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Among the major Hollywood studios now, apart from Daenerys Entertainment, probably only Warner Bros. Pictures is more powerful than the original time and space.

Next, MGM, which has slowly recovered from the bottom, may also be counted.

"Jurassic Park" will officially begin filming on the Hawaiian island of Kauai on January 1.

In the week before the Golden Globe Awards, Simon put a lot of energy into the final preparations for "Jurassic Park", and even flew to Hawaii for two days for this purpose.

The flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii is about the same as the flight from Los Angeles to New York, and it only takes four hours to fly.

After returning from Hawaii on Saturday morning, the Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be held in the evening.

Daenerys Entertainment has no appeal for the major awards of the awards season this year, but Simon can take Janet to the evening awards ceremony very easily.

Among the nominated films this time, "The Piano" and "Thelma and Louise" produced by Daenerys Entertainment also squeezed into the ranks of nominations for the best picture in the drama category. Catherine also won the Golden Globe for "Thelma and Louise" Nominated for Best Director.

Not only that, but three of the five best director nominations for this year's Golden Globe Awards are women, namely Barbra Streisand for "On Waves", Jane Campion for "Farewell to the Piano" and "The End of the World". Kathryn Bigelow in "Flowers."

Three female best director nominations, this phenomenon is the first time in the history of the Golden Globe Awards.

In order to pave the way for the Oscars in March, after the nominations for this year's awards were announced, Time Warner began to build momentum, hoping to push Barbra Streisand into the ranks of the first female Oscar's best director in Hollywood history.

Although, among the three films "The Stormy Waves", "Farewell to the Piano" and "Thelma and Louise", the media rating of "The Stormy Waves" is actually the lowest.However, Barbra Streisand has accumulated decades of contacts in Hollywood, but it is not comparable to Campion and Catherine.

Of course, the most important reason is that Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily withdrew from this year's awards competition.

Because of this withdrawal, "The Silence of the Lambs", which was supposed to shine in this year's awards season, only won two nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Actress in a Drama Series at the Golden Globes this time. The next Oscar, Sang Della didn't even intend to get nominated.

The final result of the Golden Globe Awards on Saturday night was Oliver Stone's "The Assassination of JFK" which won the Golden Globe Award in the drama category best picture competition, and Oliver Stone also won the best director.

Of course, this is not Time Warner's bad public relations, in fact it is still a strategy.

After all, the word-of-mouth reputation of "The Waves" is not as good as "The Piano" and "Thelma and Louise". If Barbra Streisand wins the award, it will definitely cause controversy in the media.

It's very 'politically correct' for women to win awards.

However, three women were selected at the same time, and Barbra Streisand's work was listed last. If this veteran actress wins, it will still cause controversy. This controversy will undoubtedly affect the results of the Oscar awards.

The gold content of the Golden Globes is obviously far inferior to that of the Oscars.

In contrast, if three female directors are selected at the same time, the Golden Globes still stubbornly maintain the 'discrimination against women' and award the award to male directors, then within two months until the Oscars, The direction of public opinion will definitely turn to sympathy for the three female directors and a crusade against discrimination against women in Hollywood.

In such an environment of public opinion, Oscar, who has always flaunted political correctness, has almost no second choice.

At this time, the two films of Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily withdrew from the awards public relations, and Barbra Streisand had enough resources and contacts in Hollywood to support her, so the result was self-evident.

As for after "The Stormy Waves" won the award?

King and loser.

In the original time and space, Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar queen. Even if she was criticized by the media for being too watery and not valuable, she was still the queen after all. Nice Paltrow' to call each other.

Those who didn't win the statuette, even if their acting skills are ten times better than Gwyneth Paltrow, it is impossible to be dubbed the title of actress in the media.

This is the winner and loser.

As expected, after the Golden Globe awards ceremony, the Golden Globe judges discriminated against women in many media. The public opinion was so loud that the Golden Globe officials had to publicly stand up and explain.

Immediately after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the Oscar nominations were announced.

Barbra Streisand, Jane Campion and Katherine Bigelow continue to be on the list of nominees for the 64th Academy Awards.

It is very clear in the circle that among the three, Barbra Streisand's public relations trace is the most obvious, and Jane Campion is the most well-deserved.

As for Katherine Bigelow, Thelma & Louise was really good, but most people can't help but think of Simon Westeros.

There is really no comparison between people.

Before the public opinion turmoil caused by the end of the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony has dissipated, another piece of heavyweight Hollywood entertainment news broke out.

MGM publicly announced that due to irreconcilable disputes, it will temporarily shelve the development of the next part of the 007 series.

The importance of 007 to MGM is self-evident. Therefore, this news immediately attracted a lot of media attention.

Chapter 460 Online Mall (Repair)

Broccoli means broccoli in English.

Coincidentally, the Broccoli family, which held half of the copyright of the 007 series, also started their business by selling vegetables.

Albert Broccoli, who discovered the IP of 007, is a person with a strong personality. In order to express his absolute control over the 007 series, Albert declared in interviews with the media more than once that in the process of selling vegetables, if the price could not It was agreed that he would rather dump all the vegetables than sell them.

For 007, until MGM was controlled by Simon, the Blockley family never made any concessions in front of MGM.

The fundamental reason is that for decades, 007 has been a large-scale production series, each of which has achieved profitability, and no one has ever suffered a loss.

Hollywood is actually very conservative in its bones.

Western films are popular, and everyone flocks to shoot Western films; brother movies rise, and a large number of brother movies are born one after another; youth horror movies sell well, and a bunch of youth horror movies appear on the market immediately...

In the final analysis, it is because the risk of the film industry is too great.

Before any studio decides on a project costing tens of millions of dollars, it is far less easy than the outside world imagines.

Therefore, following the already successful film model has become the best choice for most studios.

In fact, it is following the trend.

Just like the Hong Kong films across the ocean, it is only because Hollywood has followed suit relatively benignly, and Hollywood has the most solid backing of the North American market, that it has survived and remained strong.

Because of his conservativeness, 007, who has never lost money, has become the most valued "broccoli" of MGM.

However, Simon is the one who has the least shortage of fresh vegetables, so he doesn't mind that the seller dumps his own vegetables when the price cannot be negotiated.

When Shirley Lansing contacted the Blockley family according to the conditions set by Simon, the Blockley family, which had been used to being strong, naturally couldn't compromise.

Simon didn't procrastinate, and directly let Shirley Lansing announce that the 007 series was shelved indefinitely.

After MGM's announcement, not to mention the reaction of the Blockley family, the only other shareholders of MGM who can act as checks and balances on Simon, after some concern, did not have much reaction.

Not to mention anything else, just MGM's two blockbuster films last year, "A Few Good Men" and "007: GoldenEye". The North American box office of "A Few Good Men" is US$1.17 million, with a global estimate of US$007 million. The estimated North American box office of "8000: GoldenEye" is only more than US$[-] million, and the global estimate is still US$[-] million.

However, even with Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, and Demi Moore participating, the overall production and distribution budget of "A Few Good Men" is still less than half that of "GoldenEye".

Although it is a joint project between Daenerys Entertainment and MGM, because of the cost advantage, "A Few Good Men" actually brought MGM far more benefits than "007: GoldenEye".

After all, for the 007 series, MGM is responsible for raising the production and publicity budget, and the Blockley family is only responsible for the production. But at the same time, because they control half of the copyright and participate in the production, the Blockley family wants to take away the proceeds of the film. a big part.

If it is the turbulent MGM in the past, the 007 series can definitely be used as a stable project to support performance.

Now, MGM is turning to recovery under Simon's control, and this series for hanging is indeed not essential.

You know, after "A Few Good Men", Daenerys Entertainment and MGM's second project "Killing Time" was launched last year, and the schedule has been confirmed for this summer.Now that it has decided to revive MGM, the two sides will definitely have more cooperation later.

Comparing the earnings of "A Few Good Men" and "GoldenEye 007", as well as the obvious changes of MGM in the past year, after Simon made a decision, it is completely self-evident that the MGM shareholder meeting is on that side.

When MGM announced that 007 was shelved, Simon himself was not in Los Angeles, but in San Francisco.

October 1th, Thursday.

The long-prepared Amazon online store is officially launched on the Eaglet Portal.

This is also the first subsidiary brand launched by Eaglet. Before that, all business departments were named after Eaglet.

In the past 1991, the number of users accessing the World Wide Web in the United States finally reached 1317 million, of which the number of users of America Online reached 768 million.

There are 1317 million WWW access accounts. Based on the average number of 1.6 active individual users per account, the number of WWW users in the United States has reached 2107 million, which is already equivalent to 10% of the total population of the United States in this era. The 10% with the highest education and the strongest spending power.

There are more than 2000 million Internet users, and they are the group with the strongest spending power in the United States. The entire United States and the entire information industry cannot ignore the rise of the World Wide Web.

In fact, since the second half of last year, the funds and enterprises flocking to the Internet industry, and even the federal government's emphasis on the development of the Internet industry, it is not difficult to see the overall explosive development trend of this emerging field.

Affected by the outbreak of the Internet industry, even the personal computer industry has benefited a lot.

In the past year, due to the economic downturn, the industry predicted that global PC shipments would remain at around 1990 million units in 2000.

But in fact, the annual PC shipments in 1991 finally reached 2387 million units, an increase of more than 19%. A large part of users purchased computers to experience Internet surfing, and some users pursued a better Internet experience. And replace the old DOS system computer with the latest high-profile graphics operating system PC.

All in all, the rise of the Internet industry is the general trend.

Although it was launched 3 years earlier than Amazon in the original time and space, the brand-new Amazon, because it is backed by the Igret portal, almost equals to having more than 2000 million potential users just after it went online.Not only that, Ypay, the increasingly perfect online payment tool of Eaglet, also provides a mature payment tool for the Amazon online store.

In Simon's plan, Amazon will focus on book sales for the next three years.

At this stage, choosing online book sales as the beginning of physical e-commerce undoubtedly has too many advantages.

Today's Internet users have a high level of education, so they often have more needs to purchase books.

Unlike other daily necessities, compared with physical bookstores, online shopping malls happen to be able to provide a richer variety of books, which is enough to ensure users' motivation to try online book shopping.

In addition, simplifying the types of physical goods sold can simplify the complexity of e-commerce operations to the greatest extent.

At the same time, the Amazon online store can help the Eaglet team to accumulate experience from e-commerce website operation to actual warehousing and logistics.

Although no special press conference was held this time, before the opening of the online store, Igret had already carried out advertising and marketing on various media platforms such as the Internet, TV, radio, and newspapers.

Simon arrived in San Francisco on the morning of January 1.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Amazon's online shopping mall officially opened.

Although in the short term, Amazon's online shopping mall's distribution area is limited to the two core metropolitan areas on the east and west coasts, and the Great Lakes region in the north, and the vast central and southern regions of the United States cannot be involved, but starting from 9 o'clock in the morning, the online shopping mall will make great efforts. Driven by promotional activities, the number of orders in the online mall exceeded 31 in just 10 minutes.

As of 87 o'clock in the afternoon, the online shopping mall was open for eight hours, and the total number of orders reached [-].

However, we all know that evening is the peak time for online consumption.

Simon flew back to Los Angeles as usual after get off work that afternoon.

At nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, it was open for 24 hours. According to statistics, the number of Amazon online shopping mall orders finally reached 132 million, the number of books sold was 156 million, and the turnover reached 3276 million US dollars.

This seemingly simple set of data is no less than a miracle for too many people.

Not to mention selling more than 100 million books in a single day, in this world, even if it sells more than 10 books in a single day, there is probably no physical bookstore that can achieve it.

Therefore, the emergence of Amazon's online shopping mall, like Ypay and Ystore launched by Eaglet last year, proved the feasibility of Internet entity e-commerce in almost one day.

With the announcement of Amazon's online store's first-day sales results, not only traditional physical book retailers, but even comprehensive retail chain giants like Wal-Mart have to quickly turn their attention to the Internet platform, and have held emergency meetings to discuss launching online books. Store necessity.

Over the past year or so, traditional media have clearly felt the strong threat of the Internet media platform, so in terms of public opinion, they can't help being critical of the Internet.

However, even so, after the release of the sales data on the first day of Amazon's online shopping mall, most media still began to publicize that the era of e-commerce is coming.

On the other hand, for Eaglet, the seemingly glamorous data on the first day of Amazon's online shopping mall also means too many challenges.

In order to gain the reputation of the online shopping mall in the first place, Eaglet has invested 2000 million US dollars in publicity expenses in just the last half month.

Facts have proved that such propaganda is obviously too much.

The first day reached 132 million orders, first of all, it means the strong computing pressure on the Amazon online shopping mall server.

According to statistics from Eaglet Portal, on the opening day of the online shopping mall, although only 132 million orders were traded, in the evening of the day, the actual maximum number of simultaneous visiting users once exceeded 500 million.

After the continuous expansion of the data center in the past two years, the Igret portal is able to host such user visits at the same time. However, the upper limit of visits set in advance for the Amazon online store is exactly 500 million.

If some emergency plans are not prepared in advance, the Amazon online shopping mall may experience downtime accidents only on the first day of opening.

The cloud computing project secretly developed by Igret has entered the substantive testing stage, but if it is to be applied on a large scale, it will need continuous adjustment and improvement for at least the next year.

Lacking an elastic data computing environment, in the short term, the Amazon online store still needs to use the traditional fixed-volume data computing and storage model, which will undoubtedly cause great cost pressure.

Of course, as long as the online shopping mall can have a good start, these efforts must be worthwhile.

The most critical thing is the logistics and distribution pressure involved behind the scenes of these orders.

The best prediction of the mall team in advance was only a pioneering work to achieve one million orders on the first day of opening.

In fact it was 'overloaded' by 30%.

In order to deliver the books involved in these 132 million orders one by one, even relying on the extremely developed postal system in the United States, its own business area is temporarily limited, but for the Amazon warehouse logistics system, which is still in the groping stage, Definitely a tougher challenge.

Therefore, after the first day, the first decision made by the mall team was to remove all advertisements on each platform that could be withdrawn.

It can't be advertised anymore.

At the same time, the mall team began to contact other courier teams other than USPS (United States Postal Service), almost planning to complete the first batch of huge orders at any cost.

Everyone knows that first impressions are very important.

If users use the Internet to shop for the first time and wait for half a month to get the books they want, it will definitely seriously affect the user's enthusiasm for subsequent online consumption.

Finally, Simon sent Nancy Brill over to help the mall team.

Blockbuster's rich experience in warehousing and logistics can still provide great help to the mall team.

The little executive was also polite, and directly asked Simon for the title of special consultant of Eaglet Corporation, of course it was the paid one.