Entertainment: Starting as a Succubus, Taking Hollywood by Storm Chapter 954 - 928: Martin Talk Show

[GodOfReader: Half the paragraph was deleted because of Chinese elents. All you guys need to know is that Martin's friend ca to the U.S. to deliver the script he was interested in. [Which is a chinese film], oh btw the box office of Gravity in China is huge. Hm... yeah that's all of it.]

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As ti marched into February 2014.

Gravity's North Arican box office broke $200 million, with global earnings reaching $412 million.

Awards season arrived.

Gravity swept the Golden Globes, winning Best Motion Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Visual Effects—four major awards.

At the subsequent Oscars, Gravity garnered ten nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Production Design.

In the end, Gravity took ho Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects—four major awards.

But Best Picture went to the heavily favored and politically correct 12 Years a Slave.

Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor for Dallas Buyers Club.

This year's Oscars, hosted by talk show star Ellen DeGeneres, ran for three and a half hours. Beyond the 43 million viewers, the ceremony hit a 12.9 rating among the core 18-49 demographic—the highest for a non-sports program since NBC's Friends finale in 2004.

That was a 6% increase over last year, extending the Oscars' viewership uptrend for three straight years.

Compared to the earlier Golden Globes and Grammys, the Oscars drew 22.1 million and 14.5 million more viewers, respectively.

The pre-ceremony red carpet also pulled in solid numbers, with 27.6 million viewers tuning in during the final half-hour before the show started.

According to Nielsen data, Twitter saw a total of 11.2 million related posts, up 75% from last year.

In contrast to the record-breaking viewership, Ellen DeGeneres—who enjoys solid popularity and reputation in the US—faced no shortage of criticism for her hosting performance this ti.

Mainstream outlets like The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Entertainnt Weekly all expressed disappointnt in her, and the ceremony itself was labeled "tedious," "boring," and even "riddled with errors."

This year's Oscars peaked in viewership during the Best Director presentation.