Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

 Chapter 558 New movie to start the new year

 After the awards season at the beginning of the year, major Hollywood film studios began to operate.

There are 15 major movie projects produced by Lionsgate this year, including "The Hunger Games 4", "The Expendables 3", "Bad Boys 5", "Now Now 2", "Insidious 4", "The Conjuring 3" and "American Sniper" "Maleficent," "The Big Short," "The Butler," "Trainwreck," "Creed," "Sicario," "Inherent Evil" and "Split."

There are three movies produced by Palm Beach Pictures, "Into the Wild", "Lovers at the End of Time" and "Springtime for Ugly Girls"

There are two film projects in cooperation with Annapurna Pictures: "Joy's Struggle" and "Foxcatcher"

There are three film projects in cooperation with Paramount Pictures: "The Martian", "Terminator: Genisys" and "Armageddon".

Among them, Summit Entertainment's production department merged with Lionsgate's original production department.

At present, the new production department has been split into four parts. The first production department mainly produces commercial films, the second production department produces art films, the third production department produces horror films, and the fourth production department is responsible for working with Netflix. The company's film department produces online movies.

In addition to the film department, Lionsgate also has two production departments responsible for producing TV series and advertisements.

Lionsgate’s investment budget in movies this year is as high as 800 million U.S. dollars. Among them, there are six movies with production costs exceeding 100 million. Except for “The Hunger Games 4”, which is solely produced by Lionsgate, the remaining five movies are in cooperation with other film companies. Filming includes "The Expendables 3", "Maleficent", "The Martian", "Terminator: Genisys" and "Armageddon".

This investment model can also reduce the financial burden on Lionsgate Pictures. While avoiding risks, it can also produce more movies and get more box office.

Link is participating in the filming of three movies this year, "Avengers 2", "American Sniper" and "The Expendables 3", and has also made minor supporting roles in several movies.

There are 19 movies released by Lionsgate this year, including movies in partnership with Palm Beach Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, and movies produced by Summit Entertainment.

"Snowpiercer", "Fake Family", "Sashu Brothers", "Fatal Call", "Gone Girl", "The Hunger Games 3", "Dark Lady 3", "Ender's Game", "Divergent: The Alien Awakens", "Dance" 5", "The Grand Budapest Hotel", "Birdman", "John Wick", "Annabelle", "Insidious 3", "The Conjuring 2", "Neighbors", "Crunch", "American Hustle"

There are four movies that have been released so far, "Snowpiercer", "Joshu Brothers", "Fatal Call" and "Fake Family".

"Snowpiercer" was released in early January and was in theaters for 45 days, with a cumulative box office of US$16.65 million.

Including overseas box office, the film's global box office has now reached a cumulative US$124 million.

Lionsgate is expected to make about $20 million.

The second movie "Joseph" was released on January 17. It is a black comedy movie starring the famous black rapper Ice Cube. It tells the story of a black policeman who tries to break up his sister's engagement to a white psychiatrist. story.

Since the third day of the movie's release is Martin Luther King Day, there is a national holiday.

It is estimated to have grossed US$41.2 million in 2,663 theaters over the three-day weekend, setting a record for a January movie opening.

It has grossed US$134 million at the box office in North America over two months after its release. It is Lionsgate's first North American movie with a box office of over 100 million in 2014. It is also the first movie in the North American market this year with a box office of over 100 million.

The performance in overseas regions is slightly worse, with the current box office of 19.08 million US dollars.

The total box office is 152 million.

Compared with the cost of 25 million US dollars, the movie's revenue ratio is 1:6, which is considered a good start.

When the North American box office of the film exceeded 100 million US dollars, it happened that the media announced the results of major film companies last year.

When the media saw the box office of this movie, they had to lament that Lionsgate was very good at investing in and producing movies.

In addition, the film sold more than 100 million at the box office during the off-season at the beginning of the year, which also gave Lionsgate Films a good start.

"Complete Movies" magazine used an exaggerated tone to say that Lionsgate Pictures is expected to surpass Disney this year and become the industry's number one.

This kind of publicity also puts great pressure on the ‘old six’.

Originally, the top executives of the six major film studios thought that Lionsgate's movie success was a short-lived flash in the pan, and would fall back to its original position when the "Hunger Games" series ended.

Judging from Lionsgate's movies last year and this year, although Lionsgate relies heavily on "The Hunger Games" at the box office, other movie projects also performed very well at the box office.

This also shows that Lionsgate's success is not an accident, but that it has found the password to invest in movies. It is no worse than the six major film studios in film production and distribution.

To this end, in addition to squeezing Lionsgate Pictures in terms of publicity, the six major film studios also announced multiple film support plans, increased investment in films, and strengthened cooperation with independent production companies, including Weinstein Pictures, Legendary Pictures Industry, Relativity Pictures, A24 Pictures, New Regency Pictures, and even Palm Beach Pictures have also received cooperation invitations from the six major companies.

Kenneth Turan, a famous commentator on the Los Angeles Times film column, jokingly said that Lionsgate Pictures has single-handedly stirred up the Hollywood film market, making competition in the film industry more intense. The next ten years will be a decade of life and death for film companies. They cannot Movie companies that adapt to this kind of competition are bound to be eliminated.

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Lionsgate's third film to be released this year is "The Call," released in mid-February, directed by Brad Anderson and starring Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Maurice Chase Starring Tate and others.

The film tells the story of Turner, an operator at the 911 reporting center, who helped little girl Casey escape through the phone and successfully caught the murderer.

This is one of the low-budget movies produced by Lionsgate last year, with a production budget of US$12 million. It has been released in North America for three weeks, with a current box office of 41.98 million U.S. dollars, and the box office is expected to exceed 50 million.

The film has also been distributed in 16 overseas countries and regions, with a current box office of US$13.2 million.

The box office revenue ratio also reached 6:1.

The fourth film is "Family" released in early March, directed by "Scandal Project" associate director Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, Jason Sudeikis Starring others.

It tells the story of smuggler David, who saw a homeless woman named Cathy being blackmailed, so he helped her. Instead, she was robbed of all her property. In order to pay off the debt, David planned to smuggle marijuana into Mexico. In order to cross the border smoothly, he found several people who pretended to be marijuana. Become 'The Millers' and pretend to be traveling in Mexico.

It's also a comedy.

The film's production cost was US$37 million, and it grossed US$45.61 million at the box office in 3,260 theaters in North America in its first week.

The box office revenue in the first week was very good.

The North American box office reached US$74.33 million in its two weeks of release.

Although it has not yet exceeded 100 million, the movie's attendance rate is very good, reaching 75%. Compared with last week, the box office dropped by less than 20%.

This shows that the film has great box office potential and is very popular among movie fans.

Theaters predict that the film's box office will exceed 100 million US dollars next week, and the North American box office is expected to be no less than 150 million US dollars.

The box office performance in overseas regions is also good. Since Jennifer Aniston and Emma Roberts are well-known overseas, it has currently received 55.48 million US dollars in 23 countries and regions, and the box office is expected to be more than 100 million US dollars.

Lionsgate Pictures released four movies in the first year of 2020, two of which exceeded US$100 million in North American box office. The total North American box office of the four movies is expected to exceed US$350 million.

This result not only exceeded Lionsgate's expectations, but also surprised its Hollywood colleagues.

According to the North American film distribution situation last year, there were 33 films with a box office of over 100 million, with a total box office of 10.9 billion. This year it will probably be similar.

At the beginning of the year, Lionsgate Pictures has released two movies with a box office of over 100 million in North America, 2/33, and the box office results of four movies accounted for 3.5/109 of the total box office.

Ranked No. 1 among the "New Seven" movies released at the beginning of the year.

According to this situation, Lionsgate Pictures is very likely to continue to rank in the top three in terms of box office performance this year.

The "Hollywood Reporter" stated in the article that while Lionsgate's films led the 2014 film market, it also posed a big problem to their peers. Disney, Warner, and Universal Pictures may need to put aside their arrogant attitudes and be proactive. Ask Lionsgate for advice on how to sell your movies.

"Damn it, what did Lionsgate do? Why do their movies always get good box office numbers? Don't those fans have any appreciation at all?"

In the office of the president of Warner Pictures, President Kevin Tetsuhara, who took office only last year, became ugly after seeing the news in the newspaper.

Warner Pictures also released four movies in the first three months of the year. Only one 3D animated movie "The Lego Movie" did well at the box office. Two of the other three movies lost money and one was barely able to break even.

The total North American box office of the four movies was less than 300 million U.S. dollars, and the production cost of these four movies reached 200 million U.S. dollars.

This is only possible with the support of Warner Bros. Group's strong publicity and distribution capabilities to sell these movies at the box office.

Compared with Warner, Lionsgate Pictures is inferior in terms of promotion and distribution channels. The production cost of the four films was only US$110 million, but all four Lionsgate Films films were blockbuster hits.

This makes Kevin Tetsuhara very confused.

He also went to the cinema to watch four movies from Lionsgate Pictures. Although these movies were good, they were not much better than the movies of the same period, but they all performed very well at the box office.

This made him very suspicious that Lionsgate Pictures had some magic trick to trick movie fans into going to the cinema.

"Have you investigated what went wrong?"

Kevin Tetsuhara looked across at Marketing Director Pam Abdi and asked.

Pam Abdi had a sullen face and shook her head. After the success of Lionsgate's movie the year before last, Warner Pictures' marketing department began to investigate the reasons for the success of Lionsgate's movie. At first, it was suspected that Lionsgate's box office was filled with water. After investigation, , found that it did not.

They also arranged for people to go to Lionsgate Pictures for internal investigation, but no problems were found.

For this reason, Warner Pictures also poached three producers and assistants from Lions Gate. As a result, after these people came to work at Warner, their performance was average.

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