Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion Chapter 595

Chapter 595 The Revenant Hunter

In its fourth week of release, "The Hunger Games 4" has a box office of US$286 million in North America, a box office of US$335 million overseas, and a global box office of US$620 million.

It also made the total box office of this series of movies exceed 3 billion US dollars.

For Lionsgate Pictures, this series has made a great contribution to the development of the company and is a "mainstay" type of work.

When "The Hunger Games 4" was released, the publicity department stated that the series had come to an end, and that it would still shoot derivative works related to "The Hunger Games" in the future, such as "The Hunger Games Prequel" and the stories of several supporting characters in The Hunger Games.

In addition, the Lionsgate Production Department also plans to link the characters of "The Hunger Games" with "The Twilight Saga" and "Divergent" to create a movie universe belonging to Lionsgate.

It's just that this plan is too bold and risky, so it has not been launched yet.

"Into the Wild" grossed US$4.72 million at the box office this week, with a cumulative box office of 32.09 million US dollars in North America and a global box office of US$45.74 million. The box office has already recovered.

At the beginning of December, "The Revenant" was screened in 4 theaters in Los Angeles and New York. The box office in the first week was 872,000 US dollars, and the single-theater box office reached 28,000. This figure is a blockbuster for literary films.

The film's reputation is also quite positive, with a comprehensive media review score of 88.

The "San Francisco Chronicle" gave the film a 100-point score, saying that "The Revenant" is an action blockbuster with the soul of an art film. The film's hasty and powerful action scenes are profound, and the director and cameraman use their peak level to bring the audience to the stage. Here comes the pure audio-visual enjoyment, which can be called a master level.

"Complete Movies" gave the movie a score of 99, saying "The Revenant" is undoubtedly a high-level work, with Leonardo DiCaprio's heart-stirring performance and Emmanuel Lou's Bezki is a master cinematographer, and director Alejandro González Iñárritu takes the use of film language to the extreme.

The "Los Angeles Times" said that this is an ambitious work. Every actor in the play and every crew member deserves an Oscar nomination.

Because the quality of this movie is so high, many media have compared "The Revenant" with "American Sniper". The result is that both movies can be called the best of the year, and even have a high probability of being shortlisted for the "Top 100 Movies of the Century" in film history. .

Some media have compared these two movies with movies released by the six major film studios this year, including "Jurassic World", "Avengers 2", "The Bourne Supremacy", etc.

The result of the comparison is that although these movies are higher in box office than "The Revenant" and "Sniper", their artistry and impact on the film industry are far inferior to these two movies.

Some movie fans even believe that the media should not compare these two movies with those commercial movies. One is a disposable consumer product, and the other is a classic movie. There is no comparison at all.

The producers and distributors of both films are Lionsgate Pictures.

This year, Lionsgate not only released these two classic movies, but also the best science fiction movie of the year "The Martian", the best horror movie of the year "Split", the best fairy tale movie of the year "Maleficent", and the big fire The comedy movie "Trainwreck", the high-rated documentary film "The Big Short", the high-rated female-themed film "Into the Wild", etc. are all of very high quality.

Some media have proposed the twenty best movies this year, and Lionsgate Pictures can account for half of them. Therefore, one Lions Gate Pictures can compete with the six major film studios and dozens of independent production companies.

There are also media that count the good movies produced by Lionsgate Pictures in the past five years.

From "Bridesmaids" and "The Help" to "Silver Linings Playbook", "Dallas Buyers Club", "Escape from Tehran", "The Hunt for Bin Laden", to "Birdman", "Gone Girl", "The Grand Budapest Hotel", and more to several movies this year.

Almost every year, Lionsgate Pictures releases seven or eight extremely high-quality movies, all of which are loved by movie fans.

The New York Post evaluated Lionsgate as the best film company in Hollywood in the past five years, the film company that has had the greatest impact on the world film market in recent years, and the most indispensable film company in Hollywood today.

"Vanity Fair" attributed the success of Lionsgate Pictures to Link and Ivaka, saying that Link is a "godfather" level figure in the film industry at this stage, and Ivaka is Link's staunchest supporter.

Other media also began to review movies released by Lionsgate over the past five years because of the popularity of "The Revenant."

Most of them are compliments.

This will undoubtedly elevate Lionsgate's status in the industry to a higher level.

It's just that Leonardo is a little depressed. The popularity of "The Revenant" was supposed to make him the leading actor, and the media should praise him if they wanted to praise him. In the end, they all praised Lionsgate Pictures and Link.

“Shouldn't I be praised?”

At the King's Theater on Broadway in New York, Link smiled and said, "In terms of contribution to this film, I am greater than you. If you win an Oscar, don't forget to thank me."

"snort!"

Leonardo curled his lips. Although he was unconvinced, he had to admit that Link had made a great contribution to the movie. Link selected the novel that was adapted into this movie, and Link also invested in the production and distribution of the movie. Yes, it can be said that without Link, this movie would not exist.

But it would be difficult for him to acknowledge Link's contribution face to face.

“Oscar, do you think I have a chance?”

This is Leonardo's biggest concern.

“Of course, if we at Lionsgate take action, you have at least a 90% chance of winning, and the remaining 10% depends on God's will.”

Link said confidently.

Leonardo stared at him, hoping he was right. Two weeks after it was released, "The Revenant" expanded to 3,375 theaters, with a box office of US$57.17 million in the first week, and the cumulative box office reached US$58.72 million.

　　It was expanded to 3,711 theaters in the second week. After 12 days of release, the North American box office exceeded 100 million, with a cumulative box office of 1.01 US dollars. The box office did not drop much, and there is great hope to exceed the 200 million mark.

The box office performance was better in overseas regions. Influenced by Leonardo, the film was distributed smoothly overseas. Many people know about Leonardo's new film and that he had an affair with the big brown bear.

It was released overseas for five days and the box office exceeded 100 million. After 14 days of release overseas, the box office exceeded 200 million.

The current global box office is US$428 million.

The production cost of this film was 135 million.

Lionsgate Pictures made more than $100 million in profit from this project.

This movie is also Lionsgate's 12th movie to hit a box office of over 100 million in North America this year.

As of early December, the number of movies with a box office of over 100 million in North America was 28, and Lionsgate movies accounted for almost half.

With the North American box office of "The Hunger Games 4" exceeding 300 million US dollars, and the North American box office of "The Revenant" slowly approaching 200 million US dollars, the total box office of Lionsgate movies in North America this year reached 2.68 billion US dollars.

In second place is Disney. In December, Disney's "Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens" was a box office hit, with a North American box office of 119 million on the first day of release, setting a new record for a North American movie opening, and 247 million in the three days of the weekend. Also set a new record.

　　The North American box office was 390 million US dollars in the first week of release, and the North American box office is expected to be more than 800 million US dollars.

This movie also helped Disney surpass Universal Pictures, with the annual box office reaching US$2.4 billion.

The total box office of Lionsgate and Disney in North America this year exceeded US$5 billion. Based on the total box office last year, the two companies accounted for almost half of the North American market.

This data is astonishing.

No one expected that Lionsgate Pictures would continue to be No. 1 in total box office this year, nor did they expect to release three blockbuster movies such as "Avengers 2", "Star Wars: Episode VII" and "Inside Out", with an annual total box office of 2.3 billion. Disney also failed to surpass Lionsgate in total box office.

Lionsgate's money-making ability is enviable.

“Don't look at Harvey, Lionsgate is too strong and we can't compete with them.”

In the Weinstein Films office, Bob Weinstein looked at Harvey and said.

“How could this happen? Why did this happen?”

Harvey dropped the newspaper and sat back weakly in his office chair.

Since last year, in order to catch up with Lionsgate, they have launched in-depth cooperation with Warner Pictures. Last year, they produced a total of five movies for release this year, including "Iron Fist" and "Focus".

These five movies all performed well at the box office, but compared with Lionsgate Pictures, they couldn't even compare.

This hit Harvey very hard. As the king of Hollywood and a top producer in Hollywood in the past, he thought he could catch up with Link if he worked hard, but after working hard for a year, he couldn't even see Link's back.

This was a fatal blow to him.

“Link is a genius. He can not only make money by boxing and singing, but also by making movies. He is so awesome that we will never be able to match him.”

Bob said with envy on his face.

He likes money, very much. He used to be able to make some money by opening a film company. In recent years, competition in the film industry has become fierce and small film companies cannot make money, so he envies people like Link even more.

　You can earn more than RMB 200 million or RMB 300 million by playing a boxing match, earning RMB 200 million or RMB 300 million a year by releasing an album, earning several billions a year by opening a movie company, and becoming a tens of billions by investing in stocks.

People like Link are the God of Wealth to those who love money.

“Yeah, Link is a genius, a **** genius.”

Harvey looked helplessly at the roof. When he met Link five years ago, he could still control Link at will, but now he couldn't affect Link at all even if he tried his best.

The gap is getting bigger and bigger, so big that it makes him despair.

“But I won't lose. Even if the box office cannot match him, I will beat him in the Oscars.”

Harvey suddenly clenched his fist and slammed it on the table.

　　Bang!

(End of this chapter)

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