Chapter 555 Oscar

There was also the Grammy Awards in January, but Link did not attend. He went to Asia after the Golden Globe Awards and stayed in Seoul for a few days.

Mainly dealing with the affairs of Big Hit Entertainment and ‘J\u0026Baker Entertainment’.

After three or four years of development, Big Hit currently has more than a dozen artists, including singers, actors, and groups. Among them, 2AM and BTS are both doing well. One is a popular boy group, and the other is a new boy group. Other artists are also doing well.

Currently, Big Hit’s market value has grown from the initial two or three million US dollars to 16 million US dollars. Link owns 41% of the company’s shares.

J\u0026Baker Entertainment has made more than 20 million US dollars by investing in movies such as “The Thieves”, “Berlin” and “New World”.

Last year, “My Love from the Star” invested and starred by Jun Ji-hyun was a hit in South Korea, with a peak rating of 28.1%, ranking first among South Korean mini-series in 2013. It also achieved amazing results in other Asian countries and regions, with initial revenue exceeding 60 million US dollars.

J\u0026Baker also participated in the investment of "Snowpiercer" produced by Lionsgate.

This movie tells the story of the "dictator" Wilford who developed a train with a perpetual motion engine. The train is equipped with various complete facilities. In the past 17 years, he has built an independent ecosystem belonging to him on the train, which rotates over and over again in a long journey of 438,000 kilometers.

In the last car, there lives a group of oppressed lower-class people. In order to fight for freedom and power, they have launched many riots, but all of them have failed.

This time, Curtis, who has a leadership temperament, finds the imprisoned security designer Namgoong Min-soo, and uses him to open the heavy doors leading to the first car and overthrow Wilford's rule.

The movie is a US-South Korea co-production.

The director is Bong Joon-ho, who has directed movies such as "The Host" and "Memories of Murder", and the starring actors are Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris, Jun Ji-hyun, etc.

The movie was released in South Korea in October last year, and the current box office has reached 63.37 million US dollars, and the overseas box office is about 33.09 million US dollars.

It was distributed by Lionsgate in North America. There was no schedule at the end of last year, so it was scheduled to be released in January. In the first week, it received 4.47 million US dollars in 1,202 theaters, which is neither high nor low.

The film invested 38 million US dollars and has now recovered its investment.

J\u0026Baker can also make millions of dollars with this investment.

Now that the company has money, Jun Ji-hyun asked him to discuss investment. Link did not have any suitable suggestions in this regard, so he transferred three investment consultants from Jinbaike Investment Company to help the company make long-term plans.

During his stay in Seoul, Link spent the rest of his time in the villa with Jun Ji-hyun and Taeyeon, except for discussing business. Originally, he and the two had separate dates.

Later, he felt it was too troublesome, so he asked the two to get together. If the two accepted, he would continue this relationship. If not, they could separate and treat each other as pure business partners.

Jun Ji-hyun and Taeyeon originally knew each other's existence and did not reject this relationship.

When they lived together in the villa, they both maintained a polite attitude and called each other sisters.

Lin Ke also spent a few days in a good world of three.

The only thing that bothered him was that they both wanted to have children.

Especially Jun Ji-hyun is 33 years old this year, not young anymore, and she hopes to give birth to his child as soon as possible.

Lin Ke did not refuse, and he would take special care of her every time they had sex.

Taeyeon was a little love-brained, very obedient to him, without any conditions, just hoping that he would have time to accompany her more.

Lin Ke would also try his best to meet her conditions, and even accompanied her to have a few meals with the Girls' Generation group in private, becoming a group of people's "brother-in-law".

The end of January is the Chinese New Year.

Lin Ke flew to Beijing a week before the Spring Festival to spend the Spring Festival with Chris Liu, Shu Chang and their two children. In the past year, he had more work and only saw the children three times in Hong Kong Island.

So much so that Shu Nan could not call him dad when she saw him, and Liu Jiani, who was almost one year old, became delicate and looked more beautiful than her mother.

While accompanying the children in Beijing, he also took time to deal with some company matters.

After several additional investments, Hong Kong Island Golden Shell Investment now owns shares in many large companies.

Including 11.6% Wanda Films shares, 5.36% BYD Auto, 5.1% JD.com shares, 0.45% Moutai shares, 0.22% Alibaba Investment shares, Dolphin Bay Films Company shares and Jiatianxia Real Estate Management Company.

Last year, several companies developed well. Among them, Wanda Films ushered in a new round of expansion last year. It has 149 cinemas and 1,247 screens in more than 70 cities in China, including 89 IMAX screens. In addition, Wanda Films' box office performance was good last year.

The total market value has also increased from 8.5 billion yuan to about 14 billion yuan.

BYD Auto's market value also broke through the 100 billion mark at the beginning of this year, and its current market value is 102.2 billion yuan. When Link bought it in 2011, it was only 33.4 billion. His shares have more than tripled in just three years.

JD.com completed its C round of financing at the end of last year, with a current market value of 18 billion US dollars, and plans to go public in the United States this year.

Compared with last year and the year before, Moutai shares have fallen sharply this year. In August 2012, the total market value was as high as 262 billion yuan, but now it is only 128.7 billion yuan.

Alibaba also plans to go public in the United States this year, with a current total market value of about 140 billion US dollars.

There are also more than 20 high-end apartments, courtyards, and villas managed by Jiatianxia Real Estate, with a current market value of more than 500 million yuan.

Dolphin Bay Entertainment, managed by Yang Damin, has developed well in the past two years. It has more than ten signed artists and earned more than 35 million yuan in TV and film investments last year, with a market value of about 100 million yuan.

Currently, the total assets managed by Hong Kong Island Golden Shell Investment are about 2.4 billion US dollars, which is expected to double after JD.com and Alibaba go public.

Last year, the total revenue on the account of Golden Shell Investment Company was about 100 million US dollars. After discussing with several management members of the company, Link used this profit plus a loan of 180 million US dollars to buy 10.7% of Meituan shares.

At present, group buying websites in China are flooding. Online shopping platforms such as Meituan, Ele.me, Baidu, Nuomi, and Dianping are engaged in a protracted battle of thousands of groups. At this stage, there are still at least 2,000 group buying websites in the dilemma of internal consumption.

Affected by competition, Meituan's market value fell to around 2.2 billion US dollars last year. With the support of Alibaba at the end of last year, the current market value is estimated to be 2.5 billion US dollars, which is a good time to start.

After finishing these tasks, Link spent the rest of his time with Chris Liu, Shu Chang and the two little ones. He took Chris Liu to meet several business and official figures around the Spring Festival, attended several New Year's receptions, and regional investment talks, which was considered to give Chris a public identity.

After a lively New Year, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Link took a flight to leave Beijing, first flew to Dahai City, talked about work with Yang Daming, dated Ni Ni and Lilith Zhao, and then flew to Tokyo to visit Sasaki Xinmei, who was less than one year old, and accompanied Sasaki Nozomi and Yui on vacation in Mount Fuji, doing some ridiculous things.

After flying around Asia, Link returned to the United States in early February.

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In early February, the list of nominees for the 86th Academy Awards was announced. This year, there are 24 regular awards, 2 honorary awards, and 5 science and technology awards.

Among the films released by Lionsgate, 6 films were nominated for the Oscars, receiving 21 nominations.

Including 6 nominations for "Dallas Buyers Club", 3 nominations for "August: Osage County", 5 nominations for "The Wolf of Wall Street", 1 nomination for "Rust and Bone", 5 nominations for "Her", and 1 nomination for "The Hunger Games 2".

Although 21 nominations seem to be more, the first in the industry, it is less than Lionsgate expected. Among them, "Now You See Me" and "The Expendables 2", which performed well, were not nominated for any awards, and there were no technical awards.

The public relations department was originally going to help him get a nomination for Best Actor, but it still failed. "Rust and Bone" only received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

"The Hunger Games 2" also only received one award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, which is less than the awards nominated for popular series such as "The Lord of the Rings", "Twilight" and "Harry Potter".

According to the company's internal summary and analysis, this year's Oscar judges were largely influenced by the negative public opinion after the Golden Globe Awards when voting, resulting in many votes that should have been cast for Lionsgate's films being cast for other films.

In response, Link and Eva Ka's opinion is to concentrate more funds on increasing public relations and publicity in the second round of voting, striving to win more awards, and at the same time point out the problems in the first round of voting during publicity, and protest against the unfair treatment of Lionsgate.

If you don't say anything when you are wronged, you will be wronged more next time.

Lionsgate is not a soft persimmon that can be manipulated by anyone.

On February 23, the 86th Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

The awards ceremony was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, the host of "The Ellen Show", and was broadcast live on television by ABC, and more than 225 countries and regions around the world were broadcast live on television or the Internet.

Link was invited by the Academy of Oscars to attend the awards ceremony that night as an award presenter.

When he attended such a large-scale award ceremony that attracted worldwide attention in 2010, he would feel novel and excited to see big stars.

After working in Hollywood for four or five years and attending four Oscars, he just felt very dull.

Hollywood looks big, but it is actually very small.

The faces he saw in newspapers and at major award ceremonies every day are mostly familiar faces, such as this year's award presenters, Anne Hathaway, Samuel Jackson, Naomi Watts, Harrison Ford, Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Watson, Zac Efron, Kevin Spacey, etc.

Some of these people have appeared for several consecutive sessions, and some have received invitations for the first time, but they are basically familiar faces, and seeing them is not much different from seeing neighbors on the street.

And every time he appears in such a public occasion, the extra work is to keep dealing with people who come to say hello.

You can't be too arrogant or too frivolous, you can't talk too much or say nothing, and when an actress comes up to talk, you have to keep your distance, and you also need to learn to be perfunctory when talking about formal work.

In short, it's not easy to deal with this group of people.

This is also the reason why big shots like to stay at home. If you meet fewer people, you will have fewer troubles.

Link is responsible for presenting the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay.

This year, the Best Adapted Screenplay Award went to John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave, and the Best Original Screenplay Award went to Spike Jonze for Her.

These two awards were presented by him and Spanish actress Penelope Cruz.

After completing the task, Link returned to the Rust and Bone seating area in the awards hall and continued to watch the second half of the awards ceremony.

Let it go let it go

Can't hold it back anymore

Let it go let it go

Turn my back and slam the door

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight

As soon as they sat down, Selena and Demi Lovato took the stage to sing the theme song of Frozen.

After being selected as the theme song of the Disney movie Frozen, this song became popular all over the world again, and Selena was also invited to perform at this year's Oscars.

After the performance, the awards ceremony continued.

In the end, Dallas Buyers Club won three awards, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Makeup and Hairstyle.

Matthew McConaughey won the Oscar for Best Actor for his wonderful performance in the movie.

"August: Osage County" won the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards.

Meryl Streep raised the Oscar for Best Actress again after 30 years, and the audience burst into warm applause for three minutes.

Julia Roberts also won the Best Supporting Actress Award for this movie. This is her first Oscar nomination and the first time she won the Best Supporting Actress Award since "Erin Brockovich" in 2001.

"Her" won the Best Original Screenplay.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" won 0 out of 5 nominations, and "Rust and Bone" and "The Hunger Games 2" also failed to win any awards.

21 nominations and 6 wins, which is also less than expected.

In addition, Link, Selena and Demi Lovato jointly won the Best Original Song Award.

The biggest winner of this Oscar is "Gravity" released by Warner Bros., which won seven awards out of ten nominations, including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects, and Best Original Score.

12 Years a Slave tied with Dallas for second place, winning Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Compared with the previous two Oscars, this year's Oscars did not cause much controversy afterwards, because the list of winners overlapped with the list predicted by the media before the ceremony by 82%.

The only controversial news was that Lionsgate's film won the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards again. Including 2012 and 2013, Lionsgate's film won the Best Actress award for three consecutive years, and also won the Best Supporting Actress in 2012 and 2014.

A reporter interviewed Link after the awards ceremony and asked whether Lionsgate's film would continue to win the Best Actress award next year.

Link joked that he had this plan.

After the news report, many media complained that the Best Actress Award was contracted by Lionsgate's film, and some netizens said that the Oscar judges were helping Link pick up girls.

Although there are many controversies, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts' performances in "August" are obvious to all, and they deserve the awards. This also makes many people unable to complain and can only accept the reality.