The Goddess Shines on America

In general, "Ghost Story" is popular, and it is very popular.

This is indeed a thriller and horror movie. After the show, almost all the audience said that the whole plot became more and more infiltrating in the later stage, and when the ending exploded, almost everyone was frightened.

Not everyone in the audience is Zhang Tianshi. Even if the heroine only has two fangs at the corners of her mouth, when she crawled to the camera, she first had a weird smile. When a big mouth came over, not everyone could hold it back. of.

However, in this last two months of 1984, the reason why this film has appeared in many sections of various newspapers is not just a little thriller. In fact, when a certain newspaper publishes a related article, it is really placed in the gossip section.

"On the relationship between showing affection and early death, and the success rate of voluntary death".

The author of this article is completely anonymous, and those who are interested will find that, like the earlier analysis of Huron's murder, it is not so much news as commentary. In short, this already interesting topic has attracted many readers, and even this tabloid with mediocre performance has also seen a surge in sales, which is an unexpected gain.

As this article said, after watching the movie, many viewers feel that although the later stage of the movie is scary, the early stage is simply a classic comedy. Many people even said that watching this movie was like riding a roller coaster. The dramatic style in the early stage made them almost unable to eat popcorn, and then the horror atmosphere made them almost unable to eat popcorn. Anyway, the popcorn suffered.

As stated in the title of the article, the male and female protagonists constantly show their affection in front of the audience at the beginning of the article, but they still use the selfie camera to present it. Is there anything more hateful than this? Therefore, when the male protagonist's IQ suddenly dropped and he kept using all kinds of desperate means to contact the devil, few of the audience really sympathized with him.

When encountering such a thing, it's too late to run away, yet he still has the heart to have sex with the devil in front of his girlfriend...

All the female viewers said that this kind of scumbag died early and passed away early. If they encountered it by themselves, let him reunite with his demon friends in hell, and my mother will find a normal man.

However, what makes this movie popular the most is actually a detail in one of the plots.

The male protagonist who died in August 1984 used the Windows 1.0 operating system just launched by Microsoft in November 1984, and used one of the audio analysis software to find opportunities to communicate with the devil, and then communicated up...

It's on fire, everyone is on fire.

No one expected that DreamWorks would actually receive advertising sponsorship from Microsoft. Many tabloids in the industry immediately reported frantically. Many editors swore that this was Microsoft's attempt to use this movie to hype up their new products.

Some people even speculate that the reason why Microsoft skipped the release until now is to wait for the movie to be released. Otherwise, why did the movie come to be advertised as soon as it was released?

Therefore, not long after Microsoft launched the product, it immediately ushered in a better start. Their initial sales were already very good. After many people watched the movie, orders like snowflakes poured in like crazy. .

Furthermore, the movie itself became even more popular, relying only on the purest public opinion, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and more than a million viewers frantically flocked to major theaters across the country.

I don’t know if it’s because Dreamworks’ executives are so prescient. Facing the influx of movie-watching frenzy, even though it’s a newly established small company, they actually prepared enough copy tapes early on and distributed them immediately. In major theaters across the country. In this way, while more and more audiences were immediately satisfied, DreamWorks really made a lot of money.

After just the first week, the box office of "Ghost Story" soared to 10 million US dollars, which is enough to make the entire industry stunned. However, one-third of the quota was set on the first day. After all, the gimmick of "shooting ghost movies at the scene of the murder of high school students" is indeed very attractive, and the earlier tabloid articles played a particularly prominent role.

Therefore, in the following second week, the box office suddenly rushed up like a roller coaster. Not only did it start from a super high level, but it also showed no signs of falling into the abyss. Whether it is the impact of various hypes or the word-of-mouth publicity brought about by the quality of the film itself, "Ghost Story" has brought an astonishing box office.

For some time now, you can almost see long queues at the gates of movie theaters in cities across the United States, and their goals are all DreamWorks' new works!

But what followed was a lawsuit.

They were the parents of the three murdered high school students.

If the movie didn't catch on, it's probably the same thing, but now, "Ghost Story" almost relies on this gimmick to make its first-day box office so high, how can it make the victim's family calm down? ?

After all, once the lawsuit is won, the compensation is equivalent to winning the Mark Six lottery. Many people can't help but think that they can make a lot of money for free in the name of venting their anger.

So, on a certain day in the second week of the film's release, another piece of news pushed it to the forefront.

The family members of the three high school students sued DreamWorks in court for damages on grounds such as violating the honor of the deceased.

Not to mention how the general public is looking forward to the follow-up of this case, when this news came out, the box office of "Ghost Story" on the day suddenly increased by a full 40%, and the next day it did not decrease but increased again. , Leng ushered in another climax!

Added fuel to the fire.

As the economically developed regions of the United States, the east and west coasts have shown this movie in almost all theaters in all cities. Of course, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Chicago and other major cities in the interior have long been staged. Furthermore, Canada and the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, Spain, Italy and many other countries also became the first wave of overseas versions to debut, and the film went to the international market with ease.

At this moment, the movie is only twelve days away from its release.

As for the lawsuit, DreamWorks immediately issued a statement: Come, come, Who is afraid of Who?

To the effect.

You know, the characteristic of the United States is that as long as the lawyers are hired well and cleverly, even a white person can be called a black person.

What's more, this matter was just the three couples looking for trouble on their own. When DreamWorks was doing movie promotion, it never used the name of "the scene of the murder of a high school student", but simply made a movie there. If the three couples really wanted to file a lawsuit with someone, it should be the relevant newspaper.

Therefore, in the face of the must-win lawsuit, Alice said that this is not a problem, as long as the movie and the company become popular.

"As of today, it has been released for fifteen days. Counting the overseas box office, our main business income has reached 45 million U.S. dollars. It has just entered December, and the Christmas schedule has just begun. Keep looking for this enthusiasm and continue. It is possible until February next year. In other words, it is certain that it will exceed 100 million."

The DreamWorks headquarters located in the south of Sunset Boulevard is just a small building with a few floors high, but within a short period of one month, under the influence of major paper media across the country, this small building has become a media center. and the focus of public opinion.

"It's unbelievable. Although it's been half a month...but it's only half a month. The current income..."

In the chairman's office, Lawrence looked at the financial statements with a complicated face, while Alice, who was sitting across from her, was leisurely sipping tea.

"The camera is directly used by the company, not counting the salary. The entire shooting cost is only about 23,000 yuan, and the current income is... two thousand times. Two thousand times the rate of return..."

It is natural to say that Lawrence is ecstatic now. As the first film of his new company, it can achieve such a high box office with such a low cost. This is simply a mythical achievement!

But he was also complaining in his heart, because he had agreed with Alice long ago that the company would only charge the film's distribution and promotional fees, and the box office revenue would be entirely attributed to Alice alone, and the company had no share at all...

The cost of filming was a mere 20,000 U.S. dollars, and because it was only 20,000 U.S. dollars, Alice paid for it all by herself, so there was nothing wrong with the company...

"Uncle Roger, for the box office revenue of this movie, I want to get it directly on a monthly basis."

Alice calculated her timetable early, and said to Lawrence: "After Christmas, my family and I will go to China. This trip will last about a month. It will definitely not be convenient to contact China at that time."

Naturally, Lawrence didn't suspect him, not to mention that there was really no conspiracy, so he agreed immediately, but he couldn't help asking, "Did you visit your hometown in the past?"

Alice chuckled, noncommittal.

There are purposes for visiting hometowns, but doing business is the big deal.