Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion Chapter 583

Chapter 583 New Movie Arrangements

The Motion Picture Association of America Annual Report also announced the total global box office results of the seven major film studios in 2014. Lionsgate films ranked first with US$4.85 billion, and 10 films had overseas box office sales of over 100 million US dollars.

In second place is Fox Pictures, with 4.77 billion US dollars. The overseas box office results of films such as "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" are higher than those in North America.

Warner Pictures ranked third with 4.38 billion U.S. dollars, and Disney Pictures ranked fourth with 3.95 billion U.S. dollars.

Paramount ranked fifth with 2.88 billion US dollars, of which "Transformers 4" was the only movie with a global box office of more than 1 billion last year.

Universal ranked sixth with a global box office of 2.52 billion.

Sony ranked seventh with 2.12 billion.

In terms of movie profits, Lionsgate Pictures ranked first with a net income of 2.25 billion, Disney ranked second with a profit of 1.7 billion last year, and Fox Pictures ranked third with a net income of 1.5 billion.

Although several films released by Paramount Pictures have done well at the international box office, their production and promotion costs are too high, with net income of only US$270 million, ranking seventh.

However, due to the huge business of Disney and Warner Pictures, backed by the 100 billion group, peripheral income is extremely high.

Last year, Warner Group ranked first with a total revenue of 12.7 billion, and Disney's revenue also reached 11.2 billion. Lionsgate's total revenue from movies, TV series, advertising, video tapes, etc. was only 6.5 billion U.S. dollars, only half of Warner's. In terms of generating peripheral income There is still room for improvement.

After the annual box office results of the seven major film studios were announced by the American Motion Picture Association Annual Report, they attracted great attention in the media. Although many people knew that Lionsgate Pictures' movies last year were great and the box office results must have been very good, they did not. It was good to think that it would be like this.

The annual total box office in North America is 2.033 billion US dollars, the global total box office is 4.85 billion US dollars, and the net income is 2.25 billion US dollars.

It ranked first on three lists, crushing the six major film companies.

This is also the first time in the history of North American films that an independent film company has snatched the crown and honor of being the number one box office winner in the year from the six major film studios.

Lionsgate immediately became the darling of the media industry, attracting media coverage.

The Los Angeles Times devoted a full page to reporting on the growth history of Lionsgate Pictures. Lionsgate was first founded in 1997 and was originally headquartered in Canada. It moved to Santa Monica, Los Angeles in 2000.

After more than ten years of development, Lionsgate has grown from a small film company with tens of millions of dollars to a medium-sized film company with hundreds of millions of dollars, and is known as the eighth largest in Hollywood.

2011 was a turning point for Lionsgate and a year that should be recorded in the history of North American film.

In this year, Link spent 800 million US dollars to acquire Lionsgate Pictures. Despite the collective pessimism of many media and the pressure of the six major film studios, Lionsgate Pictures was completely transformed in just one year. changes.

In 2011, Lionsgate Pictures released a total of 12 movies, ranking seventh with a total North American box office of 580 million.

In 2012, Lionsgate Pictures released 20 movies, with a total box office of 1.48 billion in North America, ranking third in the film industry with a share of 14.2%.

In 2013, Lionsgate Pictures released 19 movies, with a total box office of 1.817 billion in North America, accounting for 16.9% of the total box office share, ranking second.

In 2014, Lionsgate released 19 movies, with a total North American box office of 2.033 billion, accounting for 19.5% of the total North American box office share, surpassing six established companies including Disney, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Fox, Paramount Pictures, and Sony. film company, becoming the film company with the highest box office in North America and the global film market.

Judging from these data, Lionsgate's performance in movies has been getting better year by year in the past four years.

Some media also listed the list of films to be released by Lionsgate Pictures in 2015, including "The Hunger Games 4", "American Sniper", "The Revenant", "The Expendables 3", "Superbody", "Now Now 2" and other heavyweight blockbusters .

There are also small-budget independent films such as "The Big Short", "Into the Wild", "Inherent Evil", "The Butler", "Foxcatcher", "Trainwreck", "Creed", "Split" and "Insidious 3".

As well as three commercial blockbusters "The Martian", "Terminator: Genisys" and "Collapse" in cooperation with Paramount Pictures.

Maleficent in partnership with Disney.

Judging from the scale of investment, number of films, and film lineup, Lionsgate's films this year are more competitive than last year, and they may be able to get more box office.

Since the annual box office of Hollywood movies is around 10 billion.

This more than 10 billion US dollars is equivalent to a big cake. The seven major movie studios and hundreds of film companies in the United States and thousands of film companies around the world are trying to take a bite of the cake.

Last year, Lionsgate ate 19.5% of the cake. If it eats more this year, according to this situation, someone in the Seven Major Pictures will go hungry. In more serious cases, it will cause huge losses or even bankruptcy.

It's a pity that Lionsgate Pictures has now established a firm foothold in Hollywood, and its market value has stabilized at around 10 billion US dollars.

It has also cooperated with Netflix, Amazon Studios, Warner Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and Disney Pictures, and independently with Palm Beach Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, Appian Trail Pictures, Skydance Pictures, etc. In-depth cooperation with production companies.

Lionsgate has become an important part of the film industry's interest system.

A single move affects the whole body.

In addition, Lionsgate has released more than 30 high-quality and high-level art films in recent years, which are not only sought after by movie fans, but also favored by the Golden Globe Awards, Oscars, and the three major European film festivals, becoming the largest Oscar-winning film in the past three years. Award-winning professional households.

From this point of view, Lionsgate is not only successful in commercial films, but also does an outstanding job in artistic films, and is a leader in the independent film industry.

Lionsgate Pictures has deep internal strength, and it would not be that easy for other film companies to bring down Lionsgate.

In addition, in terms of TV series production, Lionsgate and Netflix have launched ten TV series production plans in the past two years, and several movies and TV series that have been launched have achieved great success. Lionsgate's total revenue from TV series also exceeded US$1 billion last year.

In terms of advertising, last year Lionsgate's movies earned as much as US$500 million from advertising placement, which was almost equal to the production cost.

The Los Angeles Times believes that Lionsgate has grown and grown, and it may be difficult for the six major film studios to regain their original market share. The next step for the six major film studios is to learn to accept the existence of Lionsgate and find ways to produce more Only by making more and better films, competing with peers in the film market and winning, can we survive in Hollywood.

Failed film companies will be eliminated. The Los Angeles Times predicts that Sony Pictures, which is facing a storm of public opinion, may be eliminated in the next round.

However, the newspaper also mentioned the current difficulties faced by Lionsgate.

That is to say, the popular movie "The Hunger Games" series is coming to an end. So far, Lionsgate Pictures has not found a popular IP that can replace "The Hunger Games". Although "Now You See Me", "Divergent", "The Conjuring" and " Movie series such as "Insidious" also have great potential, but they cannot make up for the shortfall caused by the loss of the Hunger Games series in terms of box office performance.

If Lionsgate wants to maintain its current advantage, it must follow the lead of the six major film studios and develop more popular movie IPs, and preferably also have a few superhero characters.

"The writing is good, but superhero roles are not that easy to get."

Link said as he put down the newspaper.

Starting from the end of last year, he arranged for people to contact Disney Pictures' Marvel, Warner Pictures' DC Comics, and Fox Pictures' X-Men series, hoping to get one or two superhero characters from them, such as Black Panther, Ant-Man, Deadpool, Wonder Woman, Venom, etc.

None of the three companies agreed.

Lionsgate proposed joint development and investment, but the three companies did not agree and kept a tight lid on the project.

Finally, after several contacts and negotiations, Lionsgate Pictures obtained the rights to co-develop the character "Joker" from Warner Pictures. The reason why Warner was willing to cooperate was because the movie they produced was unsuccessful.

Having obtained the co-development rights of "Black Widow" from Disney, Lionsgate has an advantage in developing female-themed movies.

Other roles have not been negotiated. The higher the offer, the less willing several companies are to cooperate. There are also rumors that Lionsgate Pictures has a good investment vision. Any movie they want to buy must have great potential and be produced. It will definitely be a hit.

Therefore, after the negotiations broke down, superhero characters such as Venom, Wonder Woman, and Black Panther have become key development projects for several major film companies.

Unable to get a superhero role, Link could only read more books and found best-selling books and good scripts such as "The Invisible Man", "A Quiet Place", "Barbie" and "Dune".

In addition to the original "Jumanji", "Joker", "The Return of the Clown", "Now You See Me", "John Wick", "The Conjuring", "Insidious", "La La Land", "Wonder Boys" and " "Bohemian Rhapsody" etc.

Lionsgate won't be short of movies to make in the next few years.

In the new year, Lionsgate Films' film project plans have been formulated and implemented. This year's films include “Jumanji,” “The Voice,” “The Return of the Clown,” “La La Land” and “Fifty Shades”. "Ash", "Hacksaw Ridge", "Superbody", "John Wick", "Divergent 2", "The Conjuring 3", "Hereditary", etc.

There are also Palm Beach Pictures' “Carol,” “We Didn't Meet Again” and “Sharknado.”

Plus several movies with Paramount Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, and Skydance Pictures.

There are 20 film projects produced by Lionsgate this year, with an estimated production investment of US$800 million and a promotion budget of US$400 million.

Despite these seemingly good movies, Link still feels regretful.

At this stage, Disney has completed several major acquisitions, including acquiring Pixar Animation Studio in 2006, Marvel Entertainment in 2009, and Lucasfilm in 2012.

Disney not only has strong animation film production capabilities, but also has many Marvel superhero characters, as well as the "Jurassic World" and "Star Wars" series under Lucasfilm.

Take any of these popular IPs and they will all be among the top ten movies at the box office of the year.

Lionsgate can't compare for now.

Then in 2017, Disney acquired Fox Pictures and took over popular IPs such as "Avatar", "X-Men", "Deadpool" and "Fantastic Four".

In the next few years, if we don't encounter special circumstances and usher in a film winter, Disney will almost dominate the North American film market.

If Lionsgate doesn't want to be left too far behind, it still needs to make great efforts to continue to develop new film IP.

After Lionsgate Pictures topped the global box office championship, Link and Ivaca, as film company bosses, and film company executives were also sought after by the media. The mainstream media began to chase them, hoping to get information from them. The story of Lionsgate's development.

For the development of the company, Link and Iwaka also took the time to participate in several radio and television interviews to answer some questions of public concern.

Because he is relatively famous and has many stories about him, his married life with Ivaca has also attracted a lot of attention. In the end, these interviews all turned into gossip scenes, asking questions about relationships, children, scandals, careers, and net worth. etc.

Link didn't want his private life to be exposed, so he did a few perfunctory interviews and did not participate in any more media interviews or exclusive interviews. He left these matters to Ivaca and other senior executives of the company.

He is busy reading, training, taking care of his children, and filming movies, and has no extra time to deal with the media.

Just after the "American Film Institute Annual Report" announced the performance of major film companies last year, "Forbes" magazine's new lists were released one after another.

Link's new ranking on the Forbes rich list has inevitably attracted public attention and heated discussion.

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