Chapter 605: The song ends but the people still stay

In October, after his father-in-law won the election, Link continued to train in boxing.

In November and December, he participated in two boxing title defenses in Tokyo and London. The opponent in the first game was IBF boxing champion challenger Deontay Wilder, and the second game was against British heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.

He continued to maintain his aggressive fighting style. In the first game, he won by KOing Deontay Wilder in the second round, and in the second game, he won by KOing Tyson Fury in the third round.

The two games brought him nearly 500 million US dollars in income.

His professional record also reached 46 wins and 46 KO wins in 46 games.

The day after the game, Link was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and he was also the youngest boxer inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame, in recognition of his influence on boxing and his outstanding contribution to promoting the sport of boxing.

In mid-December, Lionsgate's 23rd film of the year, La La Land, was released. It earned $1.74 million in 5 theaters in the first week, with an average daily box office of $49,000 per theater, making it the best movie this year.

The movie also received very good reviews, with a media review DB score of 8.9 points and a Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating of 100% in the first week, which slowly dropped to 95% after the release.

Time magazine commented that "Link and Emma Stone's singing and dancing were charming, and their performances were close to perfect."

The Hollywood Reporter commented that "although the film was not 100% perfect, it was speechless in terms of style and personality, and the whole film was intoxicating."

Due to good reviews, it was expanded to 3,136 theaters in the second week, with a box office of $86.09 million in the first week. On the ninth day of its release, the North American box office exceeded 100 million. After 19 days of release, the North American box office has accumulated to 203 million.

The box office performance in overseas regions is even better, with the box office exceeding 100 million in the first week of release. After 20 days of release, the cumulative overseas box office has reached 240 million.

It is expected that the total box office of "La La Land" will be around 600 million US dollars.

This is also the fourth movie of Lionsgate that has a total box office of more than 600 million this year. The first is "Jumanji", the second is "Suicide Squad", and the third is the horror movie "IT" released on Halloween, with a North American box office of 328 million, an overseas box office of 375 million, and a global box office of 704 million US dollars.

With the North American box office of "La La Land" exceeding 200 million, Lionsgate's total box office this year has reached 2.8 billion US dollars, second only to Disney.

At the end of December, Lionsgate's last movie "Manchester by the Sea" was released.

The movie tells the story of janitor Lee Chandler becoming the legal guardian of his 16-year-old nephew Patrick after his brother's death. Lee's life has changed completely since then. He has to return to his hometown Manchester to face the painful problems between him and his ex-wife Randy.

Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and others.

The film was initially screened in four theaters in the United States, and received a box office of 2.05 million US dollars. In the third week, it was released in 1,207 theaters and received a box office of 21.01 million. The North American box office is expected to be around 50 million, and the overseas box office is about 40 million.

The production cost of this film was only 9 million US dollars, with a 10:1 revenue ratio, which is considered a big hit.

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By January 2017, the old father-in-law was sworn in.

Evaka gave up her work at Link Music Company and Lionsgate Films and went to work in Washington. Link also bought a villa in Washington and took Alexander, Cynthia and little Margarita to school there.

On the one hand, it supports Evaka's work, and on the other hand, it is more secure.

On the evening of January 8, the 74th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Lionsgate Films has 8 films nominated for this year's Golden Globe Awards, including "Joey's Struggle", "Arrival", "Hacksaw Ridge", "Fifty Shades of Grey", "Unbroken", "La La Land", "Room", and "Manchester by the Sea".

Among them, "La La Land" received 7 nominations, including Best Picture in Musical Comedy, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress, etc., "Manchester by the Sea" received 5, "Hacksaw Ridge" received 3, and other films also received one or two.

In the end, "La La Land" won all 7 nominations, including Best Picture in Musical Comedy, Best Director-Damien Chazelle, Best Actor-Link, Best Actress-Emma Stone, Best Screenplay-Damien Chazelle, Best Film Score, and Best Original Song.

Casey Affleck won the Best Actor in a Drama for his wonderful performance in "Manchester by the Sea".

Brie Larson won the Best Actress in a Drama for her performance in "Room".

There are 14 awards in this year's Golden Globe Awards, and Lionsgate films won 9 awards.

Link also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor again after winning the world's three major film festivals.

On February 26, the 89th Academy Awards was held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Lionsgate had 9 films shortlisted for the Oscars and received 49 nominations.

"La La Land" received 14 nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, etc., tying the historical record - "All About Eve" in 1950 and "Titanic" in 1997, and became the most nominated film in Oscar history.

"Arrival" received 8 nominations including Best Picture.

"Manchester by the Sea" and "Hacksaw Ridge" both received 6 nominations, and other films received 1-3 nominations.

In the end, "La La Land" won 7 awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song.

Casey Affleck won the Best Actor Award for "Manchester by the Sea", and the film also won the Best Original Screenplay Award.

"Arrival" won the Best Sound Editing Award.

"Hacksaw Ridge" won the Best Sound Effects and Best Film Editing.

"Room" won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award.

13 out of 49 nominations, winning the most valuable awards such as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay, which is a very good result.

At this year's Academy Awards, Chinese superstar Cheng Long won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lionsgate's films won big at the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars, which also increased Lionsgate's films at the box office by more than 200 million US dollars.

After the Academy Awards ceremony, the Motion Picture Association of America Annual Report announced the box office situation of the world and North American film market in 2016, as well as the box office performance of the seven major film studios last year.

Last year, the global film box office totaled 38.1 billion US dollars, with overseas box office of 26.73 billion, a decrease of 3.7% from last year, and North America set a record of 11.37 billion box office, an increase of 2% from last year.

Last year, a total of 855 films were released in North America, earning 11.37 billion US dollars at the box office, with an average box office of 13.3 million US dollars per film.

Among the seven major film studios, Disney Pictures ranked first, with a total box office of 3 billion US dollars, accounting for 26% of the total annual box office.

Among the top ten films in the North American box office last year, 5 were from Disney Pictures, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" 530 million, "Finding Dory" 486 million, "Captain America 3" 466 million, "The Jungle Book" 364 million, and "Zootopia" 340 million.

Lionsgate ranked second in total box office revenue, with $2.88 billion, accounting for 25% of the total box office revenue in North America.

There are also three films in the top ten of the year, "Jumanji" with $410 million, "Suicide Squad" with $350 million, and "IT" with $320 million.

Universal Pictures ranked third, with a total box office of $1.91 billion, and two of the top ten films of the year, "The Secret Life of Pets" with $360 million and "Fast \u0026 Furious 7" with $350 million.

Warner Bros. ranked fourth, with $1.68 billion, and one of the top ten films of the year, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" with $330 million.

Fox Film ranked fifth, with $1.33 billion, Paramount Pictures ranked sixth, with $1.05 billion, and Sony Pictures ranked seventh, with $870 million.

In the global box office market, Disney Pictures ranked first with a total box office of $7.6 billion.

Lionsgate ranked second with a box office of $5.8 billion.

Warner Bros. ranked third with $4.9 billion.

Universal Pictures, Fox Films, Paramount, and Sony Pictures ranked fourth to seventh respectively.

Lionsgate's revenue from movies, television, advertising, streaming media, etc. this year is $540 million. This year, Lionsgate's total profit reached $7.2 billion, which is comparable to Warner, Universal Pictures and other large groups.

Because of last year's good profitability and Netflix's soaring stock price, Lionsgate's stock price exceeded $168 at the beginning of the year.

At the beginning of March, it closed at $156.4. Lionsgate's current market value is $28.6 billion, making it the largest film company after Disney, Warner, and Universal.

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In March, Forbes released a new list of the world's richest people, and Link ranked fifth with $66.2 billion.

Compared with last year, his wealth growth points include the growth of Lionsgate's stock price, and other stocks have also grown rapidly.

The company with the biggest change last year was Nvidia, whose market value increased from 19.5 billion at the beginning of 2016 to 58.8 billion at the end of the year, almost tripling. Link's 16.6% Nvidia shares are worth 9.7 billion US dollars.

Netflix's market value exceeded 60 billion last year, and 8.6% of Jinbeike's shares are worth nearly 5 billion. Spotify's market value exceeded 22 billion US dollars, and he and Eva Ka's 16.8% shares are worth more than 3.6 billion.

Tesla's development was relatively stable last year, from 28.4 billion US dollars at the beginning of the year to 36.8 billion US dollars at the end of the year, and Jinbeike's 17.4% Tesla shares were worth about 6.4 billion US dollars.

There are also stocks of Amazon, SpaceX, Eli Lilly, Alphabet shares and other companies that have grown steadily, among which Amazon's market value reached 385 billion US dollars, Eli Lilly's market value exceeded 91.2 billion, and Alphabet's market value was about 454 billion.

3.4% Amazon, 5.7% SpaceX, 5.05% Eli Lilly, 2.02% Alphabet shares are worth about 26 billion US dollars.

In addition, the assets of Hong Kong Island Golden Shell Investment have also increased significantly, among which the market value of JD.com, Wanda Pictures, Meituan and Alibaba has almost doubled, and the total value of shares managed by Golden Shell is about 12 billion US dollars.

In addition to other assets, Forbes magazine counted his assets at the beginning of the year at about 68.2 billion US dollars, ranking fifth on the global rich list.

Bill Gates ranked first with 86 billion US dollars, Buffett ranked second with 75.6 billion US dollars, Jeff Bezos ranked third with 72.8 billion, and Amancio Ortega ranked fourth with about 71.2 billion US dollars.

Link ranked fifth and was also called the No. 1 giant in the entertainment industry by the media.

After 17 years, Link gradually gave up his acting career and focused on managing the Golden Shell Asset Company. He split a large number of shares under his company to the Golden Beach Investment Company under the Cayman Islands, retaining only a small number of shares that could not be transferred, and became an invisible tycoon.

The work of Lionsgate and Link Music was also handed over to the company's senior management. He spent most of his time taking care of children, training boxing, participating in several boxing matches every year, shooting some commercials, and the rest of his time was a secluded residence.

In the ten years in Washington, he and Eva Ka gave birth to three children, little Margarita also became a big sister, and gave birth to one with Taylor, two sons with Daddario, and three sons with Chris Liu, etc.

By 2024, when his father-in-law stepped down, he had 28 children under his name, and his net worth quietly increased to 1.5 trillion.

By 2028, when Eva Ka won the election, he moved back to Washington as the first gentleman again.

In 2030, Chris, the little boy from Amy Adams's family, was also his disciple and entered the professional boxing world, challenging him, the heavyweight old boxing champion.

Although the little guy was quite strong, he was far inferior to him, the superman. In order not to undermine the little guy's confidence, he KOed Chris in the sixth round, but was still complained by Amy Adams afterwards.

Later, Shu Nan and Louis from Theron's family entered the boxing world one after another and achieved good results. Considering that the little guys had grown up and the boxing world would be theirs in the future, Link announced his retirement in 2032, with a professional record of 102 wins, 102 KOs and 102 victories.

There was no one before, and there will be no one after.

When he retired, the New York Times called him the greatest athlete and the greatest boxer in the history of world sports, and a peak in the history of competitive sports that no one could surpass.

The Ring magazine also called him the "unparalleled" star of boxing. His appearance not only made boxing one of the most popular competitive sports in the sports circle, but also because of his appearance, there were almost no boxing talents in the boxing world between 2010 and 2030. Compared with him, all boxers were eclipsed.

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"What are you going to do after retirement?"

It rained a little in Washington, and the lawn in front of the White House was misty. Link and Evaka walked side by side on the lawn, chatting as they walked.

Although Evaka is almost fifty years old, she has been well maintained, with fair skin and a plump figure. Because she often appears in serious occasions, her temperament is more dignified and serious, smart and capable. It's just that when she gets along with him, she will have a gentle smile on her face, adding a different charm to her beautiful appearance.

"Take a few years off first, and I'll tell you when I think about it."

Hearing Evaka's question, Link thought for a while and said.

"Take a few years off? Can you stay idle?"

Evaka smiled.

"Try to do your best. I've been busy with company affairs and taking care of the children for these years. Now that the little ones are adults, I can relax and retire early."

"Hubby, you've worked hard at home these years. The media said you're my biggest help and support, which is absolutely true."

Evaka took his arm and said softly.

"We are husband and wife, this is what we should do."

Link smiled.

Evaka smiled slightly and held his hand with her fingers crossed.

Link stood on the lawn, looking at the white house in the distance. A rainbow gradually appeared in the air, which was a bit dazzling.

"Hey, brother Eva, look here."

Suddenly, a shout came from behind.

Link and Evaka turned around and saw Selena coming from the driveway, wearing a red dress and holding a retro-style camera in her hand, taking a few photos of the two of them.

Behind her were Taylor, Catherine, Ms. Mandy, Ms. Cathy, Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. Frank, Alexander with his wife and children, Cynthia and her new boyfriend, little Margarita and her brother, little Chris, Shu Nan, and Liu Jiani.