Chapter 477 (1/2)
As many times in the past, the results of the 64th Academy Awards once again caused controversy in the media.
Three women were nominated for the best director Oscar at the same time. In the politically correct atmosphere of public opinion in the past few months, no one felt that this year's best director Oscar should not be awarded to one woman.
However, in the eyes of many media, the contrast between Barbara Streisand and the other two female directors nominated this time is too obvious.
You know, the media score of ”years of wonder” in the Oscar eight to six is only 6.8, the other two movies, ”the last flower” is 7.4, and ”farewell to the piano” is as high as 9.2.
Even if the direction of the media can't represent the meaning of the Oscar judges, and even if Barbara Streisand's qualifications in Hollywood exceed those of the other two directors, it's just that ”the storm of time” has won a best director, even the best film, which shows that the Oscar is too unfair.
Of course, some media experts have made an analysis from another angle.
According to these media, the three female directors' works, ”the last flower” and ”farewell to the piano” are all produced by danielis entertainment, which is the key to the Oscar results.
Because in the past few years.
The 61st Academy Award, best picture, rain man, danelis entertainment.
The 62nd Academy Award, best picture, driving for Miss Daisy, by Denise entertainment.
The 63rd Academy Award, best picture, dancing with wolves, danelis entertainment.
For three years in a row, danielis entertainment has won the best picture Oscar three times in a row. However, if this time, the best picture and a large number of other awards are still awarded to danielis entertainment, then the Oscar will become the exclusive Oscar of danielis entertainment group.
Even though the past ”Rain Man”, ”driving for Miss Daisy” and ”dancing with the wolf” all have the excellent quality enough to win the best film Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly does not want the Oscar to become Denise's private domain.
Therefore, this time, the films produced by danelis entertainment, not counting the films released by other brands, still won 23 nominations, but only got two small golden men. This result is completely expected.
In short, Oscar is playing balance.
For this kind of balanced view of the media, the college naturally strongly denies it, and some college executives and the judges of the Olympic Prize who clearly know that ”years of wonder” is run by the public relations team of gaomen film industry are mixed.
Since it's still an award operated by her own family, danielis certainly won't use public opinion to question the fairness of the Olympic Prize. She only adds fuel to the controversy among the three films, so as to stimulate the commercial potential of the three films.
”Farewell to the piano” and ”the waves of time” were both released in December last year, but they were not released at this time.
As of last Friday, ”farewell to the piano” took advantage of the attention of the award season that started at the beginning of the year to show on a small scale for more than three months, with a total box office of $36.32 million.
Compared with the production cost of $7 million, farewell to the piano, which is expected to hit the box office of $40 million before its next release, is definitely a big sell.
As of last Friday, the cumulative box office of ”years of wonder” in North America was $71.51 million.
The mainstream movie directed and starred by Barbara Streisand is expected to exceed US $80 million at the box office in North America before the next film, as it has won many awards such as best picture.
”The last flower” was released on September 6 last year, and it was released in early December. The total box office in North America was $45.36 million, which was also a box office success.
After a three-month window break, Denise entertainment officially released the video of the film before the Oscars in early March.
Taking advantage of the popularity of the award season, the magazine has sold 730000 boxes in three weeks, and the total sales are expected to reach 1.5 million to 2 million boxes in the future.
At an average videotape price of $30, the movie could sell as much as $60 million in videotapes, which is better than the box office.
With the Oscars held and the media controversy surrounding the award results, the box office and video sales figures of the three films all showed a significant increase in the new week.
In the final analysis, Oscar is not only a hall of honor for Hollywood, but also a commercial feast.
Cersei's rival, KKR, put forward a bid of $2.15 billion to its parent company, Ltd., on March 30. Simon dropped four women in Los Angeles and flew directly to New York.
The results of this year's Oscars are basically within Simon's expectations.
Besides the best actress in ”farewell to the piano”, daenerys entertainment is also Simon's first layout.
Many years later, the reason why the ”Transformers” live action film once broke the box office record on the other side of the ocean was that in 1987, Hasbro company gave the ”Transformers” animation to the local TV station for free, thus creating the national popularity of the image of transformers.In fact, the public relations of the marginal award of best foreign language film is not very difficult. This year, no other brilliant foreign language film has been shortlisted. The public relations team of gaomen film easily pushed the red lantern to the podium.
Hollywood is still immersed in the lingering charm of the Oscars, Simon the next day hosted a number of thank-you calls to sweep the matter to the past.
After KKR's bid, Blackstone also put forward cooperation suggestions to Apollo asset management team of cersei capital, hoping that both sides will jointly invest in bidding for Ltd.
If you don't have enough confidence in LTE or financial strength, choosing partners is a good choice.
However, this time, unlike Simmons, which has previously chosen to cooperate with other capital to acquire, cersei capital is neither lack of confidence nor lack of funds for Ltd, and does not intend to give half of its potential future earnings to Blackstone Group.
There are already two private equity offers, and another private equity giant is also eyeing. Many arbitrage capital have entered the market to buy the shares of LTE, which leads to the further rapid rise of the share price of LTE.
On the day of KKR's offer, the market value of Ltd broke through $2 billion.
From US $1.3 billion two months ago to US $2 billion at this time, the market value has increased by more than 50%, which makes the mood of the board of directors and major shareholders of Ltd quite complicated.
If, before the disclosure of the acquisition news, Ltd can have such a market value, depending on the confidence of the market, whether it is to issue additional shares or bond financing, the company can easily get through the cash dilemma which is not serious.
Now the situation is that the acquisition of LTE is almost a foregone conclusion.
Otherwise, once the acquisition fails, the fall rate of the share price of Ltd will never be much slower than the rise rate. Even though the acquisition of cersei capital makes many shareholders aware of the potential of Ltd company, they are still more willing to directly choose high cash out than the sharp fall of share price.