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Seven awards for best film and best director in "Dancing with Wolves", best supporting actress and best original script in "The End of Human Ghost", best actress in "Dangerous Love", Pixar The best animated short film of Oscar for 3D animation "little lion", this is the cumulative gain of the films produced by Daenerys Entertainment at the 61st Academy Awards.

If you don't count other honors, Daenerys Entertainment's total of 11 major awards, which happens to occupy half of all 22 movie awards, like the Golden Globe in January, became the biggest winner of this Oscar.

Simon is not very interested in attending any party recently.However, as the boss, Yu Qingli needs to show up at the celebration party.

Arrive with Sofia at the Gucci theme party scene at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the time is near ten o'clock.

Congratulating to the winners tonight through the party crowd, Simon soon came to a middle-aged man who was chatting with John Lasseter and Ed Catmoor.

The middle-aged man is named Roger Ellers. He is the director and screenwriter of the animated film dug from Disney by Pixar Animation Studios. He has previously participated in Disney's "The Adventures of Oliva" and is also an award-winning 3D animated short The director of "The Little Lion".

In the original time and space, Roger Allers happened to be the director of the Disney 2D version of the "Lion King" movie.

From the end of 1988 to the present, for more than two years, Pixar has been developing animation technology related to "The Lion King" while producing "Toy Story".

The "little lion" who won the little gold man tonight is a concentrated expression of Pixar's technological development results in the past two years.

In a short five-minute film, through a short adventure of a lion cub living in the savannah, it showed the technology of the magnificent African savannah scene and animal hair rendering in 3D animation mode.

Now, the Oscar has won the best short film, which is enough to prove that Pixar's technology has reached the level that can produce a 3D version of "The Lion King". The film will be officially launched in the near future.

Simon congratulated Roger Elles after winning the award, and said: "I will take the time to watch the story version of "The Lion King" in the next few days, Roger, this is my gift to Jenny, if you mess up My wife will be very angry."

Although it was only an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Roger Ellers was still quite excited tonight. He immediately nodded confidently: "Simon, I assure you, this will definitely be a very wonderful story. "

Simon smiled and turned to John Lasseter again, saying: "John, how long will it take to complete "Toy Story", have you overrun a lot?"

In the original plan, Simon hoped to complete Toy Story with US$30 million.

However, perhaps due to the natural perfectionism of any artist, "Toy Story" is estimated to be completed in a few months, and the team led by John Lasseter has already spent $33 million.

Despite the smile on Simon's face, John Lasseter was still quite nervous.

Pixar Animation is definitely the most'drinking rice' department under Daenerys Entertainment.

Since it was bought by Simon in 1988 to the present, for more than two years, the rest of the company has been booming, but Pixar animation has only spent money but no output.

Therefore, everyone knows that "Toy Story" can be described as the battle of the Pixar team.Once it fails, even if there is another chance to turn over the "Lion King", the Pixar team will definitely not be too good for the next two years.

After a moment of careful consideration, John Lasseter said: "Two months, Simon, give us two more months."

"Toy Story" is scheduled for the end of November this year,

Simon pays attention to Pixar's work progress every month. He is still very satisfied with the effect of the completed "Toy Story" sample, so he is not worried.

The first 3D animated film will inevitably encounter various problems.Considering the profit prospects of the project, Simon can barely tolerate the overspending behavior of the Pixar team.

However, Simon did not show this kind of connivance, but still beat it.

Continuing to chat with John Lasseter and others for a while, Simon looked at Jennifer next to him and confirmed that the people who had greeted him had already greeted him, and planned to leave.

Just came to the door of the party hall with the female assistant, Ella Doichman came over, and there were several men and women with Asian faces.

Arriving in front of Simon, Ella Doichman explained: "Simon, Zhang they want to say hi to you."

Among the many nominations for Daenerys Entertainment tonight, there is also a "Ju Ju" which has been nominated for the best foreign language film. This is also the first time that the other side of the ocean has been nominated for the Oscar for the best foreign language film.

Simon originally signaled Doiqiman to increase the attention and introduction of Asian films, but did not show too much extra attention to Ju Ju.

Therefore, the film did not get the little gold man.

Looking at the big coffee in front of him, Simon smiled and stepped forward to shake hands with each other: "Hello, Mr. Zhang. And, Miss Gong, your performance in "Ju Dou" is wonderful ."

In this greeting, Simon directly used Chinese.

Several people in front of him heard Simon's fluent Mandarin, all showing surprised expressions, even Ella Doiqiman's expression was a little strange.

After all, they are people of two worlds, just a few simple words, saying that the next time they have the opportunity to cooperate again, Simon left the Beverly Hilton with her female assistant.

I'm going back to Dumei Point Estate tonight.

Janet had just been pregnant shortly, and even if the woman would not mind, Simon was very concerned about her emotions in these small details, so this time never stayed out overnight.

Taking the female assistant away together just took her home.

The car traveled through the city of Los Angeles late at night. Jennifer keenly felt some slight emotional changes after Simon greeted the few Orientals. This is a kind of...maybe called a lonely emotion, but did not say anything , Just leaning over gently holding the man's arm.

In fact, there are many secrets in his own man.

It's just that if he doesn't say it, she won't pursue it deliberately.

Returning the female assistant to her uncle George Norman's house, Simon did not stay and continued to return to Malibu.

As usual, the next day was a report about this Oscar.

Daenerys Entertainment won half of the little gold men, and naturally became the focus of heated discussion in the media.

Fortunately, although there are some political correct factors in it, "Dancing with Wolves", which won seven major awards, has not caused much controversy. Instead, many media still noticed some other products produced by Daenerys Entertainment. The fact that excellent films are not nominated.

In addition, some people also noticed Simon's "absence" at this year's Oscar.

It is not just the absence of the Oscars, but Simon did not receive any personal nominations at this year’s Oscars. For a time, some media began to speculate whether Simon was planning to take a rest.

After all, with Simon’s current net worth, there is really no need to personally make movies.

Faced with the media's questioning, Daenerys Entertainment denied the media's speculation, but also said that Simon may not be able to pick up the guide tube for a long time in the future.

The Oscar Award Ceremony plus the Easter season, the "Dance with Wolves" box office once again experienced a wave of rebounds. The week of the Oscar Awards March 22 to March 28, the reverse decline reached 59%, and then closed At 6.54 million US dollars, the cumulative box office of the film also reached 139 million US dollars.

On March 29, the Easter week starts the second week.

Two other films related to Daenerys Entertainment, "Children in Cornfield 3" and "Crazy Night" by Universal Pictures were released.

New World Pictures has invested a $10 million budget in "Cornfield Kids 3", and has also used many of the latest CG special effects to try to make this horror movie box office hit the height of "Meng Gui Street".

However, in the three days of painting, the North American box office of "Children of Cornfields 3" ended up with only 6.73 million US dollars. The box office is expected to be between 9 million and 10 million in the first week.

Making money is certain, and there are still some gaps from the "Meng Gui Street" series.

Of course, compared to the previous two box office levels of 15 million US dollars, "The Cornfield Kids 3" is expected to double the box office increase is still very obvious, so the fourth part of the series will still maintain the production budget level of 10 million US dollars.

John Hughes's "Crazy Night" produced three days at the box office with only $4.02 million, and the film's word of mouth is far less than "The Alone", which continues to be released.

The budget for the production of this romantic comedy movie is 11 million US dollars, and the total box office in North America is expected to be less than 15 million US dollars. It only depends on the North American theater release. It is unlikely that the cost will be recovered.

After the release of "Crazy Night" at the box office, other studios that originally chased John Hughes because of the success of "The Alone" have calmed down a little bit, and involuntarily transferred more factors of the success of "Alone Alone" to Simon. .

After Easter on March 31, the time entered April 1991.

AOL's three-month free trial program is just over.

In the past March, the number of online reservation users in the United States still reached 1.5 million, and cumulatively accessed 1.09 million free trial users.

Among the 970,000 trial users in February, the number of finalized users has reached 560,000, which is an increase of 57% compared with the conversion rate of official users in January.

Relying on data from the previous two months, AOL predicts that of the 1.09 million free trial users in March, the number of transfers to official users will reach more than 600,000.

In this way, only in the first quarter, AOL will gain more than 1.5 million new users.

Counting the accumulation of users before 1991, it is expected that by the end of April, the number of officially paid users of AOL will reach more than 2.3 million.

Under such strong growth momentum, because a large number of users who booked a free trial in the past few months have not successfully accessed, AOL officials soon announced that the free trial activity will continue until all the remaining 2.5 million reserved users have obtained Free trial opportunity.

The remaining 2.5 million subscription users, even at a conversion rate of 50%, can again bring about 1.25 million officially paid users to AOL.

Therefore, after the free trial is completely over, the number of AOL users will be able to reach more than 3.5 million.

Based on the average monthly spending of US$30 per user, it is expected that AOL’s monthly revenue will reach more than US$100 million starting in the second half of 1991.

Whether it's solid revenue data or high-speed growth rates that are visible to the naked eye, they are constantly stimulating AOL's IPO valuation.

Morgan Stanley, which officially signed the underwriting right of AOL, after several consecutive adjustments, finally confirmed AOL's IPO valuation as 2.5 billion US dollars.

With a valuation of US$2.5 billion, according to the 15% ratio of new shares issued by AOL, it is expected to raise US$375 million.

Counting the rapid growth of AOL's own revenue, after the completion of the IPO, the company will completely get rid of the troubles of funds that have been entangled before.

On the other hand, with the efforts of AOL and other regional Internet service providers in North America, it is expected that only in the first half of 1991, the number of users of the World Wide Web platform in North America will exceed 5 million, and the annual impact of 10 million users will also be It looks very relaxed.

This growth rate far exceeded Simon's original expectations.

No wonder Jeff Bezos quickly switched from the financial industry to invest in the Internet industry after seeing a growth of 2300% in the Internet industry each year.

As the most important content platform of the World Wide Web system, Igrid Portal has gradually attracted more and more attention with the explosive growth of the scale of World Wide Web users.

You should know that in this era, the largest newspaper in North America has an average sales volume of only more than 2 million copies.

During this time, the total number of users across North America has exceeded 3 million, relying on the Igreat portal, which quickly became famous for reports of the Gulf War.

Although the user group of Igrid Portal is too scattered, at this time, no one dares to ignore this new media platform that is growing rapidly.

Therefore, in the new first-quarter advertising sales activities of the Igrid portal in late March, Igrid has received more than 12 million US dollars in advertising orders from IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other technology giants.

Although traditional daily necessities advertising is still difficult to achieve too much effect on the Internet platform, it is obvious that as an emerging new technology media platform, the Igrid portal is suitable for IBM and other technology giants to promote their products.

Jeff Bezos precisely grasped this point, and specially customized a series of advertising schemes specifically for various technology companies.The $12 million advertising order, which may be insignificant compared to traditional media giants, is a leap forward for the Igreat portal.

Prior to this, the main source of income of Igret was only the sales of IE browser software.

Therefore, after this quarterly advertising sales campaign at the end of March, the revenue of the advertising business officially became a revenue focus of the Igrid portal.

At the same time, the industry is generally once again aware of the strong monopoly advantage of the Igrid Portal on the World Wide Web content platform.

You should know that a portal website that only provides news information may not be technically difficult, but it is not so easy to integrate functions such as e-mail, personal homepage, online forums, and online games in addition to news information. Things.

More importantly, Eaglet also has very strong patent barriers.

This is the fundamental obstacle for other technology companies to copy portal business.

On the World Wide Web platform, even if it is a picture that is very simple for many people, it is actually a professional format picture specially developed and registered by Igret.Not to mention the JavaScript scripting language and other technologies related to the underlying application.

Although Daenerys Entertainment maintains a very open authorization attitude, more and more other websites that join the World Wide Web platform can easily obtain authorization as long as they apply, and it is still free of charge.However, it is not difficult to see that if someone intends to make a commercial website similar to the Igreat portal, and I can successfully obtain the technical license from Igrete, that is the hell.

Simon hopes that Internet content sites will be able to flourish, so he does not intend to limit the appearance of other content platforms. Doing so will not benefit the expansion of the World Wide Web platform itself.

However, if it's just open content patent authorization, you won't have access to e-mail, online games, and future online payment and other related technology patent authorization, similar websites are also doomed to be difficult to compete with the Igreat portal.

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