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Ms. Clausen heard her words and initially wanted to advise her not to invest too much emotionally in Link, but then she thought better of it and kept silent.

A man as charming as Link could easily captivate any woman who spent enough time with him.

For Jennifer, a young woman in her early twenties, it was quite sensible of her not to treat Link like a creed and to speak of him with such rationale.

Moreover, as Jennifer mentioned, now that Link is the president of Lionsgate Films, staying by his side could bring many benefits; leaving him would not be a wise choice.

Ding-a-ling-a-ling!

Jennifer's phone rang; she looked at it, said it was Link, rolled up the car window, and spoke softly with Link.

Ms. Clausen also conscientiously turned down the volume of the sound system, letting Adele's song sound more mellow and melodious.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you

Forget it, I'll find someone like you

I wish nothing but the best for you

My only intention for you is to wish you the best

Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said

...

"Alright, you go practice archery first; I'll come over later,"

After hanging up, Link drove back to his bayfront villa, where he discovered an obvious benefit of buying Lionsgate Films was the convenience of commuting.

Lionsgate Films was located on East 12th Street in Santa Monica, just a fifteen-minute drive from the bayfront residential area, reducing daily travel time significantly.

Since it was Wednesday and Ivanka was still stationed in New York, Link had no one to talk to when he returned to the villa. After eating lunch prepared by the maid, he went to the study to read books, focusing mainly on bestsellers from the past two years.

In the past, he read books to pass exams, but now he read them to make money. He needed to identify familiar books with adaptation potential from hundreds of newly published ones.

After the success of bestselling books like "Harry Potter" and "Twilight," movie adaptations of bestsellers had become a preferred choice for many film companies.

The adaptation rights to past bestsellers had mostly been purchased by big film companies, so he had to pick from among recently published bestsellers.

Since many novels changed their titles when adapted into movies, he not only had to read through the "New York Times" bestseller lists but also understand their content and see if they had any impressive plots.

It was a huge task, but to make money, he had to painstakingly go through the books.

At one point, his neighbor Scott Stuber, who was walking his dog, came over to talk about a collaboration.

Stuber was the head of Netflix's film division and a member of Netflix's board of directors.

In recent years, Netflix had been performing well in the film industry. Initially just an online DVD and Blu-ray rental provider, it had transformed into a streaming service platform, beginning to produce its own movies and TV series.

In 2009, the company's market value was only 3 billion US dollars, but by this month, it had surged past 14 billion US dollars and was still climbing.

Lionsgate Films had an existing collaboration with Netflix as a content provider.

Now that Link had acquired Lionsgate Films, Stuber hoped to continue and even expand their partnership, jointly investing in producing movies and TV series each year, which would first be released in theaters and then streamed on the Netflix site.

Link understood this meant producing original web series and streaming films.

Web series and streaming films were common more than a decade later, but in 2011, they were not as prevalent, and the market was relatively small.

Not many film companies were interested in them, and respected actors disdained participating in streaming films.

Link was not sure if now was the right time to enter web series production, nor did he fully understand the terms of collaboration; however, he expressed willingness to continue the partnership.

But given Lionsgate Films' current financial situation, how to collaborate and on what scale needed to be studied internally before any decision could be made. He would ask CEO Steven Bicks to follow up on this matter.

After sending Stuber away, he continued to lie on the balcony sunbed, browsing through bestsellers on his tablet.

By April, "Bridesmaids" was scheduled for release on Friday, May 6, just a month away, and the film distribution company began focusing on promoting the movie.

Because he hadn't acquired Lionsgate Films when this movie was completed, Warner Bros. Pictures led its distribution, with Lionsgate Films participating in the promotional efforts.

However, at the time "Bridesmaids" was scheduled, Weinstein Company also started promoting their new movie "Vengeance for Father."

The movie, directed by renowned director Paul Sorrenti and starring Sean Penn and Frances McDormand, both Film Emperor and Film Empress, had received several nominations and two awards at the Toronto Film Festival and had a good reputation.

Its release date was also set for May 8.

Due to the strained relations between Link and Harvey Weinstein, well-known in Hollywood especially after the Lionsgate acquisition, it was clear to everyone that scheduling their films for simultaneous promotion and release was a direct confrontation.

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"Complete Movie," "Variety," and other film magazines took the opportunity to publicize and hype the feud, claiming that the two were preparing to battle for the May movie box office leaderboard. Whose company's films would prevail? Everyone was encouraged to wait and see.