Chapter 1938 1940 [Crooked star hits the earth]
In January, it is the traditional awards season again.
This year's Golden Globe Awards, Universal Pictures' most eye-catching movie is "The Philadelphia Story" starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.
It was shortlisted for four awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Song, and the call for winning is very high.
In addition, Martin Scorsese's "Casino" and David Fincher's "Seven Deadly Sins" were also shortlisted for some awards.
As a finalist, Xiang Nan naturally participated in the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
The red carpet still walked with Claudia Schiffer. Walking with supermodels is indeed a kind of enjoyment.
Firstly, she is really beautiful. People magazine selected her as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
What's more, for the red carpet show, Claudia also specially borrowed Chanel's haute couture, which is even more luxurious and beautiful. Therefore, walking with her, Xiang Nan felt a little vain.
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"Charles, you and Claudia walked the red carpet together again. Could it be that you have a new cooperation plan?" Seeing this, the host also asked with a smile.
"Everything is possible." Xiang Nan nodded, neither admitting nor denying it.
Because of the new film, he hasn't started thinking about it yet. Anyway, he has a lot of good projects in his hand, any one of them can be sold for money, so there is no need to worry about it.
Unlike other film companies, they worry about finding projects every day. In order to find a blockbuster movie, I wish I could turn my head gray.
"Claudia, "Dumb and Dumber" you starred in has achieved such a good box office result, do you have anything to say?" The host then looked at Claudia and asked.
"It's really an honor and I am very grateful to the fans for their support." Claudia smiled, "I am also very grateful to Charles for writing such a good script. Thanks to Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels and director Peter Farrari , Bobby Ferrari, they really taught me a lot and I look forward to continuing to work with them."
"Thank you for your acceptance speech." The host also smiled.
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At the subsequent Golden Globe Awards ceremony, Tom Hanks finally won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and Bruce Springsteen also won the Best Original Song Award.
The best picture award was won by "Sense and Sensibility" directed by Li An, and the best director award was won by Martin Scorsese for "Casino".
Generally speaking, the performance of Universal Pictures is still very impressive. Therefore, at the party after the awards ceremony, Xiang Nan was still surrounded by a large group of people who kept congratulating him.
After thanking everyone, Xiang Nan talked about the new project with some acquaintances, and thus decided on two projects.
One is the American TV series "Crooked Stars Hit the Earth", which tells the story of four aliens who came to the earth, pretended to be human beings and mixed into the society, and conducted research on the earth people.
Because they are aliens, their way of thinking and formal logic are completely different from those on Earth, so they caused a series of jokes. And through the perspective of aliens, human culture, history, communication and other aspects have also been analyzed in an alternative way, which is worth thinking about.
Xiang Nan had watched this American drama before, so he naturally knew how interesting it was, so he promised to invest in the production of this project.
The other is the movie "Flowers of the Wild" co-written by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.
This movie is about the heroine who is the lover of the gang leader and doesn't want to live a life of fear, so she seduces the plumber next door (also a woman), the two premeditated to provoke gang fights, and get two million dollars in cash .
As a result, the plan could not keep up with the changes, and things became more and more out of control, which triggered a bigger crisis.
Xiang Nan had never seen this movie before, but he found it very interesting after hearing the story, so he was willing to invest. Besides, with the names of the two Wachowski brothers, he can't miss this movie.
After all, "The Matrix" in his hands is still waiting for them to direct it.
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In January, Universal Pictures released "A Time to Kill" directed by Joe Schumacher.
This movie is adapted from John Grisham’s original novel of the same name. It tells the story of a black father who resolutely chooses to stand up to help his daughter get revenge when his daughter is violated but the gangster is not punished fairly.
The last murder that caused a sensation in the United States finally moved the jury under the vigorous struggle of young lawyers and assistants, and the black father was acquitted.
The historical background of this movie is the United States in the 1960s, when racial discrimination was prevalent. It revealed the tragic situation of African-Americans in American society at that time, so after it was released, it won wide support from African-Americans.
In addition, this movie is star-studded, the African-American protagonist is played by Samuel Jackson, and the male and female protagonists are played by Kevin Costner and Jennifer Connelly.
So this movie has also been recognized by white audiences. After all, the real protagonists of this movie are all white, and the lives of the African-American male protagonists were saved by white lawyers.
Therefore, the film finally won a box office of 80 million US dollars in North America, and a global box office of 180 million US dollars. Compared with an investment of 40 million US dollars, it is undoubtedly a big profit.
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In January, Xiang Nan also announced a new filming plan.
Masquerade, Daredevil, Bad Boys, Interview with the Vampire, and Apollo 13.
"Mask in Disguise" is a fantasy love movie co-starred by Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz. It was originally released in 1994, but Xiang Nan was delayed until this year.
This movie is adapted from the comic of the same name under the Dark Horse Comics. The original work is relatively dark and terrifying. However, during filming, after discussing with director Chuck Russell, Jim Carrey still made it into a comedy full of Jim Carrey's personal touch.
And such an adaptation is indeed more popular with the audience. The box office in North America alone has reached 110 million US dollars, and the global box office is as high as 350 million US dollars.
It is said that after this movie, Jim Carrey's salary jumped directly from 350,000 US dollars to 7 million US dollars, a huge increase of 20 times.
In this version of the movie, Xiang Nan is still planning to invite Jim Carrey to play the leading role, but the heroine is going to be replaced by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
On the one hand, the richness does not flow to outsiders, and on the other hand, he is not satisfied with Cameron Diaz's appearance. He feels that she is too old-fashioned and really cannot be called a big beauty.
In comparison, Catherine Zeta-Jones is undoubtedly much more glamorous and sexual.
(end of this chapter)