"The nominees for this year's Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy are: Mia Farrow, "Alice"; Julia Roberts, "Pretty Woman"; Andie MacDowell, "Green Card" "; Demi Moore, "The Last Days"; Meryl Streep, "Postcards from the Edge."
On stage in the Hilton Hotel ballroom.
Morgan Freeman, the winner of the last Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical Comedy, introduced the list of nominees, smiled, tore open the envelope in his hand, took a look, and quickly said into the microphone: "The winner is, Julie Ya Roberts, congratulations.”
Warm applause broke out.
Julia Roberts, who was wearing a white one-shoulder evening dress tonight, stood up from the round table where she was sitting with a look of disbelief on her face, hugged several of the "Pretty Woman" creators around her, and stumbled a little while holding the hem of her skirt. onto the stage.
After receiving the trophy from Morgan Freeman, the big-mouthed beauty came to the microphone, still a little unable to restrain herself, and couldn't help but cover her mouth.
The audience applauded again in a dignified manner.
"It's really, incredible, like a dream." After a moment, Julia Roberts, who is actually only 23 years old this year, finally spoke, stumbling closer to the microphone and said: "First of all, I want to thank Simon, without him there would be nothing. Everything I have now..."
At a round table slightly behind the banquet hall, Janet heard the speech of the big-mouthed beauty on the stage. She raised a finger and waved it in front of Simon's eyes and said: "For the sixth time, I was thinking, I just forgot to thank you." Will your Michael Blake be restless now?"
The awards ceremony continues till now. Counting the Best Actress in a Musical Comedy category that she just won, Daenerys Entertainment has won 7 major awards, including 5 film awards and 2 television awards. In six of the seven award speeches, winners expressed their gratitude to Simon, with the exception of "Dances with Wolves" screenwriter Michael Blake.
Simon reached out and wanted to pinch Janet's beautiful raised fingertips, but the woman dodged him and did not chase him. He said softly: "Too many times."
I remember that some good people in time and space counted the Hollywood celebrities who were thanked the most at the Oscars. Steven Spielberg and Harvey Weinstein, who were at the top of the list, only accumulated 30 or 40 times over the years.
The Golden Globe Awards are naturally incomparable to the Oscars. However, with tonight's momentum, Simon feels that it won't be many years before he sets a record for the number of times he has been thanked at various award ceremonies.
Simon doesn't want to be omnipresent at all, he prefers to be the 'man behind the scenes'.
Janet knew her man's thoughts very well and said, "You can explain to Deutschman later at the party."
On the stage, Julia Roberts finished her speech, the host came on stage to warm up for a moment, and then began the awarding of the best actor in a drama series.
Kevin Costner has already won the Best Director award at this Golden Globe Award. However, his performance in "Dances with Wolves" did not have many highlights, and it was no surprise that he lost to his performance in "Dances with Wolves". Jeremy Irons gave a superb performance in "Reversal".
Jeremy Irons plays the butler Alfred in the big version of Batman.
Not surprisingly, Jeremy Irons will also win this year's Oscar for Best Actor. This middle-aged actor from the UK who is in his early 40s is good-looking and has good acting skills. Unfortunately, he has been unlucky. Since entering Hollywood in the 1980s, he has participated in several commercial films that were not successful at the box office.
Hollywood is very superstitious.
It's often difficult for actors to get quality projects from studios after several consecutive films fail at the box office. Resources are getting less and less, and it is getting harder and harder to turn around.
After the Best Actor in a Drama Series, there is the final Best Picture in a Drama Series.
"Dances with Wolves" successfully defeated "Goodfellas", "Intersection", "The Godfather Part III" and "Reversal of Fortune" to win the best picture award in the drama category.
Statistics show that out of the 13 highly anticipated film awards at this year's Golden Globe Awards, only films produced by Daenerys Entertainment won 6, including the Best Picture in the Drama Series for "Dances with Wolves" , Best Director for Kevin Costner, Best Actress in a Drama Series for Susan Sarandon, Best Actress in a Musical Comedy for Julia Roberts, and Best Screenplay for "Dances with Wolves" and Best Supporting Actress for Whoopi Goldberg.
With nearly half of the award share, it can be said that it is unparalleled in the limelight.
Although it was a celebration party for Daenerys Entertainment, after the awards ceremony, many celebrities were invited to the Daenerys Studios in Malibu.
Daenerys Entertainment's post-Oscar party has been booked by Gucci. This post-Golden Globe celebration party is held in the name of Ygritte.
The Westeros system's efforts in the Internet industry not only mean AOL's free trial and Yigrit's large investment in content, but also mean sparing no effort in advertising.
The Yigrit website has not only placed advertisements on TV networks and various print media platforms, but now also has a spokesperson. Sandra Bullock, as a star user of the Yigrit blog and with a personal relationship with Simon, easily grabbed this job. During the three-year endorsement period, she unceremoniously took away $5 million per year.
After Simon and Janet left the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel, they stopped by the Palisade mansion to let Janet change into a set of clothes, and then rushed to Daenerys Studios.
After delaying for some time and taking photos in front of the photo wall with the Daenerys and Ygritte logos printed on it, we entered the party hall of the movie theater activity center, which was already crowded with people.
Probably because they were specially arranged to be watched, as soon as Simon and his wife entered the party hall, Kevin Costner came over with Michael Blake, the screenwriter of "Dances with Wolves", to say hello.
Janet listened to Michael Blake express his joy for winning the award and his gratitude to Simon with some uneasiness in his words, and inadvertently cast an 'I guessed it right' look at her man.
Of course, Simon wouldn't care about the details that Michael Blake forgot to thank himself when he won the award. If he didn't even have this kind of heart, then the day would be unnecessary, so he even gave a few words of comfort.
After Kevin Costner and Michael Blake left, Simon asked someone to call over Ira Deutschman, the head of Gomen Pictures: "That's it, you say hello to the publicists of those nominees. , please don’t thank me again at the next Oscars, including future awards ceremonies.”
Ella Deutschman was confused: "Simon, what's the problem?"
Simon shook his head and smiled: "No, that's what I just meant. I don't want Simon Westeros' name to be everywhere in future award ceremonies. This will make people feel as if I am manipulating the awards."
Ella Deutschman finally nodded and said, "I understand."
After explaining this matter, Simon changed the topic casually and asked: "So, how is the filming progress of "The Piano"?"
The two chatted casually for a while, during which Janet saw Catherine and walked over to join the women.
After sending Ella Deutschman away, the female assistant quietly appeared next to Simon and accompanied him to socialize with the crowd for a while. Amy Pascal came over with another guest, but it was Steven Spear. Berg.
Simon walked up to him with a smile, shook Spielberg's hand, and said, "Good evening, Steven."
Spielberg also smiled and shook hands with Simon, but his expression contained some complicated emotions.
This young man, who has risen rapidly in Hollywood in just a few years, is now his boss. Spielberg made his debut as a contracted director under Universal Pictures. After becoming famous with "Jaws", his original long-term contract was replaced by several film contracts, and he still owes Universal three film contracts.
Because of the promotion that year, Spielberg has a very close relationship with the two heads of MCA, Lou Vassalman and Sid Sheinberg. Now that Daenerys Entertainment’s acquisition of MCA has been confirmed, Lou Vassalman Salman and Sid Sheinberg were kicked out of MCA by Simon Westeros, which added to Spielberg's mixed feelings.
However, the contract must still be adhered to.
Amy Pascal has recently been discussing with Spielberg his next directorial film, which is a science fiction film adaptation called "Jurassic Park." If Spielberg is willing, the project can be placed under the name of Universal Pictures. It will be prepared this year and filming will begin early next year. The schedule is determined to be the end of 1992.
Last year's blockbuster "Captain Hawke" co-produced with Columbia has been completed and is now entering the post-production stage.
Although the project was carefully held in the hands of Columbia, during the filming process, Spielberg had already vaguely felt that the film was likely to be a disaster, a personal Waterloo for him, and he was exhausted mentally and physically.
Therefore, after receiving the proposal from Daenerys Entertainment, Spielberg said that he would consider it carefully even though he showed some instinctive resistance to Simon Westeros. After all, Daenerys Entertainment's projects have always been very secure in terms of box office.
Amy Pascal also promised him that as long as he takes over "Jurassic Park", Daenerys Entertainment can support the filming of the movie "Schindler's List" that he has been planning to recreate the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. 》.
Everyone exchanged casual greetings, and when Spielberg walked away, Simon asked Amy: "How was the conversation?"
"Steven agreed, but we still have to talk to Ovitz about the remuneration." Amy said, and then added: "Steven's previous movie contracts were all profit-sharing through all channels. Just like the 20% omni-channel profit share of "Captain Hawk", Ovitz is still leaning towards this. I have contacted Ovitz a few times, and he has become slightly more relaxed and agreed to accept a similar deal to John Hughes. There’s a box office share agreement, but Ovitz probably wants $10 million for Steven’s base salary.”
When Daenerys Entertainment signed a two-film contract with John Hughes, the salary package was a base salary of US$5 million plus a 10% share of the local box office. Such an agreement was actually very generous and allowed the filmmakers to work in a shorter period of time. Get the reward you deserve within.
In the original time and space, the "Jurassic Park" contract signed by Spielberg was a basic salary plus a 20% omni-channel share.
Because of the global sales of "Jurassic Park", Spielberg only took away 250 million US dollars from the first "Jurassic Park".
After Panasonic acquired MCA, even though it had super-selling works such as "Jurassic Park", it still sold MCA to Seagram a few years later. A large part of the reason was that the movie lost money, and almost all of the losses were Panasonic bears the responsibility, but the movie makes money, especially projects like "Jurassic Park", and most of the profits are taken away by Hollywood filmmakers. Panasonic can only be taken advantage of in every aspect.
Simon once considered directing "Jurassic Park" himself, but now that he obviously doesn't have the time, it seems perfect to hand the project over to the original cast.
Of course, the omni-channel sharing contract will definitely not be considered this time, but a basic salary plus box office sharing agreement similar to John Hughes will be given.
If "Jurassic Park" can still achieve the same high box office as the original time and space, based on the agreement given by Simon, Spielberg's personal income can still reach 40 to 50 million US dollars, which is of course still a sky-high price. However, Simon believes that this is worth the money. A director who can create a global box office of US$1 billion is definitely worth the price.
In comparison, the US$250 million in the original space and time exceeded Simon's limit.
Simon didn't say much about the basic salary proposed by Ovitz. He just nodded and let Amy continue the discussion. Then he asked: "Where is "Schindler's List"?"
"Steven has always had some concerns about how to express some of the emotional twists in the film, but he is grateful for your support of the film."
Amy said this with a somewhat different meaning on her face.
The project "Schindler's List" has been circulating in Hollywood since the 1980s. It has been delayed for so many years. Thomas Keneally, the original author of the film, often called Spielberg and complained half-truthfully about whether he could do it in his own film. He was old enough to see the project make it to the big screen before he died.
In the final analysis, "Schindler's List", in the opinion of many people, has no commercial potential at all and is simply a work that bears witness to Jewish history. Although the Jews in Hollywood are united, they will not rashly invest in such a work that is destined to be unlikely to make money.
Amy is also Jewish.
In Amy's view, Simon's proposal to support the "Schindler's List" project at a time when Daenerys Entertainment was about to annex MCA was probably to express an attitude to the Jewish community in Hollywood and ease his position in Hollywood. The growing power brought pressure on the Jewish community.
In fact, Simon did have this intention.
Because of the living environment in his previous life, Simon was not very sensitive to racial issues in his bones.
However, after a few years of rebirth, he had to face this problem squarely.
The Jewish influence in Hollywood is indeed very strong, or the Jewish influence in the United States as a whole is very strong.
Moreover, it is impossible to change this.
Since the beginning of World War II, Jews have mobilized a large number of young people from the ethnic group to participate in that war. Up to now, Jews also control powerful power in the American military system. If anti-Semitism occurred in the United States as it did in Germany, the result would likely be a civil war.
Simon was not afraid of rejecting Jews, and certainly did not want this to happen the other way around.
Therefore, after acquiring MCA, it was a natural move to film "Schindler's List". Moreover, the "Schindler's List" in my memory was actually very profitable.