NOVPUB"The Heat" has been released for three weeks, with a North American box office of 120 million US dollars and an overseas cumulative box office of 48.8 million US dollars. In this week, Lionsgate Films released their last movie of the summer season "Her."
This movie is a joint production by Palm Beach Films and Annapurna Pictures.
The film tells the story of writer Theodore falling in love with a female voice named 'Samantha' in his computer operating system after a breakup. Samantha has not only a sexy voice, profound knowledge, but also an unexpectedly amusing personality, which thoroughly ensnares the homebody Theodore.
As the male protagonist's needs and desires for her grow, their emotional connection deepens, and eventually, they fall in love with each other.
The film has a production cost of 23 million US dollars, about the same as "The Master," still starring Joaquin Phoenix as the male lead and Amy Adams as the female supporting role, with 'Samantha' voiced by Scarlett Johansson.
The film remains a highly artistic literary movie.
The movie was selected as the closing film of the New York Film Festival and received positive reviews at the festival.
At the release of "Her," it had a limited screening in 6 theaters across North America, bringing in an opening week box office of 462,000 US dollars, averaging a daily box office of 9,737 US dollars per location. Although it didn't match "Rust and Bone"'s daily earnings of over 20,000 dollars in limited release, it is still considered upper mid-level among niche art films.
Based on the first week's limited release performance, the number of theaters increased to 148 in the second week.
As "Her" was released, Link started a new round of Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion title defense.
Over the course of more than a month, he successively defeated WBA Light Heavyweight title challenger Carlo Murat, WBC Boxing King challenger George Brands, and IBF Boxing King title challenger Tommy Carpentier in arenas across three cities: Huaxia, Melbourne, Australia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
All matches ended within a single round.
His professional record grew to 35 fights, 35 wins, all by KO, continuing to add to his legend.
His total income from these three fights was 225 million US dollars, which he used to acquire shares in Lilly Company, BYD Auto, and JD.com shares. He currently holds 2.025% of Lilly Company, 5.36% of BYD Auto, and 5.1% of JD.com shares.
Hong Kong Island's Goldbeck Investment Company also successfully entered the JD.com board of directors.
If things go well, he will hold shares in three companies valued at a trillion US dollars in the future: Tesla, NVIDIA, Lilly, with a value of over a hundred billion in five companies: Netflix, Spotify, SpaceX, JD.com, BYD, as well as scattered shares in Universal Music, News Corporation, Amazon, Facebook, Wanda, Ali, Maotai, etc.
Seeing the investment reports of several companies, Link feels that even if he retires now, he could secure his position as the world's richest person in the future, perhaps for decades to come.
"Boss, we're about to start shooting, you should get ready."
Ms. Anne from the "Gone Girl" crew came over to remind him.
"Alright!"
Link handed over the materials he had been looking at to Anne, picked up the script on the table, and started reading. He had read the "Gone Girl" script many times before shooting, and was now mainly memorizing his lines.
This movie tells the story of a couple from Missouri in the United States.
The husband, Nick, is a poor country boy, unemployed and a kept man at home.
The wife, Amy, is a beautiful and fair-skinned rich second-generation daughter, with parents who are bestselling authors.
On their fifth wedding anniversary, after Nick returns from the bar, he finds his wife missing, and the home turned into a crime scene.
As the police investigate, various clues suggest that Nick killed Amy.
Nick is also vilified by the media and the public, becoming the infamous 'jerk'.
And all this is part of wife Amy's conspiracy; she does this to take revenge on Nick's infidelity by meticulously orchestrating a 'murder,' thereby keeping her husband firmly under control.
Link plays the 'kept man' Nick, and the female lead, Amy, is played by Rosamund Pike.
Rosamund Pike is a famous British actress, originally named Rosamund Pike; she became a Bond girl in 2002 with "Die Another Day," rose to fame in Hollywood for her part alongside Carey Mulligan in "An Education" in 2009, and was the female lead last year in "Jack Reacher" starring Tom Cruise, making her a second-tier Hollywood actress.
She was selected for the female lead in "Gone Girl" through auditions.
Last month, "Gone Girl" publicly held auditions for the female lead, and due to the media revealing in advance that Link would be playing the male lead in the film, over a hundred actress beauties, including Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, Emily Blunt, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Lily Collins, and others came to audition when casting began.
Since many acquaintances attended, Link did not interfere with the casting, leaving it to the director and screenwriter to choose the right actress.
After three rounds of selection, Rosamund Pike was chosen. She is ten years older than Link, 174 centimeters tall, fair-skinned, blonde, and has a tasteful appearance as an actress.
The director of this movie is David Fincher, whose works include "Seven Deadly Sins," "Fight Club," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Social Network," "Alien 3," "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," and so on. He is a top-tier Hollywood director, specializing in thriller films, which is also why Lionsgate Films paid a high price to invite him to direct this movie.
Link recited his lines in his mind, rehearsed with the female lead Rosamund Pike twice on set, and when Fincher, the director, called 'action,' he and Pike began performing.
"I have to kiss you now."
In the dimly lit alley, Link said to the woman opposite him.
