In January, Xiang Nan went home to visit relatives as usual.
After the Spring Festival, I went to Xiangjiang for a while, took care of some official business, and also made an appointment with Lu Jingshan.
Lu Jingshan was born in 1985. Her father is also an entertainer named Roy Holland, who worked with Xiang Nan on "Snake". However, he didn't stay in the entertainment industry for too long before he went to teach at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, so he is not well-known.
Lu Jingshan learned karate, taekwondo, archery, horse riding, etc. from her father since she was a child. When she grew up, she worked as a model and filmed advertisements.
After graduating from the London School of Economics and Political Science last year, she returned to Hong Kong to participate in the Miss Asia beauty pageant, and eventually won the Miss Asia title and made her debut.
Xiang Nan's "Die Hard 4" was in urgent need of a beautiful star, and it was originally supposed to be played by Maggie Q.
However, Xiang Nan has worked with her too many times, such as "The Fast and the Furious" and "Mission: Impossible 3". There is nothing new about working with her again, so Xiang Nan hopes to find someone else.
Lu Jingshan has good skills and a very good image, so she is suitable for this role.
After receiving the invitation, Lu Jingshan was naturally very happy and happily agreed.
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In the same month, Universal Pictures released the movie "The Pursuit of Happiness" starring Will Smith.
This is a very touching and inspirational movie, adapted from a true story. It tells the story of a divorced single father who took care of his son while working. Through his unremitting efforts, he finally succeeded in his career.
There is never a shortage of audiences for this type of inspirational movies. Just like those "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books in bookstores, there is never a shortage of readers. In this world, things often go wrong, so we need strength to support us.
Although these types of inspirational movies and books cannot solve real-life problems, they can provide people with support for their beliefs, so they will never go out of style and will always be popular.
"The Pursuit of Happiness" has achieved a global box office of US$350 million, and its cost was only over US$50 million, so it was quite profitable.
What's even more rare is that this movie is also very popular in the disc market. The rental income was 50 million US dollars, and the disc sales income was more than 90 million US dollars. Universal Pictures made a small profit of nearly 200 million US dollars.
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In February, when Xiang Nan returned to Hollywood, Universal Pictures was releasing the movie "Delicious Love" produced by DreamWorks and starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart.
It tells the story of Kate, a perfectionist with obsessive-compulsive disorder, chef of a three-star Michelin restaurant, and a new rising star in the culinary industry, a second chef who is extremely creative, free-spirited and unconstrained, and how love is born after a series of frictions.
To be honest, this routine of rejoicing in enemies is really not new in romance movies. It’s just that the combination of food and love is quite novel.
In addition, although Catherine Zeta-Jones is nearly forty years old, she is still beautiful and quite attractive. So in the end, the North American box office was 43 million US dollars, and the global box office was close to 100 million US dollars.
For a movie with an investment of only 28 million US dollars, this result is already quite good.
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After returning to Hollywood, Xiang Nan trained fighting skills with Lu Jingshan, Gong Li and others to prepare for the upcoming movie.
Among them, Xiang Nan and Lu Jingshan are preparing to film "Die Hard 4", while Gong Li is filming "Young Hannibal". In the movie, she plays Dr. Hannibal's aunt, Lady Purple, who is also a woman who guides him on the road to revenge.
Madame Murasaki in the movie is of Japanese descent and is proficient in swordsmanship and fighting skills, so Gong Li also had to learn some skills in order to play this role well.
"Miss Gong, I have long admired your name." Xiang Nan said to Gong Li with a smile.
"Mr. Ning, please don't say that. You are my role model." Gong Li said modestly.
Before she became famous, Xiang Nan was already the most outstanding artist, screenwriter, and writer in Hong Kong and even Hollywood. "Red Sorghum", "Old Well", "Ju Dou" and "Raise the Red Lantern", which he collaborated with Zhang Yimou, are all classics in the mainland film industry.
"Anyway, I'm very happy to work with an excellent actor like you." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "I hope that the movie "Young Hannibal" can achieve the same success as "The Silence of the Lambs."
"I hope so too." Gong Li nodded, she also wanted to use this to officially enter Hollywood.
Before this, although she had already had movies such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Miami Vice", those two movies were only small productions with low investment and insufficient marketing efforts. As a result, the final box office and reputation were not very good, and they were not very good. It didn't help her make a name for herself in Hollywood.
However, this "Young Hannibal" has an investment of nearly 40 million US dollars. Although in Hollywood, this film can only be considered a medium-cost film, it is still the film she starred in and has the largest investment.
She hopes to make a name for herself with this film and officially open the Hollywood market. After all, she has reached the top in China.
"Then let's work hard together." Xiang Nan smiled.
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In March, the Oscars take place.
"Brokeback Mountain" directed by Li An is undoubtedly the biggest favorite at this awards ceremony. In addition, "Letter Home from Iwo Jima", produced by DreamWorks and directed by Clint Eastwood, was also shortlisted for Best Picture, Best Director awards and many other projects.
Xiang Nan invited Gong Li to walk on the red carpet with him.
To be honest, although Gong Li is forty-two years old this year, his face and figure are still very good. And it also has the charm of a mature woman.
In comparison, although Lu Jingshan is young and beautiful and has a good figure, she is a little green. In terms of charm, he is much worse than Gong Li.
In Xiang Nan's view, Gong Li is like a ripe peach, sweet, delicious, plump and attractive. And Lu Jingshan is just like a black plum, smooth and delicate, and looks great, but it can easily turn your teeth when you bite it.
Therefore, Xiang Nan still invited Gong Li to the red carpet of this award ceremony, but did not invite Lu Jingshan to accompany him.
Gong Li naturally happily accepted the invitation and expressed his gratitude to Xiang Nan, "Mr. Ning, thank you for giving me this opportunity."
"You're welcome." Xiang Nan waved and smiled, "Next time, I believe Miss Gong will receive the invitation alone."
The Oscars are held every year at the Kodak Theatre, which only seats 3,500 people. There are no less than 100,000 film practitioners in Hollywood, so only well-known artists, directors, screenwriters, producers, etc. will receive invitation cards.
And Gong Li is not even considered second-tier in Hollywood, to put it harshly, so she will not be invited alone, she can only take advantage of others.
However, Xiang Nan believes that after starring in "Hannibal", she will be eligible to receive invitations next year. If that doesn't work, he will continue to help her arrange roles, and he will always make her a Hollywood star.
After all, Hollywood needs such a Chinese-American actor.
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