November10-16，2006

-- Movies -- Rankings -- Number of Weeks in Play -- Number of Theaters -- Average -- Box Office of the Week -- Total Box Office -- Production Cost (millions) -- Distributor

"Lovely Bones" - 1st place - Week 1 - 3205 - $16,276 - $52,164,580 - $52,164,580 - $25 - Paramount

"Borat" -- 2nd place -- 2nd week -- 2566 -- $14,541 -- $37,312,627 -- $76,154,492 -- $18 -- Fox

"Santa Claus 3" - 3rd place - Week 2 - 3458 - $5,565 - $19,242,053 - $43,401,458 - N\/A - Bowei

Soul Surfer - 10th place - Week 5 - 1652 - $3,504 - $5,790, 138 - $85,820,780 - $10 - Lionsgate

Carrie the Witch - 27th place - Week 6 - 398 - $1,263 - $502,674 - $29,333,195 - $15 - Lionsgate

When the week of 10-16 came to an end, TLB was crowned the champion of the week without suspense after winning the weekend box office title!

This is Ye Wei's fifth weekly champion, and TET, LMS, SS and TLB have won the title of "North American Box Office Weekly Champion" for four consecutive films, the report card of the new generation of power.

"We are confident that we will see it break 100 million at the box office. "It has a perfect statistic backing it up, and it's a serious film, but the audience is hooked." In addition to the excellent evaluation reputation, Paramount's exit survey showed that 52% of the audience was under the age of 25, and 53% of the audience was female, which is even enough.

This result is expected by media fans, compared to the $102 million opening of another super bestseller, "The Da Vinci Code" movie version in May this year, the $217 million North America/$758 million global results, TLB's first-week box office is relatively small, but it is also due to the difference in story, genre, investment, etc.

This achievement is just a matter of course for the successful TLB, there is no failure, but it is not an explosion, which makes some fans a little disappointed.

But excluding a number of producers and distributors, how difficult it is for TLB to shoot this hot potato well! It makes Spielberg stop interest! Insiders know that the "confidence" of people including Paramount President Gail Berman and others is transformed from apprehension, and if it fails, Ye Wei will be immediately attacked, and now everyone is finally happy.

Smile or cry and make a lot of money together!

The $25 million production fee exceeded $50 million in the first week, and breaking 100 million is even more ironclad, and it is also advancing into the awards season, which is Paramount's most majestic film so far this year.

"There's no way you didn't notice TLB. "But it doesn't affect the growth of Borat, which are completely different genres and we can make everyone laugh." ”

And Chuck Wayne, the distribution manager of Bowei, said: "After you finish watching TLB, it will be good to watch another "Santa Claus 3". ”

Ye Wei, who is also the director and director of TLB, said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times: "Our production cycle is not only three or four months, and the years of research on the project cannot be ignored...... I can say that I am standing on the shoulders of many filmmakers, and it is difficult to hit a home run without that kind of brainstorming.

The success of TLB is bound to continue to boost the popularity of best-selling book adaptations, and there will be more of these films on the market in the coming years. But most of them lack the foundation for success, and the rush of the production process will be the main reason why some projects are messed up, and only some projects have a chance to be shot thanks to the craze, and time can make them better or make them abort. The producers are going to shoot it, and it's a cliché that the audience has to see some failures. ”

Of course, according to industry sources, Alice Sieberd's unpublished new book "Near-Perfect Moon" and her husband Glenn David Gold's fantasy novel "Carter Defeats the Devil" have all been targeted by studios. Now looking back on Sieb's handing over the TLB adaptation rights to Ye Wei, the people who questioned it at the beginning changed their words and praised her for her good vision.

This is also a win-win situation, the praise of the film critics is not yet enough, and the real box office results have made Ye Wei's value soar, and he has jumped from a new star director to a big director.

Looking at this week's box office rankings, a total of three films with two main creators and one curator are listed, and the top ten account for two seats, which is really a rare spectacle, which really makes fans scream!

Among the most successful directors, it's not uncommon to have two large-scale releases in a year, but it's usually half a year apart, and the closer you go, the less time you get, Tony Scott's "Revenge" and "Thunder" in '90, and Jay Rocky's "Ace Spy 2" and "Souls Hockey" in '99, both four months.

Richard Donner's "Broad Skies" and "Lethal Weapon 3" in '92 was three months, his "Eagle Wolf Legend" (4/12/85) and "Goonies" (6/7/85), two months, and Tim Burton, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (7/15/05) and "Zombie Bride" (9/23/05), two months.

There are also Clint Eastwood's twin films "Flags of the Fathers" (10/20/06) and "Letter from Iwo Jima" (12/20/06) this year, also two months.

Ye Wei's 10\/13\/06 and 11\/10\/06 are separated by less than a month, and the two movies are in the top ten at the same time, which is the first time in decades.

Unlike Donner's two adventure films, Burton's two "Burton-esque" gothic films, and Eastwood's two World War II films, although the three VIY movies are all girls and heroines, they are plots/horrors, plots/sports/family, plots/thrillers/families, different types, different styles, and different market positioning.

Want to see a horror story about a beautiful girl? Watch Nina Dobrev's "Carrie". Want to see the broken bones of a young beautiful girl? Watch Emma Roberts's "Soul Surfer". Want to see the story of a young beautiful girl's broken bones? Watch Elizabeth Olsen's "Lovely Bones".

Want to see the story of a young hard girl? Wait until December 15 to watch "Winter Bones".

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"Weige, today's audition went well, and I have decided on the candidate for 'Juno'. ”

"How?"

"Alan Page. She's a good fit, and Coty says she just saw Juno as she imagined. Olsen and Lawrence are both very good, but they are both too tall and pregnant, and they don't have the look and feel of the little girl I want with a big belly to play Juno. ”

"Oh...... Peggy is really good, I've seen her Hard Candy, and it really shocked me, and she has no problem acting it. ”

"That's what I think. The audition video has been sent to you, you can take a look at it when you have time, and Leah's candidates will give me some ideas. ”

"Don't look at it, Jason, you should also know that if it's another style, Jennifer Lawrence can play Juno, she can't play Leah anyway, she's not that type. Lizzie... What do you think of Olsen?"

"That's good! Olsen has that temperament, elegant, bookish, but not to the level of a famous daughter, she is also smart and individual, but not like Peggy who has no girlish posture, and is not one of those sexy queens. She plays Lea very well, and she and Peggy look good together. But is Olsen willing to play a supporting role?"

"No problem, she's not a Hollywood animal, not yet. ”

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"Ye Wei did not make Heaven a free world as described in the original book, this heartbreaking story is perfectly controlled, and the two worlds are united by emotions. What is the heart of the story? The pain of bereavement is finally healed by time, and life goes on. —3.5/4, Linda Barnard, Toronto Star

"The film interprets the spirit of the original book with nuanced emotional insights, vivid character building, and smooth and reasonable plot arrangement, and "Lovely Bones" is a new symbol of the novel adaptation of the film. - 4/5, Christopher Tuco, Daily Mail

"Sieberd's simple and moving prose is presented to the screen in the best possible way by Ye Wei. —4/4, Robert Butler, Kansas City Star

Time flies, and when the week of November 17-23 is a thing of the past, this Thanksgiving week, in the face of two new blockbuster releases, TLB continues to shine with a box office trend of -32.8%!

-- Movies -- Rankings -- Number of Weeks in Play -- Number of Theaters -- Average -- Box Office of the Week -- Total Box Office -- Production Cost (millions) -- Distributor

Casino Royale - 1st place - Week 1 - 3443 - $18,376 - $63,267,784 - $63,267,784 - $150 - Sony

"Happy Feet" - 2nd place - Week 1 - 3804 - $16,356 - $62,218,720 - $62,218,720 - $100 - Warner Bros

"Lovely Bones" - 3rd place - Week 2 - 3205 - $10,937 - $35,054,597 - $87,219,177 - $25 - Paramount

Soul Surfer - 13th place - Week 6 - 1022 - $3,224 - $3,294,589 - $89,115,369 - $10 - Lionsgate

"Carrie the Witch" -- 32nd place -- Week 7 -- 187 -- $1,503 -- $281,061 -- $29,614,256 -- $15 -- Lionsgate

After this week, it is almost certain that TLB is Paramount/DreamWorks' most successful film of the year, not the summer blockbusters "Mission Impossible 3" and "Outside the Fence", not the Hess "Mad Father" ($35 million budget/$80.19 million North American box office), or "tear gas" TLB.

Now that it has succeeded, of course there will be a group of people who will come out and share the credit. Spielberg has a discerning eye and has come back from what has been lost in "Monster House"; Gail Berman's selection of films has a vicious eye, which has given Ye Wei enough trust; CEO Brad Gray and group president Tom Frost understand young audiences and are bold and bold in reform......

"Paramount has already discussed the feasibility of a new project collaboration with Ye Wei. Berman himself told The Hollywood Reporter, showing the utmost sincerity.

There is also news that Paramount wants to hand over the sci-fi action project "Iron Fist" obtained from DreamWorks to Ye Wei, which is adapted from Richard Matheson's 1956 short story "Iron Armor", which has been established since 2003, and now there is nothing left but to hook up a bunch of producers, including Spielberg and Zemeckis. They will work together to supervise the production, Ye Wei can make the director, and the final cutting power can be discussed.

Fans who watched the news were excited!

Both SS and TLB had a near-B-grade production process, but both were hugely successful. Ye Wei's continued impressive returns make the final cutting rights of the big studios, which were out of reach last year, no longer far away, and the total production cost of this week's champions and runners-up is exactly 10 times that of TLB, but they are not more profitable at the box office.

If an independent filmmaker has the right to cut the final cut, and gets a total salary of more than $20 million, it is not considered to be recruited to produce a commercial blockbuster for Hollywood!

Is VIY going to make a blockbuster!?

Fans got more than just news, after Wei Lilian was announced, Ye Wei's emotional scandals plummeted, and he turned to scandals with one movie project after another.

Walden Media and Pretwin's fantasy adventure film "Shimmer City" is inviting VIY to join, he doesn't seem interested, and what he said to the "Los Angeles Times" is like a polite refusal, the first book in the "Shimmer City" series of books was published in May 03, taking advantage of the adaptation of children's novels This year, just like "Fantasy Elf Event Book".

Last year's scandal project was Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Warrior Monks", because the script had not yet been finalized there. It is rumored that Disney is asking Ye Wei to join it again. And another definite news is more concerned by Weimi, Lionsgate wants to join hands with Ye Wei to do a big project, what he wants to shoot and shoot!

"Lionsgate will do its best to secure new projects from VIY and continue to work together happily. Lionsgate's CEO, Jon Philheimer, also told The Hollywood Reporter about his sincerity.

Lionsgate's sincerity can be seen by everyone, and the reason why "Carrie" rushed to the box office of 30 million for the struggling "Carrie" and added 50 theaters next week against the trend is well known. The most eye-catching thing for movie fans now is Lionsgate, but he is an author and director, why should he join someone else's project?

Wait for what VIY says!

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Ye Wei spent this year's Thanksgiving holiday at work, and the sooner W'sB is completed, the better it will be for its release and public relations, and the Golden Globe judges are waiting to see its preview DVD. It's good to be busy for a while, so there is no holiday on Thanksgiving, and editor Suzanne Hines and others will not accompany him.

The family went to San Francisco for a short trip, and Duoduo was reluctant to let him go, but who didn't like to travel?

Lily didn't go on a trip! Harvard-Westlake had four days off on the weekend, and she didn't go anywhere, and came to the editing room on Thanksgiving.

"You're busy, I'll be quiet, just give me a pizza. ”

Ye Wei felt that she wanted to move him so much that she couldn't wait to shout, "Lily, I love you!" Otherwise, what can you say? I really like this feeling of fighting together, the last time it was like this was when "The Wedding is Coming" was post-production, and time actually hasn't changed anything.

Lily was really quiet, watched his editing for a while, and then sat aside and read a journalism book by herself. But he couldn't sit still, and teased her for a while, and kissed her again. Lily was furious: "If you want, I can sell you some of my Adla." "She had read the script for Juno.

"No, I'm quitting. Ye Wei sat back at the editing table with a smile: "Hey, do you want to watch some good shows?" Lily asked: "What kind of show?" He said mysteriously: "Come here, you won't see it in the cinema in the future......"

"Why, isn't it a good show?" Lily couldn't help but be curious, and when she saw him hook her right index finger, she gave him a blank look, and still got up and walked away.

"Show time. Ye Wei played her a discarded footage, on the computer screen, Jennifer and Alicia kissed fiercely......

Lily was a little stunned, Ye Wei laughed: "Hahaha! Interesting, isn't it? I don't need this one, but I want to keep it well, and when they all become big stars in the future, this is worth it!" He broadcast another one, and Alicia almost gnawed on Jennifer, and couldn't help laughing even more.

"Poof," Lily laughed, "Hey, they're putting on a show, what's so funny...... Don't laugh, you're so bad...... Haha!"

"That's a lot, it's a lot! This scene has been NG many times, a tongue-kiss!"

"If you do this again, I'll be gone!"

On this day, Lily stayed until the evening, and Ye Wei went to have dinner after being busy in the editing room for half a night, and went to Costco in Marian Del Rey. There was already a large group of stout people who had already set up camp there, all of them clenching their fists and preparing to storm the supermarket.

No one wants to wait for the early morning, as soon as the early morning arrives, Black Friday falls from nightfall, and the barrel-shaped aunts of all ethnic groups scream to break through the supermarket door, and the staff can only half-push and half-let them go.

A nationwide shopping spree!

"Ah!!" Dense crowds of people are surging into the supermarket, and people are frantically scrambling for all kinds of big price reduction items, desperately trying to reach the shopping list!

Ye Wei rushed into the supermarket and rushed in the direction of the jewelry, many people were rushing, whose wedding ring is not a platinum diamond ring, maybe it depends on today! After three years, the memory is still clear, he knows where he wants is......!

"Rush, !!!!!"

A big hand reached for the jewelry rack, grabbed a lily brooch signed for $5, and grabbed it!