Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion Chapter 599

Chapter 599: Worth 30 Billion

At the end of February, the American Film Institute Annual Report successively published several articles analyzing movie box office data in 2015, including the global film market situation, the box office situation of the North American film market, the rankings and profits of the seven major film studios, etc.

In 2015, global box office revenue was US$38.3 billion, an increase of 5% from 2014, of which the total box office in North America was US$11.14 billion and the box office in overseas markets was US$27.2 billion.

In terms of the overseas film market, the AsiPacific region has the fastest box office growth, reaching US$13.6 billion, an increase of 13% over last year.

The box office in China increased by 49% to US$6.8 billion, becoming the largest box office outside of North America. It is even better than the box office performance of movies in the United States.

Because of the high box office performance in China and the visit of an important figure from China to the United States last year, the American Film Association and the China State Administration of Radio, Film and Television jointly hosted the '2015 China Film Week' in Washington. Both parties decided to strengthen cooperation in the film field at the political level. cooperate.

Under this opportunity, Hollywood film companies have cooperated with China Film Company, and now there are many Chinese and American co-productions on the way.

Including "The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Da, he originally wanted to invite Link to play the leading role, but Link didn't agree. He is too busy now and doesn't have the time.

There is also Fox Pictures' "Independence Day: Resurgence", which invited popular Chinese actress Anzhu Lamei to serve as the second female lead.

There are also commercial blockbusters such as "Pacific Rim", "Pursuit", "Mystery Nest" and "Warrior's Gate", all of which have invited Chinese actors to participate.

Lionsgate also has two Chinese-American co-productions this year.

The thriller "The Meg" has been approved and has invited Jason Statham and Bingbing Li to play the leading roles.

"The Expendables 4" will also continue to increase the number of Chinese actors.

"The Hollywood Reporter" stated that the Chinese and North American film industries have entered the era of closest cooperation. In the future, the importance of the Chinese region in the global film market will continue to increase, and it is very likely to surpass North America and become the world's number one box office market. Cooperation has become very necessary.

At the North American box office.

According to statistics from the American Film Institute Annual Report, a total of 845 movies were released in North America last year, with 1.32 billion movie tickets sold and a total box office of US$11.14 billion.

It increased by 8% compared with 2014. It was also the first time in the history of North American movies that it exceeded the 11 billion mark, creating a new market record.

Last year, a total of 7 movies grossed more than 300 million U.S. dollars in North American box office, including "Star Wars: Episode VII," "Inside Out," "Avengers 2," "Jurassic World," "Minions," "American Sniper" and "The Hungry." Game 4》.

The first three films belong to Disney Pictures, the middle two belong to Universal Pictures, and the last two are produced and distributed by Lionsgate Pictures.

Among them, "Star Wars 7" broke the box office record held by "Avatar" and became the first movie in North American film history to have a box office of more than 900 million. "Jurassic World" entered the fourth place in North American film history with 650 million, and "Avengers 2" " also entered the ninth film history.

Judging from these films that broke box office records in film history, competition in the North American film market was extremely fierce last year, which was the most intense in the past decade.

Under such circumstances, Lionsgate was able to defeat the six major film studios and retain its position as the North American film box office champion. This has amazed countless media and filmmakers.

In the 2015 box office performance list of the seven major film companies announced by the American Film Institute Annual Report, Lionsgate released a total of 21 films.

Two movies have a North American box office of more than 300 million, 7 movies have a North American box office of more than 200 million, accounting for 7/12 of all movies with more than 200 million, and 13 movies have a North American box office of more than 100 million, accounting for 13/28 of all movies with more than 100 million.

This data far exceeds that of its peers. In the end, Lionsgate Pictures continued to be the annual box office champion with a total box office of US$2.87 billion, accounting for 25.6% of the North American box office share.

In second place is Disney, which released a total of 11 movies last year, with a total box office of US$2.425 billion, accounting for 21% of the total share.

Universal Pictures released a total of 20 movies last year, ranking third with US$1.88 billion, accounting for 16.9% of the box office share.

Warner Pictures, Fox Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and Sony Pictures ranked fourth to seventh respectively. The total box office in North America was less than 1.3 billion, far behind Lionsgate and Disney.

However, in terms of overseas box office, Lionsgate Pictures only ranked third this year, with about 2.08 billion U.S. dollars, which is slightly worse than the North American box office.

The main reason is that several movies are co-productions. Disney is responsible for the overseas distribution of "Maleficent", and this part of the box office is recorded in Disney's account.

The overseas distribution of "Terminator: Genisys", "Collapse" and "The Martian" is co-operated by Paramount Pictures, and the box office is recorded under the name of Paramount Pictures.

Disney Pictures ranks first in global box office with 6.2 billion U.S. dollars. The overseas box office of "Star Wars 7" and "Avengers 2" has exceeded 1 billion U.S. dollars.

Universal Pictures ranked second with 5.8 billion U.S. dollars, and the overseas box office of "Jurassic World" exceeded 1 billion.

Lionsgate Pictures ranked third, with a global box office of 4.95 billion US dollars. The overseas box office of "The Hunger Games 4", "American Sniper", "The Expendables 3", "Now Now 2", "Superbody" and "The Revenant" all exceeded 200 million US dollars.

Paramount Pictures ranked fifth with US$3.6 billion. Although there is a certain gap with Disney and Universal Pictures, this figure is much better than last year because of its cooperation with Lionsgate Pictures.

In addition, in terms of movie profits, Lionsgate's total annual revenue last year reached US$6.2 billion, including movies, TV series, advertising, streaming media copyrights, etc.

Although the total revenue cannot be compared with large groups such as Disney and Universal, its revenue ratio ranks first among its peers.

Last year, Lionsgate Pictures invested less than 1.6 billion U.S. dollars in movies and TV series, but ended up making 6.2 billion U.S. dollars. This achievement made countless media praise. Lionsgate Pictures is so efficient in making money that it will never stop. Golden chicken with golden eggs.

Also because the movies released by Lionsgate last year performed well at the box office, and because Netflix's market value exceeded US$50 billion at the end of last year, with revenue of US$52.1 billion, Lionsgate's market value has risen to around US$12.5 billion.

The Lionsgate film and television industry is worth US$7 billion.

In this case, Lionsgate Pictures announced its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, with a public offering of 32 million shares at a price of US$65 per share, accounting for 16.5% of the total share capital.

Due to Lionsgate Pictures' good financial performance and the booming global film market, Lionsgate Pictures' share price increased from US$65 to US$78 in the first week of listing. After the "American Film Institute Annual Report" was released, Lionsgate's stock price quickly exceeded 100 US dollars, which once allowed the market value of Lionsgate Pictures to exceed the 20 billion mark, surpassing Paramount in market value and approaching Sony Pictures.

After a period of cooling down, the current stock price has been slightly lowered and remains near US$85 per share.

Link sold part of Lions Gate's stock when it exceeded US$100 and recovered nearly US$1 billion in cash. He still holds 42.3% of Lions Gate's shares, worth more than US$9 billion.

At the beginning of March, the "Forbes Rich List" released the new ranking of the rich.

Link ranks 13th with a net worth of US$34 billion.

At present, the assets in his hands are still divided into three parts.

The first part is the shares controlled by New York Golden Shell Investment Company.

Including 16.6% Nvidia shares, 17.4% Tesla shares, 3.2% Amazon, 5.7% SpaceX, 8.6% Netflix shares, 5.05% Eli Lilly, 1.8% Google parent company Alphabet shares, as well as Facebook, WhatApp, ins, Apple and other companies A small number of shares.

Compared with the previous year, the shares of Jinbeike Asset Management Company have changed significantly.

Last year, he sold 1.8% of his News Corp. shares, added some cash and loans, and increased his Amazon shares to 3.2%, Eli Lilly and Company shares to 5.05%, and also received 1.5% of Alphabet Group shares.

The current total market value of New York Golden Shell Asset Management Company is approximately US$18.5 billion.

Last year, Nvidia's market value slowly grew to 16 billion US dollars. When Link bought Nvidia in 2011, Nvidia's market value was 12.8 billion. It took more than five years to return to the level of 2011. Link also lost the label of having no investment vision.

Tesla stock has not changed much, still fluctuating around US$30 billion.

Amazon's current market value is around 220 billion, an increase of 13% from when Link bought it, and not much has changed.

Eli Lilly's shares are also growing slowly. When Link bought it in 2012, the market value was around 60 billion. After more than three years of development, the current market value is around 85 billion US dollars.

Other Netflix, SpaceX, Alphabet and other stocks have grown.

There are also 100,000 Bitcoins held in Jin Beike's name, currently worth approximately US$230 million.

The second part of the assets is mainly the sports entertainment industry, with a value of approximately US$13.3 billion.

Spotify developed rapidly last year and now has more than 600 million users worldwide, nearly 80 million paying members, and a current market value of around 12 billion.

Link and Iwaka collectively own 16.8% of Spotify shares, worth approximately US$2 billion, and approximately US$1.5 billion is in his name.

Link Music Company is currently developing steadily, with a current market value of approximately US$2.5 billion. The 45.8% link music shares in his name are worth approximately US$1.2 billion.

He and Ivaca also own 2.2% of Universal Music shares and SBprojects entertainment shares, with a market value of approximately US$800 million.

In music, his assets are approximately US$3.2 billion.

In terms of film companies, including Lionsgate Pictures and Palm Beach Pictures, the value is approximately US$9.5 billion.

In terms of sports, including 23.5% stake in Dynasty Promotion and the Nike-Link sports brand, the value is approximately US$600 million, which is little changed from last year.

The third part of assets are overseas assets.

Including the shares of Hong Kong Island Golden Baker Investment Company, 11.6% of Wanda Pictures shares, BYD Automobile 5.36%, JD.com 5.1%, Moutai shares increased to 0.45%, 0.22% Alibaba Investment shares, 10.5% Meituan, 32% Dou Yin, 22% Kuaishou, as well as Dolphin Bay Film and Television Company and Jiatianxia Real Estate Management Company.

This portion of assets is approximately US$7 billion.

ˆ There are also 41% shares of BigHit Company, Paris Rose Film Company, etc., approximately US$100 million.

His current net worth is about 38 billion, but the cutoff time for Forbes magazine's statistics was the end of last year, which did not include the changes after Lionsgate Pictures went public. Therefore, on the rich list published by Forbes magazine, his net worth About 34 billion.

Ranked 12th is Larry Page, whose net worth is also 34 billion. Sergey Brin sold part of Google shares last year and is worth 33 billion U.S. dollars, ranking 14th.

Others like Bill Gates, Amancio Ortega, Buffett and others have not changed much.

Evaka's net worth has increased to US$1.8 billion this year with her shares in Spotify and Lionsgate, ranking 898th on the rich list.

Forbes magazine also announced the income ranking list of athletes, actors, singers and other industries. Link won the income championship in two industries: athletes and actors.

In terms of singer income, although Link did not release any new works, he also earned US$18.5 million last year based on royalties and income sharing from streaming media, ranking 12th on the singer income list.

Taylor ranked second with earnings of $36 million.

Katy Perry earned $135 million through her new album and world tour last year, ranking first in the rankings.

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