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Los Angeles.

The 46th Golden Globe Awards ceremony held on January 28 has completely become a joke in the eyes of many people.

Although there are no clear rules, the convention that has developed over the years is that the selection of film awards is usually five nominations for one award.

However, this year's Golden Globes completely released themselves.

Best Picture in the Drama category, seven nominations; Best Director, six nominations; Best Supporting Actor, six nominations; and even Best Original Song in the Technical category, six nominations are still given.

The film awards of the Golden Globes are not as comprehensive as the Oscars. There are four unconventional nominations at one time, which makes the organizers of the Golden Globes, who have been criticized for various scandals over the years, even more unprofessional.

If a series of unconventional nominations were just ridiculed, the final chaotic results of the awards completely made the Golden Globes the target of a large number of media attacks.

Double-yolked eggs in film awards are not uncommon. The competition between two films of equal strength is too fierce. The judges will divide the awards equally, and sometimes it will become a good talk.

But, three yolk eggs, have you seen it?

Five nominations and three winners, how can the other two be so sympathetic?

That's what happened at the Golden Globes.

And there's more than one.

Counting TV awards, there were a total of two "three-yolk eggs" and three "double-yolk eggs" at the 46th Golden Globe Awards. When the three actresses, Sigourney Weaver, Jodie Foster and Shirley MacLean, who also won the best actress in a drama, stood on the podium together, in the live camera shot, the audience was full of Embarrassed.

Then a series of three-yellow eggs and double-yellow eggs came one after another, and everyone was embarrassed to the point of numbness.

Moreover, the results of the awards are completely unconvincing.

Best Picture in a Drama Series was awarded to Sigourney Weaver's biopic "Mist Locks". "Dead Poets Society" was unfortunately not selected, and the organizers of the Golden Globe Awards have already clarified that "Rain Man" did not declare for this year's award, which is reasonable.

"Mist Locks" is indeed an excellent movie.

However, the Best Picture in a Musical Comedy category was awarded to "Working Girl," which surprised everyone.

At the original nomination stage, the nomination of Mike Nichols' new work "Working Girl", the former director of "The Graduate" and "Spring Night", has already caused some controversy. Both "The Graduate" and "A Night in the Spring" can be called classics, but "Working Girl", a business war movie that clearly followed last year's "Wall Street", is very mediocre, and its nomination is completely unworthy of its name.

Compared with "Wall Street", which is highly professional but not obscure, "Working Girl" just tells a very old-fashioned workplace story.

A clerk, Tessie (Melany Griffith), provides a business plan for her female boss, Catherine (Sigourney Weaver). Taissie discovered the truth by accident, pretended to be her boss and went directly to the target company, and met Jack (Harrison Ford), an executive of the other company. Tessie and Jack sparked a spark. With Jack's help, Tessie was promoted and Katherine was fired.

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"Wall Street" has professional business confrontation, fierce intrigue, and Gordon Gecko's "greed is good" that shows the greedy nature of capital. As for "Working Girl", probably only Mike Nichols won the best director Oscar for "The Graduate" twenty years ago.

The other four films nominated in the same period, in addition to Universal's "Midnight Rush", which is not outstanding, the other "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "A Fish Named Wanda" and "Flying Beyond the Future" are significantly better than the other films. "Working Girl" is excellent. Not to mention Daenerys Entertainment's "When Harry Met Sally" and "Steel Magnolia," which apparently also deserved the best picture in the musical comedy category, but didn't even get nominated. get.

In the face of strong controversy, the organizers of the Golden Globes can only explain publicly that "When Harry Met Sally" also did not declare a nomination. As for "Steel Magnolia", the jury believed that the film was more inclined to drama, so it did not give a nomination to the musical comedy category.

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Daenerys Entertainment didn't come home empty-handed at the Golden Globes this time, when someone was clearly pushing too hard on PR, with Best Director for Dead Poets Society and Best Supporting Actress for "Steel Magnolia" already reached Simon's expectations were met, and he had no dissatisfaction.

In Simon's view, film awards that can be manipulated by influence are good awards. If it is too fair, it will be very troublesome.

Of course, this indifferent attitude certainly cannot be shown.

Not only that, in order to put pressure on the upcoming Oscars, Daenerys Entertainment also launched a public opinion offensive in a timely manner, to complain about the company's films that were unfairly treated at the Golden Globes.

This strategy is usually very effective.

Just like the original time and space because no black people were nominated in a certain Oscar, someone jumped out and shouted a few times, so the next year immediately gave a best film with an all-black production team, and all director and actor awards were nominated. There were also black people, and a few golden statues were taken away. The proportion is astounding.

Then, on Wednesday, February 1st.

The nominations for the 61st Academy Awards have been announced.

Daenerys Entertainment's "Rain Man" won 8 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor

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Moreover, Simon's name also appeared in the eight nominations, and the nomination award was the best soundtrack. Because he could not find Hans Zimmer, who was not yet famous, after taking over the later stages of "Rain Man", Simon personally completed the soundtrack of the film with reference to the version in his memory.

"Dead Poets Society" also won two nominations for Best Director and Best Actor.

In order to avoid competition with "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily gave up the application for the best picture of "Dead Poets Society", but another application for the best original screenplay was not shortlisted.

In addition, the company also declared 3 nominations for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for "Steel Magnolia", but only Julia Roberts was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and the other two nominations were the same fail.

Counting down, Daenerys Entertainment has a total of 11 nominations at the upcoming Oscars.

This kind of achievement is not conspicuous. Warner has won six films through "Dangerous Relationship", "The Unexpected Passenger", "Mist Locked Dangerous Love", "Rookie Parker", "Beetle Juice" and "Achieving Nothing". 19 nominations.

However, except for Sandra's "Dangerous Relationship", which featured 7 nominations, the other films received basically non-core nominations.

On the other hand, because Orion still focuses on "Mississippi is Burning", "Pulp Fiction", whose copyright is in the other's hands, has only received one John Travolta nomination for best actor this time, compared to The Golden Globes are also missing a screenplay nomination.

As the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, Pulp Fiction has no doubts about its reputation and box office.

After returning empty-handed at the Golden Globes and being ignored by Oscar, many media couldn't help but complain about the film. Because of this Oscar nomination, Mike Nicholson's "Working Girl" still won a lot, winning a total of 6 nominations including best picture and best director.

After the Oscar nominations were announced, a Variety critic sharply criticized the Golden Globes and Oscar organizers for putting together a film with Rain Man, Pulp Fiction, Dead Poets Society, and a film called Wang "Da's Fish", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "When Harry Met Sally" and many other super 'big year' films were forcibly downgraded to a mediocre film through their own insider award selection. 'Little Year'.

The critic also made no secret of pointing the finger at the Screenwriters Guild of America.

It is not difficult for a careful person to find that, in addition to the well-received "Rain Man", "Dead Poets Society", "Steel Magnolia", "When Harry Met Sally" produced by Daenerys Entertainment, especially Simon's "Sally". Other films, such as Pulp Fiction, were not nominated for screenplay awards.

It's a joke that Simon Westeros didn't even have a single nomination for two years in a row as the best young screenwriter of the 1980s.

The judges of the Oscar screenwriting awards are basically members of the Screenwriters Guild of America.

Daenerys Entertainment's hit reality show "Who Will Be a Millionaire" almost ended last year's strike by the Screenwriters Guild, and although the strike was settled, the deal was severely shrunk.

Under such a profound contradiction, the Writers Guild did not ignore "Rain Man", but it was already leaving room for itself. "Pulp Fiction" and other Daenerys Entertainment films, naturally, don't expect any nominations.

Of course, as the strength of Daenerys Entertainment further increases, the contradictions between the two parties will gradually be resolved.

At the end of the day, the relationship between writers and studios is always an employee-boss relationship. It is about their own jobs, whether they want to or not, most of the time people have to choose to forget or pretend to forget, and then compromise.

The turmoil in Japan's financial markets has not affected Daenerys Entertainment's operations.

After the Oscar nominations were announced, Ella Deutschman began the final phase of her PR sprint.

Meanwhile, Daenerys Entertainment also released its first film of the new year, Catherine's second feature film, Thunderbolt Blue Angels, on February 3.

Compared with blockbuster films such as "Rain Man" that are still reaping the box office steadily, "Blue Angels of Thunder" has a good reputation in film reviews, with an average of 7 points, but the box office is somewhat lackluster. In the first week of its release, "Blue Angels of Thunder" earned only $3.81 million at the box office on a total of 1,121 screens in North America, and the total domestic box office is expected to be only about $8 million.

The final production cost of "Blue Angels of Thunder" was $10 million, and the publicity cost was about $3.5 million. The $8 million North American box office, including other distribution revenue, is also doomed to millions of dollars in losses.

It's no secret in the circle that Simon and Catherine have a special relationship.

Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment didn't care too much about the film's failure. Even, selling for a whole year, and occasionally losing one or two copies, seems to be not bad.

The world can't always be abnormal.

On February 17, after more than a month of financial audits, Daenerys Entertainment's 1988 financial report was finally released.

As of December 31, 1988, Daenerys Entertainment Group had total revenue of $708 million for the year.

Because Daenerys Entertainment is still in the early stage of development, the revenue of each department of the company has not been divided too finely. For the time being, it is only divided into three major business segments: film, television and comics, and film and television derivatives with a small revenue scale. Other incomes are directly consolidated and calculated, as are expenditures such as office space purchases and private jet leasing.

in three business segments.

The total revenue of the film business was $276 million, including revenue from various types of Daenerys Pictures' series of films and revenue from channels such as theatrical and video tapes of New World Entertainment's films.

Daenerys Entertainment invested large sums of money in film production, publicity and rights acquisition last year, and films such as "Rain Man" and "Dead Poets Society" did not pay off for the company until December 31, 1988. , the income of various films under New World Entertainment is also very meager.

Excluding various costs and taxes, the net profit of Daenerys Entertainment’s film business is only $67.72 million.

In comparison, Robert Iger's TV business has revenue of $361 million, of which "Who Will Be a Millionaire" alone has contributed $196 million. Other reality shows such as "Survivor" and TV series projects such as "The Age of Innocence" left over from Shinsegae Entertainment have brought in good money.

Due to the ultra-high profit margins of Who Will Be a Millionaire, the net profit of the TV business unit is still as high as $165.75 million on the revenue of $361 million, excluding all costs.

Finally, Simon intends to request a separate accounting for the Marvel Entertainment comics business, with annual revenue of $71.32 million and net profit of $5.26 million.

In fact, Marvel has been consistently profitable since 1975 under the leadership of both Stan Lee and James Gold.

Although the North American comics industry has continued to shrink in recent years, and Marvel's net profit margin of less than 10% is also a bit low, if it weren't for the bankruptcy and liquidation of Marvel's parent company Candace Industrial Holdings Group in 1986, this comics company would not be easily sell.

So, all calculated, Daenerys Entertainment Group's annual net profit in 1988 reached 238.73 million US dollars.

With a net profit of US$238.73 million, not to mention Hollywood's second- and third-tier film companies, even the seven major studios, only Warner, Paramount and Disney can exceed this figure. Among them, Warner calculates the performance of the entire Warner Bros., not just Warner Bros. Pictures.

As for the others, Columbia and MGM lost money last year. Universal only supported the film performance of the last two years with "Dragon Brother and Mouse" at the end of last year. The profit of the entire mca group in 1988 was less than 200 million US dollars. Barry Dee Le's business focus has been on network expansion, and Fox is barely keeping up.

In fact, the current situation is not that Hollywood studios are underpowered, but that Daenerys Entertainment is doing too well.

Even if it expands to other companies in North America, according to Forbes' revenue and profit data of the top 500 American companies, statistics in 1988 have not yet been completed, but with reference to 1987, Daenerys Entertainment's $238 million profit scale is enough to squeeze into North America. Top 70 of the local top 500 list.

In this era, except for a few dozen companies such as Ford Motor and General Electric, the profit scale can reach 1 billion. More than 95% of the companies on the North American Top 500 list have an annual profit scale of less than 1 billion US dollars and a net profit of more than 1 billion. There are only about 150 companies with billions of dollars.

Therefore, when this financial data, which would definitely make too many people jealous, came out, several executives of Daenerys Entertainment unanimously decided to keep it as secret as possible.

There have been various speculations about the profit scale of Daenerys Entertainment in 1988, and most of the media's analysis is also very accurate.

However, just like many well-known big closets in Hollywood, as long as a star does not come out publicly, even if there are many traces to prove that he is gay, fans who are often reluctant to face reality are still happy to believe that this is not the case.

In the same way, as long as Daenerys Entertainment does not disclose detailed financial data, other Hollywood studios will only subconsciously ignore it.

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