Made in Hollywood

Los Angeles, shrouded in night, is full of lights and still noisy, but some high-end communities are quiet enough. Beside a detached villa in Beverly Hills, a tall and long-legged Gal Gadot walked out of the courtyard, behind her , the hostess with a protruding belly was sent to the door.

'"Nat, it's a bit cold outside." Gal Gadot turned around and looked at the hostess who was obviously pregnant with concern, "Hurry up and go back."

"It's okay..." Natalie Portman held on to the fence door, "I'm glad you can come and accompany me."

While the two were talking, flashing lights came on nearby one after another, capturing their figures. Gal Gadot took the initiative to block Natalie Portman. Natalie didn't seem to be at all. Care, "It will be exposed sooner or later, let them go."

"Well." Gal Gadot nodded, the mockery 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 away from the road quickly, but after turning two turns, She gradually slowed down the speed of the car. Thinking of her recent relationship with Natalie Portman, she could only secretly sigh that this woman's methods are really very clever.

How smart is a woman who can even use an unborn child? How deep is my heart...

Obviously, for next year's Oscar for the leading actress, Natalie? Portman is really fighting, just in this way can get the best actress statuette?

A few words of ridicule flashed in my heart, Gal Gadot entered Rodeo Drive, stopped in front of a coffee shop, looked at his watch, sat in the car and waited for a while, until a familiar figure walked into the coffee shop After the museum. He got out of the car unhurriedly and entered the cafe.

Those bright eyes quickly caught the agent's figure, Gal Gadot quickened his pace a little, walked over and sat opposite him.

"How is things going?" The agent put down the coffee cup and reminded Gal Gadot, "Now is the critical moment."

Gal Gadot opened her handbag. He took out a recording pen and put it in front of the agent, "This is the content of the last few days. There is also a private conversation between Nat and Martin Miller about Oscar that I secretly recorded."

"Well done, Gail!" The agent's eyebrows almost flew into his hair, "With your intelligence, you will definitely become popular in the future!"

Shrugged. Gal Gadot was about to leave, but before leaving, he asked, "What about our job-hopping?"

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

hear this. Gal Gadot felt relieved and strode out of the cafe. She knew that her future road would be wider and wider.

She drove from Beverly Hills to her apartment in Burbank. But he didn't take a break immediately, instead holding a glass of wine. Standing on the balcony and looking into the distance, it was in the direction of Warner Studios, not very far from the apartment, even though it was very late. But you can still see the bright lights over there, and it seems to be still busy.

And indeed, as has been the case for the past few months, Duke is working overtime at Warner Studios to get the final touches on Gravity, which will be released on Christmas Day after an in-house preview. After the festival, a small-scale screening will be held in North America before the New Year to obtain the most basic qualifications to participate in the Oscar competition. Then, when the New Year holiday begins, the film will be released on a large scale in North America.

In the editing room, the post-production has come to the end, Duke said to Tina Fey next to him after the supervisory staff added the ending credits, "Immediately ask someone to hand over the finished version to Warner Bros. to compress the DVD as quickly as possible. 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 Fey greeted a few 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 Fey leaving, Duke heaved a sigh of relief. After half a year of busy work, he finally caught up with Oscar's last train.

However, now is not the time to completely relax, after all, compressing DVD.Screener versions and sending them out is not an easy job either.

Every year during the awards season, the producers of movies that want to compete for Oscars will send DVDScreeners of the films to members of various industry associations in Hollywood and voting members during the awards season—such as members of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, members of the American Screen Actors Guild, etc. version, if the industry association members and some media are counted, the DVD copies of a film may exceed 50,000 copies...

And 50,000 copies is just the most basic base number. Most films send far more than 50,000 copies by mail. For example, film producers that have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars in the past have mailed more than 100,000 copies of DVD.Screener.

One thing that cannot be overlooked is that the same person may get multiple DVDs of the same film because "an Academy member is likely to be also a member of the BAFTA or the Producers Guild. Some people Might go to the trouble of asking to make sure you don't send the movie to the same person twice, but most people don't."

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

Such a large-scale mailing of DVD.Screener versions will also bring corresponding problems-piracy!

For films released at the beginning of the year, spring or summer, there is basically no need to worry too much about piracy when the DVD.Screener version is mailed at this time, but most award-winning films are released in November and December, and In order to create a good reputation, screenings are often performed on a very small scale, and large-scale screenings begin after a period of time after the New Year.

Such films are likely to be most threatened by piracy.

In fact, in every year of the Oscar awards, there will be outflow incidents of DVD.Screener versions of selected films of different scales. Even if the film studios have taken enough preventive measures, it is difficult to eradicate them.

If you want to win the award, you have to bear the corresponding risks. Mailing the DVD.Screener version is a must. It is tantamount to expecting all members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to respond to the call of the film studio and go to the theater to watch the selected films. Tan.

Of the 6,000 judges, one-fifth of them can enter the theater to watch a popular Oscar movie, which is already an astronomical figure.

Therefore, mailing the DVD.Screener version has become a thing that the producer and distributor of the Olympic film have to do.

But the film studio will also take a series of anti-piracy measures, such as the mailed DVD.Screener version—also known as the DVD first version—the clarity is not high, and it is far from being compared with the normal release of the film DVD. One version of the movie DVD, both on the packaging and in the feature film, has a constant "warning" that copying or uploading the film is a violation of US federal law.

Moreover, during the playback of the movie, there is also a relevant watermark code. 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 the eve of Christmas this year, the DVD.Screener version of "The King's Speech", a masterpiece used by Weinstein Films for the Olympics, was put on the Internet, and it was downloaded more than 800,000 times in just 12 hours. The brothers Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein were furious. After all, "The King's Speech" is still being screened in less than 200 theaters, and it is inevitable that it will be hit by piracy.

Not only Weinstein Films, but also an organization called Hive-CM8 that released online pirated copies, said that they have other resources of Chongao Films in their hands, and will release the resources of the other 40 films one after another... …

While "Gravity" wasn't included due to tight production schedules, Duke has also spoken out in support of Weinstein and other studios.

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

Yes, the picture quality of the DVD.Screener version can only be described as scum, but the destructive power of its pirated version cannot be ignored.

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

Weinstein Films has already reported to the FBI, and the watermark code on the online pirated version of "The King's Speech" cannot be easily removed. Andrew Kosovo, co-CEO of Ken Entertainment.

The FBI subpoenaed Andrew Kosovo. For this accusation, Kosovo insisted that he had never seen the DVD and never touched it. He also told the media that he would cooperate with the FBI and conduct his own investigation.

The investigation is temporarily at a stalemate, and the FBI is currently conducting an investigation at the headquarters of Aiken Entertainment in California.

But people like Duke are actually very clear that the Aiken Entertainment Company controlled by Andrew Kosovo does not have much competition with Weinstein Films, and it is impossible to do such a thing that is rejected by the entire Hollywood.

Andrew Kosovo is the co-CEO of Aiken Entertainment Company. The company has participated in the production of films such as "Summer of Jeans", "16th Street" and "Weakness". He is also a well-known producer, so it should be be the victim, not the culprit.

In North America, a region with a relatively well-established copyright system, it seems unbelievable that such a thing happened, but in Duke's view, this is not surprising at all. (to be continued ~^~)

PS:  Ask for monthly and recommendation tickets!