Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 414 Released on the First Day

"Girl Just Want to Have Fun!" The MTV station on the TV is still broadcasting the MV I shot myself, and the trailer of "Night of the Comet".This single by Cindy Lauper also reached the top ten on the charts.

Portrait Records is very satisfied with this result, which is a surprise for their small record company.Seeing that the single is expected to enter the top three, Portrait Records began to increase the release of singles on MTV.Even the trailer for "Night of the Comet" has been added many times.

Ronald turned off the TV, put on comfortable clothes and pants, put on sunglasses, and prepared to go to the cinema to watch his second work as a director.

A shabby production and marketing budget meant the film didn't have any premieres or press interviews.Ronald had to pay for the tickets himself to a nearby movie theater.

Again he picked the movie theater in Sherman Oaks.Two of my films were filmed here, and it was the first time I saw "Night of the Comet" officially screened on the big screen.

After choosing the first show in the evening at the ticket window, Ronald went to the pizzeria where Jennifer Jason Lee worked, bought a piece of pizza, and ate it with Pepsi.

The movie theater opposite was approaching, and Ronald noticed that many of the people who went in to watch the movie were couples, but there were also a lot of singles or couples of boys, and many singles were wearing glasses.

Seeing that the screening time had passed and the audience had already entered the screening hall, Ronald got up to check the tickets.

"The screening room is the second on the left, and the bathroom is upstairs." The ticket inspector said mechanically, tearing off a corner of Ronald's movie ticket.

"Ronald." A woman's voice came from behind.

Ronald looked back, and it was Catherine Mary Stuart, the heroine of "Night of the Comet".

She also wore a pair of sunglasses, and the style of her clothes was completely different from that in the movie, so the ticket inspector next to her didn't recognize her for a while.

"Ha, you're coming to see it too?" Ronald knew that Catherine was also afraid of being recognized by others, so he entered the arena while it was already starting.

The two happened to go in together, and Ronald went to buy a big bucket of popcorn, like a couple on a date.

After entering the arena, Ronald and Catherine found a place where no one was sitting near the aisle in the back row.Ronald also wanted to pay attention to the audience's reaction.

Catherine, on the other hand, is a mixture of anticipation and worry.This is the first time she has seen a complete movie on the screen. She is looking forward to her performance becoming famous in one fell swoop, but worried that the audience will not recognize it.

Soon the commercials and trailers passed, and "Night of the Comet" officially played on the screen.

A comet flew towards the earth, emitting a dark red light, and a special effect font "Night of the Comet (Night of the Comet)" appeared in the center of the screen.

Starring, producing, and finally the director's subtitles.Ronald sat upright, the plot was rapidly approaching, the audience seemed to be more invested in the beginning, Ronald was half relieved.

"Oh, oh," saw the stepmother slap Regina's younger sister Samantha, and the audience let out a cry. It is not common to see two beauties fighting each other on the screen, and the real slap made them excited .

Then came the intense red lightning caused by the comet, and all the crowd standing outside watching the spectacle covered their eyes with their hands.

The audience is also very satisfied, this lightning effect is good.Only Ronald still felt that it wasn't bright enough.

The scene switched to the next morning, the sky turned blood red, and a sun rose in the skyline of tall buildings.Everywhere was empty, except for the people who watched the comet yesterday, there were only clothes and shoes on the ground, plus some red powder.

"Oh, oh!" Several viewers exclaimed excitedly. It turned out that the comet was destroyed in this way. It was so cool. It was finally about to enter a horror storyline. It seemed that they were horror movie lovers.

Regina's boyfriend who worked as a projectionist in a movie theater woke up first, got dressed and went out. As soon as the door opened, a very tall and thick zombie hit him on the head with a wrench, and then dragged him out through the back door of the movie theater.

"Ahh...!" The sudden violent scene lifted the audience's spirits, and the sound of consuming popcorn and Coke quietly sounded.

"Aren't you a big bootleg movie hater?" Catherine Mary Stewart whispered next to Ronald.

"Ha ha……"

The next Regina woke up, played a few more games on the video game console, and completely knocked the DMK that destroyed her high-scoring formation from the leaderboard.

He found that the back door through which his boyfriend went out was blocked.She pushed hard twice on the back door that was pasted with the old movie "Red Dust" and it didn't open, so she bypassed the front door. There were a lot of clothes and shoes on the street, accompanied by the red dust, Regina didn't know why.

Going around to the back door, she found that the door had been blocked, Regina kicked it angrily, and then found a bloody wrench on the ground.

She began to feel that something was wrong, and the background music changed from cheerful to thrilling, as if a zombie would pounce at any moment.

The audience is also moved by this emotion, and even the sound of popcorn is less.

Regina picked up her boyfriend's motorcycle keys from the ground, and now she confirmed that something had happened. She walked to the motorcycle on the other side, and when she passed a wooden box...

A zombie popped out!
"Ah!" Although the audience already had a premonition, they were also taken aback.

Regina looked at the zombie, still a little puzzled, "Are you dressing up as a ghost for Halloween? Make trouble without paying?"

Zombie yells "Come on, come on"

"Come on ghost, let me tell you, I have been trained to protect myself since I was a child, I have learned self-defense, I don't want to hurt you."

The zombie is still approaching step by step, and the audience saw close-ups of his face with horrible gray skin and red scars, and some blood.

"Oh Shxt", Regina hit the zombie's nose with the heel of her palm, and then two feet facing the crotch.

She turned to drive the motorcycle, but was hugged by the zombie and thrown to the ground.Regina picked up a wooden stick, hit the zombie on the head, and then kicked the head.The zombie was hit on the head with a nail from a wooden stick and fell to the ground and did not move.

Regina picked up the motorcycle keys, then ran to the motorcycle, quickly started it and drove away.

The audience didn't make any noise anymore, and they had clearly entered the rhythm of the plot.

"Oh, I didn't expect that I was quite heroic on the screen, I thought you took me as a tomboy."

Catherine Mary Stuart told Ronald that Samantha wore skirts relatively more, and Catherine was a little worried that her character Regina was always wearing pants.

"The dress-changing show you guys had in the mall was pretty good."

Hector, played by Kevin Costner, escaped from home and returned to the radio station. Together with his two sisters, he fought against the bad guys and zombies who came, and was finally rescued by soldiers sent by the Institute of Biology in the bunker. A group of people They all boarded the helicopter.

The audience breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't expect strange things to happen in the bunker.Those biological experts seem to be hiding something.There are also places in there that neither the surviving Regina nor Samantha can go to.

Scientist Audrey (played by Mary Voronov) was ordered to "dispose" of the two sisters.She also discovered that the vents in the bunker were opened when the comet passed, and all the people in the bunker were polluted and were gradually becoming zombified.

Ronald noticed that the audience began to breathe heavily again, all of them sat staring at the screen, some twisted and creaked in their seats.No one wants to go to the bathroom and miss the plot, so it is very hard to hold back.

The hopeless scientist Audrey injects herself and another colleague with the poison originally given to the two sisters, and commits suicide to prevent herself from becoming a zombie.

Regina became suspicious. She went to explore the inaccessible area of ​​the bunker alone, and found that all the survivors were treated as artificial blood bags by experts who had been infected by toxins. Their serum can be used to cleanse the blood in their bodies. Toxins that slow down the process of zombification.

Regina killed the zombified bunker man, saved the two children, and escaped from the bunker.The scientists and soldiers from the bunker chased after them. Samantha and Hector, who just arrived, had explosives to deal with the pursuers, and the group and a few children drove away from the bunker.

The next day, they returned to downtown Los Angeles.The rain washed away the red dust and cleared the sky.Regina is paired with Hector and they act as parents with the children.

Eventually a sports car pulls in, and survivor Danny Mason Keener, played by Nicolas Cage, picks up Samantha for a date.The movie ends with the license plate shot of the sports car DMK.

Ronald took the lead, occupying the bathroom and hiding in it to listen to the audience's feedback.Male spectators filed in one by one.

"The real movie is really exciting, it's so good to watch."

"You said that Samantha is really sexy in a cheerleading uniform."

"I think the zombies are so realistic, not worse than 'Dawn of the Dead', especially the one that kills Regina's boyfriend cleanly with a wrench."

"Hahaha, you didn't see it, this director is a person who hates piracy, and deliberately arranged a miserable ending for him."

"You said, is there really a comet that returns to the earth every 6000 million years and wipes out most living things?"

"I don't know, but there is a possibility. The extinction of dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period, and the previous mass extinctions, have a vague cycle, which happens to be more than 6000 million years."

"Are you kidding me? Aren't we?"

"It's not that accurate. I heard it from a person who claimed to be a Ph.D. in paleontology and geology."

"How do you know so many good people?"

"Hi, didn't I meet through..."

Ronald didn't hear what the man was saying, and he thought it might be a science club for high school students.

In any case, it is a very good phenomenon that these audiences are still discussing the plot and performance for a long time after watching it.

(End of this chapter)