Chapter 584 Forbes Rich List

This year, the top three of Forbes magazine's global rich list are still Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, and Warren Buffett, with net assets of $79.2 billion, $77.1 billion, and $72.7 billion, respectively.

The fourth and fifth places are Amancio Ortega, a Spanish Zara clothing retailer, and Larry Ellison, the boss of Oracle, with net assets of $64.5 billion and $54.3 billion, respectively.

The assets of the top ten are all over $40 billion, which is more than $5 billion higher than the tenth place last year.

Based on the standard of $1 billion, this year's list of rich people reached 1,826, an increase of 181 people from last year, and the total net worth of the rich people on the list is $7.05 trillion, $550 billion more than last year.

This year, Link ranked 21st on the Forbes Global Rich List.

Total assets of $27.3 billion.

Compared with last year, Link's asset growth this year mainly comes from two parts, Lionsgate Entertainment and Hong Kong Island Golden Shell Investment.

The market value of Lionsgate has increased from more than 4 billion at the beginning of last year to 10 billion, and Forbes magazine has estimated it to be 9.2 billion US dollars. Link's net assets have also increased by 2.5 billion US dollars.

The total value of shares held by Hong Kong Golden Shell Investment Company has increased by 54%, and his assets have increased by another 2.1 billion US dollars.

The remaining asset increase comes from Eli Lilly, Link Music, and the addition of a LINK building under his name. The increase in these three assets is about 2.2 billion US dollars.

Other investments, including Netflix, Spotify, Tesla, Nvidia, SpaceX, News Corporation, Universal Music, Dynasty Sports, Amazon Group, etc., have not changed much in value.

At present, the total market value of New York Golden Shell Asset Management Company is 11.8 billion US dollars, an increase of about 2 billion US dollars over last year.

Adding up several parts, Forbes magazine calculated that his total assets are 27.3 billion US dollars, an increase of 8.8 billion over last year.

Ahead of him are Google's two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with net worths of $29.7 billion and $29.2 billion respectively.

Zuckerberg ranks 16th with a net worth of $33.4 billion.

Elon Musk ranks 291st with a net worth of $5.2 billion.

The father-in-law ranks 405th with a net worth of $4.1 billion.

Eva Ka ranks 1464th with a net worth of $1.6 billion.

In China, the number of mainland entrepreneurs on the list this year reached 213, an increase of 28.6% over last year. Wanda Lao Wang ranks 29th with 24.2 billion, the richest man in the mainland, and Alibaba Lao Ma ranks 33rd with 22.7 billion.

Compared with last year, Bill Gates has the largest increase in net worth, from 64 billion to 79.2 billion, and Link ranks second with an increase of 8.8 billion.

After the release of the "Forbes Global Rich List", Link once again became one of the key figures reported by the world media.

He is 26 years old this year, but his net worth is as high as 27.3 billion US dollars. He is a self-made rich man, a world sports superstar, a music superstar, a Hollywood superstar, and a former famous playboy.

He is so popular that the media hyped him up for more than half a month before letting him go.

In addition, on the income list of various industries published by Forbes magazine, Link's income in sports is still the first, with a total income of 1.35 billion US dollars, including bonuses from four boxing matches, numerous advertising endorsements, and Nike-LINK sports brand sales.

In the singer income list, Taylor Swift ranked first with a total income of 73.5 million US dollars. Last year, her income from touring alone reached 61.3 million US dollars.

Link ranked second with an income of 42 million US dollars. Although he did not release an album or hold a tour last year, he performed well in copyright, streaming media, and album sales.

Country music singer Kenny Chesney ranked third with 39.5 million US dollars.

There are also singers and groups under Link Music who released new albums last year, including Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey, One Direction, Huang Laoban, and Charlie Puth, who are also on the Forbes singer income list and ranked in the top 20.

Among Hollywood actors, Link ranked second with 68 million US dollars, Robert Downey Jr. ranked first with a total income of 80 million US dollars last year, and Chenglong ranked third with an income of 50 million US dollars.

Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Daddario earned 32 million, 24 million and 11 million US dollars respectively last year, ranking second, fifth and 12th on the actress income list.

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"Brother, you are so rich, why are you not happy?"

In the villa halfway up the mountain, Xiao Yuanchao ate a big apple and asked while shaking his legs on the sofa.

"Why am I unhappy?"

"You didn't smile at all. You should be happy like me, hehe~"

The little round face pulled the corners of her mouth, squinted her crescent eyes, and showed a heartless and silly smile.

Link glanced at her, "I heard that you failed the course again? You are not busy all day. If you have time, go to class more often. It's better than shopping and playing games all day."

"Oh, why are you talking about studying again? It's so annoying. If you talk about studying again, I will beat Alexander."

Selena puffed up her little round face and reached out to pat Alexander who was sitting on the carpet reading a children's comic book. Alexander touched his head and ignored her.

"Selena Selena, beat me."

Margarita dropped the Barbie doll in her hand, ran over, and climbed onto Selena's calf.

"Why do you want me to beat you?"

Selena asked, pinching the little guy's chubby face.

"Fun."

Margarita blinked her big eyes.

"Okay, I will definitely beat you up."

Selena picked up the little girl and shouted that she would spank her butt. Little Margarita was not afraid at all and giggled.

Link shook his head and continued to read the newspaper.

At the beginning of the year, Lionsgate released several movies, including "Two Days and One Night" starring Marion Cotillard, the sports biographical film "Foxcatcher", the boxer movie "Creed", "Insidious 3" which was postponed last year, the comedy film "Trainwreck", and "Now You See Me 2".

"Two Days and One Night" was screened in North America on December 27 last year. It is a French and Belgian co-production. It tells the story of Sandra, who had to persuade her bosses to reduce bonuses within a week with the help of her husband so that she could keep her job.

Starring Marion Cotillard, the film was released in many European countries in mid-last year. Due to its good reputation, it received more than a dozen nominations and awards. It landed in the United States at the end of last year and helped Marion Cotillard get two nominations for Best Actress at the Golden Globe and Best Actress at the Oscars.

The current North American box office is 2.03 million US dollars and the overseas box office is 7.82 million US dollars. The production cost of the film is 6.5 million US dollars. With the income from streaming media, it can barely break even.

"Foxcatcher" is a film led by Annapurna Pictures.

The film is adapted from the real life of John du Pont, the heir of the DuPont Group. It tells the story of Olympic gold medal wrestler David Schultz and his brother Mark joining du Pont's "Foxcatcher" club for training. At first, David and du Pont were good friends. However, in 1996, due to various conflicts, du Pont shot and killed David Schultz. Du Pont himself was diagnosed with schizophrenia and imprisoned for 30 years.

The film stars Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller and other popular movie stars.

The film won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. The director of this film, Bennett Miller, is also the director of the biographical films "Capote" and "Moneyball".

It was screened in North America at the end of January. The current North American box office is 12.08 million US dollars and the overseas box office is 9.7 million US dollars. The production cost of the film is 25 million US dollars, and it is expected to be difficult to recover.

However, the film is an art film, and its purpose is to win awards. After winning multiple awards, it may be able to earn millions more.

The third film, "Creed", is also a sports-themed film. It tells the story of Adonis Creed, the son of Apollo Creed, the former opponent and friend of boxing champion Rocky, becoming a boxer. Stallone plays a supporting actor in the film.

The film was released in mid-February and has been on the screen for four weeks. The current North American box office is 82.03 million US dollars and the overseas box office is 54.4 million US dollars. The total box office is expected to be around 180 million. It will also be the first movie of Lionsgate to break the 100 million box office in North America this year.

Compared with the production cost of 35 million US dollars, it is a hit movie.

This week, Lionsgate's fourth film "Insidious 3" was released. The film was originally scheduled to be released in October last year, but was postponed to March due to schedule and publicity reasons.

The film opened in 3,002 theaters in North America, with a box office of 10.41 million US dollars on the first day and 23 million US dollars in three days over the weekend, ranking first in the weekly box office.

In second place is Warner Pictures' "Focus", starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie, with a box office of 15.74 million US dollars this week and a cumulative box office of 33.4 million US dollars in two weeks, far below expectations.

As of mid-March, a total of 102 movies were released in North America.

The best box office performance so far is the children's animation film "SpongeBob SquarePants" released by Paramount Pictures, with 162 million, and the second is the action movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service" released by Fox Film, with 128 million.

"Creed" is currently ranked third in North American box office performance.

The total box office of the four new movies released by Lionsgate in North America at the beginning of the year was less than 160 million US dollars, ranking fourth among the seven majors. This data also temporarily relieved his peers.

After reading a stack of newspapers, Link suddenly slapped his forehead. He said that he would no longer care about these movie box office data and leave the company to Evaka and others to manage. Now he has read so many without realizing it.

He put down the newspaper, looked at the adults and children in the room, and asked everyone if they wanted to go out to play.

The answer was "yes".

Link asked the little ones to change clothes with the servants, went upstairs to call Evaka who was doing beauty and Pilates, and took advantage of the good weather to go outside and then go to the Venice Pier Restaurant for a seafood dinner.