This should be the longest Christmas Angela has ever spent in London, and also the longest Christmas she has spent at Grandpa's Manor. She can't go anywhere, except for the first day after the premiere, after she managed to sneak out and Kate visited Rowling, she never had this chance again. The paparazzi were guarding the manor 24 hours a day and monitoring it tightly. Man charged with trespassing nearly crossed single digits before girl left London.
This is all due to the hot sale of "Titanic". During the whole Christmas period, outside the cinemas in the UK, the queues have not disappeared. In a short period of time, more and more people watched it three or four times, and the box office naturally decreased. Climbing.
Although Angela does not know the specific situation of the box office in the UK, she is clear on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. After all, she has the North American screening rights of "Titanic". Because it was two days later than the UK premiere, the first week of screening was only available, but even if it was only screened, the box office still easily passed the 33 million mark! Some people may disagree. The movie with a box office of 30 million is not too many but not a lot, but the North American box office of "Titanic" in the second week instantly doubled to 67 million! That is to say, in just two weeks or more than a week, this masterpiece has swept away 100 million US dollars! And its momentum continued unabated in the new year, with another 76 million swept away by the end of the third week!
This surprised many people. Although many people thought that "Titanic" would sell well, they never expected it to be so popular. The New York Times column described the situation at the time: "This Christmas Tourists traveling to New York this year will be greeted with a rare sight—the line from Fifth Avenue to Grand Central Station, people waiting to buy tickets to see Titanic!"
For this reason, Angela proudly showed off in front of her father, proving that her investment was totally worth it, Jared just smiled at her daughter's childishness, and said deliberately, "It's not yet due, dear. ."
"It doesn't matter, I'll show it off in front of you when the schedule is over!" The daughter spread her hands with a smile, as if she didn't care at all, as if she's definitely making money without losing money, "You'll know when I buy the North American screening rights. What a right thing to do!"
Whether it proves worthwhile or not, at least for now, this investment feels like a lot of trouble, because what reporters want to know most is why Angela Ken paid 60 million to buy the North American screening rights, what is the story behind this, plus The girl also writes, scores and sings for "Titanic", so it's no wonder the paparazzi are on guard outside the manor 24 hours a day.
Of course, Angela doesn't care about this. Anyway, she had a good time in the manor. She didn't have to worry about AP homework, and she didn't need to make a busy movie, and her grandfather didn't ask her to attend a reception or anything, so she slept as long as she wanted every day. After getting up, he often rode around the manor with two sheepdogs, and when he was tired, he wrote in his room - the finale of "Fake God", the timeline of "Warcraft" and the outline of the new script.
And the script for the engagement gift for the aunt-to-be had been written before coming to London - Angela had promised to write it before the end of the year. This script is naturally "Notting Hill". When the girl was thinking about the gift, she thought of it at the first time. In terms of content, it was simply too appropriate! Julia and Frank both admitted that this romantic and warm fairy tale was an excellent gift after reading it, but what my uncle arranged for Angela only showed two or three sides, and the specific image was basically outlined by the dialogue between the hero and heroine. The disgusting playboy character is smiling bitterly.
"It doesn't matter, dear uncle, as long as you play in your true colors, you know? There will be absolutely no problem with performing in true colors." Angela comforted Frank in a serious manner, and the early laughter in her stomach turned upside down.
In addition, the girl has to deal with the harassment of a few little devils. Of course, Xia Xia will return to visit after Lulu visits her home, so the two guys have to start a "gnawing" contest around Angela - see who is short The most times and places to eat Angela in time! This made the girl very annoyed, and the two little devils who were about to be one year older were still happy to play this childish and boring game! Aren't they going to grow up
What's even more depressing and infuriating is that the two little girls have also brought down Willie and Ike, so often four little guys attack together from different places, making Angela scrambling to deal with them, and finally they are really angry and kill them. They were caught in the house one by one, and after taking off their trousers or skirts and slapped them a few times on their bare buttocks, they could be considered to have restrained a lot.
But in general, the Christmas that was basically spent in my grandfather's manor was still very pleasant, and it was not until I left London to return to New York that I left the manor again because I was invited by Diana to attend a charity fundraiser. However, he chose not to answer any questions related to "Titanic".
"In addition to movies, there are more things in the world that deserve your attention. Please don't focus on one place. They want only what you can do." Angela, who participated in the fundraising event, said in front of countless microphones. After saying this simply, he walked away amid the reporter's questioning.
After that, on December 30th, the girl and her parents went to New York. It is customary to spend the New Year there this year, but even in New York, she has to be chased and intercepted by the media. Who made her relationship with the movie "Titanic"? So deep, some reporters have already inquired that Rachel was also recommended to Cameron by her, which gave them more reasons to chase girls.
Of course, it's not like London, where the paparazzi dare to blatantly guard the door or sneak up on the window to take pictures. Just like in the summer vacation, the reporters kept a good distance from Grandpa's villa, as long as they could observe Angela's comings and goings.
That doesn't mean the girl is any better though, because she has to have a date scene with her boyfriend, like having dinner with Jonathan in the Lovers' Block on the top floor of the Empire State Building, watching a movie or Broadway or something, and then Waiting for the arrival of zero.
"It's a strange new year." Angela elegantly cut a piece of fish, sighed, and put it in her mouth.
"Really? Maybe, this is the first time I don't have to wait for the New Year with my parents and siblings." Jonathan smiled, then looked at the girl: "What's the matter, there is a date?"
"It's nothing," Angela shook her head. "When I was in New York, I always spent the holidays with my friends."
If it wasn't for pretending to be dating you, maybe I'd be in my room with Natalie right now discussing John Ley and the Beatles or film-directing skills or something... well, except that she's probably often It should be much better than now to suddenly turn the conversation to those strange equations.
"Hey, you're distracted," Jonathan reminded. "It looks like you're not happy with today's date?"
"No," Angela shook her head, "it just feels weird. It's the first time for me to celebrate the New Year with... boyfriend!"
At this point she couldn't help laughing, and Jonathan laughed too: "Yeah, but we have an agreement."
"I know. So I just sighed." The girl shrugged, "It's worth remembering, isn't it?"
"It's really memorable, but unfortunately you can't drink, otherwise we can celebrate with a drink."
"How about using juice instead." The girl said with a smile and raised the hot orange juice in front of her.
"Not bad." Jonathan also raised his red wine glass and touched Angela: "Then, for this weird new year, toast!"
After dinner, the two of them wanted to go to a movie, but now the popular "Titanic" is Angela's work, although other movies can be watched, but if the girl appears in the movie theater... You know because It was for the media and the parents on both sides, so Angela didn't wear makeup to cover it up at all, when she was watching the scenery on the rooftop of the Empire State Building after dinner. There are a lot of enthusiastic fans rushing to come over to get autographs. If you go to a public place like the cinema again, and touch the fans who just watched "Titanic", you can imagine what kind of madness it will cause.
So the two chose the Broadway opera in the end, but even this was troublesome. Angela originally proposed to walk directly there, but as soon as they walked out of the Empire State Building and walked dozens of feet, they were surrounded by fans. After all, it was the last day of the year. , it was overcrowded everywhere, so the two of them couldn't move a single step - not that there were so many people blocking the road, it was just that the people who asked for autographs were one after the other, and the girl didn't easily refuse, so Jonathan had to let the bodyguard drive the car away. Pick them up and leave.
Because of this, after coming out of Parkway, the two suddenly found that they didn't know where to go to wait for the arrival of zero, whether it was the ice rink in Central Park that Angela wanted to go to, or the traditional Times Square where the crystal ball dropped. It's a public place, and it's a place where people will be watched. Could it be that... want them to open a room
And even if you want to dress up a little to cover up, and then stroll around the nearby streets, many journalists have been following Angela since she went out. It's basically reminding the line on the road who this girl is.
So after Jonathan drove the girl slowly down the crowded streets for a few blocks, Angela asked him to take him back. After all, dating at this time is just to tell others that they are in a stable relationship, since the reporter We took so many photos, and the goal should be achieved.
"Good night then." Jonathan opened the car door for the girl. He looked at the figure at the corner again, and kissed her on the cheek as usual.
"Good night." Angela kissed back, no way, since acting has to be more realistic, at least kissing on the cheek is better than kissing directly, right
She waved goodbye to her "boyfriend", and the girl looked at the figures in the distance. Although she hated them, she had to admire their persistence, so she waved to them again. Anyway, they were friendly all night. , it's good to say hello.
Angela turned around and walked towards the gate. In a few hours, 96 years will pass. How much can I do in the new year