Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

"Dear, I heard an interesting rumor in the company today."

After returning home, Link held Ivaca in his arms while walking in the garden and said.

"What rumors?"

"Do you know why Jon chose to come back after selling his stake in Lionsgate?"

Jon Feller was originally the largest shareholder and chairman of Lionsgate Pictures. After selling his shares in April last year, he returned to Lionsgate, and Link arranged for him to work in the production department.

"Because you love movies?"

Seeing that he was in a good mood, Ivaca responded with a smile.

"No, I heard that he was worried about leaving the company in my hands, so he came back to watch. He wanted to wait until I made Lionsgate Pictures a mess, and then buy it back at a lower price. He could make a fortune, but now his plan is going to come to nothing.”

Link laughed.

"I'm afraid it's not just him, many people's hopes will be disappointed, but it is precisely because of this that we have to be more cautious and invest carefully to avoid being laughed at by those opponents."

Ivaca said, blinking her long eyelashes.

"you are right."

This year, after the continuous success of movies such as "The Hunger Games" and "Buried Alive", the market value of Lionsgate Pictures was raised to US$1.2 billion by Wall Street investment institution Moodys. This is only the market value of Lionsgate Pictures, not counting Netflix's shares.

That number is nearly double what it was last year after Link took over.

Also because several movies performed well at the box office, some investment institutions proposed financing plans and prepared to invest in Lionsgate Pictures.

Link has no plans to raise funds yet. He plans to increase the market value of Lionsgate Pictures to more than 2 billion by next year, then raise funds, sell some stocks, and get more funds for investment.

On the one hand, it can also share risks to prevent the movie market from being sluggish in the next few years. Lionsgate Pictures has poor box office and cannot sell even if they want to. After all, he knows only a limited number of good movies, and there is no guarantee that the company can make a profit every year. .

"how do you feel today?"

Link asked, stroking her round belly.

"Very good. The little guy just kicked me a few more times. He felt like he was in a hurry to come out."

Iwaka looked at her belly and smiled.

"Yes, anyone who stays in one place without moving will lose his temper."

Link chuckled.

"Ah~ Link, come here quickly, Cynthia will grab my lipstick and eat it. If I don't give it to her, she will cry."

Selina shouted not far away.

"Who told you to take out the lipstick? Cosmetics are not safe, don't you understand? Stay away from the little one?"

Link shook his head, carried Ivaca in his arms and walked back, leaving the little ones in Selina's care. There would be trouble in less than three minutes.

By the time he and Ivaca rushed over, Cynthia had already been transformed into a cat with a painted face by Selina, and even Alexander had not escaped.

Cynthia didn't know what was going on, and she giggled at him with her little mouth open, and stretched out her little hands to hug him.

Link knocked Selina, took out his camera and took some photos as a souvenir.

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On the eighth day of its release, "Avengers" grossed 299 million in North American box office, becoming the fastest movie to hit 300 million in box office in North America. Starring Link and Robert Downey Jr. also became popular around the world through this movie.

Link was originally the most famous singer and boxer in the world, and now he is also the most famous movie star in the world. The combination of fame brought by these three professions has made him very popular around the world.

Last week, his number of fans on Twitter officially exceeded 100 million, making him the first celebrity on the entire Internet social platform to have more than 100 million fans.

The number of fans on Facebook and Weibo platforms has also exceeded 50 million.

This also resulted in continued sales growth for his four albums.

The cumulative sales of the first album "The Fighter" in the United States exceeded 5 million, and the global sales exceeded 25 million. The cumulative sales of the second album "Go Forward" in the United States reached 8.5 million, and the global sales exceeded 30 million.

The U.S. sales of his third album "the woman i love" officially exceeded 10 million last week. It is also his first album to achieve the "Diamond Record" achievement in the country. Due to stricter control over piracy in the United States, the album sales data were restricted by the RIAA. (Recording Association of America website) and the federal tax bureau IRS strictly monitor, it is difficult to sell 10 million copies.

So far, only a dozen singers have done it, including Elvis Presley, MJ, Shania Twain, Lionel Richie, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, The Beatles, etc.

Link is also the fastest male singer to achieve the achievement of a diamond record.

The third album sold approximately 42 million copies worldwide.

The current sales volume of the fourth album in the United States is 9.05 million copies. It is expected to achieve the second diamond record by August. The global sales volume will also exceed 50 million copies. In ten years, it is expected to exceed 100 million copies.

Relying on these album royalties, Link does nothing and earns more than 100 million US dollars every year.

By mid-May, the promotion of "Avengers" came to an end, and Link joined the cast of "The Expendables 2" as the second male lead, a handsome second-generation mercenary who is good at fighting and has some playfulness.

In this movie, his character gradually matures.

After the boss Barney, played by Stallone, was injured, he took over the command of the death squads and went deep behind enemy lines. Not only did he avenge his companions, he also successfully destroyed the enemy's conspiracy to steal weapons raw materials, once again defending justice in the style of the death squads.

This film was jointly produced by Lionsgate, Millennium Films where Stallone works, and Wanda Pictures. The production cost was 120 million US dollars, of which Link's salary was 25 million US dollars.

Some of the plots of the film were shot in Hong Kong Island, so a female suicide squad member, Alice Lee, was added.

In addition to Jet Li, there are two Chinese faces in the main cast.

And his official CP in the film is Scarlett Johansson, who plays Schwarzenegger's daughter in this play, a beautiful female mercenary with extremely high fighting skills. There are only two minutes of plot, mainly because the salary is too high.

Originally, Jennifer Lawrence was planned to play this role, but considering that his relationship with Jennifer is more complicated in real life, fans may not buy it if he shows his affection in the movie, so he changed to Scarlett Johansson.

If "The Expendables 2" performs well and fans are interested in their CP, they are expected to take the lead in "The Expendables 3" and become the leading actors of the series.

When filming in Hong Kong Island, he also had time to accompany Shu Chang and the little one who was born not long ago in the villa in Repulse Bay. Shu Chang's father named the little one Shu Nan, and the English name is Schubert.

During the period in Hong Kong Island, Chris Liu also came to vacation. She filmed three movies and two TV series in a row last year. She was busy all the time. It was not until the recent release of several movies that she had time to rest.

Chris Liu said that there were only two dramas this year and she was going to rest in the second half of the year, so she wanted to take advantage of this time to have a child.

Lin Ke also satisfied her. Chris Liu had a higher income than Shu Chang, and she didn't have to worry about the child herself.

In addition to being busy filming and having children, he also transferred more than 400 million US dollars from several companies in the United States, France, and South Korea, plus the dividends and profits of several Huaxia companies last year, plus a loan of 200 million US dollars, to buy stocks such as Moutai, JD.com, BYD, and Ali Investment.

Currently, Hong Kong Jinbeck Investment owns 11.6% of Wanda Pictures, 4.2% of BYD Auto, 3.4% of JD.com, 0.35% of Moutai, 0.22% of Alibaba Investment, as well as several film and television companies and real estate management companies. It is expected that the market value will reach 20 billion US dollars in ten years.

After the crew finished filming in Hong Kong, they moved to Bulgaria, Europe for filming.

Due to the local rainy season, the filming was not smooth. In the middle of the filming, an explosion occurred on the set due to a mistake made by the prop master, killing a stuntman and injuring two people.

Link was less than 100 meters away from the explosion site and was almost affected.

Because of this incident, the crew had to stop filming for a week, and Link's original ten-day scenes were delayed to nearly a month before filming was completed.

Because of this accident, Evaka did not allow him to take more intense action movies. Taylor also called to mock him for wanting money but not life, being particularly vulgar, and asked Alexander and Cynthia not to learn from him when they grow up.

Chris Liu, Nozomi Sasaki, Taeyeon, and Daddario also persuaded him not to take action movies anymore. With his current status and fame, he didn't need to work so hard.

In order to take care of the feelings of Eva Ka and Taylor, he had to agree and promised to shoot fewer action movies in the future. Even if there were action movies, he would use a double to cherish his life and stay away from danger.

After filming "The Expendables 2", his filming tasks for this year are basically completed. There are only a few small cameo roles left, which will not take a few days.

But he can't rest for the time being. First, the WBA boxing champion challenge is coming, and Eva Ka is about to give birth. In addition, there are less than two months before the Summer Olympics.

He needs to focus on training swimming skills and strive to win more gold medals in this Olympics.