Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Justin is a high school student in a public middle school in Phoenix. He has graduated and is dreaming of asking his goddess Jessica to watch a movie together.Of course, it would be even better if other stories happened after the movie, after all, going to college with a virgin is not something to show off.In order to date Jessica, Justin had to bribe Jessica's younger brother Tom with his newly bought Arita game console to get this opportunity.

When Justin and Jessica went to the cinema, they found that there seemed to be no new movies released today, which made Justin a little annoyed.Because Jessica, who is a goddess, will not have a date with a boy, and I think I have already watched the most popular movies recently.If I ask Jessica to see it again, I'm afraid the goddess will turn around and go home.

Justin had to lower his voice and say to the conductor: "Hey, buddy! Is there any new movie that looks good today?"

The conductor looked up at Justin and Jessica behind him, showed an expression of "I understand you", and introduced with a smile, "There just happened to be a horror movie released today called "The Blair Witch". This movie is Jed Directed by Sherman, produced by Galaxy Films, and distributed by Paramount. It is said to be terrifying, and some people say that this movie is alluding to the disappearance."

"Whoa!" Justin responded loudly, "That sounds really interesting. Jessica, would you like to see it?"

Jessica was indifferent to the somewhat reckless big boy next to her, but she didn't know what he was thinking.Good sisters have already said that when a boy asks you to watch a movie, it means that he is interested in you. As for what movie to watch, it means that he has different feelings for you.

If he invites you to watch a romantic movie, it means that he has already identified you and wants to take advantage of the opportunity to confess; if he asks you to watch a horror movie, it means that the boy is interested in you, but he has no guts to confess and just wants to take advantage of it. Watching a horror movie and eating your tofu shows that you are brave; if you choose a comedy movie, it means that this guy just sees you as a good buddy, so let's get away.

Seeing that Justin chose a horror movie, Jessica naturally knew what this boy was thinking.It's a pity that I am notoriously bold, how can ordinary horror movies scare me?Jessica couldn't help complaining secretly, don't cry yourself first later.

Although Paramount and Galaxy Films did a good job of publicizing "The Blair Witch", and it became popular due to the disappearance of a Southern California student, but most of the theater company managers said that the production was too rough after watching the trailer. , There is no way for the theater to give a strong schedule.Fortunately, Lei Shidong still has a theater chain of the National Entertainment Company in his hands, so at least he got the first week's movies out for Jed.

However, American Entertainment is not the top five cinema companies in North America, so most of the movie theaters are concentrated in small and medium-sized cities. Only a few movie theaters exist in ticket-heavy cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.But even for the theater company under the name of Lei Shidong, the films are arranged in less popular time slots or in more remote screening halls.

But this relatively remote screening hall made Justin very happy. There were not many people and it was dark enough. If Jessica was scared, I could hug her and comfort her.Thinking of this, Justin was pleasing to the eyes of this uncomfortable auditorium.

The movie started quickly, and as the lights dimmed, the screen gradually brightened.First, several stars streaked across the water, then surrounded by snow-capped mountains, and finally the words "Produced by Paramount Pictures".Immediately afterwards, a child dabbed YouQi lightly on the blue wall with a star stained with stars. With the child's laughter, three larger stars jumped out, and then Jade specially commissioned a Hong Kong designer to design " The Chinese character deformation design of "Galaxy Films", and the last is also the words "produced by Galaxy Films Production Company".

After the screen went dark again, the words "Works of Jed Sherman" appeared, and then the screen switched to a series of news reports.Although Phoenix City can only be regarded as a relatively large city in the United States, the news here is not blocked at all.Although these reports were about the disappearance of students at Maryland State University, everyone quickly thought of the disappearance of students at USC.

Justin couldn't help complaining: "Oh, it's such a boring movie!"

Young people in the United States are almost the most indifferent to current affairs in the world. They hardly care about anything happening in the world.A movie adapted from a topic of current affairs was immediately defined as a bad movie by Justin, but Jessica watched the clips of these scenes with great interest.You must know that Jessica was admitted to the New York University School of Art, which is one of the three major film majors in the United States, and it is also recognized as the temple of art films.

Since she is going to study in such an academy, Jessica's appreciation for movies will naturally not be superficial.The first thing she discovered was that the director deliberately shot a movie crudely, because every detail of the movie is actually very delicate, but the director deliberately put them together in a chaotic way.This aroused Jessica's interest, and she decided to enjoy the movie well.

She soon learned that the plot of the film was that a year after the disappearance of Maryland college students, a ranger found what they left behind, and several rolls of film became the key to solving the mystery of their disappearance.When the FBI agents put the film in the small projection hall to watch, everyone's point of view also became the agent's point of view.Jessica secretly applauded this editing. Through such a hint, the audience will think that they are FBI agents, and their immersion in the movie will be deepened, which is undoubtedly beneficial to the director's narrative.

Although the following film images were rough, the terrifying sound effects and vague hints made Jessica's heart seem to be tightly held by something.Jessica found that the director was not a rookie at all, but a master of film skills.When the director deliberately sacrifices the screen, he must let the audience enter the play through things outside the screen.The director chose sound effects and music, and the kind of faint music made Jessica feel hairy.

Even though there's no bloody gore, or any monsters with hideous faces, Jessica swears it's the scariest horror movie she's ever seen.She couldn't help turning her head to look at Justin, the young man who thought he was brave was already pale and trembling there.Jessica shook her head and continued to read.

This scene happened in many cities in the United States. When the first batch of audiences came out, they all exclaimed that this was the scariest horror movie this summer. They introduced and recommended it to their good friends by phone or e-mail. movie.The favorite thing for young people to do is to get together. When there are friends who swear that this is the best horror movie, whether it is based on agreement or opposition, they will go to watch it again, and then find that this movie is really good. , so I recommend this movie to more friends with the mentality of sincere recommendation or deliberate scaring.

Under such a word-of-mouth effect, it reached a big explosion in the weekend of the first week.Although "The Blair Witch" was filmed in very limited theaters, it still won the first weekend box office runner-up with a super high attendance rate of a single hall.

Seeing the exaggerated money-absorbing ability of "The Blair Witch", theater companies that were not optimistic about this movie came to Paramount to ask for a release contract.Although Paramount is a little dissatisfied with this kind of attitude, but everyone can't make trouble with money.Therefore, Paramount not only won the "10/90, floor with 70%" floating box office sharing contract, but also extended the "10/90" ratio to five weeks.

Under the call of the strong box office in the first week, and stimulated by the rapid expansion of screening venues in the second week, "The Blair Witch" really won the runner-up of the weekend box office in the second week.Many film critics expressed their incomprehension to such a heaven-defying result.

But "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote, "The release of "The Blair Witch" happened to coincide with a popular national case. Although the producer said it was purely a coincidence, it has to be said that the popularity of the news has stimulated the film's box office to a certain extent. However, the most successful part of this film is the director's excellent grasp of various psychological cues. According to sources close to the director, the director Mr. Sherman defines such a film as a "psychological horror film". According to this According to sources, Yinhe Films already has production plans for several films of the same type."

Regardless of what the outside world thinks of "The Blair Witch", Jade has already started filming "The Shawshank Redemption" in the Texas wilderness at this time.Since this prison is already an abandoned building, water and electricity are almost unusable.Although with the help of the props team, several rooms that needed to be filmed were almost restored, but in Texas in the summer, such a climate is still unbearable.Fortunately, Jed specially prepared a caravan for several leading actors, and also prepared tents for other personnel, so he can still take a rest after filming for a period of time.

Since this movie is a test of acting skills, the feedback Jed got from the actors union is basically a second-tier Hollywood star.Both the protagonist Tim Robbins and the important supporting actors Morgan Freeman and Bob Gunton have filming experience in at least ten movies in Hollywood.During the audition, Jed was also very satisfied with their performance, and the contract was naturally signed soon.Then it's time for Ran to get familiar with the script with them, but Jed will go to the abandoned prison in Texas to make preliminary preparations.

When the shooting time came, the actors also appeared on the set one after another.Originally, everyone thought that this movie would be shot in a studio, but what they didn't expect was that the crew actually set up a real scene shooting.Of course, the actors hope that the crew can spend more, which means that the producers will pay more attention to this movie.This is helpful to the final box office and evaluation of this movie. The actors naturally care about the box office or evaluation. After all, names like "box office poison" are really not good.

The protagonists actually have quite a lot of confidence in the director Jed. This kind of film about human nature seems to be what the director in front of me is good at. The "Schindler's List" co-directed by him has been well received. Maybe this movie What prize will you win?Under such a vision, the filming of the movie went very smoothly.

At the same time, Jed also received another news that "Forrest Gump", co-produced by Paramount and DreamWorks, will be released in August, and the pre-publicity has already been rolled out.

Everyone was curious about DreamWorks' first film, and many wondered how it would score compared to Schindler's List.