Chapter 710： photography toy

The original actors of "Batman: The Dark Knight", such as Michael Caine, Kate Beckinsale, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and other actors are basically contracted before the third week of October Get it done.

Among them, because of the number of scenes and the willingness to participate, the total amount is only about 13 million, and the highest salary is no more than 5 million US dollars.

In the core terms, there are basically supplementary plans to cooperate with the publicity, and do not reveal the black material during the shooting.

For Warner, this is very necessary.

There are many benefits to maintaining a positive image of the project.

After all, there should be few viewers who feel positive about negative news about their favorite movies.

In the Internet age, it is more difficult to suppress black materials, and you cannot be careless and warned.

With hundreds of millions of cakes involved, any safeguards are understandable.

At least the actors wouldn't object.

In addition, Christian Bale has to carry out scientific and methodical fitness in order to maintain his physique and muscles.

This means that he will have to maintain a certain amount of exercise and pay attention to his diet for many months to come.

Of course, he's used to it.

After all, it is much easier to gain muscle than to lose weight.

As for Kate, who plays Rachel, she hasn't had bad luck in her recent career.

This year's "Underworld 2: Evolution" has passed the threshold of 100 million yuan worldwide and won 111.3 million. Because the North American box office is relatively high, it is not very popular overseas. Compared with the expenditure of 50 million, there is still money to be made offline—— The Underworld series, like many horror movies, sells well on DVD.

Of course, "Batman: The Dark Knight" is still a good project choice for her, after all, the production of more than 170 million US dollars...

And the role of the "Dark Knight" is such entertainment news that many audiences will be interested in and the media are willing to report. Seeing that the main creators are confirmed again, it also caused a burst of excitement.

Wouldn't it be a blessing for fans to continue seeing familiar faces on the big screen?

In this regard, Firefly and Warner did not specifically block it. Under the pervasive media spying or active guidance, many hot topics have been well spread in all aspects.

Just like several roles that have not yet been determined in the original time and space, the newly added roles, such as the clown and prosecutor Harvey, also have many actors who actively jumped out to express their willingness to play. As for the popularity, I still feel good, then I don't know.

For example, Hugh Jackman, who worked with Christian Bale and Nolan once, immediately spoke out, and Ryan Philip, Liev Schreiber and Josh Lucas all publicly expressed their interest in the role of prosecutor Harvey. .

As for The Joker, when you know that Nolan intends to bring this villain to the big screen, Robin Williams, Reich Halmy and other old actors and Paul Bettany, Adrien Brody and so on The middle-aged acting school is not a question of willingness or not. The cooperation request was sent directly to the Firefly Building and handed over to Nolan.

In the days that followed, a lot of similar letters were received every day, both well-known and unknown. Many actors did not want to miss out on such a successful and promising movie work.

However, Nolan didn't pay too much attention to these.

In other words, because the production budget has been repeatedly raised, based on the need to reduce risks, Nolan himself knows that the actor's salary must be controlled.

He is also a director who does not blindly pursue high-profile actors.

Being proficient at calculating this title, it is really right to put it on his head.

Even though he was so eagerly chased, Nolan remained calm and was not lost by falsehood.

Of course, that doesn't mean he has to reject them all.

Actors who are too expensive, such as Robin Williams, who are very successful, may not be able to afford it, and others can still try.

Just as Nolan made meticulous selections for the remaining roles, Lyman was not idle.

Or, Nolan also wants to know who he wants to play the clown.

After all, this role is really challenging, not to mention the crazy portrayal of it for the sake of the plot. This powerful villain who can compete with Bruce Wayne and often make Batman suffer is also a lot of people in the comics. Fans are impressed and admired.

Therefore, Nolan himself did not have a specific actor candidate, and only hoped that he could find a suitable one through continuous audition.

On the contrary, Lehman himself took over the errand, and swore that the guarantee was absolutely not bad...

In addition, "The Dark Knight" is still filmed in the United Kingdom and the United States.

After all, it would be a pity not to take advantage of the UK’s tax rebate policy if conditions permit.

The most important thing is that Nolan is British, and his team is naturally mainly British, so he can get the maximum administrative support from the British government, such as blocking the streets and cooperating with the scenery...

This all requires a certain sense of identity and identity, which Lehmann feels deeply in France, and Nolan's reputation in the UK is no worse than his.

In any case, there is no luxury to leave such convenient resources unutilized.

Of course, there is still a long way to go before the film starts shooting.

Because Nolan proposed to rent an IMAX format camera to shoot some of these shots, and there are only two such cameras in the United States. Let’s not talk about the familiarity or not. The rental fee is quite high, which is higher than the average. Cameras are too expensive.

However, Nolan has such an idea. He wants to make the lens more pictorial and three-dimensional, so he has to be satisfied.

He was like a kid who got a big toy. In addition to the routine audition, he soon became addicted to the immersion of the IMAX format, and he couldn't extricate himself.

In the chaos, another weekend has passed.

Speaking of which, this is the fifth week of "Deadly Magic".

Over time, the inevitable screening momentum declined quickly.

On the fifth weekend, with 855 curtains and less than two filmings, it earned 2.52 million US dollars (three weekends), and this kind of achievement has entered the stage of painting.

However, at this time, the film has accumulated more than 70 million in North America and more than 22 million overseas, with a total box office of more than 92 million, and the box office is less than 8 million before breaking 100 million.

In the remaining one or two weeks, it is not difficult to accumulate slowly by relying on overseas areas.

Considering the gap between Xuanfa resources and Warners, but also because Lehman selected the schedule well and did not encounter any valuable works, in comparison, they should be able to touch the achievements of the previous life, even if not, it is not much worse. go with.

In other words, this movie is not suitable for large-scale publicity.

Because of the subject matter, Nolan's grasp of the suspenseful atmosphere has played a very good role in having such a strong box office trend.

And the news about "The Dark Knight" stimulated the popularity of the film, otherwise there would be no media attention.

After all, Blue Butterfly Pictures has not spent any more money to maintain a certain amount of media space since it reduced its theater chain by half.

After waiting for the next painting, arrange the operation of the offline market and copyright peripherals, and share the money with the cinema.

In the process of gradually reducing the resources of the film, many new films appeared during the schedule.

Among them, the North American version of "Infernal Affairs", which was remade by director Martin, won 27 million US dollars in the first weekend. As an Olympic film, the box office even broke Martin Scorsese's personal first-week box office record - Colin this The character originally wanted to find Brad Pitt to play but because the character in the script is an undercover and a negative image, she refused.

Then, it was another beautiful record for Matt Damon to become a superstar.

It's actually hard to come across such a movie with word-of-mouth and double-blooming at the box office, let alone an Olympic movie...

I feel like I missed a million.

Even after three weeks, the film still dominated the box office charts.

The second place is Clint Eastwood's "The Flag of the Fathers", which is also a sister version of "Iwo Jima's Family Letter", but that one is due to the constant pressure from the Japanese side to give Qian, from a Japanese perspective, tells the Iwo Jima battle objectively - in fact, there is a suspicion of white laundering, but who makes people give more money?

After all, before the Battle of Iwo Jima, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that shocked the United States was initiated by the Japanese...

In this week's chart on October 24th, the film also ranked second with 13.675 million. As for "Deadly Magic", it fell out of the top ten early, and there is no capital to compete...