It seemed like suddenly that the first quarter of 1993 reached its end.

In March that is about to pass, the most popular media topic is undoubtedly the "Information Highway Plan" bill officially passed at the beginning of the month, and the subsequent various discussions across the society surrounding the huge investment bill involving US$400 billion in the next twenty years. New technology companies such as Igrit, Cisco, American Online, Microsoft, and Intel have also become the darlings of the capital market for a time.

The most powerful young man in Hollywood is undoubtedly the most popular one in this trend.

However, the new technology companies, Cisco and American Online, both have exceeded US$30 billion in market value, have brought nearly US$50 billion in wealth to each other, and even some Hollywood superstars with a lot of balance have begun to look for investment in the new technology field.

However, for most native Hollywood people, new technologies, the Internet, the information age, tens of billions of dollars... these are still a bit far away from them.

As time comes to the end of March, what everyone is most concerned about is the most important ceremony of the awards season that lasted for several months, the 65th Academy Awards Ceremony.

Simon returned to Los Angeles after finishing his New York schedule and was immediately surrounded by various jobs.

This year's Easter is April 11. Daenerys Entertainment's Easter film "Anti-Wisdom 2" will be released on April 9. Simon needs to pay attention to the promotion and distribution of the film.

The summer seasons of "Superman", "Sleeping in Seattle", "Sugar-coated Trap", "Gots Assassination Order" and other films have basically been completed, and Simon must check it personally.

There are also a large number of projects such as Mission: Impossible, Seven Deadly Sins, and Schindler's List, which are in the production stage, which require Simon to put in some effort.

The copyrights related to the "Soul Conjuring" universe that had been entangled for a while have finally been resolved recently. Simon discussed the development plan of the related project with Danny Morris, the head of New World Films in the morning. At 1 pm, after lunch, he continued to attend the "Star Gate" production conference written by Roland Emmerich and directed by Michael Bay.

At two o'clock, the Stargate production meeting ended, and Amy Pascal and Universal Records president Richard Palmes were already waiting for Simon.

After completing the acquisition of MCA, Daenerys Entertainment basically completed the adjustment and integration of film, television, theme parks and other businesses. However, in terms of records, because it has not been able to spend energy before and because it is not very familiar with the record industry, Simon has never made too much adjustments to the record company.

In the past two years, Universal Records has been under the charge of Richard Palmes. Although this former MCA executive in his fifties has not achieved great results, he has also managed the record company in an orderly manner. Relying on Daenerys Entertainment's soundtrack sales of some excellent films, the record business has also provided good profits to the group.

There is no need to think about relying on the distribution channels of other record companies as in the "Body Guard" period. This is also what Simon originally valued the most.

However, just that is obviously not enough.

The last time I saw the digital music player prototype developed by Tincobaier in San Francisco, Simon realized that it was the time to re-plan the record business.

If you miss the last boom of physical records, it will be difficult to achieve much in the music field in the future.

In recent years, Universal Records has always been inclined to the rock field. The famous Gun Rose is a group under Universal Records. In addition to the Dream Theater Band, Pili Tango and other heavy metal bands. In addition to rock, some other types of contracted singers, Xueer, is the actress who co-starred in "Moonlight Smile" with Cage and won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Gun Rose is famous enough and the record sales are also very good. The global sales of the two records have reached 35 million, but the rock bands have finally deviated from the mainstream.

Xueer's peak period was in the 1960s and 1970s, and began to focus more on performances.

Therefore, compared with Sony's Columbia Records, which owns Michael Jackson and Warner Records, which owns Madonna, Universal Records' biggest shortcoming is the lack of a phenomenal mainstream super music superstar.

Simon happened to know the development trends of the record industry in the 1990s.

In the 1990s, the rising teenage pop singers, backstreet boys, Britney Spears, etc., almost suppressed the edge of all traditional singers for a time. Moreover, compared with the past, it required a lot of luck to create the industry status of a top singer, teenage pop singers are a kind of "batch-made".

Speaking of teenager pop, we have to mention the Jive record company that was once popular in the 1990s. From the earliest backstreet boys to the later Britney Spears, all of which were created by Jive record.

Simon has investigated the information on Jive Records in advance.

Jive Records is now one of the subsidiaries of the RCA Group Records subsidiary of General Electric. RCA Group is also the parent company of NBC. The relationship between RCA and RCA Records is just like MCA and Universal Records.

As a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Giomao General Electric, it is only a part of the shareholding. If other record companies want to poach, it will not be too difficult. Large record groups usually have many subsidiaries, and these subsidiaries are also quite frequent to replace their parent companies.

However, if Daenerys Entertainment, the most popular Hollywood player, will definitely not be so easy.

After an afternoon of discussion, Simon made two decisions. The recording business of Daenerys Entertainment was officially renamed Daenerys Music Group, announcing that Daenerys Entertainment began to make efforts in the recording field. Another decision was to start contacting Jive Records President Barry Weiss.

After considering it, Simon gave up the decision to swallow the entire Jive record, and instead dug up Barry Weiss, the president of Jive record who created a teenager pop in the 1990s. This is much easier than buying the entire Jive record, and it can save time and avoid various unnecessary pulls.

This was until five o'clock in the afternoon. After the meeting ended, after Richard Palmes left, Amy Pascal asked Simon, "How to arrange it tonight?"

The Oscars ceremony in the city center should have begun. Simon had no plans to join in the fun and said with a smile: "Go home to have dinner with Jenny first. After the awards ceremony, he will probably go to the party for a while."

Amy already knew that Janet was pregnant again, and even guessed something else from Simon's rescheduling of the female assistant's work, but she did not have the intention to go into it. Instead, she turned the topic to the construction of Universal Studios Osaka in Japan. She will fly to Japan tomorrow to check the construction progress of the cinema.

The two chatted for a while, Amy left, and Simon continued to search for some documents in the office until six o'clock, and then left the cinema and rushed back to Malibu.

Tonight, it was actually three people who had dinner together.

The two women became pregnant together, and Simon actually hoped that the female assistant would also live in Dumei Point Manor, which would be more convenient to take care of. There were many beautiful girls in the manor, and no female assistant would be too existing. But Jennifer did not agree, but continued to live in her uncle George Norman's house.

As Simon's former personal lawyer, George Norman is still in the board of directors of some Westeros system companies. Like the Reiboulds, they have a very close relationship with the Westeros system. In addition to their personal relationship, the pregnancy of the female assistant has not been concealed from George Norman.

The female assistant insisted on living at her uncle's house, and Simon did not object, but just accompanied a female bodyguard and female assistant to Jennifer, responsible for taking care of her daily life for 24 hours.

The Normans also knew that this matter was of great importance. In order to avoid the leak of the news, they specially sent their youngest son to a boarding school.

Moreover, after the female assistant showed her pregnancy, she planned to move to Simon's mountain villa in Woodside, San Francisco. This would not be too far from Los Angeles, and she could avoid many attentions here. It was also very convenient to go from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

Although he was unable to live together, Janet often invited Jennifer to have dinner at home during this period. The two women had a very good relationship. After they got pregnant together, their relationship seemed to be closer.

When Simon rushed back to Dumei Point Manor, the 65th Academy Awards ceremony officially opened at the Dorothy Chandler Theater at the Los Angeles Music Center, and the host of this session was still Billy Christo.

Compared with previous years, this year is a typical Oscar Little New Year.

Daenerys Entertainment originally had three movies under "Smelling the Fragrance", "Crying Game" and "Howard Manor" that were enough to squeeze into the best film ranks. However, in order to avoid distracting the judges' energy, Daenerys Entertainment only focused on "Smelling the Fragrance" this year, and the other two films only applied for nominations such as the Best Screenwriter or Best Actress.

"Crying Game" and "Howard Manor" voluntarily withdrew from the competition for Best Picture Awards. The five best picture nominations for this year immediately became much more sad.

In addition to "Smelling the Scent of the Scent", there are four other best film nominees, including "Unforgivable" by Clint Eastwood, "April" directed by Mike Neville, "Malcolm Aix" by Spike Lee and "Chaplin" starring Robert Downey Jr.

When the nomination was just announced, many North American media bluntly criticized some of the works in this Best Picture nomination for the year for being unrealized, and were completely made up for the Oscar Organizing Committee. "Crying Game" and "Howard Manor" under Daenerys Entertainment were also specifically mentioned.

Oscars are also helpless about this.

Daenerys Entertainment has not applied for the relevant nomination, so it is impossible to force the other party to add it.

It’s just that most of the public obviously don’t know the Oscar review rules.

Under the influence of the media, everyone only saw Oscar's prejudice against Daenerys Entertainment.

Even the old stories of "The Stunning Times" defeating Daenerys Entertainment's "Piano Love" and "The End of the Way" were mentioned again, which triggered Oscar's speculation that Daenerys Entertainment, the new player, was not friendly enough.

In fact, this public opinion situation also includes the factors that Daenerys Entertainment guides behind the scenes.

The Oscars are actually very influenced by media opinions.

The entire Oscar judges team has reached 6,000. There will never be too many judges who really pay attention to the quality of the film themselves. Most of them are easily influenced by public relations and public opinion.

Last year, "The Stunning Times" won the first Oscar for Best Female Director Xiao Jinren and the most important Best Picture, which has caused strong controversy. If Daenerys Entertainment is ignored this year, the credibility of the Oscar may be affected. Even if you don't care whether a truly outstanding film will win the award, since you have become a member of the Oscar judges group, because of the group attributes of human instinct, these people will inevitably tend to maintain the credibility of the Oscar.

At the evening award ceremony, last year's voluntary abandonment of the Oscars and the public opinion guidance strategy some time ago played a significant role.

In the hall of Dorothy Chandler, Erin Lauder, who participated in this movie ceremony for the first time, obviously did not know the inside story behind the Oscars. Sitting in the seventh row in the center of the hall, a guy specially arranged a pretty good position for her. He was surrounded by various stars that he could only see on the big screen in the past. The girl instinctively only had excitement and did not feel that what a guy said yesterday would feel very boring at the awards ceremony.

With the official start of the award ceremony, Erin Lauder, who had done some homework in advance, couldn't help but pay attention to Daenerys Entertainment's videos.

Best audio, "Wonder Woman".

Best visual effect, "Wonder Woman".

Best photography, "Love in the River".

Best Actress, Emma Thompson, "Howard Manor".

The best original script, "Crying Game".

The best adapted script, "Smelling the Scent of the Scent".

Best movie editing, "Wonder Woman".

Best Actor, Al Pacino, "Smelling the Scent and Knowing Women".

Best Director, Martin Bleist, "Smelling the Scent of the Scent".

Best film, "Smelling the Scent of the Scent".

Before he knew it, when the award ceremony ended, Erin Lauder discovered that among the 22 awards in this year, only related videos from Daenerys Entertainment won 10 Little Golden Man, and all of them were the most important Oscar awards.

Among the awards that have been won, the only ones that are the best supporting roles for actors and actresses, and the others are awards such as Best Animation Short Film, Best Documentary, and Best Soundtrack.

Although I only met Simon for less than three days, Irene Lauder could clearly feel how strong Daenerys Entertainment is in Hollywood, and therefore I couldn't help but feel some inexplicable pride.

It's a pity that some guy is not here.

Fortunately, the company has won so many awards, so you can't be at all not to attend the Melisandra party in the future, right?
Chapter completed!