Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 91 Oscar-winning actress (plus more)

After the workout, Link took the public elevator upstairs, and when he entered the elevator, there stood a woman in a gray ladies' suit.

The hair is not too short, it is short with bangs in a S-shaped pattern, and the hair on the sides reaches about the corners of the lips.

The woman has fair skin, delicate features, and a sharp intellectual beauty.

At the same time, some of them look familiar, like Jodie Foster.

Recall that real estate agent Ellen Herbert said Jodie Foster also lived here.

This woman is probably indeed Jodie Foster.

Jodie Foster is a top Hollywood movie star. Her representative works include "Taxi Driver", "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The Silence of the Lambs". She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989 and 1992 for "The Silence of the Lambs" respectively. She is also the youngest double Oscar winner in the industry.

There are two more famous news stories related to this woman.

The first was the assassination of President Reagan in March 1981.

After being arrested, the murderer John Hinckley expressed his love for Jodie Foster, and in order to attract her attention, he imitated the male protagonist Baker in "Taxi Driver" to assassinate the president.

After the assassination, Jodie Foster, who was only 18 years old, became an international figure. She was not only a Hollywood star, but also had some fame in the political circles at the time.

The second is her sexual orientation; she is openly lesbian.

"Good morning, Ms. Foster."

Link greeted the other party.

"Hello, Director Link."

Jodie Foster nodded.

"Ms. Foster, do you live here too?"

"Yes, I have an apartment here and I come to stay here occasionally."

Jodie Foster pursed her lips and spoke in a quiet voice.

"What a coincidence, I also live on the 12th floor."

Link said as he looked at the lit floor buttons.

"Oh!"

Jodie Foster responded.

The elevator reached the 12th floor, and Link politely let Jodie Foster go first.

Jodie Foster walks to the right with a handbag in hand. She is wearing mid-heeled shoes and walks quietly.

After only taking a few steps, she suddenly turned around and saw Link following her, less than three steps away.

Jodie Foster suddenly became alert, pursed her lips, and the lines on her face became stiff and sharp.

There are only two apartments on this floor, one on the left and one on the right.

If Link really lived on the twelfth floor, there was no way the two of them were walking in the same direction.

So why did he follow me?
"Ms. Foster, would you like to come in for a cup of tea?"

Link ignored her wary look and walked to the door of the apartment and opened it.

Jodie Foster was stunned for a moment, a trace of embarrassment flashed across her pretty face, it turned out that she had got the wrong direction.

"no need."

Jodie Foster left in a hurry, her footsteps sounded more hurried and chaotic than before, and even the ends of her hair fluttered in the wind.

Link smiled and closed the door.

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In its third week of release overseas, "Paranormal Activity" earned $87 million in 5453 countries and regions, setting a new record for the single-week box office of horror films worldwide.

The overseas box office of "Paranormal Activity" has reached 1.43 million US dollars.

In North America, the box office fell significantly this week, earning $1637 million in 1816 theaters in North America.

The cumulative box office in North America reached 2.5 million US dollars.

It is still the highest-grossing movie so far this year. Batman Returns ranked second with $1.67 million, more than $1.12 million less than the media predicted. The current box office of "The Last Airbender" is $ million, and the box office growth is more than $ million less than expected.

There are also movies such as "Unsung Heroes", "Patriot Games", "Girlfriend", "Unsung Heroes", and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" released in the same period, whose North American box office data are less than originally predicted.

The media analyzed the reasons and found that the culprit was "Paranormal Activity".

This year's summer box office total is about 20 billion U.S. dollars, films shared profits, an average of more than million U.S. dollars per film.

The movie "Paranormal Activity" took in more than 2 million US dollars, which is equivalent to stealing food from everyone else's plate.

This also brought the criticism of Link by filmmakers in the industry to a new level.

Many colleagues used the media to criticize Link for making bad films, being a pseudo-director who only cared about making money and not art, and saying that bad money was driving out good money, squeezing out the living space for excellent films, and messing up the film market.

Link doesn't care about this. His purpose of making movies at this stage is to make money and accumulate capital, and he doesn't consider other things for the time being.

Nine weeks after the release of "Paranormal Activity", the third batch of box office share arrived.

The three batches of box office revenue totaled $1.74 million, slightly more than media forecasts.

Unlike the distribution of "Buried", "Paranormal Activity" was solely produced and distributed by Guess Films, and the company also paid for the theaters to pay for the preview period.

During the preview period, with an average daily single-theater performance of US$5.8, it surpassed the highest-grossing "Dances with Wolves" and became the movie with the best preview box office performance in the past five years.

With this data, Link is more confident when negotiating box office sharing with several major theater chains.

In Hollywood, the box office share ratio is not a fixed number.

The seven major film studios get a larger share than independent film companies.

The seven major film studios mainly produce commercial films, which have large-scale publicity, high popularity and generally good box office results.

The theaters can make relatively high profits from distributing this kind of movies. In addition to box office profits, there are also peripheral profits, such as drinks and food, movie souvenirs, etc.

When discussing box office sharing, theaters will also give many discounts.

Taking Disney's movies as an example, the animated film "Beauty and the Beast" released last year had a box office share of up to 92% in the first four weeks.

Producers and distributors take 92%, while theaters only take 8%.

However, as the movie was released, the attendance rate gradually decreased, the box office and peripheral income declined, the cost invested by the theaters increased, and the box office commission also increased.

From the fifth week to the eighth week, the box office share became 6:4, with theaters taking 40%.

After eight weeks, the share received by the distributor gradually decreases, while the share received by the theater chain gradually increases until the end of the film's screening.

This method is also the most popular tiered profit-sharing method in Hollywood.

Independent film companies are relatively weaker when negotiating with theaters and receive less box office revenue.

When "Paranormal Activity" was released, the profit-sharing model between Guess What Pictures and theaters was 75:25 in the first six weeks and 50:50 in the last four weeks. As the attendance rate decreased, the box office share received by Guess What Pictures also gradually decreased.

The reason we were able to get this share ratio in the first six weeks was also due to the good performance of the preview of "Paranormal Activity" and the box office performance in the first ten days, otherwise it would have been 73% or 64%.

After earning $1.74 million, Link flew to New York with his lawyer Sean Tang and established a company called Jinshanshan Investment Company on Wall Street, abbreviated as "Jinshan Capital".

It plans to spend $2 million to purchase a small number of Microsoft shares in the coming months.

Microsoft was listed on the NASDAQ in March 1986 with a market value of US$3 million. After six years of development, its market value reached US$5 billion.

With Clinton coming to power, the information superhighway plan was proposed, and Internet companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Apple will usher in a period of rapid development.

By 1995, when Windows 95 was released, Microsoft accounted for more than 90% of the world's Internet operating systems and its market value doubled.

By around 2000, on the eve of the bursting of the Internet bubble, the market value had grown to $6000 billion.

Before that, investing in Microsoft was a good deal.

However, he does not plan to buy too many Microsoft shares. Buying too many will easily attract attention and it will also be difficult to buy them all. He will try to keep his stake around 5%, no more and no less.

We are currently at the beginning of the 'golden decade' in the United States. In addition to Microsoft, there are many companies with huge potential, including Walmart, Apple, Coca-Cola, LV, Yahoo, Cisco, etc. There is no need to worry about having money but nowhere to invest.

After making money in the stock market, you can use it to invest in filming big productions and earn more rewards and physical bonuses.

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