives with little Gilbert and even flatters and adores him.

As a normal man, it is difficult for him to resist this temptation.

In Hollywood, it is precisely where strong willpower is not needed to resist temptation. There are many people who are more beautiful than him, and there is comparison, which makes little Gilbert seem to have no psychological burden.

So one night, after Anne Hathaway's sneak attack, little Gilbert naturally had a big fight with Anne Hathaway.

Little Gilbert's favorite is that Anne Hathaway wears a tight suit. Like Charlize Theron, both of them are tall and have long legs, which is Little Gilbert's favorite type.

Anne Hathaway's look reminds little Gilbert of her Catwoman look in "The Dark Knight Rises". It is indeed very enchanting and attractive.

"What are you talking about?" Anne Hathaway happened to come over. Seeing that the two of them were chatting happily, she joined the battlefield.

"We were talking about your journey to Hollywood stardom," Liv Tyler said with a hint of jealousy in her smile: "Congratulations, you starred in Little Gilbert's movie."

Anne Hathaway said with a shy smile on her face: "You're not bad either. I heard that "The Fast and the Furious" sold well at the box office in North America in its first week."

"Yeah, I got more than 40 million at the box office. I'm so tired. I have to travel all over the United States next week to promote." Liv Tyler showed off her beautiful waist, seemingly showing off.

Although they accepted the fact, the two girls were not too old and were not as mature as Naomi Watts and the others, so there was still a vague feeling of tit-for-tat.

But little Gilbert stopped him in time. He slapped the two girls on the head, and then said: "Just in time, I heard that a good restaurant has opened nearby, let's go to eat!"

"Okay!" The two girls agreed and went out to eat with little Gilbert.

So the next day, a gossip tabloid published a picture of little Gilbert having lunch with Liv Tyler and Anne Hathaway.

The title is also very interesting, called Little Gilbert's Two Lovers.

Some good people interviewed Liv Tyler's father, Stephen Tyler, the lead singer of the band Skysmith.

The old rock man didn't seem to care very much. On the contrary, he was very satisfied with little Gilbert: "Liv has always had a good taste. When she grows up, she has the right to pursue love."

The reporter said: "But little Gilbert has many women, and there are five ladies living in the Melon Manor."

"Married?" Stephen Tyler asked.

"Ah?" The reporter was stunned, shook his head and said, "That's not true."

Stephen Tyler then said: "It doesn't matter if you're not married. Besides, it doesn't matter if you get married. Monogamy goes against human nature."

The reporter did not expect that Steven Tyler would be so explosive. He was determined to ignite the topic: "So you think polygamy is better?"

Steven Tyler was noncommittal: "Maybe polyandry."

Such remarks were naturally criticized by many defenders.

However, the brain circuits of those who play rock music are different from those of other people. It is not that rock people have never said similar and more explosive remarks.

From a certain perspective, Liv Tyler’s bold and willful character is most likely inherited from her rock dad.

Although the scandal hype is very fierce, Naomi Watts, Jennifer Connelly and other big stars who are already confirmed to be little Gilbert's women have joined in.

But it does not affect little Gilbert's reputation. Many people even think that it should be like this.

There is a word in ancient China called talented scholar and romantic. Literally speaking, a person with many talents will always be liked by many women, so he is very romantic.

In the eyes of most people in North America, little Gilbert is a bit of a wit and a romantic.

In fact, the secret of all this comes from the law of success.

Little Gilbert was so successful in making movies, and his aura was so strong.

Because of the pursuit of success, some unconventional things happened to little Gilbert and were regarded as normal.

The battle for the summer season continues to be fierce, and it was originally thought that "Fast and Furious" would stay at the top of the list for at least two weeks in a row.

However, on May 26th, the sequel to "The Mummy", "The Mummy Returns", was released. The film still stars the original cast, two years after the last one.

This film is also produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. Compared with the laziness of "Gladiator", Universal Pictures has great confidence in this sequel.

"The Mummy Returns" lived up to expectations, raking in $6830.4 million at the box office in its first week, setting a record for the highest opening this summer.

Rachel Weisz, who had been in contact with little Gilbert, successfully established herself as a first-line actress in Hollywood with this sequel.

(End of this chapter)