"Mr. Smith, you can go in. Sid's assistant said to Will Smith.

“OK。 Will Smith nodded with a smile and followed his assistant into Sid's office.

"Wow, Will Smith!" Liz, who has been in the TV circle for a long time, looked up and found that the movie circle with movie stars flying all over the street was really glamorous.

"It seems that Brother Sid really found Will to play. Lindsey whispered.

On the other side, Sid, who was in the office, was smiling and shaking hands with Will Smith and said, "I haven't seen you in a while, Will." ”

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Will Smith's joining, with almost no twists and turns, has officially stepped into the "Shi Huang" of the 20 million club, and what is needed most now is the gilding of the award.

And "The Departed", which already has Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Tom Cruise joined, has a huge attraction to any Hollywood star, and is also regarded by insiders as one of the seeded contestants for next year's Oscars.

Finally, after a brief negotiation, Will Smith agreed to lower his salary and appear in the film for $5 million like the other three leading actors.

And after collecting the four leading actors, Sid and the crew can finally let go and start preparing for the filming of "The Departed".

Art director Jesse Okato, who had worked with him on "Thunder of the Earth," returned, and together with Sid and Lance Arcord, he designed the film's slightly darker "godfather"-style art tone.

This not only distinguishes Sid's version of "The Departed" from the old horse version, but also makes a natural difference from the classic Hong Kong version.

The crew in Toronto, according to their design tone, adjusted the scenery, lighting, and even costumes and props.

And in order to maximize the opposition between the sacredness of religion and the darkness of gangsters like the Hong Kong version of "Infernal Affairs", Sid also decided to arrange the first scene of the movie to be filmed in the oldest church in Toronto.

Opened with a priest's baptism of gangster boys who are about to go undercover in the police station, from the very beginning, it sets a strong tone of conflict for the film.

In order to better prepare for this, Sid moved the entire crew to Toronto, where he worked on local studios and locations.

At the same time, the long-awaited "Black Hawk Down" was finally released on the 18th.

This is Ridley Scott's latest movie after "Gladiator", not only produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, although there are no big stars worth mentioning in terms of starring, but many Hollywood fresh meats such as Orlando Bloom are a lot.

For this film about the disgraceful "black history" of the US military in Somalia, most people thought that Ridley Scott would make a reflective and anti-war film like "Gladiator" and "Braveheart".

But it didn't come to pass, but the finished film of "Black Hawk Down" is full of strong audio-visual sensory stimulation, and the battlefield is too real, making this film completely become a traditional North American patriotic propaganda film.

This disappointed many viewers who were expecting to watch another modern epic blockbuster.

And the box office of this film also fully illustrates this.

Although Sony Pictures was hesitant to release such a film that exaggerated war after 911. After several rounds of small-scale screenings, they were officially released on a large scale on January 18.

But the film's first week was $33 million, the next week was $17 million, the third week was $11 million, and the fourth week fell out of the 10 million red line, which is really unsatisfactory.

In the end, this war blockbuster with a production cost of 92 million only recovered $108 million in North America, and overseas people lacked a good impression of the film, only $64 million was recovered, and it was a loss at the box office.

This once again proves a Hollywood "truth" - Ridley Scott is definitely a type director who has been charging for N years and has a shot, and don't expect him to be good for other films during this period.

Another fact that people don't pay much attention to is that this is also the second film in a row failed by gold medal producer Jerry Bruckheimer after "Pearl Harbor"!

Although for a commercial blockbuster producer like him who has been in Hollywood for many years, there is no iron rule of "no more than three", but how long can he squander the capital he has accumulated in the past?

This is interesting.

Two days after the release of "Black Hawk Down", Hollywood finally ushered in the first little grass of the awards season - the Golden Globe Awards, organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, were finally held in the international ballroom of Beverly Hills and the Hilton Hotel.

The Golden Globes have always been known as the "little Oscars", second only to the Oscars in popularity and public recognition, but this "international" awards festival held at the Hilton Hotel International Ballroom is far inferior to the Oscars in scale.

Just in the spacious international ballroom, it was filled with all the participants.

And don't forget, the Golden Globes are awards stages involving both film and television, so you can also know that compared to the Emmy Awards and Oscars in their respective majors, the Golden Globes are actually more like a party for the elite in Hollywood, rather than a serious award with a straight face.

But it is precisely because of such entertainment that the Golden Globe Awards have a larger audience and popularity.

At this year's Golden Globe Awards, there is not only the drama hit "A Beautiful Mind", but also the "traditional" song and dance film "Moulin Rouge" starring Nicole Kidman, a female star who rose rapidly after the divorce, of course, in addition, there is also the dark horse "Begin Again", which was released at the end of last year and has been popular since the beginning of its release.

It can also be seen from the lineup of popular films, whether it is the soothing "Beautiful Mind", or the more festive "Moulin Rouge" and "Begin Again Songs Change Life", it can be seen that today's North America is still shrouded in the disaster effect of the post-911 generation.

Therefore, using festive and comforting entertainment works to appease people's hearts has become a hot topic in the North American entertainment industry.

The red carpet that night was full of stars such as Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Harrison Ford, while Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams and Lindsay, the new generation of idols, and the popular "genius director" Sid all made this year's Golden Globe Awards very eye-catching.

Although this year's Golden Globe Awards are a little less topical than last year's historic breakthrough in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", as the first major film award after 911, both the broadcaster's NBC television network and the host's Hollywood Foreign Press Association have made a lot of effort to hold a grand ceremony.