Chapter 430: Two Women Face to Face

In June, the movies related to Link, in addition to "Bridesmaids" and "Mr. Tree", there is also "Midnight Paris" starring him.

The film was produced and distributed by Sony Pictures. It started screening on May 20. In the first week, it received 1.12 million box office in 8 theaters in the United States, and the average daily attendance rate reached 82%. The data is very good, and the reputation is also very good.

The media's comprehensive review scored 76 points, the Rotten Tomatoes website scored 86% freshness, 32 people supported and 12 opposed; on the Yahoo side, the film critics scored A-.

"The New York Times" said that the film is a love poem written by director Woody Allen to Paris, and Link's performance adds a lot of brilliance to the film, as well as Link's emotional scenes with Marion Cotillard and Jennifer Lawrence in the film, which also made the media relish.

In the second week, "Midnight in Paris" grossed 4.74 million U.S. dollars in 72 theaters.

The early screening results were good, and the number of theaters where the movie was released in the third week expanded to 1,274.

The box office for the three days of the weekend was 16.56 million US dollars, ranking fourth in the same period.

The box office champion was the sci-fi blockbuster "Super 8" released at the same time, with a weekend box office of 35.48 million, the runner-up was "Transformers 3", which was released for two weeks, with 25.81 million, and the third place was "X-Men: Lesson One", which was released for ten days, with 23.19 million US dollars.

"Midnight in Paris", a literary and artistic film, can rush out of the crowded summer schedule, surrounded by blockbusters such as "Kung Fu Panda 2", "The Hangover 3" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", and rush to the fourth place. It was rated as a clear stream by the media in the summer schedule.

This week is also the fifth week of the release of "Bridesmaids". After experiencing the box office theft incident, the box office performance of "Bridesmaids" has also become the focus of many media attention.

This week, it received 14.45 million U.S. dollars at the box office in North America, and the cumulative box office reached 85.15 million U.S. dollars. What surprised the media even more was that the film's box office fell within 20% for five consecutive weeks, indicating that the film is of excellent quality.

At the current rate, the North American box office is expected to exceed 100 million in ten days.

The overseas box office of "Bridesmaids" has reached a total of 182 million US dollars.

The global box office is 267 million US dollars.

Also because the overseas box office of "Bridesmaids" is much higher than that of North America, the rumors of "Warner Pictures stealing the box Office" circulating on the Internet have also been accepted by many people.

Many people are talking about how much box office Warner Pictures has stolen on the Internet. Some people guess it is close to 100 million U.S. dollars. The original North American box office was comparable to the overseas box office, and some said it was 60 or 70 million, 40 or 50 million.

No matter how much is stolen, the real box office data of "Bridesmaids" will be higher than it is now.

Some people also remembered what Link said in the promotion of the show.

At that time, Link predicted that "Bridesmaids" would have a global box office of 400 million to 500 million U.S. dollars.

After the broadcast of the show, many people ridiculed him as "Mr. Mouth Cannon" on the line. Now it seems that it is only a matter of time before the global box office of "Bridesmaids" exceeds 300 million, and "The Hollywood Reporter" expects the total box office to be about 350 million.

Counting the stolen part of the box office, the global box office is likely to exceed 400 million U.S. dollars.

‘Link didn't talk big" also became the title of an article in "Complete Film" magazine.

The editor of the magazine explained in detail the reaction of many media in the United States after Link shouted ‘Four or five billion’ on the program, and also reprinted reports from a number of large media.

At that time, almost all the media did not believe that the movie would have as many as 400 million or 500 million at the box office, thinking that Link was yelling and creating gimmicks to promote the movie.

Now the film has reached 267 million worldwide, and it is still some distance from 400 million, but it is not impossible to achieve.

The editor of "Complete Film" magazine called Link a box office prophet. Almost all his predictions can be realized. If they are not realized, ‘It will only be a problem for the distribution company’, in order to allude to the rumors that Warner Pictures stole the box office.

At the end of the article, the magazine raised a question. The Marvel blockbuster "Captain America" starring Link has been scheduled and will meet with a global audience on July 22. What is Link's forecast this time?

“Captain America?”

After Link's training in the afternoon, when he returned to Lionsgate from Muscle Beach, he met a reporter under the company building. The other party caught up with him with a microphone and asked him how much he predicted the global box office of "Captain America".

Link smiled softly, stood on the steps and looked back at the sweaty reporter.

“Sorry!So far, I haven't seen the finished Captain America film, and I can't make a judgment. I don't think it will be less than the box office of "Bridesmaids."”

“Mr. Baker, do you think the global box office of "American Team" can exceed 1 billion?”

The reporter asked.

“I hope so.”

Link waved his hand and walked into the Lionsgate Building.

The Lions Gate Building is on East 12th Street in the Santa Monica District, not far from the famous Santa Monica Plaza and shopping center.

There are a number of film companies nearby, Relativity Pictures, Sony Animation Division, 20th Century Fox Pictures Los Angeles division, as well as Netflix, Google and other company branches are also nearby.

The building has five upper and lower floors with a total area of 120,000 square feet. It was designed by Gensler, a top architectural firm in the United States. It was originally the headquarters of Trimark Pictures. After the company was acquired, the building became an asset of Lionsgate.

Lionsgate also moved its headquarters from Canada to here in 2000.

Link walked into the company building and heard that Andrew Kramer, the head of the international operations department, and four employees were fired. Andrew also became the first senior executive to be fired after Lionsgate changed its ownership.

“I heard that Andrew Kramer was fired?”

Link walked into Ivanka's office and asked.

Ivanka was standing next to the newspaper stand, holding a movie magazine in her hand and flipping through it.

Wearing a light-colored straight skirt, the curve is convex and tilted back, and the hips are like mature peaches. When she is in the office, she likes to wear flat shoes, but she is 181 cm tall and her legs are slender and round. Even flat shoes still give people a tall and graceful visual experience.

Her long golden hair was pulled back on the back of her head, revealing a white swan neck.

When she was reading a magazine, a strand of golden hair fell on the page, like a golden crescent hanging from the horizon to the calm lake, fishing for a piece of poetic text.

“You are here.”

Ivanka rolled up her golden hair with slender fingers, walked to the small bar with a magazine, poured a cup of herbal tea and handed it to him.

“The decision to fire Andrew Kramer was made during the noon meeting. I was going to tell you at night.”

“It's okay, I'm just curious.”

Lin Kla took her to sit on the chair in front of the bar.

After Lionsgate was handed over to Ivanka's management, she took care of all the company's affairs, including personnel, investment, acquisitions, etc. He usually only puts forward personal opinions on film projects.

Ivanka told him that there were three reasons for the expulsion of Andrew Kramer and others.

The main reason is that he has been in Lionsgate for more than three years and has performed poorly in handling the company's international business. He has introduced 15 films in three years, half of which are at a loss, and the remaining movies are generally at the box office. , And in international marketing, it is not good enough.

In short, his business ability is not worthy of the treatment he currently enjoys.

The second reason is that during the release of "Far Cry" and "Mr. Tree", there were rumors in the circle that Link personally ordered the film to be bought.

At that time, the box office was not good, and many people used this incident to laugh at Link, which greatly affected Link's personal reputation and reputation, as well as the company's interests.

Afterwards, Ivanka sent someone to investigate who revealed the news to the outside world.

Although it was not found, this matter must be related to the International Department, because the purchase of film rights was directly issued by Link to Andrew Kramer over the phone.

Whether Andrew personally told the media about this matter, or Andrew told others first, and then revealed it to the media by others, the root cause lies with Andrew.

He didn't keep his mouth shut, nor did he take responsibility for him, and blamed Link, the boss, for the failure of the box office. This was his biggest mistake.

The third reason is that according to news from the French entertainment tabloids, Andrew and others were indiscriminate in their private lives during the Cannes Film Festival, not only this year.

In 2009, one of his assistants was taken away by the local police for questioning on suspicion of sexual harassment during the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Although the matter was settled by Andrew, they had this kind of incident during a business trip, which affected the company's international image and must be severely punished.

“This is a good way to deal with it. I heard that Andrew worked under Harvey for a few years, and I didn't trust him very much.”

Link said.

“Yes, this is also the reason why I fired him. For people who don't trust, even if they are a little suspicious, they must be dealt with as soon as possible. The higher the status of such people in the company, the greater the harm, and it also affects our work mood.”

Ivanka tilted her calf and said lightly.

Link looked at her and saw her cold expression, calm tone of voice, and resolute style of doing things. If she were not her boyfriend, but an ordinary employee, she would probably have been thrown out of the house a long time ago.

It's just that every time he sees her with a cold face, like an awe-inspiring and inviolable strong woman, he always wants to do something to break her state.

So he stood up, walked behind Ivanka, and gently grasped her fragrant shoulders and silky skin.

“Did you apply medicine to Christine today?”

Ivanka leaned against his chest and smiled softly.

“No, the muscle strain is not serious, just rest for two days.”

Link said.

After helping Christine apply the medicine last time, the next day when his training was about to end, she came again, saying that the assistant was not there, and asked him to help apply the medicine.

Link could only agree.

Before applying the medicine, Christine would ask him if he would take advantage of her injury to bully her. Link said no. Christine said she believed him and hoped he would not let her down.

Link helped her apply the medicine again, just like the first time, but the range of palm movement was larger, from the arms to the shoulders, from the back to the ribs, the lower edge of the chest, from the small legs to the hips, waist.

While applying medicine and massaging, he did not speak, nor did Christine speak, as if playing a game of who speaks first and who loses.

After the application of medicine was over, he went to the bathroom to wash his hands in his pocket. When he came out, Christine left first, and there were more water stains on the sofa where she was lying.

Today Christine is here again, it seems that she is addicted to pushing medicine, but later Emma Roberts also came to train, it is not convenient to apply medicine, Christine worked out in the training ground for more than an hour and left with Emma.

Link had no objection to the two of them coming to the training ground to exercise, but de La Hoya's face was very bad.

When Emma and Christine were there, he didn't say anything.

After the two of them left, Hoya found him and ridiculed him in a very sour tone, saying that he was alive and nourished, and he came to practice boxing with two beautiful celebrities.

Link said they came here voluntarily, not invited by themselves.

Hoya didn't believe it and asked him if he wanted to add a bed in the locker room so that he could rest.

Link said he would persuade Emma and Christine not to come to the muscle beach for exercise in the future.

Hoya immediately objected, claiming that the two of them would come over if they wanted to exercise. There was no need to stop them. There were two big beauties, and everyone was more active in training.

It is said that several boxers regard the two of them as goddesses, and the thing they look forward to most every day is to see them on the training ground.

Link asked him if he didn't object to Emma and Christine coming here to exercise, why did he still say this nonsense?

Hoya snorted coldly and did not speak.

Morarez said behind the barbell frame that Hoya was jealous. He couldn't get into the big beauty stars like Emma and Christine, so he deliberately came to find fault and wanted to use this method to find a balance.

Hoya was furious when he heard this, and slammed his fist at Morarez with a split face.

Boom boom boom!

“Chairman, Miss Daddario has arrived.”

Vivian Jones, Ivanka's chief secretary, stood at the door of the office and said.

“I see, please come in Miss Daddario.”

Ivanka stood up slowly.

Link was taken aback for a moment, "Miss Daddario?”

“Yes, you don't have to think about it. It's a work matter. The production department said that Daddario has participated in the casting of two Lionsgate films one after another. She performed very well and passed the audition smoothly. Later, for some unknown reason, two more roles were pushed off. I called her to come over just to talk about the movie, and I won't cause you trouble.”

Ivanka smiled.

Link raised his eyebrows.

He knew about Daddario's participation in the Lionsgate movie audition. He didn't intervene. Daddario got two roles based on his strength.

But then Daddario told him not to act again, saying that she didn't get the two roles by her strength, and other actresses were more suitable than her, and she didn't want to go through the back door.

Link said that she did not intervene, she got the role by strength.

Daddario said that people from Lionsgate knew about their relationship and took special care of her during the audition. She was worried that doing so would affect the performance of the film and felt too much pressure.

After thinking about it, I still decided not to act.

Link couldn't persuade her, so she had to call Ms. Susan Cobos, Daddario's agent, and asked her to help find a few roles suitable for Daddario, who could show her face and figure, but it's best not to have any affectionate scenes, and promised to take care of her actors.

Susan Cobos agreed.

He thought this was over, but he didn't expect that Ivanka would personally invite Daddario to Lionsgate to chat.

Generally speaking, when rivals know each other's existence, they will find ways to avoid meeting each other so as not to appear in the Shura field.

But Ivanka never seemed to worry about this. She took the initiative to meet Taylor, Jennifer Lawrence, and now Daddario.

Thinking that I came to the company early today and came later, I might not know about the meeting between the two.

With this in mind, he couldn't help but wonder if Ivanka would have met all the women he had a relationship with, including Emma Watson, Beyonce, and Marion Cotillard.

“Hi, Eva, Link?Are you there too?”

Before Link could figure it out, Alexandra Daddario came to the office.

Wearing a black lady's suit with white lining and a knee-length skirt, she showed off her tall figure, full chest curvature, flat lower abdomen, straight and rounded calves, sexy, fresh and healthy.

Her long golden-brown hair was scattered on her shoulders, and the tips of her hair seemed to have just been trimmed. It was neat and textured. On her beautiful cheeks, which had been carefully groomed, a pair of big blue eyes blinked at her, and her red lips were slightly pursed. , There were some surprises.

When she and Ivanka stood together, the visual impact was as big as the arc of their chests.

“Alex, welcome!Link didn't know about our date. He came early today. Link, Alex and I are going to talk about work. Do you want to listen here?”

Ivanka stood beside Daddario and looked at him with a smile.

Link pulled the corner of his mouth. He didn't know what Ivanka wanted to do, but it was over and he couldn't stop it.

He walked over and hugged Daddario gently, kissed her on the cheek, hugged Ivanka again, and quietly squeezed her buttocks.

This woman has too many advantages and many disadvantages. The most prominent point is that there are too many things. After other wives know that a man is having an affair, they usually turn a blind eye and pretend that they don't know anything. Break up if you really can't get by.

But Ivanka is not like this, she will take the initiative to talk to a few people, and seems to treat this kind of thing as a job.

Link didn't know what her purpose was, and he could only follow her for the time being.

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Click!

Outside the office, Link glanced back at the closed door, scratched his forehead, took out a lollipop from his pocket and put it in his mouth.

(End of this chapter)