Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 568 The summer vacation is over

July and August are the hottest periods in Los Angeles, and this year it is even hotter, with the highest outdoor temperature soaring to over 35 degrees Celsius.

In addition, the air is very dry. Since May, nine forest fires have broken out in southern California, and more than 30,000 people have been evacuated. The closest one to the Mid-Levels Villa was the Angel National Forest, and thick smoke drifted from San Gabriel to San Gabriel. Tamonica Mountains.

The weather was too dry, and there was no work that needed to be done in the near future. After returning from Rio, Link was basically in a state of health. Apart from essential training every day, the rest of the time was spent taking care of his three children.

Under his careful care, in Taylor's words, Sanxiao became more and more naughty and disobedient, and sometimes she couldn't help but want to hit people.

She was reluctant to hit her little one, so Link became her punching bag. Even when she was going to bed, she would bite him or punch him if she suddenly got angry.

If he is hit by a man, he will fight back with his fists and knock the opponent unconscious. If he is hit by his own woman, he cannot retaliate with punches and can only fight back in other ways.

Now he is a heavyweight, weighing more than 90 kilograms. His body is stronger and more ferocious, and his attack power and lethality are more tyrannical than when he was a light heavyweight. Even Taylor, who is very stubborn and refuses to admit defeat, does not dare to challenge him without any scruples.

The same goes for Evaka, but Eva is a woman as gentle as water. When she should be soft, she will choose to be soft, and let the hundred-refined steel turn into softness around the fingers, making people reluctant to bully her. Even if Taylor faints, her soul Also fighting.

Sometimes Link teases Taylor that she should practice boxing. With her unwillingness to admit defeat, she might be able to get the gold belt.

Taylor dismissed this, claiming to be an artistic young woman, disdaining to use fists with others, and also laughed at him as a beast, because only beasts like to fight.

Link said that it is male nature to like to fight and fight. Only the male who wins the fight can have status, food, and mating rights in the group, and everything he has now is obtained by fighting.

Taylor disagreed with his statement, but did not refute it. He just wrinkled his nose and snorted, turned around and asked Alexander to behave and stop causing trouble.

Alexander was disobedient and hit her skirt with a toy water gun, turned around and ran away.

Taylor was so angry that he picked up a bigger toy water gun and chased after him, shouting that he was going to kill this unfilial son.

Cynthia and little Margarita giggled and rushed to help. Alexander saw something was wrong and hid behind Link with his little head in his arms.

Link told the little guy to face problems bravely, as running away would not solve the problem. Then he held Alexander up as a shield and blocked all the sprayed water. At the same time, he used Alexander's water gun to hit one and two kids on the lawn. Run everywhere.

Although the water fight was won, Taylor severely criticized him afterwards and ordered the children not to play with water guns. He was worried that they would like to play with real guns when they grow up, which would be too dangerous.

Link felt that as a mother, she had too many worries in one day, and she was a little anxious.

After Taylor played with the little guys for a few days, she turned around and ran to the recording studio to continue working on her new album "1989", which is expected to be released in October.

This album also contains five songs written by Link, which are popular songs that did not appear in Taylor's previous albums. Taylor didn't like it after reading it, but the company's producer thought it was of high quality and suitable for her to sing. It would be a shame to leave it to someone else to sing.

After Taylor thought about it, she reluctantly accepted. She didn't accept it before because she didn't want people to think that Link's songs were stronger than hers. She later accepted because she didn't want the songs Link wrote for her to be sung by others.

Women's minds are so complicated.

While being a dad at home, Link would also visit Paul Walker who was recovering from his injuries when he had time.

After half a year of treatment and recuperation, Paul's body has almost recovered and his skin burns have been basically healed.

Only the left knee was seriously damaged and he still had to sit in a wheelchair.

As for driving, this guy now feels difficulty breathing and looks pale as soon as he gets into the car. It is said that he is suffering from the sequelae of a car crash and needs long-term psychological counseling.

Due to Paul's injury, the filming of "Fast and Furious 7" was also greatly affected. They originally planned to find Paul's brother to temporarily replace him, but found that the effect was average, and the crew could only wait for him to recover before reshooting.

"Link, you have to be careful when driving. Don't drive after drinking alcohol or taking drugs."

Paul Walker sat in his wheelchair on the grass and patted his legs and said.

"Well, although I don't drink or do drugs, I will take your advice."

Link shrugged.

"You are right. Sometimes I admire you very much. No matter how much money you have or how famous you are, you will never indulge in your own behavior, well, except for women."

"If it weren't for that last sentence, I would be happy to accept your compliment."

Link said shaking his head.

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By early August, Link left home to join the cast of The Expendables 3, filming his final movie of the year.

The Expendables Part 3 is about the retirement of two old mercenary leaders, Stallone and Schwarzenegger. The new Expendables led by Link and Scarlett Johansson encountered unprecedented challenges. In this episode, their enemies are Stallone and Schwarzenegger and others' former comrade-in-arms, old mercenary, and arms lord Stone Banks.

The opponent also has an elite mercenary team with hundreds of people, well-equipped, many high-tech weapons, and very powerful combat effectiveness.

In order to defeat their opponents, under the guidance of Stallone and Schwarzenegger, Link and Scarlett recruited faster and stronger high-tech combat freshmen, replaced high-tech equipment, and launched a life-and-death battle with the opponent's mercenary team, and finally captured The villain Stone Banks.

Link was also recognized by his team members during the battle and became the true leader of the Suicide Squad.

The production cost of this movie is as high as 120 million US dollars, and the producers include Lionsgate Pictures, Millennium Pictures, Wanda Pictures, and Skydance Pictures. In addition to Link and Scarlett Johansson, it also stars Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Antonio Banderas, Harry Fordson, Alice Lee, Bae Suzy and others, playing the role of the villain. The boss is the famous movie star Mel Gibson.

The film was shot in the United States, Egypt and Bulgaria, and Link could only travel around with the crew.

"First shot, action!"

When the filming of the movie started, Link wore a cool mercenary suit, held a Kohler-Koch G36 assault rifle, and led more than a dozen teammates on a killing spree on the set.

During the filming period, Lionsgate's tenth film "John Wick" and its eleventh film "Dark Lady 4" were released successively.

"John Wick" is an action movie starring Keanu Reeves.

It tells the story of a group of gangsters who broke into the ace killer John Wick's home after he retired, stole his classic Ford car, and also killed the dog left by his deceased wife.

In order to avenge his beloved dog, he went all the way to New York and killed the gangsters, only to discover that the father of the gangster leader was a ruthless Russian gangster.

In order to avenge his son, the Russian gang boss hired the protagonist's former teammates to assassinate the protagonist. In the end, the teammates turned against the enemy and helped the protagonist kill the gang boss.

The protagonist successfully avenged his dog and recovered his classic car.

After the movie was released, it was dubbed by many movie fans as "a murder caused by dogs." In the film, the protagonist killed more than 100 people in order to avenge the dog.

But this movie is based on real news reports.

In 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Staff Sergeant Marcus Luttela was robbed by several men and killed his pet dog DASY. In order to avenge the dog, Marcus picked up a gun and drove after him. Single shots sent several men to jail.

The movie was released in mid-July, with a box office of US$19.53 million in its first week, and a North American box office of US$44.93 million in January.

The overseas box office results are not much different from those in North America, with US$45.3 million earned in more than 60 countries and regions in the first month.

The production cost of the film was US$20 million, and the revenue ratio of 4:1 was considered a hit.

"John Wick" is also Keanu Reeves' highest-grossing movie after the "Matrix" series. With this movie, Keanu Reeves temporarily got rid of the title of box office poison.

The eleventh movie "Black Crazy Woman 4" still continues the vulgar and funny black comedy style of the first three movies. The quality of the movie is average, but it is very popular among black movie fans.

The film was released in mid-August, with a box office of US$21.47 million in its first week, ranking third in the weekly box office.

This week's box office champion is "Guardians of the Galaxy", released at the same time, released by Disney, with a box office of 134 million in its first week. The second place is "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" released last week, with a box office of 38.74 million US dollars this week. The cumulative box office is 128 million.

When "Dark Lady 4" was released, the box office results of Lionsgate's eighth and ninth films were also released.

"Neighbors" has been released for more than two months, with a box office of 158 million in North America and 134 million overseas, for a total box office of 292 million.

Compared with the production cost of 18 million, this result far exceeded expectations. It is also Lionsgate's highest-grossing movie after "Divergent 1" and "Fake Family".

The ninth movie "Dance My Life 5" has been released for more than a month, with a box office of US$28.12 million in North America and US$78.5 million overseas, bringing the total box office to US$105 million.

Compared with the production cost of 15 million, the revenue ratio reached 6:1, which is considered a blockbuster movie.

"Dark Lady 4" has been in theaters for three weeks, with a box office of US$52.21 million in North America and US$8.74 million in overseas regions.

The production cost of the film was 16 million, and it still remains profitable, making it the most viable series of films currently produced by Lionsgate Pictures.

In September, the summer season ended, and the media began to summarize the box office performance of this year's summer season and the results of major film companies.

Lionsgate Pictures released a total of six movies this summer, including "Ender's Game," "Divergent: Awakening," "Neighbors," "So You Think You Can Dance 5," "John Wick" and "Diva 4."

It grossed a total of US$510 million at the box office in North America.

Counting the five movies released before May, "Snowpiercer", "Joshua Brothers", "Fatal Call", "Fake Family" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel", the total box office in North America was 450 million.

Before September, Lionsgate Pictures released 11 movies, four of which had a North American box office of over 100 million, and nine movies which had a North American box office of over 50 million. The total box office in North America was US$960 million, and the global box office was approximately US$2.3 billion.

Ranked second among the New Seven Films.

Ranking first is Disney Pictures, which has released a total of 9 movies so far, including "Guardians of the Galaxy", "Captain America 2", "Planes 2", etc., with a total box office of US$1.02 billion in North America.

Leading Lionsgate by a slim margin.

But considering that Lionsgate still has the hit movie "The Hunger Games 3" that has not yet been released, "Gone Girl" starring Link has not yet been released, and "American Hustle" was postponed last year.

"The Hollywood Reporter" believes that Lionsgate has a high probability of surpassing Disney and becoming the box office champion in 2014. For the first time, the six major film studios will be surpassed by other film companies in the total box office. It will still be less than one company. A small film company for twenty years.

The Los Angeles Times also praised Lionsgate as a film company with strong creativity and the ability to continuously release wonderful films, and is a weathervane in the Hollywood film industry.

These laudatory reports are partly self-propaganda by the media and partly the work of Lionsgate’s publicity department. The purpose is to enhance Lionsgate’s influence and appeal in the film industry and consolidate Lionsgate’s position in the ‘New Seven’.

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