章 234: Chapter 232: Visiting the Set
In the tenth week of its release, "Fearless" sold 78,000 copies in the United States and dropped to fourth place on the Billboard album sales chart, almost exhausting its potential.
The champion is the fourth studio album "Crazy Love" released by Canadian pop jazz male singer Michael Buble, with first-week sales of 147,000 copies.
The runner-up is Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's "Christmas Special", 125,000 copies.
The third place is Madonna's newly released selection album "Celebration", 96,000 copies.
The total sales of "Fearless" in the United States have also reached 2.943 million copies, and it is expected to exceed the 3 million mark in three weeks, but it is still a bit behind Taylor's "Fearless".
On the Billboard singles chart, "See You Again" topped the singles chart for five consecutive weeks with weekly sales of 327,000 copies. The song has sold more than 1.8 million copies online and offline in the United States, and has accumulated a total of 5 million copies worldwide. It has also become the single with the highest sales in 2009.
The third week of Selena's "Let It Go" release, under the strong promotion of Disney Music, broke into the top ten this week, ranking seventh.
Lana's "Young and Beautiful" is ranked 31st.
Canadian boy Justin Bieber's "One Time" is ranked 17th.
According to media reports, Justin Bieber's first album "My World" is expected to be released in early November, which is close to the release time of Selena and Lana's first album.
There is also Mars Bruno's new album which is also ready and is expected to be released in December.
This album includes the popular rap singles "Lighters" and the cover version of "I'm the one", as well as "Nothin' On You" by Mars and Bobby Jr., which is also a very competitive album.
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"Hi! Kenny!"
At noon, at the Los Angeles Art Theater, Link walked into the dance hall wearing a T-shirt and sweatpants, and greeted Mr. Kenny Ortega.
Kenny Ortega was the director of MJ's comeback concert. Due to MJ's death, the concert was cancelled, and Ortega had to stop his work.
Link cooperated well with the other party in the two rehearsals. Director Ortega is at the top level in the industry in terms of stage control, artistic aesthetics, and special effects design.
When preparing for the tour, he sent an invitation to the other party through the company, asking him to be the stage director of the tour, and he could give him and his team 3% of the box office share for each performance.
After consideration, Director Ortega agreed to join and became the stage director of his tour.
In addition to the live stage director, the tour team also has an art director, band, choreography, lighting director, costume director, sound director, etc., a total of 207 people, comparable to a large crew.
Since the tour plan was finalized in September, everyone has been busy preparing for the tour.
After training every day, Link would also come to the stage of the Art Theater to rehearse under the guidance of the choreographer. Sometimes he needed to sing and dance at the same time.
"Hi, Link!"
When Link came, director Kenny Ortega was talking with choreographer James J. Mirakam.
Mirakam is a famous Dutch dancer and Hollywood choreographer. He has participated in the choreography of movies such as "High School Musical" and "Dreamgirls", and also participated in the dance design of MJ's comeback concert. He is a top choreographer in the industry.
Seeing the two frowning, their expressions were not very happy.
"What's the matter?"
Link asked.
"Two dancers were selected by the crew of "Black Swan" and are preparing to leave the dance team to become actors. We are discussing new candidates."
Director Ortega said.
Link nodded, "Black Swan" is a new film directed by Darren Aronofsky. It started in September and starred the famous actress Natalie Portman. It is also a hot project in Hollywood recently.
Being selected by this crew is also a great opportunity.
He didn't say much about this matter, the dancers belonged to Mirakam, whether to go or stay, he didn't need to care too much.
After warming up, Link and the dancers began to rehearse on stage.
There are more than 30 songs in his two albums, and 8 of them are suitable for singing and dancing. He only needs to rehearse eight dances. For other songs, he only needs to hold a microphone, or carry a guitar, or sit in front of the piano to sing. The performance is not difficult.
After the rehearsal at the Art Theater, Link drove to Wood Middle School in Burbank to check the shooting progress of "Easy A" and played a small role in the movie.
In August, after he decided to invest in this film, Catherine represented Palm Beach Pictures to negotiate with director Will Guller. After Link promised not to interfere with the filming and casting of the crew, director Will Guller agreed to cooperate.
However, after hearing that Link's Palm Beach Pictures was going to invest, Warner's Screen Gems did not want to withdraw.
Expressed willingness to co-produce this film with Palm Beach Pictures, appoint Emma Stone as the heroine, and at the same time invite Link to play the supporting actor, that is, the boy the heroine has a crush on, and give him a salary of one million.
The reason is that he is famous enough, and with him, it can completely make up for Emma Stone's shortcomings in box office appeal.
After Link read the supporting actor's script, there were only 12 scenes before and after, similar to the role in "Valentine's Day", and it only took five days to concentrate on filming, so he agreed.
In addition, Screen Gems is a subsidiary of Warner Bros., with a mature production and distribution system, and cooperating with them can also save some expenses.
"Scene 47, 2nd shot, 1st take!"
"Action!"
When he arrived on set, the crew was filming a classroom scene. The literature teacher was talking about the story in the famous book "The Scarlet Letter," which tells the story of a woman who lost her virginity and was marked with a scarlet letter "A" on her chest in the past, becoming a slut that everyone scolds.
The heroine played by Emma Stone also became a "slut" because of rumors. She got inspiration from it and put a red A on her chest, which caused quite a stir in the school.
It is a relatively light and humorous campus comedy movie.
"The tour is about to start, why do you have time to come over?" Catherine, wearing a sunhat, walked over from the sun and handed him a bottle of ice water.
Link smiled lightly and took the water in his hand.
"It's not that busy to start a tour. I train boxing for four hours a day and rehearse for concerts for four hours. The rest of the time is very free."
"Four hours of boxing practice and four hours of rehearsal, that's eight hours. Is eight hours of work a day considered idle?" Catherine asked with a smile.
"Compared to before, it's very leisurely. I was too busy in the first half of the year, and my schedule was almost messed up. During this time, I get up at six every day and go to bed at nine, and I have become very regular again." Link shrugged.
"It's a good habit to go to bed early and get up early. After Selena got a laptop, she would lie on the sofa and watch videos and play games when she got home. I wouldn't let her play, so she would hide in the bedroom and hide in the quilt to continue playing. I don't have time to take care of her in Los Angeles, so she probably plays even crazier." Catherine said helplessly.
"It's okay, she is young and it is time to play, and she will release an album next month, so she probably won't have time to lie at home and play." Link laughed.
Catherine smiled slightly, "Where is Taylor recently?"
"She called the day before yesterday and said she was in Nashville."
After returning from Paris last time, Taylor said that living together had no inspiration, so she moved back home for a few days, then went to an apartment in New York for a few days, and the day before yesterday she took a car back to her hometown of Nashville, saying that she wanted to walk around Looking for creative inspiration.
Link didn't force her to stay at home either.
Catherine looked at the performance in the studio, and suddenly asked: "You and Taylor have been together for almost a year, have you ever talked about marriage or engagement?"
"Marriage?" Link shook his head and said with a smile: "We are both only twenty years old, it is too early to talk about this topic."
He hadn't thought about this either. Taylor was too popular. He was either on tour or on the way to tour all year round. He also had to record records and write songs. After finishing these jobs, how much time did she have left for her family.
And he is too busy, boxing, music, movies, if he really wants to get married, it will be seven or eight years or even more than ten years later, when the two of them have accumulated a certain amount of wealth, they can make money every day without working. It would be more appropriate to start a family then.
"Yes, you are still young, there is no need to rush to get married, but I think if you really want to get along with Taylor for a long time, you should learn to manage your family as early as possible and spend more time at home, and Taylor is the same." Catherine said .
Link nodded, feeling that Catherine was right.
"How to manage?"
He has never been married, and although he has had several girlfriends before, he has never been together for more than half a year. Taylor is the one he has been with the longest. When getting along with Taylor, he also carefully explored, so for managing relationships and family issues, he is not good at it.
Catherine wanted to say that it was not difficult, just do this and that.
But suddenly remembered that he was her own son, and then thought of her last failed marriage, which caused Link to become an orphan. It would be like telling a joke to say that she was good at managing a family in front of him.
In addition, she also thought of her husband who was far away in New York, and her three-year-old daughter. In the past two years, she has been busy with work and traveling around. The husband is taking care of it, if the husband is not good-tempered and gentle, the second marriage will probably end in failure.
In her situation, what kind of successful experience can she pass on to him?
"Catherine?" Link looked at Catherine who was suddenly in a daze and shouted.
Catherine shook her head and patted him on the back shoulder, "This question is too complicated to explain in a few words. There are books of this kind in bookstores. If you want to know, go and read them. Treat them as a homework. The effect is better than me telling you."
"Okay!" Link touched his shoulder and nodded.
(End of this chapter)
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