Made in Hollywood

Los Angeles under the night is full of lights and the bustle is still boiling, but some high-end neighborhoods are quiet enough. By the side of an independent villa in Beverly Hills, the tall and leggy Gal Gadot walked out of the courtyard, behind her. , The hostess with a raised abdomen has been delivered to the door.

‘"Nat, it’s a bit cold outside." Gal Gadot turned around, looking at the mistress who was obviously pregnant with a look of concern, "You go back quickly."

"It's okay..." Natalie Portman leaned on the fence door, "I'm glad you can come over and stay with me."

While the two were talking, the nearby lights flashed and turned off, capturing all of their figures. Gal Gadot took the initiative to block Natalie Portman, and Natalie seemed completely unsure. Care about, "Sooner or later, it will be exposed. Let them go."

"Yeah." Gal Gadot nodded, the mocking in his eyes was fleeting, "You go back, I'm leaving."

She waved to Natalie Portman, left the gate, walked to her car, opened the door and sat in, started the car and drove off the road quickly, but after turning two turns, She gradually slowed down, thinking of her recent relationship with Natalie Portman, she could only secretly sigh that this woman's methods were really brilliant.

How savvy is a woman who can even take advantage of her unborn child? How deep is the mind...

Obviously, for next year's Oscar heroine, Natalie Portman really did it, but just in this way can I get the queen statuette?

A few mockery flashed in his mind, Gail Gadot entered Rodeo Drive, stopped in front of a cafe, looked at his watch, sat in the car and waited for a while, until a familiar figure walked into the coffee. After the museum. I got out of the car without hurries and entered the cafe.

Those bright eyes quickly caught the agent's figure, and Gal Gadot speeded up a little bit and walked over and sat opposite him.

"How's things going?" The agent put down the coffee cup and reminded Gail Gadot, "Now it's a critical moment."

Gail Gadot opened the handbag. He took out a voice recorder and placed it in front of his agent, "This is the content of the last few days, and there is also a private conversation between Nat and Martin Miller about Oscar that I secretly recorded."

"Good job, Gail!" The agent's eyebrows almost flew into his hair. "With your cleverness, you will definitely become popular in the future!"

Shrugging, Gail Gadot was about to say goodbye, and asked before leaving. "What about our job-hopping thing?"

"Don't worry." The agent solemnly put away the recorder, "Nancy Josephson will take care of everything before the Oscars ceremony begins."

Hearing this, Gail Gadot relaxed and strode out of the cafe, knowing that her future path would become wider and wider.

She left Beverly Hills in the car and returned to her apartment in Burbank, but did not immediately rest. Instead, holding a glass of wine, he stood on the balcony and looked into the distance. That was the direction of Warner Studios, not very far from the apartment. Although it was late, you could still see the bright lights over there, and it seemed to be still busy.

This is indeed the case, as it has been in previous months. Duke is also working overtime at the Warner Studios to complete the final finishing touches of "Gravity" as soon as possible. After the film has been previewed internally, a small-scale screening will be held in North America before the New Year after Christmas. , To obtain the most basic qualifications to participate in the Oscar competition. Then when the New Year holiday begins, the film will be shown on a large scale in North America.

In the editing room, the post-production is at the end. After the supervising staff added the ending credits, Duke said to Tina Fei next to him, “I will immediately have the finished version handed over to Warner Bros. to suppress the DVD at the fastest speed. The screener version. Before the new year, I want the dvd.screener version of Gravity to appear on the desks of all the judges."

"Hmm..." Tina Fei greeted several security personnel who had been waiting here, took the encrypted memory from Mike Dawson, and said to Duke, "Don't worry, I will do it myself."

Seeing Tina Fei leaving, Duke breathed a sigh of relief. After busying for half a year, he finally caught up with the last train of Oscar.

However, now is not the time to completely relax. After all, suppressing dvd.screener versions and sending them out is not an easy task.

During the annual awards season, the film producers who want to compete for the Oscars will send the dvdscreener of the film to the members of various Hollywood industry associations and the voting members of the award season-such as members of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, members of the American Actors Guild, etc. Version, if you count the members of the industry associations and some media, the number of DVD copies sent for a film may exceed 50,000...

And 50,000 copies are just the most basic base. Most films are mailed far more than 50,000 copies. For example, film producers who have been nominated for Oscars for Best Picture will send more than 100,000 copies of dvd.screener.

One thing that cannot be ignored is that the same person may get multiple DVDs of the same film because "a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is probably also a member of the British Academy of Motion Picture and Film Arts or the Producers Guild. Some people You may bother to ask one more question to ensure that you don’t send the movie to the same person repeatedly, but most people don’t do that."

The important reason for this situation is that many Oscar judges don’t look at the film very much. For the film itself, the more film copies a judge receives, the more likely they are to watch it, which also means This movie is more likely to lead the voting session.

Such a large-scale mailing of dvd.screener version will also bring corresponding problems-piracy!

For films released at the beginning of the year, spring or summer, you don’t need to worry too much about piracy when mailing the DVD.screener version at this time, but most of the award-winning films are released in November and December, and In order to create a good reputation, they are often screened on a very small scale, and large-scale screenings start after a period of time after the New Year.

Such films are most likely to be threatened by piracy.

In fact, in every year's Oscar awards, there will almost always be incidents of outflow of dvd.screener versions of participating films of different scales. Even if the filmmakers have done enough preventive measures, it is difficult to eradicate them.

If you want to win the prize, you have to bear the corresponding risk. Mailing the dvd.screener version is a must. You must expect all members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to respond to the film's call to watch the selected films in the theater. Tan.

Of those 6,000 judges, it is already an astronomical number to be able to walk into the theater to watch a popular Oscar film.

As a result, mailing the dvd.screener version has become a must for the producers and distributors of Chong'ao films.

However, the film party will also make a series of anti-piracy measures, such as the dvd.screener version that is mailed-also known as the advance version of DVD-the definition is not high, and it can not be compared with the normal DVD. A version of the movie DVD will continuously give a "warning" whether it is on the outer packaging or in the feature film: copying or uploading the film is against the federal law of the United States.

And in the process of video playback, there are related watermark codes. If there is a pirated version on the Internet, the source of the outflow can be quickly found through the watermark code.

However, this cannot completely eliminate piracy, especially online piracy.

On Christmas Eve this year, the dvd.screener version of Weinstein Pictures’ masterpiece "The King’s Speech" was put on the Internet, and the number of downloads exceeded 800,000 in just twelve hours. The Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein brothers were very upset. After all, "The King's Speech" was still shown in less than 200 theaters, and it was inevitable that it would be affected by piracy.

Not only Weinstein Pictures, but an organization called hive-cm8 that released online piracy said that they have other resources from Okinawa Pictures, and they will release the resources of the other forty films one after another... …

Although "Gravity" was not among the ranks due to the tight production time, Duke also voiced support for Weinstein Pictures and other film companies.

In this regard, the interests of Hollywood studios and producers and directors are aligned.

Yes, the image quality of the dvd.screener version can only be described as scumbag, but the destructive power of its piracy cannot be ignored.

This is of course not a good thing. First of all, the box office of unreleased movies will be greatly affected; second, even if the movie has already been released, there may be plans to release DVDs in the future. As a result, as soon as the pirated version comes out, many fans have already downloaded it. Watched.

Weinstein Pictures has reported to the fbi. The watermark code on the Internet piracy of "The King's Speech" cannot be easily eliminated. The watermark printed on the pirated screen confirms that the copy was given to Ai by the filmmaker Weinstein. Ken Entertainment's co-CEO Andrew Kosovo's share.

FBI summoned Andrew Kosovo. Regarding this allegation, Kosovo firmly stated that he had never seen this DVD and never touched it. He also indicated to the media that he would cooperate with fbi and would also initiate an investigation on his own.

The investigation is temporarily in a stalemate, and fbi is currently investigating at Aiken Entertainment's headquarters in California.

But people like Duke are actually very clear that Aiken Entertainment, which is controlled by Andrew Kosovo, does not have much competition with Weinstein Pictures, and it is impossible to do such things that are rejected by Hollywood as a whole.

Andrew Kosovo is the co-CEO of Aiken Entertainment. The company has participated in the production of "Summer of Jeans", "Courage to the 16th Block" and "Weakness". He is also a well-known producer and should be the same. The victim of the incident, not the culprit.

In a region like North America with a relatively complete copyright system, it may seem strange to happen, but in Duke's view, this is not surprising. (To be continued.)

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