Despite being pestered by Zhou Xun in every possible way, Xiang Nan still did not accept her.
The more infatuated a good girl is, the less he wants to hurt her.
However, in the following days, Xiang Nan's attitude towards Zhou Xun became much better.
Not only often ask her to eat, drink, and skewers, but also sing her songs that cannot appear in his album. For example, "I Eating Fried Chicken in People's Square", "Killing the International Man", "Study Room for College Students" and so on.
These creative songs made Zhou Xun very fond of him, and he became more and more admired for his talent. He looked at him like a fanatic looking at God.
As long as God gives the command, we are ready to dedicate ourselves at any time.
However, Xiang Nan couldn't bear to harm her, so he never took that step.
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While filming "Love Through Time and Space", Xiang Nan also received an invitation from "Young Man Bao Qingtian 2".
However, after reading the script, he was not very satisfied.
Not only are the settings of each case not detailed enough, there is no suspense like the first film. It feels fascinating, and the emotional drama is too much.
The first part of "Young Bao Qingtian" is mainly about detective work, supplemented by love. The second part of "Young Man Bao Qingtian" reverses the priorities, with romance as the main focus and detective work as a supplement.
There are more love scenes than detective scenes. The key love scenes are also poorly set up. There are misunderstandings and coincidences at every turn, and the routine is too old.
Therefore, after Xiang Nan considered it, he declined the crew's invitation.
In fact, even if the script is good, he doesn't have the schedule.
Song Bing is helping him prepare for his Asian tour. We have to go to the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, almost a hundred games. A profit of 1 million per game is 100 million yuan.
With so much money, Xiang Nan would not miss it.
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In November, "Love Across Time and Space" was officially completed.
Xiang Nan immediately launched the Youth Asia Tour.
At the same time, To Youth Pictures also signed a distribution agreement with Bona Pictures, and handed over the drama "Waiting Alone" to Bona Pictures for distribution.
Bona Pictures was founded by Yu Dong in 1999. Prior to that, he was the deputy section chief of the distribution department of Beijing Film Studio.
In 1993, the mainland carried out reforms in the film industry. In 1999, seven companies including Beijing Film Studio, Children's Film Studio, Film Equipment Center, and Movie Channel Program Center merged to form China Film Corporation.
Yu Dong was also included in the merger, and after the merger, his deputy chief of the distribution department was dismissed. So in anger, he quit his job and started his own business, borrowing 300,000 yuan to start Bona Pictures.
The first film released was "Tell Your Secret" directed by Huang Jianxin. In the end, the movie had a box office of 8 million, and he earned 500,000, his first pot of gold.
After that, Bona Pictures developed better and better, and was known as the Miramax of the mainland. This spring, it was responsible for the distribution of "My Brothers and Sisters," which grossed 23 million at the box office.
The reason why Xiang Nan chose to cooperate with Bona was because of Yu Dong's fierceness.
In order to release "Waiting Alone", he called Xiang Nan almost every day from September to November. The level of persistence moved Xiang Nan.
Therefore, I finally chose to cooperate with him.
"Waiting Alone" is scheduled to be released during the Lunar New Year. Because this year, Feng Xiaogang failed to make movies as he did in previous years. So "Waiting Alone" can just fill this gap.
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In November, Xiang Nan launched an Asian tour, with the first stop being the Yanjing Capital Gymnasium.
It has been two years since the last time Xiang Nan held a tour. In the past two years, Xiang Nan has released a large number of songs, and their popularity has become more popular than before.
Because of this, concert tickets can be said to be hard to come by. Originally, the lowest ticket price on Margin was only 200 yuan, but in the end, scalpers directly raised the price to 1,000 yuan, which was a five-fold increase.
This also shows Xiang Nan's popularity.
Also starting at the same time as his Asian tour was "The Emperor" which he co-starred with Jia Jingwen, Liu Yijun, Chen Daoming and others half a year ago.
This TV series landed on Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV in mid-November and immediately set off a wave of ratings. The highest ratings were 8.3%, which is a very good result.
Liu Che, played by Xiang Nan, was considered by the audience to be very regal. He acted like Liu Che, the young emperor and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
But in fact, the reason why Xiang Nan acted so well is because he has enough understanding of the character.
After inheriting Ji Xiaolan's knowledge, Xiang Nan has a deep understanding of the history of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the Han court, no less than a historian. The better you understand the character, the easier it will be for you to act.
Moreover, whenever the plot in the play involves writing, painting, playing the piano, etc., the actors are usually just asked to pretend, and then the stand-in completes the work.
Although this kind of shooting technique is very mature and is not very good at cheating, it will still affect the quality of TV series. After all, the audience is not stupid. They use panoramic shots for actors and close-up shots for claps. Everyone knows that a substitute is used.
Xiang Nan, on the other hand, does not need a stand-in at all. He writes, paints, and plays the piano all by himself, which is very rare. To be honest, if you shoot it like this, the picture will look very good.
So the show was very successful.
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In December, with the Lunar New Year season approaching, Bona Pictures started promoting the film.
""Waiting Alone", Xiang Nan's masterpiece, bursting with laughter!"
""Waiting Alone", highly recommended by 120 film critics, is the best urban romantic comedy in China."
""Waiting Alone" is dedicated to everyone who slips away from you~"
""Waiting Alone", Xiang Nan's most daring performance since his debut~"
Bona was advertised in newspapers, magazines, television, and even on the Internet.
Yu Dong believed that this movie was comparable to Feng Xiaogang's comedies, so he spent a lot of money on promoting it.
According to him, the publicity cost was as high as 3 million yuan.
Regardless of whether what he said is true or false, in short, the publicity effect is still good.
When "Waiting Alone" was released on December 18, it achieved very good box office results.
In theaters in many places, audiences queued up to buy tickets, and demand for tickets on the first day exceeded supply.
After watching this movie, the audience's evaluation was pretty good.
Some thought that although it was not as funny as Feng's comedy, it was acceptable; some were moved by the love in the film; and some cheered excitedly that the mainland finally has a decent urban romance film...
After watching this movie, many young friends became a favorite and spontaneously recommended this movie to their friends, relatives, and netizens. As a result, the film's popularity is getting higher and higher, and its box office performance is getting better and better.
By the time it was released in February 2003, the total box office had reached 35 million. After taking into account the tax paid, theater share, distribution commission, publicity and distribution expenses, etc., in the end, Zhichun Pictures received 9.6 million yuan.
Compared with the cost of more than three million, it is definitely a profit. Coupled with the copyrights sold to TV stations, overseas distribution rights, etc., Xiang Nan finally made a net profit of 12 million yuan, which is a very good result.
More importantly, the success of this film directly proves Xiang Nan's box office appeal. It also proves that it is feasible to invest in film production by yourself.
Moreover, this movie also made Gao Yuanyuan and Tang Wei popular, which made a lot of money for Youth Studio.
