Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 246 Successful Ending
After recording the "Billy Talks Movies" program, Link continued to participate in other program interviews, talking about "Seven Deadly Sins", his experience of being wrongly accused in the past few days, and the preparations for the new movie.

After several days of non-stop publicity and public relations, although some media were still hyping that he was a murderer, after watching several of Link's talk shows, the audience obviously believed his words more. The argument that he was a murderer no longer had a market, and related reports also decreased significantly.

Link's personal reputation is gradually recovering, and the reputation of "Seven Deadly Sins" has also been reversed.

In its seventh week, "Se2583en" continued to sell well, earning $ million in North America.

As there were no strong blockbusters released this week, "Seven Deadly Sins" has topped the weekly box office for three consecutive weeks.

The second place is the crime film "Natural Born Killers" released by Warner Bros.

The screenwriter is Quentin Tarantino, the director is Oliver Stone, and the starring actors include Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis.

Simpson, the protagonist of the wife-murder case, made a cameo appearance in the film, which also led to good box office performance in the first week, earning 1810 million US dollars in 1416 theaters.

The third place is "Forrest Gump", with a weekly box office of 1275 million US dollars and a cumulative box office of 2.16 million US dollars.

Fourth place: "The Pursuit", $831 million.

Fifth place: "True Lies", with a box office of 648 million US dollars this week and a cumulative box office of 8905 million US dollars.

In its seventh week of release, "Se1.86en" has accumulated a total of 2 million US dollars in North American box office and is expected to exceed the million mark next week, becoming the third movie this year to exceed million US dollars in North American box office after "The Lion King" and "Forrest Gump".

At the same time, starting from early August, "Seven Deadly Sins" has been released in theaters in 54 countries and regions overseas.

Currently, the overseas box office of "Seven" has accumulated about 2.38 million US dollars. The growth rate is faster than that in North America, and the word of mouth is more positive than that in North America. It is expected that the overseas box office will not be less than 4 million US dollars.

"Haha, Link, congratulations. Seven is great, and you are also very, very good. You are definitely the best director in the world, bar none."

Greg Davis, chief investment officer of Vanguard Capital, excitedly praised Link over the phone.

From an investor's perspective, Link is undoubtedly the best director in the world. His films have low costs but extremely high returns. Every one of his films sells well and never causes investors to suffer losses.

No other director in the industry can compare to him in this respect, not even George Lucas who has never lost money, James Cameron who has been performing better and better in recent years, and director Spielberg who has been producing excellent films one after another.

They don't make money as fast as Link, and their efficiency is not as good.

Link is also the director that all investors most want to work with.

"Se4.2en" has now grossed $7 million worldwide, and the total box office is expected to be over $8 million, or even $ million.

This result is amazing.

As a shareholder and beneficiary of the company, Greg Davidson has reason to be excited and doesn't mind praising Link with more flattering words. As long as Link can continue to make money, let alone praising him, he would even consider devoting himself to him.

Hearing Greg's bragging getting more and more disgusting, Link quickly stopped him, "Don't be too happy yet. In the past few weeks, some media have deliberately targeted me and Seven. There's no guarantee that it won't happen again. If Seven gets negative news again, the box office will drop even more. So now is not the time to be happy."

"Haha, Link, you don't have to worry about the negative news. Seven Deadly Sins has done well at the box office, and the company is willing to help intervene in related reports. With the company's connections, I can guarantee that there won't be too much negative news in the media later."

Greg Davis said.

The reason why Vanguard Capital is willing to interfere in the work of the media group is that "Se7en" has good box office prospects and is not worse than the summer blockbuster "Forrest Gump". As shareholders, they are also the beneficiaries.

Now the media is reporting negative news about "Seven" to prevent them from making money.

This kind of thing cannot be tolerated.

In addition, Vanguard Capital is also a shareholder of several major media groups. If the media under several media groups publish negative news about "Seven Deadly Sins", it will only bring trouble to themselves, and they will not do such a thing.

The only problem now is that Vanguard Capital has too few shares in Guess What Pictures, and the one who has benefited the most from protecting "Seven" is Link.

This made the investors very dissatisfied, and they urged Greg Davis to contact Link as soon as possible and ask Link to provide more shares for financing. If Vanguard Capital owned more than 60% of the shares of Guess Pictures, they were willing to treat Guess Pictures equally as they treated the seven major film companies.

After hearing what Greg said, Link said that the second round of financing is expected to be carried out in the second half of next year. The plan has been set and any random changes will affect the company's development.

Greg Davis said he was willing to wait.

On the one hand, the Guess What film industry has great potential and extremely high investment value.

On the other hand, according to Link, the second round of financing will give priority to investment companies with friendly relations. Vanguard Capital took the initiative to help "Seven Deadly Sins" suppress negative public opinion, which was quite friendly. Vanguard Capital will have the opportunity to get more shares in the next round.

For the sake of these shares, he will also be more patient.

After hanging up the phone, Link smiled.

Before Greg called, Hank Paulson, senior partner at Morgan Stanley, also called.

Hank's attitude is more enthusiastic than Greg's. He keeps showing goodwill to him, hoping to get more shares of Guess What Pictures. He also hints that as long as he is willing to cooperate deeply with Morgan Investment, Morgan will provide more help. In the future, if Guess What Pictures wants to acquire the Big Seven Pictures, they will also fully support him and make him the most powerful person in Hollywood, the King of Hollywood.

The attitude is very enthusiastic.

The main reason is that Guess What Movies sold well and made a lot of money, and they didn't want to miss this good opportunity to make money.

If Guess What Pictures suffers losses during the summer vacation, or performs poorly under the pressure of the seven major film studios, these people may not be so easy to talk to.

This is the profit-seeking nature of capital.

Link knows very well what capital is.

Because he is also capital.

Jingle Bell!
Soon, Robert Shea, Harvey Weinstein, Graydon Carter, Chen Long, Gong Li and others called one after another to congratulate him on the global success of "Seven".

Robert Shea and Harvey Weinstein reiterated on the phone that they are partners and hope to deepen their cooperation.

Graydon Carter invited him to play golf at the club.

Chen Long mentioned "Rumble in the Bronx" on the phone. The film has been completed and he would like to ask him to take a look and give some advice.

Link agreed.

Gong Li said half seriously and half jokingly on the phone that she had just finished filming "Raise the Red Lantern" and was planning to come to Hollywood to join him next year, and asked him if he would take her in.

Link told her to come and he would provide her with food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Boom boom boom!
"Boss, Seven Deadly Sins is a big hit, should we hold a party to celebrate?"

Michael Rison came in for instructions.

"It's time to celebrate. You can arrange it. Make it a bigger event and invite those who supported us during the summer vacation. I will be there then."

"Good boss!"

Michael Rison nodded and left.

Link put the folder down, leaned back in his chair, and let out a breath.

He has been busy putting out fires and promoting movies during this period, running around every day. Although he is not physically tired, he is mentally exhausted. Now that the movie has been successfully released, he plans to take a break for a while and then prepare for the new film project in a better condition.

(End of this chapter)