Hollywood New Century

At the 2008 Oscars, the biggest winner was No Country for Old Men, with 8 nominations and 4 winners, including the most powerful best director and best picture.

After three years of running with Xinghai Pictures, it finally won the crown this time, and won the best picture Oscar.

At noon, in the room of Simon's mansion in Beverly Hills, Jessica Alba sat on Simon and swayed, bursting with excitement.

Not long after, with an exclamation, Jessica Alba fell down, pressing on Simon and gasping for breath.

"Alas, it's past eleven," Simon said, taking a deep breath and looking at his watch.

"Last night, I went to the dinner of Vanity Fair magazine, and then you took everyone to the Peninsula Hotel to have a party. When I came back, it was past 3:00 in the morning," Jessica Alba reminded that Xinghai Pictures won the most Good movie, the celebration scene is still very grand.

"Well, take a shower, I have to go to the company in the afternoon!" Simon said and patted Jessica Alba on his body.

In the afternoon, Simon Parker, who came to the company, first checked some project applications recently received by the company.

"It's too much, let me sort it out first and then show it to me!" Simon leaned on the chair and rubbed his eyes. Now Xinghai Pictures seems to have money written on his face, and the project is coming soon.

"Okay, I'll have someone do a brief summary of the script," Laura Collins responded.

"By the way, in today's newspaper, the news about Oscar, have you read it?" Simon asked.

"Look, there are a lot of reports about us winning the Best Picture Oscar. Many media call us the leader of the independent film industry after Miramax. We have only been established for four years, but we have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar three times. , finally won the award this year, which is an affirmation for us!" Laura Collins said with great pride.

"The leader of independent films?" Simon shook his head, not really interested in this.

"I came to the company today, and I heard that the ratings of the Oscars last night were just 30 million viewers, a record low!" Laura Collins continued.

"Oh, it's really boring. Whether it's the host or the program arrangement, the audience likes to watch the star effect of gag, but they don't like to watch some memory clips." Simon had guessed that it would not be high, but he didn't expect it to be so low. Oscar The awards ceremony is generally the second most watched program in the United States after the Super Bowl.

"By the way, Warner Bros. announced today that it has merged New Line Pictures, and the distribution rights of the film will be reverted to Warner Bros. New Line Pictures will be affiliated to an independent production and distribution film company under Warner Bros." Laura Collins knew that the company had been paying attention, and then continued:

"New Line will be responsible for Warner Bros. independent films in the future, so Warner Bros. has suspended the company's original two labels, Warner Bros. Independent Films and Film House, and New Line will be responsible for Warner Bros.' independent films!"

Simon nodded. New Line Pictures will lose its autonomy in the future. As an independent label owned by Warner Bros., the budget for film production and distribution will be constrained. Without film distribution rights, New Line will not be able to cooperate with overseas. The publisher of the market was approached, and the home entertainment market was handed over to Warner Bros.

The once independent New Line Pictures has finally become an existence such as Fox Searchlight, a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox Pictures, and Screen Treasure Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony Columbia.

"Warner Bros. can't eat the more than 600 employees of the new line. It is estimated that most of them have been laid off because of this time. We Xinghai Films are in need of talents with experience in film production, promotion and distribution, especially as our type. The top entertainment of the studio is very similar to the style of New Line Cinema!" Simon had the idea of ​​developing independent films from the very beginning, and without him, the market in this area is huge.

Xinghai Qixing is responsible for the release of overseas films and literary films in North America; Pinnacle Films is in the market for horror, blood, political thrillers, and youthful and **** B-level films. Too bad, there will always be a cost recovery or a little profit from the theater and other markets.

However, with yourself, will those successful series of horror movies and R-rated comedy movies still run away?

"By the way, Ms. Nina Jacobson asked us if we are going to start increasing the number of films released next. We do not have a lot of movies ourselves. Nina means that we can buy some promising low-cost movies. Independent literary film!" Laura Collins reported again.

"Acquisition of films is a must. We also send film buyers from the company to various film festivals at home and abroad, such as Saint Denis at the beginning of the year, the Berlin Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival at the end of May, and the Venice Film Festival at the end of August. The Toronto Film Festival at the end of September, etc., all need to be paid attention to, there may be some excellent new directors emerging,” Simon also plans to go off to participate in the first-line film business, and must guarantee the first two years. The perfection of film distribution channels.

How to improve the channel? Of course, it is constantly launching wonderful and popular movies, and commercial success is the guarantee of everything.

"By the way, I met Chris Mellor Dandley at the Vanity Fair dinner last night. We proposed to buy his Lighting Entertainment so early. He seems to be thinking about it. Let Nina step up." Simon has registered the Minions, and Chris Melardandley is not essential to say it, but it's not bad in the management of animated films.

An empty shell of lighting entertainment, what is the use of Xinghai Films acquiring it? It wasn't that Chris Mellor Dandley could manage the animation department of Xinghai Pictures, and entering the production business of animated feature films had already taken root in Simon's heart.

Chris Mellor Dandley at least has a good production budget for animated films. It's not too expensive. Of course, Lighting Entertainment doesn't have DreamWorks Animation. worse.

"Okay!" said Laura Collins and left the office.

Simon leaned on the chair. The original route of Lighting Entertainment should be to take refuge with NBC Universal, but Universal Pictures, which is cooperating with Marvel Pictures, has not noticed Chris Mellor Dandley's Lighting Entertainment recently.

Now that Xinghai Entertainment is rich and powerful, and just returned with a full reward at the Oscars, Chris Melardandley has come to invest at this time. He has funds and connections. How wonderful!

At this point, Simon's mailbox received an email from Nancy Davis, and there was progress in New York.