Hollywood Director 1992

After the party, Link saw Quentin and the others off in the parking lot and drove Jennifer Connelly back to her apartment for the night.

After their date at Magic Mountain amusement park, their relationship became even closer, and they met up every few days to do things lovers do.

Sometimes at Link's newly bought apartment, sometimes at Jennifer Connelly's apartment.

Jennifer had a pure appearance and was a bit love-struck, but she was also a woman who liked excitement, with a personality even hotter than her figure, and a wildness in her bones.

Fortunately, Link was in good physical condition and could keep up with Jennifer every time.

Each time, they both enjoyed themselves very much.

However, after each date, Link would still return to his Golden Oak apartment to rest.

Monica knew a thing or two about his dates with Jennifer Connelly, but she didn't mind.

Whether in America or Italy, it was normal for successful men to have several lovers; if a man didn't have a lover after becoming successful, he would seem unattractive.

However, after Jennifer appeared, Monica became even better to him.

She took the initiative to make him breakfast every day, accompanied him shopping, and became more proactive in the bedroom, trying all sorts of hot positions, seemingly wanting to drain him dry.

Link returned the favor by buying Monica a sports car as a gift and raising the maximum spending limit on her bank card to $200,000.

At the same time, he would also reserve suitable roles for Monica, such as the female lead in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and the female lead in "Final Destination," allowing her to try them out.

In addition, he was also preparing to start a talent agency for Monica to manage.

It was now 1992, and many future big stars were still small fries, such as Renée Zellweger and Matt Damon. Signing them in advance and cultivating them would also be a way to make money in the future.

Similarly, with a talent agency, he wouldn't be restricted by CAA and other agencies when it came to hiring people in the future.

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After the weekend, Link returned to the company to continue managing the work on his films.

"Paranormal Activity" had been in theaters for 14 weeks, and its North American box office officially exceeded $300 million, reaching $302 million, while its overseas box office had accumulated $252 million.

The total box office was $554 million.

Link successively earned $285 million from box office revenue and other copyright income.

Although he earned a lot of money from "Paranormal Activity," he also received a lot of criticism and accusations in the process. His peers scolded him as a trash film director, someone who didn't understand film art and only knew how to hype things up, and a destroyer of the film market, and so on.

His reputation in the entertainment industry was currently mixed.

In addition, the success of "Paranormal Activity" also caught the attention of the seven major Hollywood studios, who offered to acquire Guess What Pictures for $15 million, wanting Link to bring his company to work for them.

Link didn't agree. With the box office subsidy system, he would rather close down the company than work for others.

The seven major studios proposed a new cooperation plan, hinting that cooperation would benefit both sides, and that if he didn't cooperate, they would treat him as an opponent, bankrupt Guess What Pictures, and make it impossible for him to gain a foothold in Hollywood.

Link didn't ignore the warnings from the seven major studios.

The seven major studios were backed by large media groups, and the media groups were backed by Jewish consortia and Wall Street capital.

They controlled movie theater chains, talent agencies, news media, and even the White House.

If they really joined forces to deal with Guess What Pictures, he wouldn't be able to resist with his current power.

After considering it, Link took the initiative to contact the seven major studios and propose a cooperation plan.

Currently, there were three potential partners: Columbia-TriStar Pictures.

When discussing the overseas rights to "Paranormal Activity," he and Columbia Pictures had already finalized a partnership. As long as the cooperation went smoothly, the two sides would continue to cooperate in the future.

The remaining two were New Line Cinema and Miramax Films.

Warner Bros. was currently planning to acquire New Line Cinema. After the acquisition, New Line Cinema would become a subsidiary label of Warner Bros. Pictures, mainly responsible for producing independent films.

Cooperating with New Line Cinema was equivalent to cooperating with Warner Bros.

Miramax Films had performed well in the independent film field in recent years, successively releasing several hit films, including "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," "My Left Foot," "Cinema Paradiso," "Regarding Henry," and "Armour of God," and had also received several Oscar nominations and awards.

Miramax Films' performance had also attracted the attention of the seven major studios.

Recently, The Walt Disney Company launched an acquisition of Miramax, offering $80 million, while also proposing a $700 million production plan, giving the Weinstein brothers a high degree of autonomy.

After the acquisition, Miramax Films would also become a subsidiary label of Disney.

Cooperating with Miramax was equivalent to cooperating with Disney.

Temporarily cooperating with the three studios could also ease the conflict with the seven major studios and reduce their suppression of Guess What Pictures.

When cooperating with the three companies, Link could also take the opportunity to make more money and become a capital player.

With money, Guess What Pictures could improve its film promotion and distribution channels, enhance its film promotion capabilities, and gradually get rid of the control of the seven major studios.

There is nothing wrong with a first release!

After finalizing cooperation with several companies, Guess What Pictures had three more partners for its future film projects.

Among them, "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" was a collaboration with Columbia Pictures, with a budget of $12 million.

Link served as an investor, executive producer, and art director.

The director was Tom Shadyac, recommended by Jim Carrey. The main actors were tentatively set as Jim Carrey as the male lead, Monica as the villainous female lead, and the other actors were still vacant.

"Pulp Fiction" was a collaboration with Miramax Films and A Band Apart.

The director was Quentin, with an estimated investment of $10 million.

Guess What Pictures only participated in the investment of this film and did not participate in the production.

"Seven" was a collaboration with New Line Cinema and was expected to begin filming in the second half of next year.

The director was undecided. Robert Shaye hoped that Link could direct the film, but Link had not yet replied.

There were also benefits to cooperating with these three companies. In the future, if he took a fancy to film projects under the three companies, he could also propose an investment. If he was rejected, he could switch to other companies for cooperation.

This was a win-win situation.

In addition to the projects co-produced with the three companies, Guess What Pictures also had two independently produced films.

"The Blair Witch Project," with a budget of $50,000.

Link served as producer, screenwriter, and editor. Sofia Coppola served as assistant director and cinematographer. Renée Zellweger, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck starred.

Filming was expected to begin next week.

"Final Destination," with a budget of $15 million.

This would be Link's third directorial work, and filming was expected to begin in March or April of next year.

"Daniel, contact Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and ask them how their preparations are going. Have them come to the company for a test shoot, and we'll go to the mountains next week to shoot."

Link called Daniel DeVito.

"Okay, boss, I'll contact them now."