American fame and fortune

The time was close to the New Year of 2006. Nearly two months after its release, "Wanted" relied on the accumulation of time, and the North American box office finally passed the 200 million US dollar mark.

After a brand new weekend, the North American box office has accumulated 204 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office has exceeded 450 million U.S. dollars.

At the same time created Martin's highest box office record.

As the number of North American theaters has dropped to less than 200 theaters, and the attendance rate is almost negligibly low, Warner Bros. is planning to release DVDs after the new year.

Martin's main job recently is to promote the film's DVD listing.

In this project, he participated in an investment of 5 million U.S. dollars, regardless of the box office or later profits, he can get a share.

Before the new year, the official website of the Coke Theology was officially launched.

The homepage of the website is a large poster of the leader Martin. He is holding a Coca-Cola scepter, wearing a red robe and a red crown. He is more imposing than the Pope of the Vatican.

The Internet forum of the Sacred Coke has also been transferred from Martin's personal blog to the official website of the Sacred Coke.

In just one week, more than 3 million users registered as members of the Coke Church through the official website, and the number is increasing at a rate of hundreds of thousands every day.

In addition to promoting the activities of the Coke Theology, the website also has a dedicated leader section for church members to worship online.

It is no exaggeration to say that Martin already has a considerable number of die-hard fans among the two big waves of fans and the Coke God.

As the number of registered members of the Coca-Cola Church soared, even Coca-Cola's stock experienced a wave of continuous gains around the New Year.

Warren Buffett, Coca-Cola’s largest shareholder, specifically mentioned Martin in a New Year’s interview in the Wall Street Journal: “I know Martin Davis, a magical Hollywood star, starred in very good movies, and the Coca-Cola religion he produced is even more amazing. It’s a stroke of genius, the management of Coca-Cola has done a good job and invited him to be the spokesperson. If there is a chance, I will chat with him face to face.”

Once these words were exposed, Martin's prestige was raised by the way.

Not all members of the Coke Church will watch the movie starring Martin, but as long as one-third are willing to buy tickets, it may increase the film's first-week box office by tens of millions of dollars.

After the New Year's holiday, Martin turned into an enthusiastic signing machine after seeing off Blake, who was back on vacation, and traveled around major cities across the United States to sign and sell the DVD of "Wanted".

On the first day of the signing, there was a long queue at the Beverly Commercial Center, and hundreds of movie fans wanted to get the DVD set signed by Martin himself as soon as possible.

As a sponsor, Coca-Cola also organized a joint event with Warner Bros. Anyone who purchased the $39.9 commemorative DVD set would receive a Coca-Cola commemorative coke.

Martin is very clear that at this stage, the fans who can come and line up to buy DVDs early in the morning are the basis of his status and income.

Therefore, even if his coffee status has improved significantly, he still faces his supporters with the most enthusiastic attitude.

"Thank you for your support." Martin would say this every time he signed a paper.

And for fans who buy the regular edition and the commemorative edition, they will not be treated differently.

After signing all morning, Martin's face was numb from laughing, and his hands were sore from exhaustion.

He left the shop without being interviewed by reporters, got into a business car, went to the nearby Four Seasons Hotel to rest, and then rushed to the signing activities in the afternoon.

Bruce and Thomas accompanied the whole process.

When they came to the hotel, the three of them went to the restaurant to eat together. Bruce asked for ice cubes to help Martin apply ice.

Thomas asked with concern: "Will it be stressful? Shorten the time in the afternoon?"

"No need." Martin shook his head and said with a smile: "This little pressure is nothing. Compared with my life at the bottom of Atlanta, the pressure of being a star is so great."

Bruce echoed: "Gangsters are rampant, the income is extremely low, and they don't even have a house. Even if the whole family lives today, they won't even be able to afford tomorrow's living expenses. What is the pressure of celebrities?"

Thomas has never experienced such a life: "Perhaps the experience in Atlanta has given you a super high ability to withstand pressure."

"Compared with my previous life, now it's like living in paradise." There was no one else around, so Martin spoke a lot more casually: "Luxury cars, mansions, beauties, money, if these count as stress, I would rather stress than the Himalayas." big!"

Thomas thought of Julie and Aniston, and he wanted the same pressure.

After lunch, Martin and Bruce went upstairs.

Bruce glanced at the phone, and saw a message from the bodyguard in the dark, and he whispered, "Aniston is here and went to your suite."

Martin sighed forcefully.

Bruce patted him on the shoulder and brought up the topic just now: "Are you under a lot of pressure?"

But Martin said: "It's not about the pressure. It's mainly because some academic issues are difficult to study, such as why the butterflies on the shore have a sea smell, which methods are most suitable for tunnel detection, and under what conditions can the water be stretched..."

Bruce couldn't help pondering these purely academic questions.

Martin entered the suite, and Aniston and Aniston actually studied esoteric issues with a rigorous academic attitude.

Learning can make people progress.

In the afternoon, despite being a little tired, Martin showed up in a chain store near Caltech University in Pasanadi with good professionalism and enthusiasm, and continued to sign and sell DVDs.

In one day, he signed and sold nearly 2,000 wanted warrant DVDs.

Julie, who went to the east coast, was also very popular, and the signing scene was very hot.

After dinner out, Martin returned to the Coty community.

When they came to the door of the house, Gillian Flynn from across the road waved to Escalade.

Martin lowered the window and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

Gillian smiled and said, "I want to chat with you and get some exclusive news."

The project "Never Ending" originated from Gillian's introduction of Alan Greene. Seeing that there were not many people around, Martin got out of the car and stood on the side of the road: "If you have any questions, just ask."

Entertainment Weekly, where Jillian works, is also considered a stylish entertainment media. Instead of asking about lace, she asked about the movie: "I heard that during the filming of "The Departed", you, Leonardo and Nicholson formed an organization?"

Martin scratched his face and smiled sheepishly: "It's just a small team for eating, drinking and having fun."

Gillian was very interested: "What's it called? It's not called the Bad Boys, is it? Hollywood already has one."

This matter can be disclosed to the outside world, Martin said: "Call the trio, Nicholson is the boss, and then Leo, I am at the bottom."

He still didn’t forget to throw the blame: “What the trio did was basically decided by Nicholson and Leonardo, and I could only follow them and wave the flag.”

Gillian didn't have any doubts, because Martin was indeed the lowest in terms of qualifications, coffee rank, and age.

She continued: "We just conducted an exclusive interview with Director Scorsese, and according to him, the three of you showed off your acting skills during filming, and you were all in surprisingly good condition, adding a lot of interest to the film, isn't that true? "

At this point Martin is quite confident: "That's right! I can say responsibly that the audience will see brand new Leonardo, Nicholson and Martin Davis in The Departed! Don't use previous roles to define us , because we made a new breakthrough."

Gillian wrote down all Martin's words with a pen and a notebook.

Being a neighbor to a popular celebrity in the industry does have a lot of exclusive benefits, but Gillian also knows enough to stop annoying Martin once.

She also had good things to say about Martin in the press: "The DVD of 'Wanted' came out recently, right? I'll write you a column just to mention that."

Martin nodded, and asked casually, "Have you created any new works recently? Or do you have any good novels to recommend?"

Hearing this, Gillian thought of "Never Ending". Obviously, she knew Martin first, but Martin bought the right to adapt Alan Greene's work.

This irritated Gillian, who said: "I'm planning a novel and it might take two years to finish."

Martin said something nice: "It must be a masterpiece."

"If I finish it, please help me to see it." Gillian is very clear that if the novel wants to become a hit, it cannot be separated from the film and television adaptation. She said a little bit appropriately: "I plan to use Agatha Christie as the prototype."

Martin asked, "Suspense?"

Gillian didn't say much: "Black suspense."

Martin said: "I look forward to reading your work as soon as possible."

The two shook hands and soon went back to their respective homes.

Gillian first sorted out Martin's interview records, and then checked the information, focusing on the famous disappearance of Agatha Christie in the 1920s, planning to replace the background with modern times.

Similarly, as a marriage loser, Gillian sneers at the family and marriage promoted by mainstream American society, and believes that the essence of marriage is that both men and women torture each other.

Just across the road, Martin finally gave himself a vacation. He didn't have to work hard tonight and had to hand over a few hundred million.

He and Bruce went into the rec room, sat in front of two computers, and played a few rounds of CS.

In reality, Old Bu's marksmanship is better than Martin's.

In the game, he was beaten very embarrassingly by Martin.

When it was close to ten o'clock, Martin wanted to go to bed earlier, but Leonardo called: "The Face Gang is active tonight, will you come?"

Martin, as a core member of the Face Gang, of course cannot miss the gang activities, besides, washing his face is also a kind of relaxation and entertainment.

The asshole trio, plus Craven and Jia, show up at the Nightclub.

The only pity is that the foot gang seems to have changed the activity base. Since that night, the face gang and the foot gang have not met in group activities.

In the morning of the next day, Martin was in good spirits, and left Los Angeles by plane to San Francisco to continue the DVD signing.

The North American box office of "Wanted" exceeded 200 million U.S. dollars, and the market response was hot. The window for theater screenings was relatively short, and the male and female protagonists were highly talked about and supported by fans. In addition, the signing activities were vigorous, and the DVD sales were booming after its release.

Various versions of the DVD set sold 37.6 million US dollars in sales in just one week!

Warner Bros. estimated that in the North American market alone, the yearly sales of Wanted DVDs will exceed 80 million US dollars!

DVD alone can support the era of crazy investment in Hollywood.

(The Reality Wanted DVD, seems to sell around $70 million a year.)