After the announcement of the best director nominations, the Academy's president, Robert Remy, finally opened the shortlist for the final award. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He still looks like he is smiling, but the list in his hand lifts the spirits of all the viewers in front of the TV, "The shortlisted for Best Picture are, "Shakespeare in Love", "The Thin Red Line", "Saving Private Ryan", "Little Sunshine Beauty". ”

The flat and straightforward way of speaking directly threw out the most shocking results.

It's not "Truman's World", it's not "God and the Devil" and "Elizabeth", it's "Little Sunshine Beauty"! This seemingly inconspicuous low-budget movie finally came to the ring on the same stage as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Shakespeare in Love"!

Although everyone has almost vented their excitement, "Little Sunshine Beauty" was shortlisted for Best Picture, which made Jeremy and Amy Adams jump for joy.

Just when everyone was celebrating each other, everyone's mobile phones rang one after another.

"Ah, it's my mother. Amy Adams picked up the phone and looked at it, surprised.

"It's actually my brother. Jeremy (Renner) turned on the phone and was taken aback.

Family, friends, colleagues, and subordinates all called to congratulate after the Oscar nominations were announced.

It turned out that "Little Sunshine Beauty" had unknowingly won nominations for four heavyweight awards, including Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film.

Although it is still a little worse than the 9 nominations of "Soul Catcher" last year. But as the first Oscar PR battle of Fire Lion Pictures, Sid is already very satisfied.

Just as Sid was laughing and talking to Lindsay and Britney, Max Martin's cell phone suddenly rang, "What, Max, is anyone going to celebrate your Oscar nomination?" Sid quipped.

Max Martin picked up the phone and looked at it, his face was straight, he answered the phone seriously, and then talked carefully to the other side for a long time before hanging up. Then he looked up at Sid with a serious look on his face.

Judging by her expression, Sid and the others had already guessed that the call was a notification of the results of the first week of sales with Britney.

Britney nervously grabbed Sid's arm and looked at Max Martin, who said to Sid, "Sid, there's good news and bad news, which do you want to hear first?"

"Bad news. Sid said deliberately and uncooperatively.

"Hey, you can't be so unruly. Da Lai Pidan complained.

"Then you bite me. Sid raised an eyebrow and smiled.

"Okay. Max Martin gave up: "The album 'Baby-One-More-Time' sold 120,000 copies in the first week. ”

"Oh. Sid and Britney looked at each other calmly, this first week of sales is really not high, at the end of this golden age of CDs, if you want to win the Billboard Billboard championship, you need to have at least 3 or 400,000 sales.

"What about the rankings?" Britney asked, a little apprehensively, "are you in the top twenty?"

"Well, we're on the Billboard album chart...... First place!" Max Martin's news made the three people on the opposite side stunned for a moment, of course, Sid was "pretending".

"First, really?" asked Britney, surprised.

"Yes, I asked my assistant repeatedly, and they said that this is what the Billboard announcement was about. Max Martin confirmed.

"Was it luck?" asked Sid.

"So to speak. Max Martin nodded, "There happen to be no new albums released in the past two months, and the powerful albums from the previous months have also been taken offline, So." ”

"It seems like we're lucky. Sid nodded, "But no matter what, a champion album is a champion album, (just like an Oscar actress is an Oscar actress, even Gwyneth Paltrow, the most watery actress in history, can't deny that the little golden man is fake). ”

Britney didn't know how to express it with mixed feelings, Sid smiled and squeezed her palm: "Sometimes luck is also part of strength, since you won the championship, let's be straightforward and happy." ”

Sid's explanation made Britney nod and smile sweetly, "Yes, okay." ”

Seeing that Sid and Britney were about to start showing affection again, Max Martin couldn't help but cough twice: "I said, did you forget something?"

"What?" asked Britney curiously.

"Good news. Max Martin smiled mysteriously, "Want to know?"

"I'd love to beat you up before I knew it now. Sid said with a dangerous smile.

"Well, you really don't have a sense of humor. Lai Pidan complained speechlessly, "Okay, let me be blunt, the single sales of "Baby-One-More-Time" reached 680,000 copies, and 500,000 copies were sold on the first day, and it is also the number one on the Billboard singles chart this week!"

Britney froze for a moment, then burst into a high-pitched scream, "Ahh!!h

Jeremy (Renner) and Amy Adams, who had just walked in after the phone call, congratulated her when they heard the news, Sid smiled and patted the back of Lindsay's hand, and Lindsay also congratulated Britney Spears with some reluctance.

And the excited Britney directly hugged Lindsay and kissed her, the little goblin who used to always carry it with herself looks particularly pleasing to the eye today.

"Wow, don't kiss, you big-breasted vixen, my face is full of your saliva!" Lindsay struggled several times, but she had no choice but to succumb to Britney's "Inwei".

Sid looked at Max Martin, "In that case, isn't Britney the album and singles charts of Billboard, double champion?"

"Not bad!" Max Martin laughed, "and......" he exaggeratedly spread his hands and made a sparkling gesture, "the youngest double-charted singer ever!"

"Okay, we got it. Can you stop doing such a damn act, it doesn't match your image of a fat man with preserved eggs at all. Sid hit on purpose.

"Go-" Max Martin rolled his eyes in disbelief.

After the Oscar nominations were announced in mid-January, two "earthquakes" rippled in the North American entertainment industry.

On the one hand, the multiple nominations of "Little Sunshine Beauty" and Sid at the Oscars, whether it is Sid's double film nomination in a live-action short film, or the youngest best original screenwriter in history, have made the presence of Fire Lion Pictures and its owner Sid extremely bright.

On the other hand, the strong debut of Britney's first album + first single "Baby-One-More-Time" can be said to have burned from North America to the world with a sweeping trend.

Since late January, "Baby-One-More-Time" has also been released in the UK and some European countries, and in many countries and regions, this album and the single of the same name have directly landed on the local song charts.

It landed at the top of the UK singles chart for 2 weeks and sold more than 460,000 singles in 2 weeks.

Britney's name began to sweep the world like a whirlwind, and Fire Lion Records ushered in a good start. But when Howard Stringer, the chairman of Sony North America, learned the news, he was so angry that he slammed the table on the spot, only to learn afterwards that the cooked duck flew off his mouth and felt absolutely uncomfortable.

If it weren't for his good cultivation, coupled with the imminent cooperation between "The Da Vinci Code" and the "Harry Potter" series, Howard Stringer would have come directly to Sid to confront him.

And when these news were in full swing, Sid gathered his royal team again and began the next journey. The people of the Fire Lion have become accustomed to Sid's style, and now that the battle has been decided, the work of expanding the victory, harvesting the fruits, and cleaning up the battlefield is naturally responsible for the professional team led by Shirley (Sandberg).

Sid's eyes were already on the next war.

"You all know what we're talking about today. Sid asked, clapping his hands.

Behind him was a huge projection of a pair of young girls singing and dancing, and the people sitting around the conference room had a bound folder with documents that were clearly the subject of the day.

"'Youth Musical' is the first crucial step in our next 'song and dance film project'. I hope you don't come to work with any doubts, so I can clear up your doubts before I start arranging for the film. Sid said this, looking around at the crowd around the conference table.

Shirley Sandberg, Charles Shear, Max Martin, Production Manager Henry, Distribution Manager Sean, and Nancy Meyers, Creative Director of the Musicet Project, and Gold Agent Ali Emmanuel, among other high-level and related officials of the Fire Lion Project, were present.

Nancy Meyers was the first to raise her hand: "I've read the script and the plan, and I don't have any problem with the plan itself, just relative to the level of enthusiasm we want to set off in both film and television." Isn't the script of "Youth Musical" a little ......"

Sid saw her stop talking, and laughed, "Too simple?"

"Yes, it's just too easy. Nancy Meyers nodded.

"Well, now that you've read my proposal, you already understand the market gap for young audiences based on "Scream"," Sid asked.

"I understand that. Nancy Meyers nodded.

Then you should know that in fact, the script of "Scream" is not complicated. In the investigation and interview of "Variety Weekly", what attracts young audiences is not the complex and twisty plot, but the identity of the protagonist as a high school student with the same as that of young audiences, the tense and exciting plot, and novel characters. Sid knew that Nancy Meyers was still watching the song and dance film project with a pure directorial mindset.

"The brilliance of the plot and the quality of the script should undoubtedly be the core of moving the audience, but they must be subordinated to a higher point - the audience's needs. Sid raised his finger confidently and said, "Otherwise, no matter how well made the anachronistic film, it will only become the next "Blade Runner" and "Future Water World". ”