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Chapter 489: Excellent Sequel Movie Performance

Although the "Batman" movie has not officially entered the preparation stage, some advance preparations have already begun.

After the Batman project was officially announced, some actors were eager to act. Even Tom Cruise, who had no time to act, asked if he could play Batman.

The most anxious person may be George Clooney. Since the failure of the 1997 version of "Batman", George Clooney almost slipped from his first-line position.

Fortunately, he later clung to Steven Soderbergh and returned to the mainstream audience's vision with movies such as "Ocean's Eleven" and "Ocean's Twelve".

In order to get the opportunity to play Batman again, George Clooney called Gilbert Jr. and his tone and attitude were very sincere.

But Gilbert Jr. only gave him an audition opportunity and did not agree to George Clooney.

In fact, Gilbert Jr. had already decided on Christian Bale for the Batman project. Christopher Nolan also talked to Gilbert Jr. about it, and Bale was also very interested in the project.

However, Gilbert Jr. decided to give it an audition anyway, mainly to observe what outstanding actors have appeared in Hollywood recently.

The final list presented to Gilbert showed him many familiar names, such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy and other actors.

These are all potential new stars in Hollywood, but their price is not high. If they can get the role of Batman and work with Gilbert Jr., it will be a meteoric rise.

The auditions would not begin until Gilbert Jr. returned to Los Angeles after his vacation.

There is never a lack of news during the summer season. The news of the "Batman" project was only popular for a week, and was immediately replaced by the hot movies of the summer season in the headlines.

The movie "The Day After Tomorrow" was released less than a week ago, and on June 4th, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was released.

This movie, which has been eagerly awaited by fans of the young wizard all over the world, was released simultaneously in 88 countries around the world and held a grand premiere in the UK.

As the producer, Gilbert Jr. should have gone to show his support, but the series has already gained a good reputation and has many fans.

In addition, there are malicious media outlets that have been focusing on his relationship with Emma Watson recently, and it feels like they are portraying him as being involved in the Daya County case.

So in order to avoid suspicion, Gilbert Jr. did not attend the premiere.

In fact, he really didn't do it. It was Emma Watson who took the initiative, and was rejected by Gilbert Jr. So far, the little girl has not even touched Gilbert Jr.'s mouth. The two are innocent.

On the contrary, many people actually did it, but the media did not report it.

It can be seen from these groundless news that some people are indeed becoming less and less fond of little Gilbert recently.

It may be that Gilbert Jr. did something that they considered to be unorthodox, which led them to revoke his press protection.

Little Gilbert really didn't have any leverage, he wasn't Michael Jackson or the big shot, and the gossip media's groundless speculations wouldn't affect him.

Little Gilbert didn't go to England, but they didn't forget him.

In an interview on the red carpet of the premiere, Emma Watson expressed that she likes and admires director Gilbert very much.

She is very grateful to Director Gilbert Jr. for choosing her to play the role of Hermione, and she will work hard to live up to Director Gilbert Jr.'s expectations.

Haley's words were even more exaggerated than Emma Watson's. He started talking about his history of collaboration with Gilbert Jr. from "The Sixth Sense", which made Emma Watson seem less enthusiastic.

This also reflects that this little girl has a deep mind.

In order to please Gilbert Jr., she took the initiative to reject those bad habits, such as smoking marijuana which was popular in Hollywood and attending some messy parties.

Emma Watson refused and behaved like a pure and innocent girl, telling little Gilbert that she was very good and obedient.

I don’t know whether Gilbert Jr. has paid attention to her, but Emma Watson’s clean private life is like a breath of fresh air in Hollywood, which is eye-catching.

You have to know that Hailey changes girlfriends like she changes clothes. It's really not easy for Emma Watson to keep herself clean in Hollywood, which is full of temptations.

Invisibly, Emma Watson's personal image value has increased a lot, and she has received a lot more brand endorsements.

When little Gilbert learned about this, he had only one thing to say: "If a girl keeps herself clean, it may be because she has good personal morals and upbringing.

But this girl is in Hollywood, so she must have other intentions.”

As for what the picture is about, those who understand will understand.

The premiere was quite successful, but Gilbert's focus was not on the three leading actors, but on Gary Oldman who played Sirius Black.

Gary Oldman has played many abnormal people before, mostly villains. This time he plays a positive character in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the effect is quite good.

Maybe after playing Sirius Black, Gary Oldman felt that he was about to be whitewashed, so he said at the premiere that he could be approached for more good guy roles.

What he didn't know was that he had entered little Gilbert's field of vision.

In the previous life of this project, Nolan asked Gary Oldman to play Henri Ducard, and Liam Neeson played Sheriff Gordon.

But after reading the script, Gary Oldman said he was tired of playing villains, while Liam Neeson said he was tired of playing heroes. This was unfortunate, so Nolan clapped his hands and swapped the two's positions.

As expected, both of them had a wonderful chemistry with their characters, and each performed their roles very well.

Young Gilbert didn't have so many worries. He directly sent an invitation to Gary Oldman's agent, and the agent quickly notified Gary Oldman.

So after the premiere, Gary Oldman got the news that Gilbert Jr. wanted to work with him.

Gary Oldman has a rather eccentric personality and is a Hollywood eccentric actor.

However, after receiving the invitation from Gilbert Jr., he did not do anything unconventional. He agreed immediately without even reading the script.

In the words of Gary Oldman, he would regret it for the rest of his life if he missed the opportunity to work with Gilbert Jr.

Another actor, Liam Neeson, had just finished filming Kingdom of Heaven and had time to spare, so Gilbert Jr. flew to his home and showed him the script.

After Liam Neeson finished reading the script, Gilbert Jr. took it back and said, "I'm sorry, Liam, there is only one copy of the script. For confidentiality reasons, I can't leave it to you."

Liam Neeson smiled bitterly and said, "Little Gilbert, at least let me study the role of Henri Ducard!"

"Hahaha, Liam, we'll let you study it out when the crew is officially preparing." Little Gilbert made it clear to Liam Neeson in advance: "But you have to be prepared, and you may need some action training."

Liam Neeson immediately said no problem: "Of course, I'm always ready."

The most criticized thing about the previous Nolan version was the terrible action scenes, but in fact, Nolan used an action mode called Casey's fighting technique in the film.

This fighting style is not very entertaining to watch, but it is very practical.

Little Gilbert was not prepared to adopt this fighting technique for the simple reason that it would not look good in the photos.

He said to action director Luca Farias: "We need an action mode that combines practical skills and the beauty of power to complete the action scenes of the film."

According to Gilbert's request, Luca Farias began to visit some martial arts masters and Kung Fu masters. He has seen Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Gokudo Karate, Jeet Kune Do and other martial arts.

Then he and his action director team continued to practice and discuss with these fighting experts, and finally choreographed a set of fighting techniques that had a real combat feel and looked good to fight.

Because it combines many fighting techniques, jiu-jitsu, Brazilian capo and other skills, this set of fighting skills is called Luca Mixed Martial Arts.

The routines have been researched, and the next step is to train the actors.

However, before the formal actor training, Luca Farias' first task was to train the doubles for the leading actors. Although some action scenes require the leading actors to perform in person, high-risk action scenes still require doubles to complete.

Back to the movie "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", based on the fan base of the first two films, this movie earned 9367.3 million US dollars in the first week.

Although it failed to break 100 million in the first week, the first week box office was enough to make "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" the new North American box office champion.

The film also created a huge surprise overseas, with a total box office of 1 million US dollars. Together with the North American box office, the global box office reached 8240.6 million US dollars.

With Gilbert Jr. in charge, the series did not have the problem of not being able to continue with the third part like in the previous life. Instead, it maintained a very good reputation for the sequel.

If things continue like this, it is estimated that "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" will most likely win both the North American and global box office crown this year.

But don’t worry, there are bigger ones coming up.

The live-action version of "Garfield" released by Fox was released on June 2177.2. This low-budget comedy film earned million US dollars in the first weekend box office, which did not threaten "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".

The film achieved two consecutive championships, with the North American box office reaching 1 million US dollars and the global box office reaching 6533.8 million US dollars, which is an excellent box office result.

Just looking at the speed at which the box office is accumulating, it has exploded with incredible energy given the good word-of-mouth.

The movie that can threaten "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is "Spider-Man 2", which will be released on June . The two movies are at the beginning and end.

In the meantime, films such as "Dodgeball", "Write My Story", and "Fahrenheit 911/" were released.

Among them, "Fahrenheit 911/" is quite special. It is a documentary and its content is quite sensitive.

By the weekend of the release of Garfield, Warriors had been released in North America and overseas markets for six weeks, with North American box office reaching $2.72 million and global box office reaching $6.61 million.

For an original crime film, this box office result is quite good.

However, this also means that the film has basically withdrawn from the competition for this year's box office champion.

This is not surprising. If Gilbert Jr. had made 400 to 500 million in North America and more than 1 billion worldwide with "The Greatest Show", there would be something fishy in this world.

It is precisely because the box office performance is consistent with cognition that this world and the film market seem so real that little Gilbert does not doubt himself.

(End of this chapter)