novelraw Chapter 636: A Grand Harvest at the Golden Globe Awards, the Miracle Continues
Chapter 636: A Grand Harvest at the Golden Globe Awards, the Miracle Continues
[Chapter 636: A Grand Harvest at the Golden Globe Awards, the Miracle Continues]
In the following days, Linton continued to attend the Oscar campaign parties arranged by Harvey every day.
Harvey truly lived up to being Linton's loyal lackey; every day's party featured a major female star, such as Jodie Foster, Jennifer Lopez, Julianne Moore, Teri Hatcher, and so on.
After the parties ended, unless there were special circumstances, Linton would stay behind alone with these beauties to frolic and spend the night together in the hotel's presidential suite, living a very comfortable life.
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Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was mid-February.
Saturday, February 12, 1998, the 55th Golden Globe Awards were held at the Hilton Hotel in Hollywood.
Linton, Kate Winslet, and James Cameron attended the awards ceremony together with the main creative staff of the Titanic crew.
Titanic had been in theaters in North America for 8 weeks, with cumulative North American box office earnings reaching $550 million.
According to general film screening patterns, a movie would be taken out of theaters after 8 weeks. However, Titanic was constantly creating unbelievable miracles, having held the box office championship for 8 consecutive weeks.
On February 10, the last working day of the 8th week, Titanic still raked in $5.2 million, continuing to take the daily box office title.
Under these circumstances, the theater chains naturally couldn't take Titanic off the screens. Moreover, before the release, Linton had the distribution department sign a separate profit-sharing agreement with the chains; even after the 8th week, the film company could still receive a high percentage of the revenue.
Additionally, since February to April is the off-season for the film market every year, the theater chains naturally maintained a high number of screenings for the sake of profit. Even entering the 9th week, Titanic still retained 3,100 screens in 1,500 theaters.
Yesterday, Friday, Titanic continued to rake in $6.31 million, once again taking the daily box office championship.
The overseas box office was even more triumphant; after 7 weeks of release, the cumulative box office in more than 80 countries and regions had already achieved a Breakthrough of $1.02 billion.
The global box office reached a staggering $1.57 billion.
By this time, no one doubted Linton's box office predictions before the film's release — $600 million in North America and $1.8 billion globally.
The latest box office predictions for Titanic from professional agencies had been raised to $680 million in North America and $2 billion globally.
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As the Titanic box office continued to create miracles, its influence naturally grew larger and larger, to the point where all the Golden Globe Awards judges had to take notice; after all, the Golden Globe Awards also pursued popularity.
Furthermore, like in previous years, Harvey arranged a 3-day unmasked party on a yacht at sea as part of the campaign for all the Golden Globe Awards judges.
Ultimately, at the Golden Globe Awards, Titanic unsurprisingly took home 11 awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
Linton thus joyfully won the Golden Globe Best Actor, and Kate Winslet won the Golden Globe Best Actress.
It is worth mentioning that Cameron Diaz won Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for There's Something About Mary.
That night, the two Golden Globe Best Actresses, Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz, were overjoyed and used all their skills to play a game of three with Linton...
The two fully demonstrated to Linton what it meant to be wild with excitement and what it meant to fly higher...
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With Titanic winning so many major awards at the Golden Globe Awards, the media naturally provided overwhelming coverage. Subsequently, the film ushered in a new round of screening crazes, and the box office rose accordingly.
That day, the film's box office rose to $7.03 million again.
The next day, Sunday, the box office rose further to $7.5 million.
On the 9th weekend, Titanic took the box office championship by a landslide, continuing to create miracles, and by the looks of it, this miracle would continue.
On Monday, a working day, the film's box office still brought in $6.14 million.
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According to previous years, generally speaking, within 3 to 5 days after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the Academy would hold the Oscar Nominees Luncheon and announce the list of Oscar nominations.
But this year was different. In mid-January, a large number of senior Academy officials had their heads chopped off by Linton, including several at the very top, like the President and Vice President.
With these people dead, the normal operation of the Academy was naturally greatly affected.
At the critical moment of the Oscar selection, the MPAA board did not dare to be negligent, re-electing several top leaders of the Academy. The Academy was able to restore normal operations as quickly as possible.
However, the newly elected President and Vice Presidents of the Academy were no longer predominantly jewish people as before.
In the new management of the Academy, only one of the five Presidents and Vice Presidents was a jewish person.
After the new management of the Academy took office, they immediately promoted and appointed middle-level cadres to fill the vacancies; among these cadres, jewish people were naturally few and far between.
Thus, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a key stronghold influencing Hollywood, was finally no longer in the hands of jewish people.
In the future, it would not be so easy for jewish people to do as they pleased with the Oscar awards.
However, because of this, this year's Oscar judging was still inevitably affected and delayed for quite some time.
Not until Friday, February 25, was the 70th Oscar Nominees Luncheon held at the Regent Hotel in Beverly Hills.
As expected, Titanic lived up to expectations and became the biggest winner of the luncheon, receiving 16 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.
And Cameron Diaz also received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Of course, she understood that winning was out of the question; being nominated was already the greatest victory.
It could be said that the Kabbalah Council's attempt to block Linton's pursuit of Oscar awards had completely failed.
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With the announcement of the Oscar nominations, the campaign work led by Harvey all moved underground, and those activities easily noticed by others were stopped immediately.
The Academy has clear regulations that after the Oscar nominations are announced, no one is allowed to campaign to the judges anymore.
Linton and Kate Winslet could finally take a break.
With the announcement of the Oscar nominations, the exposure of Titanic further increased, and more media outlets took the initiative to report on the film.
Of course, the two media groups under Linton went all out, firing on all cylinders to increase the promotion of the two films.
Stimulated by the Oscar nominations, Titanic, which had already held the box office championship for 11 consecutive weeks, saw its box office rise once again.
The box office for that day rose to $6.15 million.
The next day, Saturday, $6.51 million.
Sunday, $6.38 million.
It continued to hold the weekend box office championship for the 12th week.
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