Chapter 814 Monopoly Rumors
"The perfect choice - Nicole Kidman was crowned the Oscar for the third time."
After reading the title, Ryan looked at the mother and daughter sitting next to him, "Do you still want to listen?"
Nicole shrugged, and her slender fingers gently poked Sandy's back. She looked at Little Golden Man's daughter curiously and nodded, "Dad...please... continue."
"Do you understand what I'm talking about?" Ryan pointed at Xiaojin again, "Do you know what this is?"
"No...know." Sandy immediately shook her little head.
Scraping the little guy's face, Ryan picked up today's newspaper again, and the eye-catching location on it was almost occupied by news from the Oscars last night. This is a hype opportunity that the media will not miss every year.
"Acting superstar Nicole Kidman won the Oscar for Best Actress as he wished. This is a perfect result that most people can satisfy. The Oscar judges made a correct but not difficult choice."
Seeing Nicole's bent eyes, Ryan couldn't help laughing. Although Nicole was always very restrained at the awards ceremony, she was extremely excited when she returned home last night. After all, she became a real legend.
Dissipating memories of last night's crazy memories, Ryan continued to read, "Meryl Streep, who was invincible in acting, raised her Oscar nomination record to fifteen, achieving a great record, and put Nicole Kidman, who shines like a star for nearly a decade, on the throne of the queen of the film for the third time, so that everyone can get their own goals. The academy has not only set records but also created legends."
"Legend?" Sandy blinked her curious blue eyes, obviously not understanding the specific meaning of this word, "Mommy, can you eat it...Legend?"
"It's a kind of glory." Ryan put the newspaper on the coffee table and hugged his daughter. "Just like Sunny is the smartest child, legend is the praise of others to mommy."
"oh……"
I don’t know if the little guy understood it. She just nodded mechanically. Then she threw the golden Oscar trophy on the couch, struggled to jump off Ryan. She grabbed his hand and shook, "Mommy, dad, garden...I want to go."
"Yes." Ryan bent down and raised a finger to the little guy, "but you have to walk over by yourself."
"Ah..." The little guy bit his finger and thought for a few seconds, "Okay."
After leaving the back door of the villa, Sandy walked in the front, Ryan and Nicole held hands, walked slowly behind, and entered the remodeled garden.
As Sandy grew older, many new children's entertainment facilities such as small swings and seesaws were added here. Born in such a family means that Sandy's childhood cannot be spent like most children, both Ryan and Nicole know this very well.
Not long after walking, the little guy forgot what he said just now. He started to cheat. After all, she was less than three years old and could not have walked too long. Ryan picked her up and walked into the outdoor casino, put it on a thick air cushion, and let her roll around on it.
The sound of footsteps came from the other side of the villa. Taylor Mai, wearing a casual outfit, moved his amazingly long legs and was walking towards this side. Before she could get closer, Sandy grabbed Ryan's clothes and stood up swayingly.
"Sister, sister." She shouted to the other side, "Taylor Taylor."
"Hi, Sunny." Taylor walked over quickly. "Do you miss me?"
"Yeah!" the little guy nodded seriously.
"You are getting more and more cute."
After saying that, Taylor was like a child who had not grown up. He jumped onto the air cushion and jumped with Sandy. The two of them had a fight for a few minutes before they stopped.
"Don't you have to work today?" Ryan asked.
"I just came from Disney Animation Studio." Taylor held Sandy and sat cross-legged on the air cushion. "Elsa not only sang one song, but I used to discuss music style with the crew, and I would prepare two more episodes."
Ryan nodded. The project "Ice and Snow Adventure" was going well. Since the images of Anna and Elsa were confirmed, Disney Animation Studio quickly moved into the substantial production stage. Although it was still a long time before it was actually completed, the progress of Pixar Studio, which was relatively slow, was quite satisfactory.
According to the plan, Pixar Studio will launch animated feature films at the rate of one movie every year in the past few years. This year's "Flying House" is "Traveling around", next year is "Toy Story 3", and next year is "Car Story 2".
Especially the last one, it is almost destined to be a money-making machine.
Since the launch of "Cars Mobilization", even if it is not the global box office of the film, just around the periphery and derivatives, this series has brought more than $2 billion in revenue to Walt Disney so far, and is definitely a boy's pocket money killer.
Back in the villa, Ryan put Sandy's little golden man thrown on the sofa into the glass display cabinet, which was filled with awards such as the Golden Globe Awards Best Actress, and the heaviest ones were naturally the three best actresses, Little Golden Man.
This is definitely a great achievement.
Only Ryan himself knew that he had not made any mistakes. This was a promise that he had been persisting for twenty years.
He finally pushed Nicole to a position far higher than his former status and completely became a Hollywood legend. When the public recalled the 1990s and early 21st century times over the past few decades, the first actress he remembered must be Nicole. She not only had awards, but also box office that other actresses who won the award could not reach.
Even Julia Roberts, the representative figure of another actress of the same period, was left far behind by Nicole.
"I will focus more on production in the future."
Nicole's words came from the sofa, "Unless there is a very favorite character, otherwise..."
"If I could get an eight-seater phonograph at a time," Taylor was smart enough to understand the correlation of this situation in all aspects. "I would also quit the pop music scene and turn to the business world."
"Sonny." She pushed Sandy's forehead with her forehead, "We will join forces to fight those bad guys who bully people."
"Yes!" Sandy said tenderly, "Bad guy... Let's defeat together, sister."
With the Oscars coming to an end, Hollywood's 2008 was completely over. Those films that sold well on the box office list did not unexpectedly pass by Oscars.
The 2008 North American and global box office champions both belong to "Transformers 2". This special effects blockbuster, which was thrown on the ground by critics and wished to step into hell, won 431.87 million US dollars and 1.110.15 million US dollars respectively. Correspondingly, there are peripheral products with sales that are infinitely close to these two figures.
The second place is still Disney. "Iron Man 2" beats "Raiders of the Lottery 4" jointly produced by George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg for $832.58 million, winning the double runner-up in North America and global box office lists.
Although "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" is like "Transformers 2", its professional reputation is so bad that it can't be worse, it easily won third place in the North American box office list with US$317.1 million.
Although the financial crisis had a significant impact on the film industry, the box office in North America last year showed a growth momentum, with the total box office exceeding the $10 billion mark for the first time in history. In addition to the contribution of a series of commercial blockbusters, we have to mention the two dark horses, "Weakness" and "Twilight".
The former was down from North America half a month after the Oscars, and the final North American box office stayed at $31.25 million, which was definitely the biggest dark horse in the North American film market last year. Unfortunately, this film was not very good overseas, and its overseas box office is less than $100 million. It is still unknown whether the global box office will eventually exceed $400 million.
The latter also performed well, with a $197.52 million North American box office and a $198.84 million overseas box office, which is enough to make Disney laugh.
The continuous strong performance of the film produced by Walt Disney will not only arouse the envy of others, but also arouse the jealousy and dissatisfaction of some people. There are not many people who have secretly made secret moves in recent years, but they have not played much role in the face of Disney's powerful strength.
This time is no exception. After the Oscars, some media began to have a saying that they could not target Disney's normal film production and distribution, and there was nothing to be pointed at, but instead targeted the emerging online media market, especially video websites.
Tube is definitely the leader of online video websites around the world, and even accounts for more than 70% of the market share in North America. Among the rest, the Hulu website jointly established by Disney and 20th Century Fox will be divided up half. It is not an exaggeration to describe the current situation of this industry by using Disney as dominating the online video industry.
Monopoly and North American commercial groups are trying to avoid the minefields they touch, which is undoubtedly the best reason to deal with Disney's online video business.
Many tabloids seem to have received some hints, vaguely spreading rumors that the federal government is preparing to launch an antitrust investigation into Disney-related businesses.
Fortunately, there is no such voice in the mainstream media. Disney also has the political power to sponsor. The exact news that Ryan has received is just rumors. The federal government has no intention of launching an antitrust investigation into this business, at least not yet.
It is difficult to find out where this rumor originated, and Ryan is also paying attention to the dynamics of those former communities of interests, which have now become loose alliances and competitors.
For the sake of interests, those people can stand with him and vaguely protect him through his most vulnerable minors; and interests that are tempted enough can also make them turn against each other and stand on his opposite side.
During Disney's crazy rise, it will inevitably touch the interests of many people. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!