The Regent Hotel on Wishill Street in Beverly Hills is full of stars. Even though it is held in the form of a formal banquet, it is more luxurious and attractive than the Golden Globe Awards ceremony that just ended, because it is an Oscar nominee luncheon, and the list of nominations for the 68th Academy Awards ceremony was announced.?

The nomination list has come to an end, and Richard Dreyfus on the stage is reading the best film nomination, "Postman, Pig Run, Brave Heart, Sense and Emotion and Save Private Ryan."

“yes!”

Despite guessing the result in advance, the two producers Charles Rowan and Robin Grande still celebrating each other. Duke glanced at them and asked the female assistant sitting next to him, "Tina, do you count how many nominations we have received?"

Tinafe flipped the record book and said, "Best soundtrack, best makeup, best art director, best original script, best sound editing, best movie editing, best sound effects, recent photography, best actor, best director, best film, eleven nominations in total!"

"Where is our opponent?" Robin Grand asked.

Needless to say, Tinafei knew that he was asking about "Brave Heart", saying, "Best soundtrack, best makeup, best costume design, best movie editing, best sound effects, best original script, best sound editing, best photography, best director and best film, ten nominations."

She added, "Except for best clothing design, the other awards are directly competitive with us."

Charles Rowan looked at the side of "Brave Heart". Mel Gibson, who was criticized by public opinion and was almost despised by everyone in Hollywood, did not attend. He couldn't help but snorted coldly, "They won at most several technical awards. If they want to win heavyweight awards, haha..."

Several people looked at Duke at the same time, and Duke spread his hands innocently, indicating that it had nothing to do with him.

In recent days, news has been coming, and the most heavyweights are from Mel Gibson's original partners Paramount Pictures and Viacom. Perhaps stimulated by Mel Gibson's words, Somer Raystone personally intervened in the cooperation project of its subsidiary. Paramount announced yesterday that the new film project "Ranstorm" will replace the original male lead Mel Gibson, and Columbia TV (CBS) will also give up programs related to Mel Gibson.

Although several other companies did not make public statements, news has been circulating in private. They will not consider working with Mel Gibson in the short term.

These measures are not just because of Jewish people. Racial discrimination is a forbidden zone that public figures cannot touch. Those who get into such trouble will be boycotted by a large number of viewers, and no company wants to produce works that are destined to lose money.

The nominee luncheon ended after presenting the Oscar for Tech Achievements to Pixar Studios John Lassett and Steve Jobs.

"Robin, we're going to prepare our dresses in advance."

The banquet dispersed and everyone was not in a hurry to leave. Charles Rovine said to Robin Grande, "If nothing unexpected happens, we will hold up the best picture Little Golden Man."

The crew's specific award-winning work has been coordinating with the producer and distributor. Duke couldn't help but look at him and asked, "Do you look confident?"

"The original possibility was only 60%. "Charles Rowan is full of confidence, "Now it is 80%!"

Robin Grande took Duke's arm and said, "You should consider who you should take with you on the carpet now. This is the best opportunity for promotional videos."

Duke knew he was talking about "Chicago". This film would definitely miss the Super Bowl midfield advertisement, and the Oscar red carpet was also a good promotional opportunity. It was a waste for him to walk on the red carpet alone. How to maximize the value of the Oscar invitation letter is also a problem that investors of the film must consider.

After thinking about it, Duke decided to throw this into professionals. Pani Kellis has much more experience in this regard than him.

Several others were still talking, but Duke's eyes turned to the other side, which were John Lassett and Steve Jobs. The ugly duckling in Pixar Studio finally transformed into a white swan, which also led the latter to the ranks of billionaires.

I just don't know when he will go back to Apple?

After thinking for a while, Duke still had no impression. He could only sigh that his head was too stupid. Apart from some movie-related content and big-name products such as 911, many events that had happened in North America were completely unremembered.

Then he felt relieved, after all, he didn't have Google in his head.

Walking out of the Regent Hotel and while the parking lot was about to separate, Duke called out Charles Rowan.

"Charles, Oscar PR has come to an end," he asked, "I learned about the project you haven't worked with Warner recently. Are you interested in continuing to work with me? Starting next year, I need someone who can trust to go to New Zealand to start preparing for a large project, and may have to stay there for three to five years."

"Can I think about it?" Charles Rowan did not ask about the specific project.

Duke won't tell him the details until he expresses his intention to cooperate.

Leaving Beverly Hills, Duke and Robin Grand went to the Warner Studios in Burbank. The outside troubles did not affect the crew. Various preparations were underway, and even props, sets, rentals and other work had been completed, just waiting for the actors to rehearse.

The song and dance rehearsed by Lily Fred was also recognized by Duke. Based on the current rehearsal progress, he decided that the film started after the Oscars.

"Congratulations, Duke."

Just after entering the studio, Duke met Tom Cruise, his smile looked extremely sincere, "Congratulations on being nominated for Best Director."

"Thank you, Tom." Duke greeted him politely. Since Cruise joined the crew, the two have maintained a good superficial relationship. "I will remember all this for me."

"You are welcome."

Thinking of Golden Globe Night and Mel Gibson now, Tom Cruise doesn't know why, he always feels afraid of Duke. "We are partners and should work together."

He looked at his watch, "My dance class today is over, and there is something to do. Let's go first and chat about it another day."

"Okay." Duke waved to him, "Goodbye Tom."

As long as Tom Cruise is there, there will never be a shortage of journalists and paparazzi. When I came in just now, there were dozens of people with cameras near Warner Studios. From the publicity point of view, it was a very cost-effective thing to invite him to star in "Chicago".

I went to the dance studio to see the training of the group of actresses. Duke went to the Warner Building in front and met with the director of the distribution department of Warner Bros. to discuss some of the future promotional situations. Compared with the summer films produced in the past, the theme of "Chicago" is inherently insufficient, and the overall investment in the film is relatively low.

More importantly, the glorious era of the song and dance films is too long since the glorious era. Even if he is the director of this film, he cannot change the future of "Chicago" can only be released in North America through small-scale screenings or even previews.

How to use limited resources to promote videos has become the focus of recent exchanges between the crew and Warner Bros.

Tom Cruise is the most shining propaganda point. But frequent use can also cause aesthetic fatigue, and over-bombing can even make people rebellious, and new propaganda points are particularly important. When leaving Warner, Duke simply hung up the phone to Pany Kellis and handed the job to her.

Time approached the Oscars step by step. As "Save Private Ryan" won eleven Oscar nominations, the film returned to mainstream commercial theaters after the nominee luncheon. That weekend, it expanded from the original 115 theaters to 812.

The Oscars of this era have a box office booster effect than after the Internet explosion. Fans who have never watched them went to the theater because of their nominations, and some fans who have watched them also chose to review them to wait for the Oscars.

Like most nominated films, Save Private Ryan's box office rebounded sharply, earning $3.52 million, $2.76 million and $2.11 million in the last week of January and two weeks starting in February, respectively, with a total of $322.17 million in North America's box office so far!

The film also completely consumed all its market potential. By the last day of Oscars' vote recycling in mid-March, from all theaters in North America, the box office in North America was finally frozen at $325.79 million.

Duke easily won the second North American annual box office championship, and threw the second place "Toy Story" to nearly $150 million!

On this day, "Brave Heart" also completed its North American theater journey. After being nominated for the Oscar, the film also ushered in a small rebound boom, but due to the influence of the Gibson incident, the rebound was always limited, and it only put the film's North American box office into the $30 million mark, ending with $31.75 million in North America.

The efforts of the North American market in the last period also made the global box office of "Brave Heart" significantly increase. After experiencing screenings in major markets such as the Commonwealth, Europe and Australia, the box office figures of the film are finally no longer so terrible. The global box office was difficult to cross the 100 million US dollars mark on March 15th!

If the Oscar-bearing video and TV copyright revenue will not take too long to recover the cost, but Caa, the leading player of the project, is not happy at all. The competitor released at the same time as them, "Save Private Ryan" is basically down from the global market, with a global box office of up to 649.27 million US dollars~

This number is second only to "Jurassic Park", "Day", "The Lion King" and "ET Alien", and ranks fifth in the film history rankings!

"Although Lucasfilm is preparing to re-release "Star Wars" again, and its box office after re-releasing will inevitably surpass "Save Private Ryan", two of the top five movies in the film history's box office list are from Duke Rosenberg! Such a director who can match Spielberg is the outcast of Caa. Shouldn't anyone be responsible for this?"

A cold voice floated in the caa conference room, and no one could say anything to refute. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!