Chapter 3159 3161 [Iron Man]

  In December, after getting married, Xiang Nan and Mary went to Xiangjiang for their honeymoon.

  In January, the second album "we found love" was officially released.

  Xiang Nan also started the second round of global tour, with more than forty performances in the United States alone.

  The remuneration for each show is 2.45 million US dollars. It is estimated that after the whole tour, Xiang Nan's income can reach about 200 million US dollars, which is a real money-absorbing weapon.

   And "Lianlian Notebook" starring him will be released on Valentine's Day.

  Xiang Nan helped promote "Lian Lian Notebook" while holding his own concert.

  In February, "Lianlian Notebook" was officially released.

   This movie tells the story of a pair of lovers who have gone through ups and downs and finally come together. After the original novel was published that year, it has been on the top of the "New York Times" book bestseller list for one year in a row.

  The producer also spent seven years in order to put this movie on the screen, and hired someone to write the script. Therefore, although the investment in this movie is not large, it is actually a very hard work.

   And Xiang Nan also put his heart into acting, and played an affectionate, youthful, and brave boy to every detail. As a result, it has won wide recognition from producers, directors, actors in the same group, and audiences.

   "The Notebook" received rave reviews after it was released, and many viewers said it was the most touching romance movie they had ever seen. Because of this, the box office of this movie is also rising steadily.

  The final North American box office was 150 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was close to 300 million U.S. dollars. Considering a small-budget film with a production cost of 26 million US dollars, such a box office result can be said to be quite amazing.

  Xiang Nan is also more and more favored by Hollywood because of the three consecutive films she starred in, all of which have made several times the box office revenue. More and more film companies have sent her invitations, and there are many big productions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

  For example, Warner's "Superman Returns", Fox's "The Day the Earth Stood Still", Kingfisher's "Terminator 2018", Universal Pictures' "Doom" and so on.

  These movies have offered Xiang Nan a very high salary. For example, the salary given by "The Day the Earth Stood Still" has reached tens of millions of dollars, which can be said to be very generous.

  However, Xiang Nan finally chose "Iron Man" from Marvel Pictures.

   This once again exceeded the expectations of agent Charles and the outside world.

  Because over the years, Marvel’s comics and movies have not developed well.

  Don't look at Marvel, who became independent and coquettish in the film industry after 2009, became an invincible money-absorbing weapon, and even affected the entire Hollywood ecology.

  But in the 1990s, it didn't do well at all, hovering on the verge of bankruptcy all year round, so it sold its IP at a big sale.

  Like "Fantastic Four", "X-Men" to Fox, "Spider-Man" to Sony, "Ghost Rider" to Columbia...

   Later, due to the popularity of the "Blade Warrior" series of movies, Marvel gradually recovered. Coupled with the "X-Men" series and the "Spider-Man" series, the past two years have made a lot of money, so Marvel wants to make movies by itself.

  And "Iron Man" is the pioneering work of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

They hope to find an actor with certain acting skills and box office appeal, but the salary is not high. Xiang Nan has acting skills and box office appeal. Compared with those superstars, the salary is really not high, which is very in line with Marvel's requirements .

   Moreover, Xiang Nan also offered to offer no salary, as long as the box office share, which made Marvel even happier.

  Because they don’t have too much money, if they give Xiang Nan a large amount of remuneration, they won’t have much money to make the film, so they are also willing that the main actors get a share instead of a salary.

  In the end, Xiang Nan successfully won the role of "Iron Man", which also made him very happy.

Xiang Nan knows how popular this character is in later generations. It can be said to be comparable to Johnny Depp's Captain Jack, Bruce Willis' John McClane, 007 James Bond...     Robert Downey Jr. is exactly With this movie, Xianyu turned from a Hollywood bad boy to a top superstar and box office myth.

   It can be said that Xiang Nan definitely missed this role.

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  In May, "The Butterfly Effect" was released.

   This very brain-burning suspense and sci-fi movie has received rave reviews since its release.

  Although its production cost was only 13 million US dollars, its quality is enough to surpass many blockbuster films that cost over 100 million.

  Especially its story, which fits perfectly, echoes back and forth, and turns over and over again, bringing endless freshness to the audience.

Coupled with Xiang Nan's box office appeal, the North American box office was close to 100 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was close to 200 million U.S. dollars, which made the producer several times more profitable and made Xiang Nan's title of "Box Office Red Star" even more solid. up.

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  In September, Xiang Nan finished his global tour, and then took Mary to Greece to enjoy the sunshine, beach and sea breeze there.

  In October, the two of them returned to New York.

  Subsequently, Xiang Nan temporarily joined the crew of "Mouse Laibao".

   This movie was originally starring Jake Gyllenhaal, but when it was about to start, he had an accident and fell off his leg while skiing.

  If you hurt your muscles and bones for a hundred days, your progress will be delayed by at least three months. And the other actors and staff members of this movie are all present, waiting for him to turn on the film alone is really unseemly.

   After all, waiting for a day is a day's loss, and the film company can't afford it. So in the end, after deliberation, Gyllenhaal had to resign.

  Then the filmmaker urgently searched for a replacement, and happened to find Xiang Nan.

Xiang Nan's acting skills are good, the box office appeal is strong, and the salary is not high, only 12 million US dollars, which is far behind Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and other superstars , so he was invited to act.

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   In 2006, in February, the filming was completed.

  Xiang Nan, Mary and Irina also participated in the Grammy Awards together.

In the end, he won the Best Production of the Year, Best Pop Male Singer, Best R&B Song, etc. for his album "we found love". s position.

  In April, Xiang Nan officially joined the crew of "Iron Man" and started filming.

  Marvel Pictures invested 140 million U.S. dollars in this movie, and Xiang Nan's salary was 10 million U.S. dollars. However, he gave up cash and chose to collect box office revenue.

  According to the ratio, when the movie is released, he will get 5% of the box office.

  Xiang Nan knew that "Iron Man" finally won 580 million US dollars at the box office, and the 5% cut was 29 million US dollars, which was much more than the simple 10 million US dollars in salary.

  (end of this chapter)