Then the female reporter turned the camera to another group of high school boys, "Hello, are you from a school? Are you also here to see "Ghost Record"?"

"yes, we're all in the rugby club. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info," said a short-haired boy who looked like a captain.

"Then why are you watching "Ghost Record"?"

"Try to join. ”

"Trying your guts?"

"Our rookie selection this year requires people who have watched "Ghost Shadow" and are not scared to join. The captain of the athletic high school football team said with a wicked smile.

With the reports of the mainstream media, the publicity effect of "Ghost Shadow" that has been brewing for a long time has been completely ignited, and the virus propaganda that has been fermenting for a long time has exploded with huge energy. On the eve of the dawn of Internet communication in 1998, a perfect movie and a perfect topic completely detonated the enthusiasm of netizens in the United States and even around the world.

Many people who didn't know about this matter were immediately attracted by this "American supernatural murder case" after reading the introduction in the news, and after logging on to the Internet out of curiosity, this craze continued to spread.

It didn't take long for not only young people in the United States, but also in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, from Europe to South America, and even RB Asia's online forums to start talking about this "supernatural murder" movie. It can be said that up to now, "Ghost Record" has not only become a special phenomenon affecting the United States, but has become a supernatural storm that has swept the world!

On the other hand, the mainstream media have scoffed at the headline of the "supernatural murder" on the official website of the Fire Lion. They sneered in the show: "Real supernatural movies? Don't joke, only science and education documentaries are real." ”

The media have shown their own powers to investigate this so-called "supernatural murder case", and the pseudo-documentary propaganda of "Ghost Shadow" is a paper that can't contain the fire, after all, this is a regular film that has passed the MPAA (American Film Association) review.

So soon the Los Angeles Times went straight to the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and anonymously interviewed the relevant staff responsible for reviewing and rating the films. The staff of the Film Association confirmed that "Ghost Shadow" is indeed an officially registered and rated film, and not some "supernatural murder documentary".

Official proofs and evidence are conclusive. As soon as the Los Angeles Times report came out, all the supernatural rumors were self-defeating.

However, Fire Lion Pictures generously admitted that at this time, according to the previous plan, it also shifted the direction of propaganda to "unprecedented DV movies", "the most realistic horror films", "look at these frightened audiences, do you dare to come and watch?", using extremely attractive publicity, taking over the "shocking point" detonated by the pseudo-documentary propaganda method of "pretending to be a ghost".

At the same time, the post-publicity fee of 10 million US dollars will be sprinkled on media public relations, so that they will follow the publicity direction of Fire Lion Pictures.

At the same time, Fire Lion Pictures also announced the basic information of the movie, the production cost of 10,000 US dollars, the existing box office of more than 90 million!

Almost everyone talked about it more enthusiastically, and no young person would miss such a grand event, and whether or not to watch "Ghost Record" had become one of the most important things in early 1998. It's not about whether it's cool or not, it's a matter of whether it's up to date with the trend.

Although the news reports have made a big deal about "Ghost Shadow", the professional media related to the entertainment industry are full of praise for it.

Variety, the industry's most professional weekly magazine, said horror fans who value creepy credibility would welcome the film, praising the director's memorable interpretation of "what you see is not what you get".

The Los Angeles Times said that at certain moments in the film, if you remove the dizzying hand-held panning cinematography, the film is very much like Hitchcock's work, and the suspense and thriller atmosphere in the film are undoubtedly very successful.

The Los Angeles Weekly said that although most of the film's footage takes place in one scene, and the actors are all unknown, it is the scariest movie of the year.

And "Entertainment Weekly" said that it is the most innovative and exciting work of this kind of film after "Ghost Street".

The HSD Post said it was a surprisingly good film, and viewers who watched it were so scared that they couldn't sleep anymore.

In the end, even Time magazine had to say in the magazine that in addition to the ingenuity and originality of the viral operation of the market, the best thing about the film is not only the thriller, but also the inspiring artistic experience that brings the audience.

And of course, although in a large number of rave reviews, there are also some harsh negative comments.

James Evan, a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter, commented sharply in the magazine: "'Ghost Record' is nothing more than a child's game made in imitation of an orthodox movie, and the whole film is full of the clumsy acting skills of layman actors and the freewheeling plot of nonsense, and my stomach is surging when I watch it." ”

Although the guise of the "murder" was exposed, and many people learned the truth through the news media, the box office of "Ghost Record" did not produce a cliff-like decline as some malicious people hoped.

In the first week of May, although the box office of the fifth week of the movie shrank, it still received $20 million and retreated to the second place in the North American box office list.

As a result, the box office of "Ghost Shadow" officially exceeded 100 million. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Fire Lion Pictures took the opportunity to announce the main creative information of "Ghost Shadow".

Starring:Amy Adams (Katie),Jeremy Renner (Mika),Collins (Psychic),Sarah (Buddy)

The information of the starring actor did not cause much reaction from everyone, and he was indeed a complete rookie actor.

But when the director's profile was released online, everyone was scared out of their glasses.

Director: Sid, 17 years old.

17 years old!?

WhattheF – Is it April Fool's Day?

All the media are boiling, a "little child" who is still a minor has set a box office of more than 100 million yuan with 10,000 US dollars!?

O-M-G!!, God, old man is joking with us?

Although Spielberg won an award at the Canyon Film Festival at the age of 13 with the short film "Nowhere to Stay". But winning an award at a small film festival is a completely different concept from a real screening in the actual market.

The box office of the neodymium work exceeded 100 million, the cost was only 10,000 US dollars, and the director was only 17 years old. Either one is challenging the current laws of the film industry, and when these three come together, it produces an earth-shattering nuclear bomb.

"The New York Times", CNN, almost all mainstream media invariably use the same title - "Hollywood prodigy"!

Roger Ebert, one of America's most famous film critics, described Sid as "the Mozart of cinema" and called the "ghost movie" craze "a supernatural storm sweeping the world."

He praised "Ghost Shadow" for its groundbreaking new approach, which made people shudder during the movie. And the director himself boldly created a new film form in his own neodymium work, which is the performance of the newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers. At the same time, the unruly plot development of the film itself shows the superb skills of the young director.

The uncrowned king of North American film critics praised Sid for his infinite potential and promising future, but he must not forget his original intention and not be fooled by the glamorous world of Hollywood.

The only film critic to have won a Pulitzer Prize and made it to the Walk of Fame gave "Ghost Record" a perfect 4-star score.

But unlike the peaceful Roger Ebert, Pauline Kyle, another "female devil" in the film critic industry who is as famous as him, is not so gentle.

She wrote sharply in The New Yorker: "Sid has reached heights that most 'directors' cannot reach in a lifetime with only one neodymium work." ”

Regarding some negative comments that slandered "Ghost Shadow", she also said mercilessly: "Some people say that this movie is a well-planned conspiracy, and it all relies on despicable tricks to get a superb box office, I just want to say that if you have the ability, please come and cheat $100 million to try!"

Regarding the quality of the movie, the female film critic, who has always been known for her sharp complaints, also did not hesitate to praise: "An unprecedented new type of film, groundbreaking realistic horror, the prodigy Sid overshadowed the former Hollywood golden boy Stephen Soderbergh." But this shy boy is still shy behind the scenes, and I am strongly looking forward to when I will see him for what he really is, maybe next year's Oscars?"

Yes, although Sid's name was published on the official website of the Fire Lion, nothing was given otherwise, not even a photo was released. In this era when there are no Google and Facebook, and under deliberate secrecy, no one knows the real situation of Sid.

The anxious and scratching media almost exerted the spirit of digging into the ground to dig out Sid's information, but they almost didn't get any valuable information, and the only news they got from a small assistant at Fire Lion Pictures was that Sid himself was not in China now, but was handling important affairs in an overseas country.

In the face of the pervasive erosion of the media every day, Sean has a headache to deal with, and on the other hand, he keeps lamenting his boss, when will he come back to solve this trouble.

So where did Sid go, and what "important business" was he doing?