Hollywood Director 1992

After recording the ‘Billy Says Movies’ program, Link continued to participate in other program interviews, discussing ‘Seven’ and the experience of being wronged in the past few days, as well as the preparation of the new movie, etc.

After several days of continuous publicity and public relations, although some media were still hyping him as a murderer, after watching Link's several interview programs, the audience obviously believed him more, and the argument that he was a murderer lost its market, and related reports were also greatly reduced.

Link's personal reputation was also gradually recovering, and the reputation of ‘Seven’ was also reversed.

In its seventh week, ‘Seven’ continued to be a box office success, grossing $25.83 million in North America.

Since there were no particularly strong blockbusters released this week, ‘Seven’ topped the weekly box office for the third consecutive week.

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Second place was the crime film ‘Natural Born Killers’ released by Warner Bros.

The screenwriter was Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone was the director, and the film starred Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, and others.

The ‘Simpson’ case protagonist made a cameo appearance in the film, which also led to a good opening weekend, taking in $14.16 million in 1,810 theaters.

Third place was ‘Forrest Gump’, with a weekly box office of $12.75 million and a cumulative total of $216 million.

Fourth place was ‘Clear and Present Danger’, with $8.31 million.

Fifth place was ‘True Lies’, with a weekly box office of $6.48 million and a cumulative box office of $89.05 million.

In its seventh week of release, ‘Seven’ has grossed $186 million in North America, and is expected to break the $200 million mark next week, becoming the third film to break $100 million in North America this year, following ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Forrest Gump’.

At the same time, starting in early August, ‘Seven’ was successively released in theaters in 54 countries and regions overseas.

Currently, ‘Seven’ has grossed approximately $238 million in overseas regions, with a faster growth rate than in North America, and a more positive reputation than in North America, and overseas box office is expected to be no less than $400 million.

“Haha, Link, congratulations! ‘Seven’ is great, and you are also very, very great. You are definitely the best director in the world, without a doubt.”

Gregg Davis, Chief Investment Officer of Vanguard Capital, praised Link excitedly on the phone.

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

None of the directors in the industry can compare to him in this regard, not even George Lucas, who has never lost money, James Cameron, who has been performing better and better in recent years, or Steven Spielberg, who has been making excellent films.

They don't make money as fast as Link, and their efficiency isn't as good either.

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

Now ‘Seven’ has a global box office of $420 million, and the total box office is expected to be over $700 million, or even $800 million.

This achievement is too dazzling.

As a shareholder and beneficiary of the company, Gregg Davis had reason to be excited, and didn't mind using more compliments to praise Link. As long as Link could continue to make money, not to mention praising him, he could even consider dedicating himself to him.

Link quickly stopped Gregg as he heard him become increasingly effusive, "It's still too early to be happy. In the past few weeks, many media outlets have deliberately targeted me and ‘Seven’. There's no guarantee that it won't happen again in the future. If ‘Seven’ breaks out with more negative news, 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’ is doing well at the box office, and the company is willing to step in and help intervene in related reports. With the company's relationship, I can guarantee that there won’t be too much negative news in the media later.”

Gregg Davis said.

The reason why Vanguard Capital is willing to interfere with the work of media groups is that ‘Seven’ has good box office prospects, no less than the summer blockbuster ‘Forrest Gump’. As shareholders, they are also beneficiaries.

Now, media reports of negative news about ‘Seven’ are preventing them from making money.

This kind of thing cannot be tolerated.

In addition, Vanguard Capital is also a shareholder of several major media groups. It would be self-defeating for media under several media groups to publish negative news about ‘Seven’, and they won't do such a thing.

Now the only problem is that Vanguard Capital has too few shares in Guess Pictures. Link benefits the most from protecting ‘Seven’.

This makes the investors very dissatisfied, and they have urged Gregg Davis to contact Link as soon as possible and ask Link to take out more shares for financing.

If Vanguard Capital owns more than 60% of Guess Pictures' shares, they are willing to treat Guess Pictures as equals, just like the seven major film companies.

Hearing Gregg's words, Link said that the second round of financing is expected to take place in the second half of next year. The plan has been set, and random changes will affect the company's development.

Gregg Davis said he was willing to wait.

On the one hand, Guess Pictures has great potential and extremely high investment value.

On the other hand, according to Link's statement, the second round of financing will give priority to friendly investment companies. Vanguard Capital took the initiative to help ‘Seven’ suppress negative public opinion, and behaved quite friendly. In the next round, Vanguard Capital will have the opportunity to get more shares.

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

After hanging up the phone, Link smiled.

Before Gregg called, Hank Paulson, a senior partner at Morgan Investment, had also called.

Hank's attitude was more enthusiastic than Gregg's. He kept showing his goodwill, hoping to get more shares in Guess Pictures, and hinted that as long as he was willing to cooperate deeply with Morgan Investment, Morgan would provide more help. In the future, if Guess Pictures wanted to acquire the seven major film companies, they would 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 Pictures' movies are blockbusters and have made a lot of money. They don't want to miss this good opportunity to make money.

There is no mistake in the first release!

If Guess Pictures suffered losses during the summer season, or performed poorly under the suppression of the seven major film companies, these people would probably 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.

Ding-ling-ling!

Soon, Robert Shaye, Harvey Weinstein, Graydon Carter, Jackie Chan, Gong Li, and others called one after another to congratulate him on the global success of ‘Seven’.

Robert Shaye and Harvey Weinstein reiterated on the phone that the two sides were partners and hoped to deepen cooperation.

Graydon Carter invited him to play golf at the club.

Jackie Chan mentioned ‘Rumble in the Bronx’ on the phone. The film has now been completed and he wanted to ask him to take a look and give some pointers.

Link agreed.

Gong Li said half-seriously and half-jokingly on the phone that she had just finished filming ‘Shanghai Triad’ and was preparing to come to Hollywood next year to rely on him, asking if he would take her in.

Link told her to come as much as she wanted, and he would take care of all her food, clothing, housing, and transportation.

Knock, knock, knock!

“Boss, ‘Seven’ is a blockbuster. Should we hold a party to celebrate?”

Michael Rison came in to ask for instructions.

“It's time to celebrate. You can arrange it. Make it a big event and invite the people who supported us during the summer season. I will attend then.”

“Okay, boss!”

Michael Rison nodded and left.

Link put down the folder, leaned back in his chair, and exhaled.

During this period, he was busy putting out fires and promoting the film, running around every day. Although his body was not tired, he was also a little mentally exhausted. Now that the film has been successfully released, he plans to rest for a while, and then prepare for a new film project in a better state.