American fame and fortune

Before the end of the film festival, the crew of The Departed Walker left Toronto and started a promotional tour in major cities across the United States. Wherever the four main creators of the crew went, they could attract great attention in the local area.

During the period, I also went to Scorsese's farm in Massachusetts and took another photo with the old cow.

The video of the bastard trio giving cows to the director was widely disseminated on the Internet, attracting the attention of many young people.

Scorsese's gangster films have the weakest influence on the youth group.

Martin has a good appeal in this group.

On Thursday afternoon, in front of the Bay Theater in Mallory Square in Miami, people wearing red T-shirts of the Coke God lined up hundreds of meters away.

Martin is signing tickets here tonight.

The theater's five theaters showing "The Departed" were all full.

Young audiences who came to buy tickets continued to join the queue, and the theater manager temporarily decided to vacate two theaters for additional screenings.

In Los Angeles, Rachel and Phoebe led a group of Martin fans, put on the red T-shirts of the God of Coca-Cola, walked across Hollywood Boulevard, and arrived in front of the Rock of the Emirates Cinema.

A huge poster of the three of The Departed, hanging above the main entrance of the theater.

"Martin is finally a big star!" Rachel said.

Phoebe rushed to the back and shouted: "Line up, don't mess up, we are about to enter the arena."

In less than ten minutes, this place has turned into a sea of ​​red, all occupied by the followers of the Coke God Cult and Martin's fans.

The two received a small amount of sponsorship from Coca-Cola and the crew, and raised part of the funds to book the entire El Capitan theater to watch the early screening of "The Departed".

Media reporters are of course indispensable.

"As early as when Martin only starred in "Zombie Gigolo", I was his fan." Rachel stood in front of the reporter's camera and talked. fans.

She said with a smile: "I have witnessed Martin's growth along the way. He has finally reached the center of the Hollywood stage. It is really exciting to cooperate with a top director like Scorsese..."

Before he finished speaking, a figure in a red T-shirt jumped in and shouted at the camera: "I love Martin!"

Another fan flashed into the camera and raised a Coke to toast the camera: "The leader is mighty!"

It was about the same time, Rachel didn't say any more, and led the fan group into the theater in an orderly manner.

The Capitol Cinema was packed.

Although influenced by the genre of gangster films, fans of Martin and followers of the Coke God, especially the latter, will not flock to buy tickets, but in every theater showing The Departed Walker in the United States, you can find people wearing red T-shirts. shirt figure.

Correspondingly, fans who like Leonardo and Scorsese will also enter the venue to buy tickets.

In Thursday's 3,000 early games, The Departed won a box office of 5.12 million US dollars.

This is extremely rare for a gangster film.

By Friday, the film expanded to 3,290 theaters for a full release in North America.

There is only one "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel" released at the same time, which is not an opponent of the same level at all.

The four-member crew, including Martin, is still on a promotional trip across the United States to sign tickets, and various advertisements and promotions have never stopped.

The production investment of The Departed Walker is as high as 90 million U.S. dollars, which determines that it is impossible for the film to be screened in single digits, and then slowly accumulate word of mouth, and then gradually expand the distribution model of the screening scale.

Its distribution model is completely commercialized.

On the first day in North America, The Departed Walker won 13.05 million US dollars, creating the best single-day box office performance in Scorsese's 40 years of filming.

The four major Hollywood directors in the 1980s, Lucas, Coppola, and Spielberg, all created miraculous box office results commercially, and only Scorsese has always been relatively stretched.

At a bar in Houston, Scorsese specially invited Martin, Leonardo and Nicholson for a drink to celebrate.

"Cheers!" Scorsese raised his beer glass and clinked glasses with the three bastards at the same time.

Nicholson drank it all in one breath, and said, "You old guy is about to retire. I didn't expect to be able to open a new flower at the box office."

Scorsese was in a great mood: "What you three are doing is eye-catching. Warner originally estimated that the first weekend would be up to 30 million US dollars. Looking at it now, it is not impossible to get 40 million US dollars."

"The box office of the first weekend now includes advance screenings." Martin has more and more understanding of the North American film market: "Our film has a strong reputation, and it should not be difficult to get 40 million US dollars."

Nicholson responded: "Nowadays, the box office of the first week of the movie is getting more and more scary."

Leonardo answered: "If it's a popular adaptation or sequel, just us people, maybe the first weekend will be over 100 million."

He further analyzed: "Although this film is an adaptation, the original has basically no influence in North America, and it is not much different from the original film. The original is not a sequel. This result can be said to be a big hit at the box office."

Martin said: "I hope the final box office in North America can double the cost line."

For a director of Scorsese's level, the contract must have a sharing clause, and he couldn't help saying: "If this is the case, I can rest assured that I will have a seventh child.

Nicholson knows the old man: "Test tube technology is very advanced."

Scorsese said with emotion: "How decisive and unrestrained you are when you are young, and how hard you must work when you are old."

Leonardo said naturally: "So, I have never considered getting married."

Martin fully agrees: "After all, so many beauties like us, we have to be responsible to them, and we can't let them bear the infamy of destroying marriages."

Both Scorsese and Nicholson were shocked by the man's shamelessness.

Leonardo asked: "What have you experienced? Became like this?"

"Same as you." Martin understated: "It's just a little too much walking in the abyss of the canyon."

The four-man team moved from Texas to Louisiana, and The Departed took another $14.89 million in North America on Saturday.

Scorsese's personal single-day highest box office record was refreshed after only one day.

The Departed Walker topped the North American box office for two consecutive days, and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" couldn't even be seen from behind.

This Sunday passed, and as everyone expected, "The Departed" sat at the top of the North American box office with a box office of 42.82 million US dollars.

The second-ranked "Germany" film, even though the IP has a huge influence, was still completely crushed, not even 20 million US dollars.

Correspondingly, Scorsese created the best opening box office of his directing career.

In terms of word-of-mouth, "The Departed" is extremely aggressive and extremely strong in North America.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is maintained at 93%, the average MTC score is 87, and the IMDB score is 8.6. These are the guarantees for the stable box office trend.

The most important thing is that the average score of The Departed Walker is A in terms of cinemascore audience scores, and the North American box office is expected to be around 180 million US dollars.

Many North American media praised the film, thinking that this film, like "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas", has become Martin Scorsese's masterpiece.

This big-budget movie is already sure to be a success.

Both the producer and distributor saw the hope of recovering the cost only through the box office, stepped up the promotion of the film's overseas release, and finalized the release in multiple markets such as Asia, Europe, and Latin America this week.

During this week, the four-person creative team was still running publicity announcements across the United States, and they were too busy to touch the ground.

The film sold well and the word of mouth exploded, and they are the most direct beneficiaries.

Even Nicholson, a semi-retired old guy, can add another big sum to his pension.

If you want to be a qualified bastard, how can you do things without money?

People who are running around for their livelihood every day have no time or energy to do things.

While Martin was in Chicago, he got a call from Thomas.

"I've got some good news for you. Ali held an award competition meeting just for you on Monday." Thomas's voice was full of joy: "The company recruited two other people, together with Natasha and me, to form a public relations team. All costs and expenses are the responsibility of the company."

"How's the PR push going with the Los Angeles critics?" Martin asked.

Thomas replied: "The Los Angeles film critics, led by Kenneth Turan and Todd McCarthy, praised your performance in The Departed and published articles in their respective columns."

He didn't forget to take credit: "Of course, our targeted public relations also worked."

Martin reminded: "Don't forget to contact the interview."

"Entertainment Weekly, I have an appointment with your neighbor Jillian Flynn." Thomas said quickly: "The Hollywood Reporter and Vanity Fair's interviews are in progress, so it's not a big problem."

During the awards season, increasing the exposure as much as possible is the foundation of the awards.

Thomas also reminded Martin: "Your famous friends, also mobilize as much as possible."

Martin said: "I have contacted, wait a minute, it will not be too late for them to speak up in December."

The two sides quickly hung up the phone, and Martin continued to devote himself to the road show.

Large-scale publicity and solid good reputation have allowed The Departed to maintain an extremely stable box office trend. The box office in North America fell by only 40% in the second weekend, and the box office in North America reached 86.78 million US dollars.

The film also achieved consecutive North American box office titles.

North America breaking 100 million is close at hand.

Similarly, films that sell well at the box office in North America will not be too bad overseas. The Departed Walker earned 32.78 million US dollars in the first week overseas.

However, the box office mainly came from Latin American and European markets. In the East Asian and Southeast Asian markets that were released at the same time, the film encountered Waterloo in box office and word of mouth.

This is also the place where "Infernal Affairs" has the greatest impact.

With this high-quality film that is more in line with the local aesthetics in front of it, "The Departed" has naturally become a sleazy, vulgar swearing film.

All kinds of bad reviews are endless, just like "Infernal Affairs" has no market in North America, "The Departed Walker" has very few box office in East Asian market.

Even South Korea, which is the back garden of Hollywood movies, had a box office of less than US$1 million in the first week.

Several other markets were even more dire.