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After the awards ceremony, the winning films and actors were widely discussed by the media and netizens

Some fans complained that their favorite movies did not win the award, believing that "Pi" and "Lincoln" should have won the best picture. Some media and netizens complained about the award of the leading actress award, thus questioning Link and Jessica Chastain. Relationship.

Some media have sinister intentions and call Link an ‘Oscar-making machine’, but any actress Link likes will have a chance to win an Oscar.

It is said that if actresses want to win Oscars, the shortcut used to be to have a good relationship with Harvey Weinstein, but now it is to cooperate with Link.

Some media continue to hype the relationship between Link and Jennifer Lawrence, insinuating that the relationship between Link and Jessica is also improper, in order to confuse the public and make the Oscar judges no longer support the heroine introduced by Lionsgate Pictures.

To this end, the legal department of Lionsgate Pictures issued more than ten lawyer letters.

Although some people were dissatisfied with this year's Oscars, there was much less talk than last year when Jennifer Lawrence won the Oscar for Best Actress.

Amid media hype, films such as "Escape from Tehran", "The Hunt for Bin Laden" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" received a lot of attention and increased their exposure. The box office results of several films also increased significantly within a week after the Oscars.

After being released for more than three months, "Tehran" currently has a box office of 148 million US dollars in North America and 103 million overseas. The total box office has reached 250 million US dollars. The production, promotion and public relations cost of the film is 68 million US dollars. Lionsgate Pictures is on this project The profit is no less than 80 million US dollars.

"The Hunt for Bin Laden" has been released for more than two months. The current North American box office is 112 million U.S. dollars and the overseas box office is 42 million U.S. dollars. The total cost of this movie is 48 million U.S. dollars. Palm Beach, Lionsgate, and Annapurna Pictures estimate The profit is around 65 million.

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" has been in theaters for nearly four months, with a North American box office of 20.77 million and an overseas box office of US$8.19 million. The total cost was only US$3 million, with a higher revenue ratio.

In addition, these films have received good reviews at the box office, and Lionsgate Pictures, as the distributor, has also received a lot of praise from the industry.

Although Lionsgate has a strong showing at the Oscars.

But since Link took over Lionsgate in 2011, he has changed Lionsgate's reputation for low-cost junk films and has successively launched more than a dozen high-quality independent films, becoming a leader and benchmark in the film industry.

Made great contributions to the North American and world film industries.

Link and Ivaca have also appeared on the covers of magazines such as Time, People, Vanity Fair, and The Hollywood Reporter.

Named the person with the greatest influence on the film industry in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter, they said that under their leadership, Lionsgate is changing the landscape of Hollywood and even the world's film industry.

The market value of Lionsgate Pictures was once again raised by Wall Street to US$2.8 billion to US$3 billion after acquiring Summit Entertainment last year.

Although it is still not as good as MGM Pictures before bankruptcy, the media believes that it is only a matter of time before Lionsgate Pictures replaces MGM in the past and becomes the "Big Seven" in the Hollywood film industry.

The market value of Palm Beach Pictures has also been raised to 100 million to 120 million, ranking it in the top 20 in the field of independent production.

The market value of Weinstein Pictures and Relativity Pictures declined compared with the previous year.

Weinstein Pictures' market value dropped to around 360 million due to poor box office performance last year. Relativity Pictures was exposed by the media due to creditor issues, and its market value dropped to 450 million.

No matter in terms of film output and box office performance, the two companies are no longer rivals of Lionsgate Pictures. Lionsgate Pictures' current goal is to maintain the top five in Hollywood.

"The Hollywood Reporter" said in a review that it was originally thought that the competition between Link and Harvey in the film would last for four or five years, and finally ended with Lionsgate going bankrupt and "expert" Harvey winning.

The fact is that it only took ‘layman’ Link two years to leave Harvey and the Weinstein Films far behind.

For this reason, several shareholders behind Weinstein Pictures called Harvey and were disappointed with the performance of Weinstein Pictures last year. They originally thought that Harvey, an elite in the film industry, would easily win in this competition. , the result was beyond their expectations.

The board of directors demanded that Harvey improve the situation of Weinstein Pictures within the next two years, otherwise they would consider withdrawing investment.

"Damn!!"

Harvey put down the phone, his face became ferocious, and the fat on his face trembled slightly with anger.

In the past, he was an elite in the film industry, a top producer, and was sought after by Wall Street capital. At that time, he could freely choose who to cooperate with.

And now, because of the unsatisfactory box office performance of last year's movie, the board of directors is dissatisfied with him. What's even more disgusting is that he can't fall out with the board of directors just yet. Without their help, the company will have no money to invest in more movies.

"Damn it, damn it!"

Harvey clenched his fists and stared hard at the photo of Link and Ivaca on the cover of Time magazine. One was wearing a white suit and the other was wearing a black dress. They were a handsome man and a beautiful woman. They were a perfect pair. The cover had Lions Gate printed on it. logo, title: Who is the real leader of Lionsgate Films?

Harvey stared at Link's damn handsome face, picked up a pen and poked it hard several times.

Originally, he had great luck in movies, but after meeting Link, nothing went smoothly, and the company's performance became worse and worse, and he slightly missed the Oscar award.

This is all Link's fault! !

Jingle Bell!

The phone on the desk rang, and Harvey took a look at it angrily. It was the number of the major shareholder Ivy Nivo. He could only hold his anger, answer the phone, and ask Ivy what's the matter?

Ivy Nivo told Harvey that Warner Pictures promised to support him in restricting the development of Lionsgate, and would invest 300 million US dollars to support Weinstein Pictures in making movies.

They would also support him in media publicity.

I hope he can seize the opportunity to make more high-grossing movies and grab the market share of Lionsgate.

Harvey was immediately excited when he heard it. The main reason why Lionsgate was getting better and better was that it was not short of money. The annual production cost of 600 to 700 million US dollars was higher than the market value of other film companies in the circle. Weinstein Pictures, Relativity, Legendary Pictures, etc., could not compare with it at all in this regard.

If there is financial support from Warner Pictures and the support of the media under the Warner Group, he has great hope to surpass Link and Lionsgate in the next few years and become the king of Hollywood again.

He thought so not to flatter himself, but to have enough confidence.

In addition, from 2011 to 2012, Lionsgate Films has been developing faster and faster, with higher and higher box office performance. Last year, it surpassed Warner, Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount, becoming the third in the industry, and also snatched a lot of market share from the "Big Six" film studios.

Lionsgate Films has touched the cake of the Big Six.

The Big Six film studios will naturally not sit idly by and watch Lionsgate Films grow. They will suppress the development of Lionsgate Films in all aspects, such as in publicity and distribution, in film project cooperation, and in the cooperation between its directors and actors.

In this favorable situation, Harvey did not think he would lose.

"Humph, Link, our competition is not over yet, you wait and see."

Harvey looked at the magazine cover that was stabbed to pieces and said coldly.

Dongdongdong!

"Harvey, this is the list of Lionsgate Films' film projects this year, do you want to see it?"

Bob walked in with a folder.

Harvey took it and glanced at it. "Why are there only two movies with a production cost of over 100 million? Last time I told you that you should find a way to use blockbusters to drag down Lionsgate. Why is Lionsgate's investment becoming more and more conservative?"

"This is an internal decision of Lionsgate. Originally, at the high-level meeting at the beginning of the year, the head of the production department said that last year's box office performance was good and they could make more big productions. Evaka gave a negative answer to this proposal.

She told the people in the production department that this year will still follow last year's budget, two or three big productions + multiple low-cost + horror movie mode, at least for the next three years, and I have no way to change Evaka's decision."

Bob shrugged and said.

Harvey's eye muscles twitched. With the current size of Lionsgate, it would be no problem to invest in more than five big productions every year, but now it only invests in two or three big productions every year.

Lionsgate is doing this. When will it go bankrupt due to investment failure?

Harvey thought about it and asked Bob to continue to think of ways to encourage Lionsgate to invest in big productions, or to encourage Summit Entertainment to do big productions. In short, he had to do everything he could to make Lionsgate go bankrupt.

"Okay, okay!"

Bob didn't know what to do, but seeing the magazine on the table that was stabbed to pieces by Harvey, he wisely chose not to argue with him at this time.

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It was March, and the big and small lists arranged by Forbes magazine were released one after another.

In the two fields of sports and music, Link still became the highest-earning person in the two fields with an annual income of US$950 million and US$220 million. In addition to boxing bonuses, more than 500 million of sports income came from advertising endorsements and gold medal bonuses after the Olympics.

In terms of movies, he only made two movies last year, "The Expendables 2" and "Rust and Bone", and ranked 8th with an income of 25 million.

But on the "Forbes Global Rich List", his net assets reached US$9.6 billion, ranking 114th, more than 100 people higher than last year.

His current assets are mainly divided into three parts.

The first part is the shares controlled by Kimbeck Investment Company, including 15.5% of Nvidia shares, 17.2% of Tesla shares, 5.7% of SpaceX, 1.3% of News Corporation shares, 8.6% of Netflix shares, and a small amount of shares of Amazon, Facebook, ins, Apple and other companies.

Among them, Nvidia recovered to about 10 billion in October last year after more than two years of lows, and the current market value is 9.8 billion.

Kimbeck Investment has successively bought 15.5% of Nvidia shares at low prices in the past two years, which is worth 1.5 billion US dollars.

Tesla has performed well this year. The stock price was 36 US dollars at the end of last year and closed at 67 US dollars. Tesla's market value has also risen to about 8.5 billion US dollars.

The rise in Tester's stock is mainly due to the first quarterly profit at the end of last year, which also marks a significant improvement in Tesla's financial situation.

Kimbeck Investment owns 17.2% of Tesla shares, with a market value of about 1.45 billion.

The current market value of Netflix has slightly rebounded from last year, and the current market value is 4.5 billion US dollars.

8.6% of Netflix shares were bought in succession in the year before last and last year, excluding the part under Lionsgate, worth about US$380 million.

There are also shares of News Corporation.

The reason why Link bought News Corp. shares was because of the "phone-hacking incident" in July 2011, which caused Murdoch and News Corp.'s reputation to plummet. News Corp.'s stock price shrank by nearly 31%, and its market value fell from 50 billion to less than 32 billion.

Link took advantage of the cheap News Corp. stock price and bought 1.3% in succession.

After more than a year of recovery, the current market value of News Corp. has recovered to around 45 billion.

1.3% of News Corp. shares are worth about 580 million.

SpaceX's current market value is 1.5 billion, 5.7%, which is about 80 million.

The remaining Amazon and other shares are worth about 400 million US dollars.

In short, the value of Kimbeck Investment's shares is about 4.5 billion, and Link holds 98% of Kimbeck Investment's shares.

The second part of the assets includes music companies, film companies, and sports shares.

The music aspect includes link music, Spotify shares, and SB Entertainment. The market value of this part of the assets is about 1.8 billion US dollars.

In terms of film companies, it includes Lionsgate and Palm Beach Films, as well as Lionsgate's 11.37% Netflix shares, which are worth about 2.2 billion US dollars.

In terms of sports, it includes 23.5% of Dynasty Promotion and Nike-Link sports brand, which are worth about 400 million US dollars.

The third part of assets is overseas assets, including Hong Kong Island Jinbeck Investment Company, 41% of Big Hit Company shares, Paris Rose Film Company, etc., worth about 1.2 billion US dollars.

These three parts of assets total about 9.6 billion US dollars.

This is the number given by Forbes magazine.

At the same time, the magazine also analyzed the reasons for Link's asset surge this year.

First, the growth of stocks such as Nvidia and Tesla.

Second, the market value of Link Music and Lionsgate doubled, and the growth of Spotify's market value added hundreds of millions of dollars to Link and Eva Ka.

The third point is that Link's investment in China last year has achieved good returns.

This also doubled Link's net worth compared to last year.

In the new Forbes list, the top ten have not changed much.

Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has retained the title of the world's richest man for the fourth consecutive year, with a net worth of $73 billion.

Bill Gates ranked second with a net worth of $67 billion, and Spanish retail and clothing tycoon Amancio Ortega ranked third with $57 billion.

Larry Ellison ranked fifth with $43 billion.

Murdoch's net worth doubled from last year, ranking 91st with $11.2 billion.

The old father-in-law's net worth is about the same as last year, ranking 395th with $3.4 billion.

Georgia Bloomberg's father Michael Bloomberg's net worth soared, ranking 13th with $27 billion.

In addition, Eva Ka also entered the Forbes magazine's list of the richest women, with a current net worth of $800 million, including Link Music shares, Spotify shares, Lionsgate shares, fashion and jewelry companies, etc., ranking 162nd on the list of the richest women.

She was also named the best female CEO in the entertainment industry by Forbes magazine for her outstanding performance in managing Link Music and Lionsgate, becoming a benchmark among the second-generation rich.

There are also Ms. Katherine and Ms. Mandy. Although they did not make the Forbes rich list, they were also reported by many media as elites in the industry because of the good performance of Palm Beach Pictures and Palm Bay Agency last year.