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Seven awards including Best Picture and Best Director for "Dances with Wolves", Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay for "Ghost Love", Best Actress for "Ten Days of Danger", and the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for Pixar's 3D Animation "Little Lion", this is the cumulative win of films produced by Daenerys Entertainment at the 61st Academy Awards.

If you don't count other honors, Daenerys Entertainment's total of 11 awards accounts for exactly half of all 22 film awards, just like the Golden Globes 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, it is reasonable to show up at the celebration party.

Arriving at the Gucci-themed party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel with Sophia, it was nearly ten o'clock.

Weaving through the party crowd to congratulate tonight's winners, Simon soon found himself in front of a middle-aged man chatting with John Lasseter and Ed Catmoore.

The middle-aged man, Roger Ellers, is an animated film director and screenwriter poached from Disney by Pixar Animation Studios, and has previously worked on Disney's "The Adventures of Oliva" and other films, as well as serving as the director of tonight's award-winning 3D animated short "Little Lion".

In the original time and space, Roger Ellers 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 working on "Toy Story".

Tonight's "Little Lion" is the epitome of Pixar's technological development achievements in the last two years.

The five-minute film showcases the magnificent African savannah scenes and animal hair rendering techniques in 3D animation mode through the brief adventures of a lion cub living in the savannah.

Now, the success of winning the Oscar for Best Short Film is enough to prove that Pixar's technology has reached the level where it can produce a 3D version of "The Lion King", and the film will be officially launched in the near future.

After congratulating Roger Ellers on the award, Simon added, "I'm going to take the time to watch the storyboard demo of The Lion King in the last few days, Roger, this is my gift to Jenny, and if you mess up, my wife will be very angry." ”

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

Simon smiled, turned to John Lasseter, and said, "John, how long will it take for Toy Story to finish, you guys are already overspending?"

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

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

Despite Simon's smile, John Lasseter was nervous.

Pixar Animation is definitely the most 'white-eating' department under Daenerys Entertainment.

From 1988 to 1988, when it was bought by Simon, for more than two years, the rest of the company has been thriving, but Pixar Animation has been spending only money but not output.

Therefore, it is clear to everyone that "Toy Story" can be described as the last battle of the Pixar team. Once it fails, even if there is another chance for the "Lion King" to turn around, the next two years of the Pixar team will definitely not be too easy.

After a moment of deliberation, John Lasseter said, "Two months, Simon, give us two more months." ”

The schedule of "Toy Story" is in November at the end of this year, which is actually very timely. However, if the project lasts for an extra month, it will definitely be a large additional expense, and the sooner it is completed, the better.

Simon keeps an eye on Pixar's progress every month, and he's still very happy with the results of the Toy Story dailies that have been completed, so he's not in a hurry.

The first 3D animated film will inevitably encounter all kinds of problems. Given the project's profit prospects, Simon was barely tolerable to the Pixar team's over-subscribing.

However, Simon will not show this indulgence, and he still knocks on his mouth.

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

As soon as she arrived at the door of the party hall with her female assistant, Ella Deutchman walked over, accompanied by several men and women with Asian faces.

Coming to Simon, Ella Deutchman explained, "Simon, they want to say hello to you. ”

Among Daenerys Entertainment's many nominations tonight, there is also a "Ju Dou" that has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, which is also the first time that the other side of the ocean has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

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

Therefore, the film did not receive a golden man.

Looking at the few big names in front of him who could only look up to in his previous life, Simon smiled, stepped forward and shook hands with several people one by one: "Hello, Mr. Zhang." Also, Miss Gong, your performance in "Ju Dou" is very exciting. ”

When he greeted him, Simon directly used Chinese.

The few people in front of them all showed surprised expressions when they heard Simon's fluent Mandarin, even Ella Deutchman's expression was a little strange.

After all, they are people from two worlds, and just a few simple polite words, saying that the next time they have the opportunity to cooperate with Yunyun, Simon left the Beverly Hilton Hotel with the female assistant.

I'm going back to Cape Dume Manor tonight.

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

Leaving with the female assistant was just dropping her off the way.

As she drove through downtown Los Angeles late at night, Jennifer keenly felt some subtle emotional changes after Simon greeted the Orientals just now, which was a ...... It can probably be called a lonely mood, but he didn't say anything, just hugged the man's arm and leaned over gently.

In fact, there have always been a lot of secrets in his man.

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

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

The next day, as usual, was a report on this Oscar.

Daenerys Entertainment won half of the statuettes, which naturally became the focus of heated discussions in the media.

Fortunately, although there are some politically correct factors in it, "Dances with Wolves", which won seven awards, did not cause too much controversy, but many media still noticed the fact that some other excellent films produced by Daenerys Entertainment were not nominated.

In addition, it was also noted that Simon himself was 'absent' at this year's Oscars.

It's not just the absence of the Oscars, but Simon didn't get any nominations related to him at this year's Oscars this year, and for a while, some media began to speculate whether Simon planned to retire.

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

In the face of media 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 "Dances with Wolves" rebounded again, and the Oscars in the week from March 22 to March 28 fell by 59%, collecting another $6.54 million, and the cumulative box office of the film also reached $139 million.

On March 29, the second week of the Easter schedule begins.

Two other films related to Daenerys Entertainment, "Cornfield Kids 3" and "Crazy Night" produced by Universal Pictures, were released.

New World Pictures has invested $10 million in "Kids in the Cornfield 3" and has also used many of the latest CG special effects to try to make this horror series hit the box office of "Ghost Street" to the same heights.

However, three days after the opening of the film, the North American box office of "Kid in the Cornfield 3" was only $6.73 million, and the box office is expected to be between 9 million and 10 million in the first week, and the total box office in North America is expected to be about $30 million.

Making money is certain, and there is still a gap between the "Ghost Street" series and the end.

Of course, compared with the $15 million box office of the first two films, the box office increase of "Kids in the Cornfield 3" is expected to double is still very obvious, so the fourth installment of the series will still maintain a production budget of tens of millions of dollars.

"Crazy Night" produced by John Hughes only grossed $4.02 million in three days, and the film's reputation is far inferior to "Home Alone", which is still in theaters.

With a production budget of $11 million and an expected total North American box office of $15 million, the romantic comedy film is unlikely to recoup its costs by relying solely on North American theatrical releases.

After the box office of "A Night of Madness" came out, the other studios that were originally chasing John Hughes frantically because of the success of "Home Alone" calmed down a little and involuntarily transferred more of the success of "Home Alone" to Simon.

After Easter on March 31, the year moved to April 1991.

AOL's three-month free trial program is the end of it.

In the past March, the number of online appointment users in the United States still reached 1.5 million, and a total of 1.09 million free trial users were re-connected.

Of the 970,000 trial users in February, 560,000 eventually converted to regular users, which is 57% higher than the conversion rate of regular users in January.

Based on data from the previous two months, AOL predicts that the number of free trial users in March will reach more than 600,000 among the 1.09 million free trial users who have transferred to the official user.

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

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

With such a strong growth momentum, because there were still a large number of users who had booked a free trial in the past few months that had not been successfully accessed, AOL officials quickly announced that the free trial activity would continue until the remaining 2.5 million users who had signed up for a free trial were all available.

The remaining 2.5 million pre-booked users, even at a 50% conversion rate, will be able to bring AOL about 1.25 million official paying users again.

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

Based on the average monthly consumption of $30 per user, it is estimated that AOL's monthly revenue will reach more than $100 million starting in the second half of 1991.

Both solid revenue figures and high-speed growth rates that are visible to the naked eye continue to stimulate AOL's IPO valuation.

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

The $2.5 billion valuation is expected to raise $375 million based on AOL's planned 15% new offering.

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 expected 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 it will be very easy to hit 10 million users throughout the year.

This growth rate is far greater than Simon's initial expectations.

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

As the most important content platform of the World Wide Web system, the Igrete portal has gradually attracted more and more attention with the explosive growth of the number of World Wide Web users.

You must know that in this era, the largest circulation newspaper in North America sold only more than 2 million copies on average.

During this time, the Egrett portal, which quickly gained fame through coverage of the Gulf War, has surpassed 3 million users throughout North America.

Although the user base of the Igrete portal is too fragmented, no one dares to ignore this new and rapidly growing media platform at this time.

As a result, in the new quarter of the advertising sales campaign of the Igrete portal in late March, Igreit has accumulated more than $12 million in advertising orders from technology giants such as IBM, Intel, and Microsoft.

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

Jeff Bezos has grasped this point accurately, and has specially customized a series of advertising strategies specifically for various technology companies. The $12 million advertising order may be insignificant compared to the traditional media giants, but it is a leap forward for the Igrett portal.

Prior to this, the main source of revenue for Egrete was only the sale of Internet Explorer software.

As a result, after this quarterly advertising sales campaign at the end of March, advertising revenue has officially become a revenue focus for the Egrett portal.

At the same time, the industry is generally recognizing the strong monopoly advantage of the Igrete portal over the World Wide Web content platform.

You know, it may not be technically difficult to simply provide news portals, but it is not so easy to integrate functions such as email, personal homepage, online forum, and online games in addition to news information.

What's more, Igrete also has a very strong patent barrier.

This is the fundamental obstacle that makes it difficult for other tech companies to replicate the business of portals.

On the World Wide Web platform, even the images on the web page that many people think are very simple, in fact, they are professionally formatted images that have been specially developed and registered by Igret. Not to mention technologies such as JavaScript scripting languages that involve the underlying application.

Although Daenerys Entertainment maintains a very open attitude towards licensing, more and more other sites that join the World Wide Web platform can easily obtain authorization as long as they apply, and it is free of charge. However, it is not difficult to imagine that if someone plans to make a commercial website similar to the Igrete portal, and can successfully obtain the technology license from Igret, it will be hell of a fact.

Simon wants the Internet to flourish, so he doesn't intend to restrict the emergence of other content platforms, which does not benefit the expansion of the World Wide Web platform itself.

However, if you only open up the licensing of content patents, and do not have access to the licensing of e-mail, online games, and future online payment and other related technologies, it is destined to be difficult to compete with the Egret portal when building similar websites.