Chapter 1473

For most people inside and outside the banquet hall of Hilton Beverly Hills who pay attention to this year's Golden Globe Award, there is a saying called "unexpected and expected". It is most appropriate to describe the result of this Golden Globe Award.

Danilis won five of the original 10 best picture nominations, and the circle judged that danilis would kill four parties in this award season. However, of course, some people expect the jury team of various awards season awards to remain objective and independent. Or, not so independent, but produce a rebellious psychology, that's better.

Facts have proved that there are not so many surprises in the world.

When we see that an Australian girl who came out almost last year defeated other veteran Hollywood stars such as Meryl Streep and Cathy Bates, won the Golden Globe Award for best actress in drama, and walked to the stage with a white CK dress skirt like a bride entering the church, we understand that everything is in the hands of a young tycoon.

The two-hour Golden Globe award ceremony has come to an end.

Before the best actress in the drama category, not to mention a large number of TV awards, danilis entertainment has won the awards of best actor, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best screenwriter, best film soundtrack and best original song in the drama category. Among them, the best supporting actor, best screenwriter and best soundtrack are from Elizabeth.

In addition, the idea is very clear to give up the Music Comedy Awards, which is also a concession and reservation.

Now, with the best actress in the drama category, the remaining key awards are almost predictable.

There is really no suspense.

When Kate Blanchett cried excitedly and finished her acceptance speech, she stepped off the stage. Then, the best director, shega Kapoor, who belongs to Elizabeth, skipped the best film of musical comedy and the last best film of plot, and accurately fell on Elisabeth again.

Hundreds of guests, no matter what their hearts thought, began to applaud as the "Elizabeth" crew came on stage, pushing the atmosphere of the award ceremony to the highest level.

Danilis was shortlisted for the best film in the plot category. The three films are saving Private Ryan, Elizabeth and Los Angeles secret. Speaking of subconsciously, many people think that Elizabeth, as an unpopular ancient costume historical film, should be the least competitive one, and Saving Private Ryan seems to be more worthy of its name.

It used to be the same.

In the competition of the award season in 1999, with the domestic annual crown breaking $200 million the previous year, "Saving Private Ryan" won a complete victory at the Golden Globe Award stage. The subsequent Oscar was called one of the Oscar legacies by many fans because it lost to Shakespeare's love history with too obvious traces of public relations. The criticism of the award results lasted for many years.

However, reality is reality.

This time, first of all, the momentum of Saving Private Ryan is much lower than before. Compared with the annual crown in the original time and space, due to changes in times, the local box office of Saving Private Ryan finally reached US $163 million by the end of the next file, lower than the previous US $216 million, not to mention the annual crown halo. The box office data of 163 million is much worse than that of Jurassic Park 3 and suicide team 2, which are at the top of the list in the past year, even US $182 million of hangover.

Of course, the most important thing is that danilis doesn't intend to focus on the operation of this film, which is actually a cooperative film. It has given face to apply for nomination.

After all, danilis only accounts for 50% of the investment in this project, and the other half belongs to paramount and DreamWorks according to the original agreement.

In terms of interests, the overseas distribution of the film is basically coming to an end, with a landing point of about 240 million and just $400 million in the world. Even if you have the distribution right, you can get an additional distribution bonus and cut it down. For danilis, it is probably only equivalent to a film with a global box office of about $250 million.

In addition, "Elizabeth", as of the last box office week, the film lasted about 500 yuan, and the cumulative box office of small-scale release has steadily reached $26.2 million.

Last Friday, taking advantage of the hot spot of the Golden Globe Award, the screening scale of "Elizabeth" increased significantly from 514 to 1933. From the feedback from the three-day expansion of the previous weekend to the marketing, the box office of the film is expected to be about $15 million this week, and it will continue. Until this year's Oscar, Elizabeth can walk out of the love history of Shakespeare in the same year Breaking the billion curve.

Coupled with the halo of awards, overseas is also expected to sell $100 million to $200 million, and the final global box office will be between $200 million and $300 million.

Moreover, compared with Saving Private Ryan with a production budget of US $70 million, the investment of Elizabeth is only US $25 million. In addition, one of the two has basically completed the cinema release, and the other is released at the right time. It just needs an award halo to support popularity. Therefore, it doesn't need to consider which one to operate.

Like Shakespeare's love history, being scolded belongs to being scolded, but the global box office of nearly $300 million is real, and Miramax makes a lot of money.

What is it to be scolded?

Sure enough, when the award ceremony ended on January 25, all kinds of criticism inevitably poured into the media the next day.

Accordingly, with the aura of Golden Globe Award for best picture of plot and other awards, the box office of Elizabeth increased significantly in the next few days. Finally, in a box office week from January 22 to January 28, Elizabeth won $15.19 million at one fell swoop. Even the museum regretted that it failed to break the box office, which is undoubtedly a quite brilliant achievement.

The cumulative box office of the film also increased to $41.39 million.

In a new box office week opened on January 29, danilis entertainment once again increased the number of screens of Elizabeth to 2145 yuan.

Then, on Saturday, January 30, the 71st Oscar nomination to be held on March 21 was announced. Elizabeth won 11 nominations for best picture, best director, best actress, best supporting actor, best screenwriter, best soundtrack and best costume design, significantly surpassing other films in the same period.

On the other hand, danilis entertainment won three of the five best picture nominations for the Olympic awards this year. It is still the big three of the Golden Globe drama, "Saving Private Ryan", "Elizabeth" and "Los Angeles secret".

As for other nominations, there are a total of 34, which can be said to be in the limelight.

Subsequently, the gaomen film team responsible for marketing operation also timely followed up the operation of public opinion.

For example, is it reasonable for daenerys to win so many nominations?

The counter argument is simple.

Do you let Oscar ignore the quality of films, but blindly divide pork, so limit those excellent films?

Another example is saving Private Ryan, which is obviously neglected. In the face of some media complaining about the film, this side also uses a pen to give tit for tat, ridicules Spielberg's "flattery" in choosing the theme, and impacts the awards with politically correct themes that people can't refute and dare not criticize. It is invincible.

In short, the film should return to the film itself.

Now that we return to the film itself, danilis is absolutely justified. Let's say which of the three films shortlisted for the best film is not a classic with excellent box office reputation? In contrast, danilis entertainment in previous years also produced many excellent films. However, it has been treated unfairly because of the default hidden rules of major awards in the past.

Balabala

In such excitement, the time soon came to February 1999.

Simon stayed in San Francisco for a week before returning to Los Angeles on February 1, which is also a new week.

Two Jenny and a group of little guys also returned from Australia recently.

No more east coast.

After all, New York is still in the middle of winter. It's too cold for a group of little guys. It's better to live on the west coast.

As Simon continued his busy pace of work that he could never finish, the first big event in February followed.

Friday, February 5.

The talks between the OPEC oil producing countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia on jointly reducing production and curbing the continuous decline of oil prices suddenly broke down. In order to force Russia to comply, Saudi Arabia immediately announced a substantial increase in oil production. On the day of the news release, the international crude oil price plummeted from US $18.36, which was not booming, to US $16.13, with a one-day decline of 12.1%.

Affected by this negative news, the energy sector of stock markets around the world followed the sharp decline of the whole line.

Only ExxonMobil, the No. 1 energy giant in the United States, which just completed another integration last year, fell 6.3% on February 5, and none of the energy giants in other countries in the world was spared.

People familiar with current international affairs and politics understand that the breakdown of OPEC's production reduction negotiations with Russia and the sudden sharp increase in Saudi Arabia's production are not just superficial interests.

To put it bluntly, Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is intended for Peigong.

The EU officially released the euro on January 1 of the beginning of the year, with the intention of challenging the international settlement currency status of the US dollar. As a counterattack, the United States will certainly not let the EU succeed.

The sharp drop in oil prices is the first move of the United States.

For many things, the start of 0 and 1 is very critical, while the development of 1 to 100 is often much faster.

The current euro is the critical moment to break through 0 and 1.

The United States is trying to make this first step of the euro unstable.

Not to mention the overall impact of the sharp decline in oil prices on the global economy, the sharp decline itself, under the condition that the volume of global energy transactions is basically constant in the short term, the sharp decline in prices means that the demand for settlement currency has also been greatly reduced. When the US dollar has taken the lead, it is difficult for the euro to enter the market.

What's more, it's just a chess piece.

Then, of course, there are back moves.

Therefore, people with a keen sense of smell have begun to act. Also on February 5, the exchange rate of the euro against the US dollar fell 34 basis points, from 1.1725 to 1.1691, with a one-day decline of 0.28%. For the currency, a single day fluctuation of more than one thousandth has been regarded as a sharp rise and fall, and the euro has fallen by nearly three thousandths in a day, which is almost unbearable.

Moreover, compared with the official exchange rate of 1 to 1.1800 given by the EU after the official release of the euro in January, the cumulative decline of the euro reached 0.97% in just one month, close to a decline of 1%.

This is definitely not what the EU wants to see.

After all, money means purchasing power. A new currency that has just been released for a month has unconsciously depreciated by 1%. In fact, it means that purchasing power has decreased by 1%. So, will it continue to depreciate next?

If so, who dares to use it?

Simon is just quietly watching the surge in the international energy market.

Of course, the Westeros system, which is already closely related to the international economy, will certainly not be indifferent.

Whether Westeros, which holds a lot of cash, or the capital involved as the key financial operation platform of Westeros system, have made a positive layout in advance. For example, it has established a large number of short contracts for the euro and oil. Only on February 5, Simon received a report at the weekend, with a floating profit of $700 million in all aspects.

Therefore, the continuous downward trend of the euro just after its release also has the factors from which the Westeros system operates. After all, the Westeros system still has to stand on the federal side to safeguard the interests of the dollar and its own interests.

While participating in the overall operation, you can make money. Why not?

In addition, the Westeros team, cersei capital team and other stakeholders are also developing plans for the bottom energy industry.

Although the traditional energy industry is becoming less and less popular after entering the new century, mankind will still rely on traditional energy for at least the next 20 years before the comprehensive rise of new energy. As a rigid demand, getting involved in it, even if the profit margin is not high, is also an investment direction with fairly stable return.

Moreover, if everything goes well, Simon knows that there will be a super bull cycle of traditional energy waiting for him in the next 10 years. Now people may not imagine that the international crude oil price can rush to nearly $150 a barrel. Simon can imagine.

So it's a fool not to come in now.

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Back to Hollywood.

In February, after the continuous nomination of Golden Globe and Olympic awards, a number of strong blockbusters also entered the closing period at the end of last year, and the performance of Elizabeth became more and more impressive.

However, the first popular schedule in 1999 also came.

Lover file.

Friday, February 12.

A new box office week opened. Danilis Entertainment's first major film in 1999, adapted from the film of the same name "love call transfer", a Chinese film, was officially released on a large scale.

The previous Wednesday, the film premiered in Los Angeles.

The next day, the ban on word-of-mouth was lifted.

Although there is no shortage of feminist voices, the film has won high praise from most media with its relaxed tone of warm banter, and the comprehensive media score has reached 8.6 points.

The Hollywood Reporter also praised this as another breakthrough after the hero Tom Hanks' Saving Private Ryan last year, which vividly shows the image of a restless middle-aged man who is unwilling to live a dull life and wants to pursue change. One of the most special points is that it does not coincide with the image of a single father in the original sleepless in Seattle. Even if Hanks is equally talkative, the image Hanks gives the audience is a very distinct other person.