Chapter 408: 408
If audio player doesn't work, press Stop then Play button again
Seven awards, including best film and best director for dancing with the wolf, best supporting actress and best original script for ghost, best heroine for ten days in danger, and best animated short film Oscar for Pixar 3D animation little lion, are the cumulative gains of danelis entertainment films at the 61st Oscars awards ceremony.
If other honorary awards are not included, danielis Entertainment's 11 major awards in total account for just half of all 22 Film Awards. Like the Golden Globe Awards in January, danielis entertainment has become the biggest winner of this year's Oscars.
Simon hasn't been interested in any party lately. However, as a boss, both feeling and reason need to be revealed at the celebration party.
Arrive with Sophia at the Gucci theme party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It's nearly 10 o'clock.
Shuttling through the party crowd to congratulate tonight's winner, Simon quickly came to a middle-aged man who was chatting with John lassett and ED catmoore.
The middle-aged man's name is Roger Ellis. He is a director and screenwriter of animation films poached from Disney by Pixar Animation Studio. He has been involved in Disney's "Adventures of Olivia" and other films before, and he is also the director of tonight's award-winning 3D animation short film "little lion".
In the original time and space, Roger ailles happened to be the director of Disney's 2D version of the lion king.
From the end of 1988 to now, Pixar has been developing animation technology related to the lion king for more than two years while producing toy story.
The little lion, which won the gold medal tonight, is the embodiment of Pixar's technology development achievements in the past two years.
The short five minute film, through the short adventure of a little lion living on the prairie, shows the magnificent African prairie scene and animal hair rendering technology in 3D animation mode.
Now, we have successfully won the Oscar for the best short film, which is enough to prove that Pixar's technology has reached the level of making a 3D version of the lion king, and the film will be officially launched in the near future.
Simon congratulated Roger ailes on winning the prize and said, "I'll take time to see the storyboard demo of the lion king in the next few days. Roger, it's a gift for Jennie. If you screw it up, my wife will be very angry."
Although it's just an Oscar for best animated short film, Roger Ellis is still very excited tonight. Hearing this, he immediately confidently said, "Simon, I promise you, this will definitely be a wonderful story."
Simon laughed, turned to John lassett and said, "John, how long will toy story take to finish? You've overspent a lot?"
In the initial plan, Simon hoped to finish toy story with $30 million.
However, perhaps due to the natural perfectionism of any artist, "Toy Story" is estimated to be completed in a few months, but the team led by John lassett has spent 33 million dollars.
Despite Simon's smile, John lassett was nervous.
Pixar Animation is definitely the most "bread and butter" Department of danielis entertainment.
Since it was bought by Simon in 1988, other departments of the company have been thriving for more than two years, but Pixar Animation has only spent money but has no output.
Therefore, everyone knows that toy story is a backwater battle for the Pixar team. If it fails, even if there is another chance for the lion king, the Pixar team will not have a good time in the next two years.
After a moment's deliberation, John lassett said, "two months, Simon, give us another two months."
Toy story is scheduled for November at the end of this year. In fact, there is plenty of time. However, if the project continues for one more month, it will definitely be a huge extra expense. Naturally, the earlier the project is completed, the better.
Simon pays attention to Pixar's progress every month. He is very satisfied with the effect of the completed Toy Story sample film, so he is not worried.
The first 3D animated film will inevitably encounter all kinds of problems. Considering the profit prospects of the project, Simon can barely tolerate the overspending behavior of Pixar team.
However, Simon will not show this indulgence, he still beat his mouth.
After chatting with John lassett and others for a while, Simon looks at her and confirms that all the people who should say hello have already said hello, so he plans to leave.
Just as she and her assistant arrived at the door of the party hall, Ella doichman came over with some Asian faces.
Coming to Simon, Ella doichman explained, "Simon, they want to say hello to you."
Among the nominations of danielis Entertainment Tonight, another one, Ju Dou, was nominated for best foreign language film, which is also the first time across the ocean to be nominated for best foreign language film.
Simon initially indicated that doichman would pay more attention to Asian films, but he didn't pay too much attention to "Ju Dou".As a result, the film did not win a small gold medal.
Looking at a few celebrities in front of him, Simon smiles and shakes hands with them one by one: "Hello, Mr. Zhang. Also, Miss Gong, your performance in Ju Dou is very wonderful. "
Simon used Chinese directly in this greeting.
Several people in front of them were surprised to hear Simon's fluent Mandarin, even Ella doechman's expression was a little different.
After all, they are people from two worlds. After a few words of politeness, Simon left the Beverly Hilton Hotel with his female assistant.
We're going back to domay point tonight.
Janet has just been pregnant, and even if women don't mind, Simon cares about her emotions in these small details, so she has never spent the night out during this period.
I left with my female assistant, just to drop her off on the way home.
Driving through downtown Los Angeles in the middle of the night, Jennifer is acutely aware of some subtle changes in Simon's mood after he said hello to the Oriental people. This is a kind of Probably can be called lonely mood, but did not say anything, just holding the man's arm gently over.
In fact, there are many secrets in their own men.
But he did not say, she will not deliberately pursue.
After returning the assistant to her uncle George Norman's house, Simon did not stop and continued to return to Malibu.
The next day, as usual, was about this year's Oscars.
Dannilis entertainment won half of the small gold, naturally become the focus of hot media.
Fortunately, although there are some politically correct factors, dancing with wolves, which won seven awards, has not caused much controversy. On the contrary, many media have noticed that some other excellent films produced by danielis entertainment have not been nominated.
In addition, some people have noticed Simon's "Absence" at this year's Oscars.
It's not just the absence of the Oscars, but Simon didn't get any nominations related to him at this year's Oscars. For a moment, some media began to speculate whether Simon was going to quit.
After all, with Simon's current wealth, there is no need to make movies by himself.
In the face of media questioning, danilisi entertainment denied the media speculation, but also said that Simon may not be able to pick up the guide tube in person for a long time in the future.
The box office of "dancing with Wolves" rebounded again due to the Oscar ceremony and the Easter schedule. During the week of the Oscar ceremony from March 22 to March 28, the box office of the film fell by 59% and received another $6.54 million. The cumulative box office of the film also reached $139 million.
On March 29, the second week of the Easter schedule opens.
Two other films related to danielis entertainment, children in the cornfield 3, and Universal Pictures' crazy night, were released.
New World Pictures has invested US $10 million in the budget for "cornfield kids 3" and adopted many of the latest CG special effects, trying to make the box office of this horror film series hit the level of "ghost Street".
However, three days after the start of the painting, the box office of "children in the cornfield 3" in North America is only 6.73 million US dollars. It is estimated that the box office in the first week will be between 9 million and 10 million, and the total box office in North America is expected to be about 30 million US dollars.
Making money is for sure. There is still a gap between the ghost Street series and it.
Of course, compared with the box office level of $15 million in the first two movies, the expected doubling of the box office growth of "cornfield children 3" is still very obvious, so the fourth part of the series still maintains the production budget level of $10 million.
The box office of John Hughes' crazy night was only $4.02 million in the first three days of production. The film's reputation is far less than that of the still on release kid in charge.
The budget for the production of this romantic comedy movie is 11 million US dollars, and the total box office in North America is expected to be less than 15 million US dollars. Relying on the North American cinema distribution, it is unlikely to recover the cost.
After the box office of crazy night came out, other studios that originally chased John Hughes crazily because of the success of kid at home all calmed down a little bit, and involuntarily transferred more factors of the success of kid at home to Simon.
After Easter on March 31, April 1991.
AOL's three-month free trial is coming to an end.
In the past March, the number of AOL booking users still reached 1.5 million, with a total of 1.09 million free trial users accessed again.
Among the 970000 trial users in February, the number of formal users finally reached 560000, which increased again compared with the conversion rate of formal users in January, reaching 57%.
Based on the data of the first two months, AOL predicts that among the 1.09 million free trial users in March, the number of official users will reach more than 600000.
So in the first quarter alone, AOL will have more than 1.5 million new users.Taking into account the user accumulation before 1991, AOL is expected to have more than 2.3 million official paying users by the end of April.
With such a strong momentum of growth, because a large number of users who have reserved for free trial have not been successfully accessed in the previous few months, AOL officials soon announced that the free trial activity will continue until the remaining 2.5 million users have all obtained the free trial opportunity.
The remaining 2.5 million subscribers, even at a 50% conversion rate, will again bring about 1.25 million official paying subscribers to AOL.
As a result, AOL will have more than 3.5 million users after the free trial is over.
According to the average consumption amount of $30 per month for a single user, AOL's monthly revenue is expected to reach more than $100 million from the second half of 1991.
Both solid revenue data and visible high growth rate are constantly stimulating AOL's IPO valuation.
Morgan Stanley, which formally signed up to take the IPO underwriting right of AOL, finally confirmed the IPO valuation of AOL as $2.5 billion after several successive adjustments.
At a valuation of $2.5 billion, AOL is expected to raise $375 million based on 15% of the IPO.
With the rapid growth of AOL's own revenue, after the IPO, the company will completely get rid of the capital problem that has been entangled before.
On the other hand, with the efforts of AOL and other regional internet service providers in North America, it is expected that the number of users of the world wide web platform in North America will exceed 5 million in the first half of 1991, and it will be very easy to impact 10 million users in the whole year.
This growth rate is far faster than Simon's original expectation.
No wonder in my memory, when Jeff Bezos saw the Internet industry's annual growth rate of 2300%, he quickly switched from the financial industry to invest in it.
As the most important content platform of the world wide web system, igrit portal has gradually received more and more attention with the explosive growth of the world wide web users.
You know, in this era, the newspaper with the largest circulation in North America only sold more than 2 million copies on average.
During this period of time, relying on the Gulf War report, igritte portal quickly became famous, but the total number of users in North America has exceeded 3 million.
Although the user base of igrit portal is too scattered, at this time, no one dare to ignore this new media platform which is growing rapidly.
Therefore, in the new quarter's advertising sales activities of igritte portal in late March, igritte has accumulated more than 12 million US dollars of advertising orders from IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other technology giants.
Although the traditional daily necessities advertising on the Internet platform is difficult to gain too much effect, it is obvious that as an emerging new technology media platform, igrit portal is suitable for IBM and other technology giants to promote their own products.
Jeff Bezos accurately grasped this point and specially customized a series of advertising programs for various technology companies. The advertising order of 12 million US dollars may be insignificant compared with the traditional media giant, but it is a leap of igritte portal.
Before that, igrit's main source of revenue was only the sales of IE browser software.
Therefore, after the quarterly advertising sales activities at the end of March, the advertising revenue has officially become a revenue focus of igrit portal.
At the same time, the industry is generally aware of the strong monopoly advantage of igrit portal on the world wide web content platform.
You know, it may not be too difficult technically for a portal to provide only news information, but it is not so easy to integrate e-mail, personal homepage, online forum, online game and other functions in addition to news information.
More importantly, igritte also has a very strong patent barrier.
This is the fundamental obstacle for other technology companies to copy the portal business.
On the world wide web platform, even the webpage pictures that many people think are very simple are actually professional format pictures specially developed and registered by igritte. Not to mention technologies such as JavaScript scripting language for underlying applications.
Although Denise entertainment maintains a very open licensing attitude, more and more other websites joining the world wide web platform can easily get authorization as long as they apply, and they are still free of charge. However, it's not hard to imagine that if someone plans to build a commercial website similar to igritte portal, and can successfully get the technology license from igritte, it's a ghost.
Simon hopes that Internet content websites can blossom, so he does not intend to restrict the emergence of other content platforms, which will not benefit the expansion of the world wide web platform itself.
However, if only the patent authorization of open content can't access the patent authorization of e-mail, online games, future online payment and other related technologies, similar websites are doomed to be difficult to compete with igrit portal.
Please report us if you find any errors so we can fix it asap!
Seven awards, including best film and best director for dancing with the wolf, best supporting actress and best original script for ghost, best heroine for ten days in danger, and best animated short film Oscar for Pixar 3D animation little lion, are the cumulative gains of danelis entertainment films at the 61st Oscars awards ceremony.
If other honorary awards are not included, danielis Entertainment's 11 major awards in total account for just half of all 22 Film Awards. Like the Golden Globe Awards in January, danielis entertainment has become the biggest winner of this year's Oscars.
Simon hasn't been interested in any party lately. However, as a boss, both feeling and reason need to be revealed at the celebration party.
Arrive with Sophia at the Gucci theme party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It's nearly 10 o'clock.
Shuttling through the party crowd to congratulate tonight's winner, Simon quickly came to a middle-aged man who was chatting with John lassett and ED catmoore.
The middle-aged man's name is Roger Ellis. He is a director and screenwriter of animation films poached from Disney by Pixar Animation Studio. He has been involved in Disney's "Adventures of Olivia" and other films before, and he is also the director of tonight's award-winning 3D animation short film "little lion".
In the original time and space, Roger ailles happened to be the director of Disney's 2D version of the lion king.
From the end of 1988 to now, Pixar has been developing animation technology related to the lion king for more than two years while producing toy story.
The little lion, which won the gold medal tonight, is the embodiment of Pixar's technology development achievements in the past two years.
The short five minute film, through the short adventure of a little lion living on the prairie, shows the magnificent African prairie scene and animal hair rendering technology in 3D animation mode.
Now, we have successfully won the Oscar for the best short film, which is enough to prove that Pixar's technology has reached the level of making a 3D version of the lion king, and the film will be officially launched in the near future.
Simon congratulated Roger ailes on winning the prize and said, "I'll take time to see the storyboard demo of the lion king in the next few days. Roger, it's a gift for Jennie. If you screw it up, my wife will be very angry."
Although it's just an Oscar for best animated short film, Roger Ellis is still very excited tonight. Hearing this, he immediately confidently said, "Simon, I promise you, this will definitely be a wonderful story."
Simon laughed, turned to John lassett and said, "John, how long will toy story take to finish? You've overspent a lot?"
In the initial plan, Simon hoped to finish toy story with $30 million.
However, perhaps due to the natural perfectionism of any artist, "Toy Story" is estimated to be completed in a few months, but the team led by John lassett has spent 33 million dollars.
Despite Simon's smile, John lassett was nervous.
Pixar Animation is definitely the most "bread and butter" Department of danielis entertainment.
Since it was bought by Simon in 1988, other departments of the company have been thriving for more than two years, but Pixar Animation has only spent money but has no output.
Therefore, everyone knows that toy story is a backwater battle for the Pixar team. If it fails, even if there is another chance for the lion king, the Pixar team will not have a good time in the next two years.
After a moment's deliberation, John lassett said, "two months, Simon, give us another two months."
Toy story is scheduled for November at the end of this year. In fact, there is plenty of time. However, if the project continues for one more month, it will definitely be a huge extra expense. Naturally, the earlier the project is completed, the better.
Simon pays attention to Pixar's progress every month. He is very satisfied with the effect of the completed Toy Story sample film, so he is not worried.
The first 3D animated film will inevitably encounter all kinds of problems. Considering the profit prospects of the project, Simon can barely tolerate the overspending behavior of Pixar team.
However, Simon will not show this indulgence, he still beat his mouth.
After chatting with John lassett and others for a while, Simon looks at her and confirms that all the people who should say hello have already said hello, so he plans to leave.
Just as she and her assistant arrived at the door of the party hall, Ella doichman came over with some Asian faces.
Coming to Simon, Ella doichman explained, "Simon, they want to say hello to you."
Among the nominations of danielis Entertainment Tonight, another one, Ju Dou, was nominated for best foreign language film, which is also the first time across the ocean to be nominated for best foreign language film.
Simon initially indicated that doichman would pay more attention to Asian films, but he didn't pay too much attention to "Ju Dou".As a result, the film did not win a small gold medal.
Looking at a few celebrities in front of him, Simon smiles and shakes hands with them one by one: "Hello, Mr. Zhang. Also, Miss Gong, your performance in Ju Dou is very wonderful. "
Simon used Chinese directly in this greeting.
Several people in front of them were surprised to hear Simon's fluent Mandarin, even Ella doechman's expression was a little different.
After all, they are people from two worlds. After a few words of politeness, Simon left the Beverly Hilton Hotel with his female assistant.
We're going back to domay point tonight.
Janet has just been pregnant, and even if women don't mind, Simon cares about her emotions in these small details, so she has never spent the night out during this period.
I left with my female assistant, just to drop her off on the way home.
Driving through downtown Los Angeles in the middle of the night, Jennifer is acutely aware of some subtle changes in Simon's mood after he said hello to the Oriental people. This is a kind of Probably can be called lonely mood, but did not say anything, just holding the man's arm gently over.
In fact, there are many secrets in their own men.
But he did not say, she will not deliberately pursue.
After returning the assistant to her uncle George Norman's house, Simon did not stop and continued to return to Malibu.
The next day, as usual, was about this year's Oscars.
Dannilis entertainment won half of the small gold, naturally become the focus of hot media.
Fortunately, although there are some politically correct factors, dancing with wolves, which won seven awards, has not caused much controversy. On the contrary, many media have noticed that some other excellent films produced by danielis entertainment have not been nominated.
In addition, some people have noticed Simon's "Absence" at this year's Oscars.
It's not just the absence of the Oscars, but Simon didn't get any nominations related to him at this year's Oscars. For a moment, some media began to speculate whether Simon was going to quit.
After all, with Simon's current wealth, there is no need to make movies by himself.
In the face of media questioning, danilisi entertainment denied the media speculation, but also said that Simon may not be able to pick up the guide tube in person for a long time in the future.
The box office of "dancing with Wolves" rebounded again due to the Oscar ceremony and the Easter schedule. During the week of the Oscar ceremony from March 22 to March 28, the box office of the film fell by 59% and received another $6.54 million. The cumulative box office of the film also reached $139 million.
On March 29, the second week of the Easter schedule opens.
Two other films related to danielis entertainment, children in the cornfield 3, and Universal Pictures' crazy night, were released.
New World Pictures has invested US $10 million in the budget for "cornfield kids 3" and adopted many of the latest CG special effects, trying to make the box office of this horror film series hit the level of "ghost Street".
However, three days after the start of the painting, the box office of "children in the cornfield 3" in North America is only 6.73 million US dollars. It is estimated that the box office in the first week will be between 9 million and 10 million, and the total box office in North America is expected to be about 30 million US dollars.
Making money is for sure. There is still a gap between the ghost Street series and it.
Of course, compared with the box office level of $15 million in the first two movies, the expected doubling of the box office growth of "cornfield children 3" is still very obvious, so the fourth part of the series still maintains the production budget level of $10 million.
The box office of John Hughes' crazy night was only $4.02 million in the first three days of production. The film's reputation is far less than that of the still on release kid in charge.
The budget for the production of this romantic comedy movie is 11 million US dollars, and the total box office in North America is expected to be less than 15 million US dollars. Relying on the North American cinema distribution, it is unlikely to recover the cost.
After the box office of crazy night came out, other studios that originally chased John Hughes crazily because of the success of kid at home all calmed down a little bit, and involuntarily transferred more factors of the success of kid at home to Simon.
After Easter on March 31, April 1991.
AOL's three-month free trial is coming to an end.
In the past March, the number of AOL booking users still reached 1.5 million, with a total of 1.09 million free trial users accessed again.
Among the 970000 trial users in February, the number of formal users finally reached 560000, which increased again compared with the conversion rate of formal users in January, reaching 57%.
Based on the data of the first two months, AOL predicts that among the 1.09 million free trial users in March, the number of official users will reach more than 600000.
So in the first quarter alone, AOL will have more than 1.5 million new users.Taking into account the user accumulation before 1991, AOL is expected to have more than 2.3 million official paying users by the end of April.
With such a strong momentum of growth, because a large number of users who have reserved for free trial have not been successfully accessed in the previous few months, AOL officials soon announced that the free trial activity will continue until the remaining 2.5 million users have all obtained the free trial opportunity.
The remaining 2.5 million subscribers, even at a 50% conversion rate, will again bring about 1.25 million official paying subscribers to AOL.
As a result, AOL will have more than 3.5 million users after the free trial is over.
According to the average consumption amount of $30 per month for a single user, AOL's monthly revenue is expected to reach more than $100 million from the second half of 1991.
Both solid revenue data and visible high growth rate are constantly stimulating AOL's IPO valuation.
Morgan Stanley, which formally signed up to take the IPO underwriting right of AOL, finally confirmed the IPO valuation of AOL as $2.5 billion after several successive adjustments.
At a valuation of $2.5 billion, AOL is expected to raise $375 million based on 15% of the IPO.
With the rapid growth of AOL's own revenue, after the IPO, the company will completely get rid of the capital problem that has been entangled before.
On the other hand, with the efforts of AOL and other regional internet service providers in North America, it is expected that the number of users of the world wide web platform in North America will exceed 5 million in the first half of 1991, and it will be very easy to impact 10 million users in the whole year.
This growth rate is far faster than Simon's original expectation.
No wonder in my memory, when Jeff Bezos saw the Internet industry's annual growth rate of 2300%, he quickly switched from the financial industry to invest in it.
As the most important content platform of the world wide web system, igrit portal has gradually received more and more attention with the explosive growth of the world wide web users.
You know, in this era, the newspaper with the largest circulation in North America only sold more than 2 million copies on average.
During this period of time, relying on the Gulf War report, igritte portal quickly became famous, but the total number of users in North America has exceeded 3 million.
Although the user base of igrit portal is too scattered, at this time, no one dare to ignore this new media platform which is growing rapidly.
Therefore, in the new quarter's advertising sales activities of igritte portal in late March, igritte has accumulated more than 12 million US dollars of advertising orders from IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other technology giants.
Although the traditional daily necessities advertising on the Internet platform is difficult to gain too much effect, it is obvious that as an emerging new technology media platform, igrit portal is suitable for IBM and other technology giants to promote their own products.
Jeff Bezos accurately grasped this point and specially customized a series of advertising programs for various technology companies. The advertising order of 12 million US dollars may be insignificant compared with the traditional media giant, but it is a leap of igritte portal.
Before that, igrit's main source of revenue was only the sales of IE browser software.
Therefore, after the quarterly advertising sales activities at the end of March, the advertising revenue has officially become a revenue focus of igrit portal.
At the same time, the industry is generally aware of the strong monopoly advantage of igrit portal on the world wide web content platform.
You know, it may not be too difficult technically for a portal to provide only news information, but it is not so easy to integrate e-mail, personal homepage, online forum, online game and other functions in addition to news information.
More importantly, igritte also has a very strong patent barrier.
This is the fundamental obstacle for other technology companies to copy the portal business.
On the world wide web platform, even the webpage pictures that many people think are very simple are actually professional format pictures specially developed and registered by igritte. Not to mention technologies such as JavaScript scripting language for underlying applications.
Although Denise entertainment maintains a very open licensing attitude, more and more other websites joining the world wide web platform can easily get authorization as long as they apply, and they are still free of charge. However, it's not hard to imagine that if someone plans to build a commercial website similar to igritte portal, and can successfully get the technology license from igritte, it's a ghost.
Simon hopes that Internet content websites can blossom, so he does not intend to restrict the emergence of other content platforms, which will not benefit the expansion of the world wide web platform itself.
However, if only the patent authorization of open content can't access the patent authorization of e-mail, online games, future online payment and other related technologies, similar websites are doomed to be difficult to compete with igrit portal.
Seven awards, including best film and best director for dancing with the wolf, best supporting actress and best original script for ghost, best heroine for ten days in danger, and best animated short film Oscar for Pixar 3D animation little lion, are the cumulative gains of danelis entertainment films at the 61st Oscars awards ceremony. If other honorary awards are not included, danielis Entertainment's 11 major awards in total account for just half of all 22 Film Awards. Like the Golden Globe Awards in January, danielis entertainment has become the biggest winner of this year's Oscars. Simon hasn't been interested in any party lately. However, as a boss, both feeling and reason need to be revealed at the celebration party. Arrive with Sophia at the Gucci theme party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It's nearly 10 o'clock. Shuttling through the party crowd to congratulate tonight's winner, Simon quickly came to a middle-aged man who was chatting with John lassett and ED catmoore. The middle-aged man's name is Roger Ellis. He is a director and screenwriter of animation films poached from Disney by Pixar Animation Studio. He has been involved in Disney's "Adventures of Olivia" and other films before, and he is also the director of tonight's award-winning 3D animation short film "little lion". In the original time and space, Roger ailles happened to be the director of Disney's 2D version of the lion king. From the end of 1988 to now, Pixar has been developing animation technology related to the lion king for more than two years while producing toy story. The little lion, which won the gold medal tonight, is the embodiment of Pixar's technology development achievements in the past two years. The short five minute film, through the short adventure of a little lion living on the prairie, shows the magnificent African prairie scene and animal hair rendering technology in 3D animation mode. Now, we have successfully won the Oscar for the best short film, which is enough to prove that Pixar's technology has reached the level of making a 3D version of the lion king, and the film will be officially launched in the near future. Simon congratulated Roger ailes on winning the prize and said, "I'll take time to see the storyboard demo of the lion king in the next few days. Roger, it's a gift for Jennie. If you screw it up, my wife will be very angry." Although it's just an Oscar for best animated short film, Roger Ellis is still very excited tonight. Hearing this, he immediately confidently said, "Simon, I promise you, this will definitely be a wonderful story." Simon laughed, turned to John lassett and said, "John, how long will toy story take to finish? You've overspent a lot?" In the initial plan, Simon hoped to finish toy story with $30 million. However, perhaps due to the natural perfectionism of any artist, "Toy Story" is estimated to be completed in a few months, but the team led by John lassett has spent 33 million dollars. Despite Simon's smile, John lassett was nervous. Pixar Animation is definitely the most "bread and butter" Department of danielis entertainment. Since it was bought by Simon in 1988, other departments of the company have been thriving for more than two years, but Pixar Animation has only spent money but has no output. Therefore, everyone knows that toy story is a backwater battle for the Pixar team. If it fails, even if there is another chance for the lion king, the Pixar team will not have a good time in the next two years. After a moment's deliberation, John lassett said, "two months, Simon, give us another two months." Toy story is scheduled for November at the end of this year. In fact, there is plenty of time. However, if the project continues for one more month, it will definitely be a huge extra expense. Naturally, the earlier the project is completed, the better. Simon pays attention to Pixar's progress every month. He is very satisfied with the effect of the completed Toy Story sample film, so he is not worried. The first 3D animated film will inevitably encounter all kinds of problems. Considering the profit prospects of the project, Simon can barely tolerate the overspending behavior of Pixar team. However, Simon will not show this indulgence, he still beat his mouth. After chatting with John lassett and others for a while, Simon looks at her and confirms that all the people who should say hello have already said hello, so he plans to leave. Just as she and her assistant arrived at the door of the party hall, Ella doichman came over with some Asian faces. Coming to Simon, Ella doichman explained, "Simon, they want to say hello to you." Among the nominations of danielis Entertainment Tonight, another one, Ju Dou, was nominated for best foreign language film, which is also the first time across the ocean to be nominated for best foreign language film. Simon initially indicated that doichman would pay more attention to Asian films, but he didn't pay too much attention to "Ju Dou".As a result, the film did not win a small gold medal. Looking at a few celebrities in front of him, Simon smiles and shakes hands with them one by one: "Hello, Mr. Zhang. Also, Miss Gong, your performance in Ju Dou is very wonderful. " Simon used Chinese directly in this greeting. Several people in front of them were surprised to hear Simon's fluent Mandarin, even Ella doechman's expression was a little different. After all, they are people from two worlds. After a few words of politeness, Simon left the Beverly Hilton Hotel with his female assistant. We're going back to domay point tonight. Janet has just been pregnant, and even if women don't mind, Simon cares about her emotions in these small details, so she has never spent the night out during this period. I left with my female assistant, just to drop her off on the way home. Driving through downtown Los Angeles in the middle of the night, Jennifer is acutely aware of some subtle changes in Simon's mood after he said hello to the Oriental people. This is a kind of Probably can be called lonely mood, but did not say anything, just holding the man's arm gently over. In fact, there are many secrets in their own men. But he did not say, she will not deliberately pursue. After returning the assistant to her uncle George Norman's house, Simon did not stop and continued to return to Malibu. The next day, as usual, was about this year's Oscars. Dannilis entertainment won half of the small gold, naturally become the focus of hot media. Fortunately, although there are some politically correct factors, dancing with wolves, which won seven awards, has not caused much controversy. On the contrary, many media have noticed that some other excellent films produced by danielis entertainment have not been nominated. In addition, some people have noticed Simon's "Absence" at this year's Oscars. It's not just the absence of the Oscars, but Simon didn't get any nominations related to him at this year's Oscars. For a moment, some media began to speculate whether Simon was going to quit. After all, with Simon's current wealth, there is no need to make movies by himself. In the face of media questioning, danilisi entertainment denied the media speculation, but also said that Simon may not be able to pick up the guide tube in person for a long time in the future. The box office of "dancing with Wolves" rebounded again due to the Oscar ceremony and the Easter schedule. During the week of the Oscar ceremony from March 22 to March 28, the box office of the film fell by 59% and received another $6.54 million. The cumulative box office of the film also reached $139 million. On March 29, the second week of the Easter schedule opens. Two other films related to danielis entertainment, children in the cornfield 3, and Universal Pictures' crazy night, were released. New World Pictures has invested US $10 million in the budget for "cornfield kids 3" and adopted many of the latest CG special effects, trying to make the box office of this horror film series hit the level of "ghost Street". However, three days after the start of the painting, the box office of "children in the cornfield 3" in North America is only 6.73 million US dollars. It is estimated that the box office in the first week will be between 9 million and 10 million, and the total box office in North America is expected to be about 30 million US dollars. Making money is for sure. There is still a gap between the ghost Street series and it. Of course, compared with the box office level of $15 million in the first two movies, the expected doubling of the box office growth of "cornfield children 3" is still very obvious, so the fourth part of the series still maintains the production budget level of $10 million. The box office of John Hughes' crazy night was only $4.02 million in the first three days of production. The film's reputation is far less than that of the still on release kid in charge. The budget for the production of this romantic comedy movie is 11 million US dollars, and the total box office in North America is expected to be less than 15 million US dollars. Relying on the North American cinema distribution, it is unlikely to recover the cost. After the box office of crazy night came out, other studios that originally chased John Hughes crazily because of the success of kid at home all calmed down a little bit, and involuntarily transferred more factors of the success of kid at home to Simon. After Easter on March 31, April 1991. AOL's three-month free trial is coming to an end. In the past March, the number of AOL booking users still reached 1.5 million, with a total of 1.09 million free trial users accessed again. Among the 970000 trial users in February, the number of formal users finally reached 560000, which increased again compared with the conversion rate of formal users in January, reaching 57%. Based on the data of the first two months, AOL predicts that among the 1.09 million free trial users in March, the number of official users will reach more than 600000. So in the first quarter alone, AOL will have more than 1.5 million new users.Taking into account the user accumulation before 1991, AOL is expected to have more than 2.3 million official paying users by the end of April. With such a strong momentum of growth, because a large number of users who have reserved for free trial have not been successfully accessed in the previous few months, AOL officials soon announced that the free trial activity will continue until the remaining 2.5 million users have all obtained the free trial opportunity. The remaining 2.5 million subscribers, even at a 50% conversion rate, will again bring about 1.25 million official paying subscribers to AOL. As a result, AOL will have more than 3.5 million users after the free trial is over. According to the average consumption amount of $30 per month for a single user, AOL's monthly revenue is expected to reach more than $100 million from the second half of 1991. Both solid revenue data and visible high growth rate are constantly stimulating AOL's IPO valuation. Morgan Stanley, which formally signed up to take the IPO underwriting right of AOL, finally confirmed the IPO valuation of AOL as $2.5 billion after several successive adjustments. At a valuation of $2.5 billion, AOL is expected to raise $375 million based on 15% of the IPO. With the rapid growth of AOL's own revenue, after the IPO, the company will completely get rid of the capital problem that has been entangled before. On the other hand, with the efforts of AOL and other regional internet service providers in North America, it is expected that the number of users of the world wide web platform in North America will exceed 5 million in the first half of 1991, and it will be very easy to impact 10 million users in the whole year. This growth rate is far faster than Simon's original expectation. No wonder in my memory, when Jeff Bezos saw the Internet industry's annual growth rate of 2300%, he quickly switched from the financial industry to invest in it. As the most important content platform of the world wide web system, igrit portal has gradually received more and more attention with the explosive growth of the world wide web users. You know, in this era, the newspaper with the largest circulation in North America only sold more than 2 million copies on average. During this period of time, relying on the Gulf War report, igritte portal quickly became famous, but the total number of users in North America has exceeded 3 million. Although the user base of igrit portal is too scattered, at this time, no one dare to ignore this new media platform which is growing rapidly. Therefore, in the new quarter's advertising sales activities of igritte portal in late March, igritte has accumulated more than 12 million US dollars of advertising orders from IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other technology giants. Although the traditional daily necessities advertising on the Internet platform is difficult to gain too much effect, it is obvious that as an emerging new technology media platform, igrit portal is suitable for IBM and other technology giants to promote their own products. Jeff Bezos accurately grasped this point and specially customized a series of advertising programs for various technology companies. The advertising order of 12 million US dollars may be insignificant compared with the traditional media giant, but it is a leap of igritte portal. Before that, igrit's main source of revenue was only the sales of IE browser software. Therefore, after the quarterly advertising sales activities at the end of March, the advertising revenue has officially become a revenue focus of igrit portal. At the same time, the industry is generally aware of the strong monopoly advantage of igrit portal on the world wide web content platform. You know, it may not be too difficult technically for a portal to provide only news information, but it is not so easy to integrate e-mail, personal homepage, online forum, online game and other functions in addition to news information. More importantly, igritte also has a very strong patent barrier. This is the fundamental obstacle for other technology companies to copy the portal business. On the world wide web platform, even the webpage pictures that many people think are very simple are actually professional format pictures specially developed and registered by igritte. Not to mention technologies such as JavaScript scripting language for underlying applications. Although Denise entertainment maintains a very open licensing attitude, more and more other websites joining the world wide web platform can easily get authorization as long as they apply, and they are still free of charge. However, it's not hard to imagine that if someone plans to build a commercial website similar to igritte portal, and can successfully get the technology license from igritte, it's a ghost. Simon hopes that Internet content websites can blossom, so he does not intend to restrict the emergence of other content platforms, which will not benefit the expansion of the world wide web platform itself. However, if only the patent authorization of open content can't access the patent authorization of e-mail, online games, future online payment and other related technologies, similar websites are doomed to be difficult to compete with igrit portal.
