Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion Chapter 597

Chapter 597 Lions Gate Golden Globe Awards

At the end of December, Lionsgate has two more movies released, namely "The Butler" and "Carol."

"The Butler" is adapted from a true story.

The movie tells the story of Eugene Allen, a black man who applied for the position of food manager and entered the White House in 1952. During his 34 years in office, the White House changed eight owners, and Eugene Allen relied on his seriousness and responsibility. With his work attitude, he became the chief butler respected by everyone in the White House.

　　Directed by black director Lee Daniels, it stars black movie stars Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, James Marsden and others.

The production cost of the film was US$30 million. After one week of screening, it was released in 2,933 theaters in North America in the second week, with a box office of US$35.25 million. The film made back its money at the box office in the first week, which is a pretty good result.

26 days after its release, the North American box office exceeded 100 million, making it the 13th Lionsgate film in 2015 to achieve a box office of over 100 million in North America.

Due to the restriction of the subject matter, the performance in overseas areas was average. The box office in the two weeks of release was more than 34 million US dollars. The overseas box office is expected to be around 60 million US dollars.

Lionsgate Films' 21st film this year, “Carol,” is scheduled to be released at the end of December. As a niche art film, it was also first screened in 4 theaters with moderate box office results. The North American box office is expected to be around US$18 million.

The box office performance in overseas regions is better. Since its release in May, it has successively received a box office of 27.56 million US dollars.

The production cost of this film was US$25 million, which was enough to break even.

Christmas arrived when "Carol" was released. This year, Link, Ivaca, Taylor, and the three children spent Christmas in the penthouse of the LINK Building.

In January, the shortlist for the 73rd Film and Television Golden Globe Awards was announced.

Lionsgate Pictures has a total of 10 films nominated for this year's Golden Globe Awards.

"American Sniper" received 6 nominations, including Best Picture in a Drama Series, Best Director, and Best Actor.

“The Revenant” received 5 nominations, including Best Picture in a Drama Series, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Soundtrack.

"The Martian" received 3 nominations, including Best Film in the Comedy category, Best Actor, and Best Director.

3 awards for "Foxcatcher", Best Picture in a Drama Series, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.

"Carol" won 5 awards, including Best Picture in a Drama Series, Best Director, and Best Actress.

"The Big Short" won 4 awards, including Best Picture in a Drama Series, Best Actor twice, and Best Screenplay.

One award for "Into the Wild", Best Actress in a Drama Series.

1 award for "Trainwreck", Best Supporting Actor.

1 award for "Innately Evil", Best Actor.

1 award for "The Butler", Best Supporting Actress.

There were a total of 30 award nominations, accounting for 1/2 of all nominations. After the announcement of the Golden Globe shortlist, it aroused heated discussion in the entertainment industry.

Lionsgate Pictures released a total of 20 movies this year, and half of them were nominated for the Golden Globe Awards. This number is too exaggerated.

The Los Angeles Times published a front-page article claiming that Lionsgate has dominated Hollywood. It not only leads all film companies in box office data, but also equals the six major film studios + hundreds of independent film companies in terms of film awards.

There are also many tabloids loudly claiming that Lionsgate Pictures has a monopoly on major film awards and requesting the Motion Picture Association of America to impose restrictions and sanctions on Lionsgate Pictures in order to ensure the diversity of the North American film market.

Mainstream media maintains the opposite attitude towards the remarks of these tabloids.

This kind of monopoly in the film industry has occurred in the past. Before 1948, the eight major Hollywood film companies, which were both the eight major studios and the eight major brokerage companies, also controlled the North American movie theater chain.

By controlling the brokerage companies, the eight major film companies can restrict the work of their film actors and prevent their actors from starring in other companies' films. By controlling the theater chain, they can exclude other films from being released, forming vicious competition.

This form of competition is considered an industry monopoly.

In 1948, the U.S. Department of Justice formulated the "Paramount Act" in response to antitrust laws in the film industry, and implemented the separation of studios, brokerage companies, and movie theaters.

In the film industry, as long as film companies do not control large brokerage companies or cinema lines, other competition is free and all depends on the quality of the film to win the market and audiences.

Lionsgate has released a number of high-quality films this year, attracting the market and audiences, and has received 30 Golden Globe nominations for these films. This is completely reasonable.

If just because Lionsgate's movies have more nominations, Lionsgate is suspected of being a monopoly. Not only does Lionsgate Films not recognize this, but the six major film studios are also unlikely to accept this statement, and the American Film Association is unlikely to interfere with the operations of Lionsgate Pictures because of this matter.

The New York Times proposed that companies such as Lionsgate that value film art should be encouraged to continue to produce high-quality films instead of restricting their development. What should be restricted is the increasing proliferation of shoddy commercial films, which are becoming increasingly popular. Destroying the film market and harming the interests of all filmmakers.

The New York Times finally proposed that the six major film studios should learn from Lionsgate, focus on developing new film content, and focus on investing in niche art films, instead of blindly making popcorn movies and constantly making movie sequels. The proliferation of movies will truly affect the development of the film industry.

In addition to the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, many mainstream media have spoken out in support of Lionsgate Films.

Through this incident, Lionsgate Pictures not only was not affected, but also received a lot of praise, which was also an unexpected surprise for Lionsgate.

On January 10, the 73rd Film and Television Golden Globe Awards Ceremony was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. Link received a Best Actor nomination and was also invited to attend the awards ceremony. She was a supporting actress in "The Short Head" and also came with the crew.

Most of the crew and actors attending the awards ceremony today are acquaintances, and more than half of them are people who have worked with Lionsgate Pictures.

When Link arrived at the scene, there was an endless stream of people greeting him, leaving him almost no time to rest.

Selena joked that he was like Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" and everyone was trying to please him.

After more than two hours of selection, Lionsgate's film finally won 8 awards.

“American Sniper” won best picture in the drama category.

"The Martian" won the Best Film Comedy-Musical and Best Actor awards for Matt Damon.

"The Revenant" won the Best Director and Best Actor in a Drama Awards - Leonardo.

"Carol" won the award for Best Actress in a Drama Series - Cate Blanchett.

The Best Actress in a Comedy Musical category for "Trainwreck" went to Amy Schumer, and the Best Supporting Actor award for "Creed" went to Stallone.

They are all heavyweight awards.

The remaining six awards were divided among other films. "Jobs" won 2, Best Supporting Actress - Kate Winslet, and Best Screenplay - Aaron Sorkin.

The Weinstein Films' "The Hateful Eight" won 1 award, Best Score - Ennio Morricone.

The best song of "Spectre" - Sam Smith, "Inside Out" won the best animated film, and "Son of Saul" won the best foreign language film.

This time at the Golden Globe Awards, Lionsgate's film won the eight most valuable awards, which also caused a heated discussion in the media afterwards.

Many media outlets published the title "Lionsgate Golden Globe Awards Successfully Closed" the next day to express Lionsgate Pictures' great success at this year's Golden Globe Awards.

Some media also used the title "Link lost the Golden Globe Award again" to ridicule Link for missing the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor multiple times.

Link didn't care about this. In January, he flew to China as usual to accompany Shu Nan and Liu Jiani to celebrate the New Year. Since last year, Chris Liu and Shu Chang often took their two children to live in Hawaii. Link bought them there There are two villas, one for each person, not far from the seaside, with excellent scenery.

Sometimes Link would go over to accompany them and the two children. Therefore, when they saw the two children again, they would not be too unfamiliar with him. They just regarded him as a father who worked a lot.

After spending the Spring Festival in China, Link took a flight to Seoul and Tokyo for a short stay.

Last year, Quan Zhixian gave birth to a son for him, and Link also bought a single-family villa in Jiangnan District for her as usual.

Taeyeon saw that Jun Ji-hyun had a child, and she also wanted to have a child. However, she was the leader of a girl group. At this time, the group was popular, and her schedule was busy, so she had no time to have a child.

Link made an agreement with her that after the group is disbanded, if she is still willing to have children, he will satisfy her.

Taeyeon agreed.

Sasaki Nozomi-chan and Shinheng Yui-chan, one continues to run the underwear business. With Link's help, her trading company's market value has reached 15 million US dollars, which is not bad.

Yui-chan is planning to quit the entertainment industry and start a business, but she just doesn't know what to do for the time being.

Link asked her to think more and support her no matter what she did.

　　After flying around Asia, Link returned to the United States and continued to train boxing, and was involved in the company's New Year arrangements. Sometimes he would also support his old father-in-law and help canvass votes.

(End of this chapter)

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