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

So the list of nominees was announced at the end of January.

The new Universal film is once again leading the group!

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

Of course, from the perspective of the Oscar official, the nominated films are evenly distributed, rain and dew, and there is no monopoly situation.

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

Best Picture, Rose Pictures' "Lost in Translation" and Universal Pictures' "Pentium Age" were nominated;

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

Best Actress, Rose Pictures once again showed its strength, "Gone Girl" Nicole Kidman and "The Devil" Charlize Theron were nominated, in addition, Naomi Watts was also nominated for her participation in Focus Pictures' "21 Grams";

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

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

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

Best Supporting Actor, nominated for Benicio del Toro for "21 Grams......

In this nomination list, New Globe Group has received a total of 29 Oscar nominations, of which "Pentium Age" has received 7 nominations, and "Daredevil", "Finding Nemo", "Lost in Tokyo" and "Gone Girl" have all received 4 nominations each.

The list of awards was announced, and Tang En breathed a sigh of relief.

During this time, he made a lot of trouble.

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 a series of contradictions, the industry's view of New Universal's closure of the MGM label has changed dramatically from some time ago.

One more thing, the director of this year's Oscars is Donn's old acquaintance - Joe Ruth!

This guy was an executive of Disney back then, because in the competition at the box office of the movie, he was beaten all over the ground by Donn, and then he was fired miserably and created Revolutionary Pictures.

However, Joe Ruth's level is really high.

This year's Oscars put him in charge, and it is likely to set a ratings record in recent years and become the most watched award ceremony.

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

It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes.

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

"The Last Samurai, there is a pirated disc? How is it possible?" Donn frowned, a little surprised.

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

According to Hollywood custom, a DVD is only released after the movie is released after the movie is released. This is the opportunity for pirates to produce pirated discs.

You can't make a gun version of the DVD, right? Who would buy it?

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

The Oscar nomination model is for 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.

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

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

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

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

According to the requirements of the Academy, judges are strictly forbidden to give away the award disc to a third party, or even to watch it.

Bill McNick sighed, "yes, his friend's name is ...... Russell, too, is a fool, and after watching "The Last Samurai," he digitized the contents of the DVD and put it on the Internet. Although the network supervisor decisively blocked and dealt with it, the number of downloads also exceeded 2 million times. ”

At the price of $20 for a disc, 2 million downloads...... That's almost equal to a $40 million reduction in sales revenue!

For Warner Bros., it's a hemorrhage!

Donn said in a deep voice: "Last year, in North America alone, pirated discs caused at least $3.5 billion in economic losses to Hollywood, and this matter must be dealt with seriously! We must be consistent with Warner! That judge named Caridi must be expelled and permanently disqualified from the Oscar judges!"

In the history of the Oscars, there have been a lot of judges who have been disqualified from voting.

For example, Lao Mouzi, Gonghuang and others in the mainland.

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

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

However, the academy has never taken the initiative to expel an Oscar lifetime judge!

There is no doubt that with Warner and New Universal, and the bad impact of this event, Karma Caridi will be the first in history!

Bill McNick nodded and said, "Warner, for its part, has filed a lawsuit with the court. The Oscar organizing committee also made an announcement, stating that it would be dealt with severely. ”

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

"Huh?"

Bill McNick was stunned for a moment.

What does it mean?

Help in vain and do public welfare?

With Done's character, it's not like ah!

He's never been profitable!

"Ahem......"

Tang En coughed lightly a few times, and said solemnly: "If such a big thing happens, we must find a solution from a technical point of view." In the process of sending DVDs to the judges, it is inevitable that various accidents will occur. In this way, all participating movie DVDs are specially encrypted, which can limit the number of playbacks, limit digital conversion, limit disc copies, and set tracking codes. ”

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

Tang En said, "Of course, we can cooperate with the academy. ”

"Shall we?"

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

Don is a complete picture of a profiteer.

Special encryption for DVDs, which is simple to deal with.

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

Dolby Laboratories is secretly decoding and researching HD-DVD related technologies.

This is because Toshiba's DVD player can only play HD-DVD discs, not Blu-ray formats; later, after the Blu-ray disc appeared, Sony's DVD players could not play HD-DVD formats.

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 were huge profit margins.

If Dolby Laboratories can be the first to launch a DVD player that is compatible with both HD-DVD and Blu-ray HD formats, it is conceivable that it will quickly occupy the vast virgin territory of DVD players.

New Universal's current partner is Toshiba, but like Warner, the partnership is only for three years, which means it expires in 2006.

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

It is conceivable that the new world, sandwiched in the middle, has the opportunity for fishermen to make profits.

It's 2004, and the Blu-ray format hasn't been launched yet, but it's time to plan ahead.

Make Dolby famous first!

Right now, you can take the opportunity of the Oscar farce to first attract a wave of popularity and prestige for Dolby Laboratories.

Bill McNick is only the head of the film and television entertainment department, and he is not aware of Donn's scheme. But with his understanding of Donne, he could quickly guess that there must be a big plan behind this.

"In this matter, let's help Oscar share the pressure, and the college will inevitably reciprocate. Dolby Laboratories ...... There will definitely be opportunities for in-depth cooperation with the Oscars. ”

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

Bill McNick shook his head and said, "The point of view is very unanimous, MGM must quit." ”

Don waved his hand, "MGM is about to close, it's naturally no problem to quit, I mean...... Is it possible for Towne Pictures or Rose Pictures to replace MGM?"

In the MPAA Film Society, 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 also the reason why films from big studios usually get better grading results.

Now, MGM has merged into the New Universal Group, which is equivalent to being one with Universal Pictures.

In order to ensure justice and fairness, the MPAA requires New Global to reserve only one spot.

Don certainly didn't want to.

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

Bill McNick said: "The film association is a semi-official organization, and the president is directly appointed by the White House, so it is difficult for us to influence it with market share. ”

"Okay. ”

Don shrugged his shoulders, his face indifferent.

No way, it's the norm.

Warner's embezzlement of Raiden Hua's assets, MGM's acquisition of United Arts Pictures, and Sony's acquisition of MGM in the previous life have all experienced such an encounter - forced withdrawal.

Officials should maintain the vitality of competition in the Hollywood market.

But does it work?

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