Generally speaking, no matter how experienced a director is, he also needs an objective editor who has not participated in the shooting to assist him in his work. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 It is human nature to not want the fruits of your labor to be wasted. Third-party editors, on the other hand, can examine the filmed content from an objective point of view.

That's normal, but for Sid, the effect of the film is in his head. And when he was filming, he also made a detailed record of the connection between the scene and the script. So when he enters the editing room, all he needs to do is follow the record and connect the corresponding shots together.

Even if there was a new shot that came up with an impromptu idea, it was related to the top and bottom, so Sid just needed to quickly intersperse experiments to see if the new way was better than the original film?

So Sid's editing speed is quite amazing, and what happens in normal editing, the combination of different shots, the trade-offs of several shots, etc., are not needed. If there were, it was only a few scenes and shots.

So when Sid dragged his tired body out of the editing room after a week and a half, Henry was stunned. But just as Sid prepares to continue with the review and discussion of the music and sound effects, Sean rushes into the recording studio.

"How did you get here? Sean. Sid and Henry asked curiously.

"Good news, Boss!" Sean said excitedly, but Sid and Henry, who had been busy with "Little Sunshine Beauty" recently, had a confused look on their faces, which made him completely speechless.

"I mean, "Ghost Record"!! you won't forget our first movie, right?"

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If anything, Sid really forgot about "Ghost Record" a little. Because the interval between filming and release of the movie is at least 6 months, it is enough for Sid to do too many things, so by the time the first movie is released, Sid has a feeling of being in a different world.

But for the audience who are lucky enough to see "Ghost Shadow", its charm is straight to the face!

It all started last year when the release time of "Ghost Shadow" was determined.

"Boss, our rating application has been sent to MAPP (Motion Picture Association of America), and the theatrical release time has been booked, as long as the rating results come down, it can be released on time. On Sid's first day back from San Francisco, Sean couldn't wait to come to his office to report.

"It's Friday, April 3rd, and I ...... Only got 12 theaters in California, sorry, Boss. As the publicity effect of "Ghost Shadow" in various places is getting better and better, Sean is becoming more and more confident in his heart, but when facing the theater, he only drew the next sign, and he feels a little sorry for Sid and the company's expectations.

"April?" Sid laughed playfully, the film industry is somewhat similar to tourism, it is clearly divided into high season and low season, and the box office revenue in the peak season can easily exceed the income of one or two months in the low season.

And the annual film season starts from the summer season in June, and before that, from January to March, it is the so-called awards season. Dense and diverse film festivals are densely packed in this time period, including famous ones such as the Golden Globe Awards, the Directors Guild of America Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and so on.

And the end of the awards season is the famous Academy Awards, which are held in March every year.

And between April and June, it is the so-called off-season.

This is also very understandable, after all, when people watch a whole season of Hollywood stars after the fatigue bombardment. People will always have mental fatigue, and then take a month or two to rest before you can accept the bombardment of summer vacations.

In fact, during this time, neither the film company nor the theater chain will take it too seriously, and even if it is released, it is some movies that are used to fill these garbage time and are not optimistic.

And put "Ghost Shadow" in early April after March, it is obvious that the theater chain is just treating "Ghost Shadow" as a work to fill garbage time.

"Garbage, or diamonds, we'll see. Sid grinned and muttered to himself.

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The time soon came to the beginning of April, and after more than half a year of careful publicity, the "supernatural murder" incident of "Ghost Shadow Record" continued to ferment. Now there is no need for Fire Lion's employees to post, and there are people talking about the "Santa Monica Paranormal Murder Case" on major website forums.

From supernatural killings, to wizard curses, to demon sacrifices. Rumors were rife, and the official website of Ghost Shadow was crowded with visitors several times, causing the server to go down, and finally Sid had to change server companies.

During this period, Microsoft's MSN portal also reported this strange talk on the Internet, and MSN, which has been suppressed by Yahoo Portal, preemptively reported this "supernatural murder case" that "supposedly" occurred in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, in order to grab more topicality.

Although their report did not exaggerate the supernatural nature of the event, this report still greatly promoted the popularity of "Ghost Record". Since then, both Ghost Records and Fire Lion Pictures' official websites have seen a geometric surge in visits.

During this period, the MPAA (Film Association) rating results were finally released, PG-13. In other words, most fans over the age of 13 can watch it normally. Soon, 12 copies of the film were produced and sent to 12 cinemas in five cities in California, including Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Today is Friday, April 3rd, the first day of the release of "Ghost Record".

The film will run three times from midnight to early the next morning. It's completely the garbage time that ordinary people use to sleep, and at this glance, "Ghost Shadow" is really thrown in the garbage time of the garbage schedule.

Sean only felt as if he was stuck in a swamp in his sleep, and although he struggled desperately, the more he struggled, the deeper he sank into the mud. "Ahh

He suddenly realized the reason why George Lucas went straight to Hawaii after filming "Star Wars".

It's an ordeal!

Although more than $30 million has been spent on a nationwide propaganda offensive, from now on, the revenues of "Ghost Record", its evaluation, and its influence have been completely out of human control, but Sean has to face all this. It's like forcing you to confront Billy Herrington's dancing and Becky's eating.

After grinding for a long time, Sean drove the car to the Fire Lion.

He sat in the parking lot for a long time before he moved his steps and walked into the fire lion.

But as soon as he walked into the office building, Sean's assistant rushed to him with a panting face.

"Manager, you've finally called. The subordinates' happy voices immediately pierced, although looking at his expression, he felt that the news must not be bad, but Sean was still secretly nervous, "How's the situation?"

"Yesterday, the total number of seats in the 12 theaters was more than 8,600, and each theater only gave us a 500-seat hall and 3 all-night ....... The subordinate chattered excitedly.

"Stop. Sean couldn't help but interrupt him: "To put it simply, how much is the box office?

"Yesterday's box office was $52,000, with an average attendance of 48 percent, and we had nearly half of the attendance!!" the subordinate waved his hands excitedly, "Now all theaters are asking for additional theaters, and we want us to expedite the copy of new film for them by tonight." There are also some new theaters calling to release "Ghost Shadow" next week, and now everyone is busy and crazy!"

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The relationship between the production company and the cinema chain is somewhat similar to the relationship between a commodity producer and a large supermarket chain, and if you are a large producer yourself, then of course you have the capital to bargain with the supermarket.

But if you're just a small or medium-sized manufacturer, then it's conceivable that even if you just want to put it on the shelves in the supermarket, you need to go through a critical and rigorous review before the other party decides whether to include you on the shelves.

And this does not take into account the "exorbitant taxes" such as listing fees and festival fees with some local characteristics.

Therefore, in the same way, in all Hollywood industry chains where income is the only criterion, small film companies need to make their own reputations in order to obtain better gaming capital from major cinema companies.

When the $52,000 box office (48% attendance) on the first day of "Ghost Record" was released, although the existing 12 theaters have added theaters, there are not as many new theater requests as expected.

Just when Sean was anxiously negotiating with the theater, as soon as the box office of "Ghost Shadow" came out the next day, everyone was shocked, with a daily box office of 360,000, the average attendance rate soared to more than 60%!

The existing 12 theaters were completely boiling, and they immediately purchased additional copies of the movie from Fire Lion, and directly changed the midnight scene to "Ghost Shadow Record, Midnight Horror Field", and almost all the theaters played "Ghost Shadow Record" with great fanfare.

Just when Sean was still considering whether to make a negotiation request to theaters outside of California, the box office results on the third day (Sunday) directly stunned theaters and Fire Lion. A mere 12 theaters actually collected $920,000 at the box office, with an average attendance rate of nearly 79%, and the first show at midnight was 100% crowded.

The Fire Lion was completely stunned, and even Jeremy and Amy Adams stared at the newspaper report in amazement. This kind of achievement can only be described as terrifying, and it has completely exceeded everyone's imagination.

The cumulative box office in the first three days of the first weekend finally reached 1.33 million US dollars, although on its own, this box office is nothing at all, but combined with the number of theaters it was released, 12 theaters! Everyone was immediately scared out of heart disease, and the box office of a single theater actually reached a rare $111,000 in the world.