Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

After the New Year, in early January, the list of nominees for the 70th Golden Globe Awards for American Film and Television was announced, among which films released by Lionsgate received 18 award nominations.

"Argo" received 5 nominations, including Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score.

"Zero Dark Thirty" received 4 nominations, Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay.

"The Master" received 3 nominations, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" received 2 nominations, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.

"The Intouchables" received 1 nomination, Best Foreign Language Film.

"The Hunger Games" received 1 nomination, Best Original Song.

"The Vow" received 1 nomination, Best Original Song.

"Buried" received 1 nomination, Best Actor.

Last year, Lionsgate released 20 films, 8 of which were nominated for the Golden Globe Awards, and received 18 nominations, accounting for 18/70 of all film nominations, more than a quarter, which is a pretty good result.

The rival Weinstein Films also received 5 nominations for the movie "Django Unchained", and 8 nominations including "The Master".

Compared with last year's nominations, Weinstein Films was far behind Lionsgate.

This year's Golden Globe Awards dinner was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.

Link and Eva Ka, Taylor, Katherine, Jennifer Lawrence and others were invited to attend. Link received two nominations, namely Best Actor and Best Original Song, and Taylor received one, Best Original Song.

Link and Taylor were nominated for the same award this year, becoming competitors again, and also became a more interesting news before the Golden Globe Awards.

"Hey, Link, I didn't expect to see you here, it's amazing."

At the Golden Globe Awards dinner, Leonardo saw Link and patted his shoulder hard, as if in revenge.

"Why is it amazing?"

"Haha, you, a boxer, can also be nominated for the Best Actor Award, isn't this amazing?"

Leonardo shrugged and laughed.

"No, I also won Midnight in Paris last year. This is the second time. It shows that my acting skills are good. This has nothing to do with magic. By the way, why are you here too? I remember that your name is not among the actors nominated for Best Actor."

"I was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and you sent me a text message to congratulate me. Did you forget?"

Leonardo asked with a dark face.

"Really? Congratulations!"

Link smiled lightly and was about to pat Leonardo on the shoulder.

Leonardo's face changed immediately and he took a big step back.

"Very flexible, you are very suitable to be a boxer."

Link praised him. Seeing director Quentin Tarantino coming over, he took the initiative to greet him and congratulated him. Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" is also one of the most nominated movies at this year's Golden Globe Awards.

It was just that when he was talking to director Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Weinstein happened to come over. Seeing the two of them talking happily from a distance, Harvey couldn't help but change his face and stared at the two dangerously.

After Link left, he quickly found Quentin and asked him what he and Link talked about.

Quentin said they were just chatting casually.

Harvey breathed a sigh of relief. After Meryl Streep, Ben Affleck was also poached by Link and made a movie that was both well-received and box office-winning. Ben Affleck also praised Link many times in public, which made him very unhappy.

He saw Link chatting with Quentin just now, and he was very worried that Link was poaching again.

"Did Link mention making a movie to you?"

Harvey asked nonchalantly.

"Yes, Link said that he could work with him if there was a suitable project in the future."

Quentin Tarantino said.

Harvey's eye muscles twitched, "Quentin, Link is an outsider, he doesn't understand movies at all, it's not a good idea to work with him."

"Link is an outsider? How is that possible? This year, Lionsgate has 8 movies nominated, almost one-third of all the nominated movies, which is too exaggerated. The media said that Lionsgate's movies will sweep all the awards in the future, which also shows that Link has a very good eye for film investment and production."

Quentin Tarantino said seriously.

Harvey's face turned ugly when he heard it, and he wanted to say something else, but the award ceremony began.

This year's Golden Globe Awards was co-hosted by famous comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

The two hosts used humorous language to tease everyone, including Link, and complained that this year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony was like the annual meeting of Lionsgate. All the crews and actors on the scene were Lionsgate people, including the two of them.

After the warm-up, the award ceremony began. The first award was the Best Foreign Language Film, which was won by the French film "Love".

The second award was the Best Supporting Actor, which was won by Christoph Waltz, the supporting actor of "Django Unchained". Leonardo DiCaprio was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actor for this movie, but missed the award.

The third award was the Best Supporting Actress, which was won by Amy Adams, the supporting actress of "The Master".

Link and Taylor were invited to the stage to present the Best Original Score, which was won by Mychal Danner, the score writer of "Life of Pi".

The Best Original Song Award was won by Adele, the singer of "Skyfall", the theme song of "Skyfall".

In the Best Actor Award for a Drama Film, the shortlisted actors for this award include "Buried Alive" Link, "Lincoln" actor Daniel Day-Lewis, "Master" actor Joaquin Phoenix, "Arbitrage" actor Richard Gere, "Crash Landing on You" actor Denzel Washington.

The final winner was Daniel Day-Lewis, who has already won the Best Actor Oscar twice and is also a popular candidate for the Best Actor Oscar this year.

In the award for Best Actress in a Drama Series, Jessica Chastain, the heroine of "The Hunt for Bin Laden", defeated Helen Mirren of "Hitchcock" and Naomi Watts of "The Miracle". Rachel Weisz of "The Deep Blue Sea" and young actor Quvenzhané Wallis of "Beasts of the Southern Wild" won this award.

In the Best Director Award, Ben Affleck defeated Spielberg, the director of "Lincoln", Ang Lee, the director of "Pi", Quentin Quentin, the director of "Django Unchained", and the director of "The Hunt for Bin Laden" Kathryn Bigelow was the surprise winner.

In addition, "Escape from Tehran" also won the best film and best screenplay awards in the drama category.

With 3 out of 5 nominations, "Escape from Tehran" became the biggest winner at this year's Golden Globe Awards.

Movies released by Lionsgate won a total of five awards that night, including Best Picture in a Drama Series, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress in a Drama Series, and Best Supporting Actress.

5 out of 18.

There are still a few more important awards, and the results are pretty good.

The movie released by Weinstein Pictures only won one Best Supporting Actor award, which made Harvey blush and feel very unhappy. Originally, the Golden Globe and Oscar Awards were his stage, but now he plays the leading role in them. The actor becomes Link.

Even though Link didn't win the award tonight, he was thanked four times. This situation was like a slap in the face.

"Harvey, there's a camera, don't show your face and let others see you and think you can't afford to lose."

Bob reminded from the side.

"Damn it, it's all your fault."

Harvey lowered his voice and said bitterly, "If you hadn't taken the initiative and invested the money in "The Master", how could the company not have the money to invest in "Escape from Tehran"? This is all your fault."

Harvey was heartbroken every time he thought about it.

The company had more than 10 million left in its account the year before last. If it was used to invest in "Escape from Tehran", it would not only make a lot of money at the movie box office, but also win some movie awards. Unfortunately, that money was invested by Bob. "Grandmaster".

After "The Master" was released last year, the current global box office is only 29 million. The film's production cost plus publicity cost is 32 million. To make back the money, the global box office must be at least 40 million.

The project cost Weinstein Pictures more than $6 million.

The current North American box office of "Escape from Tehran" is 102 million US dollars, and the overseas box office is 66.3 million US dollars. The global box office is expected to be around 250 million.

The film is also the fifth film released by Lionsgate this year with a box office of over 100 million in North America. As one of the film's producers and distributors, Lionsgate can earn at least 40 to 50 million.

If this movie was produced and distributed by Weinstein Pictures, Weinstein Pictures would not only make a lot of money, but also beat Lionsgate Pictures in awards, but in the end it would all be given to this idiot Bob. delayed.

"I'm fine, it's all my fault."

Bob shrugged his shoulders, looking helpless.

He proposed the investment in "The Master" the year before last. At that time, the movies produced by Palm Beach Pictures were all selling well. He thought it was a good opportunity to make money, but he did not expect that he would lose money in the end and missed out on "Escape from Tehran". This is a great item that sells well.

He admitted that he was wrong in this matter, but Harvey did not object to the investment in "The Master". There was also the investment in "Escape from Tehran". Ben Affleck approached Harvey several times. Harvey was worried that the investment would fail and gave him the excuse that he had no money. .

Now that "Escape from Tehran" is making money, Harvey doesn't want to admit that he made a mistake and puts the blame on him.

Bob shook his head, feeling that Harvey was becoming more and more irrational after confronting Link. How could he make money if he continued like this?