Chapter 728： Piracy Crisis

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

Therefore, the nomination list will be announced at the end of January.

The film of the new Universal Department once again leads the group!

Although it is not comparable to the miracle of monopolizing half of the Oscars last year, it still has the largest number of nominations in the industry.

Of course, from the perspective of the official Oscars, the nominated films are evenly distributed, and the rain and dew are evenly covered, and there is no such thing as a monopoly.

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

Nominated for Best Picture, Rose Pictures' Lost in Translation and Universal's "Best of Time";

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

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

Best Director, Nominated for Sofia Coppola of 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 of 21 Grams...

In this nomination list, New Universal Group has won a total of 29 Oscar nominations, of which "Pentium Age" won 7 nominations, "Daredevil", "Finding Nemo", "Lost in Translation", "Gone Lover" Both received 4 nominations.

When the award list was announced, Dunn was relieved.

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 the transfer of a series of contradictions, the industry's views on the closure of the MGM label by New Universal have changed repeatedly from the previous period.

There is one more thing, the director of this session of the Oscar ceremony is Dunn's old acquaintance - Joe Ruth!

This guy, who was an executive of Disney at the time, was beaten all over the place by Dunn in the competition for the box office of the movie, and then he was fired tragically, and he founded Revolutionary Pictures.

However, Joe Ruth's level is really high.

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

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

It is a pity that God did not wish.

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

"The Last Samurai, there is a pirated disc? How is that possible?" Tang En frowned, a little surprised.

"The Last Samurai" is still in theaters.

According to Hollywood custom, the movie will only be released on DVD after the theater line is over. This gives pirates the opportunity to produce pirated discs.

Can't make a gun version of the DVD, right? Who will buy it?

Bill McNick said: "It's a judge named Calmy Caridi, who has starred in the "Godfather" series. In this selection, he received two discs from Warner, "Mystic River" and The Best Samurai. That's normal. But he remembered that he had a good friend who hadn't seen The Last Samurai and gave him the disc."

The Oscar nomination model is to ask 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 rival Warner have been violated, this trend cannot last!

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

According to the requirements of the academy, it is strictly forbidden for the judges to give the award disc to a third party, or even watch it.

Bill McNick sighed: "Yeah, his friend's name is... Russell? He's also an idiot. After watching "The Last Samurai", he even digitized the content of the DVD and put it on the Internet. Although the network monitor decided to block and dispose of it, the number of downloads has exceeded 2 million times."

At $20 for a disc, 2 million downloads...almost equals $40 million in reduced sales!

For Warner Bros., this is a bloodbath!

Dunn said solemnly: "Last year, in North America alone, pirated discs caused at least $3.5 billion in economic losses to Hollywood. This matter must be dealt with seriously! We must be consistent with Warner! Di's judges must be fired and permanently stripped of their qualifications as Oscar judges!"

Throughout the history of the Oscars, many judges have been disqualified from voting.

For example, Laomouzi, Gong Huang and others from the mainland.

Mainly because they never voted for the Oscars, never participated in the awards.

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

However, the Academy has never voluntarily fired a lifetime Oscar judge!

There is no doubt that under the joint operation of Warner and New Universal, as well as the bad influence caused by this matter, Karmai Karidi will become the first in history!

Bill McNick nodded and said, "Warner has already filed a lawsuit with the court. The Oscar Organizing Committee has also made an announcement, stating that it will be dealt with severely."

Tang En waved his hand and said solemnly: "The **** who digitized the disc online must also be arrested and sentenced! Inform Warner and the Academy that New Universal is willing to help in this matter!"

"what?"

Bill McNick froze for a moment.

What do you mean?

Bai help, do charity?

With Dunn's character, it's not like that!

He has never been unprofitable!

"Cough cough..."

Tang En coughed 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, the production company will inevitably encounter various problems. All kinds of surprises. Instead, special encryption is applied to all film DVDs that can be selected, which can limit the number of plays, limit the digital conversion, limit the copying of the disc, and set a tracking code."

Bill McNick's eyes lit up, "This is a good idea! If it can be done, it will be a necessary means to solve this type of piracy crisis, and the college will definitely agree."

Tang En said: "Of course! We can cooperate with the academy."

"we?"

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

Dunn is completely the appearance of a profiteer.

Special encryption for DVDs, which is easy to handle.

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

Dolby Laboratories is secretly decoding, studying the related technology of hd-dvd.

Because the DVD player produced by Toshiba can only play hd-dvd discs, but cannot play the Blu-ray format; later, after the emergence of Blu-ray discs, the DVD player launched by Sony cannot play the hd-dvd format.

This is a chance to see the needle!

In the golden age of high-definition video discs from 2005 to 2010, video disc players had a very broad market. The annual global output value exceeded 100 billion US dollars, and there was huge profit space.

If Dolby Laboratories can take the lead in launching a DVD player compatible with both HD-DVD and Blu-ray HD formats, it is conceivable that it will quickly occupy the vast virgin land of DVD players.

New Universal's current partner is Toshiba, but like Warner, the cooperation period is only 3 years, that is to say, it will expire 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 Global World sandwiched in the middle will have the opportunity to profit from the fisherman.

It's 2004 and the Blu-ray format hasn't come out yet, but plan ahead.

Let Dolby's reputation start first!

Right now, we can take the opportunity of the Oscar farce to first gain popularity and prestige for Dolby Laboratories.

Bill McNick is only the head of the film and television entertainment department. He didn't know about Dunn's plan. But based on his knowledge of Tang En, he can quickly guess that there must be a big plan behind this In this matter, if we help Oscar share the pressure, the academy will definitely reciprocate. Dolby Laboratories... There will definitely be opportunities for deep cooperation with Oscar. "

"By the way, what did the mpaa association say?"

Bill McNick shook his head: "The views are very unified, MGM must quit."

Tang En waved his hand, "MGM is about to close, so it's no problem to quit, I mean... Is it possible for Dunn Pictures or Rose Pictures to replace MGM's position?"

In the MPAA Film Association, 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.

That's why movies from the big studios usually get better ratings.

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

In order to ensure fairness and fairness, mpaa requires New Universal to reserve only one place.

Of course Dunn didn't want to.

One more quota, one more power, and one more voice!

Bill McNick said sternly: "The Motion Picture Association is a semi-official organization, and the chairman is directly appointed by the White House. It is difficult for us to use market share to influence."

"All right."

Dunn shrugged, his face indifferent.

No way, this is the norm.

Warner invaded the assets of RKO, MGM acquired Lianyi Pictures, and Sony acquired MGM in the previous life, all of which have experienced such an experience-forced withdrawal.

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

But is it useful?

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