Chapter 818： Golden Globe nomination

Thanksgiving in 1996 was November 28th, which was later than in previous years. However, the Thanksgiving schedule began on November 15th.

"Rush Hour" was not too conspicuous in the film that was opened in November. After all, although the "Red Zone" in the beginning of the year caused a good response in North America, the movie of Asian-oriented protagonists is a niche in Hollywood. Although the response from the critics has been good after the screening, the industry still only gives a box office forecast of 60 million to 80 million US dollars. A large part of this is due to the fact that one of the two protagonists has a black man’s recognition in black. It is slightly lower than white people, but it is far more than Asians.

On November 15th, "Rush Hour" opened in more than 2,600 theaters in North America. At the same time, Warner's movie "Space Dunk" was released, featuring the famous Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. The story tells the story of the cosmic monster attempting to kidnap Warner's all-animal characters, including Bugs Bunny and Toad Duck, to the space playground. In order to avoid being caught, the two sides finally decided to conduct a basketball game to determine the stay of all animated characters. The space monster easily learned a lot of NBA superstar skills, but in desperation, the rabbit starling to NBA superstar Michael Jordan for help.

In 1988, the real-life and animation film "Who Framed Rabbit Roger" achieved a high box office of 150 million in North America at a cost of $45 million. Warner’s "Space Dunk" obviously wanted to copy the year. The box office of "Who Framed Rabbit Roger", the industry's expectations for the film is also very high.

However, when "Rush Hour" and "Space Slam Dunk" were released at the same time, the box office situation of the two films was contrary to the industry expectations, which made many people stunned.

"Rush Hour" had a box office of more than $42 million in the first week, costing more than $33 million in one fell swoop, and easily won the box office champion of the week. Even in accordance with the box office curve of "Hong Fan District" at the beginning of the year, the cumulative box office of this film will be close to 100 million US dollars, and the audience will be interested in this humorous film from dialogue to martial arts everywhere. Far more than "Hong Fan District", after the film was released, the media quickly adjusted the North American total box office forecast of "Rush Hour" to between 120 million and 140 million US dollars.

The space slam dunk's first week at the box office was only 32 million, which was not only 10 million dollars lower than "Rush Hour", but also far worse than Warner's first box office forecast of 50 million US dollars. But the cost of this movie is more than twice that of "Rush Hour", reaching 80 million US dollars. According to the film's current box office curve, the film passed the post overseas release. Although it can recover the cost, Warner was originally ambitious and wanted to make it. The plan for the series of films has been directly stranded, and there is no more.

Subsequently, on November 22nd, "Mission Impossible 2" was officially released in 3,000 theaters in North America. This super agent movie can be said to be the most anticipated movie at the end of this year, and the production cost is second only to Titanic. No., Paramount chose to transfer "Star Trek First Contact" from Thanksgiving to Christmas in the past few days. Although there is a secret in the secret of "Titanic", the other party announced that they want to avoid " The reason for the Mission Impossible 2 is not just an excuse.

With the popularity of the predecessor and the powerful influence of the MGM movie universe, "Mission Impossible 2" earned a $82.7 million box office in the first week, easily breaking the box office record of the traditional Thanksgiving season in North America. In the first week of the 1996 North American film box office rankings, second only to the summer file "Mummy 2", the two films are also the only two of the new films released this year, the first week of more than 80 million US dollars at the box office.

Since MGM announced the Special Agents Film Space Program, the two series of sequels, "The Charlie" and "Mission Impossible", which have been launched, have all achieved great success, plus the "Royal" made by Eric. The strong confidence of the casino, after the release of "Mission Impossible 2", MGM's share price rose again, the stock price per share once exceeded 18.5 US dollars, the company's total market value easily exceeded 8 billion US dollars.

Although the media industry has grown rapidly in the past two years, MGM's market capitalization is still at the bottom of the seven, only slightly better than Sony Pictures, but compared to the market value of more than one billion dollars two years ago, MGM The growth rate is definitely the highest among the seven.

Eric spent the Thanksgiving Day with Nicole and Famick in Los Angeles. In December, two women flew back to Australia and the Netherlands to spend Christmas with their families. Eric also temporarily stopped the post-production of Royal Casino. Fly to New York with Xiao Nizi and spend the Christmas with Joanna.

In the estate of Southampton, the outdoor is floating with fine snow, but the room is warm.

Today is December 12th, the time is night.

Eric made a phone call and returned to the living room from the living room next door.

There was a TV set in the living room, but at this time, the family was surrounded by glass in the center of the living room, and a lot of beautifully printed New Year cards were placed on the glass.

Joanna, sitting on a thick carpet, turned her eyes from her daughter who was writing on the glass, looking at Eric, and her eyes revealed.

Eric looked at the TV, the Golden Globe nomination will be announced at NBC at 8 o'clock, noticed Joanna's expression, explained: "It was Chris, he asked me to go to Manhattan tomorrow to talk about something. ""

Vegniya also asked at this time: "Would you come back tomorrow?"

"Of course," Eric nodded and leaned over to sit down on the carpet, hold his son in his arms, and hold his little hand to fill in the New Year's card.

These beautiful Chinese New Year cards are prepared for the firefly system executives and friends and family.

In the first few years, because of the habitual feeling that the Westerners are relatively weak, Eric has always been not concerned about this, so in the New Year, as a boss, it is more casual to give New Year gifts to the more important executives of Firefly.

Until the year before, the phone call of Robert Eiger, who was in charge of the TV business, made Eric understand that the degree of care of Westerners in terms of humanity is actually comparable to that of the East.

At that time, on the eve of Christmas, Eric, as usual, prepared some New Year gifts for the parties.

Because of the M&A-ABC Group's acquisitions, the Firefly Group's territory has expanded greatly, and many parts of the East and West Coast and even inland have fireflies, such as Disneyland in Florida, ESPN in Connecticut, etc. Most of them are mailed. In the process, a gift to Steve Bernstein, the chairman of Connecticut ESPN, was accidentally lost by the postman.

The previous year, Fireflies had just completed a merger with the Metropolitan-ABC Group. Steve Bernstein also received a New Year gift from Eric, but the second year was gone.

Steve Bernstein heard that his deputy received a gift from Eric, so he was even more embarrassed, and he couldn't have a good Christmas. He thought Eric was dissatisfied with his work at ESPN, his work. May have to be lost. Until the New Year, until the New Year, still did not receive gifts, Steve Bernstein could not control the worry, from Connecticut to New York, to Robert Eiger to ask if Eric wanted to fire him.

Since Steve Bernstein took charge of ESPN, ESPN's rapid growth is obvious to all. However, at the time when the fireflies were making personnel adjustments to the television business unit that had been annexed for more than a year, it was normal for some executives to be removed and replaced with fireflies. Robert Eiger himself was inclined to Steve Bernstein, so he called Eric on the grounds of holiday greetings to test Eric's attitude towards Steve Bernstein.

Eric was also inexplicably referred to Robert Eiger's mention of Steve Bernstein, and he certainly couldn't fire the manager who brought EPSN to the top. Robert Eiger mentioned that he also affirmed and praised the work of Steve Bernstein.

Robert Eiger listened to Eric as if he wanted to dismiss Steve Bernstein. This carefully examined the New Year’s gift. When he was tossed, the ins and outs of things were clarified. Eric did not expect it. An accidentally lost New Year gift would have caused such a big problem for its executives, so he then began to pay attention to this kind of thing. Since last year, Eric’s New Year gift to the Firefly Group executives has not only replaced a more professional courier company, but his assistant office will track each gift to ensure that the gift is delivered to the appropriate executive.

In comparison, the cost of courier is far more than the gift itself. This year's gift is a box of maple candy biscuits made by women, with a New Year's card. The executives who can receive the New Year gifts that Eric has personally donated are at least the general manager of the group. With the income level of these people, it is impossible to value the value of the gifts themselves. They care more about Ai. The other meaning represented by Rick’s New Year gift.

In order to show sincerity, the New Year cards are handwritten by everyone. The three little guys of Kevin, Hawaii and Emma are just joining in the fun. Eric will not give away the New Year’s card with the slanting fonts of the little guys.

The two little guys are four years old next year. From the beginning of the third birthday at the beginning of the year, Virginia has stopped working. It has also hired several education consultants to develop a special early education program for Kevin.

Compared to the unusually unusual Hawaii, the intellectual growth of the little guy has always been the heart disease of Virginia. Eric and Joanna actually know that Kevin’s developmental conditions are actually not a problem at all, three or four years old. The boy, there is no problem talking and walking, his physical condition is healthy and healthy, and there is still a higher expectation.

The reason why Virginia has been worried about Kevin's mental development is abnormal, it is only because the little guy has a more abnormal reference object beside him.

Just arrived in New York, Joanna sneaked to tell Eric, Hawaii has read three copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica this year, this is the result of Joanna's deliberate control of her daughter's reading time every day, and even more surprising, Hawaii can even Write down the contents of a large section of the whole paragraph. Eric has absolutely no such memory. Even if it is a complete memory of past lives, these years have gradually disappeared with the passage of time. Therefore, he occasionally feels that his daughter is a bit strange.

Thinking in my heart, Eric looked up and looked at it. Hawaii sat next to Joanna, holding a pencil in her hand, with a bit of obvious carelessness, beautiful blue eyes floating around, curiously Looking at the twins that are exactly the opposite of each other, Hawaii still has a small fear of being a natural enemy against Drew, but is curious about the Russian twins who are habitually following Delu. It seems that I want to find out why there are two. The exact same person.

Sitting in the middle of the twins, Drew noticed the curious little eyes of Hawaii, the smirk on the doll's face, and made a grimace to the little girl.

Eric clearly saw the baby daughter squatting for a moment, and glanced at Drew, and the **** quickly confessed to Eric and spit out his tongue.

Of course, Joanna also noticed this little detail, comfortably hugged Hawaii, and looked helplessly at the girl: "Drew, don't always scare summer and summer."

"Okay, okay, but the courage of summer and summer is too small. You see, Kevin is not afraid at all," said Shantou, who made the same face to Kevin in Eric’s arms. Wen looked stupidly to the side of Virginia, seems to be asking her mother, what is Drew Aunt doing?

Well, the responsiveness of the little guy seems to be really slow and half a beat.

Vegniya knew that Drew was laughing at the stupidity of her son. She was not as polite as Joanna, rolled up a magazine next to her, and slammed it on the door.

Drew fell in love, did not dare to resist, sneered and sneaked a few times, heard the sound from the TV, and quickly said: "stop and stop, began, the Golden Globe nomination began to be announced."

Everyone knows that Eric is waiting for the announcement of the Golden Globe nomination. Virginia has taken back the magazine in his hand, and Joanna will also come over the restless Emma, ​​and everyone will look at the TV screen.

The Golden Globe Committee specially invited Tim Rose and Mila Sovino to announce the nominations for the last nominated Hollywood movie star and a NBC head.

First announced is the nomination of television. With the rise of reality shows in recent years, the Golden Globe Awards have also begun to increase the Golden Globe Awards for reality shows this year. However, although it is also ranked second, the impact of the Golden Globe Award on TV awards is far less than that of the Emmy Awards. This gap is much worse than the Golden Globe and Oscar. Because the Emmy is usually announced at the end of August and early September, it is the beginning of the new autumn season. The relevant awards can play a very large pre-promotion role for the new season TV programs. The major TV stations in North America also attach great importance to the Emmy Awards. .

ABC and Lifetime's several TV series and reality shows have all been won, but everyone is a bit absent-minded.

Until the TV nomination began to be announced, all the talents brought up the spirit.

Although the Golden Globe Awards are not as rich as the Oscars, the first announcements are still minor awards.

Tim Rose first read the nomination for the best original song, five nominations, and then did not hear the name "Titanic".

Even without the box office miracle of "Titanic", "My Heart Eternity" definitely has the strength to win the Oscars. At this time, even the Golden Globe nominations are not short-listed, although the heart is not too big for the Golden Globe Award. Careful, Eric knows that the company's top concerns may come true.

Eric did not say anything, but Drew was indignant: "Even the "Forever Batman" theme song has been nominated for the best original song, "My Heart Eternal" is not a finalist, it is ridiculous."

Joanna also said softly in her voice: "Yes, "My Heart is Eternal" is very good."

Eric shrugged and continued to look at the TV screen. He wanted to see how much the Golden Globe jury could do it.