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After the reception, Link saw the script "Maleficent" submitted by Angelina Jolie.

Maleficent is a character in the movie "Sleeping Beauty", a vicious fairy who cursed Princess Aurora to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday because she was not invited to attend Princess Aurora's christening.

In the new script, Maleficent has become a more positive character. Originally, she was a beautiful and pure young fairy with wings that could fly, growing up in a peaceful and peaceful forest kingdom.

Later, she was ruthlessly betrayed by her lover, the king, and her wings were cut off by the king. From then on, her heart began to become cold.

In order to retaliate against the king, she cast an evil curse on Princess Aurora. However, as the little princess grew up, Maleficent gradually realized that this little princess could not only bring peace to the two worlds, but also bring true love to her. In the process of getting along with the little princess, her mind was slowly purified.

After reading the script, Link remembered a movie "Maleficent" that was very similar to the script, starring Angelina Jolie, in which she transformed into a forest witch with horns on her head.

The film seems to be doing well at the box office, surpassing "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" starring Angelina Jolie and Pitt, becoming the highest-grossing film under Jolie's name.

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" has a global box office of 480 million.

The production cost of "Maleficent" is US$180 million. According to this figure, this movie has investment potential.

After reading the script, he recommended the project to the production department, who would contact the producer to discuss specific cooperation matters.

There are currently two producers of this project, one is Disney and the other is Angelina Jolie's film studio.

This script draws on the story background of Disney's movie "Sleeping Beauty". After screenwriter Linda Wolfton completed the creation, she submitted the script to Disney for production.

However, Disney was worried that the investment would be too large and would not be able to recoup the capital, so it only agreed to invest 80 million U.S. dollars, leaving the rest to the film producers to figure out a solution.

Angelina Jolie liked the script very much after seeing it and wanted to play the heroine. She invested 30 million US dollars through her film studio and promised to help attract investment.

After meeting Link at the celebration cocktail party, I proposed the idea, but I didn't expect that Link would answer the question of cooperation.

"Link is a really nice guy."

Angelina Jolie said while lying on the massage chair in the beauty center.

"Link? Which Link?"

Actor Reese Witherspoon was lying on the massage chair next to her, turning sideways and asking curiously.

"This is Hollywood, who else could it be Link?"

Julie closed her eyes and applied skin care ointment to her face.

"Okay, why are you talking about Link all of a sudden? Do you have a good relationship with him?"

Reese Witherspoon asked with a gossipy look on her face.

"We have chatted several times and are considered friends. I met him at a cocktail party a few days ago and talked about the new movie. I asked him if he was interested in collaborating. He quickly gave me an answer. He and I knew each other in those movies. The top management of the company is different, a very humane tycoon.”

Julie felt that 'humane' was a more appropriate way to describe Link.

This is because the top management of other film companies pay more attention to interests. They treat actors who can make money in a cordial manner and are very indifferent to actors whose popularity has declined.

Also, when working together, film company executives and producers like to play unspoken rules with actresses, but Link doesn't do this.

From this point of view, he is considered a very good person in this circle.

"Really? I don't think so. You know, "Gone Girl." Lionsgate held a role audition last week. I read the novel and really liked the role of the heroine Amy. It was just during the audition that , director David Fincher told me directly that I was not suitable.”

"What does this have to do with Link?"

Julie asked.

"Link is the leading actor and producer of this movie. I contacted Link through my agent and said that I liked this role very much and promised to play it well. I hoped to work with him once, but he refused. ”

Reese Witherspoon said.

"I remember that the male and female protagonists in "Gone Girl" were husband and wife. You are more than ten years older than him. Is it appropriate to play his wife?"

"I know it's inappropriate, but he rejected me. If you compliment him on his humanity to his face, I will naturally object."

Reese Witherspoon laughed.

Julie shook her head, not arguing with her.

"Well, even if Link didn't do anything wrong, Link has been very strong in public relations for the Oscars in the past two years. He won the Best Actress for two consecutive years. Some people say that he is the next Harvey. Anyone who wants to win an Oscar Actresses need to please him, do you think that’s okay?”

Reese Witherspoon said.

"You compare Link to the next Harvey?! I firmly disagree with this. First of all, Link is so handsome and sexy. Even if he wants to unofficially choose an actress, the actress must be voluntary, but so far I haven't listened. I have said that he is someone who has no rules. In addition, Link is worth more than 10 billion. He is only 24 years old this year. He is a world superstar and even ten or one hundred Harveys cannot compare to him.

To say he is the next Harvey is the biggest insult to him. "

Julie said.

“What I’m talking about is in terms of public relations for the Oscars. No matter what else, Link is more domineering in public relations than Harvey back then. Harvey won an Oscar winner every few years, while Link won one every year.

I heard that "August: Osage County", produced by Palm Beach Studios, will be released at the end of the year. This movie stars Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and Jennifer Lawrence. Their goal is obvious, which is to win the Oscar for Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress next year.

The media also believes that as long as the quality of the film is good, Meryl has a great chance to win the title again with this movie. If it really happens, it will be terrible. Lionsgate's movies have monopolized the Best Actress Award for three consecutive years. He is more terrible than Harvey. "

Reese Witherspoon sighed.

"Why do you feel terrible? Asking Harvey to help with the public relations of the Oscars requires preventing him from taking advantage of you, and working with Link requires finding a way to take advantage of him. If you can take advantage of him and win the Oscar for Best Actress, is it a double blessing? "

Julie smiled while holding the towel on her chest.

Reese Witherspoon shook her head and was about to speak when the phone on the table rang. She asked her assistant to help answer the phone.

The assistant answered the phone and chatted for a few words, then came back to tell her that it was a call from Bruna Papandrea, the head of Pacific Standard Pictures.

Pacific Standard Pictures is a film company founded by Reese Witherspoon in 2006, and Bruna Papandrea is her partner.

Bruna told Reese that they had received a response to the new script "Into the Wild" submitted to Palm Beach Pictures a few days ago. Palm Beach thought the script was good and agreed to talk about investment.

"Yes! Great."

Reese Witherspoon sat up excitedly.

"Palm Beach Pictures? Are you looking for Palm Beach Pictures to cooperate?"

Angelina Jolie looked at her with strange eyes.

"What's wrong? Palm Beach Studios has done a great job in female-themed movies in recent years. "Bridesmaids", "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Master" are all Palm Beach movies. My script is also about women, so it's just right to find Palm Beach to cooperate with. "

Reese Witherspoon shrugged and smiled.

"Palm Beach is also Link's company. If you cooperate with him, don't you worry about being taken advantage of by him?"

Julie joked.

"Don't worry about that at all. Although Link is a playboy, the girls he picks up are all open and he never does anything unspoken. He is actually a very good person. If I were ten years younger, I would definitely pursue him without hesitation."

Reese Witherspoon laughed.

Julie snorted. Before, she praised Link, but Reese kept opposing it. Now that she heard that Palm Beach Studios agreed to cooperate with her, she began to praise Link again.

What a fickle woman.

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"Dad! Dad! What is this? "

In the villa halfway up the mountain, Link was reading the script when Alexander ran over with a pair of red boxing gloves.

"Boxing gloves, Daddy's toy."

Link put down the script, took the boxing gloves, put them on his hands, told him how to use them and how to punch, and gently touched Alexander's face with the gloves, and the little guy giggled.

"Is it fun?"

"Fun!"

Alexander took a boxing glove and put his little hand in it.

"What are you doing?"

When Link was about to teach him how to punch, he suddenly heard someone talking behind him. He turned around and saw Taylor and Ivaka walking in from outside. Taylor was looking cold and staring at him fiercely.

"Uh, it was Alexander who took out the boxing gloves. I just told him that these were boxing gloves and I had no other ideas."

Link explained quickly.

"Humph, you don't dare to admit what you did, but you blame it on Alexander? He's only two years old, how dare you? "

Taylor said coldly.

Evaka was just laughing beside him.

"Okay, I took it. I just finished boxing practice and forgot to put it in the cabinet. But I didn't teach Alexander boxing, don't get me wrong."

Link had no choice but to take the blame.

Taylor glared at him and picked up Alexander who rushed towards her.

"Mommy!"

Cynthia also ran out with little Annie. Little Margarita followed her sister and little aunt, with two buns of hair, and ran over happily. She ran to Evaka and hugged her long legs, also grinning and calling mommy mommy.

"Brother, come here, I want to ask you a question."

Little Annie jumped onto the sofa and said, pulling Link's arm. The little girl is seven years old this year, in the second grade of elementary school, and is a school bully.

"What?"

Link lowered his head and asked.

Little Annie looked at Taylor and Evaka, leaned close to his ear and asked, "Brother, are Taylor and Eva both your wives? I asked the teacher, and the teacher said that our country practices monogamy, and everyone can only have one wife, how come you have two? "

Link raised his eyebrows, "You still ask the teacher about this?"

"Yes, my mother said that you can ask the teacher if you don't understand anything."

Little Annie blinked her big eyes and said as a matter of course.

"Don't ask about gossip, ask more about study, and don't know too much about other things."

Link rubbed her apple head.

"Oh, then Taylor and Eva are both your wives?"

Little Annie asked.

"Yes!"

"The teacher said that everyone can only have one wife, you have two, how can this be possible?"

"Your brother is Superman, Superman is not an ordinary person, you can have as many as you want."

"Ten is okay?"

Little Annie asked, waving her two small palms.

"What are you two brothers and sisters talking about?"

Taylor asked as he put the little one down.

"The newly picked cherries are very good, you should try them too."

Before little Annie could open her mouth to speak, Link blocked her mouth with a cherry.

"When will your new song be released? Why don't you release it next Monday and see which of us can win the top spot on the singles chart?"

Taylor crossed her long legs and said provocatively.

"There's no need to compare. I'm the best in the world, and you're just a first-tier singer. You won't have any sense of accomplishment if you win."

Link smiled.

Taylor snorted lightly and did not refute. In terms of the number of fans and influence, she is indeed not as good as Link now, but she may not be able to do so in the future.

Link ate a few cherries, picked up the script on the table and handed it to Ivaca, asking her to take a look.

By the end of the year, most of this year's movies had been produced, and the company's production department began to consider next year's movie projects. He also had to take time to read more scripts to prevent box office stinkers.

Movies currently tentatively scheduled include "American Sniper", "The Expendables 3", "The Big Short", "Maleficent", "Into the Wild", "Fifty Shades of Grey", etc., as well as sequels to several movies.

Since he still has cooperation with Paramount Pictures, he also needs to find a few more projects.

The current situation of Lionsgate Pictures is like sailing against the current or retreating. The company is also under a lot of pressure. However, as long as they survive this period and the company goes public or is acquired in the future, he and Evaka can put down their burdens and just lie down. Count money.