Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

When Link was preparing to go to Seoul for the competition, he received a call from Bob.

Weinstein Pictures agreed to hand over Silver Linings to Lionsgate for distribution and also agreed to help run the Oscars, on the condition that they would get 10% more North American box office on top of the original.

Link did not agree.

The production cost of Silver Linings was $22 million, with Palm Beach Pictures and Weinstein Pictures each contributing $11 million.

According to the original contract, after the movie was released, the North American box office would be divided equally between the producers, and the overseas box office would be divided between the producers, with Weinstein Pictures taking 10% more.

The 10% North American box office would be given to Weinstein Pictures, and Silver Linings’ North American box office would exceed $100 million, so 10% would be millions or even tens of millions of dollars.

Link bargained down to 5%, or $3 million in cash, and won the North American distribution rights for Silver Linings. After the movie was released, Weinstein Pictures would help with Oscar PR.

He originally thought Bob would refuse, but after more than ten minutes, Bob agreed.

This surprised him a little.

As far as he knew, Harvey was in charge of the film distribution work of Weinstein Films. Bob agreed, which meant Harvey agreed. With Harvey's personality, how could he easily agree to give in?

He didn't care too much about it. He called Catherine and Ms. Goldsmith and Stacey Schneider, who were in charge of film distribution at Lionsgate Films, and asked them to contact Weinstein Films to take over the distribution of "Happy Country".

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After more than ten days of training, the WBA-WBC light heavyweight boxing championship was coming.

Link led the logistics team to Seoul, South Korea to participate in the competition. This was not his first time to Seoul. He came twice for the world tour last year and once for the autograph session in August. He was not unfamiliar with the situation here.

This championship was held at the Jamsil Gymnasium in Seoul. On the day of the competition, the audience seats were all full, about 38,000 people.

According to KBS TV station before the game, all regional tickets for this boxing match were sold out within three hours after the sale started.

Some boxing fans did not buy tickets and went to the official website of the Ministry of Culture and Sports to petition for more seats in the stadium.

Considering the safety issue, the cultural and sports department did not agree, saying that on the day of the match, the match would be broadcast live on the big screen in Seoul Square, and citizens were welcome to watch.

The reason why this match is so popular is not only because Link is famous enough and has many fans in South Korea, but also because the pre-match publicity and promotion is good.

When promoting the match, the organizer focused on hyping the identities of Link and Hopkins.

First of all, in terms of life experience, the two have great similarities.

Hopkins was born in the slums of Philadelphia. He lost his father when he was young. When he was in his teens, he fought and robbed on the streets of Philadelphia. He was stabbed in the back with a knife twice, and once he was only a few centimeters away from his heart. Hopkins stayed in the hospital for more than two months before recovering.

Link Baker is similar. He was born on the streets of Miami, fought and brawled, and was stabbed in the back and almost died.

Hopkins served five years in a Pennsylvania prison for multiple crimes.

Link also served nearly a year in Miami detention and prison.

The Korean media is suggesting that both are "murderers."

Secondly, in terms of professional achievements, Hopkins has been the IBF middleweight world champion since 1994 and has held this title for ten consecutive years.

In 2004, he successfully challenged the champions of the other three major organizations and became the middleweight overlord. From 2004 to 2006, he dominated the middleweight for two years, and then upgraded to super middleweight and light heavyweight.

He defeated world-class boxing champions such as Trinidad, De La Hoya, Roy Jones Jr., Antonio Talvo, and Green Johnson.

Link is the 2008 Olympic champion. He has been the WBA super middleweight champion since 2008. Since 2009, he has successively won the WBA-WBC-IBF-WBO world champion gold belts and dominated the super middleweight for more than two years.

In the more than three years since he entered the professional boxing world, he has defeated many world boxing champions, including Tyson, Roy Jones Jr., De La Hoya, Mikkel Kessler, Andre Ward, Carl French, Arthur Abraham, Beirut Shumenov, etc.

He has been invincible in the super middleweight class, making all opponents terrified. He has been ranked first for two consecutive years in the P4P comprehensive strength rankings published by "Ring" magazine, and is known as the P4P King.

The former middleweight overlord VS the former super middleweight overlord.

KBS TV station described this match as the most exciting, most eye-catching, and the highest-level boxing event in the world boxing world in the past decade, no less than the Link VS Roy Jones Jr. fight held in Miami last year.

The winner of the two will be decided today on the boxing ring of Jamsil Gymnasium.

"Needless to say, Link Oppa is the best, he will definitely win."

"Bernard Hopkins looks fierce, Yoona, who do you think will win?"

"Link Oppa! I will always support Link Oppa."

"Yoona is crazy about him again."

"Is it not okay? Link Oppa is so handsome, sings so well, and acts so well. He is the most perfect man in my mind, Link Oppa, come on!"

In the VIP seats of Area B, nine girls wearing masks and baseball caps sat in a row, talking about Link on the boxing ring. They were members of Girls' Generation, the most popular girl pop group in South Korea, and also one of Link's acquaintances in South Korea.

Last year, when Link held a concert in Seoul, he had worked with Girls' Generation leader Kim Taeyeon and was invited by them to visit their dormitory, which caused a big scandal.

"Yoona, Link oppa is a playboy and is not loyal to his feelings. He is not the most perfect man."

Seo Hyun, the youngest member of Girls' Generation, said seriously.

"Yes, our Xiaoxian's idol is Secretary General Pan Wenji. In our Xiaoxian's eyes, Secretary General Pan is the most perfect man in the world, right, Xiaoxian?"

Sunny Lee Sunkyu put her arm around Xiaoxian's shoulders and joked.

Seohyun nodded, then shook her head repeatedly, with a dull expression, not knowing how to answer this question.

"Xiaoxian, you said she was a rumored girlfriend, but the rumor is not necessarily true. The newspaper said that Jun Ji-hyun was also Link oppa's rumored girlfriend. Do you think this is possible? They are more than ten years apart in age."

Lin Yoona said.

Xu Xian blinked and thought for a while. Almost all media said that Link Oppa was a playboy. This should be true, but it seems not rigorous to conclude that Link was a playboy without seeing Link dating many girls.

"Sister Xiu Yan, is the scandal about Link in the newspaper true?"

Xu Xian looked at the eldest sister Jessica Jung in the team, who was also the only American player.

"It's true, but it's normal for Link Oppa to have several girlfriends as he is so outstanding."

Jessica Jung shrugged indifferently.

"It's normal to have several girlfriends?"

Xu Xian looked at the other partners blankly, feeling that her worldview was shocked.

"Xiao Xian, don't think about it. We are here to watch the boxing match. Don't care how many girlfriends Link Oppa has."

Captain Kim Taeyeon persuaded.

Xu Xian thought about it for a while but didn't understand it. She simply listened to Taeyeon's advice, didn't think about those things, and focused on the boxing match.