Chapter 242 Link kills someone?

"Se7en" was in its fifth week of release. Riding on the popularity of the O.J. Simpson case, it overwhelmed commercial blockbusters such as "True Lies," "Forrest Gump," "The Lion King," "The Client," and "Wyatt Earp," and won the weekly box office championship.

The news caused countless exclamations and doubts in Hollywood.

The reason for the surprise is that after the release of "Seven", it was suppressed by the seven major film studios and failed to win the championship for three consecutive weeks. The box office data became worse and worse. Originally, everyone thought that the box office performance of "Seven" would not improve, and this movie would become the worst box office performance of Link.

But no one expected that the Simpson murder case would suddenly happen, and the murderer even wrote "greed", one of the seven deadly sins, at the crime scene.

People all over the world are keen on eating melons, and North American audiences are no exception. But if you want to eat a ripe melon, you must understand what "greed" of the seven deadly sins means.

Watching the well-received movie "Se7en" is obviously more cost-effective than watching the obscure "Paradise Lost".

This also led to the box office data of "Seven Deadly Sins" rising against the trend, with the box office performance in the fourth week more than double that of the previous week.

Everyone in the circle marveled at Link's good luck, and the goddess of luck did not abandon Link.

However, the occurrence of such a case during the release of "Seven Deadly Sins" also aroused suspicion among many people.

According to the principle of criminal investigation that "whoever benefits may be the murderer", we can infer that -

Before the Simpson murder case, "Seven" was overshadowed by films like "Forrest Gump" and "True Lies".

The film was about to lose money, but suddenly this case happened and made it popular again.

Is it possible that Link saw that "Seven" was not doing well at the box office, and in order to hype the movie, he sneaked into Nicole Brown's house in the middle of the night, killed Nicole and Lang Goldman, framed Simpson, and wrote "Greed" on the wall to attract the attention of the media and the public.

Now that "Seven" is a box office hit, Link can earn tens of millions more dollars and gain more benefits than the suspect Simpson.

So Link could also be the murderer.

"Link, there are rumors that you were the one who committed the Simpson Villa case. Is that true?"

Ben Affleck asked cautiously on the phone.

"Of course it's fake. How could you believe such news?"

Link was helpless, Ben Affleck was not the first acquaintance to call and ask about this matter.

"You really didn't kill anyone?"

"Do you think I'm a murderer?"

"It's just too coincidental. Not long after the release of Seven, someone used the name of Seven to kill people. It's like they were cooperating with us to promote the movie. The movie sold tens of millions more at the box office thanks to the popularity of the case, and you could also make tens of millions more. From this point of view, you have a motive for committing the crime."

"Get lost! I'm worth over a billion, I don't need those tens of millions, why would I risk doing something like this?"

"I can answer this question. First of all, you are a person who refuses to admit defeat. Seven Deadly Sins was suppressed by the seven major film studios. You were unwilling to admit defeat and deliberately killed someone for publicity. Secondly, everyone knows that you are very rich and would not kill for tens of millions. You also know this, so you had no concerns and acted decisively for the sake of the movie's box office."

"Using human lives for publicity? Are you crazy or am I?"

"Hey, why don't you tell me where you were and what you were doing on the night of the crime? Who can testify for you?"

"Okay, stop joking. You should practice your acting skills when you have time. You should know that among all the male actors I have worked with, you are the most talented but the laziest one. If you focus more on acting instead of playing cards and picking up girls, your future achievements will not be worse than Clark Gable and Marlon Brando."

"real?"

Ben Affleck asked excitedly.

"Yes, practice your acting skills well. I am very optimistic about you."

"Yes, I will."

Ben Affleck said happily.

Link hung up the phone, shook his head, and continued to help Liu Qianqian with her homework.

Soon Robert Shea also called, and his tone was equally polite. He said that Guess Pictures' plan to use this case to promote the movie was a good one, and that "Se7en" had a great chance of breaking 200 million at the North American box office.

He also said that the box office of "Seven Deadly Sins" was lower than expected in the past few weeks, and the media was criticizing the film, but he was the only one who remained calm and continued to arrange the film's promotion work in an orderly manner, praising him as a man who could do great things.

Robert Shea spoke a lot, using many declarative sentences, but his words were full of doubts: Boss, did you really kill those two people?

Link didn't explain much. There was no point in explaining such a thing. Besides, he didn't kill anyone, so he wasn't worried about being suspected.

However, after "Se7en" won the box office, the angry Michael Ovitz and others raised tens of millions of dollars, mobilized dozens of small newspapers and magazines, and began to discredit Link on a large scale.

It was claimed that Link was a murderer and that the purpose of killing people was to promote "Seven". People were asked not to watch "Seven" and not to support the murderer's movie.

The tabloids also mentioned the Murrieta murder case that occurred in 1992.

The case happened during the filming of "Paranormal Activity". It was not very popular at first, but after the release of "Paranormal Activity", the case suddenly became popular and became the largest criminal case in the United States at that time. "Paranormal Activity" also took the opportunity to hype it up and sold more than 600 million US dollars.

Now that "Seven" is released and this major case happens again, Link's new movie will be a big hit again.

This is such a coincidence.

Friends who often watch movies know that many things that seem coincidental are often premeditated.

So both cases were done by Link.

Link wanted to use the murder case to hype up the movie.

A tabloid openly labeled Link a "murder director" in its report and drew a cartoon image of him. He was holding a bloody sword instead of a camera, and there were many corpses lying on the ground.

Some fools who didn't know the truth ran to the door of the Los Angeles Police Department to protest and demanded that the police list Link as a suspect.

Simpson's black fans also marched in the streets, saying that Link was the real murderer and Simpson was not, and demanded that the police release Simpson as soon as possible and not wrongly accuse a good person, otherwise they would start another Los Angeles riot.

Black rapper P. Diddy claimed that Link was also a suspect, and the police should treat Simpson and Link equally and put Link in jail as well. Now the police only arrested Simpson but not Link, which is discrimination against black people.

For this reason, the legal departments of Guess What Pictures and WMA sued dozens of tabloids and P. Diddy, demanding that they apologize to Link.

Link's reputation was affected somewhat by these media frame-ups, but the box office of "Seven" continued to soar, driven by the "Simpson Murder Case."

In its sixth week of release, "Se7en" earned $29.83 million in North America, bringing its cumulative box office to $161 million.

As there were no strong blockbusters released this week, "Seven Deadly Sins" retained the weekly box office championship.

The second place is "Forrest Gump", with a weekly box office of 17.75 million US dollars and a cumulative box office of 204 million US dollars.

The third place is "The Pursuit", with 14.31 million US dollars.

Fourth place: "Night Color", starring Bruce Willis, had a premiere box office of 6.61 million US dollars. The film cost 40 million US dollars to produce and was basically a loss.

Fifth place: "True Lies", with a cumulative box office of 87.05 million US dollars.

(End of this chapter)