Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 518 Golden Globe Awards Ceremony

After the New Year, by early January, the shortlist for the 70th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards was announced. Among them, films released by Lionsgate Pictures were nominated for 18 awards.

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

"The Hunt for Bin Laden" won 4 awards, including Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay.

"The Master" won three awards, including Best Actor in a Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" won 2 awards, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.

"Untouchable" won 1 award, Best Foreign Language Film.

"The Hunger Games" won 1 award, Best Original Song.

"The Vow" won 1 award, Best Original Song.

"Buried Alive" won 1 award, 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.

Rival Wayne State Pictures also received five nominations for its film "Django Unchained," including eight for "The Master."

Compared to last year's nominations, The Weinstein Pictures was far behind Lionsgate.

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

Link and Ivaca, Taylor, Katherine, Jennifer Lawrence and others were invited to participate. Link had two nominations, namely Best Actor and Best Original Song, and Taylor had one nomination, Best Original Song.

Link and Taylor were nominated for the same award this year, becoming rivals again and becoming an interesting piece of news before the Golden Globes.

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

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

"Why magical?"

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

Leonardo shrugged and smiled.

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

"I was shortlisted 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 softly and was about to pat Leonardo on the shoulder.

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

"You're very flexible. You're perfect for being a boxer."

Link praised him, and when he saw director Quentin Tarantino coming over, he took the initiative to say hello and congratulate him. Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" also won the Golden Globe Award this year. One of the most nominated films.

Just when he was talking to director Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Weinstein happened to come over and saw the two talking happily from a distance. Harvey couldn't help but change his face and stared at him dangerously. Two people.

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

Quentin said it was just a casual chat.

Harvey breathed a sigh of relief. After Meryl Streep, Ben Affleck was also poached by Link, and he also made a movie with both word-of-mouth and box office success. Ben Affleck has also appeared in movies many times. Praising Link in public made him very unhappy.

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

"Did Link tell you about making a movie?"

Harvey asked nonchalantly.

"Yes, Link said that if you have suitable projects in the future, you can cooperate with him."

Quentin Tarantino said.

Harvey's eye muscles twitched, "Quentin, Link is a layman and doesn't understand movies at all. It's not a good idea to cooperate with him."

"Link is an outsider? How is this possible? This year, Lionsgate Films has 8 films shortlisted, accounting for almost one-third of all shortlisted films. This is too exaggerated. The media said that Lionsgate Films' films will win all the films in the future. The award also shows that Link has a very good vision in film investment and production," Quentin Tarantino said seriously.

Harvey looked ugly after hearing this and wanted to say something more, but the award ceremony began.

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

The two hosts used humorous language to tease everyone, including Link, complaining that this year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony was like the annual meeting of Lionsgate Pictures. All the crew and actors present were from Lionsgate, including the two of them. indivual.

After the warm-up, the awards ceremony began. The first award was for the best foreign language film. This award was won by the French film "Love".

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

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

Link and Taylor were invited to the stage to present the award for Best Original Score, which went to Mychael Danner, the score writer for "Life of Pi."

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

In the Best Actor Award for a Drama Movie, the shortlisted actors include "Buried Alive" Link, "Lincoln" actor Daniel Day-Lewis, "The Master" actor Joaquin Phoenix, and "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 Globes and Oscars 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 terms of 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 had 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?

(End of chapter)