Hollywood Director 1992

In late January, Link, Monica, and Jennifer returned to Los Angeles to attend the 52nd Golden Globe Awards.

This year's Golden Globe Awards were once again held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Guess Pictures had a total of 5 films nominated, including 'Seven', 'Good Will Hunting', 'Eat Drink Man Woman', 'The Mask', and 'Léon: The Professional', receiving a total of 10 nominations.

'Seven' received 4 nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Screenplay.

'Good Will Hunting' received 3 nominations, including Best Motion Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.

'Eat Drink Man Woman' and 'Léon: The Professional' received nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and 'The Mask' received a nomination for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy.

Unfortunately, Guess Pictures' films didn't have much luck, winning 0 out of 10 nominations.

The biggest winners at this year's Golden Globe Awards were 'Forrest Gump' and 'The Lion King'. The former won three major awards: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor, and Best Director, while the latter won Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Original Song, and Best Original Score.

Quentin Tarantino won the Best Screenplay award for 'Pulp Fiction'.

"Haha, Link, look at my trophy. Lady Luck seems to be favoring me more today," Quentin Tarantino said, shaking the trophy in his hand with a smile.

"Yes, congratulations to you. You deserve the award," Link said.

"Haha, you're not bad either. The youngest Best Director in the history of the Berlin Film Festival. You really got lucky," Quentin said sourly.

"Quentin, you're wrong. Link not only won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival but also won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. This shows that his ability to win awards is not luck but strength," Jennifer Connelly said,挽着林克手臂说 道.

Link smiled and praised Jennifer for speaking well.

Quentin curled his lips. Is it so great to have a beautiful woman as a girlfriend?

Every time he wanted to ridicule Link, the women around him would take the initiative to help him without Link having to say anything himself. This made him very unhappy. He didn't understand what these women were thinking. Why would they not love a man like him who is both talented and dedicated, and instead love a scumbag like Link, and be so devoted to him?

"Link, you're really bold. The scandals in the media haven't disappeared yet, and you dare to bring Jennifer to the Golden Globe Awards. Aren't you afraid of being drowned in spit?"

Quentin remembered that Link's only publicly acknowledged girlfriend was Monica Bellucci.

"Don't worry, I haven't done anything bad," Link said nonchalantly.

The Hollywood circle is relatively chaotic, with people who have been to jail, taken drugs, driven drunk, cheated, and engaged in public promiscuity, all sorts of strange things.

Because it is too chaotic, everyone has a higher tolerance for public figures.

There are many playboys like Link in Hollywood.

For example, the Hollywood tycoon of the 1940s and 50s, the 'Iron Man prototype' Howard Hughes, had 164 rumored girlfriends, including Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn and legendary actress Jane Russell;

Oscar-winning director and famous actor Warren Beatty is rumored to have had 12,775 girlfriends, including hundreds of celebrities, including Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh, etc.

Although their private lives were relatively chaotic, no one criticized them for it. Instead, they thought they were very charming and hoped to date them.

Link is the same. After his scandals were exposed, some media called him 'Warren Beatty the Second'. If he were richer and more powerful, the media might call him 'Howard Hughes the Second'.

It's just that Link wants to be number one in the world.

After chatting with Quentin for a few words, Link saw Harvey Weinstein coming over and also congratulated him.

This year, Miramax Films distributed 12 films, three of which were nominated, receiving 11 nominations, and ultimately won two awards: Best Screenplay - 'Pulp Fiction' and Best Supporting Actress - 'Bullets Over Broadway'.

"Haha, Link, there's an inside scoop, do you want to hear it?" Harvey Weinstein said, smiling with his toad-like mouth, his big belly sticking out.

"Please tell me!"

"According to the information I received, Guess Pictures' films were originally expected to win at least two awards, but the Big Seven studios didn't want to see your films become more famous, so they secretly operated and lobbied the judges not to vote for Guess Pictures' works. This is why all four of your nominated films ended up as runners-up."

Harvey Weinstein's lips curled into a meaningful smile, and a difficult-to-detect light flashed in his eyes.

"Really? Link, have you received any news?" Quentin asked.

Link nodded. During the Golden Globe Awards selection period, the public relations department also received relevant news, saying that the Big Seven studios were going to manipulate the awards.

It's just that Link didn't care too much. Guess Pictures' public relations' main target was the Academy Awards, and they didn't spend money on public relations for the Golden Globe Awards. It was foreseeable that the awards would be taken away.

"Link, why don't you sell the company? We are directors, and our main job is to make movies. There's no need to open a film company. Look, you're almost becoming public enemy number one in Hollywood because of Guess Pictures," Quentin said.

"Don't you also have the A Band Apart film company?"

"It's not the same. A Band Apart only invests in the films I make, while your Guess Pictures made a total of eight or nine hundred million dollars at the box office last year, earning more than the Big Seven studios. Our two companies cannot be compared."

"If A Band Apart also invested in films and earned hundreds of millions of dollars every year, would you sell the company to the Big Seven studios?"

"This—"

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"Link, sit down and talk, I have other things to talk to you about." Harvey Weinstein was too fat, and his forehead was sweating after standing for a while. The two sat down to talk.

Harvey told Link that after the scandal, the Big Seven studios had not given up their plan to suppress him and Guess Pictures. Next, Guess Pictures would definitely be affected in film production and distribution.

So Harvey proposed that the two companies establish a closer cooperative relationship, jointly invest in films, with Guess Pictures responsible for production and Miramax Films responsible for promotion and distribution.

The Big Seven studios would target Guess Pictures' films, but not Miramax's films.

This method can avoid the suppression of the Big Seven studios.

Link smiled. Recently, not only Harvey contacted him, but also New Line Cinema, Columbia Pictures' TriStar Pictures, Fox Pictures' Searchlight Pictures, and MGM's United Artists, etc., all contacted him, hoping to distribute films for Guess Pictures.

Completely ignoring the fact that the Big Seven studios were suppressing him.

Their purpose in doing so was still to make money.

People in the circle know that Guess Pictures' films can make a lot of money.

By distributing Guess Pictures' films, the distributor can also get a share of the pie.

Link knew these people's plans and also wanted to use this point to deal with the Big Seven studios.

So he did not immediately reject Harvey's proposal, saying that he would see how things went. If the Big Seven studios were too oppressive, causing the films to be unable to be released normally, he would consider cooperating with Miramax.

Harvey immediately wanted him to hand over 'The Butterfly Effect' to Miramax for distribution, guaranteeing that the film would be a big hit.

Link regretfully told Harvey that the film had already started its promotion and distribution work and was scheduled to be released in April. If Harvey was interested, he could hand over other films to Miramax for distribution.

Harvey chuckled a few times and agreed.

After Link left, Harvey Weinstein smoked a cigarette and sneered a few times, "It seems that Michael Ovitz and the Big Seven studios haven't put enough pressure on Link, so he still has illusions about victory and wants to resist the suppression of the Big Seven studios with his own strength."

"Are we going to help Link?" Bob Weinstein asked.

"Help him?" Harvey shook his head, "This time, the Big Seven studios are obviously serious about dealing with Guess Pictures and are prepared to invest more resources to deal with Guess Pictures. With the Big Seven joining forces, Link and Guess Pictures have no chance of winning. In this situation, Miramax can only choose the Big Seven studios, not the side that is destined to fail."

Bob nodded in agreement.