Chapter 3158 3160【Marriage】
"House of Wax Museum" was a hit at the box office, making Xiang Nan a darling of Hollywood. For a while, countless movie invitations poured in.
And Xiang Nan's other starring movie "Dancing Out of My Life", also taking advantage of Xiang Nan's popularity, will be officially released in July in the summer.
In order to promote the movie, Xiang Nan released a new song - "timber" to promote the movie.
"timber" is a song jointly produced by Qian Po Ke$ha and rapper Pitbull. The style of this song is very unique. It is a weird song that combines rap, dance, folk, pop and electronic music. It is very innovative, alternative and diverse change.
After its launch, it became very popular, topping the Billboard charts for three consecutive weeks, and topping the music charts in more than 30 countries.
So this song can be said to be quite popular.
Xiang Nan invited Irina to collaborate with him on this song. He is responsible for the rap part, and Irene is responsible for the singing part.
This is not only Xiang Nan's first attempt at rap, but also the first collaboration between the two of them.
After "timber" was released, it really became very popular.
Especially among young people, it is widely popular. Because this song is really suitable for playing at parties, so its popularity is quite high.
With the popularity of this song, the popularity of "Dancing Out of My Life" is naturally rising.
After it was released in July, it achieved a double explosion at the box office and word of mouth. In the end, the North American box office was 110 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was 170 million U.S. dollars.
The key point is that the production cost of this film is only 10 million US dollars, and the cost of publicity is only 15 million US dollars. Therefore, the box office can be regarded as a big hit.
Participating in the front and back of the film, everyone naturally got the credit. Especially Xiang Nan, as the male protagonist, he dances hip-hop in the film, has a hot figure and cool movements, which is quite attractive to girls.
Therefore, the box office contribution of girls in the film is even much more than that of boys, which further proves Xiang Nan's appeal.
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Two consecutive movies hit the box office, making Xiang Nan quickly become popular in Hollywood.
Film appointments come one after another, one after another.
Finally, after screening, Xiang Nan finally chose "The Butterfly Effect" and "The Notebook".
This made his agent Charles Spencer a little puzzled.
Because "Butterfly Effect" and "Lianlian Notebook" are both produced at low cost.
The cost of "Butterfly Effect" was only 13 million, and Xiang Nan's salary was only 2 million US dollars.
The cost of "The Notebook" was only 26 million U.S. dollars, and Xiang Nan's salary was only 3.5 million U.S. dollars.
In comparison, Fox Films is about to start shooting "Fantastic Four", and Xiang Nan was invited to play Mr. Fantastic, but the film salary was paid 6 million US dollars.
Moreover, this movie is a big production, with a total investment of up to 100 million US dollars, and it is a veritable super blockbuster.
Xiang Nan turned down the invitation for this film, and chose to act in these two low-budget films. The total salary is not as high as that of "Fantastic Four", which made the agent feel very puzzled.
"Butterfly Effect" has a box office of nearly 100 million US dollars, and is regarded as one of the best soft science fiction films; "The Notebook" has a global box office of 250 million US dollars, which is a masterpiece of romance films.
In comparison, Fox's "Fantastic Four" cost 100 million U.S. dollars to produce, but the global box office was only 300 million, barely making it back.Later, he insisted on filming "Fantastic Four 2", and the box office reputation doubled, so that "Fantastic Four 3" was stillborn. Xiang Nan didn't hesitate to act such a blockbuster work.
However, he didn't say these words to his agent, just told him, "I read these scripts, and I think these two are more interesting."
Seeing what he said, Charles had no choice but to nod.
He is just a broker, not a slave owner. He can only give advice to Xiang Nan, but he cannot force him to do things.
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Subsequently, Xiang Nan first joined the crew of "Butterfly Effect", and then went to the crew of "The Notebook".
During the filming period, he also recorded his second album "wefoundlove", which contains more than a dozen classic songs such as "wefoundlove", "OneMoreNight", "needyounow", "weareyoung", "CrazyInLove".
In addition, Erina's debut album is also being recorded.
The songs in the album are all written by Xiang Nan, including "Ireallylikeyou", "tiktok", "dieyoung", "tryevrthing", "letitgo", and "babyboy" in cooperation with Xiang Nan.
In November, Irena's first self-titled album "IA Mirena" was officially released.
Xiang Nan specially spent 2 million US dollars on publicity and promotion for this purpose, making sure that Irina became a hit and became a first-line singer.
Arina already had two hit singles, "timber" and "callmemaybe". The new song still continues the previous style, following the sweet love style, and naturally continues to be supported by fans.
Combined with Xiang Nan's vigorous promotion, the "IA Mirena" album finally sold more than three million copies. At the moment when the physical recording industry is shrinking, it is quite rare to achieve such results.
In December, Xiang Nan and Mary held a simple but holy wedding in Hamburg, Germany, in the chapel where her grandparents, parents, and mother were once married.
For this wedding, no one else was invited except for Mary's grandmother, Mary's brother, and sister-in-law.
Xiang Nan actually didn't want to make a big deal out of it. It wasn't that he was afraid of affecting his popularity, but that he didn't want Mary to be attacked by the media.
After all, they were engaged before, and the media almost made a fuss. If they really got married, Mary would probably be scolded to death by them.
Therefore, Xiang Nan still decided to keep a low profile, as long as his family is happy, and it’s not worth making a noise so that the whole world knows about it.
You must know that in this world, except for your own blood relatives, other people don't want to live too well for themselves. Not to mention outsiders, even relatives and friends are no exception.
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"Congratulations, sister~" Martin congratulated Mary, and then looked at Xiang Nan, "I really didn't expect that you would actually marry my sister."
"What is this called? I was afraid that you would not marry me." Xiang Nan laughed.
When Martin heard this, he was very moved.
In fact, he felt that his sister and Xiang Nan were not a good match. His sister has no academic qualifications and no culture. She wandered around in the early years and had some experience.
In comparison, Xiang Nan is the king of music, with a net worth of over 100 million dollars. Compared with such a person, my sister is nothing short of heaven and earth.
So he was always worried that Xiang Nan might abandon his sister, so he was always worried. Unexpectedly, the two of them were really married now, which made him feel happy for his sister.
(end of this chapter)