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Public opinions abound.
Sometimes, public opinion is more ruthless than a knife, killing people without blood.
Everyone mercilessly criticized Yi Feiyang, a maverick Chinese director.
Of course, if Yi Feiyang is not Chinese, if Yi Feiyang is not so eye-catching, if...
No ifs!
In short, those people who are jealous of others and those who discriminate against Chinese are all adding fuel to the flames in the hope of magnifying this matter, preferably by pouring all the blackest and dirtiest water on Yi Feiyang.
Yi Feiyang didn't care about this, but Gao Jiabao, the fat man who was Yi Feiyang's friend, couldn't hold it in any longer.
If he hadn't been caught by Yi Feiyang, Fatty would have jumped out and killed three generations of these guys' ancestors!
"Ayang, I think you have been guilty of bad luck recently! You can either go to Chinatown and ask Brother Yiguan to suppress the evil spirits; or you can wash it with grapefruit leaves to drive away the bad luck!" Finally, the fat man gave Yi Feiyang a suggestion.
suggestion.
Yi Feiyang does not believe in ghosts and gods. Although Hong Kong has the custom of worshiping gods and thanking Brother Guan when turning on the phone, for Yi Feiyang, it is better to believe in ghosts and gods than to believe in himself.
As long as you stand and don't fall, no one can knock you down!
Yes, no one can!
…
Faced with the ban on Yi Feiyang's "Ghost Story", Yi Feiyang himself was deeply affected and was called the "director of death". Some people even ridiculed him for not being able to make a movie, but he became a "director killer".
The happiest people about this are undoubtedly the two brothers Dennis and Edeardo.
Previously, the authentic "Blair Witch 2" created by the two was overwhelmed by Yi Feiyang's "The Ghost Story" in terms of both word-of-mouth and box office. For this reason, the boss of Lionsgate Pictures helped the two film the film.
Although Mr. Gusta didn't say anything, the two guys were also shameless people. They always felt that they owed Boss Gusta something.
Good thing now, God, the old man has finally lost his temper, and that damn China is vulnerable to retribution!
Yes, I received shitty retribution!
Haha, the movie he shot can actually scare people to death. This Chinese guy is really unlucky this time!
Dennis and Edeardo opened champagne, made an appointment with a sexy hottie, and touched their butts together on the dance floor. They danced passionately.
What is schadenfreude?
This is!
Compared with the short-sightedness of these two unlucky guys, Mr. Gusta, as the boss of Lionsgate Pictures, has a different view on what happened to Yi Feiyang.
If such a thing happened in a conservative country, then there is no doubt that it is equivalent to God being angry, causing the sea to roar, and a bolt from the blue... The person involved will have to pay a heavy price for this.
But don’t forget, this is America!
The entire world is billed as the most democratic and free country!
A country where any miracle, any legend can happen!
"Perhaps what China's Yi encountered this time was not a bad thing!" Gusta thought to himself, stroking his beautiful mustache.
It's a pity that he doesn't have anyone next to him to talk to. Mr. Mike, the original distribution manager, has been assigned to the warehouse as a warehouse manager.
Gusta is worthy of being a film maker and someone who will be the leader of Hollywood in the future.
Just when he was thinking about whether the "cinema death incident" was a "crisis" or an "opportunity" for the young Chinese, Paramount boss Mr. Raymond, who had seen the other side of the matter clearly before him, got angry.
"There are no good or bad things in this world... Therefore, since the government has issued a ban, all promotion and release plans for the movie "The Ghost Story" will be suspended..."
In the spacious and bright conference room of Paramount, President Raymond spoke.
"However, the government ban does not say that movie discs cannot be released. Yes, it is a disc! At the same time, it also did not announce a ban on the screening of Fantasy Pictures' other two dramas, "Buried Alive" and "Cruise of Terror"!"
"So..." Mr. Raymond glanced at all the senior executives at the company meeting.
"So I ask that from this moment on, all of you focus on these two things. First, start working on the movie CD of "The Ghost Story" immediately. I ask that it be produced for me within three days at least.
3 million! Secondly, increase the promotion of the two dramas "Terror Cruise" and "Buried Alive". If I predict correctly, these two dramas will have an overall number of moviegoers following the "cinema death incident"
break out……"
The sound suddenly stopped at the word "explosion".
At that moment, Mr. Raymond's eyes were blazing, like a tiger seeing its prey, and his dull face was full of energy!
Under Mr. Raymond's orders, the entire Paramount Company took action.
First, Paramount and Fantasy Pictures reached an agreement to jointly develop the film disc business. Then Paramount's copy factory began to work overtime day and night, desperately trying to produce the movie "The Ghost Story".
Before these CDs were finished, some North American distributors who got the news came over and pre-ordered them separately.
"I want 100,000!"
"I want 300,000!"
"I want 500,000!"
…
In less than a day, the 3 million CDs to be produced have been booked. And these are all local North American distributors.
As for those Japanese, Korean, British, French, and even some CD distributors in more remote areas, they all rushed over in a hurry and said, "We want to make a reservation!"
Only a fool doesn't know how "popular" the drama "Ghost" will be.
Sometimes, scaring people to death is not a bad thing, especially for "horror movies"...
Everyone at Paramount is jealous!
What is hot sales?
What is sales failure?
have a look!
The copy CD hasn’t even been released yet, but it’s already sold out!
Faced with such an explosive situation, Mr. Raymond waved his hand and said, "Increase production by 10 million copies!"
No way, directly from 3 million to 10 million?!
This is the number of platinum discs!!!
In an instant, everyone in the copy factory went crazy.
What to do if there are not enough staff?
Seconded to other factories!
What should I do if there is insufficient equipment?
Sign a contract and produce together!
The 10 million "Ghost" discs were regarded as an impossible task by the people at Paramount. They were distributed layer by layer.
Countless copy factories. Start the machines and rumble!
…
While Paramount was working hard to copy the disc of "The Ghost" and sell it to foreign distributors, the company also removed the horror movie "The Ghost Story" that it originally promoted and replaced it with two other dramas from Fantasy Pictures, "Buried Alive".
” and “Terror Cruise.”
In this regard, many people can't help but wonder, why does Paramount do this?
Even if it is highly praised, it should be "Moonlight" that is not riddled with scandals.
But soon, some smart people understood...
Paramount posters, advertisements, and media news collectively launched a collective attack, cooperating with the "Fantasy Movie Scared People to Death" incident to start a new round of momentum.
Please note!
It’s the “Fantasy Movie Scares People to Death” incident!
Rather than the ""Ghost Chronicles" scares people to death" incident!
Paramount directly expanded the concept of events, making Fantasy Pictures a media theme, and the scenes shot by the company deservedly became the "theme"!
Among them, of course, are the highly praised "Buried Alive" and "Terror Cruise"!
…
The United States is a country with super-developed information, whether it is newspapers, magazines, television broadcasts, or even emerging computer network forums...
Everyone who likes movies knows this. "Old John Murder", "The old man who was so frightened that his eyes turned white and died", and the slogan "A horror movie created by dreams, you still dare to watch it"
?"
Nowadays, young people have been aroused to be curious and competitive, especially during the Halloween season. What to watch if not watching ghost movies?
Since "The Ghost Story" has been banned, let's watch "Buried Alive" and "Terror Cruise" produced by the same company. After all, they are still produced by the "Director of Death"!
As a result, people rioted. In order to pay homage to the latest movies produced by the "Director of Death" company, everyone went to the cinema in droves to watch "Buried Alive" and "Terror Cruise".
The situation was like a collective march in the streets, forcing the police in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia to be more vigilant to prevent accidents.
In the words of a hard-working police officer, "Oh God, it's been a long time since I've seen such a crowd-pleasing movie!"
In short, under the control of Paramount and Yi Feiyang's unparalleled popularity, two dramas that were not popular at first became completely popular!
…
In the box office rankings for the third week of the North American Halloween season, "Scream 2", which ranks first, still maintains its top spot. Without the threat of "The Haunting of Hell", "Scream" has
The show topped the list for the third week with 14 million.
The horror movie "Blair Witch 2", which Lionsgate Pictures worked hard to create and actively promote, also climbed to third place again with the ban of "The Haunting of Shadows" and became the third runner-up in this period.
However, don't think that "The Ghost Story" was banned and Fantasy Pictures went silent; on the contrary, with the push of Paramount, Fantasy Pictures' other two dramas "Buried Alive" and "Terror Cruise" were killed together.
Entering the top ten, with 3.5 million US dollars and 3.3 million US dollars respectively, ranking fifth and sixth in the box office rankings.
Not to mention, as the number of moviegoers continued to increase, by the fourth week, these two dramas had already reached the third and fourth places respectively, and the total ticket revenue of the two dramas also directly exceeded 1,500.
Ten thousand!
"The Witches 2", which was originally so proud, was once again trampled under the feet of these two dramas, which is extremely sad.
Lionsgate has seen the power of Fantasy Pictures, the power of Yi Feiyang, and the energy of old Paramount. It knows how to take advantage of the situation and create publicity...
…
November 28, 1998.
Seeing that the Halloween season has passed, the biggest winner of this period is of course "Scream 2", which has been the box office champion for four consecutive weeks and is unrivaled in this period. However, everyone knows clearly in their hearts that
If "The Ghost Story" hadn't been completely banned in North America, maybe the big winner of this period would have been replaced.
But it doesn't matter. For Paramount, which provides theaters, and Fantasy Pictures, which produces "The Ghost Story", neither party has suffered a loss in this month.
"Buried Alive" and "Cruise of Terror" were two movies with only an investment of 190,000 US dollars, but their total box office revenue has reached an astonishing 38 million, and the investment-to-income ratio has reached an astonishing 200 times!
Not to mention, the most important drama "The Ghost Story" is completely banned in North America, but people are so strange and weird. The more you don't let them do something, the more they are eager to do something.
The more the U.S. Censorship Office banned the release of this drama, the more Americans became curious about how terrifying this drama is and how it scares people to death? Especially the young people, who are trying their best to see this drama.
drama.
In order to satisfy their wishes, Fantasy Pictures and Paramount have jointly released the CD of this drama... The ban clearly states that it prohibits public screening in North America and prohibits the release of posters and advertisements, but it does not say that it prohibits production.
CDs for sale…
Therefore, in addition to the 10 million copies that had already been pre-ordered, on the first day that the "Ghost Chronicles" CD was released in North America, 2 million copies were retailed in Los Angeles alone, and they were sold out in an instant!
Such an astonishing scene directly shocked everyone at Paramount, an old company.
I have been making movies for so long, and I have never seen such a "perverted" sales scene.
You know, this is an area in Los Angeles. If you add up the top ten cities in the United States, wouldn’t that be 20 million?!
I thought the pre-orders were already hot enough, but I didn’t expect the retail sales to be even worse!
I had no choice but to continue working overtime to produce new CDs. Poor copy workers, they were exhausted during these days. In the words of worker Andre, "Oh man, look at it. Originally, I weighed more than 200 pounds.
But now... I'm thin enough to play the role of a monkey!"
At the same time, good news also came from the Asian and European markets, and the sales of CDs there also soared with the rumors that ""The Ghost" scares people to death."
Many people can't see this movie in the cinema, so they have to buy the CD and watch it themselves.
As a result, these publishers are no longer satisfied with just pre-ordered CD sales, but have changed to buying the copy rights of the CD!
Paramount has no control over this, after all, the copy rights of this film are in the hands of Fantasy Pictures, and they even purchased it from them.
After some communication with the top management of Fantasy Pictures...it was mainly the fat man Gao Jiabao who took care of this matter. This "miser" and "miser" in Yi Feiyang's words would certainly not let Paramount and those damn distributors
How much benefit does the businessman get? In the negotiations where the fat man "has to pay for every penny" and "cares about every detail", he has made his opponents miserable. However, in order to make a fortune, these guys have no choice but to endure it.
After the negotiation, Fantasy Pictures got the maximum benefit. The three major optical disc distributors in Asia and Europe alone paid a heavy price of 7.5 million US dollars. On average, 2.5 million US dollars per company!
Two hundred and five!
What a blessing!
For the fat man Gao Jiabao.
The ones who are being slaughtered are these water fishes! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels are better and updated faster!
