Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion Chapter 582

Chapter 582 North American Film Annual Report

After spending the Spring Festival in the capital, Link left China by plane and flew to Seoul and Tokyo for a few days. In addition to accompanying Jun Ji-hyun and Hee-chan, he also took the time to meet with several business partners and make several deals.

Currently, he has invested approximately US$200 million in South Korea, mainly in entertainment, and nearly US$100 million in Japan, including real estate, clothing, and restaurants.

These investments are also under the supervision of New York Golden Shell Asset Management Company and do not require him to expend too much energy.

After spending a few days in Japan and South Korea, Link took a flight back to Los Angeles, just in time to catch up with the Academy Awards ceremony.

This year's Oscars ceremony was held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Although Lionsgate films were nominated for more films, Link did not go to the event because he did not receive a nomination. He and Eva Ka watched the live broadcast of the awards ceremony at home.

Similar to last year, the attendees at this year's awards ceremony were all familiar faces, including Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Scarlett Johansson, Meryl Streep, lady Gaga, Nicole Kidman, Mary Ungodiya and so on.

The first award was awarded to the Best Supporting Actor award. The winner was J.K. Simmons of "Breaking Drummer". He is 60 years old this year. He won the Best Supporting Actor award when he was nominated for the Oscar for the first time. He has good strength and luck.

Simmons thanked Link on the podium and joked that Link is like a candle. Although he won't win an Oscar, he can light up others again and again.

It caused a burst of laughter at the scene.

The second and third awards were for Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. These two awards were unexpectedly won by the crew of "The Grand Budapest Hotel".

The fourth award for Best Foreign Language Film was won by the Polish film "Sister Ida", which is still about the Holocaust. Before the Oscar ceremony, the most popular film was the Russian film "Leviathan".

This year's Oscars ceremony lasted for more than three hours. Originally, he, Ivaca, and the three children were watching in the living room, but within half an hour, the three children fell asleep on the sofa.

By the last hour, even Ivaca fell asleep on his shoulder.

Although the whole process was a bit boring, Lionsgate had a good year at the Oscars this year.

"Birdman" won 4 out of 9 nominations, winning four awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.

"The Grand Budapest Hotel" won 4 out of 9 nominations, winning four technical awards: Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Original Score.

"Crackling Drummer" was nominated for 3 out of 6, including Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, and Best Sound Effects.

The above three films are the films with the most Oscars this year, and the other films only won one award.

"American Hustle" scored 0 out of 10 nominations, with no results, so it was considered an upset.

"Gone Girl" scored 1 out of 1 mentions.

Among them, the best actor was won by Eddie Redmayne, the actor who played Hawking in "The Theory of Everything". He is also the first actor born in the 1980s to win the Oscar.

The Best Actress was won by Julianne Moore, the heroine of "Still Alice", who also became the first person in film history to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Cannes International Film Festival's Best Actress, and the Venice International Film Festival's Best Actress. Best Actress and Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Best Supporting Actress went to Patricia Arquette for "Boyhood."

At this Oscar, 11 out of 35 films released by Lionsgate Pictures were nominated. This result is not bad, but it failed in the key awards of Lionsgate Pictures' public relations, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, which also made Lionsgate The PR department was surprised.

Michael Keaton from "Birdman", Christian Bale from "American Hustle" and Ralph Fiennes from "The Grand Budapest Hotel" are nominated for Best Actor this year.

Rosamund Pike from "Gone Girl", Amy Adams from "American Hustle", and Marion Cotillard from "Two Days and One Night" were nominated for Best Actress. Among them, "Two Days and One Night" was produced by Paris Rose Film last year. One of the movies, due to schedule reasons, it was only screened in 6 theaters at the end of last year.

Emma Stone from "Birdman" and Jennifer Lawrence from "American Hustle" were nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Actors from Lionsgate Pictures accounted for more than half of the nominations for the four acting awards.

The original plan was to win at least two awards, but in the end, he only won one award for Best Supporting Actor.

Afterwards, the public relations department analyzed that Lionsgate Pictures was probably targeted by the Oscar judges.

In the previous three Oscars, Lionsgate's films won three consecutive Best Actress awards, and also won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress several times. Her performance was very strong, and she was criticized by many of her peers, and even caused a stir in the media. Lots of controversy.

Perhaps the Academy wants to put an end to this controversy by suppressing Lionsgate films in the acting categories.

After the Academy Awards, the media saw that this year's Best Actress and Supporting Actress were not won by Lionsgate films, but the actors who were nominated through Lionsgate films are also capable of winning Oscars. .

In order to stir up topic, the media took the initiative to hype up the news that Lionsgate Pictures was suppressed by the Oscar Academy in the acting category, saying that doing so was unfair to Lionsgate and unfair to several actors.

It's just that Lionsgate didn't want to get into trouble with the Oscars, and it didn't arrange for the publicity department to follow up on this topic. After the news that "Lionsgate was targeted by the Oscars" was hyped for a few days, no media mentioned it again.

Only Leonardo expressed concern on the phone. In order to make "The Revenant" well, he gained more than thirty pounds, gained a beard, and his appearance dropped significantly. He also suffered injuries in the primeval forests of Canada and the United States. For more than four months, I was almost raped by a bear.

He has paid too much for this film and has high hopes for this film. He does not want to miss out on the Oscar again because of the film company.

Link comforted him to relax and not to worry too much. Last year, the Oscar for Best Actor was won by a Lionsgate film. If it continues to be won by a Lionsgate film this year, it is unlikely that it will be given to Lionsgate next year.

However, since Lionsgate was not awarded this year, it is more likely that a Lionsgate movie will win the award next year, provided that the quality of the movie is high enough and Leonardo's acting skills are good enough.

Leonardo patted his chest and said that the movie was wonderful, his performance was beyond first-class, and his sacrifice was big enough, and he was definitely qualified to win the Oscar for Best Actor. Link nodded and asked if the news that he was raped by a big brown bear was true or false?

Leonardo was immediately furious and loudly told him that it was all lies. How could it be that a female bear raped him? It's a matter of shooting angle, not what's spread on the Internet.

Link was stunned for a moment, "Female bear? Isn't it just right? Do you like male bears?"

"Fake! Link, you'd better shut up, or we'll break up our friendship."

Leonardo shouted angrily.

"Okay, okay! Let's not talk about it."

Link smiled softly and told Leonardo that when making selections, the Oscar judges were more willing to vote for the actor who sacrificed the most while making the movie. If he wanted to win the Oscar, he might as well simply admit it and be What a bear, this kind of sacrifice is unique in the history of world cinema.

Seeing as he has sacrificed so much, maybe thousands of judges are willing to vote for him.

Leonardo was silent on the other end of the phone for a few seconds before gritting his teeth to express his disagreement.

Link covered his forehead. He was originally joking, but after hearing this, Little Plum thought seriously for a while before objecting.

This guy worked really hard to win an Oscar.

Link is ashamed of himself at this point.

Before and after the Oscars, the films nominated for the Oscars receive a lot of attention, and this attention is most directly reflected at the box office.

Since the announcement of the shortlist in January, several of Lionsgate's shortlisted films have experienced significant box office increases. Unpopular films that originally received little attention have experienced even greater box office growth.

Among them, the North American box office of "The Grand Budapest Hotel" increased from more than 68 million to 76.6 million US dollars, and the global box office total reached 188 million US dollars.

The North American box office of "Birdman" increased to US$52.5 million, and the cumulative global box office reached US$115 million.

The North American box office of "Crackling Drummer" increased to 38.77 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was 71.15 million U.S. dollars.

"American Hustle" has been released for more than two months. The current box office in North America is US$165 million and the global box office is US$268 million.

"Gone Girl" currently has a box office of US$205 million in North America and US$485 million globally.

According to statistics from the data department, the global box office increase brought by the Academy Awards to several movies is about 160 million US dollars. From this, we can also see that the Academy Awards have a high gold content, and it is also meaningful to spend money to publicize the Oscars.

At the end of February and the beginning of March, the Motion Picture Association of America Annual Report successively published several articles analyzing movie box office data in 2014, including North American movie box office, global movie box office, and movie box office analysis of the seven major movie studios.

According to data from this annual report, the total global movie box office in 2014 was US$36.4 billion, an increase of only 1% compared with US$35.9 billion in 2013, which was the lowest growth rate in the past decade.

Among them, a total of 849 movies were released in North America last year, with a total box office of US$10.4 billion, a decrease of 5.4% from last year, and an average box office of each movie of US$12.21 million, a decrease of 8% from last year.

The Chinese film market contributed the most last year, with a year-on-year increase of 34%, reaching US$4.8 billion. It was also the first film market outside North America with a box office total exceeding 4 billion. China has also been the world's second largest box office for three consecutive years.

On the cover of the Motion Picture Association Annual Report, the Lionsgate logo is painted gold, with a crown and a golden figure of $2.03354 billion. This is the highest revenue of Lionsgate films in North America in 2014. Total box office received.

Lionsgate also topped the box office of the film industry for the first time ever.

Last year, Lionsgate released a total of 19 movies. Two movies had a North American box office of more than 200 million, "The Hunger Games 3" and "Gone Girl." 8 movies exceeded 100 million, and 15 movies had a box office of more than 50 million.

Among the films released in North America in 2014, there were 10 films with a revenue of more than 200 million, 31 films with a revenue of more than 100 million, and 68 films with a revenue of more than 50 million.

Judging from these three sets of data, Lionsgate movies contributed significantly to the North American box office last year.

Among the seven major film studios, Disney Pictures ranks second with a total box office of US$1.76 billion. There are 4 films with a box office of over 100 million US dollars in North America, of which animated films account for a large proportion.

Fox Pictures ranked third with 1.53 billion, and has successfully released popular movies such as "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", "X-Men Origins 2" and "Rio 2".

Warner Pictures fell to fourth place with US$1.25 billion. Among them, the North American box office of "The Lego Movie" and "Godzilla" exceeded 200 million, but the box office results of movies such as "Transcendental", "Single Parent Resort" and "Winter Adventure" were low. As expected, Warner Pictures, which had been in the top three for many years, fell to fourth place. It was also the first time in five years that the total box office was less than 1.5 billion US dollars.

Paramount Pictures ranked fifth with a total box office of 665 million. Among them, the North American box office of "Transformers 4", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Interstellar" exceeded 100 million. The box office performance of other movies was average.

Universal Pictures fell to sixth place with 487 million. It released 22 movies last year. Only "The Last Survivor" exceeded 100 million in the North American box office. The performance of other movies was lower than expected.

Sony Pictures ranked seventh with 465 million. Last year, Sony was relatively unlucky. In the first half of the year, the film "The Interview" that satirized the leaders of the Peninsula was boycotted and could not be released normally, resulting in losses of tens of millions. In the second half of the year, due to the resignation of female executives and the hacking incident that offended a large number of celebrities and agents, it was not easy to obtain 465 million.

Weinstein Pictures ranked eighth with $320 million. Last year, films such as "The Imitation Game", "The Giver" and "Saint Vincent" produced by Harvey achieved good box office results, becoming a leader in the field of independent production.

Relativity Pictures was affected by the debt crisis. Last year, only "Echo of the Earth" and "Three Days of Assassination" had a North American box office of more than 30 million, while other films were basically unprofitable. This also led to Relativity Pictures' financial deficit becoming more serious and on the verge of bankruptcy.

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