Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 513 The six major film studios are under siege

 If Lionsgate continues to grow its market share, several of the CEOs 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 aimed at 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 did not release 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 Lionsgate's development to its current scale is by no means an accident or exception, but that we are indeed doing 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 she 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, 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 and launched 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, "Whatarewords" also became a global hit and became one of the best love songs of the year.

This song also topped the singles chart for two consecutive weeks on the Billboard singles chart.

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

In its fourth week of release, "The Conjuring" has grossed US$134 million in North American box office, cumulative overseas box office of US$153 million, and global box office of over US$280 million. It is also the thriller movie with the best box office performance this year.

The global box office of two consecutive movies exceeded 200 million, which also brought many pink-eyed patients to the industry.

These people began to use media channels to find fault with these movies and constantly write negative reviews, trying to suppress the box office of several Lionsgate movies.

To this end, Lionsgate's publicity department worked overtime to engage in wars of words with trolls and scumbags.

Lawyers from the legal department also began to work overtime to find statements that were suspected of infringement from these reports and comments. If they found one, they would not hesitate to send a lawyer's letter.

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

The actions of the legal department have also made trolls more cautious about their words and deeds to avoid being bankrupted.

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

The global box office of this movie is about RMB 80-90 million. Taking into account other income, Lionsgate Pictures made no less than RMB 60 million in profit from this project, which is more than he earned from a boxing match.

In the second week of the release of "Sinister", the low-budget film "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 Taco, who lives with her father in a bathtub town isolated from the city.

The film was filmed at the beginning of the year and won four awards at the Cannes Film Festival in May, including the Catholic Humanitarian Award, the Camera d'Or, the Young Vision Award, and the Un Certain Regard Award. It also won awards at other film festivals.

The film was screened in 6 theaters in North America and grossed US$268,000 in the first three days. The box office of each theater exceeded US$10,000. The film's reputation is also very positive, with a media review score of 88 points, almost all of which are positive reviews.

Thanks to the positive publicity from the media, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" expanded its theaters to 1,124 theaters in the second week, and grossed US$8.37 million at the box office in its first week.

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

When peers saw this number, they could only sigh helplessly. Another Lionsgate movie was a hit.

The media also noticed that the film was produced by Palm Beach Pictures.

After the loss of "The Master", Palm Beach Pictures' myth of specializing in dark horse movies has been shattered. Now "Beasts of the Southern Wild" has a total box office of no less than 20 million, with a revenue ratio of nearly 20 times.

The box office myth of Palm Beach Pictures is brought up again.

In addition, this movie has a very good reputation and is considered by the media to be a popular Oscar movie next year. If you are lucky, you can win one or two awards, and the box office performance will jump up.

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The above is all good news, but there is also bad news. Originally hearing the news about the preparation of "The Great Gatsby" from Leonardo, Link is planning to continue to cooperate with Leonardo to jointly produce the film.

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

For this reason, Link could only spend more energy digging for 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, we passed the new projects submitted by Lionsgate's production department, such as "John Wick", "Annabelle", "Insidious 2", "The Conjuring 2", "Warm Bodies", "Neighbors", "Joseph Brothers" etc. .

Lionsgate currently has no shortage of movies to produce, so being targeted by the six major film studios will have no impact.

In addition, when I inquired about the movies invested by the six major film studios, I also found several box-office bad movies, including the famous bad movie "Jack the Giant Slayer" and "The Lone Ranger", which turned Captain Johnny Depp into a box-office poison. Smith's career suffered a setback. Blockbusters such as "Back to Earth" with production costs as high as one to two billion US dollars are being produced by the six major film studios.

Faced with such an opponent, Link is not worried. Lionsgate Pictures also has blockbuster movie series such as "The Hunger Games", "The Conjuring", "High School Musical", "Dark Lady" and "Insidious".

Even if it is being chased and blocked by the six major film studios next year, Lionsgate Films still has the ability to fight, and may still have hope to challenge the six major film studios and gain a foothold in the top three.

(End of chapter)