"So I don't think even if Disney wants to 'snipe' us now, it won't have much of a diversion effect. Jon Fellheimer analyzed rationally.

"Well, that's good. Sid nodded with satisfaction, this time Michael Eisner's active provocation can be regarded as the first emergency since Jon Philheimer took office, if such a simple thing is not handled well, then he will not be hired by Sid.

Then Sid, with a faint sneer, added, "Since Michael Eisner wants war, then we'll give him war!" Jon, teach me a hard lesson to this old fellow. ”

"No problem, Boss. Jon Fairheimer nodded.

Disney skipped the premiere of "Pearl Harbor" by a week to June 1, and the news immediately caused great shocks and waves among the entertainment media.

Generally speaking, in the era of NRG coordination, there is rarely a premiere day conflict between large and small Hollywood studios.

Whether the two are opposed, or the strength is clear, the result will always be that one of them will "give in". Because everyone knows that the outcome of such a conflict is likely to be a lose-lose situation.

A classic case in "history" can well illustrate the "tacit understanding" between Hollywood studios after the emergence of NRG.

On July 4, 2005, this weekend Paramount's "War of the Worlds" led by Spielberg and Tom Cruise met Warner Bros.'s "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadows" and Fox's "Fantastic Four".

According to NRG's survey, these three films are extremely popular with male audiences under the age of 25, but "War of the Worlds" is actually very popular among audiences of all ages and genders.

So, in order to avoid head-on conflict, Warner Bros. postponed "Mystery of the Shadow" to mid-July, and Fox also moved "Fantastic Four" to the week after July 4.

The result of this adjustment is that all three films have been successful at the box office in their respective opening weekends, while avoiding the cost of each other. Among them, "Fantastic Four" also became the box office champion of the week!

However, this time Disney is obviously adjusting the schedule of "Harry Potter" of Fire Lion Pictures, which is full of gunpowder.

And Fire Lion Pictures did not make any more schedule adjustments to "Harry Potter", and even Gerry Lopez, the chairman of AMC Cinemas, couldn't help but call Sid personally. In the end, it was under Sid's kind words and persuasion that the other party reluctantly put his mind at ease.

But in the eyes of the media, the fire lion's unrelenting recklessness seems quite reckless. This also made the hype of "Pearl Harbor" vs. "Harry Potter" suddenly very loud.

For a time, whether it was the professional "Variety", or the gossip-oriented "Hollywood Reporter", "People" magazine, etc., they all regarded the "Pearl Harbor" sniping "Harry Potter" incident as the first frontal provocation of the fire lion by a Hollywood studio.

In the past, when Hollywood's big studios were busy besieging DreamWorks, the Fire Lion, who had accumulated a lot of food and slowly became king, came from behind, unknowingly, breaking the monopoly of the big studios' distribution theaters in North America, and at the same time using the alliance Sony Pictures to divide the pace of the big studios.

This can't help but make the seven major studios feel a sense of nausea after eating flies, but whether it is speed or profitability, the fire lion, which is one step ahead of others, also makes them feel the gradually increasing pressure.

If it is said that "Youth Musical" entered the summer file before, it is the pioneer of Fire Lion Pictures to ask for directions. So this time, the A-level production "Harry Potter" with a cost of more than 100 million US dollars, that is the first battle for the Fire Lion to officially stir up Hollywood.

Therefore, neither the Fire Lion nor Disney will escape this head-to-head showdown. This also makes this year's summer file full of highlights and gunpowder.

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Although the prelude to the summer showdown between Disney and Fire Lion has been waged between the media who have thrown their money at each other, March is still the grassy season of the awards season after all.

The eyes of Hollywood as a whole are still on the Academy, and when Sid finally gets out of the studio preparations, the Oscars are already in sight.

On March 25, the Oscars were held again at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles after last year.

Although the Oscars in previous years were already considered to be high-ranking and star-studded, this year is even better than in previous years.

After last year's "American Beauty", DreamWorks entered the Oscar again this year with "Gladiator", and the best epic film after "Braveheart" is ahead of all its competitors with 12 nominations.

And the "unexpected", the biggest opponent of the epic masterpiece "Gladiator" is not the Weinstein brothers of Miramax, but the treasure island movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on the other side of the ocean.

This pseudo-martial arts, a real fairy action drama shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film, followed with 10 nominations.

If the above two completely different films are the most watched films at this Oscars.

Then the most interesting figure in this year's Oscars must be Steven Soderbergh, who was shortlisted for Best Director and Best Picture at the same time with two films "Drug Network" and "Never Compromise"!

Such a feat, even in Hollywood during the Golden Age, was extremely rare.

Hollywood's golden boy, who became famous twelve years ago with "Apricots, Lies, and Videotapes," seems to have finally found the right balance between art and commerce.

What Soderbergh is best at is telling the multi-lined, intersecting narrative of time and space. In this regard, he is quite similar to the later god Nolan, and the third-line development in "Drug Network" allows Soderbergh to give full play to this skill.

And in addition to Soderbergh, the golden boy director who finally got rid of the burden of juvenile ambition. In his "Never Compromise", Julia Roberts, who plays the heroine, is the most valuable female star in Hollywood at the moment.

This time, in order to be shortlisted for the Oscars again, she completely abandoned her previous image of a sweet sister, and in "Never Compromise", she was unkempt and exported, completely incarnating the image of a single-parent American mother dragging her child.

Under Soderbergh's tutelage, the big-mouthed aunt who has always given people the impression of only smirking and selling sweetness. In this film, a single mother who began to be selfish, impolite, and uneducated, changed step by step from complaining to striving and enterprising, and the performance was incisive, and the sense of hierarchy was very catchy.

In the end, the heroine's perseverance, sincerity and simplicity are successfully displayed, which is quite convincing!