Chapter 449: The Perfect Woman

  “God!Stop letting Link pick up the script casually.”

This is the title written on the cover of "Complete Film Magazine", and he was also selected as the July cover by the magazine.

The main reason is that he has a lot of influence in the film industry in June.

First, "Bridesmaids", which he participated in and invested in, sold well worldwide.

The North American box office has reached a total of 128 million US dollars, the overseas box office has reached 207 million, and the total box office has reached 335 million US dollars, which is more than ten times the production cost, and it has also become the film with the highest revenue ratio in the North American film market in May.

Rumor has it that if the movie's box office hadn't been stolen, the global box office would have exceeded 400 million U.S. dollars and entered the top eight of 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 widely released on June 10.

After more than a month of release, the cumulative box office in North America reached 50.89 million US dollars, and the overseas box office is currently about 84.57 million US dollars.

These two numbers don't look like much, but they are the pinnacle of director Woody Allen's career at the box office.

Since the 1960s, Director Allen has directed 43 films, an average of one per year, including "Annie Hall", "The Sex Collection", "The Purple Rose of Cairo", "The End of the Game", "Midnight Barcelona" and so on.

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

Less than a month after the release of "Midnight in Paris", the North American box office exceeded 50 million, and the overseas box office performance is about to exceed 100 million.

Compared with the production cost of 18 million U.S. dollars, this film is undoubtedly a success at the box office.

"Complete Film" magazine compared Director Allen's previous movies and analyzed the reasons why this movie was better than the original movie box office, mainly because the right actors were selected.

In the past, Director Allen made movies, mostly self-directed and self-acting, and he chose someone to play him for roles that were not suitable for him. This also caused the male characters in his movies to be unattractive and much worse than the female characters.

In "Midnight in Paris", he took the risk of bringing the world boxing champion Lin Klaas into the crew as the male protagonist, playing a writer and screenwriter. This was an extremely bold and groundbreaking decision. Facts proved that his adventure was successful.

Link is a world superstar, has a very high reputation on a global scale, and has a strong box office appeal, opening up the global market for the film.

In addition, Director Allen is also a very strong director who is loved by audiences in Europe and the United States.

There are also the blockbuster joining of the first French contemporary actress, Marion Cotillard, and the new generation of powerful actress Jennifer Lawrence.

The combination of these three has also become the key to the big sale of this film.

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

After speaking of "Midnight in Paris", "Complete Film Magazine" continued to introduce three other movies related to Link: "Mr. Tree", the latest "Snowflake Secret Fan", and "Captain America", which was 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 150,000 royalties and 1.8 million publicity costs, it is nearly four times the box office performance and good movie reputation.

It is better than the box office earnings of "The Tree of Life", which won the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

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

But "Complete Movie" also said.

If it weren't for Link, it would be almost impossible for "Mr. Tree" to be released in North America.

If it weren't for Link's blunt promotion of the film with the champion single, "Mr. Tree" would not have survived the screening period and gained the opportunity to be released in more theaters.

Therefore, the big sale of the film in North America is a small probability event, and others cannot replicate it.

For the sentence written on the cover, 'God!Stop letting Link pick up the script casually’, mainly for the comments of "Snowflake Secret Fan".

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

I don't think he will choose the script at all, from "Bihai Tracking 2" to "Valentine's Day", "Gossip Project", "Bridesmaid", and this "Snowflake Secret Fan".

Although he has performed well in these movies, he is not suitable for these supporting roles. Acting in such roles will only make him go further and further on the path of the male protagonist.

The editor didn't even recognize his performance in "Midnight in Paris", thinking that his performance in the film was more valuable than his acting skills, and the most suitable role for him was the mercenary master in "The Expendables". I hope he will take on more action movies in the future.

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

It is said that in this movie, you can not only see Link's strong figure in "The Fighter", his top appearance in "Midnight in Paris", and his clean fighting action in "The Expendables".

"Complete Film Magazine" editor-in-chief Perimur wrote at the end：

“This film is definitely the best work that fully integrates and presents Link's own strengths and talents. "Superman Link" and "Super Champion Link" play "Captain America". This is definitely the most anticipated movie role in 2011. There is no one.”

Seeing this, Link can basically conclude that this article is a promotional soft text arranged by the publisher of "Captain America" to help the U.S. team do publicity, and by the way, he stepped on the newly released "Snowflake Secret Fan".

From the reader's point of view, this article has praise and derogation, and it is more objective and neutral.

Judging from the American team distribution company, it is properly speaking for the movie.

"The Fighter", "Midnight in Paris" and "The Expendables" can be called Link's masterpieces, with a global box office of more than 100 million US dollars and more than 300 million for The Expendables.

He has good looks, acting skills, and strength in the three plays, and he has performed well.

As long as you are a fan of these three movies, seeing this article, you probably can't help but go to the theater to see what "Captain America", which combines the advantages of the three movies, is like.

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

If the global box office of "Captain America" exceeds 300 million U.S. dollars, he will have the opportunity to join the Hollywood 20 million film club and become a first-line actor.

Putting down the "Complete Movie" magazine, Link picked up other newspapers and magazines and took a look.

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

After looking through it again, there was nothing new, only two entertainment news made him look at it a few more times.

At the end of June, the American Country Music 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 the award. She can be called the daughter of country music.

There are two anecdotes at the Country Music Video Awards this year.

The first is that the veteran country music diva Shania Dunn accidentally fell during the awards ceremony, and Lady Gaga fell while performing on the stage. They have also become recent hot anecdotes, and related videos have a high number of clicks on YouTube.

Link thought for a while, took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Taylor, congratulating her on winning the award, but did not get a reply, he sent another message to Lady Gaga, asking if she had a fall, just saw the video, I'm sorry for a smile.

Lady Gaga asked him not to mention it. The original butt injury was healed, but when he mentioned it, it felt painful again.

Link said that she has a medicine that specializes in treating bruises and injuries. The effect is very good. If she needs it, she can give her a bottle.

Lady Gaga said that she would only fall this time, and there would never be another time, but she decided to take his medicine just in case.

After chatting with Miss Gaga for a few minutes, he didn't receive a reply from Taylor. He ignored it and sent a message to congratulate Beyonce.

On July 1st, Beyonce's fourth solo studio album "4" was released. It still sold 310,000 copies in the first week, and it won the first place on the album charts of the United Kingdom and the United States. This is also the fourth consecutive time that Beyonce's album has won the first place on the Billboard album chart.

The album was hacked before it went on sale, causing the album's audio source to be leaked. The number of sales in the first week is not bad.

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

Link said it was tentatively scheduled for August 5.

Beyonce asked him to be careful of hackers. Hackers are rampant this year and have made several big news.

Link expressed his understanding.

Hackers are indeed rampant this year.

In January, the Facebook account of French boss Nicolas Sarkozy was stolen, and hackers used his account to post a message announcing that he would not be re-elected.

In March, the Twitter account of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was stolen. Hackers used her account to send eight consecutive messages accusing her. The first one was ‘If she can't even keep her Twitter account, how can she defend the country?'Think about it’.

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

Including popular actresses such as Vanessa Hudgens, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, and Kristen Dunst, there are many surprises, which have also led to the collapse of several actresses who have taken the pure route.

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

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

On Wednesday, the Twitter account of Fox News Network was hijacked by hackers. Through this account, a number of fake news was continuously posted, including the assassination of U.S. President Obama, Link announced the release of a new album next week, and singer Marilyn Manson announced that she was transgender.

Compared with these big events, the leaking of the audio source of Beyonce's new album is not too important.

But Beyonce's reminder is also necessary.

Link called George Kapal, president of link Music, Bob Harrison, chief operating officer, and Graeme Goodao, content director, respectively, and told them to pay attention to strengthening the company's network firewall and not to let hackers get into the hole.

President 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 avoid the leakage of important information about the music library.

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 Kapal and others. By the way, they asked them to pass through the agents of several singers to warn several singers to pay attention to their personal privacy and try not to use personal space to store private photos, especially the two female singers.

President Kapal expressed his understanding.

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

Hearing the shout, Link raised his head and saw Ivanka walking from the villa promenade with a basket of fruits and a book in his arms.

Wearing long golden-brown wavy curly hair, wearing a silk printed dress, a mid-length skirt style, revealing fair and slender arms and round and sexy calves, with her plump and tall figure, rose-colored lips, she looks mature and sexy, elegant and charming.

This is just her daily dress up at home.

But for people who are in good shape, beautiful, and have a high aesthetic level, they can wear whatever they want and draw whatever makeup they want. They all look very advanced, and they can also show her beauty in different states of life.

Link put down the magazine and watched the great beauty walk through the sunny little garden, her heart beating a few beats unconvincingly. Although she has experienced many women, she still feels amazing when she sees Ivanka, and her body will produce a primitive impulse that can't be suppressed.

He also suddenly understood why some women can harm the country and the people, and pour the country into the city. Ivanka is such a woman. If Ivanka doesn't object, he can hold her and sleep until noon every day before getting up.

"Hey, Miss Ivanka, you are so beautiful!”

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

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

Ivanka chuckled.

“Haha, honey, this is at home, there are only two of us, why don't you wear bikinis?"”

Link was only wearing big pants.

“No, I don't want to be pulled around by you as soon as I get up.”

Eva Card gave him a blank look, put down the fruit basket in her hand, her voice was clear with a hint of flirtatiousness, like Haagen-Dazs ice cream mixed with Feitian Maotai.

Link smiled softly, took her hand and was about to kiss, but Eva stuck a strawberry in her mouth.

“Honey, have you seen Ryan Kavanaugh's latest statement?”

Ivanka put away her skirt and lay side by side on the bench with him, her slender calves gently joined together.

“Kavanaugh's speech at the International Film Forum?”

“Yes, do we have to respond?”

"Forget it, Lionsgate is not a listed company, and there is no need to use publicity and hype to attract investment. It doesn't matter if those false names are given to him.”

Link said while eating the fruit.

Last week, the International Film Forum was held in Seattle. Ryan Cavanough, president of Relativity Pictures, was invited to attend and exchanged his experience in investing in films with the guests.

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

The first was "Death of a Sharpshooter" starring Brad Pitt and Cassie Affleck in 2007. The production cost was 15 million and the US box office was 3.9 million. It was shortlisted for the Best Picture Oscar in 2008.

The second is the comedy film "X-Men" 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 is "The 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.

Cavanough waved his hand to the audience and said that he would always invest in movies like "X-Men" and "The Scandal Project", forever, not Oscar's favorite movies, indicating that Link had the same view.

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

Subsequently, his speech was reprinted and reported by many media outlets. Now there are many theories in the circle that Link's Palm Beach Pictures was able to bet on the dark horses one after another because he learned Cavanaugh's big data investment theory for movies.

People mistakenly think that the big sale of "Gossip Project" and "Bridesmaids" is the credit of that investment theory.

Link did not intend to make any explanation for this.

The funds for the production of movies by Lionsgate Music and Palm Beach Pictures mainly come from his own grants and film investment income. He does not need to use these false names to pull investment. He prefers to make a fortune in a muffled voice.

At the same time, Kavanaugh's words can also help him explain why the movies he invests in can sell well, which is not much harm to him.

"Relativity Pictures has performed very well at the box office this year, which has also led to Cavanough's set being very marketable in Hollywood. Now many filmmakers are learning this method, my dear, what do you think of his methodology?”

Ivanka asked, holding a red cherry.

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

Without Palm Beach Pictures' "Bridesmaids" and Weinstein Pictures' "The King's Speech", the film would be the best box office performance of an independent production company in the first half of 2011.

There are also several commercial movies that Relativity Pictures has cooperated with Universal, Sony and other film companies. The box office results are also good.

This has also led to a significant increase in the influence of Relativity Pictures in the field of independent production. This year, it is expected to surpass Lionsgate and Weinstein Pictures and become the oldest in the field of independent production.

“If it's a good thing, Kavanaugh won't show it generously. His method can be used as a reference, but he can't rely on this method.

If Lionsgate wants to develop and grow, the object of learning is the leaders of the industry, Disney, Universal, and Warner. Through continuous expansion and mergers, they have become industry trusts. Other theories are all trivial. Even if you can win for a while, you can't win for a lifetime.”

Link said.

Ivanka nodded slightly.

Ding Dong!

The phone received a WhatsApp message.

Link picked it up and took a look. It was Taylor's reply. The first message said'this message has been withdrawn‘, and the second message was'thank you’.

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

“Can I help you?”

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

“It's okay!”

Link hesitated and said, “I just saw Taylor win the Country Music Video of the Year award in the newspaper. I sent a message to congratulate her. It didn't mean anything else.”

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

Ivanka said.

“Ok.”

As a scumbag, Ivanka really doesn't need to misunderstand anything, because they are all real hammers.

One thing he is worried about now is, do you want to tell Ivanka that he and Taylor's children are still there?

If you don't tell, will it affect the relationship between the two after getting married in the future?

You can directly say how Eva Card will react.

There is also Taylor who wants to hide the existence of the child and reveal it to more people. Will she be angry when she knows it?

These are more difficult things, and it is not easy to deal with him with his worth of billions.

“My dear, the news is right. You could have found a better man instead of a playboy like me.”

Link said.

Ivanka put down the book and smiled slightly.

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

“Of course not. You are the best and most perfect partner in the world. You are the end of the world. There is no one else except you.”

Link looked at Ivanka's beautiful face and said.

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

Ivanka hooked his fingers and said softly.

Link looked into her eyes, stretched out his hand to hold her soft waist, lowered his head and kissed her rose-colored lips.

Ivanka also put down the book, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him lovingly.

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

(End of this chapter)