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After spending the Spring Festival in Beijing, Link left China by plane and flew to Seoul and Tokyo for a few days. In addition to accompanying Jun Ji-hyun and Xi-chan, he also took time to meet several business partners and make some deals.

He now has an investment of about 200 million US dollars in South Korea, mainly in entertainment, and nearly 100 million US dollars in Japan, including real estate, clothing, and catering.

These investments are also under the supervision of New York Golden Shell Asset Management Company, and he does not need to spend too much energy.

After a few days of rest in Japan and South Korea, Link took a flight back to Los Angeles and happened to encounter the Academy Awards ceremony.

This year's Oscars ceremony was held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Although Lionsgate Films had many nominated films, Link did not go to the scene because he did not get nominated. He and Eva Ka watched the live broadcast of the awards ceremony at home.

Similar to last year, the people attending the awards ceremony this year were all familiar faces, including Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Scarlett Johansson, Meryl Streep, Lady Gaga, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, etc.

The first award was for Best Supporting Actor, and the winner was J.K. Simmons of Whiplash. He is 60 years old this year. He won the Best Supporting Actor for the first time he was nominated for an Oscar. He has good strength and luck.

Simmons thanked Link on the podium and joked that Link was a candle. Although he could not win an Oscar, he could illuminate others again and again.

This caused a burst of laughter at the scene.

The second and third awards were Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Both awards were unexpectedly won by the crew of The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The fourth award was Best Foreign Language Film, which was won by the Polish film Sister Ida, which still tells the story of the Jewish Holocaust. Before the Oscars, the most popular award was the Russian film Leviathan.

This year's Oscars ceremony lasted more than three hours. Originally, he, Evaka, and the three children were watching in the living room, but less than half an hour later, the three children fell asleep on the sofa.

In the last hour, even Evaka fell asleep on his shoulder.

Although the whole process was a bit boring, Lionsgate had a good harvest in this year's Oscars.

"Birdman" won 4 out of 9 nominations, and won four awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.

"The Grand Budapest Hotel" won 4 out of 9 nominations, and won four technical awards including Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Original Score.

"Whiplash" won 3 out of 6 nominations, including Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, and Best Sound Effects.

The above three movies are the most awarded movies in this year's Oscars, and the other movies only won one award.

"American Hustle" won 0 out of 10 nominations, which was a surprise.

"Gone Girl" won 0 out of 1 nominations.

Among them, the Best Actor was won by Eddie Redmayne, the actor who played Hawking in "The Theory of Everything". He is also the first post-80s actor in the history of the Oscars.

The Best Actress award went to Julianne Moore, the leading actress of Still Alice. She also became the first artist in film history to win the Best Actress at the Academy Awards, the Best Actress at the Cannes International Film Festival, the Best Actress at the Venice International Film Festival, and the Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The Best Supporting Actress award went to Patricia Arquette of Boyhood.

This year, Lionsgate Films released 11 out of 35 nominated films, which is a pretty good result. However, Lionsgate Films lost in the key awards of Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress, which also surprised the Lionsgate Public Relations Department.

This year, Michael Keaton of Birdman, Christian Bale of American Hustle, and Ralph Fiennes of The Grand Budapest Hotel were nominated for Best Actor.

Rosamund Pike from "Gone Girl", Amy Adams from "American Hustle", and Marion Cotillard from "Two Days, One Night" were nominated for Best Actress. Among them, "Two Days, One Night" was one of the films produced by Paris Rose Films last year. Due to schedule reasons, it was only screened in 6 theaters at the end of last year.

Emma Stone from "Birdman" and Jennifer Lawrence from "American Hustle" were nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

More than half of the nominations for the four acting awards were from Lionsgate.

It was originally planned to get at least two, but only one Best Supporting Actor was won.

Afterwards, the public relations department analyzed that Lionsgate was probably targeted by the Oscar judges.

In the previous three Oscars, Lionsgate's films won three consecutive Best Actress awards, and also won several Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards. They performed very strongly, and were ridiculed by many peers, and also caused a lot of controversy in the media.

The Academy of Oscars probably wanted to end this controversy, so it suppressed Lionsgate's films in the acting awards.

After the Oscars, the media saw that this year's Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards were not won by Lionsgate films, but the actors nominated through Lionsgate films also have the strength to win Oscars.

In order to arouse the topic, the media took the initiative to hype the news that Lionsgate was suppressed by the Oscars in the acting awards, saying that this was unfair to Lionsgate and several actors.

However, Lionsgate did not want to fall out with the Oscars, and did not arrange for the publicity department to follow up on this topic. After the news of "Lionsgate being targeted by the Oscars" was hyped for a few days, no media mentioned it again.

Only Leonardo expressed concern on the phone. In order to make "The Revenant" well, he gained more than thirty pounds, gained a beard, and his appearance dropped significantly. He also suffered injuries in the primeval forests of Canada and the United States. For more than four months, I was almost raped by a bear.

He has paid too much for this film and has high hopes for this film. He does not want to miss out on the Oscar again because of the film company.

Link comforted him to relax and not to worry too much. Last year, the Oscar for Best Actor was won by a Lionsgate film. If it continues to be won by a Lionsgate film this year, it is unlikely that it will be given to Lionsgate next year.

However, since Lionsgate was not awarded this year, it is more likely that a Lionsgate movie will win the award next year, provided that the quality of the movie is high enough and Leonardo's acting skills are good enough.

Leonardo patted his chest and said that the movie was wonderful, his performance was beyond first-rate, and his sacrifice was big enough, and he was definitely qualified to win the Oscar for Best Actor.

Link nodded and asked if the news that he was raped by a big brown bear was true or false?

Leonardo was immediately furious and loudly told him that it was all lies. How could it be that a female bear raped him? It's a matter of the shooting angle, not what's spread on the Internet.

Link was stunned for a moment, "Female bear? Isn't that just right? Do you like male bears?"

"Fake! Link, you'd better shut up, or we'll break up our friendship."

Leonardo shouted angrily.

"Okay, okay! Let's not talk about this anymore."

Link smiled softly and told Leonardo that when making selections, the Oscar judges were more willing to vote for the actor who sacrificed the most while making the movie. If he wanted to win the Oscar, he might as well simply admit it and be What a bear, this kind of sacrifice is unique in the history of world cinema.

Seeing as he has sacrificed so much, maybe thousands of judges are willing to vote for him.

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Leonardo was silent on the other end of the phone for a few seconds before gritting his teeth to express his disagreement.

Link covered his forehead. He was originally joking, but after hearing this, Little Plum thought seriously for a while before objecting.

This guy worked really hard to win an Oscar.

Link is ashamed of himself at this point.

Before and after the Oscars, the films nominated for the Oscars receive a lot of attention, and this attention is most directly reflected at the box office.

Since the announcement of the shortlist in January, several of Lionsgate's shortlisted films have experienced significant box office increases. Unpopular films that originally received little attention have experienced even greater box office growth.

Among them, the North American box office of "The Grand Budapest Hotel" increased from more than 68 million to 76.6 million US dollars, and the global box office total reached 188 million US dollars.

The North American box office of "Birdman" increased to US$52.5 million, and the cumulative global box office reached US$115 million.

The North American box office of "Crackling Drummer" increased to 38.77 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was 71.15 million U.S. dollars.

"American Hustle" has been released for more than two months. The current box office in North America is US$165 million and the global box office is US$268 million.

"Gone Girl" currently has a box office of US$205 million in North America and US$485 million globally.

According to statistics from the data department, the global box office increase brought by the Academy Awards to several movies is about 160 million U.S. dollars. From this, we can also see that the Academy Awards have a high gold content, and it is also meaningful to spend money to publicize the Oscars.

At the end of February and the beginning of March, the Motion Picture Association of America Annual Report successively published several articles analyzing movie box office data in 2014, including North American movie box office, global movie box office, and movie box office analysis of the seven major movie studios.

According to data from this annual report, the total global movie box office in 2014 was US$36.4 billion, an increase of only 1% compared with US$35.9 billion in 2013, which was the lowest growth rate in the past decade.

A total of 849 movies were released in North America last year, with a total box office of US$10.4 billion, a decrease of 5.4% from last year, and an average box office of US$12.21 million per movie, a decrease of 8% from last year.

The Chinese film market made the largest contribution last year, with a year-on-year increase of 34%, reaching US$4.8 billion. It was also the first film market outside North America with a box office total exceeding 4 billion. China has also been the world's second largest box office for three consecutive years.

On the cover of the "Motion Picture Association Annual Report", the Lionsgate Films logo is painted gold, with a crown and a golden number of $2.03354 billion. This is the highest sales of Lionsgate Films movies in North America in 2014. Total box office received.

Lionsgate also topped the box office of the film industry for the first time ever.

Last year, Lionsgate released a total of 19 movies. Two movies had a North American box office of more than 200 million, "The Hunger Games 3" and "Gone Girl." 8 movies exceeded 100 million, and 15 movies had a box office of more than 50 million.

Among the films released in North America in 2014, there were 10 films with a revenue of over 200 million, 31 films with a revenue of over 100 million, and 68 films with a revenue of over 50 million.

Judging from these three sets of data, Lionsgate movies contributed significantly to the North American box office last year.

Among the seven major film studios, Disney Pictures ranks second with a total box office of US$1.76 billion. There are 4 films with a box office of over 100 million US dollars in North America, of which animated films account for a large proportion.

Fox Pictures ranked third with 1.53 billion, and has successfully released popular movies such as "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", "X-Men Origins 2" and "Rio 2".

Warner Bros. fell to fourth place with $1.25 billion, of which The Lego Movie and Godzilla grossed more than $200 million in North America. However, Transcendence, Holiday Inn, and Winter's Tale were lower than expected, causing Warner Bros., which had been ranked in the top three for many years, to fall to fourth place. This was also the first time in five years that its total box office was less than $1.5 billion.

Paramount Pictures ranked fifth with a total box office of $665 million, of which Transformers 4, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Interstellar grossed more than $100 million in North America, and other movies had average box office results.

Universal Pictures fell to sixth place with $487 million. Last year, it released 22 movies, of which only The Last Days Survivor grossed more than $100 million in North America, and other movies performed below expectations.

Sony Pictures ranked seventh with $465 million. Last year, Sony was unlucky. In the first half of the year, the film The Interview, which satirized the leaders of the Peninsula, was boycotted and could not be released normally, resulting in a loss of tens of millions. In the second half of the year, it was affected by the resignation of a female executive and offended a large number of stars and agents due to the hacking incident. It was not easy to get $465 million.

Weinstein Co. ranked eighth with $320 million. Last year, Harvey produced films such as "The Imitation Game", "The Giver", and "Saint Vincent", which achieved good box office results and became the leader in the field of independent production.

Relativity Pictures was affected by the debt crisis. Last year, only "Earth Echo" and "Three Days to Die" had a North American box office of more than 30 million. Other films basically did not make a profit, which also led to a more serious financial deficit for Relativity Pictures and put it on the verge of bankruptcy.