Entering mid-November, the trailer for "Zombie Gigolo" was broadcast in the late-night hours of local TV stations in Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Professionals from Lionsgate Pictures cut out highlight clips such as the trapeze and the machine gun dance. The ad also featured Grey's late-night show, which has always had good ratings.

Then there are the trailers and posters in the movie theaters. For movie screenings, the distribution company invests very limited resources and only targets the target audience.

After just one week of little promotion, "Zombie Gigolo" was simultaneously screened in eight independent theaters in Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Elena had a day off, and Martin made an appointment with her to watch a movie together in the afternoon. Lily shamelessly followed her out.

With two adults and Lily being well developed, it was easy to sneak into the movie theater. After all, it was only R-rated, not 17-year-old.

There were many empty seats in the slightly old theater, and the three of them chose a row at the back. When they sat down, Lily slipped past Elena and sat on Martin's left side.

Elena, who was on Martin's right, glanced at her and said, "Watch the movie and watch your mouth." Lily nodded and said, "There aren't many people. Martin, no one watched the movie you acted in?" Martin held the popcorn in his hand.

Pushed it to her: "Eat something and talk less." Elena handed Martin a glass of Coke and asked in a low voice: "Is the audience a little small?" There were only a few people sitting in the old cinema that could accommodate nearly 200 people.

Less than forty people.

Zombie Gigolo was shown in the theater. Martin's goal had been achieved, and he had a good attitude: "It's a small-budget B-level movie. It only took three months of shooting and production. We can't expect many viewers." Lily wanted to speak again, but Martin gave him a Coke.

She: "Drink water." When the opening commercial was playing, Lily counted quickly and said: "Not counting us, there are 37 people." She muttered: "I did the math, the movie ticket is 6 dollars a piece, so

The box office for one game is 240 US dollars." Elena was curious: "What are you counting?" Martin said: "She is counting the box office."

"The movie he stars in is about to be released." Lily stretched out her finger and poked Martin: "I asked a movie magazine to study the box office calculation method." She glanced at Elena's slightly higher breasts and cursed her elder sister's.

Breasts are inversely proportional to brain capacity, and continued: "This film is short, only 92 minutes. It can be shown 9 times a day. Taking this afternoon show as an average, the single day price is 2,160 US dollars." Elena said: "You made a mistake.

Okay, it should be 1,860 US dollars." Martin would not be stupid enough to refute Elena, and said: "Starting from Friday, this movie will have a box office of almost 6,000 US dollars in a single theater during the weekend." Because of the number of viewers at each screening.

Different, it may be more or less.

Elena was still counting her fingers, but finally gave up. She was surprised: "Martin, you dropped out of school earlier than me, why can you figure it out but I can't?" Lily's mouth is faster than her brain: "Because your mind is full of things.

How did you get it?" Elena held up a bottle of Coke, and hit Lily's head with a bottle from behind Martin.

There was a bang, and Lily became depressed. Martin quickly grabbed Elena and said, "Don't disturb people watching the movie." The main line and basic content of the movie remained unchanged, but some redundant shots were cut out, and the scale was slightly smaller to cope with mpAA

Rating.

From the beginning of the film, Lily was dumbfounded. She thought that the late-night scenes shot by Martin, such as Ma Zhen and others, were exaggerated enough, but she didn't expect this film to be even more exaggerated.

What a trapeze artist! She also absorbs people's essence! Elena held Martin's hand tightly and pressed her body against Martin. With her character of doing whatever comes to her mind, she dared to sit directly on Martin's lap if there was no Lily next to her.

Martin quietly scratched her palm and gave her a look. Elena waited patiently and waited until she went back after watching the movie.

Lily turned her head and looked at Martin: "Were you really crazy when you were filming?" Martin glared at her: "Idiot, don't insult the art of film! Do you understand what art is?" The atmosphere in the theater was good, and the people in front of it were good.

The audience laughed constantly, and occasionally there were exclamations.

The audience who can come in to watch this movie are undoubtedly B-level movie lovers. This bad movie takes the old zombie plasma theme and makes it into something new, which makes them enjoy watching it.

At the end of the show, many people complained about the poor plot, but praised the actor for his originality in several scenes and his brilliant performance.

Walking out of the cinema exit, Lily angrily shouted: "Which idiot thought of such a ridiculous setting, allowing the hero and heroine to fight for their lives through hairpins." Martin curled his fingers and flicked her head: "Shut up." Lily was shocked:

"It's you?" Elena regretted bringing her out: "Don't force me to do it." Reading the words stuck in Lily's throat, she raised her cheeks like an extra-large frog.

Back home in the community, Lily wanted to discuss the movie she just watched with Elena, but found that the idiots Martin and Elena were missing.

She secretly went out, set up a wooden ladder, climbed to the roof, and took advantage of the bright moonlight to look around.

Soon, I noticed that the BMW was shaking in the backyard next door.

"It's so shameless to hide and make fun of you!" Lily was furious, picked up a piece of wood and threw it towards the yard over there.

Soon things were going crazy, Elena was chasing Lily Martin with a shotgun, Harris and Hall were watching Sisterhood together.

........."Zombie Gigolo" was screened in three theaters in Atlanta, with an average box office of US$6,423 per theater over the three-day weekend.

Los Angeles is better, with the average box office of the five theaters exceeding US$8,000. It’s not great, but it’s not bad either.

The screenings are specifically aimed at the target audience, and it is normal for some films with excellent screening results to sell for more than 20,000 yuan in a single theater.

The worse ones are, of course, three-day or one-day tours in drop-in theaters. This result is enough for Lionsgate to further expand distribution and increase its publicity budget.

Advertisements and short promotional videos for the film began to appear on some websites, especially forums where B-movie enthusiasts gathered.

TV ads and print media also invested heavily. On the weekend before Thanksgiving, "Zombie Gigolo" expanded to 54 theaters in North America, and the weekend box office soared to US$425,000.

Including the box office of the previous weekend and weekdays, the North American box office of this B-level movie exceeded US$500,000.

As for word-of-mouth, the reputation of B-level movies is all in vain. On the contrary, the three wonderful performances of the male protagonist have been talked about by many B-level movie lovers on several movie websites.

Two days before Thanksgiving, Zombie Gigolo Studio received a business letter from Lionsgate Pictures and immediately notified Martin, Catherine and Benjamin to come for a meeting.

Because the office space of the studio is small enough to accommodate only two operators, the meeting location was held at Gray Company.

Benjamin was in a very good mood. When they met, he hugged Martin vigorously: "Man, we are going to be famous." Martin smiled and said: "Is it that exaggerated?" Benjamin came over first and said softly: "We are going to Los Angeles." Catherine was very happy.

Excited: "Go to Hollywood?" Benjamin didn't answer.

Kelly Gray brought Ella into the conference room at this time, nodded slightly to the three of them, and said: "Lionsgate has just informed us that "Zombie Gigolo" will be expanded to 650 theaters this weekend, covering the United States.

All states, we succeeded." Martin leaned back on his seat, looked up at the ceiling, raised his hands and clenched them into fists, looking through many obstacles, as if he could see the sky, the sky is so blue, the sunshine is so special

The splendid, bald Benjamin is so handsome, the freckles on Ella’s face are so pretty, and Kelly and Katherine are so beautiful.

When he is happy, everything he watches is pleasing to the eye. Even if the old black guy comes over, Martin can still call him a handsome guy. Because the impact of a spot screening and a large-scale screening are very different.

Martin has been jumping up and down like a monkey for nearly half a year. Isn’t that what he’s doing? Benjamin happily banged the conference table and saw Martin reaching over with his fist and bumping against him.

She was too excited, exerted too much force, and cried out in pain. Catherine was slow to react, or she had not yet realized what 650 theaters could bring, so she pinched her face and asked: "Ms. Grey, can we go to Hollywood?"

Kelly glanced at Martin and said: "Lionsgate Pictures is going to hold a fan and media meeting in Los Angeles to further promote the film. They invite you to go to Los Angeles. They have booked the air tickets. You will spend Thanksgiving in Atlanta.

Depart early on Friday morning."

"Can I go to Hollywood?" Catherine's first sentence was a question, and the second sentence became an affirmation: "I can go to Hollywood!" She suddenly screamed, hugged her blond hair, stood up and spun around.
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How tempting is fame to an ordinary actor? Catherine is so excited at this moment. Even Martin has been staring at Kelly Gray and laughing.

Why should you hide your happiness? Actors naturally express their emotions. After screaming loudly, Catherine calmed down a little, sat down on the chair, and smiled sheepishly: "I'm sorry, I lost my temper. This is...too important to me.

." She took the initiative to reach out her hand and high-fived Martin and Benjamin: "Thank you! Thank you! It's a great honor for me to cooperate with you." Martin smiled and nodded: "Me too." Kelly then said: "Dave is here

During the negotiations with Lionsgate Pictures, we obtained a reward of US$5,000 for each of you, but when you arrive in Los Angeles, you must cooperate with Lionsgate Pictures throughout the process." Benjamin was so excited that he even uttered curse words: "As long as they don't

If you fuck my ass, I will definitely cooperate." Then she said harshly: "Even if you fuck my butt, I will bear it!" Kelly said to the assistant: "Ella, go get the wine, we want to celebrate." Ella quickly

I brought champagne and goblets over, and several people had a drink together in the conference room.

Benjamin and Catherine quickly left hand in hand. Martin had lunch with Kelly and went to her luxury apartment.

The two of them were lying in the warm bathtub, and Kelly said: "Your wish has come true." Martin said: "Our wish has come true." Kelly did not deny that Martin won the leading role in the theater movie and got a copy

With important qualifications, her company has profited from the project and has more abundant funds to invest in new dramas and the renovation of the automotive industrial park studio.
Chapter completed!