hollywood melon man

Chapter 467 Football and Movies

The Best Actor award ceremony was over and now it was the turn of the Best Director award ceremony.

As the winner of the last Oscar for Best Director, Gilbert Jr. will present the award to this year's Oscar for Best Director.

“Movies are a journey of dream-making, and directors are undoubtedly dream-making engineers. Today we are here to watch these outstanding dream-makers weave beautiful dreams one after another.

And the best dream maker among them will win the Best Director Oscar.”

Sophia, who was in the audience, watched little Gilbert reciting his opening remarks in a formulaic manner, and wondered if she had any chance since it was little Gilbert who was presenting the award.

But unfortunately, it was not the name that was finally read out from little Gilbert's mouth, which was Peter Weir, the Australian director who had previously directed "The Truman Show".

He won the Oscar for Best Director for Master and Commander, an epic naval battle film. Since the Lord of the Rings series, epic films have become very popular.

This time, "Master and Commander" won the Oscar for Best Director, which undoubtedly added fuel to the fire.

As far as Gilbert knows, there is another movie called "Troy" starring Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom coming out this year.

Orlando Bloom is almost becoming the actor of choice for epic films. Ridley Scott also cast Orlando Bloom for his new project, Kingdom of Heaven.

Orlando Bloom, who was trained by Gilbert Jr., is very popular with big directors. He is so useful!

In the end, the Best Picture award went to "Seahawks" starring Tobey Maguire. It seems that Spider-Man's other films besides "Spider-Man" are also pretty good.

This year's Oscars ended successfully. If Gilbert were asked to describe this Oscar awards ceremony, it could only be described as chaos.

Why? Because The Return of the King, which should have won big this year, won big last year.

So this year's Oscars have a feeling of "when there is no tiger in the mountain, the monkey becomes king".

Of course, some are happy while others are sad, but the winners are definitely beaming with joy, especially Nicole Kidman, who became the center of attention at the Vanity Fair dinner.

Finally, at the Vanity Fair dinner, Gilbert Jr. got to talk to Naomi Watts.

Looking at Nicole Kidman who was being congratulated, Naomi Watts said to Gilbert Jr.: "It seems that Mary finally realized her dream and won an Oscar."

Little Gilbert was more curious: "Naomi, aren't you jealous?"

"Jealous? Why should I be jealous?" Naomi Watts took Gilbert's arm and said, "Without Mary, I would have retired from Hollywood long ago and would never have met you."

"That's right," Little Gilbert took two glasses of champagne from the waiter and motioned to Naomi Watts: "Let's go and congratulate her..."

The two walked to Nicole Kidman's side, and when everyone saw Gilbert Jr. and Naomi Watts coming, they automatically made way.

"Congratulations, Mary." Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman look like real sisters.

Nicole Kidman was very proud today, but she still responded with a positive attitude: "I won by luck this time, Naomi."

"No, no, no, you mean the Best Actress trophy." Little Gilbert interrupted, "I told Tom a long time ago that if the Oscars don't recognize you, I will take action."

“Hahahaha” Nicole Kidman was amused: “Thank you, little Gilbert, but I think I’ll leave it to Naomi and the others!”

Nicole Kidman is still very sensible. If there is a film with Oscar potential, Gilbert Jr. will definitely give priority to his women.

This was the case with "Chicago", except that Nicole Kidman didn't expect that Tom Cruise would also win an award.

After a brief social interaction, little Gilbert saw that it was getting late and said goodbye.

And Naomi Watts also wants to chat with Nicole Kidman for a while and reminisce about the past.

Although they are both in Hollywood, they don't see each other much after they became famous.

Little Gilbert found Scarlett who was secretly eating the cake, and Charlize Theron who was discussing the project with several producers, and went back together.

On the way, Gilbert asked Charlize Theron: "You seem to be having a great time talking to those producers. Have you come to an agreement on the project?"

"I'm still considering it," Charlize Theron has already won a lot of awards, and now she takes roles casually.

“When you see a good project, don’t hesitate, as opportunities are rare. Works are an actor’s lasting vitality, even when he is old,” Gilbert Jr. expressed his understanding.

Charlize Theron smiled at little Gilbert and asked, "What I mean is, you dislike me because I'm old?"

"No, no, you are not old, you are still young!"

"Ah, some people just like young people, Scarlett, don't you think?"

Scarlett nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "Yes!"

"Uh, Scarlett, if you feel threatened, just blink."

"No……"

Gilbert held his forehead with his hands, and said to God, I just chatted with Emma Watson for a while a few days ago, how could it be said that he was getting tired of the old and liking the new?

These are just some little fun when you are together, and occasional bickering can also help improve your relationship.

After the Oscars, Gilbert Jr. still did not relax in the promotion of the movie "The Invincible". He frequently appeared in talk shows and even showed his affection with Charlize Theron. At the same time, media and gossip tabloids under Warner and Disney also began to hype the CP between the two Toms.

In simple terms, it is to make up some small stories, such as the rumored story of the two people admiring each other. In the process of acting, they help each other and go from disliking each other to seeing each other as a close friend.

These stories are very plausible, and coupled with a few stills that leaked from somewhere, they seem very real.

For an original film, without the support of adaptations and previous works, it needs stronger publicity. Using the popularity of the leading actors to promote is undoubtedly the simplest way.

In this respect, the movie "Wushuang" is undoubtedly the best, because it has three superstars and a very popular super director, Little Gilbert.

The movie "Van Helsing", which competed with "The Invincible" in the same year, was an adapted movie, but it was far less talked about than "The Invincible".

"That's because Van Helsing is essentially a hodgepodge of films that, while having many well-known legendary characters, aren't very engaging."

On the plane to the UK, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Gilbert Jr. talked about "Van Helsing" together.

Gilbert Jr. said, "I think no one is paying attention to Van Helsing because of you two."

Tom Cruise agreed: "Michael Ovitz did his best, but David Ellison was too arrogant. He thought his work could collide with ours."

Tom Cruise has been doing well in recent years and has not encountered the setbacks like in his previous life, so his temper has become even more crazy and violent.

Fortunately, his agent and Nicole Kidman were able to hold him back, and now they have a child, so he can listen to what Gilbert Jr. says, and luckily he didn't offend many people.

But he was not so polite to David Ellison.

Before following Gilbert Jr. to England, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman attended a charity dinner and met David Ellison.

The meeting between the two was seen as the first battle between "The Invincible Warrior" and "Van Helsing", but the immature David Ellison was no match for the experienced Tom Cruise, who had been in Hollywood for many years.

After a verbal stunt, David Ellison retreated.

After hearing about this, Gilbert Jr. asked Tom Cruise: "Aren't you afraid that David Ellison will fight you?"

Tom Cruise said he was not afraid: "He wants to give it a try? I'll make him cry and go back to Larry Ellison."

David Ellison was an outsider. Unlike Gilbert Jr., who was naturally a part of the Hollywood circle, he was excluded.

I'm sure many people would be happy to be beaten up by Tom Cruise.

Such matters are usually not reported to the police, but are resolved privately. Calling the police is considered a violation of the rules and is even more rejected.

Tom Hanks agreed: "Indeed, David is not good enough to fight Ethan Hunt."

Ethan Hunt is the character played by Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible" and has become one of Tom Cruise's masterpieces.

Tom Cruise was indeed very happy to hear this.

Little Gilbert couldn't help but secretly give Tom Hanks a thumbs up. In terms of emotional intelligence, Tom Hanks is undoubtedly very high.

The two Toms were able to film smoothly on the set without quarreling, and a lot of credit went to Tom Hanks, who coaxed Tom Cruise like he was coaxing a child.

The three of them went to the UK to watch a Premier League game.

It has long been said that Gilbert Jr. will use football to promote his own film brand. Now in the UK and continental Europe, rumors that he is going to acquire Arsenal are rife.

This time, taking advantage of the popularity of this, the three of them went to watch the Arsenal game in person, and at the same time promoted the film and the acquisition.

Arsenal's performance this season is very good. At the end of March, when the season was almost over, Arsenal was still 12 points ahead of second-placed Manchester United, and the Premier League title seemed stable.

In addition, the team has won consecutive games in the FA Cup and has reached the final. It has hope of defending the FA Cup title and achieving the double crown.

More importantly, there has been a scandal between Arsenal and the famous Hollywood director Gilbert Jr., which has been going on for several months and is getting more and more intense.

At first the British didn’t believe it, but as the media continued to hype it up, it seemed like the acquisition was about to become a reality.

More importantly, Arsenal head coach Wenger gave an interview after a game and expressed his views on the takeover for the first time.

He said the team was very united and prepared to make a full sprint for the championship.

At the same time, he also hopes that when the club builds a new stadium, it will not forget to increase its transfer investment and that Arsenal will make a difference in the transfer market.

These words were immediately interpreted by the media as Professor Wenger saying that he wanted Gilbert Jr. to take over Arsenal, so he said this.

Arsenal is not short of funds, but after all, it has many shareholders and they also demand dividends.

Since building a stadium costs a lot of money nowadays, we have to be frugal when it comes to transfers.

But if Gilbert Jr. takes over Arsenal, he will definitely not be stingy with the transfer fee, and Professor Wenger can wave money around to buy players.

In order to find out Gilbert Jr.'s thoughts as soon as possible, a group of reporters found out the time when Gilbert Jr.'s private plane would land in London.

As soon as little Gilbert got off the plane, he was surrounded by reporters from Fleet Street.

(End of this chapter)