America Tycoon: The Wolf of Showbiz-Chapter 1008 - 905 Epilogue
Chapter 1008: Chapter 905 Epilogue
Chapter 1008 -905 Epilogue
The rising sun illuminated the Davis Estate, where several servants were busy clearing the remnants of last night’s revelry.
In the trophy room adjacent to the villa’s living room, Martin opened the custom-made display case and took the Oscar statuette from Elizabeth, placing it separately inside this showcase.
Lily placed a freshly engraved bronze plaque at the base of the statuette.
The plaque bore only one line — Best Director, 89th Academy Awards.
Martin closed the glass door of the display case.
Elizabeth said, “This awards season added quite a few trophies.”
On her left stood an extra-large glass case, inside of which were many of Martin’s awards.
The total was approaching five hundred.
Every awards season, Martin would reap a good number of trophies, with over a hundred film awards big and small starting from September in North America.
Lily took out her phone: “I’ll make a video and post it on social media.”
Martin said, “Suit yourself.”
Elizabeth and he then left the trophy room.
Lily filmed the trophies, the weightiest among them being an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, two Oscars for Best Actor, one Oscar for Best Director, and one Best Actor award from Cannes.
The Best Picture Oscar was not awarded to individuals, and thus all of them were kept at the company.
Other awards included the Golden Globe, SAG Awards, Saturn Awards, People’s Choice Awards, MTV Awards, and various critics’ association awards.
In terms of honors, Martin had already taken a front-row position in Hollywood.
Lily took a video and uploaded it to Instagram, then went to join Martin and Elizabeth to discuss the upcoming global travel plans.
In the coming months, Martin planned to take a trip around the world.
The Oscars ceremony was over, but the media’s feasting continued, with the focus concentrated on Martin.
“Hollywood unprecedented! Martin Davis becomes the first person to win both the Best Actor and Best Director awards at the Oscars.”
“Last night, Martin Davis deservedly lifted the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture with ‘Joker’.”
“The first person in Oscar history! Four Oscars, including three acting awards and one directing award, ‘immensely talented’ doesn’t even begin to describe him!”
Beyond these serious media reports, there were also a variety of tabloid stories.
“Vanity Fair” released a new Oscar special issue, where Martin was in the absolute center of the cover photo featuring the winners.
In the column behind, there was even a love letter written specifically for Martin.
“Rising from society’s very bottom, commanding Hollywood’s highest film salary, creating unbeatably successful box office hits, setting the latest record at the Oscars, dating the most beautiful women in the world, bearing the heaviest fortune in entertainment — this is Martin Davis, Hollywood’s pinnacle superstar!”
“One of North America’s two major film magazines, ‘Entertainment Weekly’, turned its attention to Martin’s box office records.”
“After the Oscars, our publication reviewed the ticket sales of films starred in or directed by Martin since his debut in 2003, excluding cameo-type appearances like in ‘The Summer of Jeans’. Calculating from his earliest movie ‘Zombie Stripper’ to the recently concluded ‘Joker’, the total box office revenue adds up to a staggering 11.7 billion US Dollars!”
(Note: The next chapter’s free section details the list.)
In contrast to entertainment magazines, the social and financial media focused on Martin’s wealth.
“Forbes” published the 2016 Celebrity Rich List, with Martin surpassing Hollywood’s richest, George Lucas, to take the top spot.
“From publicly available wealth, Hollywood superstar and newly crowned Best Director Martin Davis’s largest fortune does not come from movie salaries and profit-sharing, but from business investments.”
“His Davis Film Studio owns the rights to several popular films, possesses many future promising projects in pre-production, and received a buyout offer totaling 2.5 billion US Dollars from Walt Disney, which Martin Davis declined.”
“Martin has consistently invested for many years in Apple, Netflix, and Tesla, holding stocks in the three companies with a total value exceeding 13 billion US Dollars.”
According to the latest Forbes global billionaires list, Martin ranked as the 34th wealthiest person in the world, with a fortune of 20.3 billion US Dollars.
The person in the 33rd spot was the legendary Jack Ma.
Born in 1981, the 36-year-old Martin Davis was right in Hollywood’s golden age for males, and his legend was set to continue.
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(The end of the book)
