Birth of an actor

The first small climax of the 2002 awards season came when the nomination list for the 59th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards was announced. In the eyes of many nominees, they even had tickets to the Oscars.

There is a reason why the nominees think this way. In the past two years, the judges of the American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have surprisingly consistent tastes-both are more inclined to choose a stable and stable choice, rather than reward those who win the award. There will be a big upset movie-this also makes the role of the Golden Globe Oscar more prominent. For example, in the awards season last year, "Gladiator", which won the Golden Globe Best Picture, also won the Oscar for Best Picture. Julia Roberts, who won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, also won the Oscar for "Never Compromise".

This also makes today's Golden Globe Awards more and more influential, and there is a rehearsal for the Oscars in advance.

Unsurprisingly, William was nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for "A Beautiful Mind". There are a total of six nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Film Score for a drama, which can be said to be almost all nominations for drama movies.

It is worth mentioning that after hesitating again and again, Universal still filled in the supporting role for the film's heroine Jennifer Connelly to participate in the competition for the Golden Globe Award and even the Oscars - the absolute protagonist of "A Beautiful Mind" is William, Jennifer Connelly Nali's role is not very important, no matter how much she may not be as good as Paul Bettany, from this point of view, it makes sense to treat her as a supporting role.

However, the number of scenes is not the reason why Jennifer Connelly finally chose to compete for the best supporting actress. The only reason she will do this is to win the award-the previous American Screen Actors Guild Award, she hit the best actress ,I thought that "A Beautiful Mind" was gaining momentum and was likely to win, but I didn't expect to lose to Halle Berry. Think about other strong competitors in this year's awards season, Nicole Kidman, Judy · Dench, why not go for Best Supporting Actress who has a bigger chance of winning.

As for "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" produced by Willot, it also received four nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Song and Best Soundtrack.

Even "The Lord of the Rings" has become a favorite for awards. Although the Oscars have always been unimpressed with big-budget and high-grossing movies with fantasy themes, the Golden Globes are relatively tolerant. They have already favored an epic masterpiece "Gladiator" last year. ", maybe this year will favor another one.

The press and fans across North America have little to say about these nominations, because that's pretty much what people expected.

Among the best films of the year announced by various film critic associations in North America, except for the American Broadcasting Film Critics Association and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which respectively selected "Mulholland Drive" and "Broken Love" as the best films of the year, others such as The New York Film Critics Association, the National Society of Film Critics, the Chicago Film Critics Association, and the Boston Film Critics Association have selected "A Beautiful Mind" as the best film of the year.

Driven by the enthusiastic atmosphere of the awards season, "A Beautiful Mind" still maintained a stable number of theaters and box office results after four weeks of release, and "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" five weeks after its release, among which "The Lord of the Rings" is the most It has performed well in all countries around the world, and has gone through rounds of expansion. During the hottest period of the North American film market, the number of theaters even exceeded [-]. Although it has passed the peak now, it still maintains about [-] theaters. scale.

Stable theaters and attendance have brought about an absolute high box office. Up to now, the North American box office of "A Beautiful Mind" has exceeded 2.3 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office has exceeded 5 million U.S. dollars. The box office results are even more exaggerated. After rounds of expansions, the global box office of this fantasy giant has exceeded 8.5 million U.S. dollars, and it has been judged by numerous film forecasting agencies to become the third film with a box office of over one billion U.S. dollars. Movie.

——The first part is of course "Titanic", the second part is "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", which was released before Thanksgiving last year An astonishing US$1.03 million, but perhaps because movie fans are not so fresh about the second part of the series, and many blockbuster films at the end of the year were attacked back and forth, "The Chamber of Secrets" can continue to be shown for a period of time in some theaters in North America. , but it's just that commercial films can't get the blessing of the awards season, and it won't usher in a peak of attendance.

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" now has a North American box office of [-] million U.S. dollars, but "The Lord of the Rings: The Lord of the Rings" has surpassed this figure, so although "The Lord of the Rings" has not yet been offline, it has surpassed "The Lord of the Rings" Chamber of Secrets was scheduled to be the top box office hit in North America in [-].

However, although "The Chamber of Secrets" may be slightly inferior to "The Lord of the Rings" at the box office, it may be able to make up for it in other ways, such as the DVD release after the film is offline.

The reason for this speculation is that the first "Sorcerer's Stone" in the "Harry Potter" series not only drove the global fantasy novel market, but also caused a new publishing boom for fantasy novels that were originally on the decline. It's also doing amazingly -- Willot released the film on DVD immediately after Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone pulled out of theaters last year, selling for $17 for the regular edition and $25 for a hardcover edition. With the $38 Deluxe Collector's Edition.

The price of the regular version is okay, but the latter two versions are undoubtedly stealing money. When the person in charge of the marketing department showed the plan to William at the beginning, he thought that the other party was going crazy because he wanted to make money. After George Lucas, who was handed over at the same time, priced different versions of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" DVD, he also agreed by default.

Facts have proved that Willot's marketing department is by no means aimless. The DVD of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" sold 300 million copies in the first week alone, and the sales volume of the whole year last year reached [-] million U.S. dollars— ——Belonging to the same series, the DVD sales of "The Chamber of Secrets", which has passed the word of mouth, will certainly not be too bad.

However, apart from the creators of the two crews-perhaps J.K. Global box office champion) cares about it, because they are all produced by Willot.

Terrible Willot!Almost all Hollywood film companies have the same view on this company that has only been established for a few years at this time. "Harry Potter", "Lord of the Rings" and "Blood Together" , Three gold-absorbing giant crocodiles!

Not only is the box office terrifying, but the follow-up income is also continuous, almost miraculously occupying a territory in the nearly saturated Hollywood production industry. There have been miracles.

Hollywood now has the Willot effect. Small studios are envious and admired, medium studios are jealous, and large studios feel a serious sense of crisis. They feel that their status and starting being threatened.

However, big, medium and small, Hollywood film companies are now buying the copyrights of best-selling novels all over the world. The best-selling fantasy literature, science fiction literature, children’s literature and even youth literature published in recent years have been enthusiastically sought after. Writers and their copyrights The agent also made a lot of money because of this craze, the cost of film and television adaptations of best-selling novels has increased several times.

Hollywood studios are all scrambling to find a money-making novel series similar to Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings, so that they can dig a gold mine.

Another news triggered by the upsurge of snapping up the copyrights of best-selling novels and movies that swept across the European and American markets was related to "A Song of Ice and Fire".

This fantasy novel with a setting similar to that of "The Lord of the Rings" has only been released in three volumes, and has already accumulated a high reputation. Different from the mythical narrative of "The Lord of the Rings", "A Song of Ice and Fire" describes more The human nature is true and more in line with the tastes of modern audiences, so it has a large group of loyal book fans in North America-Hollywood film companies who are hunting extensively around the world will certainly not let this novel go, although they are well aware of the novel "Ice and Fire" The difficulty of adapting the POV-style writing technique and huge and complicated branch lines of "Song of Songs" is probably not lower than that of "Lord of the Rings", but I am still extremely interested in the right to adapt the novel.

Even if you can't make movies, don't you still have TV series?Even if you can't make TV series, don't you still have comics, animations and games?

There is more than one company that has taken a fancy to "A Song of Ice and Fire". Warner, Fox, and even New Line and Miramax have sent special personnel to visit George Martin, and without exception, all from George Martin's copyright broker There is one thing that people learned——

The film and television copyright of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series has been bought by Willlot.

The moment they heard the news, the smiles of countless film company representatives immediately froze on their faces, and curses began in their hearts at the same time.

At this time, the sudden news that Steven Spielberg and Willot will part ways and will no longer direct the third part of "Harry Potter" is a welcome news for these film companies. The good news.

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From the "Los Angeles Times" to the "Times", the world's media are scrambling to report that Steven Spielberg will not be able to direct the third "Harry Potter" series, that is, "Azkaban". Prisoners of News.

In particular, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is still being shown in some countries and regions, and the lingering heat in North America has not dissipated, and it has become the headlines of many media entertainment pages.

Book fans and movie fans of the "Harry Potter" series have been shocked, and some people even wailed. For example, the hometown of "Harry Potter" is the United Kingdom. BBC TV also sent a team of reporters to the United States to interview Steven. · Why did Spielberg no longer continue to direct, is there any inside story and so on.

Countless book fans and movie fans can't imagine how the change of director midway will affect this series of movies, what if it is a bad side-although J.K. Rowling's script determines whoever makes the movie The quality of the film will not be too bad, but because Spielberg, one of the world's top directors, directed the first two films, can it be so easy to find a successor whose level is not too bad?

Hollywood's reaction to the news was not so great, because everything had been foreshadowed.

As early as during the filming of the two "Harry Potter" films, there were occasional rumors that Steven Spielberg and author J.K. Rowling's creative ideas had diverged. It's not all false, and Spielberg and Rowling did argue a lot about what the movie should be made of.

When filming the first film, this conceptual difference was not very obvious, perhaps because the novel "Sorcerer's Stone" was originally a fairy tale, but when filming "Chamber of Secrets", the contradictions caused by different ideas obviously increased.

It's just that in order to prevent the film from being affected by negative news, Willot has always had public relations Hollywood media not to report these news.It is not reported to the outside world. In the Hollywood industry, there are not too few people who know about it.

The conflict between Spielberg and Rowling has nothing to do with money or status, but purely a difference in creative ideas.

To give a common example, when filming "The Chamber of Secrets", Rowling hoped that the style of the film could be darker, especially in the performance of basilisks and petrification, and the memory of the young Voldemort trying to revive, because the novel started from the second part. The style is changing from the beginning—"Azkaban Prisoner" not only has the terrifying magical creature dementor, but also the story of a traitor who escaped from death and was wrongly imprisoned for ten years. "In "Harry Potter" is written directly to death of a student, all this shows that Rowling wants to write "Harry Potter" as a growing-up novel that is more and more suitable for adults to read, so she naturally hopes that the movie It can also be adultized together, instead of making a dark and terrifying magical story into a puzzle game full of drama and a perfect ending preview.

However, Spielberg doesn't think so. In movies with children as the protagonists, he always tends to tell stories in a dreamy and beautiful way. This is a creative habit that has been going on since "ET".

But Rowling wanted the film to have the same stylistic shift as the book.

In fact, it can't be blamed that Spielberg and Rowling have different ideas. When he was interested in "Harry Potter", Rowling hadn't written Cedric Diggory to death.Novel can no longer be called a mere fairy tale without people.

J. K. Rowling is the original author and screenwriter of the novel. He has an extraordinary status in the crew. Generally speaking, he should have a lot of power to speak, but Steven Spielberg is an extremely independent actor. Director, he will listen to Rowling's script suggestions, but it is impossible for him to listen to the other party's opinions when shooting the movie-in fact, when filming "Sorcerer's Stone", Rowling once suggested that the other party's The part where the Sorting Hat sings, which has no influence on the main story line, was deleted, but Spielberg thought that part was very interesting, and it would help fans who haven’t read the novel understand the four houses of Hogwarts. The soundtrack master John Williams was asked to compose the theme song for the Sorting Hat-this made the differences not only not resolved, but intensified, and it was already difficult to continue the seamless cooperation.

In addition, Spielberg has maintained a strong creative desire in recent years, with a high output of almost one film a year. Last year, while filming "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", he even worked with Tom Hanks Produced the mini TV series "Band of Brothers". A big director like him doesn't know how many interesting scripts he receives and how many interesting ideas he generates every year. It is unrealistic to be tied to a film series for five or six years or even longer.

For example, after filming "The Chamber of Secrets" last year, Spielberg has been busy making the movie "Artificial Intelligence" that the legendary director Stanley Kubrick has always wanted to make, about the future of humans and machines, and it is said that The box office of "Mission: Impossible 2" released last year was not good. Paramount lost money and blamed each other with Tom Cruise. Because of the difference in salary, the negotiations between the two parties on the third part have reached a deadlock. Tom Cruise is currently in urgent need of Make another commercial blockbuster to restore his reputation as a box office superstar-"It would be even better if we can cooperate with a big director like Steven Spielberg." 'Hollywood is rumored that Tom Cruise himself said this to his agent.

Multiple factors were superimposed, so when Spielberg read the script of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" written by Rowling, he immediately called William and expressed, "This movie is my favorite." I don't really want to shoot."

William did not force him to stay, nor did he try to persuade him to stay as the producer of the remaining films. As for the filmmaker, if the two mountains are overwhelmed, it is impossible to find a very talented director for the third film.

In this way, the two sides chose to break up peacefully.

On the second day after negotiating the matter of no longer cooperating, the latest box office share of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was transferred to Spielberg's account, still on time as before.

Spielberg was very touched by Willlot's attitude of not delaying, especially not playing tricks on the books. He found a suitable opportunity to call William back, and not only offered to recommend some people who could replace him Spielberg wanted William to work with him as an actor in the future, not popcorn movies.He sounded sincere and seemed to have a real plan.

Now, Willot has to find a director for "Harry Potter" all over Hollywood again, and this time it is more difficult than the first time, because there are too many people recommending themselves, even William's personal mobile phone About to be blown up.

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has a global box office of 10.57 billion. Even if the box office of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" does not exceed one billion dollars, it will be very close to this figure. Hollywood directors, big and small, as long as they are interested in business Movies are not exclusive, and no one would feel that having the title of "billion director" on top of their head is too obtrusive.

However, the reputation of this film series has already been established, and there is another example of Spielberg. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" will not find any more big directors. Willot will aim at The most important thing is that he can thrive in the commercial film circle, and he is also a cutting-edge director who can inject his own thoughts into the film and will not become a puppet manipulated by the script.

Before the media or movie fans made a list of directors who will succeed Spielberg, Hollywood is boiling like hot water again, and the protagonist this time has already made the public think from "Why is it him again! ” became “Oh, I knew it was him.”

But Hollywood, and even the world's film world, were still greatly shocked, because before that, no one in the world dared to believe that an actor's personal box office could accumulate such an astonishing figure.

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The news first appeared on the HSO.com website.

This website founded by Jonathan Bates, a New Yorker, is now the largest gathering place for gossip news in North America, and not only Hollywood, but also all kinds of news from politics, Silicon Valley, Wall Street and social celebrities. Can keep pace with some traditional media.

For example, Tom Cruise’s first scandal after the divorce, and Penelope Cruz’s filming of "Vanilla Sky" because of the drama, is the first time HSO.com exposed the private dating photos of the two of.Nowadays, many gossip tabloids have assigned special personnel to watch the website every day, searching for the latest and hottest news, and then reprinting or in-depth investigation reports.

When the post was first posted, because the title was too sensational - the highest cumulative box office in the world!The box office king of movie history! ——There are quite a few people who have noticed it, but many netizens who have a deep understanding of Hollywood started to ruthlessly ridicule the poster who posted the post as soon as they saw the content of the title.

For example, Justin Zhang, a website commentator for Variety.

Like most major newspapers today, Variety has established its own website, but the focus of its business is traditional media. Website commentators like Justin Zhang, in addition to maintaining and managing the website, often go to other sites every day. Browse the forums of popular websites, such as HSO.com or HitFix, to ensure that Variety does not fall behind competitors such as The Hollywood Reporter in terms of access to information.

Justin Zhang saw the post claiming that William Bradley was about to be crowned world box office king.

Personal box office cumulative film history is the highest?Global actor No.1?

Does the host who posted this post know Harrison Ford?Justin Zhang thought to himself almost immediately, Harrison Ford's global box office has accumulated to 2000 billion US dollars as early as 50, and he also won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute that year!

And what is the concept of 50 billion US dollars?It's a "Star Wars" series and you have to add a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series!

Continuing to read, Justin Zhang saw the phrase "the cumulative box office surpassed Harrison Ford", and he sniffed again.

Overtake Harrison Ford?real?

Since starring in the "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, Harrison Ford has become the highest-grossing actor of all time, and has maintained this record for decades. During these decades, Tom Han Keith, Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson... Countless box office superstars have been hoped to break this record, but none of them have been able to do so until now. .

Even Tom Hanks, who has the closest record, is almost a billion dollars away from Harrison Ford. Does William Bradley film more than half of the other?

However, when he saw the data sheet that the owner Zhang didn't know where to find in the middle of the post, Justin Zhang felt his cheeks on both sides burn suddenly, and felt that the previous ridicule had been slapped back on his face.

In the table, for each movie of each actor, the year it was released, the box office in North America, the box office overseas, and the total box office in the world, all the data listed are detailed and clear.

Harrison Ford, who has maintained the highest box office record in film history for decades, has released a total of 26 films so far, with a cumulative box office of 53.38 billion US dollars, an average of 2.05 million US dollars per film.And Tom Hanks, who followed Harrison Ford, also had 26 movies released, with a total box office of 45.7 billion U.S. dollars, an average of 1.76 million U.S. dollars per film.

But William Bradley's box office accumulation is a full 83.25 billion US dollars!That's an average of $5.95 million each!

and many more!

83.25 billion?Dollar!

Justin Zhang suspected that he read it wrong, or the person who posted it made a mistake, or the data was simply wrong, but after calculating step by step according to the videos listed, the number was indeed correct!

William Bradley has released a total of fifteen films, ten of which are starring roles, four are important supporting roles, and one is a few minutes of end-credits cameo.

Excluding the "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" that cameo, among the other 1.57 films, "Sense and Sensibility" has a global box office of 1.47 million US dollars, and "Romeo and Juliet Modern Edition" is 2.58 million US dollars. , "Scream" $18.43 million, "Titanic" $3.44 billion, "Gattaca" $4.1 million, "Meet Joe Black" $3.82 million, "The Truman Show" $3.5 million, "Shakespeare" Love History 8.72 million US dollars, "Blood" 2.7 million US dollars, "Fight Club" 5.45 million US dollars, "Meet Your Father-in-Law" 60.7 million US dollars - the total box office of these eleven films is [-] billion US dollars!

In other words, just the three movies currently being released, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "A Beautiful Mind", and "The Lord of the Rings: The Lord of the Rings", contributed a box office of 22.55 billion U.S. dollars!

Staring at these numbers, Justin Zhang was dumbfounded for a while.

This "for a while" refers to more than 10 minutes.

After recovering, what Justin Zhang wanted to prove most was the authenticity of these data.

He first opened the IMDB box office page and BoxOfficeMojo, a movie box office website owned by Amazon, and carefully compared the box office of those films that had already been released. Then he called a friend who worked in a film market research company, asked again and confirmed all The box office data are all correct.

In just a few 10 minutes, the post has become a hit on HSO.com.

Justin Zhang refreshed IMDB, and found that the homepage of the website also reproduced this news!

But this is not surprising, because the figure of more than 80 billion US dollars is simply too scary, even higher than the GDP of Congo last year!

Suddenly, Justin Zhang remembered what he had forgotten. He picked up the phone and frantically called the editor-in-chief of "Variety Show" magazine: "Hey, boss, I found a big piece of news!"

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The weather in Los Angeles has been particularly bad in recent days. The continuous rain has replaced the bright sunshine. Even when it is not raining, the sky is covered by thick clouds, and the sun's brilliance can't come out. It's inexplicable. Depressed and irritated—just like the mood of brothers Harvey and Bob and their mother, Miram Weinstein, in the Miramax office at this time.

Harvey Weinstein sat behind the desk, his mother Milam and brother Bob sat across from each other, and the three of them were all staring at the picture on the TV on the right, with the same dignified expression.Especially the head of Miramax's face was even worse, as if seeing the company's financial report showing a loss of [-] million dollars.

On the TV, Katie Couric, the host of NBC's ace program "Today", is smiling and broadcasting the news: "The latest news that this station has received, as of the early morning of this Monday, the personal accumulation of Hollywood superstar William Bradley The global box office has reached 83.45 billion U.S. dollars, and the total North American box office is 34.08 billion U.S. dollars. Both the global and North American box office are the highest ever, and it is the well-deserved king of the box office!"

""Forbes" announced the new Hollywood actors cost-effective list, and William Bradley has become the most cost-effective actor for three consecutive years."

When I heard the host broadcast last week's North American box office rankings have been released, in the absence of a threat from the release of new commercial blockbusters, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Lord of the Rings" once again became the champion of the weekend box office rankings with a stable performance, while By the time Miramax's "Love in Another World" didn't even make it into the top ten, Harvey Weinstein's face was so dark that ink dripped out.

Even Bob Weinstein's expression was not good: "A lot of the publicity arranged by the company happened to meet the news about William Bradley, and a considerable part of the public relations fee was wasted, and what's more, Forget about the lost box office due to those hit dates. What to do next, Harvey, you have to make up your mind."

Miramax is ambitious, launching four movies in one go this year, and wants to make a difference this awards season.

"Life Together", "Unlucky Love", "Love in Another World", and "BJ's Single Diary" are all expected to hit performance awards, and the first two are niche independent art films, and the latter two are romantic comedies. They are all the favorite types of academy judges. As long as the public relations are proper, there is no need to worry about nominations or even trophies.

In previous years, Miramax started to make efforts at this time, first creating a series of topics, using the media to stir up the film's fame and reputation, and then using well-known film critics as pushers, and then public relations academy judges, and finally nominations and awards are a matter of course. Formed a very mature routine.

However, this year, Miramax’s public relations campaign has just started its offensive, and it has lost momentum. First, several films in the Christmas-New Year schedule have exploded at the box office one after another. Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, Will Smith, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman and other box office superstars are all striving for the Oscars. You come and I make enough space. Finally, the announcement of the Oscar nominations is imminent, and William Bradley is crowned the box office king of film history again, causing a worldwide sensation.

During this special period, the media has fresh news every day, and the public is bombarded with eyeballs every day. It is difficult for people to pay attention to how much Rachel Weisz has improved in her acting skills in "BJ's Diary", or How is the American middle-class family tragedy reflected in "Beautiful Love" different from that in "American Beauty".

If it’s just that the promotion plan for a few films has been hindered, then that’s fine, but “The Lord of the Rings” and “A Beautiful Mind” are also popular Oscar-nominated films, and they have direct competition with Miramax for nominations. The hotter Erlott's momentum gets, the less attention Miramax gets, which is in no way in the Weinstein brothers' plans or interests.

Another small episode is that last Saturday, the Weinstein Brothers held a reception and invited many members of the academy, and wanted to introduce them to the two MiraMike films "Immortal Love" and "Life Together". This is an important work for the Olympic Games. I did not expect Willot to hold the "Lord of the Rings" celebration dinner at the Hilton Hotel in the city on the same day. A large number of media and actors were also invited. Changed my mind and went to the celebration dinner, making Miramax spend the same amount of money without getting enough tickets.

"William Bradley, William Bradley, William Bradley—why is that name everywhere!" Bob Weinstein complained unwillingly and discouraged: "According to me According to the news from people, he definitely has a nomination for Oscar this year! Although most of the academy judges think that he is suspected of being a vase in "The Lord of the Rings", they really like his performance in "A Beautiful Mind", There are a total of five actor nominations for the Oscars, and he took away one, and the competition is so fierce this year, what are we going to do next!"

Milam Weinstein looked at his eldest son: "Harvey, you have to make up your mind."

Harvey Weinstein looked at his brother: "Bob, for our four films, how many nominations do you expect to get?"

"The chances of being nominated for the best film "Unlucky Love" are a little higher, and the other three probably won't get a shot. Best Actress and Supporting Actress are our strengths, and there should be no mistakes in the nominations. The four nominations are not a big problem .The best actor is more difficult. There are too many actors competing for the Olympics this year. Even Sean Penn is not sure that he will be nominated. Hugh Jackman ("Gone World") and Colin Fei Smith ("BJ's Diary") is definitely not going to play, and Jim Broadbent ("Hand in Hand") and Tom Wilkinson ("Broken Love") are not saying that they will be nominated [-]%, or that sentence In other words, there are too many uncertain factors this year.”

Bob Weinstein thought for a moment, then added: "Ten nominations if we go as planned, or half as badly."

"What are the chances of winning?"

"This year's Oscar hits are not our films, Harvey, "A Beautiful Mind" and "Moulin Rouge". Even the gaming companies are optimistic about them winning the award."

'Why wasn't Miramax the first to discover this script? 'In addition to being very regretful, Harvey Weinstein now feels a strong sense of crisis-"A Beautiful Mind" has too high a rate of overlap with Miramax's films in terms of possible nominations. The chances of winning are higher, and Miramax has been busy for nothing for a year.

""A Beautiful Mind" should be Miramax's biggest competitor this year. We must minimize its chances of winning the award, so that it is possible for the trophy to fall into our own hands." Harvey Weinstein finally won I made up my mind: "I can only say sorry to the newly crowned box office king. I already made him lose the Oscar once two years ago. This year, he has to relive his old dream."

That being said, Harvey Weinstein's expression was not apologetic at all, and even slightly smug.