Chapter 599 Worth 30 Billion

At the end of February, the Motion Picture Association of America Annual Report published several articles analyzing the box office data of movies in 2015, including the global film market situation, the box office situation of the North American film market, the ranking and profits of the seven major film industries, etc.

In 2015, the global box office revenue was 38.3 billion US dollars, an increase of 5% over 2014, of which the total box office in North America was 11.14 billion US dollars and the box office in overseas markets was 27.2 billion US dollars.

In terms of the overseas film market, the box office in the Asia-Pacific region grew the fastest, reaching 13.6 billion US dollars, an increase of 13% over last year.

Among them, the box office in China increased by 49% to 6.8 billion US dollars, becoming the largest box office outside North America, and even better than the box office performance of the United States.

Also because the box office performance in China was high enough, and because an important figure from China visited the United States last year, the American Film Association and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of China jointly hosted the "2015 China Film Week" in Washington, and the two sides decided to strengthen cooperation in the film field at the political level.

Under this opportunity, Hollywood film companies have cooperated with Chinese film companies, and now there are many Chinese-American co-productions.

Including Zhang Da's "The Great Wall", originally wanted to invite Link to play the male lead, but Link did not agree, he is too busy now and does not have the time.

There is also Fox Film's "Independence Day: Resurgence", which invited the popular Chinese actress An Zhula Bibi to play the second female lead.

There are also commercial blockbusters such as "Pacific Rim", "The Ultimate Pursuit", "The Maze", and "Warrior's Gate", which have invited Chinese actors to participate.

Lionsgate also has two Chinese-American co-productions this year.

The thriller "The Meg" has been approved, and Jason Statham and Bingbing Li have been invited to play the male and female protagonists.

"The Expendables 4" will also continue to increase the roles of Chinese actors.

"The Hollywood Reporter" said that the current Chinese and North American film industries have entered the era of the closest cooperation. In the future, the importance of the Chinese region in the global film market will continue to increase, and it is very likely to surpass North America and become the world's number one box office market, and cooperation with China has become very necessary.

As for the North American box office.

According to the American Film Association Annual Report, 845 films were released in North America last year, 1.32 billion movie tickets were sold, and the total box office was 11.14 billion US dollars.

It increased by 8% compared with 2014, and it was also the first time in the history of North American films that the box office exceeded 11 billion, setting a new market record.

Last year, there were 7 films with a North American box office of more than 300 million US dollars, "Star Wars 7", "Inside Out", "Avengers 2", "Jurassic World", "Minions", "American Sniper", and "The Hunger Games 4".

The first three belong to Disney Pictures, the middle two belong to Universal Pictures, and the last two are produced and distributed by Lionsgate.

Among them, "Star Wars 7" broke the box office record held by "Avatar" and became the first movie in North American film history to break the 900 million box office. "Jurassic World" ranked fourth in North American film history with 650 million, and "Avengers 2" also ranked ninth in film history.

Judging from these movies that broke the box office record in film history, the competition in the North American film market last year was extremely fierce, which can be called the most in the past decade.

Under such circumstances, Lionsgate was able to defeat the six major film studios and retain the title of the North American box office champion, which amazed countless media and filmmakers.

In the box office results of the seven major film companies in 2015 published by the American Film Association Annual Report, Lionsgate released a total of 21 films.

Two films had a North American box office of more than 300 million, 7 films had a North American box office of more than 200 million, accounting for 7/12 of all films with a box office of more than 200 million, and 13 films had a North American box office of more than 100 million, accounting for 13/28 of all films with a box office of more than 100 million.

This data far exceeded its peers. In the end, Lionsgate retained the annual box office champion with a total box office of 2.87 billion US dollars, accounting for 25.6% of the North American box office share.

In second place was Disney, which released a total of 11 films last year with a total box office of 2.425 billion US dollars, accounting for 21% of the total share.

Universal Pictures released a total of 20 films last year, ranking third with 1.88 billion US dollars, accounting for 16.9% of the box office share.

Warner Bros., Fox, Paramount, and Sony ranked fourth to seventh, respectively, with total North American box office revenues below $1.3 billion, far behind Lionsgate and Disney.

However, in terms of overseas box office revenue, Lionsgate ranked only third this year, with about $2.08 billion, slightly worse than the North American box office revenue.

The main reason is that several films are co-productions. Disney is responsible for the overseas distribution of Maleficent, and this part of the box office revenue is recorded in Disney's account.

The overseas distribution of Terminator: Genisys, San Andreas, and The Martian was jointly distributed by Paramount Pictures, and the box office revenue was recorded in the name of Paramount Pictures.

Disney ranked first in the global box office, with $6.2 billion. The overseas box office revenues of Star Wars 7 and Avengers 2 exceeded $1 billion.

Universal Pictures ranked second, with $5.8 billion, and the overseas box office revenue of Jurassic World exceeded $1 billion.

Lionsgate ranked third, with a global box office of 4.95 billion US dollars. The overseas box office of movies such as "The Hunger Games 4", "American Sniper", "The Expendables 3", "Now You See Me 2", "Lucy", and "The Revenant" all exceeded 200 million US dollars.

Paramount Pictures ranked fifth, with 3.6 billion US dollars. Although there is a certain gap with Disney and Universal Pictures, this data is much better than last year because of the cooperation with Lionsgate.

In addition, in terms of film profits, Lionsgate's total annual revenue reached 6.2 billion US dollars last year, including movies, TV series, advertising, streaming media copyrights, etc.

Although the total revenue cannot be compared with large groups such as Disney and Universal, the profit ratio ranks first among its peers.

Last year, Lionsgate invested less than 1.6 billion US dollars in movies and TV series, but finally made 6.2 billion US dollars. This result made countless media admire that Lionsgate's efficiency in making money is too high, and it is a golden chicken that will not stop laying golden eggs.

Also because Lionsgate's box office performance of the movies released last year was good, and Netflix's market value exceeded 50 billion US dollars at the end of last year, closing at 52.1 billion US dollars, Lionsgate's market value also rose to around 12.5 billion US dollars.

Among them, Lionsgate's film and television industry is worth 7 billion US dollars.

In this case, Lionsgate announced its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, publicly issuing 32 million shares, with a price of 65 US dollars per share, accounting for 16.5% of the total share capital.

Due to the good financial situation of Lionsgate and the booming global film market, the stock price of Lionsgate increased from US$65 to US$78 in the first week of listing.

After the release of the "American Film Association Annual Report", the stock price of Lionsgate quickly exceeded US$100, which once made the market value of Lionsgate exceed the 20 billion mark, surpassing Paramount and approaching Sony Pictures.

After a period of cooling, the current stock price has slightly declined and remains around US$85 per share.

When Lionsgate's stock broke through US$100, Link sold part of it and recovered nearly US$1 billion in cash. Now he still holds 42.3% of Lionsgate shares, worth more than US$9 billion.

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In early March, the "Forbes Rich List" released a new ranking of the rich.

Link ranked 13th with a net worth of US$34 billion.

His current assets are still divided into three parts.

The first part is the shares controlled by New York Golden Shell Investment Company.

Including 16.6% of Nvidia shares, 17.4% of Tesla shares, 3.2% of Amazon, 5.7% of SpaceX, 8.6% of Netflix shares, 5.05% of Eli Lilly, 1.8% of Google's parent company Alphabet shares, and a small amount of shares of Facebook, WhatApp, ins, Apple and other companies.

Compared with the previous year, the shares of Jinbeike Asset Management Company have changed significantly.

Last year, he sold 1.8% of News Corporation shares, and with some cash and loans, he increased his Amazon shares to 3.2%, Eli Lilly shares to 5.05%, and also got 1.5% of Alphabet Group shares.

The current total market value of New York Jinbeike Asset Management Company is about 18.5 billion US dollars.

Last year, Nvidia's market value slowly grew to 16 billion US dollars. When Link bought it in 2011, Nvidia's market value was 12.8 billion. It took more than five years to recover to the level of 2011. Link also took off the label of having no investment vision.

Tesla's stock has not changed much, still fluctuating around 30 billion US dollars.

Amazon's current market value is around 220 billion, an increase of 13% from when Link bought it, and the change is not big.

Eli Lilly's shares are also growing slowly. When Link bought it in 2012, the market value was around 60 billion. After more than three years of development, the current market value is around 85 billion US dollars.

Other stocks such as Netflix, SpaceX, and Alphabet have all grown.

There are also 100,000 bitcoins held by Jin Beike, which are currently worth about 230 million US dollars.

The second part of the assets is mainly in the sports and entertainment industry, worth about 13.3 billion US dollars.

Last year, Spotify developed rapidly and currently has more than 600 million users worldwide, nearly 80 million paying members, and the current market value is around 12 billion.

Link and Eva Ka have a total of 1ify shares, worth about 2 billion US dollars, and about 1.5 billion is in his name.

Link Music Company is currently developing steadily, with a current market value of about 2.5 billion US dollars. His 45.8% link music shares are worth about 1.2 billion US dollars.

He and Eva Ka also own 2.2% of Universal Music and SB projects entertainment shares, with a market value of about 800 million US dollars.

In terms of music, he has assets of about 3.2 billion US dollars.

In terms of film companies, including Lionsgate and Palm Beach Pictures, worth about 9.5 billion US dollars.

In terms of sports, including 23.5% of Dynasty Promotion and Nike-Link sports brand, worth about 600 million US dollars, little change from last year.

The third part of assets is overseas assets.

Including shares under Hong Kong Island Jinbeck Investment Company, 11.6% of Wanda Pictures, 5.36% of BYD Auto, 5.1% of JD.com, 0.45% of Moutai shares, 0.22% of Alibaba Investment shares, 10.5% of Meituan, 32% of Douyin, 22% of Kuaishou, Dolphin Bay Film Company shares and Jiatianxia Real Estate Management Company.

This part of assets is about 7 billion US dollars.

There are also 41% of Big Hit Company shares, Paris Rose Film Company, etc., about 100 million US dollars.

His current net worth is approximately 38 billion, but the deadline for Forbes magazine's statistics is the end of last year, and it does not take into account the changes after Lionsgate went public. Therefore, on the rich list published by Forbes magazine, his net worth is approximately 34 billion.

Ranked 12th is Larry Page, with a net worth of 34 billion. Sergey Brin sold part of his Google stock last year, with a net worth of 33 billion US dollars, ranking 14th.

Others such as Bill Gates, Amancio Ortega, and Buffett have not changed much.

Eva Ka's net worth increased to 1.8 billion US dollars this year with her shares in Spotify and Lionsgate, ranking 898th on the rich list.

"Forbes" magazine also announced the income ranking list of athletes, actors, singers and other industries. Link won the income championship in the two industries of athletes and actors.

In terms of singer income, although Link did not release new works, he also earned 18.5 million US dollars last year from copyright fees and streaming media income sharing, ranking 12th on the singer income list.

Taylor ranked second with an income of 36 million US dollars.

Katy Perry earned 135 million US dollars from her new album and world tour last year, ranking first by a cliff.