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Harvey was probably the most upset about Meryl Streep winning the Best Actress Award this year.

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, it was snatched away by Jennifer Lawrence, who was only 21 years old.

After Meryl Streep lost the election, she also received a lot of sympathy. 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 with a movie produced by Lionsgate.

It is inevitable that Harvey was upset because he spent millions to help others.

After the Oscars, he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to find professional critics to write promotional articles, hyping the news that Lionsgate had monopolized the Best Actress Award, and preparing to put Lionsgate on the fire.

At the same time, Link's ambiguous relationship with many actresses was hyped up, and gossip was released, saying that Link played with women's bodies and emotions when casting for Lionsgate.

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

The legal department of Lionsgate soon found these media and sent a stack of lawyers' letters. This time, Link's lawyers are ready to investigate to the end, not only to make the media that hyped such news bankrupt, but also to put the writers in jail.

Lionsgate has never monopolized the Best Actress Award and will not 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 high-quality female-themed movies almost every year.

"The Scandal Project", "The Help", "Bridesmaids", "Her", "August: Osage County" and other movies produced by Palm Beach Pictures. After their release, they have achieved great box office success and have been nominated for the Oscars many times, which also proves that fans and Oscar judges recognize these movies.

After the Oscars, Catherine represented Palm Beach Studios and accepted many interviews from reporters and participated in TV interviews, publicly discussing the development of Palm Beach Studios and her relationship with Link.

These interviews and publicity made Catherine and Palm Beach famous in Hollywood.

Catherine became a famous female CEO in Hollywood, and Palm Beach Studios was overestimated by Wall Street to about 160 million US dollars because of its continuous release of Oscar-level movies. It is also one of the top ten companies in the independent film industry.

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

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

After the Oscars, in addition to the news of the Best Actress Award, which received a lot of attention, Link won the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Let it go", which also attracted a lot of discussion.

As an actor, Link has won the Berlin Best Actor Award, the Cannes Best Actor Award, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Best Actor Award three times, but he didn't 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 the Oscar statuette with a song.

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

Leonardo refused with a dark face.

Link knew that this guy was jealous.

After the Oscars, the box office of several nominated films under Lionsgate Films showed obvious changes.

First, "Dallas Buyers Club" was released in October and earned 28.56 million US dollars in North America in more than two months.

After the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars, the box office data soared, and the current North American box office is 58.4 million US dollars. It is the 13th movie of Lionsgate Films in 2013 with a North American box office of more than 50 million.

The overseas box office is also growing rapidly, with the current box office of 54.19 million US dollars.

The production cost of this film is 5 million, the publicity and public relations cost is 12 million, and the global box office has exceeded 100 million.

The results are not bad, and Lionsgate's investment has not been in vain.

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

The current North American box office is 42.25 million US dollars, and the overseas box office is 39.4 million US dollars.

The production cost and publicity cost of the film are about 32 million US dollars.

Lionsgate and Palm Beach can earn about 20 million.

And "Her" has increased its North American box office by more than 6 million after the Oscars. The current North American box office is 28.75 million US dollars and the overseas box office is 27.01 million US dollars.

Compared to the cost of 23 million US dollars, Palm Beach and Annapurna Pictures did not make much profit, about 7 to 8 million US 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 and Appian Way Pictures can get about 200 million US dollars in box office revenue.

Last year, Lionsgate's annual drama "The Hunger Games 2" was released for more than three months and earned 507 million US dollars in North America, surpassing "Iron Man 3" and "Frozen" to top the North American movie box office rankings.

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

Lionsgate invested about 28 million US dollars in the public relations of this year's Oscars, and later earned six little golden men, more than 100 million US dollars in box office, and a good reputation, increasing its influence in the film industry.

All these show that the investment in award public relations is worthwhile.

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

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

Of the total box office of 10.9 billion, the top eight Hollywood film companies earned 9.66 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 88.6% of the total North American box office.

Among them, Disney Pictures continued to rank first, with a total North American box office of 1.831 billion U.S. dollars, 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 ranked second with 1.817 billion, accounting for 16.9% of the total box office share, with representative works such as "The Hunger Games 2", "The Wolf of Wall Street", "The Expendables 2", "Now You See Me", "The Hottest Cop", "Identity Thief", and "Rust and Bone".

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

Ranked fourth is Universal, with 1.236 billion, and representative works such as "Despicable Me 2" and "Fast and Furious 6".

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

In 2013, there were 33 movies with box office revenues of over $100 million in North America, including seven under Lionsgate.

In terms of global box office revenues, the global total box office revenues last year were nearly $36 billion, up 4% from 2012.

Among them, the annual total box office revenues in China were nearly $3.2 billion, up 27% year-on-year, and it was also the first film market outside North America to have a total box office revenue of over $3 billion.

Last year, the films released by the ‘New Seven’ earned $12.35 billion in overseas box office revenues.

Disney Pictures earned about $2.53 billion in overseas box office revenues and $4.36 billion in global box office revenues, ranking first.

Warner Pictures earned $2.493 billion in overseas box office revenues and $4.19 billion in global box office revenues, ranking second.

Lionsgate Pictures’ overseas distribution capabilities were slightly inferior to Warner, with $2.207 billion in overseas box office revenues and $4.024 billion in total box office revenues, ranking third.

Universal, Sony, Fox, and Paramount ranked fourth to seventh, with global box office revenues of less than 3 billion U.S. dollars.

The media also listed the top ten dark horse movies and the top ten box office failures of 2013.

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

The top ten box office failures are "47 Ronin", "Jack the Giant Slayer", "After Earth", "The Lone Ranger", "Glengarry D.C.", "Snail", "The Intern", "Now You See Me", "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones", and "The Last Stand".

Among them, "The Last Stand" was distributed by Lionsgate and lost about 20 million, which is the one with the least loss.

After the release of various data and lists, the achievements of Lionsgate in the film market in 2013 amazed the media.

In 2012, Lionsgate distributed 20 movies and received a total box office of 1.48 billion U.S. dollars in North America, accounting for 14.2% of the box office market share.

Ranked third among the seven major film studios.

This year, Lionsgate has released 17 films, with a total North American box office of 1.817 billion US dollars, accounting for 16.9% of the box office market share, surpassing Warner Pictures and ranking second.

The Los Angeles Times also mentioned that if "World War Z", which Lionsgate participated in producing, is included, the North American box office is 220 million and the global box office is more than 500 million US dollars.

Lionsgate should rank first in both the North American film market and the global box office market.

Last year, Lionsgate invested about 800 million US dollars in film, including production and publicity, but created a box office result of more than 4 billion US dollars in the global film box office market.

Last year, Lionsgate's net income from film exceeded 1.2 billion US dollars.

This result is very dazzling and somewhat incredible.

Originally, Lionsgate was just a medium-sized film company with a market value of hundreds of millions of US dollars. After Link and Eva Ka took over Lionsgate in 2011, the company's box office performance has been getting better and better, from the seventh in the box office in 2011 to the third in 2012 and the second in 2013.

Compared with Lionsgate, the market capitalizations of the six major film studios are all over 10 billion US dollars, and Disney's is as high as more than 133 billion US dollars. It spends 20 to 30 billion US dollars each year to produce movies, and its investment is several times that of Lionsgate. However, in terms of box office, it is only on par with Lionsgate.

The New York Times said that Lionsgate is gradually dominating Hollywood, and the "old six big studios" are losing ground in the box office market. If the six big studios cannot find a way to increase their film revenue, new big studios will face bankruptcy in the next five years.

After the box office data came out, the six big studios held group meetings to discuss what the companies should do to solve the current predicament in the increasingly competitive Hollywood film market?

It is said that several senior executives of the six big studios are facing the risk of being fired.

The Hollywood Reporter said in the article that the emergence of Lionsgate has put the six big studios, which were originally high above, in an embarrassing situation. The next job of the senior executives of the six big studios is not only to make good movies, but also to find ways to deal with the increasingly threatening Lionsgate.

The newspaper also mentioned in the article that although Lionsgate has been a great success in the box office market, it is still excluded by the American Film Association MPAA and has not received due recognition.

From this point of view, the six big studios are still arrogant when facing Lionsgate and do not regard Lionsgate as a big movie company.

Lionsgate has been ranked in the top three in box office 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 is particularly important 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 Lionsgate's box office performance in 2013.

Most of them praised Lionsgate for its rapid development and strong ability to make money. Many media also praised Link and Eva Ka for their good management and outstanding ability.

Influenced by these data and the recent good development of Netflix, Lionsgate's market value 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 according to the current revenue of Lionsgate, the market value is within 10 billion US dollars, which is worth investing.

Although this data has a lot of bubbles, it also shows that Wall Street capital is very optimistic about the development of Lionsgate.

However, after reading these news reports and data, Link did not show too much excitement and complacency.

He also saw the shortcomings of Lionsgate in these data.

First of all, in terms of film production, Disney has the largest animation film production company and the most animation adaptation IPs. After acquiring Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and getting all Marvel characters in 2011, Disney has an inexhaustible supply of themes in superhero movies.

Because of this, Disney's movies will almost dominate Hollywood in the future, and eight of the top ten global box office rankings belong to Disney.

Warner Pictures, Fox, Universal, and Sony all have many popular IPs that can be mined, ensuring that there are big-selling 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 studios.

In this regard, Lionsgate is not as good as it for the time being.

Lionsgate still has to rely on popular series of movies to guarantee box office results. If the series of movies ends, Lionsgate's ranking in the "New Seven" will also be greatly affected.

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

Every Disney movie that sells well will generate a lot of peripheral income, which is often higher than the box office.

In addition to Disney, Universal Group, Warner Bros., Sony and others also have strong peripheral development capabilities and can provide a lot of financial support for filming.

In this regard, Lionsgate is no match.

So Link will not be proud and complacent because Lionsgate is temporarily ahead of other companies in total box office.

For this reason, in addition to reading more best-selling books and actively exploring popular movie IPs, he is also preparing to arrange for the company's people to negotiate with Warner and Disney to find ways to get the adaptation rights of superhero characters such as Wonder Woman, Joker, Black Panther, and Deadpool.

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 coveting, such as peripherals of "The Hunger Games", "Twilight", "The Expendables" and other series.

These things are more valuable than a few characters.

Or Lionsgate can agree to co-produce movies with Disney and Warner Bros. and jointly develop movie-related products.

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