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Seven major awards including Best Picture and Best Director for "Dancing With Wolves", Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay for "A Ghost Story", Best Actress for "Ten Days of Dangerous Love", Pixar The 3D animation "Little Lion" won the Oscar for the best animated short film, which is the cumulative gain of Daenerys Entertainment's films at the 61st Academy Awards.

If you don't count other honorary awards, Daenerys Entertainment's total of 11 awards accounted for exactly half of all 22 movie awards, just like the Golden Globe Awards in January, becoming the biggest winner of this year's Oscars.

Simon hasn't had much interest in going to any parties lately. However, as a boss, I need to show myself at the celebration party.

Arrived with Sofia at the Gucci-themed party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the time was approaching ten o'clock.

Running through the party crowd to congratulate tonight's winners, Simon quickly came to a middle-aged man who was chatting with John Lasseter and Ed Catmull.

The middle-aged man named Roger Allers is an animated film director and screenwriter hired from Disney by Pixar Animation Studio. He has previously participated in Disney's "Olivia Adventures" and other films, and is also the award-winning 3D animated short film tonight. Director of "Little Lion".

In the original time and space, Roger Allers happened to be the director of Disney's 2D version of the "Lion King" movie.

From the end of 1988 to the present, for more than two years, Pixar has been developing animation technology related to "The Lion King" while producing "Toy Story".

"Little Lion", which won the golden statue tonight, is the concentrated expression of Pixar's technological development achievements in the past two years.

The short five-minute film, through the short adventure of a little lion living on the savannah, comprehensively demonstrated the magnificent African savannah scenes and animal hair rendering technologies in 3D animation mode.

Now, it has successfully won the Oscar for best short film, which is enough to prove that Pixar's technology has reached the level of making a 3D version of "The Lion King", and the film will be officially launched in the near future.

After congratulating Roger Allers on winning the award, Simon added: "I will take time to watch the storyboard demo of The Lion King in the last few days, Roger, this is my gift to Jenny, if you screw it up Now, my wife will be very angry."

Although it was only an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, Roger Ellers was still quite excited tonight, and immediately nodded confidently when he heard the words: "Simon, I assure you, this will definitely be a very exciting story. "

Simon smiled, turned to John Lasseter again, and said, "John, how long will it take to complete "Toy Story", and you have already over budgeted a lot?"

In the original plan, Simon hoped to use $30 million to complete "Toy Story".

But, perhaps due to any artist's natural perfectionism, Toy Story is estimated to be months away, and John Lasseter's team has already spent $33 million.

Although Simon had a smile on his face, John Lasseter was quite nervous.

Pixar Animation is definitely the most "cheap" department under Daenerys Entertainment.

For more than two years since it was bought by Simon in 1988, other departments of the company have been prosperous, but Pixar Animation has only spent money without producing any output.

So it's clear to everyone that Toy Story is a last-ditch effort for the Pixar team. If it fails, even if there is another chance to make a comeback of "The Lion King" in hand, the next two years of the Pixar team will definitely not be easy.

After careful consideration for a moment, John Lasseter said: "Two months, Simon, give us two more months."

"Toy Story" is scheduled for the end of November this year, and the time is actually very sufficient. However, if the project lasts for one more month, it must be an additional large expenditure. Naturally, the sooner the project is completed, the better.

Simon pays attention to the progress of Pixar's work every month. He is very satisfied with the effect of the completed "Toy Story" sample, so he is not in a hurry.

The first 3D animated film will inevitably encounter various problems. Considering the profit prospects of the project, Simon was also reluctant to tolerate the overspending of the Pixar team.

However, Simon would not show this kind of indulgence, and he still beat his mouth.

Continuing to chat with John Lasseter and others for a while, Simon looked at Jennifer beside him, confirmed that everyone who should be greeted had already greeted him, and planned to leave.

Just as she and the female assistant came to the door of the party hall, Ella Deutschman walked over, accompanied by a few men and women with Asian faces.

Coming to Simon, Ella Deutschman explained: "Simon, Zhang and the others want to say hello to you."

Among Daenerys Entertainment's many nominations tonight, there is also a "Ju Dou" nominated for the best foreign language film, which is also the first time the other side of the ocean has been nominated for the Oscar for the best foreign language film.

Simon signaled Deutschman to increase his attention and introduction of Asian films, but he did not show much additional attention to "Judou".

Therefore, the film did not get a statuette.

Looking at the big coffees in front of him who could only look up in his previous life, Simon smiled and stepped forward to shake hands with them one by one: "Hello, Mr. Zhang. Also, Miss Gong, your performance in "Judou" is very exciting ."

When this greeting, Simon directly used Chinese.

Several people in front of them heard Simon Flow

Li's Mandarin showed a surprised expression, even Ella Deutschman's expression was a little strange.

After all, they are people from two worlds, just a few words of courtesy, saying that next time there is a chance to cooperate with Yunyun, Simon left the Beverly Hilton Hotel with his female assistant.

I'm going back to Dumay Cape Manor tonight.

Janet was just pregnant, and even if a woman wouldn't mind, Simon cared about her mood in these little details, so she had never spent the night away during this time.

Leaving with the female assistant is just to drop her off on the way home.

The car shuttled through downtown Los Angeles late at night, and Jennifer keenly felt some subtle changes in her mood after Simon greeted the few Orientals just now. , just holding the man's arm and gently leaning over.

In fact, there have always been many secrets in his man.

It's just that if he doesn't say it, she won't deliberately pursue it.

Sending the female assistant back to her uncle George Norman's house, Simon did not stop and continued to return to Malibu.

The second day was about the Oscars as usual.

Daenerys Entertainment won half of the golden statuettes, which naturally became the focus of media discussion.

Fortunately, although there are some politically correct factors in it, "Dancing With Wolves", which won seven major awards, did not cause too much controversy. On the contrary, many media still noticed some other products produced by Daenerys Entertainment. The fact that great films don't get nominated.

In addition, some people noticed Simon's "absence" at this year's Oscars.

It's not just the absence of the Oscars, but Simon did not receive any nominations related to him at this year's Oscars this year. For a time, some media began to speculate whether Simon was planning to retire.

After all, with Simon's current wealth, there is really no need to make movies by himself.

Facing the media's questioning, Daenerys Entertainment denied the media's speculation, but also said that Simon may not be able to pick up the guide tube in person for a long time in the future.

Due to the Oscars and the Easter schedule, the box office of "Dancing With Wolves" once again rebounded. During the week of the Oscars from March 22 to March 28, the reversed drop reached 59%, and then it closed again. 6.54 million US dollars, the film's cumulative box office also reached 139 million US dollars.

On March 29th, the second week of the Easter schedule opens.

Two other films related to Daenerys Entertainment, "Children of the Corn 3" and "One Night Crazy" from Universal Pictures, were released.

New World Pictures put a $10 million budget into "Children in the Cornfield 3", and also used a lot of the latest CG special effects, trying to make this horror film series hit the heights of "Nightmare Street" at the box office.

However, three days after the opening of the painting, the North American box office of "Children of Corn Field 3" was only $6.73 million. The box office is expected to be between 9 million and 10 million in the first week.

Making money is certain, and there is still some gap between the "Nightmare Street" series.

Of course, compared to the box office level of the first two films of 15 million US dollars, the expected double box office increase of "Children of the Cornfield 3" is still very obvious, so the fourth part of the series will still maintain a production budget level of 10 million US dollars.

"Crazy Night", produced by John Hughes, only made $4.02 million at the box office within three days of its opening.

The production budget of this romantic comedy film is 11 million US dollars, and the total North American box office is expected to be less than 15 million US dollars.

After "Crazy Night" was released at the box office, other studios that were chasing John Hughes wildly because of the success of "Home Alone" calmed down a little, and couldn't help but transfer more of the success of "Home Alone" to Simon. .

After Easter on March 31, the time entered April 1991.

AOL's three-month free trial program is coming to an end.

In the past March, the number of AOL reservation users still reached 1.5 million, and a total of 1.09 million free trial users have been accessed again.

Among the 970,000 trial users in February, 560,000 were finally converted into formal users, which was a 57% increase compared to the formal user conversion rate in January.

Relying on the data of the first two months, AOL predicts that among the 1.09 million free trial users in March, the number of regular users will reach more than 600,000.

So, in the first quarter alone, AOL will gain more than 1.5 million new users.

Counting the user accumulation before 1991, it is estimated that the number of official paying users of AOL will reach more than 2.3 million by the end of April.

Under such a strong growth momentum, because there were still a large number of users who had reserved the free trial in the previous few months, AOL officials soon announced that the free trial activity will continue until the remaining 2.5 million users who have reserved the subscription have all obtained it. Free trial opportunity.

The remaining 2.5 million subscription users, even at a conversion rate of 50%, can once again bring about 1.25 million formal paying users to AOL.

As a result, AOL will be able to reach more than 3.5 million users after the free trial is over.

Based on the average monthly consumption of a single user of US$30, it is estimated that AOL's monthly revenue will be 100% in the second half of 1991.

will reach more than $100 million.

Whether it is solid revenue data or the high growth rate visible to the naked eye, AOL's IPO valuation is constantly being stimulated.

Morgan Stanley, which officially signed a contract to win the underwriting rights of AOL's IPO, finally confirmed the valuation of AOL's IPO at $2.5 billion after several consecutive adjustments.

At a valuation of $2.5 billion, AOL is expected to raise $375 million based on AOL's planned 15 percent IPO.

Counting the rapid growth of AOL's own revenue, after the completion of the IPO, the company will completely get rid of the financial troubles that have been entangled before.

On the other hand, with the efforts of AOL and other regional Internet service providers in North America, it is estimated that in the first half of 1991, the number of users of the World Wide Web platform in North America will exceed 5 million, and the scale of hitting 10 million users in the whole year will also be Appears very relaxed.

Such a growth rate far exceeded Simon's initial expectations.

It is no wonder that Jeff Bezos quickly switched from the financial industry to invest in the Internet industry after seeing the annual growth rate of 2,300% in his memory.

As the most important content platform in the World Wide Web system, the Yggrete Portal has gradually attracted more and more attention with the explosive growth of the scale of the World Wide Web users.

You must know that in this era, the newspaper with the largest circulation in North America has an average sales volume of only more than 2 million copies.

During this time, the Igreit portal, which quickly gained fame for its coverage of the Gulf War, has more than 3 million users across North America.

Although the user base of Igreit Portal is too scattered, at this time, no one dares to ignore this rapidly growing new media platform.

Therefore, in the new quarter advertising sales activity of the Igreit portal in late March, Igreat has accumulated more than 12 million US dollars of advertising orders from ibm, Intel, Microsoft and other technology giants.

Although it is difficult for traditional daily necessities advertisements to gain too much effect on the Internet platform, it is obvious that, as an emerging new technology media platform, the Igrit portal is suitable for ibm and other technology giants to promote their products.

Jeff Bezos grasped this precisely, and specially customized a series of advertising plans for various technology companies. The $12 million advertised order, perhaps insignificant compared to traditional media giants, is a leap for the Igreit portal.

Before this, the main source of income of Igreit was only the sales of ie browser software.

Therefore, after this quarterly advertising sales campaign at the end of March, advertising revenue has officially become a revenue focus of the Igret Portal.

At the same time, the industry generally once again realized the strong monopoly advantage of the Igreit portal on the content platform of the World Wide Web.

You must know that a portal website that only provides news information may not be technically difficult, but it is not so easy to integrate functions such as e-mail, personal homepage, online forums, and online games in addition to news information. thing.

More importantly, Igreat also has very strong patent barriers.

This is the fundamental obstacle that makes it difficult for other technology companies to replicate the portal business.

On the World Wide Web platform, even if it is a very simple web page picture to many people, it is actually a professional format picture specially developed and registered by Igreat. Not to mention technologies such as the javascript scripting language involved in the underlying application.

Although Daenerys Entertainment maintains a very open licensing attitude, more and more other websites that join the World Wide Web platform can easily obtain licensing as long as they apply, and it is still free. However, it is not difficult to imagine that if someone intends to create a commercial website similar to the Igreit portal, and can successfully obtain the technical authorization from Igreat, that would be a hell.

Simon hopes that Internet content sites can flourish, so he does not intend to restrict the emergence of other content platforms, and doing so will not do any good for the expansion of the World Wide Web platform itself.

However, if it is only the patent authorization of open content, it is impossible to access the patent authorization of related technologies such as e-mail, online games and online payment in the future, and similar websites are destined to be difficult to compete with the Igreit portal.

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