Chapter 706: Marketing of a Movie

After the solemn handover ceremony, the Titanic will be towed by a tugboat and go to Hawaii.

It was a scheduled location for the shipwreck scene, and the reason why it was in Hawaii instead of the coast of the United States was simple, because the tugboat was too cumbersome.

It would take 65 days to tow the ship to Hawaii by tugboat, and 100 days to tow it to the west coast of the country, which is a bit too expensive.

Originally, it was not impossible to shoot in the sea area close to China, but because of a huge plan planned by Boss Jia, and this plan could only be carried out in the mainland of the United States, he chose to shoot in the Hawaiian Islands.

So the question is, what kind of plan did Boss Jia plan?

First of all, as early as about March, when Boss Jia and 20th Century Fox had just decided to build a real Titanic for filming, a newspaper in the United States quickly caught the news.

It's just that their news is not comprehensive, only describing that 21st Century Fox has teamed up with superstar director James Cameron to plan an unprecedented big-budget movie.

The direct investment in this film is exactly one of the highest investment films in the world, reaching a staggering $240 million.

This news was quickly reprinted by a large number of media, and then bombarded in front of all the Mi people, so that many Mi people knew such a news whether they wanted to or not.

Originally, after the news broke out, the boom passed for a while, after all, the people are forgetful, and they can't set off any big turmoil.

But the problem is that the major news media have not given up on this news, and many media are constantly speculating about what the movie is going to make?

Whether it is a shootout movie, a science fiction film, or a superhero movie, as for literary films and romance films, they are automatically vetoed by these media.

Nonsense, a literary film or a romance film, as for investing $240 million? Isn't that?

Just when there was a constant discussion about this high-investment movie genre, a media outlet suddenly broke the news in May that this movie was actually a romance movie.

It's pretty magical.

So, with the exposure of this news, the people of the United States had to be affected by a news storm, and at the same time, knowing the news, the people were also very curious, how could a mere romance film require an investment cost of 240 million US dollars?

Could it be that this love movie was filmed on the moon?

What is the answer to this puzzle? The best thing to do is to ask the producer or the director directly!

Originally, whether it was the producer or James Cameron, they have always avoided this question directly, never answered it positively, and deliberately created a sense of mystery.

As a result, during a drinking party, Jon Landau, who is a producer, accidentally drank too much, and when asked by reporters, he actually nodded drunkenly, affirming that there is nothing wrong with this being a love movie.

Then Jon Landau added, "It's still a disaster movie!" ”

Romance Movie + Disaster Movie!!

This news once again caused all kinds of heated discussions in the media, no way, the combination of love + disaster movie genre may be very common in later generations, but in 1994, this is definitely a very novel movie genre.

Then everyone began to discuss, which disaster will be filmed, and what kind of love story will there be?

After a few months of rendering, in July, an internal document of 20th Century Fox was suddenly leaked, although this document did not show many details of the movie, but the name of the movie was clearly displayed.

Titanic

Good guys, it's actually a movie about the Titanic, a movie about a shipwreck!

This news once again exploded the entire entertainment news page, although I don't know why this news exploded, but this news did get on the front page of all entertainment magazines, and then everyone knew that there was about to be a disaster movie about the Titanic.

Then, various news media and magazines began to popularize the deeds of the Titanic, and at the same time, the TV station also began to broadcast various documentaries about the Titanic that had been filmed before, and then there was the news that the Titanic undersea ruins searched for treasure and made a fortune, and what was the largest blue sapphire in history, the Star of the Ocean, sank to the bottom of the sea with the Titanic.

It is said that if the Ocean Star can be obtained, it can be sold for at least $300 million, because this gem is even bigger than the African Star gem in the Queen's Crown.

Under such publicity, coupled with the Titanic incident, it is already full of various mysteries and legends, which is quite in line with the public's appetite.

So in fact, the Titanic incident, which was originally known to less than 10% of people in the United States, has become known to everyone.

Then, in December, the media of the United States suddenly broke a shocking news, that is, the satellite of the United States, when taking pictures in the sky over China, accidentally found a huge ship, which was actually the Titanic, which had been silent for a long time, and even the president was shocked by the news.

Well, regardless of whether this news shook the president or not, anyway, the people of the United States were shocked by this news, because according to some lace magazine reports, this Titanic is the Titanic that is silent at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and it is a sunken ship that the Chinese people spent a lot of money and a lot of manpower to salvage from the bottom of the sea.

And the purpose of the Chinese people is very simple, that is, to get the wealth in the Titanic, and the most important thing is the blue ocean star, because it is said that this ocean star has magical energy in it, which can allow all ships to be protected by the sea god, invincible and invincible on the sea.

The reason why the United States was able to defeat Fusang happily back then was because of the protection of the Ocean Star.

Well, although the Ocean Star has sunk to the bottom of the sea at this time, because it is sunk on the ship of the Mi people, it is still bless the Mi people.

As long as you think about this news casually and independently, you can find many ridiculous logical loopholes in this news, but the problem is that this kind of news is the favorite of ordinary people.

Just as until 2020, millions of people in the United States insisted that the earth was flat, in 1994, a considerable number of Americans believed that this was the Titanic salvaged from the bottom of the sea by the Chinese, and their purpose was to take away the heart of the ocean, which is the wealth of the Chinese people, and I unanimously asked the US government to snatch the ship back.

People's mood was very intense, and even surrounded the White House for a time, and finally the US government had to come forward to explain, saying that the ship was not salvaged from the bottom of the sea at all, but a replica of the Titanic commissioned by the shipyard in Huaxia in the 20th century.

And this ship is the wealth of the United States, he is about to officially set sail on December 20 and return to Hawaii in the United States, so you don't have to worry, these things are ours!