Hollywood Director 1992

In its fifth week, "Seven" rode the wave of the Simpson case, forcefully suppressing commercial blockbusters like "True Lies," "Forrest Gump," "The Lion King," "The Client," and "Wyatt Earp" to seize the top spot at the weekly box office.

This news caused countless people in Hollywood to marvel and also to be suspicious.

The reason for the marvel was that after its release, "Seven" was suppressed by the seven major film companies and was unable to win the championship for three consecutive weeks. The box office data was getting worse and worse. Originally, everyone thought that "Seven" would not have any more improvement in box office performance, and this film would become Link's worst-performing film.

But no one expected the sudden occurrence of the Simpson murder case, where the killer even wrote one of the seven deadly sins, 'Greed,' at the crime scene.

People all over the world are keen on gossip, and North American audiences are no exception, but to eat ripe melons, you must understand what the 'Greed' of the seven deadly sins means.

And watching the well-received movie "Seven" is clearly more cost-effective than reading the obscure "Paradise Lost."

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

People in the industry couldn't help but marvel at Link's good luck, that the goddess of luck had not abandoned Link.

However, the occurrence of this kind of case during the release of "Seven" also aroused a lot of suspicion.

According to the principle in criminal investigation, 'whoever benefits is likely to be the murderer' — —

Before the Simpson murder case, "Seven" was suppressed by movies like "Forrest Gump" and "True Lies" and could not turn over.

Seeing that it was about to lose money, this kind of case suddenly happened, making the movie popular again.

Then, is there a possibility that Link saw that the box office of "Seven" was not good, and in order to hype the movie, he quietly sneaked into Nicole Brown's house in the middle of the night, killed Nicole and Ron Goldman, framed Simpson, and wrote 'Greed' on the wall to attract media and public attention.

Now that "Seven" is selling well at the box office, Link can earn tens of millions of dollars more, gaining more benefits than the suspect Simpson.

So Link may also be the murderer.

"Link, there are rumors that you did the case at the Simpson villa, is it true?"

Ben Affleck asked cautiously on the phone.

"Of course it's fake, how could you believe this kind of 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 look like a murderer?"

"It's just that it's too coincidental. Not long after "Seven" was released, someone used the name of 'Seven Deadly Sins' to kill people, as if they were cooperating with us to promote the movie. This movie sold tens of millions more at the box office thanks to the popularity of the case, and you can earn tens of millions more. From this point of view, you have the motive to commit the crime."

"Get out! I'm worth more than a billion dollars, I don't lack those tens of millions, why would I risk doing this kind of thing?"

"I can also answer this question. First of all, you are a person who refuses to admit defeat. "Seven" was suppressed by the seven major film companies, and you were unwilling to admit defeat, so you deliberately killed someone to promote it; secondly, everyone knows that you are very rich and would not kill for tens of millions, and you also know this, so you have no scruples and decisively took action for the sake of the movie box office."

"Using human lives to promote it? Are you crazy or am I crazy?"

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

"Okay, stop joking. You should spend more time practicing your acting skills. You should know that among all the male actors who have worked with me, you are the most talented but also the laziest. If you usually put more effort into acting instead of playing cards and chasing girls, your future achievements will not be worse than Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, and others."

"Really?"

Ben Affleck asked excitedly.

"Yes, practice your acting skills well, I have high hopes for you."

"Okay, I will."

Ben Affleck said happily.

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

Soon, Robert Shaye also called, his tone was equally polite, saying that Guess Who Pictures' plan to use this case to promote the movie was very good, and "Seven" had a great chance of breaking two hundred million at the North American box office.

He also said that the box office of "Seven" was lower than expected in the first few weeks, and the media was singing down on the movie, but only he was not flustered and continued to arrange the movie's publicity work in an orderly manner, praising him as a person who does great things.

Robert Shaye rambled on a lot, using a lot of declarative sentences, but his words were full of questions: Boss, you didn't really kill those two people, did you?

Link didn't explain much. It's useless to explain this kind of thing. Besides, he didn't kill anyone and wasn't worried about being suspected.

However, after "Seven" won the box office championship, Michael Ovitz and others, who were embarrassed and angry, raised tens of millions of dollars and launched dozens of small newspapers and magazines to start smearing Link on a large scale.

They claimed that Link was the murderer, and the purpose of the murder was to promote "Seven", telling everyone not to watch "Seven" and not to support the movie of the murderer.

These tabloids also mentioned the 'Murietta murder case' that occurred in '92.

That case occurred during the filming of "Paranormal Activity". Originally, it was not very popular. After "Paranormal Activity" was released, this case suddenly became popular and became the biggest 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, this kind of major case has happened again, and Link's new movie is selling well again.

This kind of thing is too coincidental.

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

So both of these cases were done by Link.

Link wanted to use homicide to hype the movie.

Some tabloids openly labeled Link as a 'murderer director' in their reports, and also drew a cartoon portrait of him, holding not a camera in his hand, but a bloody knife, with many corpses lying on the ground.

Some ignorant fools ran to the entrance of the Los Angeles Police Department to protest, demanding that the police list Link as a suspect.

There were also Simpson's black fans marching in the streets, claiming that Link was the real murderer, not Simpson, and demanding that the police release Simpson as soon as possible, not to wrong good people, otherwise they would have another Los Angeles riot.

Black rap singer Puff Daddy 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 are only arresting Simpson, but not targeting Link, which is discrimination against black people.

For this reason, Guess Who Pictures' legal department and WMA's legal department successively filed lawsuits against dozens of tabloids and Puff Daddy, demanding that they apologize to Link.

Due to the slander and framing by these media, Link's reputation was somewhat affected, but the box office of "Seven" continued to advance by leaps and bounds under the impetus of the 'Simpson murder case'.

In its sixth week of release, "Seven" grossed $29.83 million in North America, with cumulative box office reaching $161 million.

Since there were no particularly strong blockbusters released this week, "Seven" won the weekly box office championship for the second consecutive week.

Second place was "Forrest Gump," with a weekly box office of $17.75 million and a cumulative total of $204 million.

Third place, "Clear and Present Danger," $14.31 million.

Fourth place, "Color of Night," starring Bruce Willis, with a premiere box office of $6.61 million. The film's production cost was $40 million, and it is basically certain to lose money.

Fifth place, "True Lies," with a cumulative box office of $87.05 million.