Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion-Chapter 815 - 590: Showing Off and The Martian

For someone who's won over a dozen Olympic swimming gold medals, catching fish in a lake is hardly a difficult task, but Link believed in his fishing skills. With just a bit of patience, he was confident it was absolutely impossible not to catch any fish.

After fishing for over three hours, Link realized that fishing required not only skill but also luck. He, along with beginners Selena and Little Annie, as well as the three cheeky tots, were fishing on the boat. In the end, he managed to catch only a salmon the size of a palm, while Selena and the others successively caught four big fish, one of which was a salmon over two feet long.

Seeing the few of them struggling to reel in the fish, Link offered to help. Selena was reluctant, as if he was going to snatch away her fish.

Of course, he wouldn't snatch it because he didn't need to; he traded a song to get that big fish from Selena's hands.

When they returned to the villa in the afternoon, Link showed Ivanka and Taylor his fishing achievements. After receiving praise from both, he personally cooked a fish hotpot for everyone.

Although his fishing luck wasn't good that day, it couldn't be bad forever. Another day, he caught a dogfish in a nearby lake that was 138 centimeters long, taller than little Margarita. He asked the little guy to hold the big fish for a photo together.

Margarita snuggled up, hugging the big fish and grinning foolishly, nearly thrown into the lake by the fish. Link then had to let Alexander hold it for the pictures, taking a few shots to show off on MySpace.

Selena and Taylor rolled their eyes while watching.

In order to show that he too was an environmentalist, and to educate the young ones, he had Alexander release the big fish back into the lake.

Afterwards, it aroused envy from many people online.

Some praised his fishing skills and asked where he fished, while others complimented Alexander saying he was cute and would grow up to be a handsome young man.

Paul Walker and others invited him to fish together next time. Bezos left a message with a photo of him holding a large sturgeon, over two meters long, saying it was too small and thus not posted, and invited Link to go fishing in South America next time.

Link noticed that the comments discussing fishing were all from men, while those discussing Alexander and asking where he fished were all from women. There is a big difference in what men and women focus on.

"Link is really boring. He didn't show off like this when he won the Olympic Gold Belt, but now he has to post on the web even when he catches a fish," Selena put away her phone and complained.

Ivanka smiled slightly, "Maybe catching a big fish is more satisfying than getting the Gold Belt."

"That's a man's bad taste," Taylor, wearing a bikini, shrugged her shoulders.

"Hey, Selena, care to compete? You go fishing and see if you can catch a bigger fish than the one earlier," Link baited his hook and called out from the deck.

"Boring!" Selena crossed her arms and disdainfully pouted.

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While Link and others were fishing on Mackinac Island, the 11th movie from Lionsgate Films and the last movie of the summer slate, "The Martian," was released in North America.

"The Martian," directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, and others, is a science fiction movie about an astronaut, Mark Watney, who is left on Mars after an accident, with the rescue team not able to reach Mars for another four years. The main character must survive on limited food supply.

The movie had a production cost of 108 million US dollars and earned 54.6 million US dollars at the box office in 3841 theaters in North America over its opening weekend.

As a science fiction film, the opening performance was pretty good, and the word of mouth was not bad either. "The New York Times" considered it to be the best science fiction movie since "Gravity" in 2013 and "Interstellar" in 2014.

On the 10th day after its release, the film's North American box office broke 100 million, reaching 109 million.

The overseas performance was even better. In 161 countries or regions across 10 days, it earned 213 million US dollars, with the Huaxia region performing the best at the box office, having a first-day revenue of 57 million yuan and taking in 280 million within ten days, becoming the highest-grossing region outside of North America.

"The Martian" was released for 10 days, and with the end of the North American summer slate, Lionsgate Films released a total of 5 movies during the summer, all of which broke the 100 million mark at the North American box office. "San Andreas," "Maleficent," and "The Expendables 3" all surpassed 200 million, frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

Along with the current box office of "The Martian," Lionsgate Films has brought in 940 million US dollars in total revenue during the summer in the North American Region.

Including the six movies released before the summer slate, by September, Lionsgate's total box office in the North American Region was 1.31 billion US dollars. After deducting the shares with Disney and Paramount Pictures, they netted about 850 million US dollars.

The global box office reached 2.96 billion US dollars. After deducting the shares with other companies, about 1.93 billion US dollars.

Compared to last year, these figures are slightly lower, but it ranks third among the seven major film studios, trailing behind Disney, Universal Pictures, and Paramount.

However, in terms of profit, they earned more than last year because in the collaborations with Paramount Pictures and Disney, Lionsgate Films held the dominant position, able to make more money with smaller investments in several projects, while Paramount and Disney invested more.

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

Also, because of the three movies that Paramount Pictures had collaborated with Lionsgate Films this year, "Terminator: Genesis," "San Andreas," and "The Martian," all sold well, helping Paramount Pictures jump to the third spot in box office earnings before September.

Now, all the film companies in the circle are looking forward to collaborating with Lionsgate Films, including a few major cinemas that have not yet worked with Lionsgate.