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In the new week, several reality shows from Daenerys Entertainment continued to dominate the ratings, as this fall's TV series generally won't start airing until October.

"Who Will Be a Millionaire" is a complete G-rated reality show for all ages, and it is talked about by everyone from the elderly to the children. The highest viewership of the second episode of "Survivor" at 8 o'clock on Monday directly reached a high of 25.65 million, and it has almost locked in the ratings champion of this autumn program. The only regret of this TV program is that it only has 13 episodes. "Big Brother" and "The Beverly Wife," which were squeezed into Wednesday's schedule, also saw a steady rise in ratings due to the lack of competitors.

Finally, cbs tried to put aside the game-breaking reality show that Daenerys Entertainment had produced independently, which also started broadcasting this week, and achieved good results with an average of 13.6 million viewers in the first episode. It wasn't great, but it made three other networks with generally conservative views on reality shows regret.

It's clear that the major TV networks will definitely invest in creating their own reality shows in the next few years. Once there are explosive models among them, Daenerys Entertainment will definitely no longer be able to maintain the current initiative and huge profits.

However, Simon is not too worried about this. In my memory, reality shows have developed for more than 20 years, and there are only a few that have really reached the phenomenal level. "Who Will Be a Millionaire?" " and "The Beverly Wife" are far apart, which is enough to prove that it is definitely not that easy to create a hit.

After careful consideration over the two weekend days and subsequent workdays, Daenerys Entertainment resubmitted a revised version of Scream to mpaa's rating committee.

The time is already at the end of September. The company originally hoped that the film could be released on the Halloween schedule on October 28, and has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in pre-promotion. However, due to the delay caused by the re-rating, Daenerys Entertainment has not yet been able to sign a formal screening contract with major theater chains in North America. Seeing this situation, Simon secretly began to make other preparations.

Santa Monica.

In a conference room of the Daenerys special effects office building, the time is already Wednesday, September 28.

Simon is standing in front of the demo board and is personally introducing the script overview of the two animated films "Toy Story" and "The Lion King". At the conference table, in addition to Mark Silves and several other high-level Daenerys special effects executives, there are also Ed Catmull and John Lasseter, two former Pixar executives who have just joined the company.

After the phone call with Jobs on the plane to Australia, James Raybould and Amy Pascal have been working together for a month to complete the integration of the acquisition of Pixar, and it is now completely finalized.

Daenerys Entertainment eventually paid $20 million to buy all of Pixar's hardware and software divisions, Jobs and Pixar's original shareholding employees gave up their equity, and Daenerys Entertainment acquired full ownership of software series such as randerman, Completely make up for the shortcomings of Daenerys special effects in the technical rendering link.

After completing the acquisition, Simon's first request was to relocate Pixar to Los Angeles as a whole.

Most executives and employees, including Ed Catmull and John Lasseter, agreed, but some inevitably rejected it. Alvie Ray Smith, another Pixar technical backbone, agreed. Therefore, he withdrew from the company, and Simon let the other party leave after he kept it to no avail. The 3D animation movie is an important layout for Daenerys Entertainment in the next few years. That would keep Pixar in San Francisco.

Simon had also planned to directly change the name of Pixar to Daenerys Animation, but Ed Catmull, John Lasseter and others all wanted to keep the Pixar name, which was irrelevant, and Simon agreed.

The main purpose of this meeting was to discuss the details of porting Pixar software such as randerman to Silicon Graphics' professional graphics workstation and plans for two 3D animated films.

Pixar's original positioning is also a professional graphics workstation, but technically it cannot be compared with silicon graphics, but has software advantages such as randerman. In order to integrate Pixar software and Daenerys special effects software as much as possible to improve efficiency, Simon intends to abandon the research and development of Pixar computers, and Pixar can also focus on software and animation business.

Pixar Computer has never launched a perfect product, let alone profit, or it would not have been a drag on Jobs. Therefore, Ed Catmull and others did not object to Simon's proposal to cancel hardware development.

However, after listening to Simon's introduction to the scripts of "Toy Story" and "The Lion King", Ed Catmull said: "Simon, with our current technology, it is not difficult to realize the "Toy Story" plan, but "The Lion King" ”, if you want to show animal movements and details such as hair very vividly, the current technology cannot reach this level.”

"This is your business," Simon looked at Ed Catmull and glanced at other people in the conference room, "I don't know much about technology, but I understand that the current hardware technology is enough. To support you in accomplishing this, the hardware platform is like a brush. What you have to do is to develop software that can achieve special effects, which is equivalent to a brush. Finally, we also have no shortage of animators, so I just look forward to seeing what I want desired result.”

Mark Silves also said at this time: "Simon, this will take a long time."

Simon turned to Mark and said, "Don't

Using the term 'for a long time' is too general, how long do you need to tell me? "

Hearing this, Mark Silves communicated with Ed Catmull in a low voice, and raised his head again: "If you want to develop the technology required by The Lion King and complete the effect test, according to Daenerys The current size of the R\u0026D teams of Special Effects and Pixar will take at least two years, and this is still under the circumstance of sufficient funds."

"No problem," Simon nodded readily, two years later, it was far below his expectations: "You can recruit some more people appropriately, but be careful, it's not a good thing for a company to be too large in its initial development stage. You can guarantee your funding supply, and then you will give me the results I want." After Simon finished speaking, he turned to John Lasseter and said, "John, do you have a problem here?"

The story script of "Toy Story" is the result of many phone calls between Simon and Lasseter over the past month. When he heard Simon's question, John Lasseter, who had already made up his mind, said: "I need three years."

It is well known that the 3D animation production cycle is long. The original time and space Pixar can launch an animated film in an average of two years. In fact, it is the result of several teams working at the same time. It generally takes three or four years or even longer for an animated film to go from the script stage to the final film. This cannot be promoted by increasing the number of animators. The scale of the animated film crew is too large, which will definitely seriously affect the film’s quality. quality.

"In this case, today's meeting is here," Simon announced the end of the meeting, and said to Mark Silves: "How is the Batman cloak special effect here, I will see the effect."

At the stage of drawing the concept map of "Batman", Simon found that Batman's cape in the film was a very troublesome problem. In the process of Bruce Wayne flying over the eaves and walls, if he completely used the real cape, the effect would definitely be terrible. Simon then Considering the possibility of the cg cloak, and handing it over to Daenerys special effects for research

Mark Silves said to himself: "We just finished a CG shot of Batman's cape unfolding when he fell from a height. Although it only took 3 seconds, the effect is absolutely stunning. I was going to show you today."

Everyone got up after talking, and was about to watch the demo of what Mark Silves said, when Simon's female assistant Jennifer came over after answering a call and whispered to him: "Ms. Pascal called, she Say, the R-rated review for "Scream" was dismissed again."

Simon stopped, motioned Mark Silves and others to take care of themselves first, and said, "Are those materials ready?"

Jennifer nodded.

Simon said: "In this case, help me make an appointment with Mpaa chairman Jack Valenti. I will talk to him tonight or at noon tomorrow."

The Motion Picture Association of America (mpaa) is a trade association in general. It was established in 1922 to represent the major Hollywood studios in lobbying for government film-related bills, promoting film and television copyright protection, and formulating film and television content guidelines.

For a long time, mpaa's member companies are not static.

In the founding stage, MPAA members consisted of eight major Hollywood studios. In the past few years, with the rapid rise of a number of second-tier film companies in Hollywood, several companies such as Orion Films and De Laurentiis Entertainment also joined mpaa one after another. After several companies such as De Laurentiis Entertainment went bankrupt, these two Years and years later, the main members of mpaa are the traditional seven and the Orion.

In 1966, mpaa hired former US President Lyndon Johnson's aide Jack Valenti as president of the association, a position the powerful politician held for 22 years and will continue to do so. Jack Valenti's greatest contribution after taking office was to abolish the notorious "Hays Code" and re-establish the "voluntary film rating system". Of course, things have developed to this point, and it is basically difficult for those films that are "involuntarily" rated to enter the cinema and video market.

Simon met Jack Valentine, now 67, in Burbank in the valley at noon the next day. The headquarters of mpaa is located in Burbank near the junction of the 101 freeway and Ventura Avenue, not far from the headquarters of several major studios.

The appointed time was 12 noon, Simon arrived fifteen minutes early, and Jack Valenti stepped on the timeline to enter the restaurant.

"Simon, I have been looking forward to meeting you. The miracles you have created in the past two years are simply amazing."

Simon shook hands with the serious but very talkative old man in front of him, politely invited him to take a seat, and said, "Thank you, Jack, I also admire everything you have done for Hollywood over the years."

The two sat down and ordered two simple lunches.

When the waiter left, Jack Valenti noticed that there was an open folder in front of Simon. Although he was very clear about the young man's intention to invite him, he couldn't help but curiously said, "Simon, I was just looking at it. what?"

"The box office data report of the last few weeks in North America," Simon handed over the folder directly and said, "Starting from September 9th, the summer season ends, and from September 9th to September 15th, the total box office in North America in a single week will be It fell to $29.88 million. From September 16 to September 22, the total box office in a single week was $25.67 million. Although the data for the latest week will be released tomorrow, according to the previous weekend box office situation, from September 23 to September 29 Japan's one-week total box office should also be only $27 million. Compared to last year, only the 19th week of the North American one-week box office slipped below $30 million."

Jack Valenti listened to Simon, glanced at the report on the folder, and sighed: "The impact of the strike on the industry is too great."

Simon nodded in agreement and said, "I have roughly checked the October release list. If Daenerys Entertainment's "Scream" can't be released on time on October 28, the entire October schedule will be limited. There were only five films with more than 500 screens, compared with nine in the same period last year, which is almost halved."

Jack Valenti didn't expect Simon to turn the topic directly to "Scream", and after thinking about it, he said, "Simon, the rating committee is very strict and fair, your film should really need it. Change it again."

"Really?" Simon asked back, raised his finger to the document in front of Jack Valenti, and said, "Jack, there are two memos under the report, one is the rating committee's revision opinion for "Instinct", accurate To the extent that a certain shot needs to be shortened by 2 seconds, the revision opinions obtained by "Scream" are very general, and only roughly require us to modify some clips in the film that are even more than ten minutes long. Is it fair?"

Just now, Jack Valenti noticed that there were other documents under the box office report that Simon handed over. At this time, he opened it and glanced at it, then closed it again, with a bitter smile on his face, and said, "Simon, you have to understand, you It's no use looking for me, I'm not in control of this matter."

Since 1966, Jack Valenti has been the chairman of mpaa for 22 years. He does have a high reputation in the industry, but in the final analysis, he is just an employee of the big Hollywood studio. Jack Valentine wouldn't be able to stay in this position if it weren't for the fact that he's done everything in Hollywood's interest over the years.

Therefore, it is obviously impossible for Jack Valentine to change the willingness of traditional big film companies to suppress Daenerys Entertainment, a latecomer.

"Of course I understand," Simon nodded and said, "Jack, I just need you to help me spread the word to some people."

Jack Valentine made a please-speak gesture.

Simon glanced at the document in front of Jack Valenti again and said: "The North American box office has fallen below $30 million for three consecutive weeks. I believe the same will be true for some time in the future. The box office will shrink throughout the year-end schedule. This is because of the previous Hollywood writers' strike, Jack, why do you think the writers are on strike?"

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