Harvey still holds part of the equity of Miramax that he established, and he is the king of independent films, and he is undoubtedly stable with Linton within Disney, no matter how he plays at the box office, Miramax's share is always up to him, and Linton's Hollywood film industry was in a difficult situation at that time, and no one can be sure whether the cat-and-mouse game project can succeed, and he is really helping Linton with money.

Everyone at this Oscars has gained something, and they are in a good mood, so they naturally chatted very speculatively, and burst into laughter from time to time.

"Ovitz is the emperor of CAA and Eisner is the emperor of Disney, and they can work together but not together."

Harvey and Linton chatted about the gossip of Disney's top management, especially the open and secret battle between Disney chairman and CEO Eisner and the president of Disney Pictures, a subsidiary of Disney Pictures.

But Eisner, who regained control of Disney after recovering from heart bypass surgery, and both he and Ovitz were strong personalities who quickly turned against each other due to management differences.

Harvey gloated over this, "Eisner brought the wolf into the house, and our merger with ABC is also a bad move, and now we have to use the profits from the film industry to subsidize the TV network." Spending nearly 20 billion out, we are also in the same quagmire as News Corp and Viacom. ”

The News Corp. behind Twentieth Century Fox has been dragged down by its Sky TV network, and Viacom behind Paramount, who has been suffering from consecutive losses from its audiovisual chain, Blockbuster.

Otherwise, Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount are both one of the seven, and they will not have to make the brave hearts of the six or seventy million budgets to make up the money.

"Unaccompanied."

Song Ya noticed that Linton began to whisper in Harvey's ear, so she bowed her body and said goodbye, both of them had the opportunity to benefit from the infighting among their superiors, and the conversation should be inconvenient for them to listen to.

"Boss, here." Yeremov approached him and took him to talk to Catherine about the Blade project, and Kingsley, the soup agent, joined him.

Preparations for this project are in full swing, with their own male lead, Harry Berry's female lead, Tarragi playing the male lead's mother, and then the vampire council elders in the villain role also have black actors, and the other villains are all white.

In addition to the ones reserved for Charis, Pykinsley also 'blackmailed' a lot of cast and crew contracts, plus the group of martial artists and stunt doubles introduced by Bruce Lee's daughter, as well as the special effects team that Industrial Light & Magic had already started, the basic framework was set to death.

"The budget will rise to 28 million, for the time being."

Catherine said: "It all depends on the director's dissatisfaction with the special effects, and if it doesn't, the production cost may be overrun." She quipped to her husband, "You know, now that special effects blockbusters are all the rage, Hollywood special effects companies are simply grabbing money." ”

The original project of 20 million was tossed and looked like it was going to exceed 30 million, "Haha! Her husband laughed, "Zach has a lot of ideas, and maybe it's time to do it." ”

Zack Schneider is a co-director, and he is finally coming to the end, he is not here today, and he is supervising the work progress of the Blade project day and night, such as the exterior and props.

“M-Fxxk！ This kid! ”

There was a happy chat here, and Quincy Jones, who was passing by in the distance, couldn't help but blurt out a curse when he saw it, he had just finished chatting with the Oscar organizing committee, and whether it was the organizing committee, film critics, and TV audiences, they were all very dissatisfied with this year's awards ceremony.

Everyone criticized the opening fashion show, scolded it, and said that it was nondescript, and serious movie awards ceremonies did not need to be mixed with the fashion circle. He couldn't throw the pot off to the director of the awards ceremony, because the fashion show was exactly what he insisted on, and it was also his idea that only one of the five opening models was white......

Tomorrow's media is expected to be overwhelmingly criticized, and next year's Oscars organizing committee should not ask for itself to be the producer, although those people did not say it explicitly......

"DADDY, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT APLUS PHRASE?"

When the daughter was still chasing after her ass and making trouble, Rashida Jones asked: "Say that my sister and I have half-brothers and sisters, apart from Jones III Jr., do I have other half-sisters?" Otherwise APLUS wouldn't have said that! ”

“APLUS？”

Of course, Quincy Jones and white actress Natasha Kinski also have a young daughter, named Kenya Jones, who is not yet three years old and has been kept secret from the outside world, Natasha Kinski is also the ex-girlfriend of the famous director Polanski, who was once known as the first beauty in Europe, "he ...... What does he know!? Don't listen to that kid's nonsense. ”

Song Ya is really talking nonsense, just to fight the princess's illness casually, but he didn't expect to hit it crookedly.

But Rashida Jones didn't believe it, he knew his father too well, "You have a ghost in your heart!" Don't run! You can't outrun me, old man! ”

The next day, various entertainment media really stared at Quincy Jones and opened fire, and the unlucky director Jeff Margries was also scolded, but fortunately, this part of public opinion did not have much impact, because most of the front pages and covers went to the big winner, Mel Gibson.

For example, the cover of Hollywood Reporter magazine is a personal photo of Mel Gibson, and the headline feature picture is a snapshot of him and his team of brave hearts holding five golden figures in their hands, smiling brightly at the camera.

The second is a tribute to the paralyzed 'Superman' Christopher Reeve, and the third is an analysis of the eight points of reason and emotion and why they are so frustrated.

The fourth feature is Douglas father and son, whose father Kirk is a veteran Hollywood movie star, film company owner, and producer, and won the Lifetime Achievement Award at this Oscar. His eldest son, Michael Douglas, is the male protagonist who flew over the madhouse, Wall Street, instinct, and peachy secret order, and won the Oscar. The youngest son, Joel Douglas, is a well-known producer in Hollywood.

The fifth feature is Johnny Carson's turn to win the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay with APLUS, in which the tribute to Johnny Carson at the awards ceremony, as well as the historical entanglement between Johnny Carson and the original cat-and-mouse game occupy the main space, and the male protagonist Jared Leto is also introduced in the middle, APLUS became the first African-American Oscar and Grammy double winner in history, and the box office report card of several films produced by A+ Film Studios was put to the end.

"How many theaters will there be in the North Rice Row of the cat-and-mouse game next week?"

Song Ya put down the magazine disapprehantly, he only cared about money.

"Two hundred, and the brave heart has only risen to five hundred." Hayden replied: "It's probably an increase of hundreds of thousands of dollars." ”

"Okay."

Song Ya pursed her lips, "No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat." ”

"Hehe, it's mainly a big boost to the global box office." Hayden looked at his watch with a smile, "Is the wine sober?" We're leaving. ”

"I didn't drink much, and I was chatting with Jobs."

Song Ya put down the coffee cup, and after chatting with Catherine and his wife yesterday, he ran into Pixar Animation boss Steve Jobs, who came to congratulate Toy Story on winning the Special Achievement Award, and this time they chatted for a long time.

Because he didn't stupidly mention Apple's stock price again, and Jobs was very interested in the Palm OS operating system built by Palm founder Jeffrey Hawkins and the graphics card chips that 3DFX was about to go on the market, as well as the new trends of Netscape, he seemed to understand everything and asked everything.

Amy, who was drinking coffee across the table, immediately went to get his coat and diligently helped the man put it on.

"Call us." Song Ya hugged her and kissed her.

"Hmm."

Leaving the hotel where he was staying, Song Ya drove to the set of the project produced by Xue Linfen, and on the way he called Dr. Mei, "Mei, when I mentioned 3DFX to Steve Jobs last night, he said something about the recent DRAM is very expensive, what does it mean?" ”

“EDO DRAM？ Yes, memory manufacturers are under-produced, market demand is strong, and prices are skyrocketing. Our VOODOO1 graphics card will use eight chips as video memory, a total of 4M. Dr. Mei replied, "We are in a collective negotiation with the graphics card manufacturers about the initial pricing of the graphics card. ”

"So it's a problem with the graphics card manufacturer, right?"

Song Ya relieved his heart slightly, "We are only responsible for the graphics card chip." ”

"But if the price of VOODOO graphics cards is too expensive, it will also affect our chip shipments." Dr. May said.

"How much will the price be?" Song Ya asked.

"Knife 399."

"Oh......" Song Ya subconsciously thought it wasn't expensive, but thinking about it wasn't quite right, "You wait, 399 dollars?" Isn't that a hundred more expensive than Sony's PS consoles...... If you buy it home just to play games, can PC gamers afford it? ”

"Not only that, but our graphics cards also need to be paired with 2D graphics cards and high-end CPUs to get the best results. So to negotiate, the trio got angry and scolded all the graphics card manufacturers at the meeting for playing in tandem in private, threatening them that if they didn't lower the price, we would simply produce our own graphics cards in the future and stop playing with them. ”

"But it seems to be difficult, after all, the cost of EDO memory is there, and the graphics card manufacturer can't control it," said Dr. Mei. ”

"It's going to be April to talk, tell the trio that they have two months left."

Song Ya can't help it, 3DFX has raised nearly 20 million before and after, and nearly 10 million bank loans, playing semiconductors is really a bottomless pit, no matter what, we have to wait for the first product to go on the market.

"Congratulations, the new Academy Award for Best Screenplay."

The studio rented by Xue Linfen is very small, and the set is the main scene in the movie: the heroine's home. She also lent her personal nanny car to the heroine Thandie Newton, a black actress whom Song Ya met once during the night visit to the premiere of Vampire.

Sandy Newton has a good relationship with Elvis Mitchell, the screenwriter and critic of A+ Film Studios' last low-budget black film.

"Thank you."

Song Ya hugged Xue Linfen who was joking again, "Are you working here?" He pointed to the humble producer's office, "Actually, the producer doesn't have to be on the set all the time. ”

"It's my first time working on a production project, and I want to save as much money as possible."

Xue Linfen really cherished this opportunity, "I thought you would go home last night. ”

Go home? Oh, she's referring to that 'home' in San Marino......

"Why don't you bring little Robb here?" Song Ya was stunned, and she asked again, "I miss him." ”

"I don't want him to fly around with me, I can't stay in Los Angeles for two more days, Aunt Susie is helping to take care of it, don't worry." Song Ya grinned and locked the office door.

"Are you okay?" She is at the mercy of men.

"Yes, I'll have to check out the Blade project team later." Song Ya lied, in fact, he had already asked Linda to contact Mila by phone, and took off the glasses on the bridge of her nose casually, "So hurry up." ”

It's good that you don't have to take a vacation after the divorce!