Hollywood Director 1992

Besides these inside stories, everyone also got other juicy news from the newspapers.

For example, CAA president Michael Ovitz was the ringleader, but even with big stars like Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, and Dustin Hoffman, he couldn't beat Link; Link was always filming in New York during the bet, didn't participate in the "Final Destination" promotion, but still won the bet, earning him the nickname 'God of Gamblers'; also, the reason for the conflict between Link and Richard Gere and Tom Cruise was that Link flirted with their wives, and so on.

Some of these news were true and some were false, and they were hyped by the media for more than half a month before the heat gradually subsided.

Affected by this incident, the box office of "Final Destination" rose instead of falling. In its 16th week, it earned $8.51 million, and in its 17th week, it earned $5.66 million, with a cumulative North American box office of $223 million.

Overseas regions were also affected, with a slight increase in box office revenue, reaching a cumulative box office of $135 million after more than ten weeks of release.

"Total Film" magazine predicted that the global box office of "Final Destination" would exceed $400 million, and Link's income from the project would be more than $300 million. Link's ranking on the next Forbes rich list would continue to rise.

The magazine claimed that Link's reputation would also become relatively positive due to the recent news.

The reason is that through these news reports, everyone knows that most of the news that criticized Link and "Final Destination" in the past were fabricated by Robert Downey Jr., Richard Gere, and others to suppress the box office of "Final Destination."

And under the constant suppression, "Final Destination" was still able to get more than 200 million box office after its release, which also shows that this movie is of high quality and worth watching in the cinema.

In addition, in this bet, Link fought against several big stars under CAA, and even Michael Ovitz, the number one person on Hollywood's power list, and finally won.

"Total Film" magazine claimed that Link would become the new 'king' of the Hollywood film industry.

In the morning, while Link was filming on set, he received a call from Robert Downey Jr.'s lawyer.

He said that Robert Downey Jr. wanted to make a deal with him. Robert Downey knew who had the truck driver park the truck on the road, delaying River Phoenix's rescue the night he died.

Robert Downey Jr. was willing to stand up and identify the culprit and tell the media who the insiders were, on the condition that he be given $3 million.

Link said he was not interested. River had already passed away. Whether he died from a drug overdose or was killed by someone, it had nothing to do with him.

He didn't want to spend money on this matter, even though he wasn't short of money.

If Robert Downey Jr. wanted to make money with this secret, he might as well make a deal with the real killer.

After hanging up the phone, Link continued filming on set.

After more than three months of filming, the completion of "Seven" has reached more than 90%, and all the shots can be completed in about three weeks.

"We're back."

At the 14th Precinct police station, Detective Mills shouted at the officers behind the counter.

"Good job."

An officer said cheerfully.

"Your wife called you. You also need to buy a pager."

A female officer said, holding the phone.

"Detective!"

As Detective William and Detective Mills were going upstairs, the murderer walked into the hall and shouted from behind.

Detective Mills and Detective William were talking about catching the murderer and didn't hear him at all.

"Detective!!!"

The murderer, John Doe, shouted loudly.

In an instant, dozens of police officers in the police station looked at John Doe in the middle of the hall. He was wearing a white short-sleeved T-shirt, brown casual pants, and his shirt was stained with a lot of splashed blood droplets. His hands were covered in blood, and his ten fingers were wrapped in white tape.

Detective Mills and Detective William also turned back to look at him on the steps.

"I heard you're looking for me?"

The murderer, John Doe, spread his hands and asked expressionlessly.

"Hey, damn it, don't move."

Detective Mills drew his gun and pointed it at the murderer, quickly walking down the steps.

"Everyone, don't get close to him."

Detective William had seen the murderer's portrait and recognized that John Doe was the murderer in the five murder cases. "Quick, lie on the ground."

"I know you."

John Doe stared at Detective Mills nervously.

"Lie down! Lie down quickly! Face towards the floor!"

Detective Mills shouted, holding the gun with both hands.

The other police officers also surrounded him from all directions, pointing their guns at John Doe, asking him to lie on the ground.

John Doe knelt down expressionlessly, spread his hands, and slowly lay on the ground.

"Quickly, do as I say, lie all the way down, you bastard, lie down, quickly, quickly!"

Detective Mills pointed the gun at John Doe's forehead. Because he had caught the murderer in front of all his colleagues in the police station, his tone and expression seemed a little excited.

"God! What are these?"

A police officer put handcuffs on John Doe and got a lot of blood on his hands.

"I want to talk to my lawyer."

John Doe said calmly, lying on the ground.

"Shut up, you piece of crap."

Detective Mills cursed.

"Cut!"

Link reviewed the shots, picked out a few problematic areas, and talked to Morgan Freeman, Ben Affleck, and Kevin Spacey, offering some suggestions and asking them to make slight adjustments.

He is the director, the first audience of this movie, and also the quality inspector of this movie.

When filming, he needs to draw a standard line for the actors according to his own aesthetic standards, and ask the actors to try their best to reach and exceed this standard.

Unanimously, one song, one launch, one content, one appearance, one look!

As for how to exceed it, he doesn't care. The actors need to complete it with their own abilities.

He won't pass it if they don't reach this line. He will continue to guide the actors during filming, forcing them to find ways to improve their acting skills and performance ability.

However, compared with the cast of "Final Destination", the main actors of "Seven" are all good.

Morgan Freeman is an old actor who has played many roles and has acting skills above 90 points.

Jennifer Connelly's acting skills are in the 70s. After his guidance, her level in this drama has reached above 80 points.

Kevin Spacey is not very famous at present and belongs to a second-tier actor in the circle, but his acting skills are solid and very spiritual. In addition, his image is more in line with the murderer John Doe, and his performance in this drama is no worse than Morgan Freeman.

The only slightly inferior Ben Affleck, under his merciless criticism and guidance, and under the guidance of the three main actors, Ben Affleck's acting skills in this drama are also above 70 points.

This scene was filmed for three days, successfully filming the scene where John Doe surrendered and made a request to the police.

"Link, don't you think my acting skills have improved a lot recently?"

During the break from filming, Ben Affleck treated everyone to coffee.

"There is a little."

Link nodded, looking at the newspaper.

Ben Affleck grinned excitedly, "I'm also very surprised. Before filming this role, I never thought I would have so much potential in acting. I performed so well in many scenes that it would be difficult for me to perform that level again if I did it again. If I used to have 60 points in acting, now I have at least 90 points, even 92 points, is that right?"

Sofia glanced at him, "92? Is the full score 1000 points? You really dare to give yourself a score."

Ben Affleck was not convinced, "Didn't I act well?"

"I'm not sure about your acting skills, but your mentality is good, keep it up."

Sofia teased him, bumped Link's arm, "What are you looking at, so fascinated?"

"Robert Downey Jr. said River was killed by someone."

Link handed the newspaper to Sofia.

During the filming, another big news broke in the media.

According to Robert Downey Jr., he and Richard Gere and others were also at the Viper Room bar when River Phoenix had an accident.

After seeing River in shock, Richard Gere came up with an idea to have them arrange for a truck to block the ambulance. As long as River died, Joaquin would not be able to continue touring, and the box office of "Final Destination" would definitely be affected. They might be able to turn defeat into victory and win the bet.

Then they did that thing.

The reporter asked if that thing was to have the truck driver deliberately crash and block the ambulance's path.

Robert Downey Jr. said 'yes'.

The reporter asked who they were referring to? Besides him and Richard Gere, who else was there?

Robert Downey Jr. did not answer this question.

However, some media revealed that Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Kiefer Sutherland, and David Duchovny were also at the Viper Room bar that day.

Robert Downey Jr.'s 'they' most likely refers to them.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

After this news broke, the news that Richard Gere and Robert Downey Jr. had joined forces to kill River successively topped the headlines of major media outlets.

Some news reports claimed that big star Tom Cruise was also among these people.