Chapter 974

In 2012, there are a lot of stars in the summer archives, among which the most popular point is undoubtedly the scuffle of four generations of box office stars——

Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr.

These four baby boomers have gone through the history of the whole North American film market in the past 20 years. They have truly entered the annals of history and witnessed the rise of the box office in North America.

First, the box office of Tom Cruise's five consecutive works broke through 100 million yuan, after the gap between two works, another wave of seven consecutive works broke through 100 million yuan, which really opened a new era of commercial film; Then will Smith's eight consecutive North American box office works exceeded 100 million, which witnessed the transition period of the average box office data of 100 million to 200 million in North American market.

Another is Johnny Depp's "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, which broke the barrier of 20 million clubs and redefined the history of top actors' income; Finally, Robert Downey Jr.'s "Iron Man" series, once again writing a new high of individual film remuneration, has become the box office leader in the second decade of the 21st century.

From Tom Cruise's "Yihai Xiongfeng" in 1992 to Robert Downey's "Avengers alliance" in 2012, these four actors represent the evolution history of North American box office respectively. They are the real representatives of history.

Although in this period, the baby boomer generation also emerged top stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Sean pan, Kim Carey and Nicholas Cage, their worldwide influence is still slightly inferior.

Now, the four box office stars have started a scuffle. Robert Downey Jr.'s "Avenger League" has made history, and Johnny Depp's "shadow" has become cannon fodder; Next, Will Smith's "man in black 3" and Tom Cruise's "rock age" will appear one after another, and the box office performance will also attract much attention.

There is no doubt that this is the most topical and discussed summer file since the millennium!

After the Oscars ceremony, all the hot spots have gathered, and they are looking forward to this year's Midsummer summer festival to ignite the box office energy and create a new history of box office in North America; In the bustling discussion topic, there is a small part of the media will be another way to put forward the topic of the new generation duel.

"Langley hall vs Chris Hemsworth vs Andrew Garfield", the three new generation actors will also make their debut in this star studded summer camp, and then form a confrontation situation of "tomorrow's edge vs snow white and Hunter vs extraordinary Spider Man".

It's not because the three actors have achieved the corresponding brilliance and success, which is eye-catching; It is because the rise of generation Y has become the main theme of the film industry in North America for two consecutive years, and the media have attracted attention. Even if there is no topic, they have to "fabricate" the topic.

Langley and Andrew are friends, Langley and Chris are enemies, Andrew and Chris have no intersection; Chris and Andrew belong to marvel and are both superheroes; It's the first time for Langley and Andrew to play in commercial films alone, while Chris is the first time to leave marvel and play in commercial works alone.

The three works will be released in the second week of June, the first week of June and the first week of July respectively; At the same time, the three works are young Cass lineups full of stars. In the early publicity of the first half of the year, in order to seize the young audience market, they launched a positive duel.

In "tomorrow's edge", the cooperation between lanli and Jennifer, together with a group of young actors, has even been promoted as "science fiction version of hunger game".

"Snow White and the hunter" is Chris and Kristen Stewart's partner, plus Charlize Theron, forming the iron triangle, the lineup is also young. There is no doubt that Christine, who left the Twilight series, is the focus of attention.

"Extraordinary Spider Man" is returning to the university campus, with Andrew and Emma stone's partner, hoping to find a more youthful, more campus, younger style of work.

The similar composition of CASS, the similar audience positioning, the similar publicity strategy, and even the similar schedule arrangement, together with the new generation actors belonging to generation Y, just correspond to the duel of baby boomers, which also makes people start to think about a more realistic problem——

Natalie Portman and Langley hall have won the Oscars respectively for two years, and Generation Y actors have begun to make their mark in the Academy. What about the commercial market?

After the baby boomer generation, the X generation represented by Leonardo DiCaprio, Toby Maguire, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon has never been able to complete the handover and inheritance in terms of awards and box office. The overall momentum has declined, leading Hollywood to enter a relatively vacuum period.

Now, generation Y has begun to prove its ability and ambition in terms of awards, but it is still lacking in box office.

In 2007, a "Transformers" movie witnessed the rise of Shia Labov, and later starred in "Raider 4". Countless media can't wait to call him the new generation Tom Hanks, expecting him to carry the flag of generation y; But five years later, people are disappointed. HIA's self exile and self degeneration gradually make him lose his position in the first line, and he just struggles in the second line.

Now, "Langley vs. Chris vs. Andrew", three generation Y actors have emerged at the same time in this year's summer camp, and at the same time, they are taking the lead in the fight with the baby boomers. People can't help but get excited. Is the handover ceremony of the commercial market coming?

As a result, the duel of four box office stars and the duel of three new generations interweave and become the most beautiful scenery of this year's summer camp. However, on the whole, compared with the four generations of box office stars, the youth duel still lacks influence and appeal, and the market feedback is far less than the former——

This just proves that baby boomers are still popular in North America, not even generation X.

It is against this background that the so-called comments of Langley and Chris appeared on the Internet one after another and began to ferment rapidly. Although TMZ both clarified the two rumors, it still awakened people's memory of last year's "borrowing door".

After the box office duel between "speed and passion" and "Raytheon", the career development of the two actors showed two different styles.

Chris first starred in the low-cost horror film "cabin in the woods", then took over "Snow White and the hunter" and "the Avengers alliance". Now in his list of works, "Thor 2" and "Star Trek: Darkness" have been put on the agenda.

Although the box office of "Thor" is not satisfactory, this handsome guy from Australia has come into the public's attention. Besides Marvel's fixed development track and "Star Trek", he has gradually opened up his own market, and the film contract has gradually stabilized. But the box office results of "cabin in the woods" and "Snow White and the hunter" will also determine Chris's future development.

Blue Li is different, before the completion of the shooting of "crazy love" and "anti-cancer me" has appeared; And completed the "detachment" and "tomorrow's edge" shooting; After harvesting the Berlin and Oscar winners, he returned to the west end of London to perform in "les miserables"; At present, there is no definite acting plan for any works - "gravity" is still in follow-up negotiations.

Obviously, the 22-year-old British actor is in an irresistible momentum, strong into the ranks of Hollywood, film about a steady stream, flocking. However, now lanli's reputation and popularity have reached the first line, and even the film payment can also be ranked in the first line, but he still lacks more proof of the box office, this time the "edge of tomorrow" will become the touchstone.

The perpetrators were not punished, and the victims did not sink. This is not a happy happy ending, but a reality in Hollywood. This time, Chris and Langley face off again, and the old and new grudges rush to their hearts. Is Chris regaining the advantage or Langley continuing to exert pressure?

Gradually, the discussion began to heat up.

However, just like the rumor of lanli's affair with Jennifer, the grudge between lanli and Chris can be regarded as the old stem of "old things". In the past year, the two people have struggled in different fields, almost no intersection, and no one has mentioned it. Now suddenly, it's inevitable to stir fry.

The surprise is that Andrew joined.

After "being heard" of lenley and Chris, Andrew also "made" similar remarks, "as far as I'm concerned, lenley, of course, is lenley. Yes, I'm going to the west end to see him play "les miserables". I don't have any interest in "Snow White and the hunter."

This time, netizens no longer even discussed it, just waiting happily. Sure enough, in less than four hours, TMZ clarified the news again, "Andrew has never made any relevant remarks, pure fabricated onion news."

In addition, TMZ confirmed that the news source was an ordinary netizen living in Cincinnati. She is a loyal supporter of Chris Hemsworth. At first, she just wanted to slander lenley, but later found the possibility of news hype, so she began to increase the exposure of her idol. She didn't expect that the development of things deviated from the original track.

In this case, Chris could not pretend to ignore it, and was forced to come out and express his views, "I respect every actor and every work. I believe that everyone hopes to produce excellent works, present them on the big screen, and let the audience enjoy the happiness of the film. As for this year's summer holiday, I think my publicity schedule will be very busy. As for whether I have time to go to the cinema, it depends on the publicity schedule of the film company. "

Official, courteous, modest, no leak. Obviously, after a year of baptism, Chris has gradually learned how to deal with the media; Such a response, even if boring and stereotyped, will at least leave nothing to the media.