After visiting Steve Ross and ending on the East Coast side, Simon traveled straight from Long Island to JFK International Airport to return to Los Angeles.

Back at Cape Dume, it's just over two o'clock on Saturday afternoon on the West Coast.

Entering the villa, Alison Norris, a girl, greeted her and told Simon Janet that she was not in the villa when she went out shopping. However, Ms. Veronica Johnston had just come in the morning.

Simon went to the baby's room on the first floor of the villa, where Veronica was standing in front of the glass window of the baby's room by the sea with Melbourne in her arms, and seemed to be whispering something to the little one.

Seeing Simon, Veronica was a little surprised, and paused in holding the child, before greeting: "You, Jenny said that you might come back on Monday." ”

"That's done over there. ”

Simon answered, walked to the sofa next to him and sat down, looked at Veronica, who was wearing a very homely light green knitted dress today, but did not say anything more.

As soon as she sat down, Girl D walked in, still holding a baby bottle in her hand.

Seeing Simon sitting on the sofa in the room, Deborah was also a little surprised, but soon greeted with a smile, handed the bottle to Veronica, and asked, "Boss, do you want something to drink?"

Simon shook his head: "You go and get busy." ”

Girl D nodded, looking casual, and only patted her chest lightly after walking out of the room.

Total feeling.

The atmosphere was so weird that my boss and my wife's aunt stayed together.

After Girl D left, Veronica hesitated, took the child to Simon's side and sat down on the single sofa, carefully dripped some milk on the back of her hand and tested the temperature, she didn't seem to be at ease, and tasted it herself, and then fed it to the little one's mouth.

"I came here in the morning, well, some things, just happened to come over to see Melbourne, and I'll be back tomorrow. ”

Veronica's voice sounded beside her, explaining to herself.

Simon hummed imperceptibly and continued to look at Veronica, who was breastfeeding the little one.

Until the little guy drank most of the bottle of milk, Veronica put the bottle aside, gently wiped the corners of the little one's mouth, and then looked at the child in her arms, and her soft eyes were a little more stunned.

After a while, Simon suddenly said: "In a few months, when the child can fly, you can take him to Australia." ”

Veronica looked up, as if she didn't understand what Simon was talking about.

Simon paused and explained, "Jenny and I both have a lot to do, and it just so happens that you've come to help take care of it for a while. ”

As the CFO of Johnston Holdings, Veronica is anything but idle.

However, after listening to Simon's explanation, Veronica nodded without hesitation: "Okay." As he spoke, he added: "Everyone is looking forward to Little Melore going to Australia for a while." ”

Janet came back after more than half an hour, listened to Simon talk about it, and did not object, she was 'sealed' by the little guy for a year, and she looked forward to having some free space.

Although it always feels a little weird, she is not worried at all about leaving the child in the care of her aunt, not to mention that there is a large family in Australia.

If it weren't for the fact that the child was too young, she would have asked Veronica to take some little annoyance away tomorrow.

This year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony is Saturday, January 18.

After the weekend, the 49th Annual Golden Globe Awards of American Film and Television are approaching.

Compared with the information in memory, the changes in the films nominated for this year's Golden Globe Awards are becoming more and more obvious.

In my original memory, the winner of this year's Golden Globe Awards, the winner of the best picture in the drama category should be Barry Levinson's biographical crime thriller "Ba Gexi" directed by "Scarface".

It's just that this time, Simon didn't see "Ba Gesi" in North American theaters last year.

After some entanglement with Daenerys Entertainment, after the last film "Avalon" failed at the box office, although Daenerys Entertainment did not show obvious targeting to the original filmmakers, Hollywood still has no studio that dares to cooperate with Barry Levinson easily.

Not only that, CAA, which should have reached the peak of its influence in recent years, has completely lost its strength in the original time and space in recent years under the balance of the two major brokerage companies that Simon deliberately supported by MA and ICM.

Talent agency companies, after all, are only vassals of the Hollywood film industry.

Simon didn't pay much attention to "Bugssy", but when he flipped through the Golden Globe nominations in the new week, he unexpectedly found that another important film had also disappeared from the nomination list.

Disney's 2D animated film, Beauty and the Beast.

In the original time and space, the 2D animated film "Beauty and the Beast", released at the end of 1991, not only accumulated more than $200 million at the box office in North American theaters, but also successfully won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category, and became the first animated film to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture.

Now, the film is gone.

Simon naturally understands some things in Hollywood at the moment, so he casually commanded a few words, and the results obtained, combined with the information in his memory, finally found that the matter was still related to Pixar.

The project "Beauty and the Beast" was indeed fanned off by Simon's big butterfly.

It all starts with the production process of a 2D animated film.

Traditional 2D animated films are entirely hand-drawn by animators one by one.

For a 2D animated film, even if calculated according to the 90-minute duration, the film is a total of 5,400 seconds, 24 frames per second, and 129,600 drawings are required, which is still theoretical data. In the actual operation process, the workload is much larger because of the inevitable scrapping of manuscripts.

However, a skilled animator can only draw 10 to 20 drawings per day.

Any animator often has his or her own drawing style, and in order to ensure the consistency of the style of the animated film, it is not advisable to have too many animators involved in a project.

Therefore, in the past, Disney's animated films usually took 4 to 7 years to be produced.

In the original time and space, Pixar launched a professional cartographic computer, which completely changed the production process of traditional animated films, greatly improving the drawing and coloring speed of 2D animated films, so that in the early nineties, Disney could launch a 2D animated movie almost every year.

It was this mapping computer that led to Pixar's collaboration with Disney on Toy Story, and a lot of things that followed.

However, this time, Simon bought Pixar ahead of schedule.

Pixar's mapping computers still exist, of course, but they are no longer for sale.

As a result, Disney's animated film department has maintained an old-fashioned and slow hand-drawn production process until now.

Because of the success of classic 2D animated films in recent years, Disney's top management has refocused on the animated film department. However, this emphasis is unlikely to speed up the production of animated films.

With limited production capacity, various projects must be screened.

Among the materials collected by Simon, the "Beauty and the Beast" script was indeed proposed, but after several trade-offs, Disney retained another, more well-known "Aladdin" project.

According to Disney's information, "Aladdin" will be released in the summer of this year, which is half a year earlier than in the original time and space.

However, the price of "Aladdin" half a year ahead of schedule was that "Beauty and the Beast" was completely abandoned.

Simon knows that not only has this "Beauty and the Beast" become a classic, but many years later, the live-action version of "Beauty and the Beast" has sold more than $1.2 billion worldwide, squeezing into the top of the all-time box office charts.

Under the control of Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, Disney has long since emerged from the decline of the early eighties.

Even if Simon took away "Pretty Woman", Disney has also produced blockbuster movies such as "Good Morning Vietnam", "Three Dads and a Baby", and "Supreme Detective" in recent years, and the re-release of classic 2D animation and videotape distribution have brought Disney very rich income.

However, compared with Disney in this period in the original time and space, the current Disney is still much worse.

One thing for sure.

If the media industry has been deregulated in recent years, Disney will not have the strength to compete with Daenerys Entertainment for the Metropolitan ABC Group this time.

All of this is obviously because of Simon and because of the birth of Daenerys Entertainment.

In recent years, the overall size of the Hollywood film and television industry has been increasing rapidly, however, for a period of time, the market capacity is limited after all, Simon has a prophetic advantage that other studio directors can hardly achieve, Daenerys Entertainment has divided too much, and other studios will naturally fall into a situation where one or the other is lost.

Now several major Hollywood studios, except for Daenerys Entertainment, probably only Warner Bros. Pictures is stronger than the original time and space.

Next, maybe you can count MGM, which is slowly recovering from the bottom.

"Jurassic Park" will officially start filming on January 21 on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.

In the week leading up to the Golden Globes, Simon focused a lot of his energy on the final preparations for "Jurassic Park", and flew to Hawaii for two days to do so.

Los Angeles to Hawaii is about the same time as Los Angeles to New York, with a four-hour flight.

Returning from Hawaii on Saturday morning, the evening is the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

Daenerys Entertainment has no appeal for the awards season this year, and Simon can take Janet to the evening awards ceremony very easily.

Among the nominated films this time, "Piano Farewell" and "Flowers of the End" produced by Daenerys Entertainment were nominated for Best Picture in the Drama category at the same time, and Catherine also relied on "Flowers of the End" to get the Golden Globe Award for Best Director nomination.

Not only that, but three of the five Best Director nominees at this year's Golden Globe Awards are all women, namely Barbra Streisand in "The Stormy Years", Jane Campion in "Piano Love" and Kathryn Bigelow in "Flowers of the End".

Three women nominated for Best Director, the first time in the history of the Golden Globes.

In order to pave the way for the Oscars in March, after the nominations for this year's awards were announced, Time Warner began to build momentum, hoping to push Barbra Streisand to the first female Oscar for best director in Hollywood history.

Although, "The Waves of Time", "Piano Farewell" and "Flowers of the End" are three films, the media score of "The Waves of Time" is actually the lowest. However, Barbra Streisand's decades-long network in Hollywood is not comparable to Campion and Catherine.

Of course, the most important reason is that Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily withdrew from this year's award competition.

Because of this withdrawal, "The Silence of the Lambs", which was supposed to shine in this year's awards season, only won two nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actress in a Drama at the Golden Globe Awards this time, and Sandra had no intention of even brushing up the nominations for the next Oscar.

In the final result of the Golden Globe Awards on Saturday night, in the competition for best picture in the drama category, the Golden Globe Award was won by Oliver Stone's "Assassination of Kennedy", and the best director was also won by Oliver Stone.

This is certainly not a PR disadvantage for Time Warner, but it is actually still a strategy.

After all, the reputation of "The Stormy Waves of Time" is not as good as "Piano Farewell" and "Crazy Flowers of the End", and if Barbra Streisand wins the award, it will definitely cause controversy in the media next.

It is very 'politically correct' for women to win awards.

However, with three women selected at the same time, and Barbra Streisand's work in last place, the veteran actress will still cause controversy if she wins the award, which will undoubtedly affect the outcome of the Oscars.

The Golden Globe Awards are obviously far inferior to the Oscars.

In contrast, if the Golden Globes still stubbornly maintain 'discrimination against women' and award the award to male directors when three female directors are selected at the same time, the next two months until the Oscars, the wind of public opinion will definitely turn to sympathy for the three female directors and a crusade against women in Hollywood.

In such an environment of public opinion, the Oscars, who have always flaunted political correctness, have almost no second choice.

At this time, two films of Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily withdrew from the award for public relations, and Barbra Streisand has enough resources and connections in Hollywood, and the results are self-evident.

As for after "The Stormy Waves of Time" won the award?

Either Caesar or nothing.

In the original time and space, Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar, even if she was criticized by the media for being too watery and too goldless, she was still the queen after all, and most media releases would also refer to each other as 'Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow'.

Those who did not win the Golden Man could not be crowned with the title of actress in the media, even if their acting skills were ten times higher than that of Gwyneth Paltrow.

This is the success and defeat of the king.

As expected, after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, many media really appeared in the Golden Globe Awards judges to discriminate against women, and public opinion was very loud for a while, and the Golden Globe Awards officials had to publicly stand up and explain.

Immediately after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the list of Oscar nominees was announced.

In the list of nominees for the 64th Oscars, Barbra Streisand, Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow continue to be listed at the same time.

It is clear in the circle that among the three, Barbra Streisand's PR traces are the most obvious, and Jane Campion is the most deserved.

As for Kathryn Bigelow, "Flowers of the End" is indeed excellent, but most people will inevitably think of Simon Westeros.

People are more incomparable.

The public opinion storm caused by the end of the Golden Globe Awards has not yet dissipated, and another heavyweight Hollywood entertainment news has exploded.

MGM has publicly announced that it will temporarily put the next development of the 007 series on hold due to irreconcilable controversy.

The importance of 007 to MGM is completely self-evident, so the news immediately attracted a lot of intense media attention.