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Even though it was well known, the little guy wasn't mentioned by name in the press release.

Immediately, a large number of mainstream media reported the incident.

The first child of Simon Westeros, the heir to a huge fortune of tens of billions of dollars, is just this kind of gimmick, even if there is nothing incidental, it is enough to arouse a wave of intense attention.

Early the next morning, the Johnston family finally arrived in Los Angeles.

This time the people who came were very complete.

Raymond Johnston and his wife, Anthony Johnston's family, Norman Johnston's family, David Johnston who came back from England, Patrick Johnston and their respective girlfriends. There was Veronica Johnston.

Simon deliberately asked people to pack up the mansion in Palisades in advance for everyone to live in.

Johnston's family has always been conservative and traditional, and Raymond Johnston's previous family was not prosperous, so he attached great importance to this kind of thing.

Therefore, even Raymond Johnston, a staid and serious man, couldn't hide his joy at the moment he saw his grandson.

David Johnston and Patrick Johnston are not married yet, Janet was even more so before, and the last addition to the Johnston family was ten years ago, and that was Norman Johns Johnston's son, Victor Johnston.

Raymond Johnston took the child as a member of the Johnston family as a matter of course, even though the little one had a last name of Westeros.

If it weren't for the dazzling achievements of Simon, this child would probably follow his mother's surname.

The West has this tradition.

The mother's family is too strong, and the children will often follow the mother's surname, at least the mother's surname will be added in the middle of the name, because this is often a symbol of glory and inheritance, even if it is the child himself, he will not feel wrong , and even tend to be more inclined to their mother's surname.

Like Lydia Hearst.

Few people know what Lydia Hearst's father's last name is, and most people will just take it for granted that it is a 'Hearst'.

Simon has not forgotten the agreement with a quirky and precocious little girl at the birthday party of Sophia's daughter Gemma. He has just arranged a small role for her in "Midnight Ring" recently. After the response, the little girl also readily accepted, and happily talked with Simon on the phone, discussing the matter of that little character seriously.

Inside a private hospital.

After seeing the children lively, the whole family moved to Palisades for the time being.

Now that I have come to the United States, of course I will stay for a few more days.

When the old man left, he stopped David Johnston and Patrick Johnston. David and Patrick originally didn’t want to live in Palisades with their parents, but they had no choice but to go obediently when the old man spoke. .

Presumably it should be for the lifelong event of the two of them.

The old man has always been dissatisfied with David Johnston's girlfriend, Leslie Whittaker. However, after seeing a certain little guy who was just born, he will probably let go this time when he is touched.

Although it is confirmed that everything is fine, Janet will stay in the hospital for another two days before returning to Point Dume Manor just to be cautious.

Simon also planned to arrange a family dinner at Dume Point Manor two days after Janet was discharged from the hospital.

Near noon.

As everyone left, everyone didn't seem to notice much, and Veronica Johnston unknowingly stayed at the end.

Because of her always silent and cold temperament, Veronica seemed not born with a strong sense of presence.

Of course, Simon and Janet must have noticed this.

Carefully holding the baby and feeding it herself, Janet didn't look at Veronica who was sitting quietly by the bed until the little one started to spit bubbles. Because Simon was no longer in the ward, Janet didn't pretend to be intimate anymore. She called her aunt, but she didn't call Veronica Bingshan in front of her son. She just said with a happy face, "Do you want to hug me?"

Ever since seeing a certain little guy for the first time, Veronica has shown some indescribable strange emotions.

This newly born little life seemed to have some kind of magical power, which had always attracted her. Even though everyone had already left, even though Janet might see something, Veronica couldn't help but stay.

In order to avoid showing any flaws, Simon had to leave the ward just now under the pretext of preparing lunch.

Her arm moved, seemingly hesitant, but Veronica finally reached out.

Janet sent the child over, reminding her: "Hold the head, the baby's neck is very fragile, well, don't lift it too high, or the baby will be uncomfortable..."

Veronica followed Janet's reminder silently and obediently, carefully holding the child in her arms.

Looks more cautious than Janet

seem.

In this way, I found many things that were lost many years ago, and I thought it would be impossible to find and make up for them.

The memories of long, long ago have long been dusted.

But at this moment, looking at the little guy in her arms, those fragmented memories flooded her heart like a tide, but at this moment, Veronica once again had the urge to almost cry, and some strange Yes, a strong desire to snatch this child away.

Chapter 453 Year-End (Revised)

Simon accompanied Janet on maternity leave, but the schedule at the end of the year did not stop.

The day before the little one was born, the second week of Thanksgiving officially ends.

Three new films released on November 11, Columbia Pictures' "Baby and Little Lover", MGM's "29 GoldenEye" and Daenerys Entertainment's Robert De Niro, which took over from Universal, starred in the crime thriller "Fear". Corner", neither of which poses much threat to "Toy Story".

August 11 to August 29.

In seven days, after the box office of "Toy Story" was 4673 million US dollars in the first week, the box office fell by 23% in the second week, and it received another 3593 million US dollars, continuing to maintain its No.1 position in the weekly box office list.

Within two weeks of its opening, the cumulative box office of the first 3D animation film in Hollywood history has reached 8266 million US dollars.

According to the ladder sharing rules signed by Daenerys Entertainment and the theater, the company can share more than 70% of the box office two weeks before the film starts.

This means that the total box office in North America for two weeks of US$8266 million is enough for Daenerys Entertainment to recover the total production and publicity budget of US$5500 million.

Considering the long-term properties that animated films usually have, as well as the doomed movie viewing rebound in the following Christmas schedule, the total North American box office of "Toy Story" is likely to reach 2 million U.S. dollars, becoming the 1991 annual "Batman: Darkness". After "Knight" and "Terminator 2", it is the third film with a total box office of over 2 million US dollars in North America.

Not only the box office, but the peripheral products of "Toy Story" are also continuing to sell well.

With the current peripheral sales momentum, the industry generally predicts that the North American box office of "Toy Story" may only be 2 million US dollars, but the comprehensive income brought by this project to Daenerys Entertainment may be greater than that of "Batman: The Dark Knight" high.

After all, Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner are going to split the proceeds of "Batman: The Dark Knight" equally. The "Toy Story" project, however, is entirely owned by Daenerys Entertainment.

With the success of the film, "Toy Story 2" directly announced the approval of the project.

"The Lion King 2", which has already been put into production, has also suddenly received more attention from Hollywood.

The success of the DC movie universe has just triggered a wave of discovering comic IP in recent years, and suddenly, Hollywood's eyes have to be attracted to 3D animated movies again.

However, after a little research, many people regret that it is more difficult to follow Daenerys Entertainment to make 3D animated movies than to follow Disney to make 2D animated movies.

After so many years in Hollywood, only Disney has gained a firm foothold in 2D animated films.

It’s just that, when Michael Eisner first took over Disney a few years ago, he also planned to abolish the declining 2D animation film department, because Disney’s classic animations that have been continuously re-released in recent years have achieved good box office, and Disney animation The division began to recover under the leadership of Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Disney dismissed the idea.

Before Daenerys Entertainment, when mentioning animated films, the only thing that came to mind was Disney, and only Disney had produced a series of very successful 2D animated films.

Animated films, including such a big cake as peripherals, of course other studios have been trying.

MCA, which also operates the theme park business, has been making similar attempts for many years in the past in order to make up for its own lack of animation IP. In the 80s, it produced 2D animation films such as "Little Foot Walks the World" and "American Rat Story", but There has never been a project comparable to Disney's classic 2D animation.

For 2D animation films, the long production cycle can be said to be the most critical factor affecting other studios' participation in this field.

Because the 2D animation movies of this era are completely drawn by animators one by one.

Calculated based on the duration of a 90-minute animated film, 90 minutes, 5400 seconds, and 24 frames per second, which means 24 manuscripts, which is 12 in total. And other factors, in fact, the drawings that need to be drawn for each animated film far exceed the theoretical figures.

However, a mature animator can only draw 10 to 20 manuscripts a day.In addition, in order to maintain the unity of the animation film style, the number of teams in an animation film should not be too large.

Therefore, before the 80s, the production cycle of traditional Disney hand-painted 2D animation films was as short as 4 years.

However, even so, if you are willing to spend money and invest patiently in 2D animation films, the threshold is still not too high. There are still many animation film talents in this world.

In comparison, the threshold for 3D animation movies is obviously much higher.

It's just the hardware and software system for making 3D animation movies. In this era, Daenerys Entertainment is definitely the only one with no branches.

Daenerys Entertainment has led the industry for at least five years in hardware and software facilities such as 3D animation software, image rendering software, and even the world's first rendering farm.

Even if it takes five years to make up for such a gap, it will take two years at the shortest to launch a 3D animation film, which is seven years.

Moreover, after seven years of continuous investment and tens of millions of dollars, the result is that no one can guarantee whether a movie will be successful.

In the original time and space, "Toy Story" was born in 1995, when similar 3D animation software appeared in the industry.

Even so, after "Toy Story", other companies launched successful 3D animated films, such as DreamWorks' "Shrek" or Fox's "Ice Age", and they were all after 2000.

Intervals generally exceed 5 years.

In the future, lighting entertainment only emerged more than ten years after the birth of "Toy Story".

Now in 1991, due to the limited market capacity, graphics software companies such as Autodesk still have no plans to develop 3D animation software.

Not only that, even if other studios poach talents from Daenerys Entertainment with high salaries to form their own teams, in addition to the risks of time and funds, they also need to consider technical patent issues.

Daenerys Entertainment has applied for a series of patent barriers enough to build a 'moat' in 3D animation software, rendering software and even various hardware facilities.Some core technical talents have also signed a non-employment agreement with Daenerys Entertainment. Once they resign, they will not be allowed to engage in related occupations for at least three years.

All in all, unless Daenerys Entertainment is willing to take the initiative to let go of technical and talent restrictions, otherwise, in a short period of time, apart from Daenerys Entertainment, it is impossible for Hollywood to have a second studio that can produce 3D animation movies.

Of course, Simon will not let go of the technology in his hand easily.

Therefore, as long as it operates properly, the entire 90s and 3D animation film market will be monopolized by Daenerys Entertainment.

After "Toy Story", the box office runner-up in the second week of the Thanksgiving schedule was taken away by "007's Golden Eye".

Although the protagonist is still Timothy Dalton, the quality of "007 GoldenEye" is obviously higher than the previous ones under the stable MGM management team and Simon himself. The production cost also reached 5000 million US dollars.

In the first week of its opening, "007: GoldenEye" earned a box office of 3279 million US dollars. Although this result is not as good as this year's "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Terminator 2" and "Toy Story" in the adjacent schedule, it is still Also met the expectations of MGM

You know, the previous "007 License to Kill" had a total North American box office of only 3466 million US dollars.

"007: GoldenEye" has only been released for a week, and its box office accumulation is already comparable to "007: License to Kill".

However, the media reputation of "007: GoldenEye" is only about 7 points, which is not too good. According to various data feedbacks of the film, although the first week started well, it is still quite difficult for the total box office in North America to exceed [-] million .

Considering the film's $5000 million production budget and $2000 million publicity expenditure, if you want to recover the cost, you can only rely on the performance of overseas markets.

No. 3 on the list is "The Addams Family" produced by Paramount Pictures.

In the second week of its opening, the box office of "The Addams Family" fell by 33%, and it received another US$2088 million, bringing the cumulative box office to US$5205 million.

According to such a box office curve, whether the box office in North America can break through [-] million is still in between.

Columbia Pictures invited Macaulay Culkin to star in "Baby Lover", with a box office of 1427 million US dollars in the first week, ranking No.4.

The production cost of 3000 million US dollars, the first week of 1427 million US dollars, obviously fell short of Columbia Pictures' expectations, and the word-of-mouth of the film was not satisfactory, with an overall score of only about 5.6.

For a 'fast-moving' holiday comedy, Macaulay Culkin's popularity did not attract enough audiences in the film's opening week, and it will be even more difficult for too many people to pay attention to the film. The outlook can only be described as mediocre.

"Cape Fear", which Daenerys Entertainment took over from Universal Pictures, had a box office of 1421 million U.S. dollars in its first week, a very narrow gap behind "Baby and Little Lover" ranked No.5 in the weekly box office list.

Martin Scorsese's remake of the crime thriller starring Robert De Niro had a budget of $3500 million.

The opening box office of 1421 million US dollars was also lower than expected. However, the word-of-mouth of the film is very good, and it is expected to be able to walk out of a fairly beautiful box office curve.

While the chronological schedule continued, outside of Hollywood, Igret Corporation officially announced the list of World Wide Web patents that it plans to open for free on Monday, December 12.

Although the news was flying all over the sky in advance, when Eaglet Company really started to implement it, it still caused a strong wave in the industry.

Various media outlets have mixed opinions on the whole matter.

In the general direction, many media appreciated Igret’s decision very much, but some media raised objections, thinking that Daenerys Entertainment’s doing so would completely eliminate the possibility of the birth of a wide range of Internet technology standards in the second week.

Moreover, although Eaglet has released core patents related to technologies such as HTTP to HTML, it still holds technologies such as browser software, e-mail, and online payment. Therefore, latecomers in the industry are doomed to be unable to compete with Daenerys Entertainment competes.

Simon does not intend to prevent similar companies from appearing to compete with Eaglet. In the next few years, Eaglet will gradually license out even patents such as e-mail technology.

However, after the announcement of the patent list this time, Eaglet did not rush to announce the plan for the second phase because of the praise or doubts of the media.

As long as you carefully study the list of patents that have been published, you can find that after these patents are released, most of the businesses that Eaglet Portal is involved in at this time, including online forums, personal blogs, online games, etc., other companies can do without Follow up too restrictively.

This degree of openness has exceeded most people's expectations, and the industry cannot have more extravagant expectations for a while.

Janet was released from hospital just three days after giving birth to her little one.

The Johnston family also stayed in Los Angeles for about a week before leaving one after another. Janet hopes that the family can spend Christmas together in Los Angeles, but this is obviously not realistic.The Johnston family also has a lot of things to deal with.

Veronica Johnston stayed in Los Angeles to the end, just as she had in the hospital room the day she arrived.

Janet originally wanted Veronica to help look after the child, originally hoping to arouse Veronica's desire for a family through the little guy. However, during this time, Janet obviously found that things seemed to be a little off.

My aunt is really fond of the newly born little Melbourne.

It's just that something always feels wrong.

Living in Los Angeles these days, Veronica comes to see the child every day, and she likes to hold the little one the most, and stares at it for a long time.

At some point, Janet felt as if her aunt was trying to take the little one away and raise her as her own.

This is so weird.