Chapter 385： Suicide Squad released

Chapter 385 The Expendables is released

While filming "Captain America" ​​in Los Angeles, Link also took time to make guest appearances on the sets of "The Wallflower" and "You're Still Here."

The actor's brother, a rugby star who was a guest star in the previous movie, is also the actor's idol and role model. There are four scenes in total, so it's not too difficult.

The latter one is a documentary about Joaquin directed by Casey Affleck. In the film, Link plays himself, a top singer who is successful in many industries. His personality is that of a big star and playboy, and his private life is relatively chaotic.

His scene mainly has two parts. One is the conversation between him and the protagonist Joaquin Phoenix backstage at the performance, talking about their attitudes towards rap music and their feelings after becoming famous.

The other part is when he and Joaquin sang the title song "Believer" from the second album on stage, as well as the rap songs "I\'mtheone" and "Lighters".

In order to film this scene, the crew held a small concert in the Burbank area of ​​Los Angeles, and Link sang on stage as a guest.

In October, he also flew to Paris to attend the engagement ceremony of Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet. When he saw Marion, he accidentally discovered that she was also pregnant, but her belly was much smaller than Taylor's.

Link asked her how many months.

Marion said it was not his and asked him not to worry. She also leaned in his arms and said that Guillaume was very kind to her and loved her very much, so she agreed to his proposal.

Link stroked her belly, which felt similar to Tyler's. He remembered that Marion was pregnant before filming the movie "Rust and Bone", which was this year, so he was not sure whether the child was his.

Afterwards, Guillaume also found him and said that Marion was already his wife and asked him not to disturb their married life again.

Link could only return to Los Angeles with mixed emotions and continue filming and training.

At the beginning of November, "The Suicide Squad" was released. The film was completed in May. After half a year of scheduling, it was confirmed to be released in November.

This movie brings together many of the world's top action movie stars, including veterans such as Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, as well as the world's most popular male singer and World boxing champion Link Baker.

This movie has aroused the expectations and pursuit of many action movie fans even before it was released. It has also been called the most anticipated action movie in 2010 by many media, with labels such as 'Tough Guy Movie of the Year' and 'Must-See Movie of the Year for Real Men'. .

 "The Suicide Squad" also lived up to everyone's expectations, taking in a box office of US$41.05 million in 3,270 theaters in North America over the three days over the weekend.

It beat the spoof film "The Twilight Movie", Jennifer Aniston's "Sowing Love", Weinstein Pictures' "Piranha 3D", Universal's major production "Nanny McPhee 2" and other movies, and won the weekly box office champion.

The film has received mixed reviews.

People who like this movie say that the action scenes are very punchy and look very exciting. It feels like going back to the 1980s and 1990s and watching classic action movies such as "Rocky" and "First Blood". It is a real action movie. piece.

Those who don’t like it say that the plot of this movie is old-fashioned, does not meet the taste of the current moviegoers, and is not as exciting as imagined.

The overall media review score is 72 points, and the Rotten Tomatoes website score is 68% fresh, with 46 people supporting and 14 people opposing it; Yahoo film critics scored B.

Whether they like it or not, the audience is relatively satisfied with Link's performance in the movie.

I think his action scenes are no worse than those of several veteran action actors. He says he is handsome, strong and sexy, cool and capable of fighting. He injects something into this movie with an old style, cliched plot and a cast full of greasy uncles. The fresh air makes the entire movie more enjoyable to watch.

Some movie fans directly said that when watching the movie, they only watch the scenes where Link appears and skip the rest.

There are also many fans who advise Link to take more action roles and become an action actor instead of falling in love with actresses in movies. They say that they want to see him fall in love, and you can see it in the newspapers, so you don’t need to. Buy a ticket and go to the cinema. Link also became popular around the world again with this movie. His handsome appearance, cool fighting moves, and **** style in the movie also attracted him countless fans.

"Complete Cinema" commented that he is the "next action star".

"Vanity Fair" commented that he is one of the most anticipated action actors among the new generation of actors.

In its second week of release, "The Expendables" took in another US$20.67 million at the box office. Although it dropped by more than 50%, it still topped the weekly box office because there was no strong opponent during the same period, with a cumulative box office of US$61.72 million in North America.

The North American box office is expected to be over 130 million, which is not too high compared to the production cost of 82 million US dollars.

But the film’s starring cast comes from eight countries. Link, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis have extremely high popularity and box office appeal overseas. The media believes that the film’s overseas box office results will be higher than those in North America. higher.

Conservatively estimated global box office is around 300 million U.S. dollars. Based on 300 million U.S. dollars, this movie can be considered a big hit.

After the release of "Suicide Squad", Link's box office appeal was once again confirmed. Many film companies offered him large checks to cooperate with him, including many action movies, but Link refused.

After becoming a global superstar, his desire for fame became less urgent;

After becoming a billionaire, the millions and tens of millions in film salaries are not very attractive to him. Now that his time is limited, he is more willing to participate in movies that can make money for the company.

For example, "The Hunger Games."

After investigation, the rights to adapt this novel are in the hands of Lionsgate Pictures. Lionsgate is an independent film and television production company specializing in horror movies. It was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Canada.

It has produced the "Saw" series, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D", "No Body Left Behind", "The Cabin in the Woods", "Blair Witch", etc. It also has some good quality independent films such as "Hotel Rwanda" and "Death Man's Dance". "Girl with a Pearl Earring" etc.

After "The Hunger Games" was published in 2008, Lionsgate Pictures immediately won the adaptation rights, because the adaptation rights only lasted for five years, and Lionsgate Pictures is currently preparing to film it.

Palm Beach Pictures has extended an invitation to Lionsgate to collaborate, but has yet to receive a response.

However, Link is not in a hurry. According to media reports, due to the impact of the financial crisis and the development of the Internet, DVD sales have shrunk significantly. Lions Gate has faced huge losses in the past two years. From 2008 to this year, it laid off 8% of its employees and eliminated 45 positions.

Even so, Lionsgate Pictures is still burdened with 350 million in debt. In May, it announced a quarterly loss of US$93.4 million and stated that it would continue to reduce film production plans to reduce losses.

As Bente Production said, there are almost no film companies in Hollywood that are not short of money.

Especially in the field of independent production companies, large independent production companies such as New Line, Focus, Lionsgate, Dimension, Weinstein Pictures, Castle Rock, etc. almost all have financial deficits of hundreds of millions of dollars.

As long as you have money and dare to invest, you don’t have to worry about no one taking over.

Hollywood is also like a big casino, but the risk in this casino is higher than that in Las Vegas, because if a bet fails here, the loss will be as high as tens of millions of dollars.

On the surface, Producer Bente was talking about the film company's losses, but in fact he was trying to persuade him to take a smaller step, not to invest in too many projects at the same time, and not to invest in too big projects for the time being to prevent losses.

Link understands what he means, but the "Hunger Games" series has done well at the box office and is the most successful series of movies after "The Twilight Series". It would be a pity to miss it. He wants the company to continue to contact Lionsgate.

(End of this chapter)