Chapter 244: Another Midsummer Passes Away
"Wow, there's a wedding in January next year?
Joshua's tone on the other side of the phone was surprised, although he first knew about Wang Yang's marriage proposal plan and knew that his proposal was successful, but he had just learned that they had set a wedding date.
On the balcony of the hotel suite, Wang Yang sat on a chair and sucked the straw on the apple juice cup, enjoying the breeze, looking at the blue and calm endless sea in front of him, as well as the sunset in the sky, and smiled: "What do you do if you propose and don't get married? Why do you propose if you don't get married?" Joshua laughed: "I just read the news on the Internet, it seems that everyone thinks that you will not confirm the wedding until a long time." β
He said excitedly: "They must be surprised, your fans will be very sad, haha!"
"They'll bless. But isn't next January a long time away? I'm too slow. Wang Yang smiled, knowing that Joshua was referring to the so-called "obstacles", so he said, "Brother, there is no obstacle. Jessica and I are not you and Scarlett, what's the obstacle?" Joshua, who was scarred, suddenly sighed and said, "Don't mention that Scarlett, I want to marry Ali now, right away." β
What obstacles can there be? It's not the barbarian era, the law doesn't prohibit intermarriage between different races, 7% of marriages in the United States are interracial, and even in the 30s of the last century, there was still an absurd "no intermarriage between people of color and whites" law, and the photographer Huang Zongzhan and his wife Sanora Babu both went to Paris, France, to complete the registration, and now no one can talk about them.
Both of them have a kind of consensus, what is there that cannot be solved and cannot tolerate each other if they really love each other? In particular, they are both people who attach great importance to their families and children, and there is no problem at all about weddings; the only thing that caused a little "quarrel" was the prenuptial agreement, or Wang Yang's own anger.
"Jan, do we want to do a prenuptial property agreement?" Jessica was reading the newspaper early in the morning when she was having breakfast in her room, and she saw that there was a prenuptial agreement written about it, so she asked without thinking.
When Wang Yang, who was sitting across the table and eating bread, heard this, he suddenly started a nameless fire, frowned and doubted: "What are you talking about? Of course not!" He chewed the bread and swallowed it, spread out his hands and said quickly: "I haven't thought about it at all, I don't have this concept at all! Why do you want to make an agreement? Marriage is supposed to make two people become one person, and I think this is the most wonderful thing about it!"
"What the hell agreement?how much money is mine, how much is yours, this house is yours, this car is mine, what kind of marriage?!"
"Tell the truth!" Wang Yang didn't know why he was so angry, probably, he exhaled, looked at Jessica who was anxious, and said with a smile: "I look down on those marriages that sign agreements the most! I don't even have this trust, I was thinking about what happened after the divorce from the beginning, what were those people thinking! Oh my God, what are you talking about? I'm really angry, Jessica, I'm not interested in any prenuptial agreement!"
He said earnestly: "I propose to you, and I will give you everything I have, and you have promised me, and I believe you will do the same." That's the only way to get married. β
"Of course, of course I am!Jan, don't be angry!" Hearing these words, looking at his angry appearance, Jessica's heart was full of emotion, and she was afraid that he would have some misunderstanding, and immediately regretted mentioning it. She explained sincerely: "Don't be angry! You know me, how can I be interested in signing an agreement? It's just that you have many companies, and each company has many shareholders, and I don't know if there is a need to sign an agreement." β
She smiled and shook her head, "But I'm not thinking about anything else, it's not that I don't trust our marriage, how is it possible?" she shrugged and smiled, "And it's because I have little money." After saying that, she realized that this sentence was not very good, and she said again: "Yang, even if you don't love me in the future, I won't dwell on anything, I'm not that kind of person." β
"Hey, hey, what are you talking about!I'm really angry!" Wang Yang rolled his eyes, frowned, and said, "You are my fiancΓ©e, we are a family, the closest people!, okay?" Jessica slapped herself in the mouth, stomped her feet helplessly, covered her face and said: "The more I say it, the more wrong it becomes, what a fool! I mean, I don't want our love and marriage to be ruined by this money, I don't want to ...... at all!
Wang Yang reached out and grabbed her left hand, took the newspaper and glanced at it, couldn't help but smile, threw it aside, stared at her and said, "Don't pay attention to what these people say, there is no obstacle, no contradiction." I know you! Even if I'm a poor ghost and a super bad director, you still love me, right?" Jessica smiled and nodded, Wang Yang stroked her fingers and the diamond ring: "Needless to say, I know." β
"Jesse, don't talk about that, there's no need for a prenuptial agreement. Wang Yang patted the back of her hand, looked at her sweet smiling face, and said with a smile: "Continue like this! I will be the money-making machine at home, you don't have to worry, you just need to be happy." Jessica chuckled softly, "I'll make you happy." Wang Yang sighed, remembered the anger just now, and apologized seriously: "I'm sorry, I reacted too much just now." Jessica apologized, "It's my stupid mouth." ββ¦β¦ Except for this quarrel, the two were all sweet laughter when discussing the matter of this wedding that would come soon.
"Anyway, man, thank you for all that ring information, she loved it. Wang Yang thanked Joshua on the other side of the phone, and Jessica's voice came from the room: "Yang, you can go." Wang Yang drank the drink in one gulp, stood up and walked to the room: "Don't say anything, we want to go out to see the night scene, bye!" Joshua said, "Bye!"
The sun shines on the clear Li River, sparkling, the strange peaks and strange rocks on both sides stand majestically, a few bamboo rows slowly row on the river, boatmen wearing hats hold bamboo poles, and tourists sitting in the back enjoy the beautiful scenery around.
"Is the Bahamas as beautiful here?" On a bamboo raft, Natalie, who was sitting on a chair, was expressionless, stretched out her foot and kicked the water of the Li River, and the river suddenly splashed, and she muttered in a low voice: "Is the yacht enough bamboo raft interesting!" Looking at the boatman in front of her, she suddenly asked in awkward Mandarin: "Mr. Zhang, do you know Wang Yang? Feiyang that Yang." The middle-aged boatman smiled while holding the boat: "I don't know, I haven't heard of this person." β
Natalie laughed silly a few times and said that she had 100 million followers all day long. She smiled and kicked the river again, cool and cool, and muttered, "A bastard, he's getting married." She took a deep breath, but she couldn't stop the sadness in her heart, she was about to get married in a blink of an eye, be happy for him!
"It's unreasonable to get married at such a young age. Natalie leaned on the back of the bamboo chair, looking up at the clear blue sky, he was so strict with love and single-mindedness, from the very beginning to look at her with friendship, she, the "elf of the fallen world" had no chance of love, so be it!
At the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas, in the dimly lit suite bedroom, Wang Yang, who was lying on the bed, wiped his forehead, opened his hazy eyes, and said to the mobile phone that was buzzing just now: "Oh thank you, it's the middle of the night here, big brother." Natalie over there smiled: "I don't care, aren't you happy?" Wang Yang blinked and said, "No, it's okay, thank you." β
He looked at Jessica, who was sleeping sweetly next to him, gently lifted the quilt, walked out of bed bare-chested, and asked, "...... What's wrong?"
"It's just that I remember that I haven't blessed you yet. Natalie looked in the direction of the sun, her eyes narrowed in the bright sunlight, and said to her phone, "I wish you happiness! Listening to the thank you, she asked again, "When will the wedding be held?" Wang Yang said: "We will get engaged next month, and we will have a wedding in January next year." Natalie kicked Jiang Mian again and nodded, "Oh!
"However, I won't be attending your wedding anymore, you must have a lot of guests, and there is no shortage of me. I don't want to see that kind of touching scene, I'm going to cry, I can't stand it anymore. Natalie smiled faintly and said again, "I wish you happiness." β
Wang Yang came to the water machine and poured a glass of water, feeling a little weird, took a sip in silence, and said, "OK, no problem." Natalie, I don't quite understand...... Are we still good friends?" Natalie smiled and said, "Tell you, don't be too narcissistic." Okay, don't bother you, he, bye!" Listening to the sound of the cord, Wang Yang frowned strangely, suddenly smiled faintly, and said silently in his heart: "You are a good girl, a charming girl, but I already have one." β
The world is so cruel!SHIT!Natalie closed her phone and snapped, knowing that if she had followed her original dream of becoming a veterinarian, she would not have the troubles she has now. She looked at the verdant peaks around her, and suddenly smiled slightly, the world is so beautiful!
She raised her hands and muttered, "Okay, okay! This summer, it's been amazing." β
"Miss Na, I suddenly remembered, is Wang Yang that ......" Zhang Chuanfu vaguely remembered that his daughter said, what movie came here to film, what director, he was puzzled: "That's the one who made the movie?" Natalie nodded, a little surprised, really everyone knows him? She said: "Yes, it's the director." Zhang Chuanfu held the bamboo raft and asked, "Do you want to come and see the movie?" I haven't seen him, I don't know where he is filming." β
The early leak of the marriage, media reports, and the blessings of friends did not hinder Wang Yang and Jessica's happy vacation in the Bahamas.
Dive at the Sabona shipwreck in North Bimini, explore this cement boat for smuggling alcohol in the 30s of the last century, swim with seabed dwellers such as soft-shelled turtles and stingrays, swim and play with dolphins in Dolphin Bay, and the instructor will teach the two of them some common passwords and gestures to command dolphins.
Watching the dolphins circling around her, looking at her happy and bright smiling face, gently kissing the dolphins, and enthusiastically hugging the dolphins to surf and dance together, Wang Yang, who was alone, suddenly felt that he had only now seen what beauty was.
The two left a string of unforgettable and sweet memories in the Bahamas, and it was not until the end of August that they returned to Los Angeles in laughter.
During this time, the last month of the summer vacation schedule is gradually coming to an end. The North American weekly box office champion in the third week of August from 15th to 21st fell to "Freddy vs. Jason" without accident, this horror film won the championship with 48.04 million in a single week, and in the following week on August 22-28, it won the championship with 17.23 million, and the total North American box office of 65.28 million has recovered 30 million production costs.
Yu Rentai succeeded again in his directing career after "The Ghost Baby Bride" in 1998 with a cost of 25 million and a global box office of 50.67 million. In 1998, "Ghost Shadow" received a global box office of 323 million at a cost of 10,000 yuan, and the magic Yang who shocked the world also handed over a perfect answer sheet on the first film after winning the Oscar for Best Director.
"Chinese directors have launched influential horror films in recent years. β
"Film Weekly" talked about this situation when reporting on the weekly box office, and briefly commented on the different horror film charms brought by oriental thinking.
Wonder Young naturally doesn't need to say much, "Ghost Record" almost scared a little girl to death, frightened young people around the world, and was asked to ban it by child protection organizations in Italy and other countries, as many media fans have speculated, "Film Weekly" said: "18-year-old Magic Young was also scared, he played a little big." Perhaps this is the reason why he is in a hurry to leave horror films and never look back. β
Yu Yantai is a Hong Kong ghost king who has lost his power to integrate into Hollywood, and although he has achieved good results, he suffers from Rotten Tomatoes; Huang Yiyu (James Wong), who directed and wrote "Death is Coming", was also attacked by Rotten Tomatoes, but brought a creative horror film that is loved by young people; another James, "Chainsaw" directed by Wen Ziren, was widely acclaimed at Sundance this year, and this magical horror film promised to be wonderful, what results can it receive in November? Horror movie fans have long been interested.
But now, four weeks after August, Chinese directors have once again dominated the cinema after 2002. Last year, "District 9" was the best, and this year it was half the score, and "MIT-21-TEAM", which won the first two weeks, continued to perform well, and remained the runner-up in the second two weeks.
In its third week of release, it fell 37 percent to $31.76 million in 3,350 theaters, and in the fourth week it increased to 3,380 theaters, but the box office trend fell another 47 percent, taking $16.83 million out of the 144 million weekly box office total. Four weeks after its release, it received a total of 174 million at the North American box office, and analysts predict that it is expected to eventually stand at 185 million.
Although there is no hope of reaching the average North American box office of 240 million before Magic Young, the 174 million result has indisputably "set a new box office record for the genre".
This not only surpassed the global box office of "Gambler Ma Huali", which only had a global box office of 183 million, but also surpassed the North American box office of "Impunity" at the beginning of the year, and in the Las Vegas theme, it jumped to third place, and is very likely to surpass the second place "Ocean's Eleven" with 183 million, and now it has officially dominated the box office rankings of the two film genres of "gambling" and "liar".
Because the MIT group's card counting is not a crime, "21" is not counted in the "true crime" movie genre, otherwise it would have beaten "Impunity" to the top of the list.
In the overseas market after more than two weeks of screening, "MIT-21-TEAM" won the weekly box office championship in dozens of countries and regions, and the box office exceeded 100 million US dollars, reaching 133 million US dollars, and the global box office was 307 million.
In Chinese mainland, it frantically swept 113 million yuan (about 13.84 million US dollars) in 14 days of release, which has ranked fourth in Chinese mainland film history, with a wonderful good movie and overwhelming magical promotion.
Although the summer vacation is coming to an end, it is unlikely that its slowed down momentum will touch the 360 million "Titanic" or surpass the 250 million "Hero", but it will undoubtedly climb the 120 million of "Life and Death", which is not high now, ranking third in mainland film history. However, it is still unknown whether it can stand on the box office of 200 million yuan.
After this battle, there is almost no one in Chinese mainland who likes to watch movies and young people who go online who do not know Magic Yang and this unprecedented monster director. It's just that the news that he is about to get married has made many female fans sigh gloomily, and the new idol is not warm yet!
In Hong Kong, where female fans are more fanatical, "Genius Gamblers" also received 18.64 million Hong Kong dollars (about 2.42 million US dollars) in 14 days of release, which ranks outside the top 50 in Hong Kong film history, and is a long way from the 60.73 million of the first "Shaolin Football" and the 52.54 million of the first gambling film "God of Gamblers 2", but in this weak market, the average daily average of 1.33 million Hong Kong dollars is very exaggerated, which is enough to make it firmly occupy the top of the weekly list.
The two big-budget films released at the same time, the fantasy police film "Rebirth of the Dragon", which claimed to have invested 300 million Hong Kong dollars and starred by Jackie Chan, and the world-famous "Pirates of the Caribbean" both had a box office of less than 8 million;
"Gods and Ghosts Card Counting Team" swept away NT$118 million (about 3.62 million US dollars) in Taiwan, also winning the weekly list champion and the same popularity.
With the arrival of August 29th, a new week begins, which is the last week of this year's summer vacation.
However, from "X-Men 2" and "The Matrix 2" in May, "Finding Nemo" in June, "Terminator 3" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" in July, and "MIT-21-TEAM" in August, the gorgeous summer of 2003 has quietly passed.
(To be continued)