Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 556 Total Box Office Ranking

The person who was most upset about Meryl Streep winning the Best Actress award this year was probably Harvey.

In 2012, he spent millions of dollars and borrowed Obama's public relations team to help Meryl publicize the Best Actress Award, but in the end he was intercepted by the 21-year-old Jennifer Lawrence.

Meryl Streep also received a lot of sympathy points after losing the election. At that time, the media predicted that the next time Meryl was nominated for the Academy Awards, she would definitely win the Best Actress Award.

The media's prediction was successful.

But this time Meryl won the award for a Lionsgate film.

Harvey spent millions to make wedding clothes for others, so it was inevitable that he would feel unhappy.

After the Oscars, he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to find professional critics to write promotional releases, hyping up the news that Lionsgate had monopolized the Best Actress award, and was preparing to put Lionsgate on the grill. .

At the same time, Link's ambiguous relationships with many actresses were hyped up, and gossip was released, claiming that Link played with women's bodies and emotions during the casting process for Lionsgate Films.

However, these accusations have no actual evidence and are defamation and reputational infringement.

The legal department of Lionsgate Films quickly approached these media and sent them a stack of legal letters. This time, Link's lawyers were prepared to pursue the case to the end. Not only would the media that hyped this kind of news go bankrupt, but they would also put the author in jail. .

Lionsgate has never done anything to monopolize the Best Actress award, nor will it admit it.

In order to dispel the rumors, Link arranged for the media to hype Palm Beach Pictures. This company was founded in 2009 and focuses on female-themed movies. In the past five years, it has produced one or two extremely high-quality female-themed movies almost every year.

"Scandal Project", "The Help", "Bridesmaids", "Her", and "August: Osage County" are all films produced by Palm Beach Pictures. After their release, they have achieved good box office and word-of-mouth success, and have been nominated for Oscars many times, which also proves that Fans and Oscar judges alike approve of these films.

After the Oscars, Catherine represented Palm Beach Pictures, accepted many interviews with reporters, participated in TV interview programs, and publicly discussed the development of Palm Beach Pictures and her relationship with Link.

The publicity for these interviews made Katherine and Palm Beach famous in Hollywood.

Catherine has become a famous female CEO in Hollywood, and Palm Beach Pictures has also launched a number of Oscar-level movies in a row. Its market value has been overestimated by Wall Street to about 160 million U.S. dollars. It is also among the top ten companies in the independent film circle.

After a period of publicity, the negative news in the media about Lionsgate's monopoly on Best Actress has been temporarily contained. The reason why it is temporarily contained depends on the performance of Lionsgate's movies in 2014.

If Lionsgate's movie can still win the Best Actress award in 2014, after the Oscars next year, this kind of negative news will probably be even more noisy.

After the Oscars, in addition to the news about the Best Actress award that received a lot of attention, Link won the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Letitgo" and there was also a lot of discussion.

As an actor, Link won the Berlin Best Actor Award, the Cannes Best Actor Award, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Best Actor three times, but he did not even have the chance to be nominated for the Oscar Best Actor Award.

When everyone was teasing Link that he would never win an Oscar, he won an Oscar for a song.

After Link got the statuette, he asked Leonardo if he wanted to touch it and get some luck from the statuette, maybe he could get it next time.

Leonardo refused with a dark face.

Link knew this guy was jealous.

After the Academy Awards, several films nominated by Lionsgate Pictures saw significant changes in the box office.

The first is "Dallas Buyers Club" which was released in October and earned US$28.56 million in North America in just over two months.

After the Golden Globe and Oscar awards, box office data soared. The current North American box office is 58.4 million US dollars. It is Lionsgate's 13th North American box office movie in 2013 to exceed 50 million US dollars.

Overseas box office is also growing rapidly, with the current box office reaching US$54.19 million.

The film cost 5 million to produce and 12 million to publicize and publicize, and it has grossed more than 100 million in box office worldwide.

The results are pretty good, and Lionsgate’s investment was not in vain.

Followed by "August: Osage County", the film was released on a small scale at the end of last year. Before the Oscars, it successively received more than 32.3 million US dollars in box office. After the Oscars, the box office data increased by more than 10 million US dollars.

The current box office in North America is 42.25 million US dollars and the overseas box office is 39.4 million US dollars.

The production and publicity costs of the film are approximately US$32 million.

Lionsgate and Palm Beach probably made over $20 million.

After the Oscars, the North American box office of "Her" increased by more than 6 million. The current North American box office is 28.75 million US dollars and the overseas box office is 27.01 million US dollars.

Compared with the cost of 23 million U.S. dollars, Palm Beach and Annapurna Pictures made a small profit, about 7 to 8 million U.S. dollars.

"The Wolf of Wall Street", which received multiple nominations, currently has a North American box office of 145 million, an overseas box office of 332 million, and a global box office of 487 million.

Lionsgate Pictures and Appian Trail Pictures can get an estimated $200 million in box office split.

Last year, Lionsgate's annual hit "The Hunger Games 2" earned a box office of US$507 million in North America more than three months after its release, surpassing "Iron Man 3" and "Frozen" to top the North American box office rankings. List champion.

The global box office was US$1.031 billion, ranking third in the annual box office.

Lionsgate Pictures invested approximately US$28 million in public relations for this year's Academy Awards. Afterwards, it earned six statuettes, more than US$100 million in box office, and a good reputation, increasing its influence in the film industry.

All this shows that investment in award public relations is worthwhile.

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In February and March, major film companies and media released their reports on the total box office of the North American film market in 2013 and the report cards of each company's films.

In 2013, a total of 826 movies were screened in more than 5,300 theaters in North America, with a total of 1.3566 billion movie tickets sold and a total box office of US$10.96 billion, an increase of 1% over last year.

Of the total box office of 10.9 billion, the box office of movies owned by the top eight Hollywood film companies was US$9.66 billion, accounting for 88.6% of the total box office in North America.

Among them, Disney Pictures continued to hold the first place, with a total box office of US$1.831 billion in North America, accounting for 17.0% of the total box office, with representative works such as "Iron Man 3", "Frozen", "Thor 2" and "The Lone Ranger".

Lionsgate Pictures ranked second with 1.817 billion, accounting for 16.9% of the total box office share. Its representative works are "The Hunger Games 2", "The Wolf of Wall Street", "The Expendables 2", "Now You See Me", "Dragon Girl" and "Identity Thief" "Rust and Bone" etc.

Warner Pictures ranked third with 1.688 billion, accounting for 15.8% of the total box office share. Its representative works include "Superman: Man of Steel", "Gravity", "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" and "Pacific Rim".

Ranking fourth is Universal, with 1.236 billion, and its representative works include "Despicable Me 2" and "Fast and Furious 6".

Sony, Fox, and Paramount Pictures ranked fifth to seventh respectively, with North American box office revenue of less than 1 billion US dollars.

In 2013, there were 33 movies in North America with box office sales exceeding 100 million, including 7 under Lionsgate.

In terms of global box office, the total global box office last year was nearly 36 billion US dollars, an increase of 4% over 2012.

Among them, the annual total box office in China is nearly 3.2 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 27%. It is also the first movie market outside North America with a total box office exceeding 3 billion U.S. dollars. Last year, movies released by the "New Seven" grossed US$12.35 billion at the overseas box office.

Disney Pictures' overseas box office is approximately US$2.53 billion, with a global total of US$4.36 billion, ranking first.

Warner Pictures’ overseas box office was US$2.493 billion, with a global total of US$4.19 billion, ranking second.

Lionsgate's overseas distribution capabilities are slightly inferior to Warner's, with overseas box office of 2.207 billion US dollars and a total box office of 4.024 billion, ranking third.

Universal, Sony, Fox, and Paramount ranked fourth to seventh, with global box office receipts of less than US$3 billion.

The media also listed the top ten dark horse movies and the top ten box office stinkers in 2013.

Among the top ten dark horse movies, Lionsgate Pictures has 4, including "Rust and Bone", "Dragon Girl", "Now You See Me" and "Identity Thief".

The top ten grossest movies at the box office include "47 Ronin", "Jack the Giant", "Back to Earth", "The Lone Ranger", "The Underworld", "Speed", "The Internship", "Danger" and "The Holy Grail: City of Bones" "The Last Stand".

Among them, "The Last Stand" was released by Lionsgate Pictures and lost about 20 million, which was the least loss among them.

After various data and lists were released, the media were amazed by Lionsgate's achievements in the 2013 film market.

In 2012, Lionsgate released 20 movies, grossing a total box office of US$1.48 billion in North America, accounting for 14.2% of the box office market share.

Ranked third among the seven major film studios.

So far this year, Lionsgate Pictures has released 17 movies, with a total box office of US$1.817 billion in North America, accounting for 16.9% of the box office market share, surpassing Warner Pictures and firmly ranking in second place.

The Los Angeles Times also mentioned that if you include "World War Z," which Lionsgate Pictures participated in the production, the film's box office in North America was 220 million and the global box office was more than 500 million US dollars.

Lionsgate Pictures should be ranked first in both the North American film market and the global box office market.

Last year, Lionsgate invested approximately US$800 million in movies, including production and promotion, but generated more than US$4 billion in box office revenue in the global movie box office market.

Lionsgate's net revenue from movies last year exceeded $1.2 billion.

This achievement is very dazzling and somewhat incredible.

Originally, Lionsgate was just a medium-sized film company with a market value of hundreds of millions of dollars. After Link and Ivaka took charge of Lionsgate in 2011, the company's box office performance became better and better, from seventh in the box office in 2011 to seventh in the box office in 2012. 3rd in 2013 and 2nd in 2013.

Compared with Lionsgate Pictures, the six major film studios have a market value of more than 10 billion, and Disney has a market value of more than 133 billion U.S. dollars. It spends 2 to 3 billion to produce movies every year. The investment is several times that of Lions Gate Pictures, but at the box office , only tied with Lionsgate Pictures.

The New York Times stated that Lionsgate Pictures is dominating Hollywood step by step, and that the 'old six major film studios' are losing ground in the box office market. If the six major film studios cannot find ways to increase film revenue, there will be new ones in the next five years. Major studios are facing bankruptcy.

After various box office data were released, the six major film studios held group meetings one after another to discuss what the company should do to solve the current predicament in the increasingly competitive Hollywood film market.

It is said that senior executives of several companies in the six major film studios are at risk of being fired.

"The Hollywood Reporter" stated in the article that the emergence of Lionsgate Pictures has put the six major film studios that were originally aloof in an awkward position. The next job of the top executives of the six major film studios is not only to make good movies, but also to find ways to Coping with an increasingly threatening Lionsgate.

The newspaper also mentioned in the article that although Lionsgate Pictures has achieved great success in the box office market, it is still excluded from the MPAA and has not received the recognition it deserves.

From this point of view, the six major film studios still have an arrogant attitude when facing Lionsgate and do not regard Lionsgate as a major film company.

Lionsgate's movie box office has ranked in the top three for two consecutive years, which can also be seen as a kind of revenge.

If the six major film studios want to coexist peacefully with Lionsgate, it will be particularly critical to first recognize Lionsgate's status and influence in Hollywood.

In addition to the above three media, the New York Post, the Washington Post and other media have reported and commented on the box office performance of Lionsgate Pictures in 2013.

Most of them are praising Lionsgate Films for its rapid development and great earning power. There are also many media praising Link and Iwaka for their good management and outstanding abilities.

Affected by these data and the recent good development of Netflix, the market value of Lionsgate Pictures is estimated by Wall Street investment companies to be between 7 billion and 7.5 billion.

Benjamin Graham, a famous Hollywood investment guru, said that based on the current revenue of Lionsgate Pictures, with a market value of less than 10 billion U.S. dollars, it is worth investing.

Although this data has a big bubble, it also shows that Wall Street capital is very optimistic about the development of Lions Gate Pictures.

However, after reading these news reports and data, Link did not appear too excited or proud.

He also sees Lionsgate's shortcomings in these numbers.

First of all, in terms of film production, Disney owns the largest animated film production company and the largest animation adaptation IP. It acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and acquired all Marvel characters in 2011. In terms of superhero movies, Disney owns the majority of them. Endless themes.

Because of this, Disney Pictures' movies will almost dominate Hollywood in the future, with eight of the top ten movies in the global box office rankings belonging to Disney.

In addition, Warner Pictures, Fox, Universal, and Sony all have many popular IPs that can be tapped, ensuring that there will be blockbuster movies every year.

For example, Sony's Spider-Man, Warner's Batman, Fox's X-Men series, Paramount's Mission: Impossible, etc.

This is the foundation of the six major film industries.

In this regard, Lionsgate Pictures can't match it yet.

Lionsgate Pictures still relies on popular series of movies to ensure box office performance. If the series of movies ends, Lionsgate's ranking in the "New Seven" will be greatly affected.

In addition, Disney owns the largest number of theme parks in the world, as well as hotels, toys, books, electronic games, media networks and other businesses, with a market value of more than 130 billion US dollars.

Every time a Disney movie is a hit, it generates a lot of peripheral revenue, which is often higher than the box office.

In addition to Disney, Universal Group, Warner Bros., Sony, etc. also have strong peripheral development capabilities and can provide a large amount of financial support for film shooting.

In one respect, Lionsgate can't compare.

So Link won't be complacent just because Lionsgate is temporarily ahead of other companies in total box office.

To this end, in addition to reading more best-selling books and actively exploring popular movie IPs, he is also preparing to arrange for people from the company to negotiate with Warner and Disney to find ways to obtain the rights to superhero characters such as Wonder Woman, The Joker, Black Panther, and Deadpool. Adaptation rights.

With these characters, Lionsgate's future development will be more secure.

Link knows that it is difficult to get these characters, but Lionsgate also has things that Disney and Warner are coveted, such as peripherals of the "Hunger Games", "Twilight" and "Suicide Squad" series.

These things are worth more than a few characters.

Or Lionsgate can also agree to jointly produce movies with Disney and Warner Pictures and jointly develop movie peripheral products.

With Lionsgate’s film production capabilities, this cooperation is definitely a win-win choice.

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