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If Lionsgate's market share continues to grow, several of the company presidents at the six major studios may even be in danger of being fired.

To this end, at the invitation of The Hollywood Reporter, in mid-November, Fox Chairman Jim Gianlopoulos, Universal Chairman Donna Langley, Disney Chairman Alan Han, and Paramount Vice Chairman Rob Moore , Tom Bernard, co-president of Sony Classics, and Toby Emery, president of Warner Pictures, held a symposium at the headquarters of The Hollywood Reporter with the purpose of summarizing the current situation of the Hollywood industry in 2012 and their expectations for movies in the coming year. Market analysis.

But after the news came out, the media generally believed that this was a meeting targeting Lionsgate Pictures. The strong rise of Lionsgate Pictures has affected the market share of the six major film studios, taking the cake that originally belonged to the six major film studios. In order to suppress Lionsgate, six major film studios ready to join forces.

"Entertainment Weekly" believes that Lionsgate Pictures has reached a more dangerous stage. Starting next year, competition pressure will be greater, and it may be suppressed by the six major film studios. If Lionsgate Pictures wants to maintain its current market share, it must There needs to be better movies.

Regarding this kind of news, the six major film studios denied it and said it was nonsense. They believed that Lionsgate Pictures has the current market share mainly because of the release of a relatively successful movie "The Hunger Games" and the fact that Summit Entertainment has not released it. "The Twilight Saga" and several dark horse movies such as "Buried Alive", "The Oath", "The Conjuring" and "Sinister".

But there is a problem: "The Hunger Games 1" was a hit, and there is no guarantee that the second one will continue to be a hit. Also, "The Twilight Saga 4" is the last movie in the series. After it was released this year, it cannot continue to rely on it next year. The series makes money.

Therefore, Lionsgate's performance in the film market this year is just an exception and will not happen again next year.

The six major film studios will not regard Lionsgate Pictures as a threat, and there is no need to deliberately suppress Lionsgate Pictures.

Although the six major film studios have explained in different ways that they will not take the rise of Lionsgate Pictures to heart, the media still believe that the future development of Lionsgate Pictures will be more difficult.

"Entertainment Weekly" recommends that Lionsgate Pictures re-list. According to the current operating conditions of Lions Gate, the market value after listing is very likely to exceed 4 billion or even 5 billion US dollars, surpassing the original MGM Pictures.

After going public, Lionsgate will have more funds and will be more able to withstand pressure and risks in the face of pressure from the Big Six.

"Good analysis, but now is not the time."

Link said while looking at the article in the magazine.

“When do you plan to take Lionsgate public?”

Ivaca asked.

"In two or three years, we will let the Big Six and our peers see that the development of Lionsgate to its current scale is by no means an accident or an exception, but that we have indeed done well. At that time, everyone was interested in investing in Lionsgate. If the film industry has more confidence, Lionsgate’s stock price will be higher. It would be great if it can exceed 10 billion US dollars.”

Link shrugged.

"It seems difficult."

Ivaca turned her head and looked at him and smiled.

"Honey, I have confidence in you."

"I have more confidence in you."

Ivaca smiled slightly, leaned on his shoulder, and put her hands around his arms.

Link smelled her fragrance and warm touch, and couldn't help but put down the magazine, put his arms around her waist, kissed her lips, and placed his hands on the most comfortable and soft place.

Ivaca also hung on his shoulders, gently cooperating with his movements.

Ah~ah~ah~

Before the two of them could make any more intimate moves, a cry came from the small sofa next to them.

"Oops, baby must have peed again."

Link let go of the big baby Ivaca, ran over and picked up the little baby and looked at her diaper. She didn't pee, she just cried a few times out of boredom.

"Maybe if she's hungry, feed her some milk?"

Ivaca came over and tapped the tip of the little guy's nose.

"No, I just drank it more than two hours ago, and it's not yet dinner time."

Link held the little Margarita and shook it. The little guy looked at him with bright eyes, very well-behaved.

"Do you still remember the time she drinks milk every time?"

Ivaca asked.

"Didn't you remember? You are a big-hearted mother."

Link joked.

Evaka rolled her eyes at him. She was busy with work every day and was indeed not as patient as Link in taking care of her children, but she didn't think there was any problem with this. The child was too young now, so even if she held her every day, She couldn't remember either.

"It's better to leave the little one to a nanny. They are more professional and can definitely take better care of you than you."

Ivaca sat on the sofa, picked up the magazine and continued to read.

Link smiled softly and did not refute. He swayed for a while, and when the little guy squinted his eyes and fell asleep, he carried little Margarita to the nursery and handed it over to the nannies.

Back in the small living room, Ivaca was still reading a magazine. She had long blond hair and was wearing a casual cotton skirt. Her plump and curvy figure exuded a warm fragrance in the winter. He walked over and took it off. The magazine in her hand, in her puzzled eyes, pounced on her directly, sending the most powerful straight punch attack.

The scenery in the small living room suddenly became hazy.

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In the 8th week since its release, "The Vow" has grossed 162 million US dollars in box office in North America and 82.5 million US dollars in overseas box office, bringing the total box office to 244 million US dollars.

As the theme song of the film, "What are words" also became a global hit and became one of the best love songs of the year.

On the Billboard singles chart, this song has been the number one for two consecutive weeks.

The release date of Link's fifth album has also been announced. It will be released on December 3 by Universal Music Group and Link Music.

In the fourth week of its release, "The Conjuring" grossed 134 million US dollars in North America, 153 million in overseas box office, and more than 280 million in global box office, making it the best-performing horror movie of the year.

The global box office of two consecutive movies exceeded 200 million, which also made many red-eyed patients in the circle.

These people began to find faults with these movies through media channels, constantly posting negative comments, trying to suppress the box office of several Lionsgate movies.

For this reason, the publicity department of Lionsgate worked overtime and fought a war of words with the trolls and black fans.

The lawyers in the legal department also began to work overtime to find the suspected infringing sentences from these reports and comments. Whenever they found one, they would send a lawyer's letter without hesitation.

In less than half a month, 102 letters were sent out, and the court accepted 8 cases.

The actions of the legal department also made the trolls more cautious in their words and deeds, so as not to be bankrupted.

In the second week of the release of "Sinister", the North American box office reached 38.74 million US dollars, which is more than ten times the production cost, and the overseas box office reached 32.5 million US dollars.

The global box office of this movie is about 80 to 90 million. Including other income, Lionsgate's profit on this project is not less than 60 million, which is more than he earned from a boxing match.

In the second week of the release of "Sinister", the low-budget movie "Beasts of the Southern Wild" produced by Palm Beach Pictures was released.

The film is adapted from the one-act play "Juicy and Delicious", which tells the story of a six-year-old black girl, Little Tortilla, and her father who depend on each other in the isolated town of Bathtub.

The film was completed at the beginning of the year and won four awards at the Cannes Film Festival in May, including the Catholic Humanitarian Spirit Award, the Golden Camera Award, the Young Vision Award, and the Un Certain Regard Award. It also gained in other film exhibitions.

The film was screened in 6 theaters in North America, and earned 268,000 US dollars in the first three days of its premiere. The box office of each theater exceeded 10,000 US dollars. The film's reputation was also quite positive, with a media review of 88 points, almost all of which were positive.

Thanks to the positive media publicity, the number of theaters showing "Beasts of the Southern Wild" in the second week expanded to 1,124, and the box office in the first week earned 8.37 million US dollars.

The production cost of this film was only 1.2 million US dollars.

When colleagues saw this number, they could only sigh helplessly, and another movie of Lionsgate Films sold well.

The media also paid attention to the fact that the producer of this film was Palm Beach Pictures.

Originally, after the loss of "The Master", the myth of Palm Beach Pictures specializing in producing dark horse movies had been shattered. Now the total box office of "Beasts of the Southern Wild" will not be less than 20 million, and the profit ratio is close to 20 times.

The box office myth of Palm Beach Pictures was mentioned again.

In addition, the reputation of this film is very good, and the media believes that it will be a popular movie for the Oscars next year. If you are lucky, you can get one or two awards, and the box office results can jump up.

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All of the above are good news, but there is also bad news. Originally, Link heard from Leonardo about the preparation of "The Great Gatsby" and was ready to continue to cooperate with Leonardo to co-produce the film.

However, he was rejected by Warner Pictures, one of the producers of "The Great Gatsby". Universal Pictures, Fox Pictures, and Paramount Pictures also successively rejected the cooperation invitation of Lionsgate Pictures, which also made Link lose the opportunity to co-invest in projects such as "Pacific Rim" and "Fast and Furious 6".

For this reason, Link can only spend more effort on exploring new scripts, and found good movie scripts and novels such as "The Fake Family", "The Vanishing Woman", "The Grand Budapest Hotel", and "Birdman".

By the way, new projects submitted by Lionsgate Pictures' production department, such as "John Wick", "Annabelle", "Insidious 2", "The Conjuring 2", "Warm Bodies", "Neighbors", and "Georgia Brothers", were approved.

Lionsgate Pictures has no shortage of movies to shoot for the time being, so being targeted by the six major studios has no impact.

In addition, when inquiring about the movies invested by the six major film studios, several box office failures were found, including the famous bad movie "Jack the Giant Slayer", "The Lone Ranger" that turned Captain Johnny Depp into a box office poison, and "After Earth" that caused a setback in Will Smith's career. These blockbusters with a production cost of up to 100 million or 200 million US dollars are being produced by the six major film studios.

Facing such opponents, Link is not worried. Lionsgate Films still has popular series of movies such as "The Hunger Games", "The Conjuring", "High School Musical", "The Madman", and "Insidious".

Even if it is surrounded and blocked by the six major film studios next year, Lionsgate Films will still have the strength to fight, and may still have the hope of defeating the six majors and gaining a foothold in the top three.