The summer season of 2012 is full of stars, and the most popular highlight is undoubtedly the melee between the four generations of box office superstars

Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr.

These four representative actors of the baby boomer generation have run through the past twenty years of history of the entire North American film market, and have truly entered the history books and witnessed the rise of North American box office.

First, Tom Cruise's box office exceeded 100 million in five consecutive works. After two shortcuts, another seven consecutive works exceeded 100 million in box office, truly creating a new era of commercial films; then Will Smith's eight consecutive works in North America had a box office of over 100 million in North America, witnessing the transition period of the average box office of 100 million to 200 million in North America.

Next is Johnny Depp's "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, which broke the barriers of 20 million clubs and redefined the history of top actors' pay income; finally, Robert Downey Jr.'s "Iron Man" series, which once again wrote a new high for actors' personal pay and became the box office leader in the second decade of the 21st century.

From Tom Cruise's "Yihai Heroes" in 1992 to Robert Downey's "Avengers" in 2012, these four actors represent the evolutionary history of North American box office, starting, inheriting, turning, perfect connection, and real historical representatives.

Although during this period, top stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Kim Carrey, and Nicholas Cage emerged among the baby boomers, their influence around the world is still slightly inferior.

Now, four box office superstars have started a melee. Robert Downey Jr.'s "Avengers" has created history, and Johnny Depp's "Black Shadow" has become cannon fodder; next, Will Smith's "Man in Black 3" and Tom Cruise's "Rock Age" will be released one after another, and the box office performance has attracted much attention.

Needless to say, this is definitely the most topical and discussed summer season since the millennium!

After the Oscars, all the hot spots gathered, and they were looking forward to this year's midsummer summer season that could ignite box office energy and create a new history of North American box office. Among the bustling discussion topics, a small number of media will take a different approach to the topic of the new generation duel.

"Ranley Hall vs Chris Hemsworth vs Andrew Garfield", the three new generation actors will also make a brilliant debut in this star-studded summer season, and then form a confrontation between "Edge of Tomorrow vs Snow White and Hunter vs Amazing Spider-Man".

It is not because the three actors have achieved corresponding glory and success, which is eye-catching; but because the rise of the Y generation has become the main theme of the North American film industry for two consecutive years, the media has attracted attention, and even if there is no topic, they have to "fabricate" the topic.

Lanley and Andrew are friends, Lanley and Chris are enemies, and Andrew and Chris have no intersection; Chris and Andrew are both affiliated with Marvel at the same time, and are both superheroes at the same time; Lanley and Andrew are both the first time to take the lead in a commercial movie, while Chris leaves Marvel for the first time and star in a commercial work alone.

The three works will be released in the second week of June, the first week of June and the first week of July; at the same time, the three works are all star-studded young casts. In the early publicity of the first half of the year, a head-on battle was launched.

On the "Edge of Tomorrow", Renley and Jennifer's cooperation, coupled with a number of young actors, many media even called "science fiction version of the Hunger Games" to promote it.

"Snow White and the Hunter" is the partner of Chris and Kristen Stewart, and Charlize Theron forms an iron triangle, with the lineup equally young. There is no doubt that Christen, who left the "Twilight" series, is the focus of attention.

"Amazing Spider-Man" has returned to the university campus. With the partners of Andrew and Emma Stone, we hope to find a more youthful, more campus and younger style of work.

Similar casts, similar audience positioning, similar publicity strategies, and even similar schedule arrangements, coupled with the new generation of actors who belong to the Y generation, corresponds to the showdown between the baby boomers, which makes people start to think about a more realistic problem.

Natalie Portman and Renly Hall have been ranked at Oscars for two years, and generation Y actors have begun to make their mark in the academy field. What about the commercial market?

After the baby boomer generation, the X generation represented by Leonardo DiCaprio, Toby Maguire, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and others have never been able to complete the handover and inheritance in both awards and box office, and the overall momentum has declined, causing Hollywood to gradually enter a relatively vacuum period.

Now, Generation Y has begun to prove its abilities and ambitions in terms of awards, but it is still lacking in box office.

In 2007, a "Transformers" witnessed the rise of Shia LaBeouf, and then starred in "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4". Countless media couldn't wait to call him the new generation of Tom Hanks, hoping that he could carry the banner of the Y generation; but five years have passed, people are disappointed. Shia's self-exile and self-destruction have gradually made him lose his first-line position and struggled in the second-line.

Now, "Ranley vs Chris vs Andrew", three Y-generation actors, are emerging in this summer at the same time, and they are the only ones who are in a showdown with the baby boomers. This makes people start to get excited. Is the handover ceremony of the commercial market coming?

Therefore, the showdown between the four box office superstars and the three new generations are intertwined, becoming the most beautiful scenery this summer. However, overall, compared with the sparks between the four box office superstars, the showdown of youth still lacks influence and appeal, and the market feedback is far inferior to the former.

This also proves that the North American market is still popular among the baby boomers, not even the X generation.

It is under this background that the so-called Lan Li's remarks and the so-called Chris' remarks appeared on the Internet one after another and began to ferment quickly. Although tmz both clarified the falsehood of the two rumors, it once again awakened people's memory of last year's "borrowing door".

After the box office showdown between "Fast and Furious" and "Thor", the career development trajectories of the two actors showed two different styles.

Chris first starred in the low-cost horror movie "House in the Woods" and then took on "Snow White and the Hunter" and "Avengers". Now on his list of works, "Thor 2" and "Star Trek: Dark Unbound" have been put on the agenda.

Although the box office of "Thor" was not satisfactory, this handsome guy from Australia still came into the sight of everyone. In addition to Marvel's fixed development trajectory and the old capital of "Star Trek", he gradually opened up his own market, and the film contracts gradually stabilized. However, the box office results of "House in the Forest" and "Snow White and the Hunter" will also determine Chris' future development.

Lan Li is different. The previous filming "Love Crazy" and "I Against Cancer" appeared one after another; and completed the filming of "Deliverance" and "Edge of Tomorrow"; after gaining the Berlin actor and Oscar actor, he returned to the West End of London and devoted himself to the performance of "Les Miserables". At present, there is no confirmed plan for the role of any work, "Georges", is still in subsequent negotiations.

Obviously, the 22-year-old British actor is joining the Hollywood front line with an unstoppable momentum, with film contracts coming in a steady stream. However, now Renly's reputation and popularity have reached the front line, and even the pay can also be ranked among the front line, but he still lacks more proof of box office. This time, the "Edge of Tomorrow" will become the touchstone.

The perpetrator was not punished, and the victim did not sink into it. This was not a happy happy ending, but a real situation in Hollywood. So this time, Chris and Renli’s reconciliation, new and old hatreds surged into my mind. Is Chris regaining the advantage, or Renli’s continued pressure?

Gradually, the discussion began to heat up slowly.

However, just like the scandal between Lanley and Jennifer, the grudge between Lanley and Chris can be called the old joke of "old things". In the past year, the two have struggled in different fields, with almost no intersection, and no one mentioned it. Now, it is inevitable that the remnant rice will be stir-frying up.

The surprise is that Andrew's joining.

After Renley and Chris were "heard of", Andrew also "produced" similar remarks, "Personally, Renley is of course Renley. Yes, I'm going to go to the West End to watch his "Les Miserables" in London, and I have no interest in "Snow White and the Hunter."

This time, netizens stopped discussing it, just waiting laughably. Sure enough, in less than four hours, tmz clarified the news again, "Andrew has never made any related remarks, purely fabricated onion news."

In addition, tmz also confirmed that the news source was an ordinary netizen living in Cincinnati. She was a loyal supporter of Chris Hemsworth. At first, she just wanted to slander Renly, but later discovered the possibility of news hype, so she began to increase exposure for her idols. Unexpectedly, the development of things deviated from the original track.

Now, Chris can't pretend to ignore it anymore and was forced to express his opinion, "I respect every actor and every work. I believe that everyone hopes to produce excellent works and present them on the big screen so that the audience can enjoy the joy of the movie. As for this summer, I think my promotional schedule will be very busy. As for whether I can go to the cinema, I will see the promotional schedule of the film company."

Official, polite, humble, and unsparing. Obviously, after a year of baptism, Chris has gradually learned how to deal with the media; even if it is boring and stereotyped, it will at least not leave any handle for the media.
Chapter completed!