Chapter 2007 2009 [Transformers]
Although Universal Pictures' film was not shortlisted for the Best Picture Award this year, Xiang Nan was still invited to participate.
After all, the judges are all small-minded. If you offend them, you don't want to win any more awards in the future. Just like the Golden Globe Awards, since Xiang Nan didn't go to the awards ceremony, Universal Pictures often failed to get anything.
On the red carpet, Xiang Nan walked with Alexandra Daddario. With her charming face and proud figure, she has become a beautiful scenery on the red carpet. I don't know how many reporters are attracted by her.
And this kind of envious eyes gave Xiang Nan a sense of accomplishment. After all, this great beauty whom everyone admired is now his son.
At the subsequent awards ceremony, "King Kong" successively won three awards for best sound effects, best sound editing and best visual effects, and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" won the best original Soundtrack Award.
In addition, "Memoirs of a Geisha" produced by DreamWorks Pictures has won three awards including Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design and Best Photography.
In general, Universal Pictures' winning luck this year is pretty good.
However, judging from the achievement awards, the Oscars have been more inclined to literary films in recent years, such as Best Picture "Crash", Best Actor "Capote", Best Actress "Walk with the Song", Best Supporting Actor "Cyrina," Best Supporting Actress "The Immortal Gardener"…
None of these movies has a box office of more than 100 million US dollars. This also led to the low popularity of these movies, and the audience lacked a sense of substitution. Therefore, when the awards ceremony came to a later stage, the ratings had dropped by as much as half.
This made broadcasters and advertisers very dissatisfied.
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After the awards ceremony, Xiang Nan attended the party and was soon surrounded by producers, directors, stars, etc., which made Alexandra very envious.
Although she is beautiful, she is unknown in Hollywood, and no big director or producer is interested in her. In comparison, Xiang Nan is a star-studded figure, as if he is the central figure in this Vanity Fair.
"Charles, I have a few projects, I hope you can help me to refer to them." Spielberg asked Xiang Nan for advice.
He regretted that he didn't listen to Xiang Nan's words and went his own way to shoot "Escape from Clone Island". As a result, the film lost $100 million, forcing DreamWorks to sell it.
So he is completely convinced by Xiang Nan now, so he naturally wants to ask him about his filming plans for the new year.
After listening to his narration, Xiang Nan successively established three projects, namely "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Flags of Our Fathers". These two are actually a movie that reflects the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima. However, one is shot from the perspective of Japan, and the other is shot from the perspective of the United States.
Another project is "Perfume", which tells the story of a genius with an exceptionally keen sense of smell who serially kills people in order to create a unparalleled perfume.
As for other projects proposed by Spielberg, such as "Football Stunner", "The Last Kiss", "Dream Girl", etc., in Xiang Nan's opinion, there is no need to shoot them.
The subject matter is too earthy, the story is nothing new, and it can't attract the audience at all, so there is no need to shoot it.
However, Xiang Nan reminded Spielberg that he could consider adapting the cartoon "Transformers".
"The biggest selling movie in Hollywood right now is the special effects movie, and Transformers was once a smash hit. If they were moved to the screen, they would definitely be very attractive to those kids back then." Xiang Nan told Spielberg .
The "Transformers" animation was launched in 1984. The children who watched it and played with Transformers toys are now young.
Spielberg was really moved when he heard it, and immediately made preparations.
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After the Oscars, Xiang Nan continued to prepare for "Fast and Furious 3".
The original cast members such as Paul Walker, Zhang Ziyi, MaggieQ, etc. all return, plus newcomer Alexandra Daddario, and villains John Ortiz, Laz Alonso, etc.
As for the director, Justin Lin was selected. He has previously directed "Good Luck Tomorrow", "A Sea of Flowers", "Conquering the Wrathful Sea" and so on.
Although the box office performance was mediocre, his talent was still recognized by the industry and he was named one of the top ten emerging directors. That's why Xiang Nan boldly used him to shoot.
For this, Justin Lin is naturally very grateful.
After all, a director of Chinese descent like him is not valued in Hollywood, and it is difficult to find a suitable film to shoot. What's more, "Fast and Furious 4", with an investment of nearly 100 million US dollars, is a veritable commercial blockbuster, and more importantly, Xiang Nan personally wrote the screenplay and starred in it.
In Hollywood, Xiang Nan represents blockbusters. As long as this movie is made well, he will be able to walk away in Hollywood in the future. So he was naturally very happy. After getting the script, he began to study it seriously.
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In April, "Fast and Furious 3" officially started filming.
In the same month, "The Butterfly Effect" was released.
Starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart, this movie tells the story of a male protagonist with time-travel ability, who travels back to the past again and again to change the course of history, but the result is that the consequences are getting more and more out of control...
The story of this movie is mind-boggling and the plot is twists and turns, which gave the audience a great sense of satisfaction in the process of watching the movie. As a result, after its release, it received a lot of praise and the box office results were also very good.
The final North American box office was 57 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was close to 100 million U.S. dollars, which is quite good. You know, the cost of this movie is only tens of millions of dollars.
The reason why it can still achieve such a good box office result is entirely because the story of this movie is novel and solid enough.
The movie released in May is "Untouchable Lover". This movie starred Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder.
In the end, the North American box office was 54 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was 110 million U.S. dollars. Compared with its 40 million U.S. dollars in investment, this movie can be regarded as a very popular movie.
The movie released in June is "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Part 1.
The story of the original "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is 510,000 words long, while the first three "Sorcerer's Stone", "Chamber of Secrets" and "The Prisoner" only have more than 200,000 words.
Therefore, the original version of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" movie, the plot cuts were very serious, and many interesting plots were not filmed, which has to be said to be a pity.
So Xiang Nante divided the film into two parts. The upper part ends when Harry Potter takes the golden egg from the dragon, and the lower part tells about the return of Voldemort...
In this way, not many plots were deleted, the content of the movie was richer, and the rhythm was smoother. Therefore, after it was released, it achieved very good results, with a global box office of nearly 800 million US dollars.
(end of this chapter)