Hollywood Hunter

After visiting Steve Rose, the things on the east coast end, Simon rushed directly from Long Island to JFK International Airport and returned to Los Angeles.

Back to the Manor at Du Mui Point, it was just over two o'clock on Saturday afternoon on the west coast.

Entering the villa, girl A, Alison Norris, greeted her and told Simon Janet that she was no longer in the villa when she was out shopping. However, Ms. Veronica Johnston just came over this morning.

Simon came to the baby room on the first floor of the villa. Veronica was holding Melbourne standing in front of the glass window of the baby room by the sea, seemingly still whispering to the little guy.

Seeing Simon, Veronica was a little surprised. The gesture of holding the baby paused before she greeted: "You, Jenny said you might be back on Monday."

"The thing over there is over."

Simon replied, went to sit down on the sofa next to him, and looked at Veronica, who was wearing a very homely light green knitted dress today, but said nothing.

Just sitting down, Lady D walked in, still holding a milk bottle in her hand.

Seeing Simon sitting on the sofa in the room, Deborah was also a little surprised, but quickly greeted with a smile, handed the bottle to Veronica, and asked, "Boss, do you want something to drink?"

Simon shook his head: "Go ahead."

Girl D nodded, as if nothing had happened, she patted her chest gently after she walked out of the room.

Always feel.

The atmosphere is really weird when my boss stays with his wife's aunt.

After Girl D left, Veronica hesitated, took her baby and sat down on the solo sofa beside Simon. She carefully dripped some milk on the back of her hand and tested the temperature. She didn't seem to be relieved, and went to herself. After a taste, it was fed to the little guy's mouth.

"I came here in the morning. Well, there are some things. I happened to come over to see Moore and go back tomorrow."

There was a woman's voice around him again, explaining to himself.

Simon hummed indifferently, and continued to look at Veronica who was breastfeeding the little guy.

Until the little guy drank half of the bottle of milk, Veronica put the bottle aside, gently wiped the corners of the little guy's mouth, and then looked at the child in her arms, her soft gaze was a little more dazed.

After a while, Simon suddenly said: "In a few months, when the child can take a plane, you can take him to Australia."

Veronica raised her head, as if she didn't understand what Simon was talking about.

Simon paused and explained: "Jenny and I have a lot of things to do. It just so happened that you came to help take care of it for a while."

As the chief financial officer of Johnston Holdings, Veronica is at ease.

However, after listening to Simon's explanation, Veronica nodded without hesitation: "Okay."

As he said, he concealed and added: "Everyone is looking forward to the little Moer going to Australia for a while."

Janet returned from shopping after more than half an hour. When Simon talked about it, she didn't object. After being "sealed" by the little guy for a year, she looked forward to having some free time.

Although, it always feels a little weird, but leave the child to my aunt to take care of, not to mention that there is still a family in Australia, she is not worried at all. If it wasn't that the child was too young, she would have liked to let Veronica take a little annoyance away tomorrow.

This year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony is Saturday, January 18.

After the weekend, the 49th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards is approaching.

Compared with the information in memory, the changes in the films nominated for the Golden Globe Awards have become more and more obvious.

In sporadic memories, the winner of this year’s Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in Drama should be Barry Levinson’s "Bagshe", a biographical crime thriller similar to "Scarface".

However, this time, Simon did not see "Bagshe" in the North American theater last year.

After a entanglement with Daenerys Entertainment, the last film directed by "Avalon" failed at the box office, although Daenerys Entertainment did not show any obvious targeting of the original filmmakers.

But Hollywood still has no studios that dare to easily cooperate with Barry Levinson.

Not only that, CAA, which should have reached the peak of its influence in recent years, has completely lost its strength in the original time and space under Simon's deliberate support of the balance of WMA and ICM.

Simon didn't pay much attention to "Ba Geshe", but when looking through the film list for the Golden Globe Awards in the new week, he unexpectedly found that another very important film also disappeared from the list of nominations.

Disney's 2D animated film, "Beauty and the Beast".

In the original time and space, the 2D animation film "Beauty and the Beast" released at the end of 1991 not only accumulated more than 200 million US dollars in the box office in North American theaters, but also successfully won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in Musical Comedy and became the first Animated film nominated for Oscar for Best Picture.

Now, this movie has disappeared.

Simon now wants to understand some things in Hollywood easily. He ordered a few words at will, and obtained the result, combined with the information in his memory, and finally found that the matter was still related to Pixar.

The project "Beauty and the Beast" was indeed fanned out by Simon this big butterfly.

Things also start with the production process of 2D animated films.

Traditional 2D animation movies are all hand drawn by animators one by one.

For a 2D animation film, calculated according to the length of 90 minutes, the film is 5400 seconds in total and 24 frames per second, which requires 129,600 drawings, which is still theoretical data. In the actual operation process, the workload is much larger due to the waste of manuscripts and so on.

However, a skilled animator can only draw 10 to 20 drawings a day.

Any animator often has his own drawing style. In order to ensure the unity of the animation film style, it is not advisable to have too many animators participating in a project.

Therefore, the usual production cycle of Disney animation films in the past can reach 4 to 7 years.

In the original time and space, Pixar launched a professional graphics computer, which completely changed the production process of traditional animation movies, and greatly improved the drawing and coloring speed of 2D animation movies. In the early 1990s, Disney could launch one almost every year. 2D animation movies.

It is precisely because of this graphics computer that subsequently contributed to the cooperation between Pixar and Disney on "Toy Story" and many things that followed.

However, this time, Simon bought Pixar in advance.

Of course, Pixar's graphics computer still exists, but it is no longer sold.

Therefore, Disney's animation film department still maintains the old and slow hand-painted production process until now.

Because of the success of classic 2D animation films in recent years, Disney executives have re-emphasized the animation film department. However, this emphasis cannot increase the speed of animation film production.

In the case of limited production capacity, various projects must be screened.

According to the information collected by Simon, the script of "Beauty and the Beast" has indeed been proposed, but after a bit of choice, Disney retained another more well-known "Aladdin".

According to information from Disney, "Aladdin" will be released in this summer's archive, which is half a year earlier than the original time and space.

However, "Beauty and the Beast" was completely abandoned.

Simon also knows that not only this classic "Beauty and the Beast", many years later, the live-action version of "Beauty and the Beast" has sold for more than 1.2 billion US dollars worldwide, squeezing into the forefront of the historical box office rankings.

Under the control of Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, Disney has already walked out of its decline in the early 1980s. Even if Simon took away "Pretty Girl", Disney has also produced " Good Morning Vietnam, "Three Dads and One Baby", "The Supreme Detective" and other blockbuster movies, the re-screening of classic 2D animations and the release of video tapes have brought Disney a very generous income.

However, compared with Disney during this period of time and space, the current Disney is still much worse.

To be sure.

If the media industry's control is liberalized in recent years, Disney will definitely not have the strength to bid for Metropolis ABC Group with Daenerys Entertainment this time.

All of this is obviously because of Simon, because Daenerys Entertainment turned out.

The overall scale of the Hollywood film and television industry has been increasing rapidly. However, for a period of time, the market capacity is ultimately limited. Simon has a prophetic advantage that other studio leaders can’t match. Daenerys Entertainment has divided too much, other producers. The factory will naturally fall into a situation where one grows from one to the other.

Now in Hollywood, apart from Daenerys Entertainment, probably only Warner Bros. Pictures is more powerful than the original time and space.

Next, maybe you can count MGM, who has slowly recovered from the bottom.

"Jurassic Park" will officially start shooting on Kauai, Hawaii on January 21.

In the week before the Golden Globes, Simon put a lot of energy on the final preparations for "Jurassic Park", and for this reason he flew to Hawaii for two days.

Los Angeles to Hawaii is about the same as the flight from Los Angeles to New York. It only takes four hours.

Returning from Hawaii on Saturday morning, the evening is the Golden Globe awards ceremony.

Daenerys Entertainment has no appeal for awards this year, but Simon can take Janet to the evening awards ceremony very easily.

In this nominated film, Daenerys Entertainment's "Piano Love" and "The End of the Wild Flower" were also nominated for the best film in the drama category. Catherine also relied on "The End of the Wild Flower" to get the golden ball. Award nomination for best director.

Not only that, of the five best director nominations for this year’s Golden Globe Awards, three of them are women, namely Barbra Streisand from "Sounds and Waves", Jane Campion from "Farewell Piano" and "The End" Catherine Bigelow of "Crazy Flower", this phenomenon is the first time in the history of the Golden Globe Awards.

In order to pave the way for the Oscars in March, after the announcement of this year's award nominations, Time Warner began to build momentum, hoping to push Barbra Streisand into the ranks of the first female best director in Hollywood history.

Although, in the three films of "Splendid Time", "Farewell Piano", and "The End of the Wild Flower", the media rating of "Surrounded Waves" is actually the lowest. However, Barbra Streisand has accumulated dozens of years in Hollywood Years of contacts are not comparable to Campion and Catherine.

Of course, the most important reason is that Daenerys Entertainment took the initiative to withdraw from this year's award competition.

Because of this withdrawal, "The Silent Lamb", which should have shined in this year’s awards season, only won two nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actress in a Drama Series for the Golden Globes. The next Oscar, Sang Della has no intention of brushing the nomination.

In the final result, in the best film competition of the drama category, Oliver Stone's "Assassination of Kennedy" won the Golden Globe Award, and the best director was also won by Oliver Stone.

This is certainly not a disadvantage of Time Warner's public relations, but it is still a strategy.

After all, the word-of-mouth of "Times and Storms" is not as good as "Piano Love" and "The End of the Wild Flower". If Barbra Streisand wins, it will definitely cause controversy.

In contrast, if three female directors are selected at the same time, the Golden Globes still stubbornly maintains "discrimination against women" and awards the awards to male directors. In the next few months until the Oscars ceremony, The trend of public opinion will definitely turn to sympathy for the three female directors and the crusade against Hollywood women's discrimination.

In such an environment of public opinion, the Oscar, who has always advertised political correctness, has almost no second choice.

At this time, the two films of Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily withdrew from the awards public relations, and Barbra Streisand had sufficient resources and network support in Hollywood, and the result was self-evident.

As for the award of "Sounds of Time"?

Winner and loser.

Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar in the original time and space. Even if he was criticized by multimedia for being too watery and too lacking in gold, she would still be a queen. Niss Paltrow' to call each other.

Those who have not won the golden figure, even if their acting skills are ten times better than Gwyneth Paltrow, are unlikely to be crowned with the title of queen in the media.

This is the winner and loser.

As expected, after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, many media outlets attacked by the Golden Globe judges discriminating against women. Public opinion became raging for a while, and the Golden Globe officials had to publicly stand up and clarify.

Immediately after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the Oscar nominations were announced.

In the 64th Oscar nomination list, Barbra Streisand, Jane Campion and Catherine Bigelow continue to be listed at the same time.

The circle is very clear. Among the three, Barbra Streisand’s PR traces are the most obvious, Jane Campion is the most well-deserved, and Catherine Bigelow, "The End of the Road" is indeed excellent. , But most people will inevitably think of Simon Westeros.

People are really incomparable.

The storm of public opinion caused by the conclusion of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony has not yet dissipated, and another heavyweight entertainment news broke out.

MGM publicly announced that it will temporarily shelve the subsequent development of the 007 series due to irreconcilable disputes.

The importance of 007 to MGM is self-evident. Therefore, this news immediately attracted a large number of media attention.