Chatty Hollywood

It should be said that in terms of box office, "The Matrix 2: Reloaded" is not the opponent of "Inception" at all.

Even compared to Charlotte's original world, the quality of this film is the same, and even the premiere box office is slightly improved. But after all, this is still a North American movie that didn't break 100 million at the box office in the first week.

——Although it is very close.

In contrast, Charlotte's "Inception" not only easily broke 100 million in the box office in the first week, but the box office trend curve afterwards is still very good.

Even if "The Matrix 2: Reloaded" took advantage of its premiere week, it did not suppress "Inception."

——This commercial blockbuster is considered by the industry to partially break through Yiguoyan’s 3D technology. The next week it was released, it still topped the box office rankings of North American Film Week. It did not give "The Matrix 2" a chance at all. The Wachowski brothers who were transforming into the Wachowski brother and sister wanted to cry without tears.

In fact, the Wachowski brothers have long given up their plans to compete with Inception at the box office.

——Although they are a little arrogant, they are not stupid.

However, it is also a commercial production, "The Matrix 2" has the natural advantage of a sequel, but the box office in the first week can't beat others in the next week...

Anyway, before half of 2003 has passed, many film critics feel that this year's North American film box office champion, 80% will fall into Charlotte Booth's arms again.

As for the equally excellent and high-priced "Matrix 2: Reloading", it can only be said that it was not in time.

Who made it happen to hit "Inception" directed by Charlotte?

Since 1995, Charlotte Booth has ruled the annual box office chart of North American movies.

Although there was a counterattack from "Titanic" during this period, it was not a normal phenomenon after all.

Just as there is only one Charlotte Booth in Hollywood, there is only one James Cameron in Hollywood.

Compared to Charlotte’s high speed of one movie a year, Cameron’s CD time for "King of the World" is a bit too long.

——Especially, this guy also has the habit of bounced tickets and budget overruns.

Such Cameron, in the eyes of investors in Hollywood, is not a top-quality stock. Although he doesn't get money when he wants to make a movie, it will never go smoothly.

——Who caused the "king of the world" to be stigmatized?

Real estate speculation becomes landlord, stock speculation becomes shareholder, there is still a little bit of fixed assets left waiting to be turned over, but once the investment in Cameron’s movie is locked up, it is difficult not to drain the last bit of money in the wallet. Uncomfortable.

——When filming "Titanic", Fox was almost forced into bankruptcy by this great god. All the executives even said things like "Going to sell fart stocks"...

Therefore, even if Charlotte has not surpassed Cameron in the highest box office of a single film, in the hearts of many industry insiders who know Hollywood insiders, he has long been a well-deserved number one commercial director.

Under this circumstance, everyone still has certain psychological expectations for the box office performance of "Inception" to overwhelm "The Matrix 2".

However, with the release of the two films, the "Inception" series has gradually gained the upper hand in terms of audiences and even professional film critics. This is out of the reach of the Wachowski Brothers and many "The Matrix". "The surprise of the **** supporters of the series.

It even went beyond Charlotte's own expectations.

He originally thought that the two should be evenly divided in terms of word of mouth.

After all, in his original time and space, the "Inception" and "The Matrix" series are regulars in the Top 10 classic movies on the IMDB website, and sometimes the "The Matrix" series will be slightly better.

——And in this time and space, the "Inception" that he carried over, but in turn put "The Matrix 2" under him...

"Does it really bring such a big advantage to advance the movie seven years?"

Charlotte was somewhat puzzled.

In contrast, Charlize is more bystander clear.

"According to your statement, there must be a time advantage, or a technical advantage-even if you say that you are just a porter of the movie, you can achieve the phenomenon of a phenomenon-level movie seven years later under the existing technical conditions. The effect is that you are also very powerful."

"And such a movie, when faced with the movies of this era, will naturally have an advantage in special effects and pictures, not to mention the weird Yiguoyan 3D technology you tinkered with. These alone are enough to provide "Pirates of Dreams". "Space" is a plus — not to mention, in a sense, the "Inception" and "The Matrix" series are actually about the same theme."

"Is there a distinction between reality and consciousness?"

Charlotte nodded.

"So audiences will always compare the two subconsciously, and because of the advantages of "Inception" in other aspects, and everyone's evaluation of this movie, it suddenly surpasses "The Matrix 2"?"

"One step is fast, step by step is fast, the strong is always strong-the Matthew effect in the movie market, you should know better than me?"

Charlize smiled.

"What's more, in my opinion, "Inception", which can tell the story clearly in a simple way, is indeed better than the "Matrix 2" which is silly and mysterious!"

"Even if you say that..."

Charlotte scratched her head.

"But after what you said, I understand a little bit-the opponent of Inception is not the entire "The Matrix" series, but just "The Matrix 2: Reloading"..."

If it is a complete "Matrix" series on "Inception", excluding some technical and time factors, it can indeed be said that each has its own merits.

However, "The Matrix 2: Reloading" as one of the trilogy, is neither the beginning nor the middle of the end. Faced with the complete story system, easy-to-understand and suspenseful "Inception", It seems a little undersighted.

——Full body fight one-third, it is not surprising that there are such results now.

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In fact, people like Charlotte, who are influenced by the original view of time and space, are so entangled with this result.

Others, even hard-core supporters of the "The Matrix" series, and even the Wachowski brothers themselves, after seeing the perverted word-of-mouth and box office results of "Inception", they are willing to lose their bets.

——After all, they can't deny that "Inception" is a good movie.

And losing one's own movie to a classic good movie is better than losing to some unnutritious junk commercial movie.

What's more, although "The Matrix 2" lost to "Inception" regardless of word-of-mouth or box office, this does not mean that the movie is at a loss.

On the contrary, the two films "The Matrix 2" and "Inception" jointly detonated the 2003 summer archives-

These two heavyweight commercial blockbusters have pushed the total box office of North American movies around the node of Memorial Day in May to a rather exaggerated level.

In this case, even if "The Matrix 2" lost to "Inception", it still achieved quite good box office results relative to its own.

It can be said that although the two heavyweight commercial blockbusters compete on the same stage, although there are winners and losers, judging from the box office results, the two are a win-win situation.

Of course, it’s not that there are no losers—

Wanglaoji competed with Jiaduobao. As a result, Heqizheng died. This kind of thing is still very common in the business field.

—— Other movies released at the same time as these two heavyweight blockbusters are all losers.

However, as the co-publisher of "The Matrix 2: Reloading" and "Inception", Warner does not have to worry about these things.

"This time, the North American box office of "Inception" should exceed $600 million!"

In Warner's studio, Charles Rowan looked at the box office report in his hand, a little surprised, but also took it for granted.

——This is Charlotte Booth's movie!

"This kind of performance can already catch up with the "Titanic" of previous years. I don't know how far this film's global box office can reach?"

However, in any case, Warner was able to make a lot of money through the movie "Inception".

This also made Charles Rowan further realize the value of Charlotte.

"Originally, Charlotte's next shooting of "Blackjack" and "Now You See Me" were small projects and the company didn't plan to pay special attention to them, but now it seems..."

In fact, Charles Rowan is not the only one who has similar ideas. The most obvious change is Natalie Portman——

Although the black swan of the future attached great importance to these two projects, it still has a back hand in the end.

It’s like going to the New York premiere of "The Matrix 2". It’s a normal entertainment circle, but the shrewd Jewish girls have also taken the opportunity to please the Wachowski brothers so that they can gain an advantage when competing for their future movie roles. Idea of ​​topography.

However, Natalie can't take care of these anymore--

The increasingly exaggerated box office results of "Inception" finally made the Long Island girl realize ~www.readwn.com~ what kind of opportunity she got, and she went all out for it.

It’s just that Natalie is a little bit troubled about how to prepare for the relevant roles in advance.

You know, whether "Win Blackjack" or "Now You See Me", the heroine in it is not the type of role that Natalie used to be good at.

Even though she got the original book of "Winning Blackjack" and tried to figure it out, she still felt a little bit unable to grasp it.

And Charlotte’s previous saying "I need the real you, that black you" makes Natalie feel crazy every time she thinks about it...

"Would you like to find time to "consult" Mr. Director in private?"

Natalie had this idea in her mind.

——For Hollywood actresses, this is really normal, and so is Natalie.

However, thinking of the feeling that she was completely suppressed when facing each other, Natalie felt another guilty conscience...