The rolling waves gently licked against the silvery white beach, tumbling a playful splash, the rising sun slowly climbed out of the horizon, sprinkled a piece of gold, and against the rugged water waves, the private beach behind the manor became colorful, as dreamy as the fairyland that Alice once set foot on, and as charming as an oil painting.

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

The silver-gray battery car stopped in front of the beach, Ryan helped Nicole get out of the battery car, led her into the locker room in front of the beach, helped her change into beach shoes, and then stepped hand in hand on the silver sand of Crescent Bay.

In the few days since they came to Lanai, the two of them would come here for a walk every day after breakfast and dinner, and the beautiful scenery of the sea and sky also made Nicole, who had been in a unstable relationship recently, gradually quiet.

"Haven't I been annoying lately?"

Walking on the edge of the rising sea, Nicole looked back at the footprints left by the two on the beach, took Ryan's hand firmly and asked, "Is it a little grumpy?" ”

"How so?" Ryan clasped her palms tightly and looked out into the distance, "You have all the privileges now. ”

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

"Honey." Ryan's hand lightly touched Nicole's abdomen, "This will be a little guy as beautiful as a mother and as smart as a father." ”

"Why not be as smart as your mother and as beautiful as your father?" Nicole's eyes narrowed deliberately.

"Anyway, this is our angel." Naturally, Ryan does not argue about this kind of question, "Our angels will have all the favors of God and on earth. ”

As the sun climbed higher and higher, the bright sunlight gradually became stronger, Ryan looked at the time, pulled Nicole and turned and walked back, while pulling out his phone from his coat pocket.

"It's almost time?" Nicole asked.

"I guess Alison should have seen it."

Ryan pressed Taylor's phone number as he walked, waiting for a familiar voice to ring on his phone. said, "Happy birthday, honey, did you see the gift I gave?" ”

"Oh God!" It was Taylor shouting excitedly, "This world is crazy! You...... Your sixteen-year-old gift turned out to be a Boeing plane! ”

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

"I like it!" Taylor's voice was high-pitched and loud, "Of course I do!" ”

"But!" She added, "It's expensive to keep an airplane like this, and I'm going to have to work hard to make money." ”

"Until you're eighteen years old, I'll be responsible for all the costs of the plane." Ryan looked to the east, which was the direction of North America. "Honey, are you sure you want to spend your sixteenth birthday with your fans?"

"yes." Taylor said without hesitation, "I've been planning with the agency team for a long time, so it will bring me closer to my fans, which will be a big help for the upcoming new album." ”

"Okay, stay safe."

Nicole's hand was placed in front of him, and Ryan had no choice but 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 family and friends, but chose her fans, both in her past life and in this life. She is a leader among singers in terms of managing fans.

Sixteen years of age, although not an adult under the law, means more freedom and autonomy. The little girl who cried at the Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania has grown up completely.

Life on Lanai is quiet and laid-back, except for a few daily mails and the occasional trip to the southeast to see Jurassic Park 3 on film. Ryan spends most of his time with Nicole, and as he says, Miss Kidman now belongs to the privileged class.

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

Peter? Jackson and Universal Pictures jointly created "King Kong" is undoubtedly the most eye-catching super production zuò of the moment, this super monster that used motion capture technology for the first time to make zuò, can be called one of the most brilliant and long-lived stars in Hollywood film history.

But the market popularity of the film is far lower than Universal's expectations, perhaps because it is too lengthy foreshadowing, or perhaps because the film industry has created too many monsters, and the audience's enthusiasm for this remake does not seem to be particularly great.

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 really not much success, and the last sentence of the film, "It's not the plane that kills the monster, but the beauty that kills the monster" has been passed down as a joke by many people, and even described as Peter by many media? Jackson swelled to the product of no apparent reason.

Ryan also accompanied Nicole to watch the film in a private theater, the film's lengthy foreshadowing and slow pace are really not suitable for today's fast-paced era, and King Kong, as the absolute protagonist, appeared too late, which is easy to guide those young audiences who are used to fast-paced commercial films to not be able to watch it.

Maybe those older viewers will have a special King Kong complex, but how many teenagers, who are the main movie-watching group, will care about this complex?

Compared with "King Kong", the film released by Disney a week later is easier to please teenagers.

Based on "The Lion, the Witch and the Enchanted Wardrobe", "The Chronicles of Narnia", a joint creation between Disney Studios and Twentieth Century Fox, landed in North America before Christmas, and the North American box office of $81.33 million in the first week of the film also proved that it will be a successful film.

Although "The Chronicles of Narnia" was criticized by critics as a mess like "King Kong", it did not prevent it from becoming a big hit with teenagers, and the film took only ten days to grossing more than $160 million at the box office in North America, which is a great success for a non-sequel film.

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

For a commercial film that can be a big hit, it is strange for the producer to give up the sequel.

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

At the same time, Disney has also completed negotiations with Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Sony Columbia, Paramount Pictures, and Twentieth Century Fox, obtaining licenses for most of the best films in their portfolios, and in one fell swoop solving Netflix's most stringent content shortage.

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

Perhaps in this era, the benefits of this acquisition are not yet visible, but in a few years, the online video and film rental business will develop rapidly like other Internet industries.

After spending Christmas with Nicole, Ryan returned to Los Angeles from Hawaii, and after months of preparation at the Autobots studio, "Transformers" has officially started. Bei only set a three-month shooting time for the film.

The focus of this kind of film is definitely on the post-production zuò, and as early as after the shape of the Autobots and Decepticons was determined, the special effects of Industrial Light and Magic kicked off.

Despite the relatively high cost of filming in California, the crew chose Los Angeles as the main location for the film. In coordination with the Pentagon, Edwards Air Force Base, near the City of Angels, will undertake most of the filming involving the US military, and the Department of Defense will send Air Force personnel and Navy SEALs to participate in the actual filming in addition to a series of weapons and equipment.

Even the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, which is not yet equipped with 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 was a late adjunct to the set, as early as mid-December, Michael? Bei led people to start filming at Holloman Air Force Base, and completely destroyed the military base from the camera with one super explosion after another.

Those U.S. military personnel involved in the filming were okay, supposedly Josh for example? An actor like Duhamel who has been involved in military training for more than two months always has to change a pair of underwear after every explosion scene.

As one of the top directors in Hollywood to shoot explosion scenes, Michael? Bei did not adopt the method of replacing the explosion background in the later stage of green screen shooting, all the explosion scenes were shot on the spot, and the background formed by props was often blown into pieces all over the ground after a scene.

It's a risky process, but the footage is visually striking.

Of course, for a director like Exploding Bey, who has filmed "Jedi Men", "Death Island", "The Peerless Apocalypse" and "Pearl Harbor", it is not difficult to control the explosion scenes, and after he temporarily got rid of the idea of transformation, it is natural that he wants to make "Transformers" into a film with his strongest style.

With Michael? In Bey's words, he destroyed half of San Francisco in "Brave Island", "The Peerless Apocalypse" blew up an asteroid, "Pearl Harbor" destroyed the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and "Transformers" also destroyed several U.S. military bases and half of Los Angeles.

Ryan's first day on the set was almost spent in crashes, smoke and explosions, and although there were some of his scenes, most of the time he was running for his life, and although there were no lines and too much preparation, the panic during the period was not completely faked.

He's just an ordinary person who has never experienced a war, and when explosions and crashes keep happening behind him, and occasionally plastic debris falls around him, it's definitely a fake to say that he doesn't worry at all. (To be continued......)