Hollywood Hunter

Los Angeles.

The 46th Golden Globe Awards Ceremony held on January 28 has become a joke in the eyes of many people.

Although there are no clear regulations, it has been a practice that has formed over the years that the selection of film awards is usually five nominations for one award.

However, this year's Golden Globe Awards have completely released themselves.

Seven nominations for the best film in the drama category; six nominations for the best director; six nominations for the best supporting actor; six nominations even for the best original song in the technical category.

The film awards of the Golden Globes are not as comprehensive as the Oscars, and four unconventional nominations have appeared at one time, making the Golden Globes organizers that have been criticized for various scandals over the years even more unprofessional.

If a series of unconventional nominations are only to be ridiculed, the general award results in the end will completely reduce the Golden Globes to a large number of media attacks.

Double yolk eggs in movie awards are not uncommon. The competition between two films of comparable strength is too fierce. The judges evenly divide the awards, which sometimes becomes a good talk.

But, three yellow eggs, have you seen it?

With five nominations and three awards, how can this make the other two people feel so embarrassing?

This situation happened at the Golden Globe Awards.

And there is more than one.

Counting the TV awards, there were two ‘three yolk eggs’ and three ‘double yolk eggs’ at the 46th Golden Globe Awards. When the three actresses, Sigourney Weaver, Judy Foster and Shirley McLean, who won the best actress in the drama category at the same time, stood on the podium together, the live camera shots were all Awkward smile.

Then a series of three-yolk eggs and double-yolk eggs poured in, and everyone was numb with embarrassment.

Moreover, the award results are completely unconvincing.

The best film in the drama category was awarded to the biopic "Fog Locking Love" starring Sigourney Weaver. "Death Poetry Society" regrettably lost the election, and the organizers of the Golden Globe Awards have already clarified that "Rain Man" did not declare this year's awards, which is fair.

"Fog Locking Crisis" is indeed an excellent movie.

However, the best film in the musical comedy category was awarded to "Working Girl", which surprised everyone.

In the initial nomination stage, the nomination of the new work "Working Girl" by former director Mike Nichols of "Graduate" and "Spring Night" has caused a lot of controversy. Both "Graduate" and "Spring Night" can be regarded as classics, but "Working Girl", which obviously followed the trend of last year's "Wall Street" commercial war movie, seemed very mediocre, and its nomination was completely misplaced.

Compared with "Wall Street", which is highly professional but not obscure, "Working Girl" just tells a very old-fashioned workplace story.

Little clerk Tessie (Melanie Griffith) provides a business plan for her boss, Catherine (Sigourney Weaver). Catherine ostensibly claims that the plan is invalid, but she actually wants to take advantage of this idea. Taisie accidentally discovers the truth and pretends to be her boss to directly contact the target company and meet Jack (Harrison Ford), an executive of the other company. Tessie and Jack sparked. With Jack's help, Tessie was promoted and Catherine was fired.

the above.

"Wall Street" has a professional business confrontation, fierce intrigue, and Gordon Gekko's ‘Greedis Good’ which shows the greedy nature of capital. As for "Working Girl", probably only Mike Nichols won the best director Oscar qualification for "The Graduate" twenty years ago.

The other four films that were nominated in the same period, except for Universal’s unremarkable "Midnight Run", the other "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "A Fish Named Wanda" and "Flying Over the Future" are obviously better than "Working Girl" is excellent. What's more, there are "When Harry Meets Sally" and "Steel Magnolia" produced by Daenerys Entertainment. These two films are obviously also eligible for the best film in the musical comedy category, but they are not even nominated. Got it.

In the face of strong controversy, the organizers of the Golden Globes can only publicly explain that "When Harry Meets Sally" also did not apply for nomination. As for "Steel Magnolia", the jury believes that this film is more biased towards the drama category, so it did not give a nomination to the musical comedy category.

Barabara.

Daenerys Entertainment did not come home empty-handed at the Golden Globes, where some people obviously used too much public relations. The best director of "Death Poetry Society" and the best supporting actress of "Steel Magnolia" have reached the awards. Simon's expectations, he did not have any dissatisfaction.

In Simon's view, film awards that can be manipulated by influence are good awards. If it is too fair, it will be very troublesome.

Of course, this kind of indifferent attitude certainly cannot be expressed.

Not only that, in order to put pressure on the upcoming Oscars, Daenerys Entertainment also launched a public opinion offensive at the right time to complain about the company's films that were unfairly treated at the Golden Globe Awards.

This strategy is usually very effective.

Just like the original time and space because no black people were nominated for a certain Oscar, someone jumped out and shouted a few times, so the next year immediately gave an all-black production team the best film, all directors and actors were nominated Black people also appeared, and a few golden figures were taken away. The high proportion is staggering.

Then, February 1, Wednesday.

Nominations for the 61st Academy Awards are officially announced.

"Rain Man" produced by Daenerys Entertainment has won 8 nominations including best picture, best director, and best actor.

Moreover, Simon's name appeared in these eight nominations, and the nomination award was the best soundtrack. Because he couldn't find Hans Zimmer, who was not yet famous, after taking over the later stage of "Rain Man", Simon personally completed the soundtrack of the film with reference to the version in his memory.

"Death Poetry Society" also successfully won two nominations for best director and best actor.

In order to avoid competition with "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily abandoned the application for the best film of "Death Poetry Club", but another application for the best original screenplay was not shortlisted.

In addition, the company also declared three nominations for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for "Steel Magnolia", but only Julia Roberts was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and the other two nominations were the same. Fell through.

Calculated, Daenerys Entertainment won a total of 11 nominations in this upcoming Oscar.

This kind of achievement is not conspicuous. Warner has won the total of six films including "Dangerous Relationship", "Unexpected Passenger", "Mist Lock", "Rookie Parker", "Beatles Juice", and "Nothing". 19 nominations.

However, except for Sandra's "Dangerous Relationship", which featured 7 nominations, all other films received non-core nominations.

On the other hand, because Orion still focused its public relations on "Mississippi Is Burning", "Pulp Fiction" whose copyright is in the hands of the other party only won a John Travolta nomination for best actor this time. The Golden Globes also missed a screenplay award nomination.

As the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, the reputation and box office of Pulp Fiction are beyond doubt.

After returning empty-handed at the Golden Globes, it was ignored by Oscars, and many media couldn't help but complain about this movie. Because of this Oscar nomination, Mike Nicholson's "Working Girl" still won a lot, winning a total of 6 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director.

After the Oscar nomination was announced, a film critic of "Variety" magazine sharply criticized the Golden Globes and the Oscar organizers will have "Rain Man", "Pulp Fiction", "Death Poetry Society", and "An article named Wang A large number of super "big new years" of excellent films such as "Da's Fish", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "When Harry Meets Sally", etc., were forcibly demoted into a mediocre movie through their own insider awards. 'Xiao Nian'.

The film critic also unabashedly pointed the finger at the American Screenwriters Guild.

It’s not difficult for a careful person to find that in addition to the highly anticipated "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment's "Death Poetry Society", "Steel Magnolia", "When Harry Meets Sally", especially Simon's " Other films such as "Pulp Fiction" have not been nominated for screenplay awards.

Simon Westeros, as the best young screenwriter of the 1980s, has not even been nominated for two years in a row. This is simply a joke.

The judges of the Oscar Screenwriting Awards are basically members of the American Screenwriters Guild.

The popular reality show "Who Will Be a Millionaire" launched by Daenerys Entertainment almost made the screenwriters union's strike last year to a halt. Although the final strike succeeded in reconciliation, the agreement reached was also seriously shrunk.

With such a profound contradiction, the screenwriters' union did not ignore "Rain Man", it was already leaving room for itself. "Pulp Fiction" and other films under the banner of Daenerys Entertainment, naturally, do not expect any nomination.

Of course, as Daenerys Entertainment's strength further increases, the contradiction between the two parties will gradually resolve.

In the final analysis, the relationship between the screenwriter and the film company is always the employee and the boss. It is about their own jobs. Whether they want to or not, most of the time people must choose to forget or pretend to forget, and then compromise.

The turmoil in the Japanese financial market has not affected Daenerys Entertainment's operations.

After the Oscar nomination was announced, Ella Deutschman began the final stage of the sprint public relations.

At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment also released the first movie of the new year on February 3, Catherine's second theatrical feature film "The Blue Angel".

Compared with blockbuster films such as "Rain Man", which are still steadily harvesting at the box office, "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" has a good reputation in film reviews, with an average of 7 points, but the box office is somewhat lackluster. In the first week of its release, "The Blue Angels of Thunder" only won a box office of US$3.81 million on a total of 1121 screens in North America, and the total domestic box office is expected to be only about US$8 million.

The final production cost of "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" is 10 million US dollars, and the publicity cost is about 3.5 million US dollars. The North American box office of $8 million, including other issuance income, is also doomed to a loss of millions of dollars.

Simon and Catherine have a special relationship, which is no secret in the circle.

Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment is not too concerned about the loss of this movie. Even after selling for a whole year and occasionally losing one or two titles, it seems pretty good.

The world can't be abnormal forever.

On February 17, after more than a month of financial audit, Daenerys Entertainment's 1988 financial report was finally released.

As of December 31, 1988, Daenerys Entertainment Group's total annual revenue reached 708 million US dollars.

Because Daenerys Entertainment is still in the early stages of development, the company’s revenues from each department are not divided too finely. For the time being, it is only divided into three major business segments: film, television and comics. The revenue is still small. The income is directly consolidated, and the same is true for the purchase of office space and private jet lease.

Among the three major business sectors.

The total revenue of the film business was US$276 million, including the revenue from various types of movies of Daenerys Pictures and the revenue from the theaters and video tapes of New World Entertainment Films.

Daenerys Entertainment invested large sums of money in film production, publicity, and copyright procurement last year. Films such as "Rain Man" and "Death Poetry Club" did not bring returns to the company before December 31, 1988. , New World Entertainment’s revenue from various films is also very meager.

Excluding various costs and taxes, the net profit of Daenerys Entertainment's film business is only 67.72 million US dollars.

In comparison, Robert Iger’s TV business has revenues of up to 361 million U.S. dollars, of which only "Who Will Be a Millionaire" contributes 196 million U.S. dollars in revenue. Other reality shows such as "Survivor" and TV series projects such as "The Age of Innocence" left over by New World Entertainment have all brought good revenue.

Due to the ultra-high profit margin of "Who Will Be a Millionaire", out of the revenue of 361 million US dollars, excluding all costs, the net profit of the TV business unit is still as high as 165.75 million US dollars.

Finally, the Marvel Entertainment comics business, which Simone requested separately accounted for, had annual revenue of USD 71.32 million and net profit of USD 5.26 million.

In fact, since 1975, Marvel has maintained a stable profitability under the management of Stan Lee and James Gold.

Although the North American comics industry has continued to shrink in recent years, and Marvel’s net profit margin of less than 10% appears to be somewhat low, if it had not been for the bankruptcy of Marvel’s parent company Candice Industrial Holdings in 1986, the comics company would not be easily Sell.

So, after all calculations, Daenerys Entertainment Group's annual net profit in 1988 reached 238.73 million US dollars.

The net profit of 238.73 million US dollars, not to mention Hollywood second and third tier film companies, even the seven major studios, only Warner, Paramount and Disney three can exceed this figure. Among them, Warner calculated the performance of the entire Warner Bros., not just Warner Bros. Pictures.

As for other things, Columbia and MGM lost money last year. Only the "Dragon Brothers and Rat Brothers" at the end of last year has supported the film performance of the last two years. The entire MCA Group's profit in 1988 was less than US$200 million. Barry Di Le’s business focus has been on the expansion of the television network, and Fox Pictures is barely maintaining it.

In fact, the current situation is not that Hollywood studios are weak, but Daenerys Entertainment's performance is too good.

Even if it expands to other companies in North America, according to Forbes' top 500 US companies' revenue and profit data, statistics have not yet been completed in 1988. However, referring to 1987, Daenerys Entertainment's $238 million profit scale is enough to squeeze into North America. Top 70 on the local top 500 list.

In this era, with the exception of Ford Motors, General Electric and other companies that have a profit scale of 1 billion, more than 95% of the companies on the North American Top 500 list have an annual profit of less than US$1 billion and a net profit of more than 1 billion. There are only about 150 companies worth US$100 million.

Therefore, when this financial data that will definitely make too many people jealous was released, several senior executives of Daenerys Entertainment unanimously decided to keep it as confidential as possible.

There have been various speculations about the profit scale of Daenerys Entertainment in 1988, and most of the media analysis is also very accurate.

However, just like many well-known big deep cabinets in Hollywood, as long as a star does not come out publicly, even if there are more traces to prove that he is gay, fans who are often reluctant to face the reality are happy to believe that it is not the case.

By the same token, as long as Daenerys Entertainment does not disclose detailed financial data, other Hollywood film companies will only subconsciously ignore this matter.