I’m in Hollywood Chapter 819: How is it possible
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After the announcement of the best original song nomination, the next announcement is the nomination of the best soundtrack.
"Titanic" has failed in the nomination of the best original song, Eric realized that if the Golden Globe Award judging committee really wants to suppress the movie according to the wishes of some people, it may only be on the best soundtrack. Symbolically give a nomination.
However, after Mila Sorvino successively read out five nominated films, Eric still did not hear the name of "Titanic".
Finger tapped lightly on the glass table a few times, Eric mouth corners were raised, murmured angrily: "There is no need to do so."
Suddenly feeling a little sad, Eric handed over the Kevin in his arms to Virginia, reached for a blank New Year's card, and bowed his head to fill in the card.
In the living room, the sound on the TV continued, and the women all realized that Eric was feeling a little irritable at this time, carefully keeping quiet and not disturbing him.
On the TV, the host of NBC and two guests continued to announce a long list of nominations, and from time to time a few playful words lively atmosphere.
Two nominations that should have been the easiest to get unexpectedly failed. Eric felt that the Golden Globe Award judging panel was probably not a nomination for "Titanic" this time. There was no expectation anymore, holding a pencil and patiently celebrating the New Year The card is painted with English in floral style, trying to calm down some of my irritability recently.
After the nomination of the best foreign language film was announced, the host teased the nominated film, and Mira Sorvino once again came up with a list and read into the microphone: "Next, get the most Golden Globe Award The best screenwriter nominated films are: Tom · Stoppard, Mark · Norman, "Shakespeare in Love"; Terrence · Malick, "Red Alert"; Ethan · Cohen, Joel · Cohen, "Ice Blood Storm"; Zhan Sa Di, "Shining Style" and ... James · Cameron, "Titanic". "
Eric has raised his head when he feels the deliberate pause made by Mira Sorvino in the TV.
When I heard the name of "Titanic", small girl not far away was immediately excited: "Eric, we got the nomination."
Eric nodded slightly, but with doubts in his expression, he did n’t quite understand the intention of Golden Globe Award to do this. Could the two nominations just be an accident, the Golden Globe Award jury was not affected, and Titanic will still hope to get the best Nominations for core awards such as movies?
With a little anticipation in mind, Eric listened quietly to the nomination press conference, but the quietly rising expectations soon fell short.
Next, he didn't hear any words about "Titanic". "Titanic" only ended up with a slightly embarrassing nomination for the best screenwriter, and got nothing else.
Normally, film awards such as Oscar and Golden Globe Award that at least seem to maintain their credibility at the surface are relatively fair at the nomination stage. If it was in previous years, the quality of "Titanic" itself is there, even if Golden Globe Award is in some people. Under the influence of wanting to suppress it deliberately, you also need to weigh the risk of credibility loss caused by it.
However, after reading the nomination conference, Eric generally understands that this year's situation is very different from the past.
According to the usual saying, this year will definitely be a Oscar year, and it can be regarded as a super year.
Only from the Golden Globe Award nomination list, it can be seen that the four films "Shakespeare in Love", "Red Alert", "Ice Blood Storm", and "Shining Style" have nominated more than five on average, and they are exceptionally strong. Others Movies such as "Mr. Sweetheart", "Master of Sex Books", "Mrs. Belon" are also quite eye-catching.
In this case, the Golden Globe Award jury can be said to be 'no fear', so many excellent films are in front, even if "Titanic" is nominated, the judges of Golden Globe Award don't think that such a pure commercial blockbuster can be in the crowd I won the award under the look around. Since "Titanic" had no hope of receiving the award at all, if I did not nominate it at this time, there would be no risk of losing credibility in the future.
Even, Eric realizes that this best screenwriter is stupid. If "Titanic" gets nominated for the best original song and the best soundtrack, with the strength of the film in this soundtrack, it can still be compared with other films. Compete against each other. These two nominations failed, and only one best screenwriter nomination was given. This is obviously someone who wants to let "Titanic" go 100% empty-handed, without giving the film a hint of breakthrough.
"Eric ..."
Notice that Eric's silence seems to be a bit long, and Virginia beside him gave a soft call.
"I'm fine," Eric looked back, looked at the woman's concerned eyes, smiled, paused a little, and suddenly whispered to himself again: "I'm just introspecting, Hollywood's Film Studio, isn't it too much. "
Virginia did not notice the determination that flashed in the eyes of Eric and asked, "How much do you think is appropriate?"
"Big Four, or Big Three," Eric shrugged slightly: "Less, or all of them are family members, so you don't always think about others' bowls breaking, so you can eat more."
Virginia also felt some strong emotions in the tone of Eric, smiled, and still said: "Then, how is it possible."
What I ’m about to say, the phone on the glass vibrated, Eric looked at the number, it was Katzenberg from Los Angeles.
Eric picked up the phone, gestured to the women, got up and said, "I'll answer the phone."
When Eric and Katzenberg discussed the possible impact of the Golden Globe Award nomination on the phone, Los Angeles Beverly Hills Manor, in a mansion, had just watched the live broadcast of Michael · Eisner in TV but the mood was very happy.
Hollywood is also a business industry. Shopping malls are like battlefields. Although the competition among several major Film Studios will not create a fierce confrontation between you and your life, the parties are also natural enemies and can be among your competitors. When the cliff edge is pushed, everyone will not be soft.
The Michael · Eisner was also involved in the operation of the Titanic Golden Globe Award nomination, but he will not make the same mistake a few years ago and no longer believes in a loose temporary alliance, but hides behind the scenes. promote. Everyone is involved, everyone is silent, no one is involved, Michael · Eisner doesn't matter, but this time, there are a lot of pushers behind the initiative.
Although the relationship with Eric has eased in the past few years, he will never forget that he was expelled from Disney's. As Firefly grows step by step in recent years, Michael · Eisner feels even more If, at that time, he was not forced to leave Disney, the current status and glory of Firefly in the Hollywood industry may be his.
After all, in the past two years, the development of Universal in Film Industry business can be said to be second only to Firefly. In the summer season this year, the total amount of Box Office in Universal has even overtaken. He feels that this has proved his strength enough.
However, Michael · Eisner also realized that the development of Universal Pictures has entered a bottleneck stage.
In recent years, with the rapid expansion of the global film market, Hollywood has gradually realized the powerful advantages and huge profits of the big production special effects films in the global distribution. However, the entire Hollywood, except Firefly, has sufficient strength to produce more than three films per year In addition to the details of the special effects blockbuster, the other six majors, if there is no special effects technical support in the digital field of Firefly, it is impossible to complete these unless the requirements for the quality of film special effects are greatly reduced.
Whether it is Warner or Universal, Paramount, all resources are exhausted, and probably only one or two "blockbuster" movies featuring special effects each year. The restrictions are not much related to funds, mainly. CG special effects technology.
With the development of the digital field today, in addition to the Los Angeles headquarters, two subsidiaries have been established in Florida and Australia. The total staff size has exceeded 2,300 people. Moreover, talents are still second, as long as they are willing to spend a lot of money, the top Special effects technicians can also dig in.
However, compared with other special effects studios in Hollywood, the biggest advantage in the digital field is the accumulation of CG special effects technology. Eric Williams was a few years ahead of other peers in that year, and invested heavily in the research and development of computer CG special effects technology. At this time, The scale of large-scale rendering farms in the field of special effects software, rendering technology, and even hardware in the digital field must be two to three years ahead of other peers. The gap between them has not been narrowed by digging corners and investing heavily.
Even if I was very resistant to cooperating with Firefly, Universal had to hand over a lot of difficult special effects lenses to the digital field when producing "The Mummy2". Several other major Film Studio also depend more or less on the digital field . It is precisely this dependence that has provided more opportunities for technology research and development and accumulation in the digital field, prompting it to set aside its industry peers farther away.
At this time, several other big Film Studios actually found a cruel fact: if Firefly cut off external cooperation in the digital field, then, there is no doubt that they will have difficulty in producing special effects in the next few years. Film works that are enough to compete with Firefly.
For Firefly Group with an annual turnover of more than 20billion USD, even if "Titanic" is completely lost, it will not have any substantial impact on this company only in economic terms. But many things are not measurable by simple money.
The total investment in the production and distribution of "Titanic" reached 2.6500 million USD, which is unprecedented in the history of Hollywood film. Once such a large-scale film project fails, the confidence in the production of Firefly Group is hard to measure.
Michael · Eisner is expecting this result.
Although Eric has absolute control over Firefly, in the end he cannot completely ignore the wishes of management and other shareholders, which will only make Firefly Group into turmoil. When a big project like "Titanic" fails, Firefly shareholders and executives will inevitably reflect on the film production and distribution strategies in recent years, and the result of this reflection must be a long time in the future, Firefly It will tend to be conservative in film production.
With a staff size of 2300 in the digital field of Firefly, it is enough to support the production of four to six special effects films at once. Once the Firefly film production scale becomes conservative due to the failure of Box Office of "Titanic", the digital field must rely on accepting external orders In order to ensure that its more than two thousand employees will not have nothing to do, then, at least in the next few years, the possibility of Firefly cutting off external cooperation in the digital field will not exist, and the pace of development of the Firefly Film Industry service will be slowed down. Other Film Studio have enough time to catch up with Firefly in the production of film production and special effects technology, and wait for Firefly Group to recover from the failure of "Titanic". Perhaps, the starting line of everyone will not be so far away.
Firefly was secretly promoted on Golden Globe Award. Michael · Eisner is not going to continue to do anything extra. Now almost the entire industry is singing "Titanic", even the inside of Firefly Group is not reported. Too much hope, the failure of "Titanic" is almost inevitable, and he has begun to consider the development plan of Universal next year.
The production of "The Mummy3" is somewhat difficult. The continuous success of the first two parts has caused the remuneration from the producer to the protagonist of the movie to rise sharply. Production is started immediately, whether it is to change the corner to compress the budget or increase the budget to invite the original class Both Renma and Universal will take a very large risk, so Michael · Eisner decided to launch the Scorpion King movie derived from the "The Mummy" series. This was an inspiration that he generated when he saw this project a long time ago.
Combing the various thoughts in my mind, it was almost ten o'clock unconsciously. Michael · Eisner's wife Jan Breckenridge began to urge her husband to rest. Michael · Eisner had a shocking heart two years ago After the quadruple bypass surgery, although the recovery is good, people with a bad heart are also most taboo to stay up late. In this regard, Jane is very concerned about her husband.
Michael · Eisner heard his wife's urging, got up from the living room sofa and walked to the bedroom, but he was thinking about it. Tomorrow about George · Lucas for dinner and talk about the cooperation between Universal Pictures and Industrial Light & Magic.
Despite the strong support of Microsoft, Michael · Eisner is not optimistic about the Amberg Berlin Film Industry that Spielberg collaborated with, so Universal is not too active in competing for the distribution rights of the Amberg Berlin Film Industry film, but Michael · Eisner is very Pay attention to the development prospects of Industrial Light & Magic. Although this special effects company is a bit far away from the digital field, as a veteran special effects giant, Industrial Light & Magic is also the last industry company that may catch up with the digital field. Michael · Eisner is very clear that only Industrial Light & Magic has developed. In the digital field, everyone can avoid being caught by Firefly suddenly. (To be continued.)