Early on Friday morning, Kirkland drove out, picked up his girlfriend Hallie and her best friend Lisa, and went straight to a theater.

Since the theater was a bit far away, Hallie complained, "The theater is so far away, it's close to the black community." ”

Kirkland changed lanes and said, "No way, we have only this one theater in our city." It's not a movie, and it's nice to have theaters. ”

Lisa, who was sitting in the back row, leaned over and said, "I don't know what happened to those three people, I hope the tape can give us the answer." ”

Kirkland and Harley both nodded.

The three of them have been concerned about the progress of the Blair witch incident, and when they heard that the video was going to be shown in theaters after it was restored, they made an early appointment to watch it together.

The car stopped near an old theater, and Lisa suddenly pointed to the theater and said, "Look! Look!

Harley turned her head to see that the theater had not yet opened, but there was a long line in front of the door, and there were hundreds of people, some of whom were wearing cultural shirts with the words Blair the witch written on them, and the heads of the three college students.

"There are so many people who care about this. ”

Kirkland sighed with emotion and urged: "Hurry up and get off the bus!" I checked, this theater is not big, and it can accommodate 200 people, so don't be unable to grab a better seat!"

The three of them hurriedly got out of the car and went over to line up, and the long line lined up along the sidewalk for a long time.

"So many people are paying attention!" Kirkland roughly counted, and there were about one hundred and twenty people in line.

In a few minutes, a dozen more people came behind them.

Among them, standing behind Lisa are several boys wearing baggy pants and many eyes on their ears and noses.

"Don't you know those three unlucky ones are still alive?"

The boys were discussing this: "Is there a witch on the tape?"

"How can there be a witch in this world?"

"Haven't you watched the TV show? The legend of the Blair witch is true, and her story has been circulating since 1785......"

"The Maryland police are all pigs, and they haven't found any clues since 1994. ”

As if discussing a real case that they were keenly concerned about, the boys were talking about how real it was.

The long line, full of chatter, was full of discussions, and everyone was very concerned about the fate of Blair Witch and the three college students.

Downtown Los Angeles, near Old Chinatown.

It was nearly half past eight and Peter Johnson walked out of the break room, ready to open for business.

Peter Johnson is the owner of this two-theater theater, the theater is home, and he usually lives in the theater, but in the past two years, business has not been good, and the staff in the theater has also been cut to five people.

Several employees had already come in through the back door.

"Will, follow me to open the door!" Peter Johnson greeted and walked towards the theater door.

Before he reached the closed door, he heard a buzzing outside, and the sound seemed to be countless flies circling around him.

Peter Johnson is a little strange, what's going on? Someone waiting outside to open the door? "Titanic" has already been down.

Will rushed from behind, opening the glass door first, then pulling up the metal roller shutter.

Wow –

The chaotic chatter rushed into his face like a monstrous wave, which caught Peter Johnson off guard for a moment, and by the time he had stabilized his mind, the crowd had rumbled into the gate.

There were so many people that even when some came in, Peter Johnson stood by the door and looked out, the long line still hundreds of feet away.

He's a little confused, and he doesn't have a big hit movie on the weekend, right......?

Peter Johnson thought of a possibility, these people came to see Nicole Kidman's bare ass? No, Nicole Kidman stripped naked on screen not once or twice.

The theater has two halls, one showing Warner Bros.'s "Eyes Wide Open" and the other showing "Blair the Witch."

It won't be for "Blair the Witch", will it?

"Will!

There were too many people, and Peter Johnson hurriedly reminded Will, who was a little stunned.

Anyway, it's a good thing that so many guests come here!

"Blair the Witch, three tickets!"

"Two tickets! It's not Eyes Wide Open, it's a witch!"

"My five tickets, 'Blair the Witch!'"

"Blair the Witch ......"

All these messy voices reached Peter Johnson's ears, and it dawned on him that these people were all here to see "Blair the Witch"?

Looking back, I saw that there were still people outside who joined the long queue, and some of them still had the words "Blair the Witch" written on their clothes......

One theater simply can't accommodate so many people!

Peter Johnson went to the box office to take a look, and dozens of tickets for "Blair the Witch" were sold, and the tickets for "Eyes Wide Opening" were not moved.

After just thinking about it for a while, he entered the back office and observed for a while, but no one bought tickets for "Eyes Wide Open".

He immediately picked up the phone and dialed a number: "Embassy Pictures? I'm Peter Johnson of the Los Angeles Stream Theatre, and I'm asking for an additional copy! Yes! Add a copy! The sooner the better! I'd better get it this morning!"

There are only 200 theaters in the United States that show "Blair the Witch," which is completely unable to meet the demand for two months of public discussion, and there are long queues at the box office of almost every theater that shows "Blair the Witch."

Not just in the morning, but even in the afternoon!

The public's curiosity and desire to explore, constantly fueled by media publicity and discussions among themselves, is finally about to explode.

After finishing his work at the video tape store, Arthur went to a theater on Long Island that showed "Blair the Witch" to see the legendary videotape.

"I'm sorry, sir. The conductor smiled apologetically: "There are no more tickets." ”

Arthur pointed to the screen and asked, "What about the ten o'clock ticket at night?"

The conductor smiled professionally again: "Sorry, sir, all the box office sales for Blair the Witch have been sold tonight!"

Arthur grabbed his hair anxiously and said again: "Tomorrow, I want to buy tomorrow's ticket!"

Another theater in New York that screens "Blair the Witch" is in Brooklyn, which is too far away, and looking at the situation of this theater, even if you run over, it is estimated that there will be no tickets.

It's a rush to wait for one night!

Arthur bought a ticket for the earliest show tomorrow, went back tonight to have a good rest, and came over early tomorrow morning.

Burbank, Embassy Film Office.

It was already dark, all the company's offices were brightly lit, and many employees were working overtime.

Bell Bell Bell - Bell Bell Bell -

The company's two service telephones have been ringing continuously since the afternoon.

"Hello, this is Embassy Pictures. The female operator said in a sweet voice: "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Copy, I want to copy, send in the copy, I was stuck in the office by some of the audience, they couldn't see Blair the Witch and wouldn't leave. ”

The operator wiped his sweat and said, "Please leave your phone number and contact information......

Another phone rang at this time, and the male operator next to him had just picked up the phone when he heard a voice hurriedly say: "I'm Christopher, you tell Garcia to send me copies immediately, I want two! My three theaters are going to show "Blair the Witch!"

Dozens of calls were answered a day, and the two operators briefly summed it up and immediately sent it to President Garcia's office.

"Thankfully, you got us 300 copies. Garcia looked at the statistics, his face obviously excited: "I'm going to let people contact the delivery." ”

He pressed the intercom, called a supervisor, gave him the list, and asked him to contact them one by one.

David Villa licked his dry lips, his voice a little hoarse, and asked, "Are we going to make it?"

Garcia looked at Ronan's calm face and said, "Judging from today's summary, the test screening should be fine." He asked Ronan, "Do you want to start printing copies?" ”

Ronan glanced at his watch and said: "This year, the theater system has accelerated the speed of data statistics, and you can get today's box office statistics after midnight, and now there is less than an hour, let's look at the box office data first, and then determine the number of copies and prints." ”

The others did not object, and waited patiently with Ronan for the box office on the first day.