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The filming of "Cyberpunk 2077: Corporations at War" is nearing completion, and "La La Land" has also swept major awards in North America.

As of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the film had grossed $3 million in North America and $2835 million worldwide.

Even though it was directed by Gilbert Jr., the film was indeed brilliant, but musicals were in decline after all.

To be honest, many people were surprised that the film achieved this box office.

Moreover, the film's soundtrack album is very popular. So far, a total of 1 million digital copies have been sold, and 250 million physical copies have been sold.

Apple Music exclusive period sales accounted for 42%, and the physical version of 2400 million sets included 5 collector's versions, including standard vinyl, limited color vinyl, signed CD, etc.

According to Disney's financial report, the soundtrack derivatives, including vinyl record players and themed headphones, brought in an additional $1.2 million in revenue.

The film earned a profit equivalent to the box office revenue from the soundtrack alone, which is quite impressive.

More importantly, the film won a series of major awards during the awards season.

As early as the Venice Film Festival at the end of August, "La La Land" had already made its debut.

After watching the film, the festival president Alberto Barbera said excitedly: "This is the most moving musical in the past decade.

It is a perfect blend of classic and modern, with the romance of Hollywood’s golden age and the innovation of contemporary filmmakers.”

The internal voting records of the Venice Film Festival jury show that "La La Land" won the Golden Lion Award with an absolute advantage of 9:2.

The opposing vote came from Italian film critic Claudio Santini, who in private communications felt the film was too American-centric.

Scarlett Johansson's Best Actress race was even more dramatic. In the second round of voting, she tied with Huppert 6:6. In the end, President Barbera used double voting rights to break the deadlock.
In the end, the film won the Golden Lion Award for Best Film without any suspense, and Scarlett Johansson won the Venice Film Festival Best Actress Award for her role as Mia, defeating strong opponents including Isabelle Huppert.

However, Gilbert Jr. himself did not attend the awards ceremony.

This arrogant move immediately aroused dissatisfaction from the European media.

Jean-Luc Godard, a film critic for Le Figaro, wrote an article sarcastically: “Hollywood’s great directors seem to have forgotten that the roots of film art are in Europe.

He would rather prepare a commercial sequel than come to Venice to accept the award in person."

In response, Gilbert Jr. only responded briefly on social media: "Thanks to the Venice Film Festival for its recognition, but the preparations for Cyberpunk 2077: Corporate Wars cannot be delayed."

Disney executives praised Gilbert Jr.'s response. They didn't want Gilbert Jr. to spend too much energy at the European Film Festival. After all, the sequel was more important.

And just as European filmmakers have always looked down on Hollywood, Hollywood filmmakers rarely look at the so-called three major awards in Europe in a different light.

This place is more of a stage for film promotion. For example, Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible" series has always had a tradition of arranging its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film went on to win the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and then went on to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the American Film Institute Award, and the Boston Society of Film Critics Award.

There are also the Producers Guild of America Awards, the Directors Guild Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Film critics were generous with their praise, especially for the film's audio-visual language and emotional expression.

Todd McCarthy, chief film critic for The Hollywood Reporter, wrote: "Gilbert used the most retro technology to shoot the most modern love story.

Every frame of La La Land is like a flowing painting, and Scarlett Johansson’s performance is heartbreakingly delicate.”

In particular, union awards are very important. Just taking the Screen Actors Guild Awards as an example, in the past fifteen years, only three of the Best Actor and Best Actress awards were different from the Oscars, and the rest were all the same.

Winning the Screen Actors Guild Award means there's hope for an Oscar trophy.

After receiving the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, Scarlett Johansson excitedly said: "The role of Mia made me re-examine my career.

I used to think that success was a given, but the reality is that everyone who stands here has experienced countless failures.

Thanks to Gilbert Jr., he made me believe that movies are not just entertainment, they can also make the audience feel the weight of their dreams. "

The Screen Actors Guild Best Actor award went to Matt Damon for "Manchester by the Sea". This Hollywood actor, who has already avoided the failure of "The Great Wall", may be able to win the first Oscar for Best Actor in his career.

When Matt Damon visited the crew, he specifically thanked Gilbert Jr.: "After seeing the performance of The Great Wall, I really want to thank you. It's a good thing I didn't act in this film."

I think Mr. Pitt must be regretting now why he took this film."

Gilbert Jr. smiled and said, "At least Mr. Pitt got paid, and I heard the movie is doing well in China."

Since its release, The Great Wall has been criticized in China. However, few people in Hollywood paid attention to this Sino-US co-production, and the film did not make any splash.

If you want to go the co-production route, you have to at least come up with a story that is acceptable to both Eastern and Western audiences.

You have to know that it took more than 20 years for Godzilla, a giant monster from an island country, to integrate into the North American market.

The North American market is well known for its exclusivity. Except for a certain moment when everyone was very interested in so-called Kung Fu martial arts films and Chinese-language films became slightly popular, the rest of the time, basically every new film was a flop.

Gilbert Jr. believes that it will be difficult for films from other parts of the world to achieve anything in North America, at least until North American audiences get tired of the same old Hollywood formula.

The success of "La La Land" is not only in the movie, the film also achieved good results in music, especially the theme song of the film "City of Stars" which even became the Billboard champion single.

At the 59th Grammy Awards, the musical achievements of La La Land were recognized by the global music community.

The film not only won the Best Original Film and Television Music Award and the Best Original Film and Television Music Album Award, but its theme song "City of Stars" also won the Best Film and Television Song.

Justin Hurwitz's arrangement won the Best Instrumental Arrangement.

This achievement makes "La La Land" one of the most awarded movie soundtracks in a single year in Grammy history, ranking alongside classics such as "Titanic" and "The Lion King".

The success of the Grammy Awards further boosted the commercial performance of the soundtrack. Digital sales surged 37% in the week after the awards ceremony, and physical vinyl records were out of stock worldwide.

Data from the music streaming platform shows that the film's soundtrack has been played more than 800 million times a day on Spotify, becoming the most played movie soundtrack in the platform's history. Disney took advantage of the opportunity to launch a deluxe vinyl set, which includes unreleased soundtrack clips and interviews with the main creators. It was priced at $199 but still sold out quickly.

As a musical, "La La Land" can be said to have done everything it could, becoming another masterpiece in Gilbert's directorial career.

More importantly, Gilbert Jr. once again proved to the world that he is still a director with strong originality.

He was able to achieve success in the film industry without relying on so-called sequels and Marvel movies.

If anyone doesn't believe it, "La La Land" is the best proof.

The film was another success at the Golden Globe Awards, with Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Gosling attending the awards ceremony and winning the Best Actor and Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical respectively, while Gilbert Jr. also won the Best Director trophy.

Afterwards, the Oscar nominees luncheon announced the nomination list, and "La La Land" won fourteen awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay.

Some movie fans counted the awards nominated for the film one by one, and then compared them with the nomination record of "Titanic", and found that "La La Land" tied the nomination record of "Titanic".

However, some people pointed out that although "La La Land" received many nominations, it was impossible for the film to win as big as "Titanic".

Considering that Gilbert has recently won the Oscar for Best Director, the Oscar voters may not give Gilbert the Best Director award again.

At the end of the day the film will win five or six awards and still be considered a big winner.

After the Oscars Nominees Luncheon, 2016 is over

Looking back at 2016, we will find some people are sad and some are surprised.

Disney's overall performance in 2016 was very good. Not only Gilbert Jr.'s "La La Land", but several animated films also achieved considerable success.

However, there are still failed works. The project "The Wrath of Time" led by Dorothy Ofiro, the black vice president of Disney, cost $8000 million to produce, but the global box office was only $5200 million, with a loss of $7500 million.

This project was strongly opposed by Gilbert Jr., who believed it would result in losses.

But Dorothy Ofiro accused him at a high-level meeting of discrimination against black women and homosexuals because she was gay.

There were many executives on the board who supported Dorothy O'Filo, and Gilbert Jr. did not say anything more when he saw this. After all, they knew that what they said was right because they suffered losses in the end.

As it turned out, the film lost money, and Robert Egger took the opportunity to fire Dorothy O'Filo.

Dorothy Ofiro cried in front of the media that Disney discriminated against black women and homosexuals, but Ovaro Firth, also a black woman and the head of the marketing department, stood up to refute her.

"Ms. Dorothy Ofiro is completely incompetent. Not many of the projects she is responsible for are profitable, so we think she is no longer suitable for Disney."

Of course, Dorothy O'Filo's crying did have a certain effect. The black community once again collectively protested against Disney, but was then splendidly ignored by Disney.

The advantage of living in a capitalist society is that if a person has no value, then capital can abandon that person without any psychological burden.

Through the character of Dorothy O'Filo, Gilbert Jr. dealt a powerful blow to supporters of diversity and minority groups within Disney, and once again turned Disney into a one-man show.

However, as the world's number one media company today, Disney possesses terrifying power, and organizations dedicated to promoting minority privileges and diversity will certainly not give up.

In fact, it is not just Disney that lost money on a few films. "Gods of Egypt" produced and released by Summit Entertainment cost $1.4 million to produce and grossed $1.5 million worldwide, with an estimated loss of $9000 million.

This film almost bankrupted Summit Entertainment, but I didn't expect the film to flop to this extent.

"Divergent: Allegiant", produced and released by Lionsgate, cost more than $3 million to produce, but only grossed $1.1 million in North America and lost $6618 million worldwide.

Since the wave of fantasy and sci-fi youth films brought about by "Twilight" and the success of the "Hunger Games" series, youth films have become a popular theme in Hollywood in recent years.

The losses from this film may make other Hollywood companies think twice.

Another thing related to Gilbert Jr. is that AT&T spent $854 billion to acquire Time Warner. The first thing AT&T did after taking over Time Warner was to kick out Warner Pictures CEO Keely Ross.

Dorothy O'Filo at least had the black and gay communities speaking up for her, but Kiri Ross was kicked out to overwhelming applause.

Even a senior Warner executive publicly stated that if it weren't for her, Warner would not have fallen to this point.

Some Warner executives also said that they were against Gilbert Jr. leaving Warner Pictures, but Kiri Ross insisted. Now that this woman is gone, Warner's day has come.

Some transaction analysis experts believe that AT&T has entered Hollywood but missed the best of Warner because Gilbert Jr. is no longer likely to return to Warner.

AT&T also tried to send people to contact Gilbert Jr. and promised a lot of conditions, but Gilbert Jr. was unmoved.

However, Kiri Ross left Warner like this, which surprised little Gilbert somewhat, but he also felt it was reasonable.

The fact that she has lasted this long is the biggest surprise in Hollywood.

Another thing is that Donald was unexpectedly successful in the draft, debuting as the center and joining Washington.

No one knows what kind of changes this megalomaniac will bring to the industry after taking office, but at least the Internet will be very lively.

Blocking out external interference, Cyberpunk 2077: Corporations at War was successfully completed in mid-January 2017 and entered the post-production stage.

After the filming was wrapped, Gilbert Jr. posted a group photo of the crew and several stills from the set on his social media account.

At the same time, the film also began to warm up, and the public opinion repeatedly mentioned the "EdgeWalker" series and its predecessor movie.

Then Gilbert Jr. also held a joint press conference with Polish CD Projekt Red to announce that the game "Cyberpunk 2077" is under full production.

It is not uncommon for movies to be made into games. Gilbert Jr.'s "Lord of the Rings" series was also made into a game and achieved good sales.

"The Last of Us" was also made into a game and was a huge success. The production team is currently working on the second part.

So this cooperation is reasonable, and the Polish CD Projekt Red has become famous through "The Witcher 2015" in 3, and Gilbert Jr. is one of the shareholders behind it. . (End of this chapter)