"Dancing with Wolves" for seven major awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay in "The Love of Man and Ghost", Best Actress in "Ten Days of Danger", Best Animation Short Film in Pixar 3D Animation "Little Lion". This is the cumulative winning of Daenerys Entertainment's films produced by the 61st Academy Awards Ceremony.

If not counting other honorary awards, Daenerys Entertainment's total of 11 awards accounted for half of all 22 movie awards, just like the Golden Globes in January, becoming the biggest winner of this Oscar.

Simon has not been very interested in attending any party recently. However, as a boss, he needs to show off at the celebration party for both emotion and reason.

We arrived at the Gucci-themed party scene at the Beverly Hilton Hotel with Sofia, and it was almost ten o'clock.

Shuttled through the party crowd to congratulate the winners tonight, Simon soon came to a middle-aged man who was chatting with John Lasseter, Ed Cartermore and others.

The middle-aged man is named Roger Ellers. He is the director and screenwriter of animated film poached by Pixar Animation Studio from Disney. He has previously participated in Disney's "Adventures of Oliva" and is also the director of the award-winning 3D animated short film "The Little Lion" tonight.

In the original time and space, Roger Ellers happens to be the director of Disney's 2D version of the Lion King.

From the end of 1988 to now, for more than two years, Pixar has been developing animation technology related to "The Lion King" while producing "Toy Story".

The Little Lion, which won the Little Golden Man tonight, is a concentrated reflection of Pixar's technological development achievements in the past two years.

In just five minutes, through the short adventure of a little lion living on the prairie, the magnificent African prairie scenes and animal hair renderings in 3D animation mode are displayed in all aspects.

Now, successfully winning the Oscar for Best Short Film is enough to prove that Pixar's technology has reached the level of being able to produce the 3D version of "The Lion King", and the film will be officially launched soon.

After congratulating Roger Ellers on winning the award, Simon said: "I will take time to watch the story version of "The Lion King" in the past few days. Roger, this is my gift to Jenny. If you mess it up, my wife will be very angry."

Although it was just an Oscar for Best Animation Short Film, Roger Ellers was still quite excited tonight. He immediately nodded confidently and said, "Simon, I promise you that this will definitely be a very wonderful story."

Simon smiled, turned to John Lasseter and said, "John, how long will it take to complete Toy Story? You've already overspent a lot?"

In the initial plan, Simon hopes to complete Toy Story for $30 million.

However, perhaps due to any artist's natural perfectionism, Toy Story is expected to take several months to complete, but the team led by John Lasseter has already spent $33 million.

Although Simon had a smile on his face, John Lasseter was still quite nervous.

Pixar Animation is definitely the most 'just' department under Daenerys Entertainment.

Since Simon bought it in 1988, it has been more than two years since the rest of the company's company has been booming, but Pixar Animation has only spent money but no output.

Therefore, everyone knows that Toy Story is a battle of Pixar's team. Once it fails, even if there is another chance to turn the tables in "The Lion King", the Pixar team will definitely not have a good life for the next two years.

After careful consideration, John Lasseter said: "Two months, Simon, give us two more months."

The schedule for "Toy Story" is at the end of November this year, and the time is actually very sufficient. However, if the project lasts for one month, it will definitely be an additional large expenditure, so naturally the sooner the better.

Simon pays attention to Pixar's work progress every month. He is very satisfied with the effect of the completed sample "Toy Story", so he is not in a hurry.

The first 3D animated movie will inevitably encounter various problems. Considering the profit prospects of the project, Simon can barely tolerate the overspending behavior of Pixar team.

However, Simon would not show this indulgence and still beat him up.

After continuing to chat with John Lasseter and others for a while, Simon looked at Jennifer beside him, confirming that everyone who should say hello had already greeted him, and planned to leave.

Just as I came to the door of the party hall with my female assistant, Ella Deutchman walked over with a few Asian faces beside him.

When he came to Simon's death, Ella Deutchman explained: "Simon, Zhang, they want to say hello to you."

Among the many nominations for Daenerys Entertainment tonight, there is also "Judou", which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film. This is also the first time that the Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film across the ocean has been awarded.

Simon initially signaled Deutschman to increase his attention and introduction to Asian films, but he did not express much extra attention to "Ju Dou".

Therefore, the film did not receive the Little Golden Man.

Looking at the big names in front of me who could only look up to in my previous life, Simon smiled and stepped forward to shake hands with the people one by one: "Hello, Mr. Zhang. And, Miss Gong, your performance in "Jupou" is very exciting."

When he said this, Simon directly used Chinese.

When the few people in front of them heard Simon's fluent Mandarin, they all showed a surprised expression, even Ella Doichiman's expression was a little strange.

After all, he was from two worlds. He just made a few simple and polite words and said that he would cooperate again next time he had the opportunity to do so. Simon left the Beverly Hilton Hotel with his female assistant.

I will still go back to Dumei Point Manor tonight.

Janet was just pregnant, and even if the woman didn't mind, Simon cared about her emotions in these small details, so she never spent the night outside during this period.

Taking the female assistant with her was just a way to take her home.

The car was shuttled through downtown Los Angeles late at night. Jennifer keenly felt some subtle changes in his emotions after Simon greeted the orientals just now. This was a kind of... probably called loneliness, but he didn't say anything, just hugged the man's arm and leaned over gently.

There have always been many secrets in my own men.

But if he doesn't say it, she won't deliberately pursue it.

The female assistant was sent back to her uncle George Norman's house, but Simon did not stop and continued to return to Malibu.

The next day, as usual, was a report about this Oscar.

Daenerys Entertainment won half of the gold men, which naturally became the focus of hot discussion in the media.

Fortunately, although there are some politically correct factors among them, "Dancing with the Wolf", which won seven major awards, did not cause much controversy. Instead, many media have noticed the fact that some other excellent films produced by Daenerys Entertainment have not been nominated.

In addition, some people have also noticed Simon himself's "absence" at this year's Oscars.

It was not just the absence of the Oscars, but Simon did not receive any personal nominations for him at this year's Oscars this year. For a time, some media began to speculate whether Simon planned to retire from the film industry.

After all, with Simon's current wealth, there is really no need to shoot movies by himself.

Facing media questions, Daenerys Entertainment denied media speculation, but also stated that Simon may not be able to pick up the guide himself for a long time to come.

Due to the Oscars and Easter schedule, the box office of "Dancing with Wolves" rebounded again. The Oscars from March 22 to March 28th had a counter-decline of 59% in the week, and it closed at another $6.54 million, and the cumulative box office of the film also reached $139 million.

On March 29, the second week of the Easter schedule will be opened.

Two other films related to Daenerys Entertainment, "Children in Cornfield 3" and "Crazy Night" produced by Universal Pictures were released.

New World Pictures has invested a $10 million budget for "Children in Cornfield 3" and has also adopted many latest CG special effects, trying to make this horror series box office hit the height of "Ghost Street".

However, after three days of painting, the box office of "Children in the Cornfield 3" in the North American country was only $6.73 million, with the expected box office in the first week between 9 million and 10 million, and the total box office in North America is expected to be around $30 million.

It is certain to make money, there is still some gap between the "Ghost Street" series.

Of course, compared with the box office level of $15 million in the first two movies, the expected double box office growth rate of "Children in Cornfield 3" is still very obvious, so the fourth movie in the series will still maintain the production budget level of tens of millions of dollars.

"One Night in Crazy" produced by John Hughes has a box office of only $4.02 million in three days, and the reputation of the film is far inferior to "Home Imperial" which is still being released.

The production budget of this romantic comedy movie is US$11 million, and the total box office in North America is expected to be less than US$15 million. It is unlikely to recoup the cost by relying solely on North American theater distribution.

After the box office of "Crazy Night" was released, other studios that originally chased John Hughes crazy because of the success of "Home Imperials" were a little calmer, and involuntarily transferred more factors of "Home Imperials" to Simon.

After Easter on March 31, the time entered April 1991.

The three-month free trial program of AOL is over.

In March just past, the number of online booking users in the United States still reached 1.5 million, and a total of 1.09 million free trial users have been connected again.

Among the 970,000 trial users in February, the number of final converted to official users reached 560,000, which increased again compared with the official user conversion rate in January, reaching 57%.

Relying on the data from the previous two months, U.S. Online predicts that among the 1.09 million free trial users in March, the number of official users transferred to the market will reach more than 600,000.

In this way, in just the first quarter, AOL will gain more than 1.5 million new users.

Including the user accumulation before 1991, it is expected that by the end of April, the number of official paid users of American Online will reach more than 2.3 million.

Under such a strong growth momentum, because a large number of users who made free trials had not been successfully connected in the previous few months, the official U.S. Online announced that the free trial will continue until the remaining 2.5 million users made reservations all receive free trial opportunities.

The remaining 2.5 million reservation users, even at a 50% conversion rate, can once again bring about 1.25 million official paid users to AOL.

Therefore, after the free trial is completely over, the number of users of the United States Online will be able to reach more than 3.5 million.

Based on the average monthly consumption of US$30 per user, it is estimated that starting from the second half of 1991, the monthly revenue of US Online will reach more than US$100 million.

Whether it is solid revenue data or high-speed growth rates visible to the naked eye, they are constantly stimulating the IPO valuation of American Online.

Morgan Stanley, which officially signed a contract to acquire the IPO underwriting rights of the United States Online, finally confirmed the IPO valuation of the United States Online to US$2.5 billion after several consecutive adjustments.

A valuation of US$2.5 billion is expected to raise US$375 million in accordance with the 15% new share issuance ratio of US Online.

Including the rapid growth of American Online's own revenue, after completing its IPO, the company will completely get rid of the financial troubles that have been tangled before.

On the other hand, with the efforts of American Online and other regional Internet service providers in North America, it is expected that in the first half of 1991, the number of users of the World Wide Web platform in the entire North America will exceed more than 5 million, and it will be very easy to hit the scale of 10 million users throughout the year.

This growth rate far exceeded Simon's initial expectations.

No wonder Jeff Bezos quickly changed his career from the financial industry to invest in it after seeing the Internet industry growing by 2,300% every year.

As the most important content platform in the World Wide Web system, the Igrit Portal has gradually attracted more and more attention with the explosive growth of the scale of the World Wide Web user base.

You should know that in this era, the average sales volume of newspapers with the largest circulation in North America was only more than 2 million copies.

During this period, the Igret portal, which quickly became famous by reporting the Gulf War, has exceeded 3 million users in the entire North American area.

Although the user base of the Igrit portal is too scattered, no one dares to ignore this rapidly growing new media platform at this time.

Therefore, in the new quarter advertising sales event of the Igrit Portal held in late March, Igrit received more than $12 million in advertising orders from a number of technology giants such as IBM, Intel, Microsoft, etc.

Although traditional daily necessities advertising is difficult to achieve too much effect on Internet platforms, it is obvious that as an emerging new technology media platform, the Igret Portal is suitable for technology giants such as IBM to promote their own products.

Jeff Bezos got this accurately and specially customized a series of advertising plans specifically for various technology companies. The $12 million advertising order may be insignificant compared to traditional media giants, but it is a leap in the Igret portal.

Before this, Igret's main source of revenue was the sales of IE browser software.

Therefore, after this quarterly advertising sales activity at the end of March, advertising business revenue officially became a revenue focus of the Igret portal.

At the same time, the industry has once again realized the strong monopoly advantage of the Igrit portal over the World Wide Web content platform.

You should know that it may not be too difficult to simply provide news and information, but it is not so easy to integrate email, personal homepage, online forum, online games and other functions in addition to news and information.

More importantly, Egret also has very strong patent barriers.

This is the fundamental obstacle for other technology companies to find it difficult to replicate their portal business.

On the World Wide Web platform, even web pictures that many people think are very simple are actually professional format pictures that Igret specially developed and registered with technical patents. Not to mention technologies such as JavaScript scripting languages ​​that involve underlying applications.

Although Daenerys Entertainment maintains a very open licensing attitude, more and more other websites joining the World Wide Web platform can easily obtain authorization by applying, and it is still free of charge. However, it is not difficult to see a little bit. If someone plans to build a commercial website similar to the Igrit portal and can successfully obtain technical authorization from Igrit, that is the case.

Simon hopes that Internet content websites can flourish, so he does not intend to restrict the emergence of other content platforms. This will not be of any benefit to the expansion of the World Wide Web platform itself.

However, if it is only open content patent authorization and cannot access patent authorization for related technologies such as email, online games, and future online payment, similar websites are destined to be difficult to compete with the Igrit Portal.
Chapter completed!