After visiting Steve Ross, things on the East Coast were over, and Simon rushed directly from Long Island to JFK International Airport to return to Los Angeles.
Back at Point Dume Manor, it was just past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon on the west coast.
Entering the villa, Girl A Alison Norris came over and told Simon that Janet was out shopping and was not in the villa. However, Ms. Veronica Johnston just arrived this morning.
Simon came to the nursery on the first floor of the villa. Veronica was holding Melbourne in her arms and standing in front of the glass window of the nursery near the sea, seeming to be whispering something to the little one.
Seeing Simon, Veronica was a little surprised. She paused while holding the child, and then greeted: "You, Jenny said you might come back on Monday."
"The things over there are done."
Simon responded, walked to the sofa next to him and sat down, looking at Veronica who was wearing a very homely light green knitted dress today, but said nothing more.
As soon as I sat down, girl D walked in, holding a milk bottle in her hand.
Seeing Simon sitting on the sofa in the room, Deborah was a little surprised, but she quickly greeted her with a smile, handed the bottle to Veronica, and asked: "Boss, do you want something to drink?"
Simon shook his head: "Go and do your work."
Girl D nodded, as if nothing had happened, and patted her chest gently after walking out of the room.
Total feeling.
The atmosphere between my boss and his wife's aunt was really weird.
After Girl D left, Veronica hesitated for a moment, then carried the child to the single sofa next to Simon and sat down. She carefully dropped some milk on the back of her hand and tested the temperature. She seemed uneasy, and then went to After tasting it, I fed it to the little guy's mouth.
"I came here in the morning. Well, I had some things to do. I just happened to come over to see Moer. I'll go back tomorrow."
Veronica's voice sounded next to her again, explaining as if talking to herself.
Simon hummed inaudibly and continued to look at Veronica, who was breastfeeding the little one.
After the little guy drank most 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 eyes filled with a bit of confusion.
After a moment, Simon suddenly said: "In a few months, when the child can fly, 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 both have a lot to do, and it just so happens that you come to help take care of it for a while."
As chief financial officer of Johnston Holdings, Veronica is anything but idle.
However, after listening to Simon's explanation, Veronica nodded without hesitation: "Okay." After saying that, she added as if to cover up: "Everyone is looking forward to Little Merle going to Australia to stay for a while."
Janet came back more than half an hour later. She heard Simon talk about it and had no objection. After being 'sealed' by the little guy for a year, she was looking forward to having some free space.
Although she always felt a little weird, she was not worried at all about leaving the child in the care of her aunt, not to mention there was a big family over there in Australia.
If the child wasn't too young, she would have asked Veronica to take away some annoying little person tomorrow.
This year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony is Saturday, January 18th.
After the weekend, the 49th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards Ceremony is approaching.
Compared with the information in memory, the changes in the films nominated for this Golden Globe Award are more obvious.
In original memory, the winner of this year's Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in the Drama category should be "Bugsy," a biographical crime thriller similar to "Scarface" directed by Barry Levinson.
However, this time, Simon did not see "Bugsy" in North American theaters last year.
After some disputes with Daenerys Entertainment, and the last film "Avalon" directed by her director failed at the box office, although Daenerys Entertainment no longer showed any obvious targeting towards the original filmmakers, Hollywood still did not The studio would never dare to work with Barry Levinson again.
Not only that, CAA, which should have reached the peak of its influence in recent years, has completely lost its original strength in recent years due to Simon's deliberate support of the balance between WMA and ICM.
Talent agencies are, after all, just vassals of the Hollywood film industry.
Simon didn't pay much attention to "Bugsy," but when he flipped through the list of nominated films for the Golden Globe Awards in the new week, he unexpectedly discovered that another very important movie had also disappeared from the list of nominated films.
Disney's 2D animated film, "Beauty and the Beast."
In the original time and space, the 2D animated film "Beauty and the Beast" released at the end of 1991 not only accumulated more than 200 million US dollars in box office in North American theaters, but also successfully won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category, and became the first An animated film nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture.
Now, the movie has disappeared.
Now it was easy for Simon to understand some things in Hollywood. He gave a few random instructions, and the results obtained, combined with the information in his memory, finally discovered that the matter was still related to Pixar.
The project of "Beauty and the Beast" was indeed swatted away by Simon, the big butterfly.
Let’s start with the production process of 2D animated movies.
Traditional 2D animated movies are completely hand-drawn by animators one by one.
For a 2D animated film, even if it is calculated based on the duration of 90 minutes, the film is 5,400 seconds in total and 24 frames per second, which requires 129,600 drawings. This is still theoretical data. In the actual operation process, the workload is much larger due to inevitable scrapped manuscripts and other reasons.
However, a skilled animator can only draw 10 to 20 drawings a day.
Any animator often has his own painting style. In order to ensure the unity of the animated film style, there should not be too many animators involved in a project.
Therefore, in the past, the usual production cycle of Disney's animated films could reach 4 to 7 years.
In the original space and time, Pixar launched a professional graphics computer, which completely changed the production process of traditional animated movies and greatly improved the drawing and coloring speed of 2D animated movies. In the early 1990s, Disney was able to release a movie almost every year. 2D animated movie.
It was this graphics computer that later led to the collaboration between Pixar and Disney on "Toy Story" and many other things that followed.
This time, however, Simon bought Pixar early.
Pixar's graphics computer still exists, of course, but it's no longer for sale.
As a result, Disney's animated film department still maintains the old and slow hand-painted production process until now.
Because of the success of re-releases of classic 2D animated films in recent years, Disney executives have re-emphasized the animated film department. However, this kind of emphasis cannot improve the production speed of animated films.
With limited production capacity, various projects must be screened.
According to the information collected by Simon, the script for "Beauty and the Beast" was indeed proposed, but after several choices, Disney retained another more well-known "Aladdin" project.
According to information from Disney, "Aladdin" will be released this summer, which is half a year ahead of schedule.
However, the price of "Aladdin" being advanced by half a year was that "Beauty and the Beast" was completely abandoned.
Simon also knew that not only did "Beauty and the Beast" become a classic, but many years later, the live-action version of "Beauty and the Beast" sold more than 1.2 billion U.S. dollars worldwide, ranking among the top of the all-time box office rankings.
Under the control of Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, Disney had long since recovered from its decline in the early 1980s.
Even though "Pretty Woman" was taken away by Simon, Disney has in recent years produced blockbuster movies such as "Good Morning Vietnam", "Three Dads and a Baby", and "The Detective", as well as re-releases and videotapes of classic 2D animations. The release has brought very generous income to Disney.
However, compared with the Disney of this period in the original time and space, the current Disney is still much worse.
One thing is for sure.
If the media industry is deregulated in recent years, Disney will not have the strength to bid for Metropolis ABC Group with Daenerys Entertainment this time.
All of this is obviously because of Simon and the emergence of Daenerys Entertainment.
In recent years, 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 also has a prophetic advantage that other studio leaders cannot match. Daenerys Entertainment has divided too many , other studios will naturally fall into a situation of ebb and flow.
Among the major Hollywood studios now, apart from Daenerys Entertainment, probably only Warner Bros. Pictures is more powerful than the original space and time.
Next, perhaps we can also count MGM, which has slowly recovered from the bottom.
"Jurassic Park" will officially start filming on the Hawaiian island of Kauai on January 21.
In the week before the Golden Globe Awards, Simon focused a lot of his energy on the final preparations for "Jurassic Park" and even flew to Hawaii for two days.
The flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii is almost the same as the flight from Los Angeles to New York. Both flights only take four hours.
Returning from Hawaii on Saturday morning, the Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be held in the evening.
Daenerys Entertainment has no demands for major awards during the awards season this year. Instead, Simon can take Janet to the evening awards ceremony very easily.
Among the nominated films this time, "The Piano" and "Thelma and Louise" produced by Daenerys Entertainment were both nominated for the best picture in the drama category. Catherine also won the Golden Globe with "Thelma and Louise" Award nomination for Best Director.
Not only that, three of the five best director nominees for this year's Golden Globe Awards are women, namely Barbra Streisand for "The Days of Our Lives," Jane Campion for "The Piano," and "The End of the World." Kathryn Bigelow in Flowers.
Three women are nominated for Best Director, which 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 nominations for this year's awards were announced, Time Warner began to build momentum, hoping to push Barbra Streisand into the ranks of the first female Oscar-winning director in Hollywood history.
Although among the three films "The Last Days", "The Piano" and "Thelma and Louise", "The Last Days" actually had the lowest media rating. However, Barbra Streisand's connections accumulated over decades in Hollywood are not comparable to those of Campion and Catherine.
Of course, the most important reason is that Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily withdrew from this year's awards competition.
Because of this withdrawal, "Silence of the Lambs", which was supposed to be a hit during this year's awards season, only received two nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actress in a Drama Series at the Golden Globe Awards. In the following Oscars, Sang Della has no intention of even getting nominated.
The final result of the Golden Globe Awards on Saturday night. In the competition for the best picture in the drama category, it was Oliver Stone's "JFK" that won the Golden Globe Award. The best director was also won by Oliver Stone.
This is certainly not a PR disadvantage for Time Warner. In fact, it is still a strategy.
After all, the reputation of "Story of Days" is not as good as "The Piano" and "Thelma and Louise." If Barbra Streisand wins the award, it will definitely cause controversy in the media.
It's very 'politically correct' for women to win awards.
However, three women were selected at the same time, and Barbra Streisand's work was listed last. If this veteran actress wins, it will still cause controversy, and this controversy will undoubtedly affect the results of the Oscar awards.
The Golden Globe Awards are obviously far less valuable than the Oscars.
In comparison, if three female directors are selected at the same time, the Golden Globe Awards will still stubbornly maintain its "discrimination against women" and award the award to male directors. In the next two months until the Oscars, The direction of public opinion will definitely turn towards sympathy for the three female directors and the crusade against female discrimination in Hollywood.
In such a public opinion environment, Oscar, which has always advertised political correctness, has almost no second option.
At this time, Daenerys Entertainment's two films voluntarily withdrew from award public relations, and Barbra Streisand had sufficient resources and connections in Hollywood to support them, so the results are self-evident.
As for "The Waves of Time" after winning the award
The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.
In the original time and space, Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar. Even if she was criticized by many media for being too watery and lacking in gold content, she was still the actress after all. Most media releases would also refer to her as "Oscar-winning actress Gwen." Nys Paltrow' to call each other.
Those who have not won a statuette, even if their acting skills are ten times better than Gwyneth Paltrow, will not be crowned with the title of Best Actress in the media.
This is the winner and the loser.
As expected, after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, there were indeed many media reports that the Golden Globe judges were discriminating against women. Public opinion was so rampant that the Golden Globe officials had to publicly stand up and explain.
Immediately after the Golden Globe Awards, the Oscar nominations were announced.
In the 64th Oscar nomination list, Barbra Streisand, Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow continue to be listed at the same time.
It is very clear in the circle that among the three, Barbra Streisand’s public relations traces are the most obvious, and Jane Campion is the most deserving of the title.
As for Kathryn Bigelow, "Thelma and Louise" is indeed excellent, but most people can't help but think of Simon Westeros.
There is really no comparison between people.
The public opinion storm caused by the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony has not dissipated yet, another piece of heavyweight Hollywood entertainment news broke out.
MGM publicly announced that it would temporarily shelve the development of the next installment in the 007 series due to irreconcilable disputes.
The importance of 007 to MGM is completely self-evident, so this news immediately attracted a large number of media attention.