Hollywood Hunter

As if suddenly, the first quarter of 1993 came to the end.

In the coming March, the hottest media topic is undoubtedly the "Information Superhighway Plan" bill formally passed at the beginning of the month, and the ensuing society-wide investment bill involving a huge amount of $400 billion over the next two decades. In various discussions, Igrid, Cisco, AOL, Microsoft, Intel and other new technology companies have also become darlings of the capital market for a while.

The most powerful young man in Hollywood is undoubtedly the one that has attracted the most attention in this wave.

It's just that Cisco and AOL have both broken through the $30 billion market capitalization of new technology companies, bringing nearly $50 billion in wealth to each other, and even making some Hollywood superstars who have a lot of surplus in their hands are beginning to look for new technologies. Investment in the field.

However, for most Hollywood natives, new technology, the Internet, the information age, tens of billions of dollars... these are still far away from them.

The time comes to the end of March. Everyone's most concern is still the most important festival of the award season, which lasted for several months, the 65th Academy Awards.

Simon ended his New York schedule and returned to Los Angeles, immediately surrounded by various jobs.

This year's Easter is April 11th, and Daenerys Entertainment's Easter movie "Fighting Stars 2" will be released on April 9th. Simon needs to pay attention to the film's promotion work.

Films such as "Superman", "Sleepless Sleep in Seattle", "Sugar Trap", and "Assassination Order of Tange Goose" in summer are basically completed, and Simon must also personally check it.

There are also a large number of projects such as "Mission Impossible", "Seven Deadly Sins", and "Schindler's List" that are in the production stage, which require Simon to put in a certain amount of energy.

The copyright related to the universe of "Spirit", which has been entangled for a while, has finally been resolved recently. Simon discussed the development plan of the related project with Danny Morris, the head of New World Pictures in the morning. Roland Emerywitch screenwriter and Michael Bay's "Stargate" production meeting.

At two o'clock, "Stargate" production meeting ended, Amy Pascal and Universal Records President Richard Palmes are already waiting for Simon.

After completing the acquisition of MCA, Daenerys Entertainment has basically completed the adjustment and integration of businesses such as movies, TV, theme parks, etc. However, in the recording area, because it has not been able to draw energy before, but also because it is not Too well understand that Simon has not adjusted the record company too much.

In the past two years, Universal Records has been in charge of Richard Palmes. Although the former MCA executive in his fifties failed to make a good result, he also organized the record company. Relying on the sales of soundtrack records of some outstanding films of Daenerys, the record business has also provided a good profit for the group.

It is no longer necessary to rely on the distribution channels of other record companies as in the "Bodyguard" period, which is what Simon originally valued most.

However, this is obviously not enough.

Last time I saw a prototype of a digital music player developed by Tinco Bayer in San Francisco, Simon realized that it was time to re-plan the record business.

Missing the last boom period of physical records, it will be difficult to do much in the music field in the future.

Over the years, Universal Records has always been more inclined to the field of rock and roll. The famous gun rose is a combination of Universal Records. In addition, there are heavy metal bands such as Dream Theater Band and Perak Tango.In addition to rock and roll, some other types of contracted singers, more famous also Cher, is the actress who originally starred with Cage in "Moonlight" and won the Oscar for Best Actress award.

The gun rose is famous enough, and the record sales are also very good. The recent global sales of the two records reached 35 million, but the rock band eventually deviated from the mainstream.

Cher’s peak was in the sixties and seventies,

Therefore, compared to Columbia Records, which owns Michael Jackson, and Warner Records, which owns Madonna, Universal Records' biggest shortcoming is the lack of a phenomenal mainstream super music superstar.

Simon knows exactly what the development trend of the record industry in the 1990s is.

In the nineties, the rising young pop singers, backstreet boys, Britney Spears, etc., all at once suppressed the edge of all traditional singers.Moreover, compared with the past, it takes a lot of luck to create a top singer's industry status, but young pop singers are also a kind of'mass production'.

Speaking of youth popularity, you have to mention Jive Records, which was famous in the 1990s. From the earliest backstreet boy to later Britney Spears, they were all created by Jive Records.

Simon has already investigated the materials of Jive Records in advance.

Jive Records is now one of the subsidiaries of General Electric's RCA Group Records subsidiary. RCA Group is also the parent company of NBC. The relationship between RCA and RCA records is just like MCA and Universal Records.

As a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Big Mac General Electric, and it is only part of the holding nature of the ownership, if other record companies want to dig the wall, the difficulty is not too great, and large record groups usually have Many subsidiaries, and these subsidiaries change their parent companies frequently.

It's just that if the digging the wall is Hollywood's most popular Daenerys entertainment, things will definitely not be so easy.

After an afternoon of discussions, Simon made two decisions. The recording business of Daenerys Entertainment officially changed its name to Daenerys Music Group, announcing that Daenerys Entertainment has begun to make efforts in the recording field. Another decision was to start contact with Jive Records President Barry Weiss.

After thinking about it, Simon still gave up the decision to swallow the entire Jive record, but instead dug out Barry Weiss, the president of Jive Records, which created the youth popularity in the 1990s. This is easier than buying the entire Jive record. Many can also save time while avoiding unnecessary pulling.

So until five o'clock in the afternoon, when the meeting was over, and Richard Palmes left, Amy Pascal asked Simon: "How to arrange at night?"

The red carpet ceremony at the Oscars on the other side of the city center should have begun. Simon did not plan to join in the excitement and smiled: "Go home to have dinner with Jenny. After the awards ceremony, I will probably go to the party for a while."

Amy already knew that Janet was pregnant again, and even from Simon’s rearrangement of the work of the female assistant, he vaguely guessed some other things, but it did not have a deep meaning, but turned the topic to Universal Studios Osaka on the other side of Japan. In the construction of the city, she will fly to Japan tomorrow to check the progress of the construction of the cinema.

The two chatted for a while, Amy left, Simon continued to read some documents in the office until six o'clock, then left the studio and rushed back to Malibu.

Tonight, actually three people have dinner together.

The two women are pregnant together. Simon actually hopes that the female assistant will also live in Dumei Cape Manor, which is more convenient for care. There are many beautiful girls in the manor, and there will not be too many female assistants.But Jennifer did not agree, but continued to live with her uncle George Norman's house.

As Simon’s former private lawyer, George Norman now also serves on the board of directors of some Westeros systems companies. Like the Rebolds, the relationship with the Westeros system is very close, plus personal relations. The pregnancy of the female assistant was not concealed from George Norman.

The female assistant insisted on staying at the uncle's house, and Simon did not object, but just accompanied an additional female bodyguard and female assistant to Jennifer to take care of the living 24 hours.

The Normans also knew that this matter was of great importance. In order to avoid leaking the news, they also sent their young son to boarding school.

Moreover, after the plan, the female assistant planned to move to Simon’s mountain villa in Woodside, San Francisco, so that it would not be too far from Los Angeles, and could avoid many concerns here. It is also very convenient to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

Although she was unable to live together, during this time, Janet often took the initiative to invite Jennifer to dine at home. The original relationship between the two women was very good. After getting pregnant together, the relationship seemed to be more intimate.

When Simon rushed back to Dumei Point Estate, the 65th Academy Awards ceremony officially opened in the Dorothy Chandler Theater at the Los Angeles Music Center. The presenter is still Billy Christo.

Compared with previous years, this year is a typical Oscar year.

Daenerys Entertainment's original three films "Wen Xiangzhiren Women", "Crying Game" and "Howard Manor" are enough to squeeze into the best film. However, in order to avoid distracting the judges, Daenerys Entertainment is only this year. The main one, "Wen Xiang Zhi Women", and the other two films, only applied for some nominations such as best screenwriter or best actress.

"Crying Game" and "Howard Manor" took the initiative to withdraw from the competition for the best film awards. The five best film nominations for this year suddenly seemed a lot sad.

In addition to "Wen Xiang Zhi Women", the other four nominees for the best film, there is "Unforgivable" by Clint Eastwood, "Love April" by Mike Neville, and Spike Lee "Malcolm Ax" and "Chaplin" starring Robert Downey Jr.

When the nomination was just announced, many North American media bluntly criticized some of the works in this year's best film nomination for appearing to be unworthy of the name. The Oscar organizing committee is counting."Weeping Game" and "Howard Manor" under Daenerys Entertainment were also specifically mentioned.

Oscar is helpless.

Daenerys Entertainment did not declare any relevant nominations, so she could never impose on the other party.

It's just that most of the public obviously don't know the Oscar review rules.

Under the influence of the media, everyone only saw Oscar's prejudice against Daenerys entertainment.

Even the old-fashioned "Quotations of the Years" last year beat Daenerys Entertainment's "Piano Love" and "The End of the Wild Flower". The old thing was mentioned again, which triggered the Oscars to the new player Daenerys Entertainment. Not a friendly guess.

In fact, this kind of public opinion situation also includes the factors that Daenerys Entertainment leads behind the scenes.

The degree of Oscar's influence by media opinion is actually very large.

The entire Oscar jury team has reached 6,000. These judges will never really pay too much attention to the quality of the film itself, and most of them are easily affected by public relations and public opinion.

Last year's "Tranquil Times" won the first Oscar for Best Female Director and the most important best film, which has caused strong controversy. If you ignore Daenerys Entertainment again this year, Oscar's credibility may be affected. influences.Even if you don’t care if the really good film won the award, since you became a member of the Oscar jury, because of the group nature of human instinct, this group of people will inevitably tend to maintain the credibility of Oscar.

At the awards ceremony in the evening, last year's active abandonment of Oscar and the strategy of public opinion guidance some time ago obviously played a role.

In Dorothy Chandler’s hall, Irene Lauder, who was the first to attend the film festival, was clearly unclear about the inside scenes behind the Oscars. Some guy sitting in the seventh row in the center of the hall specially arranged for her was not bad. In the position, UU reading books www.uukanshu.com is surrounded by all kinds of celebrities that can only be seen on the big screen in the past. The girl is instinctively only excited, and does not feel that a guy said at the award ceremony for three hours. Very boring feeling.

With the official start of the awards, Irene Lauder, who did some homework in advance, involuntarily began to pay attention to the films of Daenerys Entertainment.

Best audio, "Wonder Woman".

Best visual effect, "Wonder Woman".

Best photography, "Dahe Love".

Best Actress, Emma Thompson, "Howard Estate."

Best original script, "Crying Game".

Best adapted screenplay, "Wen Xiang Knows Women".

Best movie editing, "Wonder Woman".

Best Leading Actor, Al Pacino, "Scent of Women".

Best Director, Martin Brest, "Wen Xiang knows women".

The best film, "Wen Xiang knows women".

Unconsciously, when the award ceremony was over, Erin Lauder found that out of all 22 awards in this Oscar, only the related films of the Daenerys Entertainment family got 10 small gold men, and these All are Oscar's most important awards.

Among the falling awards, the most important are only the best supporting actors and actresses, and the others are awards in the corner technology category such as the best animated short film, the best documentary, and the best soundtrack.

Although I didn’t know Simon for only three days, Irene Lauder could clearly feel how powerful Daenerys Entertainment is in Hollywood at the Academy Awards, and therefore some inexplicable pride has arisen. sense.

Unfortunately, a guy is not here.

Fortunately, the company has received so many awards, and the next Melisandre party, you can't possibly not attend at all?