Unexpectedly, Paramount became the biggest winner of the Golden Dragon Awards. Paramount's "The Truman Show" and "Saving Private Ryan" won a lot of awards, including the Best Director and Best Film awards.
Paramount took all the 100 million dollars that "The Truman Show" had won without hesitation, and didn't give a single cent to the crew.
Paramount even asked for 15 million dollars for the 30 million dollars that Jim Carrey had won for the Best Actor award.
As for the bonus for "Saving Private Soldier", because it was a co-production between Spielberg's DreamWorks Animation and Paramount, and it was also the Best Director award, Paramount did not have the face to ask for money. However, Spielberg took the initiative to give Paramount a 10 million yuan bonus.
In this way, together with the other awards, Paramount's income from the financial awards alone reached 140 million dollars.
Not long after the 1998 financial report was released, Paramount made a profit of 60 million dollars, and its stock price soared, which made other film companies envious.
They were even more eager to win the Golden Dragon Awards. After all, the prize money of the Golden Dragon Awards was more than the box office of many film companies in a year.
Many small film companies, in particular, relied on the bonus alone, more than all of their box office shares, and made a lot of money overnight.
Therefore, after the awards ceremony, almost all the executives of the film companies took the initiative to talk to the executives of the Daqian Film Company. Soon, the CEOs of all the film companies called Boss Jia to congratulate him on the success of the Golden Dragon Awards.
At the same time, they promised that all their artists and films would participate in the Golden Dragon Awards every year in the future. At the same time, they almost praised the Golden Dragon Awards as the best award in the world.
As for the original Oscars, no one cared at all.
According to the final statistics, more than 70% of all the prizes awarded this time were divided among the film companies, and the actual money that fell into the hands of the crew was pitifully small.
Especially for "The Truman Show", except for 10 million dollars that Jim Carrey took from his 15 million dollars and distributed to the crew, the rest of the money was all taken by the film company.
However, the Daqian did not take a single cent of the bonus that the Daqian gave to his own crew. Instead, he gave it to all the crew members equally.
As a result, all the filmmakers in Hollywood were very touched by the Daqian company and were very envious of the Daqian employees. Many film newcomers put their resumes on the Daqian company as their first target.
There were even many veteran filmmakers who chose to leave their original companies after their contracts expired and joined the Daqian Film Company. This greatly expanded the strength of the Daqian Film Company.
Of course, this also caused many Hollywood studios to be dissatisfied. However, the problem was that even if they knew the problem, they couldn't solve it because they couldn't share all the bonuses equally with the crew.
They also did not dare to find trouble with the Daqian. Otherwise, what if the Daqian Golden Dragon Award directly rejected their movie?
Anyway, this was a big conspiracy. Even if the bigger studios could see through it, they couldn't do anything about it. They had to support the Daqian Film Company.
The price was that the Daqian Film Company had to give out hundreds of millions of dollars almost every year. From the current point of view, this was naturally a loss, but in the long run, it was hard to say.
This year's Highest Achievement Award was not given out, but this was normal. The Highest Achievement Award was not fixed. It had to be given out after an outstanding movie was released.
In the end, with the music, the second Golden Dragon Awards came to an end. Throughout Hollywood, there was a quiet change inside.
However, it was worth mentioning that at the end of the Golden Dragon Awards, Nintendo announced almost at the same time that they would release a game, "Pet Elf", designed by the creator of "Pokemon", the game genius Tajiri Tomo. There were more than 200 cute pets carefully designed by Tajiri Tomo, and more rich game content.
The only thing missing was for Nintendo to say that this was a spiritual sequel to Pokemon, and it was even more fun than the previous game.
And this time, Nintendo invested a lot of money. Almost at the same time when "Pet Elf" was released, they announced that the TV animation of "Pet Elf" would be broadcasted worldwide.
This made countless Nintendo fans instantly cheered, but there was also some noise among the players. Just by the name, they knew that "Pet Elf" was probably a game similar to "Pokemon". Wasn't this a bit of plagiarism?
Of course, with Tajiri Tomo, the creator of "Pokemon", plagiarism didn't seem to be a problem. Anyway, the players were very strict about plagiarism, but they only recognized the person, not the company.
As long as it was a game developed by the so-called creator, it was definitely not plagiarism. Would plagiarizing be considered plagiarism?
This was the reason why Nintendo tried so hard to get Tajiri Tomo, and at the same time, gave him all the conveniences and high salaries. It was all to create a game similar to "Pokemon" without being criticized by the players.
With Nintendo's meticulous production of "Pet Elf", there naturally wouldn't be any quality problems. Whether it was the quality of the game, the bugs, the gameplay, or the art of the game, they were all top quality. Even Boss Jia couldn't help but play the game for a while after getting it, and then he praised it.
The facts proved that Nintendo's plan was quite good. After "Pet Elf" was released, the GBA version sold 1.2 million copies, breaking the first-month sales record since the release of the GBA version, and it was double the sales record.
But with the record-breaking sales of "Pet Elf", a new problem was placed in front of Nintendo, and that was whether to release a version of "Thousand Machine Translation".
Nintendo's GBA was released a year earlier than history. It was released in the middle of 1997, and with the Thousand Machine Translation, the GBA's overall configuration was better than the GBA in the other world. At the very least, it shouldn't be too much worse than the Thousand Machine Translation.
With GB's remaining influence, GBA's sales volume was close to 10 million units in a year.
In the eyes of many video game companies, this result was almost a miracle. However, in the eyes of Nintendo, it was terrible.
Originally, according to their original plan, as the upgraded version of GB, the GBA would sell at least 30 million units in the first year of its launch, based on the record of 200 million GB units sold worldwide.
After all, the first year of a game console's sales was the golden period. As time passed, the number of players who bought the console would decrease. If they couldn't exceed 30 million units in the first year, it would be difficult to exceed 60 million units in the next five years.
In the end, the GBA sales record of 10 million units made Nintendo's face explode.
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