Chapter 590 Showing Off and Martian Rescue

For someone who has won more than ten Olympic swimming gold medals, catching fish in the lake is not too difficult. However, Link believes in his fishing skills. As long as he is patient, it is absolutely impossible to catch fish.

But more than three hours later, Link discovered that fishing not only requires skills, but also luck.

He, novice Selina, novice Annie, and the three naughty kids next to him were all fishing on the boat. In the end, he only caught one palm-sized salmon. Selena and the others caught four big fish one after another, including a salmon. More than two feet in length.

Link saw that some of them were having difficulty reeling in the line, so he offered to help, but Selina was not happy, as if he would snatch the fish.

Of course he wouldn't steal it because he didn't need it. He exchanged a song for the big fish from Selena.

Returning to the villa in the afternoon, Link showed his fishing results to Ivaca and Taylor. After receiving praise from them, he personally cooked a fish hot pot for everyone.

He had no luck fishing that day, but another day, timing worked out and he caught a 138-centimeter pike in the lake next door. It was taller than a little Margarita when he lifted it up. He asked the little guy to take a photo with the big fish in his arms.

Little Margarita hugged the big fish and giggled cutely, and was almost thrown into the lake by the big fish. He had no choice but to let Alexander hold her and take pictures. He took several pictures and posted them on MySpace to show off.

Selena and Taylor looked on and rolled their eyes.

In order to show that he was also an environmentalist and to educate a few little ones, he asked Alexander to put the big fish back into the lake after taking the photos.

Afterwards, it aroused the envy of many people on the Internet.

Some praised him for his good fishing skills and asked him where he fished. Some praised Alexander for being cute and that he would be a handsome boy when he grows up.

Paul Walker and others invited him to go fishing together next time. Bezos left a message and posted a photo of him holding a large sturgeon. The fish was more than two meters long. Bezos said it was too small. So I didn’t send it and invited him to go fishing in South America next time.

Link found that all the people who left messages discussing fishing were men, while most women left messages discussing Alexander and asking him where he fished. The concerns of men and women were very different.

"Link is so boring. He won the gold belt and Olympic gold medal before, but I didn't see him showing off like that. Now he has to post a fish online even if he catches it."

Selena put away her phone and complained.

Ivaca smiled slightly, "Probably catching a big fish is more satisfying than getting a gold belt."

"This is the bad taste of men."

Taylor wore a bikini and shrugged.

"Hey, Selena, how about a competition? Come fishing and see if you can catch a bigger fish than the one just now."

Link set the hook again and shouted from the deck.

"boring!"

Selina crossed her arms and curled her lips in disdain.

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While Link and the others were fishing on Mackinac Island, "The Martian," Lionsgate's 11th film this year and the last film of the summer vacation, was released in North America.

"The Martian" is a science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels and others. It tells the story of astronaut Mark Watney who... After an accident, he was left on Mars. It will take four years for the rescue team to reach Mars. The hero needs to use limited food to survive.

The film's production cost was US$108 million, and it grossed US$54.6 million in three days of opening weekend in 3,841 theaters in North America.

As a science fiction film, it had very good premiere results and a good reputation. It was considered by the New York Times to be the best science fiction film after "Gravity" in 2013 and "Interstellar" in 2014.

On the 10th day of its release, the North American box office exceeded 100 million, reaching 109 million.

The performance in overseas regions was even better. It earned 213 million US dollars in 161 countries and regions in the first ten days of release. Among them, the box office performance in China was the best, with a box office of 57 million yuan on the first day and 280 million yuan in ten days of release, making it the best in North America. The area with the highest foreign box office data.

"The Martian" has been in theaters for 10 days, marking the end of the North American summer season. Lionsgate Pictures released a total of 5 movies this summer, and the North American box office of all five movies exceeded 100 million, including "Armageddon," "Maleficent" and "The Expendables 3". More than 200 million.

Including the current box office data of "The Martian", Lionsgate Pictures has earned a total of US$940 million in North America this summer.

Counting the six movies released before the summer, before September, the total box office of Lionsgate films in North America reached 1.31 billion U.S. dollars, excluding the share with Disney and Paramount Pictures, it was about 850 million U.S. dollars.

The global box office is 2.96 billion US dollars, excluding the share with other companies, it is about 1.93 billion US dollars.

Compared with last year, these two figures are slightly worse, temporarily ranking third among the seven major movie studios, after Disney and Universal Pictures.

However, in terms of profit, it made more money than last year, because in the cooperation between Paramount Pictures and Disney, Lionsgate Pictures has a dominant position and can make more money on several projects with a small investment. Paramount Pictures Mongolia and Disney invested relatively more money.

This is one of the reasons why Link is willing to cooperate with the two companies.

Also because the three movies Paramount Pictures collaborated with Lionsgate this year, "Terminator: Genisys," "Armageddon," and "The Martian," were all huge hits, helping Paramount Pictures hit the box office mark before September. To the third place in the industry.

Film companies in the industry are now looking forward to cooperating with Lionsgate Pictures.

In the autumn season, Lionsgate will release several more films, including "Inherent Vice", "Lucy", "American Sniper", "Wild", and "Split".

The North American film market at this stage is cooler than the summer season, with less competition. The films released are of smaller genres, including horror films, science fiction films, and art films.

The first film released by Lionsgate in the autumn season is "Inherent Vice", directed by Paul Anderson, the director of "The Master", starring movie stars including Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio, Owen Wilson, etc.

The film represented Lionsgate in the Venice International Film Festival in Italy in August and was shortlisted for the main competition unit, but unfortunately missed the award.

The film was screened in 5 theaters in the United States in early September, and received 452,000 box office in the first week, with an average single-theater box office of about 11,000 US dollars, which is above average.

The subsequent distribution department will gradually increase the number of theaters showing the film according to the changes in the film box office. The main purpose of doing so is to take advantage of the word-of-mouth effect, save publicity funds, and prevent losses.

The second film released is the science fiction film "Lucy", a French film directed by Luc Besson, the director of "Léon: The Professional", and starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Guillaume Canet and others.

Paris Rose Films is one of the producers, and Lionsgate Films is the distributor of the film in North America.

The film was released in mid-September and earned 43.89 million US dollars in 3,173 theaters in the first three days of its premiere, ranking first in the weekly box office. The film was released in North America for 19 days and the box office exceeded 100 million. It is also the eighth film released by Lionsgate Films this year that has exceeded 100 million in North American box office.

In terms of overseas regions, the film was released in many countries in Europe and Asia in June and July, and the current overseas box office has accumulated 330 million US dollars.

The total box office is 430 million.

The production cost of the film is 40 million.

The revenue ratio exceeds 10:1, and the producer Paris Rose Films can also make another fortune with this film. Lionsgate Films, as the North American distributor, also earned tens of millions of shares.

A week after the release of Lucy, Link's family returned to Los Angeles after their vacation. Taylor and Selena were going to attend the MTV Video Awards, Eva Ka was busy with company matters, and Link continued to take care of the kids at home and train at the boxing gym.

There was another boxing match in November, where WBA-WBC world champion Link would fight IBF-WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko. This match was also called the last heavyweight match by the media, and Link's last match to conquer the heavyweight field.

Klitschko Jr. was also considered the last opponent and obstacle for Link to dominate the heavyweight division. The Ring magazine also believed that Klitschko Jr. was the last goalkeeper in the heavyweight division. If Klitschko failed, Link would be unstoppable in the boxing world.

Many media also believed that it would not be easy for Link to win this match, because he had fought Klitschko Sr. last year, and Klitschko Sr. understood his boxing characteristics, and would discuss with Klitschko Jr. how to crack his offense and defense afterwards.

Klitschko Jr. had a great advantage in fighting him.

In addition, no one in the boxing world can defeat Klitschko and Klitschko at the same time. For example, in 2000, Chris Bird defeated Klitschko in April and was defeated by Klitschko in October.

"Ring" magazine believes that Link needs to be more careful and develop a more perfect game strategy to have a chance to defeat Klitschko and dominate the heavyweight boxing world.

"Link, what is your strategy? Do you want me to help you study it?"

In the boxing gym, De La Hoya asked.

"No, I have enough confidence in my tactics."

"You are too proud, I feel you will lose."

De La Hoya said with a curled mouth.

"Just wait and see."

Link no longer paid attention to him and continued to practice with Mario.

"Link is right not to tell you the tactics. You are defeated by him, and it is useless to tell you."

Morales grinned with his big white teeth.

De La Hoya glared at him, "You are awesome! You are amazing. If you are so awesome, why did someone take away your gold belt?"

"It's normal. I'm not Link. I can't win every game."

Morales shrugged his shoulders indifferently. He participated in a WBO super middleweight gold belt defense in May. Unfortunately, he was defeated by former super middleweight champion Jean Pascal and lost his world boxing title.

He was also prepared for this, so he was not too disappointed.

"Humph, look at your laziness. Before you got the gold belt, you trained with Link every day. After you got the gold belt, you slacked off, didn't train seriously, ate and drank indiscriminately, and your strength became worse and worse.

Look at Link again. No matter how many gold belts he got or how much money he made, he could still keep his original intention and continue to train. If you were half as diligent as Link, you wouldn't have been robbed of your gold belt."

De La Hoya criticized.

"It has nothing to do with laziness. It's mainly because I am limited in strength and I can't occupy the WBO gold belt forever. Even if I beat Jean Pascal this time, I can't beat Andre Ward and Chad Dawson."

Morales said.

After he was defeated by Pascal, in August, Pascal competed with Andre Ward, and Andre Ward won and became the owner of the gold belts of the four major organizations in the super middleweight class.

Andre Ward lost to Link twice, which made more people admire Link. Where he is, other boxers, no matter how good they are, can't stand out.

"I just discovered now that what you need to learn from Link is not only skills, but more importantly mentality, determination, and ambition. Before Link entered the professional boxing world, he dared to challenge everyone in the boxing world in front of the world's media. No matter what level or how powerful the opponent is, he has the courage to challenge and is fearless, but you"

Hoya shook his head and didn't want to continue talking.

Morales curled his lips and saw Mario being beaten around and panting. He put on his boxing gloves and went on stage to take over Mario and Link's sparring.

"Link, hit him hard. This guy Morales is floating now. You have to hit him in the face with an iron fist to make him realize the reality."

De La Hoya shouted, pumping his fist.

Bang bang bang!

Link didn't care what Hoya was arguing about. After seeing Morales standing still, he waved his fist and continued training.

Now his punches are stronger and more lethal than in the past. In order to achieve the best training effect, several of Morales's sparring partners need to wear sponge armor during confrontation training to prevent them from being injured by him.

It's just that Morales and Mario are super middleweights, and their qualities in all aspects are too far behind those of heavyweight boxers.

In order to improve the training effect, he will also invite Chris Byrd, Hashim Rahman, Ramon Brewster and others to practice with him.

These people have played against the Klitschko brothers, or one of them.

Practicing with them will be more effective.