Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion-Chapter 646 - 466: One King, Four Queens_3

Link also became the first male solo artist of the new generation to have four consecutive diamond records.

In order to sell more albums, after returning to Los Angeles, Link participated in a number of album promotion events to increase the album's visibility.

Universal Records once again proposed a world tour plan to promote his fourth album.

The appearance fee for each concert was raised to 1.8 million US dollars, an increase of 600,000 compared to the first tour.

A hundred concerts could almost earn him two hundred million, and with other income and album promotion revenue, reaching three hundred million would not be a problem.

Link did not agree, as organizing a tour was too troublesome, and he had a lot of work next year with no time to travel everywhere. Moreover, Ivanka was pregnant, and his family needed him.

But he did not refuse either, as a tour could earn several hundred million US dollars, expand his own influence, increase movie box office appeal, and also raise the prize money for boxing matches. There were many benefits.

He delayed his decision, considering a second world tour after the release of his fifth album.

Universal agreed to this arrangement.

The album promotion work kept him busy until late September.

Meanwhile, his starring role in "Captain America" ended its screenings in North America and many other countries overseas. The North American box office reached 252 million US dollars, the foreign box office 245 million, and the worldwide box office was only a little over thirty million shy of half a billion, expected to enter the top ten in North American annual box office rankings.

In the end, Link received a total remuneration of 28 million US dollars, comfortably entering the ranks of Hollywood's twenty-million-dollar paychecks.

The other movie he starred in, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," after a two-month limited release, earned 6.33 million US dollars at the North American box office and about 11.5 million overseas.

The film, with an investment of 8 million, garnered about 18 million in the global box office, barely breaking even.

However, the reception was mediocre, with many media comments suggesting that even with the presence of a super-popular actor like Link, it only managed to achieve over ten million in box office, indicating inherent problems with the project itself.

In the last few days of September, Link also shot a movie, the script for which he had been holding on to for more than three years: "Buried."

The movie tells the story of an American truck driver in Iraq who, after being attacked, wakes up to find himself buried alive in a coffin and must use the limited tools at his disposal to desperately try escaping from the predicament.

Originally scheduled for shooting last year, but Link was too busy and had no time, thus the delay until now.

The film's selected director was the original, Rodrigo Cortez, also a horror film director who had participated in several Lionsgate Films projects, a director with a mature style.

"Buried" has a simple plot, requiring no extra props and sets, just the actor. All shooting took place inside a few narrow wooden boxes, not a large workload, with a modest investment.

The only challenge was the acting, with the entire plot depending on one actor, a cellphone, a lighter, a flashlight, glow sticks, a small knife, a hip flask, and a pen, a few simple tools.

Making a good film would be difficult.

In order to deliver a better performance, Link lay in a tightly sealed wooden box for three days, not communicating with the outside world, to experience the suffocation, despair, and fear of being buried alive, and tried to magnify these emotions in his acting.

During filming, he also asked the director to use a high-pressure mode and immediately halt the shoot if the performance did not meet standards, striving for perfection without easily lowering the bar.

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Rodrigo Cortez was a very serious director as well and did not treat him like a big star on the set.

He would repeatedly interrupt Link's performance at the start, sometimes a hundred times, sometimes two or three hundred times, until Link was numb and utterly exhausted, before officially beginning to shoot and telling him that a buried person should not be too energetic.

The film took six days to shoot and preliminarily completed the main body of filming with a production budget of 2 million US dollars, including Link's one million dollar fee.

The original "Buried" had a 3 million dollar investment and a global box office of over twenty million.

Link was uncertain how much box office the new "Buried" could pull in, but having finally completed the project after dragging it out for three years, he felt very accomplished and quite pleased.