Santa Monica Airport.

Amy, who returned from a trip to San Francisco's "Angel Mission" crew, stepped off the company's Falcon business jet with her assistant Vanessa, the driver already waiting next to the runway.

The two women got into the car, and the driver started the car and drove towards Burbank, where a meeting was waiting for Amy.

Sitting in the back of the car, Amy was about to take advantage of the time on the road to flip through some documents when she heard a small sound coming from the car radio in front of her and looked up. The driver noticed Amy's movements and reached out to turn off the radio, but Amy stopped him and motioned for him to turn up the sound louder.

"Michael, you mean that "Dead Poets Society" only won the Best Director award, and it was completely a black-box operation?"

"That's right, it's so unfair to Barry Levinson, the director of Rain Man, who created a great movie and didn't get the credit he deserved. Moreover, I haven't heard of a film that has won only one award for Best Director, it's a joke. ”

"Okay, Michael, please don't get excited, have you seen Mike Nicholson's The Graduate?"

"Of course, I love this movie. ”

"I have to regret to tell you that The Graduate also won only one Best Director award that year. ”

"Oh, really?"

"Really. ”

But, at the very least, Simon Westeros' Best Score award is also fraught with problems, he may be a good soundtrack, but compared to John Williams and others, he is not at all qualified for Best Score Statuette, which is simply the PR result of Daenerys Entertainment. ”

"Well, thanks for calling, Michael. This is the Voice of Los Angeles, I'm your good friend John McLauren, and today's topic is 'What happened to this Oscars?' and we're going to answer the next listener's call. ”

"Hi Matthew, good afternoon. ”

"Hello, ma'am, what is your name?"

"Andy," the female voice on the other end of the phone didn't wait for the host to continue asking, "First of all, I'd like to say, Matthew, that guy just now was a complete idiot full of prejudice. ”

"Please don't attack anyone else, Andy, but you can have your own opinions. ”

"Everyone can see that this Oscar, Daenerys Entertainment is the one who has been treated unfairly. The studio made so many great films last year, "When Harry Met Sally", "Vulgar", "Rain Man", "Dead Poets Society", "Steel Magnolia", oh, I love "Steel Magnolia" so much, I watched it five times, and my mother cried watching it. and "When Harry Met Sally", Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are a perfect match. However, the Oscars only gave Daenerys Entertainment 11 nominations this time, almost half less than Warner's 19 nominations, but Warner's films really don't interest me at all. ”

"Warner, well, Sigourney Weaver's 'Foglock Danger' is pretty good. ”

"Haha, look, Matthew, you have to recall this when you talk about it, but you definitely don't have to react to list a long list of Daenerys Entertainment's films. ”

"Perhaps, but that's mostly because of the theme of the show. I'm going to be neutral, Andy, and you can go on. What is your opinion on Michael's opinion on the best score for Barry Levinson and Westeros?"

"I'm still saying that, he's an idiot," Andy ignored Matthew's reminder of 'civilizing you, me and him', insisted on such an evaluation, and continued: "Anyone who has followed the gossip of "Rain Man" knows that Barry Levinson withdrew from the project in the later stages of the film, not only that, but he also publicly accused Daenerys Entertainment of interfering in the later stages of "Rain Man" in an interview, and stated that this project has nothing to do with him, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise also publicly sided with Levinson at the time, and at the same time cooperated with "Rain Man" Make a clean break. Now that the movie is a success, they're taking credit for it, and it's disgusting, Dustin Hoffman's speech at the Oscars is a clown, he's slapping himself in the face. The finished film of "Rain Man" that we saw on the big screen, which has nothing to do with Levinson, was led by Simon Westeros in the later stage, and he also wrote the soundtrack himself, without Westeros there would be no work, and he certainly deserves the award for best score, or even more. ”

“......”

Amy listened intently to the radio talk show along the way.

The calls and speeches from various listeners in the program basically covered the controversy and discussion in the media about the 61st Academy Awards during this time.

Today is Friday, April 7th.

In the past week or so, media public opinion has not cooled down at all because the dust of the Oscars has settled, and the dark war between Daenerys Entertainment and CAA continues. However, from the performance of the two listeners of the radio program just now, one is messing around and arguing with the other, which is enough to prove that Daenerys Entertainment has a clear advantage in this public opinion confrontation.

Although Dustin Hoffman's 'affectionate' acceptance speech in front of the 43 million viewers of the Oscars live touched many people, the statement of the creators of "Rain Man" who drew a line with the project in the later stages of the film cannot be extinguished.

Needless to say, many media outlets have been able to uncover a great deal of contradiction in Dustin Hoffman's two statements based on publicly available press sources.

Daenerys Entertainment secretly guided them, and media public opinion quickly leaned towards their side.

Even the only Best Director nomination for "Dead Poets Society" is taken for granted under the rendering of Daenerys Entertainment.

"Dead Poets Society" already has the strength to win many nominations such as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, but in the end it only received two nominations, not because "Dead Poets Society" is not weak, but the result of the Oscar deliberately suppressing it.

After all, a mediocre film like "Working Girl" can get a long list of nominations, which shows the extreme injustice of the Oscars.

"Dead Poets Society" won the best director in the end, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation for this film. As for Simon's award for Best Score, the company also succeeded in turning public opinion around by playing an important role in the later stages of Rain Man.

Although the company invested another $2 million in this public opinion offensive, the return was even more impressive.

During the week of the Oscars from March 24 to March 30, the single-week box office of "Rainman", which had fallen to more than $4 million, rebounded, and the box office fell by 18% in the 15th week of its release, collecting another $5.11 million, bringing the cumulative box office to $138 million.

This is not the end of it, with the release of the Oscar results and the consequent topic of great improvement, in the past week from March 31 to April 6, the box office of "Rain Man" rebounded sharply again, with a reverse decline of 42%, another $7.25 million, and a cumulative box office of more than $145 million.

At this rate, it would take only three weeks at most for "Rain Man" to surpass "Vulgar" at the box office of $156 million and become the top box office in North America in 1988.

Although the box office of "Dead Poets" did not rebound as much as "Rain Man", it also successfully surpassed "Crocodile Dundee 2" to become the tenth grossing film in 1988.

Daenerys Entertainment managed to occupy seven of the top 10 box office positions in 1988, and although "When Harry Met Sally", "Vulgar" and "Instinct" were all labelled by other studios, such a feat will be difficult to break anytime soon.

In addition, with the increasing success of "Rain Man", MGM finally found some specious loopholes in the original contract between the two parties after the Oscars, claiming $100 million from Daenerys Entertainment on the grounds that the profit distribution terms of the original soundtrack and peripheral products in several contracts were inconsistent, and at the same time claimed to regain the copyright of "The Hobbit".

A compensation of $100 million is clearly out of the question.

Everyone knew that MGM was just trying to cut a piece of fat from Rain Man.

At the same time as the lion opened his mouth, MGM's legal team had already hinted that the two sides could settle privately.

After Daenerys Entertainment's legal department evaluated the lawsuit and confirmed that the probability of MGM winning the lawsuit was extremely low, Amy decisively gave up the tendency to settle, because she knew what Simon would do in the face of this kind of thing, she did not bother Simon again this time, but replied strongly to MGM that she was ready to respond to the lawsuit at any time.

There are always too many people in this world who bully the weak and are afraid of the hard.

Although responding to the lawsuit means paying a lot of lawyer's fees, this time with a strong attitude, Daenerys Entertainment can also avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles in the future business. Moreover, with MGM's current state of decline, it will definitely not be willing to spend millions of dollars to fight a lawsuit with a very low success rate, and the scale of this lawsuit cannot be too large.

Amy rushed to Burbank headquarters, where Robert Rehm and other high-level officials in the distribution department were already waiting for her.

Entering April, the summer file is gradually approaching, and the main topic of this meeting is the publicity strategy of Daenerys Entertainment's "Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense" this summer.

Everyone sat down in the conference room, the administrative secretary handed out the meeting materials, and Robert Rem asked Amy, "How is the filming of "Angels Sent by God?"

Amy nodded: "It's going well, Daryl's performance is indeed much better than Brooke Thread, and I'm still looking forward to the future effect of the film." ”

New World Entertainment's legacy manga project "Angel God" started filming in the middle of last month.

Simon did not approve of Brooke Littles' acting skills and box office appeal, and the company's final heroine was Daryl Hannah, a Hollywood actress who has performed in films such as "Blade Runner", "Mermaid" and "Wall Street" that fits perfectly with the image of "Angel Messenger" heroine Brenda Star, and the project's script has been reworked with a budget of $15 million.

Daenerys Entertainment originally planned to undertake the investment alone, but the other two investors who signed the contract of intent during the New World Entertainment period were resolutely unwilling to withdraw, and the final negotiation result was that the three companies each paid $5 million, and Daenerys Entertainment as the publisher took 15% of the issuance commission.

The filming cycle of "Angel God" is two months, and the post-production is also two months, which is expected to be completed in mid-July, and the initial release date is early October.

The total number of films that Daenerys Entertainment has confirmed for release this year is as high as 15 since "Thunderbolt Blue Angels" at the beginning of the year, and it is impossible for all movies to be piled up in the summer and year-end files.

Of course, if the finished film of "Angel God" is good enough, the company will also make appropriate adjustments to the schedule.

Melbourne.

Because Simon was filming "Batman" in Australia, a series of waves caused by the Oscars were also transmitted here.

It is easy for most people to confirm their position based on subjective impressions.

As the son-in-law of an Australian, Simon has won two awards for Best Editing and Best Score in a row outside of his directorial career, and immediately became the most interesting topic of conversation among the Australian media and the public.

As for Simon, neither glory nor controversy has had much impact on his work.

Jennifer, seeing the controversy caused by Simon winning the Best Soundtrack award, once thought about throwing out a box of tapes called "Blizzard" again, but was stopped by Simon. There is no shortage of controversy at every Oscar, and so are many of Simon's actions. If he has to come up with evidence to prove himself every time he controversies, he will definitely be exhausted.

As the aftermath of the Oscars gradually dissipated, the filming of "Batman" is nearing its end.

In fact, the original planned 13-week shooting should have been completed by April 7. But because the suspension of filming caused by Simon's coma in February affected the progress of the film, such a big-budget film will inevitably have some other conditions later, so the filming cycle has been delayed until late April.

Fortunately, the schedule of "Batman" is December at the end of the year, and although the filming cycle is delayed, there is still plenty of time for more than half a year to complete the post-production.

This was until April 19, in the afternoon in a large studio built in an abandoned factory in the western suburbs of Melbourne.

With the end of the last scene in the Batcave, Simon carefully checked the shots that had just been filmed, and announced loudly to all the crew members on the scene: "Batman, sealed camera." ”

After more than three months of busyness, hearing Simon say this, accompanied by the applause around him, Adam Baldwin and others, who had obviously been discussed in advance, unconsciously surrounded him, lifted Simon and threw him into the waterhole in the bat cave.

Simon was suddenly caught by everyone, and although he could break free, he didn't do so, and only after entering the water did he 'struggle' to get up, laughing and shouting a few threats. After a lively scene, the crew began to clean up the scene, and a grand finale party was arranged in the evening.