Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 449 The Perfect Woman

 “God! Don’t let Link just pick up scripts anymore.”

 This is the title written on the cover of "Complete Film Magazine", where he was also selected as the cover character for July.

 The main reason is that he has a relatively large influence in the film industry in June.

First, "Bridesmaids" in which he participated and invested became a global hit.

 The cumulative box office in North America reached 128 million U.S. dollars, and the overseas box office reached 207 million U.S. dollars. The total box office reached 335 million U.S. dollars, which was more than ten times the production cost. It also became the film with the highest revenue ratio in the North American film market in May.

 It is rumored that if the box office of this movie had not been stolen, the global box office would have exceeded 400 million US dollars, ranking among the top eight in the annual box office rankings.

There is also "Midnight in Paris" starring Link, which will be screened in North America on May 20 and will be released widely on June 10.

 After being released for more than a month, the cumulative box office in North America has reached 50.89 million U.S. dollars, and the overseas box office is currently about 84.57 million U.S. dollars.

 These two figures may not seem like much, but they are the peak of Woody Allen's career as a box office director.

 Since the 1960s, Director Allen has directed 43 films, an average of one film per year, including "Annie Hall", "The Book of Sex", "The Purple Rose of Cairo", "Match Point", "Midnight in Barcelona", etc.

 The reputation is good, but the box office performance is average, and the global box office is basically less than 100 million US dollars.

 In less than a month since the release of "Midnight in Paris", the North American box office has exceeded 50 million, and the overseas box office is about to exceed 100 million.

 Compared to the production cost of 18 million US dollars, this movie was undoubtedly successful at the box office.

"Complete Movies" magazine compared director Allen's previous films and analyzed the reason why this film had a better box office than the original film, mainly because of the selection of the right actors.

 In the past, when Director Allen made movies, he mostly directed and acted himself. If the role was not suitable for him, he would choose someone to play him. This also resulted in the male characters in his movies being unattractive and much worse than the female characters.

In "Midnight in Paris", he took the risk of bringing in world boxing champion Link as the male lead, playing the role of a writer and screenwriter. This was an extremely bold and pioneering decision. Facts have proved that his risk was successful.

Link is a world-famous star with a very high reputation around the world and a strong box office appeal, opening up the global market for the film.

 In addition, director Allen is also a very powerful director who is very popular among audiences in Europe and the United States.

There are also two major additions, France's first contemporary actress Marion Cotillard and new-generation powerful actress Jennifer Lawrence.

 The combination of these three has become the key to the success of this film.

"Complete Movies" also added at the end of the review that Link's face contributed at least 30% of the global box office.

 After talking about "Midnight in Paris", "Complete Movie Magazine" continues to introduce three other movies related to Link: "Mr. Tree", the latest "The Snowflake and the Secret Fan", and "Captain America" ​​which will be released in North America at the end of the month.

The current box office of "Mr. Tree" in North America has reached a total of 7.82 million US dollars.

 Compared with the copyright fee of 150,000 and the publicity and distribution cost of 1.8 million, the box office performance is nearly four times, and the film has a good reputation.

 It has better box office revenue than "The Tree of Life," which won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

 There is no doubt that Link picked up a treasure at the Cannes Film Festival.

However, "Complete Cinema" also said.

Without meeting Link, it would be almost impossible for "Mr. Tree" to be released in North America.

Without Link's blunt promotion of the film with the number one single, "Mr. Tree" would not have survived the screening period and been given the opportunity to be released in more theaters.

 Hence, it is a small probability event that the film will be a hit in North America, and others cannot copy it.

 For the sentence written on the cover, ‘God! Stop letting Link take random scripts’, mainly a comment on “Snowflake and the Secret Fan”.

 In the article, the editor of "Complete Film" magazine uncharacteristically criticized Link's vision in selecting the script.

I don’t think he knows how to choose scripts at all, from "Blue Sea 2" to "Valentine's Day", "Scandal Project", "Bridesmaids", and this "Snowflakes and the Secret Fan".

 Although his performance in these movies is good, he is not suitable for these supporting roles. Playing such roles will only make him go further and further on the road of male vase.

The editor did not even approve of his performance in "Midnight in Paris". He believed that his appearance in the film was greater than his acting skills. The most suitable role for him was the mercenary master in "Suicide Squad". He hoped that he would take more roles in the future. Make action movies.

  The editor of "Complete Film" magazine expressed strong expectations for his new movie "Captain America" ​​at the end of the article.

He said that in this movie, you can see Link's strong figure in "The Fighter", his top-notch looks in "Midnight in Paris", and his clean fighting moves in "The Expendables".

 Perry Moore, editor-in-chief of "Complete Film Magazine", wrote at the end:

"This film is definitely the best work currently that fully integrates and presents Link's own strengths and talents, allowing 'Superman Link' and 'Super Boxing Champion Link' to play 'Captain America'. This is definitely the most exciting movie in 2011. There is no other movie role that people look forward to.”

Seeing this, Link can basically conclude that this article is a promotional soft article written by someone arranged by the publisher of "Captain America" ​​to help promote Captain America and also take a look at the newly released "Snowflake and the Secret Fan".

 From a reader's perspective, this article has both praise and criticism, and is relatively objective and neutral.

　From the perspective of Cap Distribution Company, it is helping the movie speak for itself.

 "The Fighter", "Midnight in Paris" and "The Expendables" can be regarded as Link's masterpieces. The global box office has exceeded 100 million US dollars, and The Expendables has exceeded 300 million US dollars.

 He has good looks, acting skills, strength and outstanding performance in the three dramas.

As long as you are a fan of these three movies, after reading this article, you may not be able to help but go to the theater to see what "Captain America" ​​is like, which combines the advantages of the three movies.

Link doesn’t mind this either. The performance contract he signed with Marvel Studios is a basic salary of 10.5 million plus a 3.5% share of the global box office. The higher the box office performance, the higher his salary.

If the global box office of "Captain America" ​​exceeds 300 million US dollars, he will have the opportunity to join Hollywood's 20 million salary club and become a first-line actor.

  Putting down the "Complete Movie" magazine, Link picked up other newspapers and magazines and looked at them.

 After leaving the United States for half a month, he was busy with competitions and work, and paid little attention to these things. Now that he has free time, he will read more industry news and fill in the gaps in information.

 Looking through it, there was nothing new. There were only two entertainment news items that made him look at them a few more times.

At the end of June, the American Country Video Awards Ceremony was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

 Taylor Swift won the ‘Video of the Year’ award for her hit song “Blank Space”. This is the third time she has won this award, and she can be called the direct daughter of country music.

 There are two interesting facts at this year’s Country Music Video Awards.

The first one is that veteran country music queen Shania Twain accidentally fell while awarding an award, and Lady Gaga fell while performing on stage. Both of these have become hot topics in recent times, and related videos have received a lot of clicks on YouTube.

Link thought for a moment, took out his cell phone and sent a message to Taylor to congratulate her on winning the award. However, he did not receive a reply. He then sent a message to Lady Gaga and asked her if she was injured. He just saw the video and smiled apologetically.

Lady Gaga asked him not to mention it. The injury on her **** was healed, but when he mentioned it, it hurt again.

Link said that he had a medicine that was specially designed to treat bruises and was very effective. He could give her a bottle if she needed it.

Lady Gaga said that he would only fall down once and there would never be a next time, but she still decided to take his medicine just in case.

Chatted with Ms. Gaga for a few minutes, but did not receive a reply from Taylor. He ignored her and sent a message to congratulate Beyoncé.

On July 1, Beyoncé’s fourth personal studio album “4” was released to the public. It still sold 310,000 copies in the first week and ranked first on both the British and American album charts. This is also Beyoncé’s fourth consecutive album. It topped the Billboard album chart for the first time.

 This album was hacked before it went on sale, causing the album’s sound source to be leaked. It’s not bad to sell this number in the first week.

Beyoncé said thank you and asked when his new album will be released?

Link said it will be tentatively scheduled for August 5th.

Beyoncé asked him to be careful about hackers. Hackers have been rampant this year and have made several big news.

Link said he understood.

 Hackers are indeed rampant this year.

 In January, French boss Sarkozy’s Facebook account was stolen. Hackers used his account to post a message announcing that he would not be re-elected.

In March, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s Twitter account was hacked. Hackers used her account to send eight messages accusing her. The first one was, ‘How can she defend the country if she can’t even keep her own Twitter account? think about it'.

 In March and April, private photos of more than 100 male and female stars in Hollywood were leaked by hackers.

Including popular actresses such as Vanessa Hudgens, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, Kristen Dunst, etc., there are many shocking news, which also leads to The characters of several actresses who took the innocent route collapsed.

Also in April, a hacker group caused an uproar by stealing the information of 77 million customers, including credit card account numbers, from Sony's online website PlayStation.

 In June, Citibank also announced that it had been hacked, resulting in the personal information of 210,000 customers in North America being leaked.

On Wednesday, the Twitter account of Fox News was hijacked by hackers, and multiple fake news were published continuously through the account, including the assassination of US President Obama, Link's announcement that he will release a new album next week, and singer Marilyn Manson's announcement that Transgender, etc.

Comparing to these major events, Beyoncé’s new album’s audio source was leaked, which seems not to be too important.

But Beyoncé’s reminder is also necessary.

Link called Link Music President George Capal, Chief Operating Officer Bob Harrison, and Content Director Graeme Goodall respectively, and told them to pay attention to strengthening the company's network firewall to prevent hackers from taking advantage of the loopholes.

CEO Kapal said that the company has hired a network security company to upgrade the network firewall system to physically isolate the intranet from the Internet to prevent important information from the music library from being leaked.

Link Music has done a good job in protecting the copyright of its songs and the security of its music library.

Link also believed in the abilities of Capal and others. By the way, he asked them to warn several singers through their managers to pay attention to personal privacy security and try not to use their personal space to store private photos, especially the two female singers. President Kapal expressed his understanding.

  —

“Dear, is there any interesting news? You have been reading the newspaper for half an hour.”

Hearing the shout, Link raised his head and saw Ivaca walking from the villa corridor carrying a basket of fruits and a book in her arms.

She has long golden brown wavy hair and wears a silk printed dress with a mid-length skirt style, revealing her long white arms and round and **** calves. With her plump and tall figure and rose-colored lips, she looks mature, sexy, elegant and charming.

 This is just her everyday look at home.

 But for a person with a good figure, good looks, and a high level of aesthetics, she can wear whatever makeup she wants, and she will look high-end, and it can also show her beauty in different life situations.

Link put down the magazine and watched the beautiful woman walking through the sunny little garden. His heart beat wildly. Although he had experienced many women, he still felt amazing when he saw Evaca, and his body also It will produce an irrepressible primitive impulse.

He also suddenly understood why some women can bring disaster to the country and its people, and bring down the country. Ivaca is this kind of woman. If Ivaca didn't object, he could hold her and sleep until noon every day.

 “Hey, Miss Ivaca, you are so beautiful!”

Under the awning by the swimming pool, Link whistled and shouted.

 “Thank you! Mr. Baker, you are also very handsome.”

Iwaka chuckled.

“Haha, honey, this is at home, it’s just the two of us, why don’t you wear a bikini?”

Link is only wearing big pants.

“No, I don’t want to be dragged into mischief by you as soon as I get up.”

Ivaca rolled her eyes at him and put down the fruit basket in her hand. Her voice was cool and charming, like Haagen-Dazs ice cream mixed with Feitian Moutai.

Link smiled softly and took her hand to kiss her, but Evaca stuffed a strawberry into her mouth.

 “Dear, have you seen Ryan Kavanaugh’s latest statement?”

Ivaca put away her skirt and lay on the bench side by side with him, her slender calves gently touching each other.

 “Cavanaugh’s speech at the International Film Forum?”

 “Yes, are we going to respond?”

“Forget it, Lionsgate is not a listed company, so it doesn’t need to use publicity and hype to attract investment. It doesn’t matter if you give him the false reputation.”

Link said while eating the fruit.

 Last week, an international film forum was held in Seattle. Ryan Kavanaugh, president of Relativity Pictures, was invited to attend and exchange ideas on film investment with the guests.

Cavanaugh mentioned Link many times in his speech. The first time was to explain his attitude towards movies. Profit is always greater than art, and he also used three movies as examples.

　　The first one was "Death of a Gunslinger" starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck in 2007. The production cost was 15 million, and the US box office was 3.9 million. It was nominated for the 2008 Oscar for Best Picture.

 The second film is the comedy film "Department Man" released in 2009. This film was jointly produced by Sony Pictures and Relativity Pictures with an investment of 26 million and a global box office of 180 million US dollars.

 The third film is "Scandal Project" produced by Palm Beach Pictures last year, with a production cost of 8 million and a global box office of 170 million US dollars.

Cavanaugh waved his hand and told the audience that he would always invest in movies like "Standard" and "Scandal Project" instead of movies that Oscar likes. Link expressed the same view.

Later, when promoting the theory of big data model investment in movies, Kavanaugh said that Link had taken the initiative to learn this method from him in private and achieved astonishing returns in the box office market.

Subsequently, his speech was reprinted and reported by many media. Now there are many comments in the circle, saying that the reason why Link’s Palm Beach Pictures has been able to bet on dark horses one after another is because he has learned Kavanaugh’s film big data investment theory.

 People mistakenly believe that the huge sales of "Scandal Project" and "Bridesmaids" are due to that set of investment theories.

 Link did not intend to give any explanation for this.

 The funds for Lionsgate Music and Palm Beach Pictures to produce movies mainly come from his own grants and film investment income. There is no need to use these false names to attract investment. He prefers to make a fortune quietly.

At the same time, Kavanaugh's words can also help him explain why the movies he invests in are all hits, and it doesn't do him much harm.

“Relativity Pictures has performed very well at the box office this year, which has also led to the Kavanaugh method being very popular in Hollywood. Now many filmmakers are learning this method. Dear, what do you think of his methodology?”

Ivaca asked holding a red cherry.

The film with the best box office performance of Relativity Pictures this year is "Never Ending", released in March, starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, and Anna Friel. The production cost was 27 million, and the global box office 160 million US dollars.

If it weren’t for Palm Beach Pictures’ “Bridesmaids” and Weinstein Pictures’ “The King’s Speech,” this film would have been the best-grossing film by an independent production company in the first half of 2011.

There are also several commercial films produced by Relativity Pictures in cooperation with film companies such as Universal and Sony, which also achieved good box office results.

This has also led to a great increase in the influence of Relativity Pictures in the field of independent production. This year it is expected to surpass Lionsgate and Weinstein Films and become the number one in the field of independent production.

“If it is a good thing, Kavanaugh will not show it generously. His method can be used as a reference, but this method cannot be relied on.

If Lionsgate wants to develop and grow, it must learn from the leaders in the industry. Disney, Universal, and Warner have become industry trusts through continuous expansion and mergers. Other theories are just small fights, even if they can win for a while. , can't win this life. "

Link said.

 Ivaka nodded slightly.

 Ding dong!

　　A WhatsApp message was received on the phone.

Link picked it up and took a look at it. It was Taylor's reply. The first message said 'This message has been withdrawn', and the second message said 'Thank you'.

Link sighed secretly, shook his head, and continued reading the magazine.

"Is there a problem?"

Ivaca put down the professional book in her hand, looked at him and asked.

"fine!"

Link hesitated and said, "I just saw in the newspaper that Taylor won the Country Music Video of the Year Award. I sent a message to congratulate her. I didn't mean anything else."

 “You don’t need to explain, I won’t misunderstand anything.”

Evaka said.

"All right."

 As a scumbag myself, Ivaca really doesn’t need to misunderstand anything, because they are all solid.

One thing he is worried about now is whether to tell Ivaca that his and Taylor's children are still there?

 If you don’t tell me, will it affect the relationship between the two of you after they get married in the future?

 You can tell directly how Ivaca would react.

 And Taylor wants to hide the existence of the child and reveal this matter to more people. Will she be angry if she finds out?

These are relatively difficult matters, and even if he is worth billions, they are not easy to deal with.

“My dear, the news is right, you could have found a better man than a **** like me.”

Link said.

 Ivaka put down the book and smiled slightly.

“There is also news that you can find a better woman instead of a woman who is a few years older than you. Do you think that is right?”

“Of course not, you are the best and most perfect partner in the world, the end of the world, there is no one else but you.”

Link said looking at Ivaca’s beautiful face.

“My dear, you are also the best and most perfect partner in the world. You are my only choice in life. There is no one else but you.”

Ivaka hooked his fingers and said softly.

Link looked into her eyes, put his arms around her soft waist, lowered his head and kissed her rose-colored lips.

Ivaca also put down her book, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him passionately.

 Outside the awning, flowers are blooming and the sun is shining brightly.

 (End of this chapter)