Santa Monica Airport.

Amy, who had returned from a visit to the set of "Angel" in San Francisco, walked off the company's Falcon business jet with her assistant Vanessa. The driver was already waiting beside the runway.

The two women got in the car, and the driver started the car and drove towards Burbank, where a meeting was waiting for Amy.

Sitting in the back seat of the car, Amy was about to flip through some documents while on the road. She heard a small sound coming from the car radio in the front seat and looked up. The driver noticed Amy's movements and reached out to turn off the radio.

, but was stopped by Amy, who also motioned for him to turn up his voice louder.

"Michael, you mean that "Dead Poets Society" only won the Best Director award, and it was a complete behind-the-scenes operation?"

"Yeah, it's totally unfair to Barry Levinson, the director of "Rain Man," that he created a great movie and can't get the credit he deserves. And I haven't heard of any

It's a joke that a movie only won one Best Director award."

"Okay, Michael, please don't get too excited. Have you seen Michael Nicholson's The Graduate?"

"Of course, I love this movie."

"I have to regret to tell you that "The Graduate" only won one Best Director award that year."

"Oh, really?"

"real."

"But, at least, Simon Westeros's best score award is also full of problems. He may be a good scorer, but compared with John Williams and others, he is not qualified to win the best score.

The best score and the golden award are simply the public relations achievements of Daenerys Entertainment."

"Well, thank you for calling, Michael. This is the Voice of Los Angeles, and I'm your good friend John McLaughlan, and today's topic is, 'What happened to the Oscars?' We're going to take the next call.

"

"Hi Matthew, good afternoon."

"Hello, ma'am, what's your name?"

"Andy," the female voice on the other side of the phone said without waiting for the host to continue asking, "First of all, I want to say, Matthew, that guy just now is a completely prejudiced idiot."

"Please don't attack other people, Andy, but you can express your opinion."

"Everyone can see that Daenerys Entertainment is the party that has been unfairly treated at this Oscar. This film company produced so many excellent films last year, such as "When Harry Met Sally", "

"Pulp Fiction", "Rain Man", "Dead Poets Society", "Steel Magnolias", oh, I really like "Steel Magnolias", I watched it five times, and my mother also cried after watching it. Also

In "When Harry Met Sally," Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are a perfect match. However, this time, the Oscars only gave Daenerys Entertainment 11 nominations, which is less than

Warner's 19 nominations are almost half less, but those films from Warner really don't interest me at all."

"Warner, well, Sigourney Weaver's "The Fog" is pretty good."

"Haha, look, Matthew, you have to recall it when you talk about this, but you can definitely list a long list of Daenerys Entertainment's movies without reacting."

"Maybe, but that's mainly because of the theme of this show. I want to remain neutral, Andy, you can continue. Regarding Michael's opinion on Barry Levinson and the best score in Westeros

,what is your opinion?"

"I'm still saying that, he's just an idiot," Andy ignored Matthew's reminder to be civilized, and insisted on commenting like this, and then continued: "Everyone who has followed the "Rain Man" gossip knows that

, Barry Levinson withdrew from the project in the late stages of the film. Not only that, he also publicly accused Daenerys Entertainment of interfering in the later stages of "Rain Man" in an interview, and stated that this project had nothing to do with him, Dustin

Hoffman and Tom Cruise also publicly sided with Levinson at the time and dissociated themselves from "Rain Man". Now that the movie is a success, they have begun to take credit for it. It's disgusting. Dustin

Hoffman's speech at the Oscars was simply a clown. He was slapping himself in the face. The final film of "Rain Man" we saw on the big screen had nothing to do with Levinson and the others. It was Simon Westeros.

In the later period of his leadership, he also completed the score himself. Without Westeros, this work would not be possible. He is certainly qualified to win the best score award, or even more."

"..."

Amy listened carefully to the radio talk show along the way.

The calls and speeches from various listeners in the program basically covered the controversy and discussions in the media during this period about the 61st Academy Awards ceremony.

Today is already Friday, April 7th.

In the past week or so, media public opinion has not cooled down at all because the dust has settled at the Oscars. The secret war between Daenerys Entertainment and CAA continues. However, two listeners of the radio program just now, one is harassing the other.

The performance of arguing with reason is enough to prove that Daenerys Entertainment has a clear advantage in this confrontation of public opinion.

Although Dustin Hoffman's "affectionate" acceptance speech in front of 43 million viewers of the Oscar live broadcast moved many people, the statements of the main creators of "Rain Man" to distance themselves from the project in the later stages of the film were not.

Just annihilated.

With little prompting, many media outlets were able to unearth a large number of contradictions in Dustin Hoffman's two statements based on public news materials.

Daenerys gave some secret guidance, and the media and public opinion quickly tilted towards their side.

Even the only Best Director nomination for "Dead Poets Society" was taken for granted due to the exaggeration of Daenerys Entertainment.

"Dead Poets Society" already had the potential to win multiple nominations such as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. In the end, it only received two nominations. It was not that "Dead Poets Society" was weak, but

This is the result of Oscar's deliberate suppression.

After all, a mediocre movie like "Working Girl" can get a bunch of nominations, which shows how unfair the Oscars are.

"Dead Poets Society" finally won the best director, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation for this film. As for Simon's best score award, the company also succeeded by highlighting his important role in the later stages of "Rain Man"

Reversed the trend of public opinion.

Although the company invested another two million US dollars in this public opinion offensive, the returns received were even more impressive.

During the Oscar week from March 24 to March 30, the single-week box office of "Rain Man", which had originally dropped to just over 4 million US dollars, rebounded again. In its 15th week of release, the box office fell by 18% and collected another 5.11 million US dollars.

The cumulative box office reached US$138 million.

This is not over yet. With the release of the Oscar results and the subsequent significant increase in the topic, from March 31st to April 6th, the single-week box office of "Rain Man" rebounded sharply again.

The decline reached 42%, and it collected another US$7.25 million, with the cumulative box office exceeding US$145 million.

According to this box office trend, it will only take three weeks at most for "Rain Man" to surpass the $156 million box office figure of "Pulp Fiction" and become the 1988 North American box office champion.

Although the box office of "Dead Poets Society" did not rebound as much as "Rain Man", it successfully surpassed "Crocodile Dundee 2" and became the tenth highest-grossing movie in 1988.

As a result, Daenerys Entertainment successfully occupied seven positions in the top ten box office lists in 1988, although three of the films including "When Harry Met Sally", "Pulp Fiction" and "Basic Instinct" all topped the list.

With the distribution labels of other studios, it is difficult for such an initiative to be broken again in the short term.

In addition, as "Rain Man" became more and more successful, MGM finally found some specious loopholes in the original contracts between the two parties after the Oscars. The profit distribution clauses in several contracts regarding the film's soundtrack and peripheral products were inconsistent.

For this reason, it filed a claim of 100 million US dollars against Daenerys Entertainment, and also once again claimed to regain the copyright of "The Hobbit".

Compensation of US$100 million is obviously impossible.

Everyone knows that MGM did this just to cut off a piece of fat from "Rain Man".

When Lion opened his mouth, MGM's legal team had already hinted that the two parties could settle privately.

After Daenerys Entertainment's legal department evaluated the lawsuit and confirmed that the possibility of MGM winning the lawsuit was extremely low, Amy decisively gave up the tendency to settle because she knew what Simon would do in the face of such a thing.

He did not bother Simon again, but replied forcefully that MGM was ready to respond to the lawsuit at any time.

There are always too many people in this world who bully others and fear others.

Although responding to the lawsuit means paying a lot of legal fees, with a strong attitude this time, Daenerys Entertainment can avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles in future operations. Moreover, given the current decline of MGM

In this state, I will never be willing to spend millions of dollars to fight a lawsuit with a very low success rate. The scale of this lawsuit cannot be too big.

Amy rushed to the Burbank headquarters, where Robert Rem and other senior executives of the distribution department were already waiting for her.

Entering April, the summer season is gradually approaching. The main topic of this meeting is Daenerys Entertainment's promotion strategy for this summer's "Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense". The later stages of these two films will require Simon to return from Melbourne.

It will not be completely completed until the final review in person, but the early publicity campaign can already be started.

Everyone sat down in the conference room, and the administrative secretary distributed meeting materials. Robert Rem asked Amy: "How is the filming progress of "Angel"?"

Amy nodded: "It went very well. Daryl's performance is indeed much better than Brooke Shields. I'm still looking forward to the future effects of the film."

New World Entertainment's legacy comic adaptation project "Angel" started filming in the middle of last month.

Simon did not approve of Brooke Shields' acting skills and box office appeal, so the company finally settled on Daryl Hannah, who has appeared in films such as "Blade Runner", "Mermaid" and "Wall Street".

The Hollywood actress who has performed wonderfully fits the image of Brenda Starr, the heroine of "Angel", and the script of the project has also been re-polished, with a budget of US$15 million.

Daenerys Entertainment originally planned to bear the investment alone, but the other two investors who signed the intention contract during the New World Entertainment period were determined not to withdraw. The final result of the negotiation was that each of the three investors would bear US$5 million, with Daenerys Entertainment as the publisher.

, draw a 15% issuance commission.

The shooting period of "The God of Love" is two months, and the post-production period is also two months. It is expected to be completed in mid-July. The initial release date is early October. Although this schedule is somewhat unpopular, it is an important development for a studio.

The inevitable result after growth.

The total number of films that Daenerys Entertainment has confirmed to be released this year has reached 15, counting from "Blue Angel" at the beginning of the year. It is impossible for all the films to be piled in the summer and year-end releases.

Of course, if the final result of "Angel" is good enough, the company will also make appropriate adjustments to the schedule.

Melbourne.

Because Simon was filming "Batman" in Australia, a series of waves caused by the Oscars were also transmitted here.

It is always easy for most people to confirm their position based on subjective impressions.

As the son-in-law of an Australian, Simon has won two consecutive awards for Best Editing and Best Soundtrack in addition to his directing career. He has immediately become the most interesting topic for the Australian media and the public, as to how many Oscars Simon can eventually win.

Discussions about people have also become a hot topic in Australian local media during this period.
To be continued...