Heads Up Hollywood

This year's Oscars ceremony was brought forward to the end of February.

So the list of nominations will be announced at the end of January.

The film of the new Universal series once again leads the group!

Although it can't compare to last year's miracle of monopolizing half of the Oscars, it still has the largest number of nominations in the industry.

Of course, from the perspective of the official Oscar promotion, the nominated films are evenly distributed, and the rain and dew are evenly distributed, and there is no such thing as a dominance.

After all, the New Universal Group has too many film companies, Universal Pictures, Marvel Pictures, Pixar, Focus Pictures, Rose Pictures...

Nominated for Best Picture, Rose Pictures' "Lost in Translation" and Universal Pictures' "Rising Age";

Best Actor, Bill Murray of "Lost in Translation" and Mel Gibson of "Gone Girl" are nominated, both films are produced by Rose Films;

Best Actress, Rose Pictures once again showed its strength, "Gone Girl" Nicole Kidman and "The Devil" Charlize Theron were nominated. In addition, Naomi Watts participated in the focus Film Industry's "21 Grams" was also nominated;

Best Director, nominated for Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation;

Best Original Screenplay, nominations for "Finding Nemo" and "Lost in Translation";

Best Adapted Screenplay, nominated for "The Pentium Era";

Best Supporting Actor, Benicio Del Toro nomination for "21 Grams"…

In this nomination list, New Universal Group has received a total of 29 Oscar nominations. Among them, "The Pentium Age" received 7 nominations, "Daredevil", "Finding Nemo", "Lost in Translation", "Gone Girl" Each received 4 nominations.

Tang En breathed a sigh of relief when the list of awards was announced.

During this time, he had a lot of troubles.

If it really affects the treatment of New Universal's films in the Oscars, it will be a big loss.

Movies are the leader!

Fortunately, with the transfer of a series of contradictions, the industry's views on New Universal's closure of the MGM label have undergone drastic changes from the previous period.

One more thing, the director of this year's Oscar Awards Ceremony is Twain's old acquaintance - Joe Ruth!

This guy, who was an executive at Disney back then, was beaten all over the place by Tang En in the competition for the box office of the movie, and then he was fired miserably and founded Revolutionary Pictures.

However, Joe Ruth's level is really high.

He is in charge of this year's Oscars, and it is very likely that it will set a ratings record in recent years and become the most watched awards ceremony.

In the early stage of publicity, he completely adopted the method of film, with continuous promotional films, and also infiltrated Oscar into the talk show, with frequent methods and many tricks.

It's a pity that the sky fails to fulfill people's wishes.

With the announcement of the Oscar awards list, the Oscars, which are in full swing, suddenly broke out in a piracy crisis.

"A pirated version of "The Last Samurai" appeared? How is that possible?" Tang En frowned, a little surprised.

The film "The Last Samurai" is still in theaters.

According to the habit of Hollywood, the movie will only be released on DVD after the movie is released in theaters. Pirates have the opportunity to make pirated discs.

You can't make a gun version of the dvd, can you? Who will buy it?

Bill McNick said: "It's a judge named Carl My Caridi, who once starred in the "Godfather" series. In this selection, he received two discs from Warner, "Mystic River" and "The Best Samurai". That's normal. However, he remembered that he had a good friend who hadn't seen "The Last Samurai", so he gave him the disc."

The Oscar nomination model requires the production company to send the DVD of the film to the Oscar judges and relevant jury members for them to watch and then judge.

Therefore, in this process, the confidentiality of DVD discs is very important.

Once leaked, it will extremely affect the interests of the production company.

Although the interests of rival Warner have been violated, this trend cannot last long!

Tang En was very angry and scolded: "This judge is simply unforgivable!"

According to the requirements of the academy, the judges are strictly prohibited from giving the award discs to third parties, even watching them.

Bill McNick sighed and said, "Yeah, his friend's name is...Russell? He's also an idiot. After watching "The Last Samurai", he even digitized the contents of the DVD and put it on the Internet. Although the network supervisor decisively blocked and dealt with it, the download volume exceeded 2 million times."

At a price of $20 for a disc, 2 million downloads... is almost equal to a reduction in sales of $40 million!

For Warner Bros., this is a hemorrhage!

Tang En said in a deep voice: "Last year, in North America alone, pirated discs caused at least 3.5 billion US dollars in economic losses to Hollywood. This matter must be dealt with seriously! We must be consistent with Warner! That man is called Cary Dee's judges must be fired and permanently deprived of the qualifications of Oscar judges!"

In the history of the Oscars, there have been many judges who have lost their voting eligibility.

For example, Lao Mouzi, Gong Huang and others in mainland China.

The main reason is that they never vote for the Oscars and never participate in the awards.

According to the academy's regulations, their qualifications as lifetime Oscar judges will be automatically cancelled.

However, the academy has never voluntarily fired an Oscar lifelong judge!

There is no doubt that under the joint operation of Warner and New Universal, and the bad influence caused by this matter, Karl Mai Khalidi will become the first in history!

Bill McNick nodded and said, "Warner has filed a lawsuit in the court. The Oscar Organizing Committee has also made an announcement, stating that it will deal with it severely."

Tang En waved his hand, and said solemnly: "The bastard who digitized the disc and uploaded it to the Internet must also be arrested and sentenced severely! Inform Warner and the academy that New Universal is willing to help in this matter!"

"ah?"

Bill McNick froze for a moment.

What do you mean?

White help, do charity?

With Tang En's character, it's not like that!

He has never been too early for nothing!

"Ahem..."

Tang En coughed a few times, and said solemnly: "If such a big incident happened, we must find a solution from a technical point of view. When the production company sends DVDs to the judges, it is inevitable that various All sorts of accidents. How about doing special encryption for all participating movie dvds, which can limit the number of playbacks, digital conversion, and copying of discs, and set tracking codes."

Bill McNick's eyes lit up, "This is a good idea! If it can be done, it will be a necessary means to solve this kind of piracy crisis, and the academy will definitely agree."

Tang En said: "Of course! We can cooperate with the academy."

"we?"

"Dolby Laboratories definitely has this kind of technology! Even if it doesn't, it should be developed immediately. This will be an opportunity for the Dolby brand to become famous! This accident and Warner's lawsuit are free publicity for Dolby Laboratories."

Tang En completely looked like a profiteer.

Special encryption for dvd, very simple to handle.

Now, the hd-dvd high-definition disc jointly launched by Toshiba and Microsoft has been launched on the market, and the response is very good.

Dolby Laboratories is secretly decoding and researching related technologies of hd-dvd.

Because, the video disc player produced by Toshiba can only play HD-DVD discs, but cannot play Blu-ray format; later, after the appearance of Blu-ray discs, the DVD player launched by Sony cannot play hd-dvd format.

This is an opportunity to see the needle!

In the golden age of high-definition video discs from 2005 to 2010, DVD players had a very broad market, with an annual global output value of more than 100 billion US dollars, and there was a huge profit margin.

If Dolby Laboratories can be the first to launch a video disc player compatible with both hd-dvd and blu-ray high-definition formats, it is conceivable that it will quickly occupy the vast virgin land of video disc players.

New Universal's current partner is Toshiba, but like Warner, the cooperation period is only 3 years, that is to say, it will expire in 2006.

As the world's largest provider of film and television content, New Universal will definitely be strongly wooed by Toshiba and Sony!

It is conceivable that New Universal, which is caught in the middle, has a chance to reap the benefits.

It's 2004 and the Blu-ray format isn't out yet, but plan ahead.

Let's make Dolby famous first!

Right now, they can take advantage of the Oscar farce to attract a wave of popularity and reputation for Dolby Laboratories.

Bill McNick was only the person in charge of the film and television entertainment department, and he was unaware of Tang En's plans. But based on his understanding of Tang En, he could quickly guess that there must be a big plan behind this.

"In this matter, we help Oscar share the pressure, and the Academy will definitely reciprocate. Dolby Laboratories... will definitely have the opportunity to cooperate with Oscar in depth."

"By the way, what does the MPAA Association say?"

Bill McNick shook his head and said: "The views are unanimous, and MGM must withdraw."

Tang En waved his hand, "MGM is about to close down, so it's no problem to quit, I mean... Is it possible for Tang En Pictures or Rose Pictures to replace MGM's position?"

In the MPAA Film Association, there are seven main members, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, MGM and Disney.

They formed a committee to review the ratings of all films released in North America.

This is why movies from major studios usually get better grading results.

Now, MGM has merged into the New Universal Group, which means it is the same as Universal Pictures.

In order to ensure fairness and fairness, mpaa requires New Universal to reserve only one quota.

Of course Dunn didn't want to.

One more quota, one more power, one more right to speak!

Bill McNick said sternly: "The Film Association is a semi-official organization, and the chairman is directly appointed by the White House. It is difficult for us to use market share to influence."

"All right."

Tang En shrugged, his face calm.

No way, this is normal.

Warner robbed RKO's assets, MGM acquired United Artists Pictures, and Sony acquired MGM in the previous life. They all had such encounters-forced withdrawal.

Officials want to keep the Hollywood market competitive.

But is it useful?

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