"The setting of the male protagonist is very bizarre, he has a doctorate, and he is also good at a very mysterious oriental tai chi, but he is willing to do the work of watching the horse boy in the bar. Then, the director awkwardly made him a paranoid avenger, but he is not a qualified avenger, he can unceremoniously kill those little minions, but he will be soft on the bully who hates him the most, and in the end he was almost killed by the other party. All in all, this is a movie that is very awkward and tangled in plot. ”——

"The film is full of anarchic private law enforcement, lawless vandalism and unbridled violence, and it is nothing short of a farce. —Magazine

"All I saw was hooligan brawls, broken beer bottles, a bunch of big-breasted girls and splattered blood, the plot was pale and unconvincing, and the muscles that Richard Gere had specially honed for the film were not half interesting, and his actions in the film were not even as neat as the villain's supporting roles. ”——

"A ridiculous and boisterous fable of the fist. ”——

"This is completely a movie that can remove the male lead, and then things will still develop according to the plot of the movie, the craps bar is rectified, causing the bullies to covet it, a series of violence, arson, murder, and then the unbearable townspeople rise up and kill the bullies, Richard Gere gave up Eric Williams for such a movie, I don't know if I will lose sleep because of regret. ”——

"Aside from the rock soundtrack interspersed within, the film is simply nothing good. —Magazine

Because of the vigorous promotion of this movie in the early stage of Lianmei, the attendance rate on the first day of more than 1,900 theaters reached more than 70%, but with the one-sided bad reviews of the film after the release, the attendance rate plummeted.

Three days later, the box office for the first weekend of the Easter schedule was released. In the sixth week of release, there was an unsurprising box office reversal, collecting more than 2.4 million more than last weekend, and won the top spot in the three-day box office list of the weekend with a score of $11.27 million, with a cumulative box office of 97.69 million in six weeks. Linked to the fact that Eric is still months away from his 19th birthday, this achievement is sure to usher in another media buzz.

Although it had nearly 2,000 opening screens, it only earned $5.25 million in its opening weekend box office with less than half of the $5.25 million in attendance on Saturday and Sunday.

In third place went to Universal Pictures' crime comedy, which earned $5.04 million in more than 1,400 theaters.

Because Colombia has increased its support and the Easter schedule, it unknowingly won more than 4 million at the box office in the eighteenth week of its release, steadily approaching $300 million.

Maybe one day, when the box office suddenly accumulates $300 million, the public will see the numbers before their eyes open again and let out an emotion like 'wow'.

In the new week, Eric ended his audition and handed it over to the two directors, and began to travel around the greater Los Angeles area to select locations for the film.

There weren't many scenes needed, but there were plenty of footages to be filmed, but finding the right place was not an easy task.

At the same time, Eric also found a lack of his own strength. As the stronghold of Hollywood, Los Angeles has a very strong policy support for films, but it does not mean that film crews can do whatever they want, and the filming of many scenes requires the approval of various municipal departments, although it is very flexible, but the process is very cumbersome.

Moreover, the relevant connections are also essential, although Eric is now very famous, but it is completely incomparable with those big directors who have been famous for many years, gold medal people, maybe sometimes others can do things with just a phone call, but he has to come forward to communicate repeatedly.

Fortunately, Colombia values this movie very much, and in order to ensure that the film can be shot as much as possible, an experienced producer was specially sent to assist Eric in preparation, which greatly shortened the preparation time.

While Eric was choosing a location, another thing happened unconsciously.

The turmoil began with Richard Gere, a 40-year-old former superstar who has been increasingly haunted by the loss of his lead actor since his opening weekend box office, knowing that he had missed a precious opportunity to return to the A-list superstar, especially the recent box office failure, which made him even more chagrin and regret.

After that, Richard Gere desperately wanted to get another film contract to turn over, and he also felt that CAA had the responsibility and obligation to help him, because this was what the other party owed him, and if it weren't for Michael Ovitz's personal vendettas, he wouldn't have given up the male lead.

For this reason, Richard Kere wanted to interview Michael Ovitz many times, but unfortunately now Michael Ovitz is busy coordinating the acquisition of Sony and Colombia after successfully matchmaking the Sony consortium and Coca-Cola, and he didn't have time to deal with Richard Gere's trivial matter, but handed over the matter to Richard Gere's agent Horner Willie, who has a strict habit of cleanliness and was instigated by Eric Stuart Runkel to join forces and disgusted him.

Horner Wiley recommended the actor of a low-budget horror movie for Richard Gere, according to his current situation, Richard Gere, of course, was not satisfied, he took a fancy to a medium-sized Zuò film from Universal Pictures, which CAA is in charge of, and this request is not too much. But Horner Wiley didn't agree to fight for that role for Richard Gere. He rejected Richard Gere on the grounds that Universal could not use an actor who had already fallen to the bottom of the second tier and had just played a big production Zuò.

Horner Wiley is one of CAA's earliest agents, and now he is also CAA's gold agent, even many A-level actors are polite to him, which slowly fuels the agent's temper. And Richard Gere completely blamed CAA for the mistake of losing this opportunity, and the resentment in his heart has accumulated for a long time, and after Horner Wiley refused to fight for that role for him, there was a wave of anger that was cheated, and then it completely exploded.

The two of them had a big fight in Horner Wiley's office, and if it wasn't for someone else who found something bad and broke in in time to stop it, the two would probably start fighting.

After this incident, Richard Gere left the CAA on the same day, and on the third day of the incident, he relied on a friend's introduction to join another brokerage giant, William Morris (WMA).

This incident would have been a very normal job hop for actors, and between several major Hollywood agencies, there are countless such job-hopping incidents every year, even if the CAA, which claims to have set up a complete betrayal cost system, cannot avoid it, but it will be relatively rare. CAA's so-called 'betrayal cost' system is more to prevent its own brokers from setting up their own doors, because the five founders of CAA all jumped out of another brokerage giant back then. And for those big-name stars themselves, it is not very restrictive, it is very easy for top stars to leave, second- and third-tier stars, as long as they are willing to pay liquidated damages, they can also leave lightly, but the current CAA has very large resources in the film and television industry chain, so most stars are not tempted enough, and they will not leave this big tree lightly.

Moreover, the CAA also issued a stern gag order in time for the quarrel between Horner Willie and Richard Gere, which was expected to pass unknowingly. But forget that Richard Gere is also one of the parties.

Richard Gere's job hopping soon aroused the ideas of some media, and when interviewed by reporters, Richard Gere, who hated from the bottom of his heart, smeared CAA as a 'victim'. The next day, an article appeared on the article titled "Interview with Richard Gere: The Detailed Inside Story of the Lost Protagonist of 'Wind Moon'".

Recently, the famous actor Richard Gere, who was once expected to star in Eric Williams' box office blockbuster, suddenly left the innovative artist agency (CAA) that he had worked with for a long time.

Here's what Richard Gere had to say: When I first saw the script, I thought it was going to be a great story, a great fit for my image, and I even prepared some roles for it. Eric Williams is very young, but I watched his first two works and learned that he is a very talented young man. But when I was about to say yes to the deal, my ex-agent, Horner Wiley, hinted that I was turning it down.

I was puzzled, and then Horner Wiley told me that because Eric Williams had just recruited Kapoor Sid, Mr. Michael Ovitz and Kapoor Sid had a deep conflict. So I don't like any cooperation between its artists and Eric Williams, to make it clear, Michael Ovitz wants to ban Eric Williams.

However, I didn't want to pass up that opportunity, so I consulted with Horner Wiley. But what I got was a subtle threat that if I worked with Eric Williams, I would be refrigerated by the CAA in the future, and I was already at a low ebb in my career, and I had to turn down the film offer because I was afraid of the threat from the CAA.

Then, in the name of appeasement, CAA gave me the male lead of an action movie in the United States, and when I saw the script, I said to Horner Wiley: No, this character image is not suitable for me, although I have acted in action movies, but this role is too violent, maybe it is more appropriate to find a muscular man to play it.

Horner Wiley said I had no choice, and then I had to take it for a very low salary, and in order to be more in line with the image of the male protagonist in the film, I deliberately did a period of high-intensity fitness. But the film finally failed.

The reason why these are exposed today is because I think CAA has forgotten their own identity, and after they monopolized too many resources, they became unscrupulous and did whatever they wanted, and some people can joke about the future of actors for a little personal grudge and show their personal power, and they can use movies invested by other companies for tens of millions of dollars as bargaining chips, which is a very bad thing. The agency is supposed to serve the actors, and the interests of the employer should be the first criterion, so as to survive for a long time, but now the CAA has begun to treat the actors as chess pieces in their hands, and sooner or later they will kill themselves. ”