Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion-Chapter 767 - 556 Overall Box Office Ranking
For Meryl Streep to win the Best Actress Award this year, the most displeased person was probably Harvey.
In 2012, he spent millions of US dollars and even borrowed Obama's PR team to help Meryl campaign for the Best Actress Award, but in the end, it was snatched away by 21-year-old Jennifer Lawrence.
However, after losing, Meryl Streep gained a lot of sympathy, and the media predicted that the next time Meryl was nominated for the Academy Awards, she would definitely win Best Actress.
The media's prediction was successful.
But this time Meryl won the award with a film from Lionsgate Films.
Harvey spent millions to make a wedding dress for others, so feeling displeased was inevitable.
After the Oscars ceremony, he spent hundreds of thousands of US dollars hiring professional critics to write promotional articles, and stirred up news of Lionsgate Films monopolizing the Best Actress Award, ready to put Lionsgate Films on the hot seat.
At the same time, he hyped up the ambiguous relationships between Link and many actresses, and even leaked gossip claiming that Link exploited casting opportunities at Lionsgate Films to manipulate and play with women's bodies and emotions.
However, these accusations lacked actual evidence, constituting slander and defamation.
Lionsgate's legal department quickly approached these media outlets, delivering a stack of legal letters. This time Link's lawyers were ready to pursue the matter to the end, not only causing the media involved in spreading this news to go bankrupt, but also aiming to imprison the authors.
Regarding the monopoly of the Best Actress Award, Lionsgate Films would not admit it, but instead arranged for the media to hype up Palm Beach Films, a company founded in 2009 focusing on women-centric movies, producing one or two high-quality women's films almost every year.
"Scandal Plan," "The Help," "Bridesmaids," "Her," "August: Osage County," and other movies produced by Palm Beach Films received both box office success and critical acclaim after their release and have often been nominated for the Oscars, which also proves that both fans and the Oscar jury recognize these films.
After the Oscars, Catherine, representing Palm Beach Films, often participated in interviews and TV personality talk shows, publicly discussing the development of Palm Beach Films and her relationship with Link.
These interviews and promotions significantly boosted the profile of Catherine and Palm Beach in Hollywood.
Catherine became a renowned CEO of a women-centric film company in Hollywood, and due to consistently producing several Oscar Rank films, Palm Beach Films' market value was estimated by Wall Street to be around 160 million US Dollars, ranking it among the top ten powerhouses in the independent film scene.
After a period of promotion, the negative news about Lionsgate Films monopolizing the Best Actress Award was temporarily suppressed, but it was only a temporary solution pending Lionsgate Films' performance in 2014.
If Lionsgate Films secures the Best Actress Award again in 2014, the negative news will likely increase in volume after next year's Oscars.
Following the Oscars, besides the news about the Best Actress Award attracting a lot of attention, Link winning the Oscar for Best Original Song with "Let it go" also stirred discussions.
Link, as an actor, had won the Best Actor Award at Berlin and Cannes, and was nominated three times for the Best Actor at Golden Globes, yet he never even had a chance to be nominated for the Best Actor at the Oscars.
While everyone joked that Link would never win an Oscar, he managed to grab a little golden man with one song.
After receiving the award, Link asked Leonardo if he wanted to touch it, maybe rub some of the luck off for next time.
Leonardo refused with a darkened face.
Link knew this guy was just jealous.
After the Academy Awards, several movies nominated under Lionsgate showed noticeable changes in box office receipts.
First, "Dallas Buyers Club" released in October, managed to make 28.56 million US dollars in North America within just over two months, and after the Golden Globes and Oscars, the box office dramatically rose to $58.4 million, making it the 13th Lionsgate film in 2013 to cross 50 million in North American box office.
Its international box office is also growing rapidly, currently standing at 54.19 million US dollars.
The film had a production budget of 5 million and a marketing and PR budget of 12 million, grossing over 100 million globally.
The performance was quite satisfactory, and Lionsgate Films' investment was not in vain.
Next was "August: Osage County," which had a limited release at the end of last year. Before the Academy Awards, it gradually made over 32.30 million at the box office, and after the Oscars, gained another 10 million US dollars.
The current North American box office is 42.25 million US dollars, and international is 39.40 million US dollars.
The production and marketing costs were approximately 32 million US dollars.
Lionsgate Films and Palm Beach could make around 20 million US dollars.
Then "Her," after the Oscars, saw an increase of 6 million in North America, currently at 28.75 million US dollars in North American box office, and 27.01 million internationally.
Compared to a production cost of 23 million US dollars, Palm Beach and Annapurna Pictures made a modest profit of about 7-8 million US dollars.
The multiple-nominee "The Wolf of Wall Street" currently has a North American box office of 145 million, an international box office of 332 million, and a global tally of 487 million.
Lionsgate Films and Archaia Entertainment could take home approximately 200 million US dollars from the box office share.
Also, last year's big show from Lionsgate Films, "The Hunger Games 2," pulled in 507 million US dollars at the North American box office after being out for just over three months, surpassing "Iron Man 3" and "Frozen" to take the title of North American box office champion.
