After several months of hustle and bustle, the 1995 awards season has finally come to an end with the arrival of the 67th Academy Awards.
Under the influence of Eric, the 'butterfly', this year's Oscar is quite different from the previous life. "Forrest Gump", hailed by Americans as the landscape painting of modern history, has been postponed, the benchmark work of independent films "Pulp Fiction" has been brought forward, and "The Shawshank Redemption", the biggest legacy in Oscar history, has not yet been filmed.
Although various changes have taken place, the attention of this year's Oscars is no less than any previous one. The duel between "Saving Private Ryan" and "Braveheart" has been hyped by the media for several months. A long time ago, the five angel spokespersons of last year's Victoria's Secret show will be on stage to present awards at the same time. A small man who always wears big-frame glasses and looks like a god has gone through the scandals of a few years ago and once again with a "Bullet" "Flying Broadway" swept all the major nominations, of course, people will definitely not be present.
The most important thing is that this year's Oscar is very likely to produce the first best female director in the history of the Oscar. The work of this female director participating in the competition for the award is even more a thrilling war film.
March 27, 5 p.m., Holy Citizen Auditorium, Los Angeles.
ABC TV's red carpet live broadcast started on time.
Outside the Holy Citizen Auditorium, movie fans who were lucky enough to get seats on both sides of the red carpet excitedly watched more and more stars on the red carpet, cheering up and looking forward to supporting idols.
Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Jodie Foster, Winona Rae De...
Whenever a familiar face appears on the red carpet, it can cause bursts of cheers.
A concierge car slowly stopped at the end of the red carpet. This was Catherine's first time attending the Oscars. Before "Saving Private Ryan", although films such as "Point of Crisis" and "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" had attracted the attention of the industry, but because the topics discussed in these films were not pleasant, she had not gained much attention. Decent nomination.
The limousine car was arranged by the brokerage company. It was an extended Lincoln. She was the only one sitting in the car, which looked a bit empty. She casually glanced at the sea of people outside the car window. Suddenly tense up.
She has always been very uncomfortable with this kind of public situation.
The car door was opened, Catherine hesitated for a moment, then stepped out of the car and stepped on the red carpet. He clutched the bag tightly in his hand.
In the end, she chose the light gray silk dress that Eric gave her, with irregular heart-shaped patterns embroidered on the chest, cinched waist and long hem, but it was fully supported by her tall figure. . It gives people a stunning feeling that the legs are all from the waist down.
Although she was at a loss for a while, she still straightened her back habitually. On the surface, there was absolutely no panic in her heart. Instead, she gave people a sense of nobility as a goddess descended. There was a brief silence from the audience around, and the first reaction in most people's hearts was basically which actress is this
It wasn't until someone shouted 'Catherine' first that everyone reacted suddenly and responded excitedly.
"Katherine, Katherine. Katherine..."
The frantically flashing spotlight made her raise her hand involuntarily, trying to cover her eyes, but soon realized that there was something wrong with this movement, halfway up it turned into a gentle wave to the crowd, with a shy expression on her face She laughed, which made the atmosphere in the venue even more frenzied, and she even heard someone shout out the crazy words of 'Catherine, I love you, marry me', uh. Still a female voice.
The manager standing on the edge of the red carpet gestured to her several times in a row before she remembered to move forward.
A lonely one.
Inexplicably missing that little guy, although he scared her enough that night, but. If there is such a person by my side now, who can hold his arm, maybe I won't be so nervous and bewildered. A strong man can always give people a sense of security. In the past, she always felt that she could not need such a ridiculous thing. Now, she is surrounded by the crowd. She suddenly realized that maybe, she still needed a little bit of it.
With a messy mind, like a puppet, he completely followed the agent's arrangement, walked across the red carpet, entered the crowd, and joined the crew of "Saving Private Ryan", and finally felt a little more relaxed. But he was quickly picked out by the agent and led into the auditorium, saying that he wanted to introduce the interview of ABC TV station.
The interview with the content broker has been explained to her before.
But when the black hostess complimented her on the beauty of the gown and asked which brand it was, she still couldn't answer.
A shadow jumped out again.
I heard that he went to Universal's party to make trouble two days ago, as if he wanted to grab the copyright of some movie, it was really troublesome.
I also heard that he messed around with those women again.
Why.
Although she tried her best to make the sigh in her heart more like a big sister who was worried about her younger brother, she still couldn't erase certain emotions.
It's just that she doesn't know that kind of emotion is called resentment.
Since he is not participating in the Oscars, I don't know what he will be doing now.
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Early in the morning, after sending the five women out of Pointe Manor, Eric also hurried to the Firefly headquarters in Burbank.
Katzenberg's work efficiency has always been very high. Although the first two days were weekends, when Eric arrived at the company, he had already come up with a rough cooperation plan with Hasbro.
Eric didn't know much about peripheral operations, so he could only patiently listen to the explanations from Katzenberg and the director of the brand operations department, discussing them all morning.
There was no stopping at lunch, Eric and Katzenberg had dinner together, and discussed the preparation details of several films.
During the period, Eric briefly talked about the idea of "America's Next Top Model". Katzenberg got excited again, grabbed Eric, and wiped out all the thoughts in his mind. And it is strongly recommended that "America's Next Top Model" be placed on the Lifetime TV station of the AE TV network.
The AE TV network used to be a sub-network under the ABC Group. At this time, it is owned by the Firefly Group and the Hearst Group. Neither party holds a controlling stake, and each holds 50% of the shares. The small network includes the History Channel, Crime and Psychology Channel and Lifetime Women's Channel, among other basic cable stations.
The so-called basic cable channels, compared to HBO and Showtime’s fee-based cable channels, are programs that viewers can watch as long as they pay cable TV access fees to cable TV operators such as Comcast and Time Warner. Of course, the types of TV stations in different cable TV packages are also different. Several other cable TV stations under Firefly, such as Disney and ESPN, are also basic cable TV stations.
Under normal circumstances, the cable TV packages that users subscribe to include as few as dozens or as many as hundreds of basic cable stations, so. Even for several unpopular channels under AE TV, the number of users advertised to the outside world is between 30 million and 90 million, but in fact, because it needs to share audience resources with dozens or hundreds of basic cable stations in the package. Even if the number of users is the same, the ratings are actually very different. The "America's Next Top Model" broadcast platform Lifetime suggested by Katzenberg is just like this. It is specifically aimed at female audiences under the age of 35. These TV stations are more targeted. But if TV stations like MTV are considered second-tier, Lifetime can only be regarded as a third-tier TV station. It is conceivable that the ratings are even more dismal.
Eric didn't think of broadcasting "America's Next Top Model" on a little-known TV like Lifetime, well, even though it was his own platform. But just like Warner did not put "Friends" on its own WB TV station in the previous life, but sold it to NBC, "America's Next Top Model" was placed on Lifetime, which could not fully reflect its value.
But Katzenberg's thinking is different from Eric's. Lifetime is really nothing now. But just like a seedling, if you don't water or fertilize it, it will never grow up.
After lunch, this workaholic couldn't wait to connect with the director of AE TV in New York. A group of people held a conference call all afternoon. The topic was to discuss how to further develop Lifetime in their hands. These are professionals in the TV industry , Therefore, it only took a few hours to discuss a detailed development strategy and marketing plan.
And the main strategy. It was inspired by the success of last year's "Survivor" that Lifetime was launched as a network that mainly broadcasts reality shows aimed at women.
Lifetime used to play mostly low-budget chick flicks, women's dramas, stuff like that, and it wasn't that big of a deal. The program mainly relies on buying the second and third rounds of popular programs from large TV stations. There are very few self-produced programs, and the scale of the program even ranks behind the History Channel and Criminal Minds Channel of AE TV Network. However, just in response to the saying that the boat is small and easy to turn around, now that the further development strategy has been finalized, of course it is right to do it.
first. Save America's Next Top Model for now.
Forehead.
Pit boss, this is it.
Although Eric complained a little in his heart, he did not lack the spirit of adventure. Since everyone was motivated by Katzenberg in just one afternoon, he didn't mind taking a chance, so he just I agreed.
After all, the cost of "America's Next Top Model" is indeed very low, and the format of the program is not complicated.
In fact, most reality shows in North America later had a unified 'ancestor', "Survivor". In Eric's sporadic memories, "America's Next Top Model" is basically a model version of "Survivor", with the elimination mechanism, the contestants' explicit and covert talk, and even a few episodes in each episode. Almost all the tears are left over from playing "Survivor".
But there is no way, American audiences love to watch this, otherwise "Survivor" would not have created such a sky-high ratings.
Then, Katzenberg's next actions made Eric feel that this guy's annual salary of tens of millions is really not in vain.
Not only did he ask the director of AE TV station to come to Los Angeles tomorrow to discuss this matter in more detail, but he also brought over the management staff of the TV program production department under Firefly, and discussed with Eric on the spot about the general production of "America's Next Top Model" detail.
By the time all this work was almost done, it was eight o'clock at night, eight o'clock, eight o'clock...
It seems that he complained a few days ago that some resentment would not fall on him anyway, but the retribution came so fast, within a few days, he became a resentment maker.
However, as a boss, it is of course impossible for Eric to tell his employees, hey, let's stop working so hard and leave work early.
So I had to stay with me until the lights came on.
The Oscars ceremony was almost halfway through, and Eric, Katzenberg and others came out of the meeting room and went straight to the restaurant at the headquarters.
Although after the Oscar awards ceremony, he still has to go to the party, but the hungry Eric is absolutely impossible to last until that time. Once the high-intensity work is over, most people's first reaction is usually One word, hungry.
After ordering dinner, everyone in the group knew what day it was, and immediately turned on the TV in the restaurant.
The sound came from the TV, which happened to be the best original screenplay award stage.
Both "Saving Private Ryan" and "Braveheart" were nominated for best original screenplay, but Eric has already won this award once, and he also knows the piss of the Oscars. At his age, it is impossible He was given another statuette so soon, so after getting a nomination, he completely gave up the public relations for this award.
After listening to the award presenters talk for a while, he began to introduce the nominations for the best original screenplay. Eric was a little absent-minded, but he quickly cheered up.
Because he heard a familiar name.
Of course, not "Braveheart," or "Saving Private Ryan," or "Bullets Over Broadway," the little man with the big frame, well, not "Four Weddings and a Funeral," though Eric In this film, the heroine has a very deep memory of counting her thirty-three men one by one, but she did not pay attention to the director of this film.
What lifted his spirits was a film called "Sinful Angel".
This movie has two screenwriters, one named Fran? Welsh, a soy sauce character, don't pay attention. The other one is like a thunderbolt, and his name is Peter Jackson.
Moreover, the two heroines in this film also made Eric very interested. Fat Wen withstood the powerful butterfly effect and continued to advance into Hollywood, while the other heroine was also Eric in his previous life. Melanie Lynskey is one of the most impressive actresses, and the quirky next-door stalker in "Two and a Half Men", Ross. (To be continued.)