Chapter 597 Lionsgate Golden Globe Awards

In late December, Lionsgate will release two more movies, "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 a food administrator in 1952 and entered the White House. During his 34 years in office, the White House changed eight owners, and Eugene Allen became the respected chief butler in the White House with his serious and responsible work attitude.

Directed by black director Lee Daniels, starring black actor Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, James Marsden and others.

The film cost 30 million US dollars to produce. After a week of preview, it was released in 2,933 theaters in North America in the second week and earned 35.25 million US dollars at the box office. The first week box office recovered the investment, and the results were pretty good.

After 26 days of release, the North American box office exceeded 100 million, becoming the 13th Lionsgate movie with a North American box office of more than 100 million in 2015.

Due to the limitation of the subject matter, the performance in overseas regions is average, with a box office of more than 34 million US dollars in two weeks, and the overseas box office is expected to be around 60 million US dollars.

Lionsgate's 21st film this year, "Carol", was scheduled to be released at the end of December. As a niche art film, it was also first screened in 4 theaters, with medium box office performance, and the North American box office is expected to be around 18 million US dollars.

The box office performance in overseas regions is better. It was released in May and has successively received a box office of 27.56 million US dollars.

The production cost of this film is 25 million US dollars, which barely breaks even.

When "Carol" was released, Christmas came. This year's Christmas, Link and Eva Ka, Taylor, and the three children spent in the top floor apartment of the LINK building.

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

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

"American Sniper" received 6 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, etc.

The Revenant received 5 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Score, etc.

The Martian received 3 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.

Foxcatcher received 3 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.

Carol received 5 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.

The Big Short received 4 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.

Wild received 1 nomination, including Best Actress.

Trainwreck received 1 nomination, including Best Supporting Actor.

Inherent Vice received 1 nomination, including Best Actor.

The Butler received 1 nomination, including Best Supporting Actress.

A total of 30 nominations, accounting for 1/2 of all nominations. After the Golden Globe nominations were announced, it caused heated discussions in the entertainment industry.

Lionsgate released a total of 20 films 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 headline claiming that Lionsgate has dominated Hollywood. It not only leads all film companies in box office data, but also equals the six major film companies + hundreds of independent film companies in film awards.

There are also many tabloids that loudly claim that Lionsgate has monopolized major film awards and demand that the American Film Association restrict and sanction Lionsgate to ensure the diversity of the North American film market.

The mainstream media maintains the opposite attitude towards the remarks of these tabloids.

Monopoly in the film industry has occurred in the past. Before 1948, the eight major film companies in Hollywood were both eight major studios and eight major brokerage companies, and they also controlled North American movie theaters.

By controlling the brokerage companies, the eight major film companies can restrict the work of their film actors and prevent their actors from appearing in other companies' films. By controlling the theaters, 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, an antitrust law for the film industry, to separate the three lines of studios, brokerage companies, and movie theaters.

In the film industry, as long as the film company does not control the large brokerage companies and the cinema chains, other competition is free, and the quality of the film is the key to winning the market and the audience.

Lionsgate released many high-quality films this year, attracted the market and the audience, and received 30 Golden Globe nominations with these films, which is completely reasonable.

If Lionsgate is suspected of monopoly just because its films are nominated more, it is determined that Lionsgate is suspected of monopoly.

Not only Lionsgate does not agree with this, the six major film companies are unlikely to accept this statement, and the American Film Association is unlikely to interfere with Lionsgate's operations because of this matter.

The New York Times proposed that companies that value film art, such as Lionsgate, should be encouraged to continue to shoot high-quality films, rather than restricting their development. What should really be restricted are the increasingly rampant and shoddy commercial films, which are 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, attach importance to developing new film content, and focus on investing in niche art films, rather than blindly producing popcorn movies and movie sequels. The proliferation of such 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 voiced their support for Lionsgate.

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 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.

Selina 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 Picture Comedy-Musical and Best Actor awards for Matt Damon.

"The Revenant" won the award for Best Director and Best Actor in a Drama Series - Leonardo.

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

Amy Schumer for Best Actress in a Comedy Musical for "Trainwreck" and Stallone for Best Supporting Actor for "Creed".

All are heavyweight awards.

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

"The Hateful Eight" produced by Weinstein Pictures won 1 award, Best Score - Ennio Morricone.

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

The Lionsgate film won eight of the most valuable awards at the Golden Globe Awards, which also caused a heated discussion in the media afterwards.

Many media outlets ran the headline "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 headline "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, the children 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, Jun Ji-hyun gave birth to a son for him, and Link also bought a single-family villa in Jiangnan District for her as usual.

When Taeyeon saw that Jun Ji-hyun had a child, 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 disbands, 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, taking care of the company's New Year arrangements. Sometimes he would also support his old father-in-law and help canvass votes.