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On Thursday, November 13, ICM's Los Angeles office.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, through a short meeting, the senior management of ICM formulated a packaging plan for Edward Norton.

"Let's do it, try to match the schedule, and for the rest, I will let the executive team responsible for the promotion of "Zone Nine" maintain communication with your people."

Both parties have benefits in this matter. One wants to promote an artist while the movie screening situation is good, and the other wants ICM to add more resources to it, so the chat atmosphere is still very pleasant, basically considering the appropriate category Get the result you want inside.

"Don't worry, Mr. Luster." The people at ICM are actually quite surprised that "District Nine" has such an excellent reputation and good results.

After talking about business, Lehman was about to leave, and a gold broker inside ICM came over.

"I heard that Warner has restarted the third Batman and wants to join the role of Catwoman to increase the lineup reserve, so...can we talk about it?" The other party politely stated the cart.

"Warner himself was hesitant, and even considered a large number of related characters such as Plant Ivy and Harley Quinn. As you know, Batman's IP can easily lead to other characters. Isn't that the case with Joker?"

Lehman was not surprised that the other party knew about this matter.

Since "The Dark Knight" soared into the sky last year, and Warner had a very sweet copyright cake, the writing of the third script will definitely be put on the agenda and is very important.

Nolan himself felt that the story was a bit unsustainable, but Warner was unwilling to let it go, so the two sides also reached an agreement to let Warner's screenwriting department first determine the scope of the filming.

In addition to benefiting Batman, who is the most successful in "Dark Knight"?

Of course Heath Ledger's clown.

Even if there is no excessive marketing, such a classic role on the screen is still talked about by movie fans.

Let’s put it this way, in addition to the literary and artistic movies, Heath-Ledger’s current remuneration is reasonable if he is a male lead, and the price is in line with the judgment standard.

Because after "The Dark Knight", the peripherals of the Joker are very popular. Except for comic fans, the actor's own interpretation is of course a great plus point. These statistics can be known with a little attention.

Like at the end of 2007, Heath Ledger also called Lehman, saying that he participated in "Justice Killing", which was shot by Overture Pictures, and cooperated with his favorite actor Robert Deloni, then he took it. 13 million salary-this film tells the story of an old detective and a rookie detective involved in a serial murder.

In other words, for Batman's third installment, Warner also wants to launch relevant screen characters on the basis of Batman's support and harvest fan wallets.

Among this, Warner also considered the third part to continue to let the clown and Bruce Wayne fight wits, but the second part has been shaped more comprehensively, and Nolan himself feels that this proposal will not be better... .. In a word, the scope of the role is constantly torn down and rebuilt, but it is particularly touching, especially the stakeholders.

"Mr. Rust, your opinion and Nolan's opinions can influence the shooting of the project...I mean, Catwoman should be very appropriate."

"Oh, what's the right way?" Lyman played dumb.He vaguely seemed to know the purpose of the other party.

"In the comics, Catwoman is a very popular member of DC female characters. Warner also filmed adaptations at the beginning. It is a pity that the box office performance of that film is not so good, but the influence is still good."

In Lehman’s playful eyes, the other party said without evasiveness: “My own Halle Berry is the lead actor in that version of "Catwoman". I just don’t know if Mrs. has seen her performance in it. It’s not a hindrance."

Lehman got it.

Speaking of which, since the defeat of "Catwoman" in 2005, this popular artist has fallen directly from the front line. In the same year, she also won the Golden Plum Performance Award, so it is of course to say that she did not drag her back at all, she was talking nonsense with her eyes open, but that The biggest pot of the movie is really not an actor, but Hollywood believes in the theory of performance. If you encounter it, of course it will be affected.

Since then, Halle Berry has had a hard time getting the chance to be the heroine, and her agent also understands. So after hearing about Warner’s actions, she wanted to fight hard. After all, Catwoman’s screen appearance was reserved for the audience. Halle Berry was the one who had been impressed.

The agent opened the mouth and said: "She went back to her hometown recently, and I will let her meet you in a few days?"-In-person pajamas, oh, no, convince in person.

"Small questions, I will propose to Warner."-But it's hard to say who you choose.

Although Halle Berry is beautiful and sexy, Lehman has no intention of maintaining any relationship with the other party. In addition to the appropriateness of casting, the market and fans must also be considered. Obviously, she is already in the past. With regard to age, it is extremely difficult to stand up, and there are too many disadvantages.

"Thank you so much."

"you are welcome."

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Warner is really entangled in the role of the third part.

Without him, there are too many characters who have trouble with Bruce Wayne, and the story itself has to follow Nolan's system, which is even more difficult to choose.

In other words, they have jumped into the dark-style pit and are eager to reproduce the grand screening of "The Dark Knight". For this reason, those themes that have room for excavation have been put into the category of adaptation by Warner.

So, such a connotative theme of "Watchmen" is not the beginning, and it is far from the end.

But if Catwoman is really to be added, the original Anne Hathaway is more likely to win the box office than Halle Berry.

This matter is not in a hurry. It is estimated that it will be next year when Warner finishes the script. The direction of the adaptation is not so easy to confirm.

Furthermore, Nolan will definitely intervene in the adaptation of the script. How his brother Jonathan communicates with Warner also takes time.

"How is the situation in "District Nine"?" asked Lehman, who returned to the Firefly Building after finishing the ICM trip.

"The audience response is still very enthusiastic, and the media evaluation has never come down." Ryan took out the film review entries and handed it to Lehman: "There are many sentimental people in the industry, but if it weren't for the cost of media public relations, we didn’t see it. How much improvement, I thought we spent a lot of money to make them so emotional."

Ryan's ridicule and the remarks that Lehman himself felt were too flattering, it almost confirmed the film reputation of "The Ninth District".

This posture also kept the movie's attendance rate for the next week at around 40% even on weekdays.

"Oh, yes, what is the market estimate for the new film "007: Quantum Crisis" this weekend?"

"Its charm is higher than we thought, buddy." Ryan said solemnly: "From the recent publicity fever, many North American audiences are looking forward to it, plus the real big scenes and visuals of "The Ninth District" Enjoy, nothing is as good as Xiangche Beauty’s 007-Quantum Crisis has invested more than 200 million yuan, which is a new peak in production, while the proportion of actors and creators is not high. It is conceivable how much thought was spent on the scene.

Similarly, the film followed the distribution route of overseas first and then North America. It accumulated 250 million box office in a week and a half. The popularity in the European region has long been established. Of course, North American audiences are looking forward to the film's screening. Some forecasting agencies directly Point out that North America can break 60 million US dollars in the first week.