Rebirth In Hollywood

The rolling waves gently licked against the silver-white beach, rolling playful water splashes, the rising sun slowly climbed out of the horizon, and sprinkled a golden yellow, against the backdrop of the jagged water waves, the private beach behind the manor became colorful. , as dreamy as the wonderland Alice once stepped on, and as charming as an oil painting.

Crescent Bay, one of the most beautiful beaches in Hawaii, has been closed to the public since the day Ryan bought Lanai, and it has completely become his private beach.

The silver-gray battery car was parked in front of the beach. Ryan helped Nicole get off the battery car, led her into the dressing room in front of the beach, helped her change into beach shoes, and then set foot on the silver beach of Crescent Bay hand in hand.

During the few days they came to Lanai, the two would come here for a walk every day after breakfast and dinner. The beautiful scenery of the sea and the sky also made Nicole, who has been unstable recently, gradually calm down.

"Have I been annoying lately?"

Walking on the edge of the rising sea, Nicole looked back at the footprints they had left on the beach, pulled Ryan's hand firmly and asked, "Are you a little temperamental?"

"How come." Ryan clasped her palm tightly and looked down at the sea in the distance, "You have all the privileges now."

"I'm just a little nervous." Her beautiful blue eyes swept across Ryan's face, "and a little anxious."

"Darling." Ryan's hand gently touched Nicole's belly. "This will be a little guy who is as beautiful as his mother and as smart as his father."

"Why isn't she as smart as her mother and beautiful as her father?" Nicole narrowed her eyes deliberately.

"In short, this is our angel." Ryan naturally would not argue on this issue, "Our angel will have all the favors of God and the world."

The sun climbed higher and higher, and the bright sunshine gradually became stronger. Ryan looked at the time, pulled Nicole up, turned around and walked back, while taking out his mobile phone from his pocket.

"It's almost time?" Nicole asked.

"I guess Alison should have seen it."

Ryan pressed Taylor's phone number as he walked, and when he heard a familiar voice ringing on the phone, he said, "Honey, happy birthday, did you see my gift?"

"God!" Taylor shouted excitedly over there, "This world is crazy! You... The sixteen-year-old gift you gave me turned out to be a Boeing airplane!"

"Don't you like it?" Ryan laughed.

"Like it!" Taylor's voice was high and loud, "Of course I like it!"

"But!" she added, "it's very expensive to keep such a plane. I'm going to work hard to earn money."

"Before you are eighteen, I will be responsible for all the expenses of the plane." Ryan looked east, which is the direction of North America, "Darling, are you sure you want to spend your sixteenth birthday with the fans?"

"Yeah." Taylor said without hesitation, "My management team and I have been planning for a long time. This will shorten the distance between me and the fans, which will be a great help for the upcoming new album."

"Okay, be careful."

Nicole's hand was placed in front of him at this time, and Ryan had to say, "Honey, Nicole wants to talk to you."

After speaking, he put the phone in Nicole's hand.

As one of the most important birthdays in her life, Taylor's sixteenth birthday was not with her relatives and friends, but chose her fans. No matter her past life or this life, she is a leader among singers in terms of managing fans.

Sixteen years old, although not an adult under the law, means having more freedom and autonomy. The little girl who was crying on the Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania has grown up completely.

Life in Lanai is quiet and leisurely, except for some emails every day and the occasional trip to the southeast to see "Jurassic Park 3" being filmed,

Ryan spends most of his time with Nicole, as he said, Miss Kidman is now a privileged class.

However, even away from North America, Ryan is still paying attention to this fiery Thanksgiving.

The "King Kong" jointly created by Peter Jackson and Universal Pictures is undoubtedly the most eye-catching super production at the moment. This super monster produced by motion capture technology for the first time can be called the most brilliant and long-lived in the history of Hollywood movies. one of the stars.

However, the market popularity of the film is far lower than Universal Pictures' expectations. Perhaps it is too long a foreshadowing, or perhaps the current film industry has created too many monsters. The enthusiasm of the audience for this remake does not seem to be special. big.

The film's first-week box office of $50.13 million seems to be good, but compared to the production cost of more than $200 million, it is not much successful, and the last sentence of the film "It's not the plane that killed the monster, but the beauty." "Dead Monster" was passed down as a joke by many people, and was even described by many media as the product of Peter Jackson's inflated to unknown reasons.

Ryan also accompanied Nicole to watch the film in a private theater. The film's lengthy foreshadowing and slow rhythm are really not suitable for today's fast-paced era, and King Kong, as the absolute protagonist, appeared too late, which is easy As a result, young audiences who are accustomed to fast-paced commercial films cannot watch it.

Maybe those older audiences will have a special King Kong complex, but how many teenagers, who are the main group of moviegoers, will care about this complex?

Compared with "King Kong", the film released by Disney a week later is more likely to appeal to teenagers.

Adapted from "The Lion, the Witch and the Magical Wardrobe", "The Chronicles of Narnia" jointly produced by Disney Pictures and 20th Century Fox was released in North America before Christmas. The North American box office of the film's first week of $81.33 million also proved It will be a successful film.

Although like "King Kong", "The Chronicles of Narnia" was criticized in a mess by critics, it did not prevent it from being popular with teenagers. The film only took ten days to get more than 160 million US dollars at the box office in North America. , already quite successful for a non-sequel film.

Even two weeks after the film was released, Disney and Twentieth Century Fox announced that they would continue to work together to produce a sequel.

For a commercially successful film, it would be strange for the producers to give up on the sequel.

Elsewhere, there was good news for Disney. After months of tug-of-war negotiations, after Disney raised its offer to $1.5 billion, Netflix's shareholders and management put down their last holdovers, the online video rental service. It eventually became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walt Disney.

At the same time, Disney has also completed negotiations with Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Sony Columbia, Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox to license most of the best films in their library, and settled Netflix in one fell swoop. The most serious problem of insufficient content.

Online and offline go hand in hand, and Disney has further improved its industrial chain.

Perhaps in this day and age, the benefits of this acquisition cannot be seen, but within a few years, the online video and film rental business will develop rapidly like other online industries.

After spending Christmas with Nicole, Ryan returned to Los Angeles from Hawaii. After several months of preparations in the Autobot studio, "Transformers" has officially started, and Michael Bay only defined the film for the film. Shooting for three months.

The focus of this kind of film must be post-production, and ILM's special effects production kicked off long after the Autobots and Decepticons were finalized.

Although the cost of filming in California is relatively high, the crew chose Los Angeles as the main location. According to the coordination between Michael Bay and the Pentagon, Edwards Air Force Base, which is near the City of Angels, will bear most of the costs related to the US military. In addition to a series of weapons and equipment, the Ministry of Defense will send Air Force personnel and SEALs to participate in the actual shooting.

Even the F-22 Raptor, which has not yet been installed in the US military, will appear in a Hollywood movie for the first time.

In other words, the film is also advertising for the Pentagon.

Ryan is a relatively late entry into the crew. As early as mid-December, Michael Bay led people to start filming at Holloman Air Force Base. With one super explosion after another, it was completely destroyed from the camera. this military base.

Those U.S. military personnel who participated in the filming are not bad. It is said that actors such as Josh Duhamel, who have participated in military training for more than two months, always change a pair of underwear after each explosive scene.

As one of the top directors in all Hollywood shooting explosion scenes, Michael Bay did not take the method of replacing the background of the explosion in the later stage of green screen shooting. All the explosion scenes were shot on the spot. After the play, it was blown to pieces.

Shooting like this is risky, but the resulting footage is visually stunning.

Of course, for a director like Bang Bei, who has filmed "Jedi Men", "Brave Island", "Peerless Catastrophe" and "Pearl Harbor", it is not difficult to control the explosion scene, and After he temporarily got rid of the idea of ​​transformation, it was natural to want to make "Transformers" a film with his strongest style.

In the words of Michael Bay, he destroyed half of San Francisco in "Brave Island", "Peerless Catastrophe" blew up an asteroid, "Pearl Harbor" destroyed the US Pacific Fleet, "Transformers" in How to destroy several US military bases and half of Los Angeles.

Ryan's first day on the set was almost spent in crashes, smoke and explosions. Although there were some of his scenes, most of the time he was running for his life. Although there were few lines and too much preparation, the panic during the period But not completely out.

He is just an ordinary person who has never experienced war. When explosions and crashes keep appearing behind him, and there are occasionally pieces of plastic falling around him, it must be false to say that he is not worried at all. R1152