Although Universal Pictures' film was not shortlisted for the Best Picture Award this year, Xiang Nan was still invited to participate.

After all, those judges are all petty, and if you offend them, you won’t be able to win any more awards in the future. Just like the Golden Globe Awards, since Xiang Nan stopped attending the awards ceremony, Universal Pictures has often failed to win anything.

On the red carpet, Xiang Nan walked with Alexandra Daddario. With her charming face and proud figure, she became a beautiful scenery on the red carpet. I don’t know how many reporters were attracted by her.

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And this kind of envious look made Xiang Nan feel even more accomplished. After all, this beauty that everyone admired was now his horse.

At the subsequent awards ceremony, "King Kong" successively won three awards for Best Sound Effects, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects, while "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" won 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 Cinematography.

Overall, Universal Pictures' luck in winning awards this year is pretty good.

However, from the perspective of achievement awards, the Oscars have tended to be more literary and artistic films in recent years, such as Best Picture "Crash", Best Actor "Capote", Best Actress "Song", and Best Supporting Actor

"Xin Ruina", Best Supporting Actress "The Immortal Gardener"...

None of these movies has a box office of more than 100 million US dollars. This also resulted in the low popularity of these movies and the lack of a sense of involvement among the audience. Therefore, when the awards ceremony reached the later stage, the ratings had dropped by as much as half.

This makes broadcasters and advertisers very dissatisfied.

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After the award ceremony, Xiang Nan attended the party and was quickly surrounded by producers, directors, celebrities, etc., which made Alexandra particularly envious.

Although she is beautiful, she is a nobody in Hollywood. No big director or producer likes her. In comparison, Xiang Nan is surrounded by stars, and she seems to be the centerpiece of the fame and fortune industry.

"Charles, I have several projects, and I hope you can help with the details." Spielberg asked Xiang Nan for advice.

He regretted that he didn't listen to Xiang Nan and insisted on filming "Escape from Clone Island". As a result, the movie lost 100 million US dollars, forcing DreamWorks to sell it.

Therefore, he is now completely convinced by Xiang Nan, so naturally he wants to ask him about his New Year's filming plans.

After Xiang Nan listened to his narration, he successively established three projects, namely "Letter from Iwo Jima" and "Flags of Our Fathers". These two are actually one movie, both reflecting the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima. However,

One is shot from the Japanese perspective, and the other is shot from the American perspective.

Another project is "Perfume", which tells the story of a genius with an extremely keen sense of smell who commits serial murders in order to create a unique perfume.

As for other projects proposed by Spielberg, such as "Football Beauty", "The Last Kiss", "Dreamgirls", etc., Xiang Nan believes that there is no need to film them.

The subject matter is too old-fashioned, the story has no originality, and it cannot attract the audience at all, so there is no need to film it.

However, Xiang Nan reminded Spielberg that he could consider adapting the animated film "Transformers".

"The biggest-selling movies in Hollywood now are special effects movies, and Transformers was once a hit. If they were put on the screen, it would definitely be very attractive to those children back then." Xiang Nan told Spielberg.

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The "Transformers" animation was launched in 1984. The children who watched it and played with Transformers toys are now young.

So if Transformers is put on the screen, it will definitely be very popular.

When Spielberg heard this, he was really excited and started making preparations immediately.

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After the Oscars, Xiang Nan continued to prepare for "Fast and Furious 3".

The original cast such as Paul Walker, Zhang Ziyi, Maggie Q, etc. all return, plus newcomer Alexandra Daddario, as well as villains John Ortiz, Laz Alonso, etc.

As for the director, Lin Yibin was chosen. He had previously directed "Good Luck Tomorrow", "The Crowd", "Conquer the Angry Sea", etc.

Although his box office performance was mediocre, his talent was still recognized by the industry and he was named one of the top ten emerging directors. This is why Xiang Nan boldly used him for filming.

Lin Yibin was naturally very grateful for this.

After all, Chinese-American directors like him are not taken seriously in Hollywood, and it is difficult to find suitable movies to shoot. What's more, "Fast and Furious 4", with an investment of nearly 100 million US dollars, is a veritable commercial blockbuster. More importantly,

It was also written and starred by Xiang Nan himself.

In Hollywood, Xiang Nan represents blockbusters. As long as this movie is made well, he will be able to walk around in Hollywood in the future. Therefore, he was naturally very happy. After getting the script, he began to study it seriously.

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In April, the filming of "Fast and Furious 3" officially started.

In the same month, "The Butterfly Effect" was released.

Starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart, this movie tells the story of a man with the ability to travel back in time and change the course of history, only to have the consequences become increasingly out of control...

This movie has a mind-blowing story and twists and turns, which gave the audience a great sense of satisfaction while watching the movie. As a result, it received a great reputation after its release and achieved very good box office results.

The final box office in North America was 57 million US dollars, and the global box office was close to 100 million US dollars, which is quite good. You know, the cost of this movie was only 10 million US dollars.

The reason why it has achieved such good box office results is entirely because the story of this movie is novel and solid enough.

The movie released in May is "Untouchables", starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder. The story has twists and turns, the plot is touching, and it is romantic and tender. Therefore, it has been well received by the audience after its release.

The final North American box office was US$54 million and the global box office was US$110 million. Compared with its investment of US$40 million, this movie was considered a very successful hit.

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 "Philosopher's Stone", "Chamber of Secrets" and "Prisoners" only have more than 200,000 words.

Therefore, the plot of the original "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" movie was very severely deleted, and many interesting plots were not filmed, which I have to say is a pity.

Therefore, Xiang Nan specially divided the film into two parts. The upper part ends with Harry Potter winning the golden egg from the fire dragon, and the second part tells the return of Voldemort...
Chapter completed!