Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

Just one day later, there was more good news coming from Huaxia.

In the men's 400 meter freestyle event, Link beat the United States team's Hansen, South Africa's Vanderberg, Australia's Sprungel, and other famous swimmers, with an astonishing time of 3 minutes 28.16 seconds, once again breaking the world record for the event.

On the fifth day of the competition, Link had already won five gold medals, broken four world records, and qualified for the finals in all five remaining events.

After the news spread, the American media rushed to cover it, all expressing amazement at Link's achievements at the World Swimming Championships, praising him as the 'Sea King,' 'Torpedo,' and 'Nuclear Submarine.'

This also led to many media outlets, which had been criticizing Link just a day before, saying he bullied Taylor and was a total jerk, to change their tune and start praising him as the strongest and most outstanding man in the world.

This rapid shift wasn't due to the media practitioners' change of heart, nor was it the result of public relations by Paramount Music and Link's team, but because the public enjoyed this kind of news, and reporting it garnered more acclaim.

At the moment, with Link representing the United States team in competition, everyone was delighted with his achievements.

If the mainstream media went against public sentiment at this time and continued to stab Link in the back, that would be wrong.

Not only would the general public not accept it, but the financiers would not either.

Those who claimed to represent the people, the legislators, wouldn't accept it either. They would use their influence to rebuke the media and speak up for Link, garnering goodwill and scooping up some votes in front of the public.

In this situation, the media had no choice but to abandon their previous critical articles, quickly switch positions, and start speaking well of Link to please their reader base.

"Haha, fantastic, fantastic, Link is really a magical guy, I have always said that having him play Captain America would bring us lots of surprises."

Look, all the newspapers are filled with praise for Link, saying he's Superman, the swim team's Captain America, a nuclear-powered submarine.

Haha, they're all articles extolling Link, saving our company a fortune in promotional expenses.

Dear Link is truly incredible, partnering with him was the best decision."

At the headquarters of Paramount Pictures, Frank Abramov, President of Global Distribution and Marketing, holding a stack of newspapers, kept talking non-stop to a few subordinates at his desk, the smile never fading from his face.

"....."

The management of the distribution department exchanged glances and secretly smirked.

Just a few days earlier, in this very office, Abramov was fuming, cursing Link as a bastard, a huge liability, and berating the production company and Marvel Studios for not knowing how to pick actors, saying that choosing Link as Captain America was asking for trouble.

He even said that Link would bankrupt Paramount Pictures.

Within just a few days, President Abramov too had swiftly changed his stance, lavishing praise on Link and shamelessly claiming that choosing Link to play Captain America had been his idea, and now he even dared to use terms of endearment like 'dear,' which was just too cheeky.

"Tom, I'm allocating another five million to your department to continue hyping up Link's championship wins at the World Championships, the more buzz the better."

"This idea of the swim team's Captain America is great, we can focus on that. Our goal is to make Link the true Captain America."

"Also, with Captain America soon to premiere and Link unable to attend the premiere or other promotional events due to the competition, we have to explain the situation to the fans, encourage them to support Link's movie at the theater, which is also a way to support Link in winning more gold medals."

"Our box office won't disappoint Link, and Link's performance in the competition won't disappoint us either," President Abramov energetically stated.

"Alright, Mr. President," the head of the promotions department, Tom, nodded in agreement.

Abramov continued to delegate tasks to the other managers.

Now that the mainstream media was helping with the promotion of Link, it was as if the movie Captain America was riding a wave of public opinion. If they didn't take advantage of this momentum, it would be foolish.

For seasoned experts in promotion and hype, this was a rookie mistake they wouldn't make.

Under the drive of the Paramount Pictures distribution and marketing division, more and more media outlets joined in the promotion and praise of Link and Captain America.

This type of promotion wasn't limited to inside the United States but was happening worldwide, including in Britain, France, Japan, Germany, and other countries and regions where Captain America was simultaneously released.

This resulted in many foreigners who didn't know Link was a competitive swimmer being utterly confused.

World boxing champion, music megastar, movie star, billionaire, playboy Link was also a swimming champion?

And he won five gold medals at the World Championships?

For real?

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After an intensive period of promotion, on July 22, the seventh day of the World Championships, Captain America premiered in 4,115 theaters across North America, with a weekend box office of 70.82 million US dollars, nearly 18,000 US dollars per theater, and it topped the box office chart for the week.

Although the 70.82 million US dollar opening was not as high as the 169 million US dollars from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 released on July 15, or as high as The Dark Knight, Transformers 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Spider-Man 3, or The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, it performed better than the opening box office of other movies of the same genre released that year.

Before Captain America, Thor released in June had a 65.70 million US dollar premiere, Green Lantern had 53.20 million US dollars, and X-Men: First Class had a 55.10 million US dollar opening weekend.