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Chapter 555 Oscar

There was also the Grammy Awards in January, but Link did not attend. He went to Asia after the Golden Globes and stayed in Seoul for a few days.

Mainly dealing with matters of Big Hit Entertainment and ‘J&Baker Entertainment’.

After three or four years of development, BigHit currently has more than ten artists, including singers, actors, and groups. Among them, 2AM and BTS are developing well. One is a popular boy group, the other is an emerging boy group, and others Artist development is also good.

The current market value of BigHit has grown from the initial two to three million US dollars to 16 million US dollars, and Link owns 41% of the company's shares.

As for J&Baker Entertainment, it has earned more than 20 million US dollars by investing in movies such as "Thieves", "Berlin" and "New World".

Also last year, "My Love from the Star", which Jun Ji-hyun invested in and starred in, was a hit in South Korea, with a peak viewership rating of 28.1%, ranking first among South Korean miniseries in 2013. It also achieved amazing results in other Asian countries and regions, with initial revenue Over $60 million.

J&Baker also participated in the investment in "Snowpiercer" invested and produced by Lionsgate Pictures.

This movie tells the story of the 'dictator' Wilford who developed a train with a perpetual motion engine. The train was equipped with various complete facilities. In seventeen years, he built an independent ecosystem belonging to him on the train. It rotates over and over again during the long journey of 438,000 kilometers.

In the carriage at the end lived a group of oppressed lower-class people. In order to fight for freedom and power, they launched many riots, but all ended in failure without exception.

This time, Curtis, who possesses leadership qualities, found the imprisoned security designer Nangong Minxiu, and used his hand to open the doors leading to the first carriage and overthrow Wilford's rule.

The movie is a US-South Korea co-production.

The director is Bong Joon-ho, who has directed films such as "The Monster on the Han River" and "Memories of Murder". It stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris, Jun Ji-hyun, etc.

The movie was released in South Korea in October last year. The current box office has reached a total of 63.37 million U.S. dollars, and the overseas box office is about 33.09 million U.S. dollars.

In North America, it was distributed by Lionsgate Pictures. There was no schedule at the end of last year, so it was scheduled to be released in January. It took in a box office of US$4.47 million in 1,202 theaters in the first week, which is neither high nor low.

The film invested US$38 million and has already paid back.

J&Baker can also make millions of dollars from this investment.

Now that the company has money, Quan Zhixian came to him to discuss investment matters. Link had no suitable suggestions in this regard, so he transferred three investment consultants from Jinbeike Investment Company to help the company with long-term planning.

During his stay in Seoul, apart from discussing business, Link spent the rest of the time in the villa with Jun Ji-hyun and Taeyeon. Originally, every time he dated the two they would go on separate dates.

Later, he felt that it was too troublesome, so he asked the two of them to get together. If they accepted, he would continue to maintain this relationship. If they did not accept, they could separate and treat them as pure business partners.

Jun Ji-hyun and Taeyeon originally knew each other's existence and did not reject this relationship.

When living together in the villa, the two maintained a polite attitude and called them sisters.

Link also spent a few days in a good three-person world.

The only thing that bothered him was that both wanted to have children.

In particular, Jun Ji-hyun is 33 years old this year and is not young anymore. He hopes to give birth to his child as soon as possible.

Link didn't refuse, and he would take special care of her every time he went to ML.

Taeyeon has a bit of a love mind and is very obedient to him without any conditions. She just hopes that he will have more time to spend with her.

Link would also try his best to meet her conditions, and even accompany her to have a few private meals with Girls' Generation, becoming a 'brother-in-law' to a group of people.

The end of January is the Chinese Spring Festival.

Link flew to the capital a week before the Spring Festival to spend the Spring Festival with Chris Liu, Shu Chang and their two children. In the past year, he had a lot of work and only saw the children three times on Hong Kong Island.

So much so that Shu Nan didn't know how to call him daddy when she saw him, and Liu Jiani was almost one year old, and she had become more beautiful than her mother.

While spending time with his children in the capital, he also took time to deal with some company matters.

After many additional investments, Hong Kong Island Golden Shell Investment now owns shares of many large companies.

Including 11.6% of Wanda Pictures shares, 5.36% of BYD Automobile, 5.1% of JD.com shares, Moutai shares increased to 0.45%, 0.22% of Alibaba Investment shares, as well as shares of Dolphin Bay Film and Television Company and Jiatianxia Real Estate Management Company.

Several companies were developing well last year. Among them, Wanda Pictures ushered in a new round of expansion last year, with 149 cinemas and 1,247 screens in more than 70 cities in China, including 89 IMAX screens. The box office performance of the films under the industry is good.

The total market value has also increased from 8.5 billion yuan to about 14 billion yuan.

The market value of BYD Auto also exceeded the 100 billion mark at the beginning of this year. The current market value is 102.2 billion yuan. However, Linke bought it in 2011 with only 33.4 billion yuan. His shares have more than tripled in just three years.

JD.com received Series C financing at the end of last year and has a current market value of US$18 billion. It plans to be listed in the United States within this year.

Compared with last year and the year before, Maotai shares have experienced a larger decline this year. In August 2012, the total market value was as high as 262 billion yuan, and now the market value is only 128.7 billion yuan.

Alibaba also plans to go public in the United States within this year, and its current total market value is approximately US$140 billion.

There are also more than 20 high-end apartments, courtyard houses, and villas managed by Jiatianxia Real Estate, with a current market value of more than 500 million yuan.

Dolphin Bay Entertainment, managed by Yang Dami, has developed well in the past two years. It has more than ten signed artists. Last year, it earned more than 35 million yuan from investing in TV and movies, with a market value of about 100 million yuan.

The current total assets under management of Hong Kong Island Golden Shell Investment are approximately US$2.4 billion, which is expected to quadruple after the listing of JD.com and Alibaba.

Last year, Jinbeike Investment Company had a total revenue of approximately US$100 million. After discussing with several management members of the company, Link used this profit plus a US$180 million loan to buy 10.7% of Meituan shares.

Currently, group buying websites are rampant in China. Online shopping platforms such as Meituan, Are You Hungry, Baidu, Nuomi, and Dianping are engaged in a protracted battle involving thousands of groups? At this stage, at least 2,000 group buying websites are still in trouble.

Affected by competition, Meituan's market value fell to about US$2.2 billion last year. With support from Alibaba at the end of last year, its current market value was assessed at US$2.5 billion, which is a good time to make a move.

After finishing all these tasks, Link spent the rest of his time with Chris Liu, Shu Chang and the two little ones. Before and after the Spring Festival, he took Chris Liu to meet several business and official figures and attended several events. The next New Year's reception and regional investment talks gave Chris a clear identity.

After a lively New Year, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Link took the opportunity to leave the capital. He first flew to Dahai City, chatted about work with Yang Dami, went on a date with Rinni and Lilith Zhao, and then flew to Tokyo to visit less than one person. The year-old Shinmei Sasaki accompanied Nozomi Sasaki and Yui-chan on vacation in Mount Fuji and did some ridiculous things.

The plane flew around Asia, and Link returned to the United States in early February.

—In early February, the shortlist for the 86th Academy Awards was announced. This year, there are 24 regular awards, 2 honorary awards, and 5 science and technology awards.

Six of the films released by Lionsgate have been nominated for Oscars, receiving 21 nominations.

Including 6 nominations for "Dallas Buyers Club", 3 nominations for "August: Osage County", 5 nominations for "The Wolf of Wall Street", 1 nomination for "Rust and Bone", 5 nominations for "Her", "The Hunger Games 2" 1 nomination.

Although the 21 nominations seem to be relatively large, ranking first in the industry, it is less than Lionsgate expected. Among them, "Now You See Me" and "The Expendables 2", which performed well, were not shortlisted for any awards, and there were no technical awards.

Originally, the public relations department was preparing to help him get a nomination for Best Actor, but it still failed. "Rust and Bone" only received one nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

"The Hunger Games 2" also only won the best makeup and hairstyling award, which is fewer awards than the best-selling series of movies such as "The Lord of the Rings", "Twilight" and "Harry Potter".

The company's internal summary analysis shows that this year's Oscar judges were largely affected by the negative public opinion after the Golden Globes when voting, causing many votes that should have been cast for Lionsgate films to be cast for other films.

In this regard, Link and Iwaka's opinion is to concentrate more funds to increase public relations and publicity in the second round of voting, and strive to win more awards. At the same time, they should also point out the problems in the first round of voting during publicity. Protest unfair treatment at Lionsgate.

If you don't say anything when you are wronged, you will be wronged even more next time.

Lionsgate is no pushover.

On February 23, the 86th Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

The awards ceremony that night was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was broadcast live on ABC. It was broadcast live on television or online in more than 225 countries and regions around the world.

Link was invited by the Oscar Academy to attend the awards ceremony that night as a guest of honor.

He will feel novel when attending such a large-scale awards ceremony that attracts worldwide attention for the first time in 2010, and he will also be a little excited when seeing big stars.

After working in Hollywood for four or five years and participating in four Oscars, I just feel very dull.

Hollywood looks big, but it's actually very small.

Most of the faces I see in newspapers every day at major award ceremonies are familiar faces. For example, among this year’s award guests, Anne Hathaway, Samuel L. Jackson, Naomi Watts, Harrison Ford, Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Watson, Zac Efron, Kevin Spacey and many more.

Some of these people have appeared several times in a row, and some are invited for the first time, but they are basically acquaintances. Seeing them is not much different from seeing neighbors when walking on the road.

And every time he appears in such a public place, the extra work is to deal with the people who come to say hello.

You can't be too arrogant or too frivolous, you can't talk too much, and you can't say nothing at all. When you meet an actress who comes up to talk, you have to be careful to keep your distance. When talking about formal work, you also need to learn to be perfunctory.

In short, it is not an easy task to deal with this group of people.

This is also the reason why big people like to live in seclusion. If they meet fewer people, they will avoid a lot of trouble.

Link is responsible for awarding the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay.

This year's winner for Best Adapted Screenplay was John Ridley for "12 Years a Slave" and Spike Jonze for "Her" for Best Original Screenplay.

The two awards were presented jointly by him and Spanish actor Penelope Cruz.

After completing the task, Link returned to the "Rust and Bone" seating area of ​​the awards hall and continued to watch the second half of the award ceremony.

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As soon as we sat down, Selena and Demi Lovato took the stage to sing the Frozen theme song.

After this song was selected as the theme song of the Disney movie "Frozen", it once again became popular all over the world, and Selena was also invited to perform at this year's Oscar Awards.

After the performance, the award ceremony continued.

In the end, "Dallas Buyers Club" won three awards, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Matthew McConaughey became an Oscar winner for his performance in the movie.

"August: Osage County" won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

Meryl Streep lifted the Oscar for Best Actress for the first time in 30 years, and the audience burst into warm applause for three minutes.

Julia Roberts also won the Best Supporting Actress Award for this film. This was her first Oscar nomination and the first time she won the Best Supporting Actress Award since "Never Give Up" in 2001.

"Her" won best original screenplay.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" was nominated 0 out of 5 times, while "Rust and Bone" and "The Hunger Games 2" also failed to win any awards.

6 out of 21 were picked, which was less than expected.

In addition, Link shared the award for Best Original Song with Selena and Demi Lovato.

The biggest winner at this year's Oscars is "Gravity" released by Warner Bros., with ten nominations and seven awards, including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film. Best sound effects, best original soundtrack.

"12 Years a Slave" tied for second place with "Dallas," winning best picture, best supporting actress, and best adapted screenplay.

Compared with the previous two Oscars, this year's Oscar ceremony did not cause much controversy after the event. The reason is that the winner list coincided with the list predicted by the media before the award ceremony as high as 82%.

The only controversial news is that a Lionsgate film won the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards again. Counting 12 and 13 years, Lionsgate films won the Best Actress award for three consecutive years. In 2012 and 2014, she also won the Best Supporting Actress award.

A reporter interviewed Link after the awards ceremony and asked whether Lionsgate's movies would continue to win the Best Actress award next year.

Link joked about this plan.

After the news report, many media outlets complained that the Lionsgate film was awarded the Best Actress Award, and some netizens said that the Oscar judges were helping Link pick up girls.

Although there has been a lot of controversy, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts' performances in "August" are obvious to all. They deserve the award. This also makes many people want to complain but can't. Can accept reality.

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