Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 186 Black Material Attack
After the release of "Final Destination", its reputation continued to rise, and both the media and the audience praised the film highly.

Some praised the film's high quality, saying it was the best horror film of the year and better than the previous "Paranormal Activity". Other media praised Link's directing level as significantly higher than his previous two works, and his directing skills also matured in this film. His future development in the film industry is limitless.

There were so many praises in the media, more than the previous films.

Link was quite surprised. The movie was quite interesting but not particularly exciting. It had a certain level but not too high.

Where do so many likes come from?

He called Jon Gordon, and when the company promoted the movie, it focused on the movie and the actors, without overpraising him as a director.

However, Jon Gordon told him that the reviews praising him were not announcements released by the company, but objective evaluations given by film critics after watching the movie. It was because the movie was really good that they did not hesitate to praise him with lavish words.

Link still remained skeptical, so he took some time to go to the cinema to watch "Final Destination" to see if the viewing experience would be better when there were more people.

During the movie, the audience's reaction exceeded his expectations.

Many people will scream in fear when they see the horror scenes, and will also praise the male and female protagonists for being handsome and beautiful, and praise the cool plot design, saying that this movie is really great.

As Link sat in his seat, he could hear the people around him praising the movie as they watched it, as if they were hired by Guess What? Pictures to speak well of the film.

"Link, this movie is amazing, you are amazing."

Jennifer Connelly said excitedly.

"Is it really that good? It looks ordinary to me."

"It's really good, very exciting, you probably have seen it too much to think so."

Jennifer Connelly laughed.

Link looked at the images on the big screen, listened to the discussions around him, and gradually understood why everyone liked this movie.

It was the early 1990s, and there were not many classic horror movies in the film industry. People's tastes were not so picky, and their threshold for stimulation had not been pushed too high by movies such as "Saw", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "The Walking Dead", "The Conjuring" and "The Ring".

At this time, horror movies with some novelties will also be loved by the audience. Audiences will really like creative and thriller movies like "Final Destination".

In addition, after the film's quality increased by 15%, its quality reached over 98%. The viewing experience was greatly improved, and the audience was more stimulated. It was very reasonable for them to enthusiastically praise the film after watching it.

After learning this, Link felt relieved to hand over the publicity and promotion work to Jon Gordon and others and continued filming on the set.

In its third week of release, "Final Destination" grossed $2935 million in North America, a significant drop from last week, but still firmly occupied the top spot in the weekly box office rankings.

In second place is the fantasy thriller comedy "Addams Family Values" released during Halloween, which took in $1612 million this week and a cumulative box office of $3023 million, a significant gap compared to the first film.

In third place is the action blockbuster "The Furious", which took in $604 million this week, a 52% drop. Its cumulative box office in its fourth week was $4558 million, far below expectations. Its North American box office is expected to be around $6000 million.

This also led to the film's star Stallone publicly criticizing the film distribution company Warner Bros. Pictures, accusing them of arbitrarily adjusting the film's release date, resulting in poor box office performance, and that Warner Bros. Distribution Company should bear full responsibility for this matter.

Ranked fourth was the romantic suspense film "America's Sweetheart" starring Meg Ryan, which took in $451 million in its first week, performing mediocrely.

This also led to the almost complete failure of CAA's plan to use blockbusters to snipe the box office of "Final Destination".

However, during the third week of the release of "Final Destination", a lot of negative news about Link broke out in the media, which had a certain negative impact on the movie's box office.

Many newspapers have published articles claiming that his private life is extremely chaotic and that he has had ambiguous relationships with dozens of female stars in the entertainment industry. In addition to Monica and others, there are also some new faces, including Jodie Foster, Winona Ryder, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Madchen Amick, Courteney Cox, etc., as long as they are female stars he has met.

All the entertainment tabloids have arranged for him to appear in the headlines.

Some media also revealed that Link used unspoken rules when selecting actors. If you wanted to be in his movie, you had to sleep with him. Renée Zellweger, Liv Tyler, Angelina Jolie and others were all victims.

Some media also used the ages of Liv Tyler and Angelina Jolie to make a fuss, saying that his behavior was suspected of being a crime and that the police should investigate him.

When the news first broke, Link ignored it.

After many major newspapers began to reprint the article, Guess Pictures and WMA Agency immediately hit back at these false reports.

He explained that the casting of Final Destination was entirely the responsibility of the casting director, and that Link had no time to take charge of these specific tasks, so it was impossible for him to engage in any unspoken rules.

Furthermore, during the filming process, Link was a colleague of Liv Tyler and Angelina Jolie and they had no plans to date for the time being, and the false reports in the media were all fabricated rumors.

The legal department of WMA Entertainment said it would sue the media outlets that spread the rumors.

Liv Tyler was asked by the host about rumors in the media during an interview event.

Liv Tyler said that during the filming, she had almost no contact with Link except chatting during filming.

Because Link was a very serious person who would often criticize others, she would get nervous when she saw him, and it was even more impossible for her to date him.

The host also talked about Link's strict behavior on the set and asked several leading actors whether Link was a difficult director to work with.

Except for Angelina Jolie, everyone else said no.

Ryan Phillippe and several others said that Director Link was very skilled and that they were able to learn a lot about acting from him during their time on the crew. They said that his level of guidance to actors was better than that of an acting teacher. Several of them did not have much acting skills before joining the crew, but they all performed well in "Final Destination" and were recognized by professionals. All of this was inseparable from Link's guidance.

The host then asked Angelina Jolie why she said Link was difficult to work with, and whether she was worried about offending him?

Julie said that Link was difficult to work with because she was rejected by him many times when she asked him out during the filming. Link himself was very different from the playboy rumored to be, which disappointed her. She was good at dealing with men, but not good at dealing with a man who was as cold and hard as stone, so Link was a very difficult director to work with.

Julie's words made everyone laugh.

Although Link has fought back against the negative news, there is still a lot of negative information about him in the media.

Some of the negative information comes out of nowhere, for example, he discriminates against black people because the evil neighbor in "Paranormal Activity" was a black shadow, and when the Grim Reaper appeared in "Final Destination", it was a black smoke, which was clearly an allusion to black people.

Also, in several films he directed, except for "Final Destination" which had a few black actors playing supporting roles, all other films cast only white people.

This is also evidence that he discriminates against black actors.

and many more.

These rumors are very brainless.

After seeing this, Link did not explain and focused on making the movie. He also asked the company's publicity department to focus on promoting the movie and not pay too much attention to the negative news.

For a man of his wealth and status, a little bit of scandal is of no consequence.

(End of this chapter)