Chapter Seventy-Seven. [Box office against the sky]

It is said that Gusta, the president of Lionsgate, cursed Yi Feiyang's two stunts, but Mr. Raymond, as the president of Paramount, was amazed by Yi Feiyang's creativity.

"I didn't expect that this China Yi still has such a hand, it seems that he is going to give many people a headache!"

Yes, from now on, many people are starting to have headaches, especially after Yi Feiyang uses two great tricks, the effect is remarkable.

"Ghost Record", which has a good reputation and box office, is the first to bear the brunt, and you can see long queues in front of many movie theaters in Los Angeles, including blacks, whites, and yellows...... Everyone is looking forward to it.

In fact, the purpose of them getting together and queuing up is very simple, that is, they hope to be able to see this horror film filmed by Yi Feiyang.

"Actually, it's nothing, I just want to see if this drama is as good as Dream Company advertises!" A pragmatist said.

"For the sake of those women who are willing to dedicate themselves to body art, I want to come and see it too!" A person who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade said.

"I'm just here to find out the truth!" A curiosity said.

No matter!

People are buying tickets to cheer for the show!

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With the performance of Yi Feiyang's two stunts, dressed in the coat of "Ghost Shadow", the actual content is a super horror film of "Curse", which was painted on the second Monday, and its box office results surprised everyone.

The average attendance rate of 55 screenings has risen to 45%!

And the first game at midnight was as high as 85%!

The box office on the second day reached more than 578,700 US dollars!

The cumulative box office in just these two days has exceeded $1 million, which means that "Ghost Shadow" has begun to turn things around; And according to this trend. Exceeding 7 million box office in a week is also a breeze. This means that Paramount will continue to increase the number of theaters for this movie!

"See? I said it. Man will conquer the sky! As long as you are willing to use your brain to find a way, then there is nothing in the world that you can't do. Yi Feiyang smiled happily at Hathaway.

"yes, you've got a great idea. No one could have imagined that you would perform such a move. God, it's amazing, especially what kind of body art, are you men so nasty? Hathaway teased Yi Feiyang.

"No, no, don't get me wrong." Yi Feiyang didn't want Hathaway to see herself as a womanizer. "Didn't the newspapers and magazines say that it was an art form, and I just used the topic to play and asked them to help do the publicity. In fact, the really obscene ones are those media reporters, who are so idle that they like to report this kind of fancy news. Yi Feiyang directly pushed this "bad atmosphere" on those unlucky reporters.

"Perhaps. However, you're not a good person either, full of bad thoughts! Hathaway will not be easily fooled, and glances at someone with beautiful eyes.

Yi Feiyang could only pretend to shrug his shoulders in a chic manner.

But he can be coquettishly scolded by beauties. It's also a happy thing.

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Yi Feiyang's "Ghost Shadow" can be regarded as a volcanic eruption, and at the same time, it also drove the box office results of the other two dramas of Dream Pictures, "Buried Alive" and "Horror Cruise".

Originally, sales were not good. Even the tickets that no one cared about were snatched up in an instant.

What is even more surprising is that many people have started to wait in line to buy tickets.

The two dramas that originally collected only 300,000 yuan at the box office in a week have now exceeded 300,000 in a single day!

Such a favorable situation made Mr. Lehman, the boss of Paramount, privately consider whether to invest in 50 or 100 theaters next week for the drama "Ghost", and the box office results on the third day once again caught everyone off guard.

Dream Pictures received a jaw-dropping report that 55 theaters in "Ghost Shadows" collected $835,000 at the box office on the third day!

The average attendance rate rises to 64%!

The first midnight show was 100% occupied!!

When Yi Feiyang heard the news, although he had been mentally prepared, he couldn't help but be stunned, then jumped up and waved his fist and shouted, "Oh my God! ”

Hathaway, Gao Jiabao, Bill Rabbit, Jack the Fat ...... Everyone was stunned, this box office result completely exceeded their imagination, the cumulative box office of the movie in three days has reached 2 million, and the growth rate is several times a day, this is clearly a dark horse movie that will be a big seller!

Looking at the newly released shocking blowout box office data, as well as the craze about "ghosts" in newspapers and magazines, now, even the Chinatown camel who doesn't know much about investment and only knows how to play white stripes, knows that he has really picked up a treasure this time!

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At the same time, the president of Paramount, Mr. Raymond, immediately ordered an emergency meeting.

At the meeting, after a brief study and discussion with many high-level executives, he unanimously agreed to reduce the theater of the "bad drama" of "Moonlight Panic 7...... The sad guys used to hold this drama as a treasure...... The cinema chain was passed on to "Ghost Shadow".

In other words, the number of theaters screened in "Ghost Shadow" next week will directly increase from 55 to 200!

That's not all, in addition to increasing the number of theaters, the screening time of "Ghost" was also set at 7 p.m....... At 10 o'clock, there will be a three-in-a-row screening that only blockbusters are eligible for!

But the box office "blowout" continued, when Paramount faced the box office of 1.181 million on the fourth day, with an average attendance rate of 80%; There are also calls from the audience whose company is about to be blown up...... Those from various cities in North America changed their minds when the release was requested.

The number of theaters will increase to 500 next week, and in some cities, multiple theaters will be shown at the same time.

At the same time, Paramount took the initiative to increase the cost of publicity...... Note: Don't spend a penny from Dream Pictures, and volunteer to help the drama "Ghost" for promotion...... The headline reads: "Halloween, Ghost Killing; Real record, kill you without blinking! ”

I have to say that as a veteran Hollywood film company, its publicity channels are absolutely overwhelming. Carpet bombing.

The explosive power of propaganda. It's like a nuclear bomb. Directly thrown all over North America, what New York, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia......

In short, major cities in the United States are caught up in Paramount's advertising campaigns, huge movie posters, and dizzying in-car advertisements. There are also rolling TV commercials, which have made people in North America know that these horror movies of Paramount are being screened.

Hot Screening!

Yes, this word is like a stock in a bull market, and like a flame in a cocktail, it makes you feel your blood boiling and energizing!

What is Fashion?

What's Pop?!

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Isn't it a movie that everyone else has already watched, but I haven't watched it myself?!

No, I have to check it out!

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Look at. What a great advertisement for this movie! Needless to say, it must be a blockbuster. Let's take a look!

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As a result, with the promotion of various regions in North America, almost all major movie theaters have a hard time finding tickets.

Tickets from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock are often sold out as soon as they hit the counter; The young people who didn't grab the tickets simply sat in the ticket hall and waited for the second and third performances in high spirits.

Those young people who like to look for excitement and like to watch horror movies at midnight show even have their tickets for the entire midnight show rounded, for the simple reason that the darker it gets, the more flavorful it is to watch this kind of play.

In the ticket office of the "Space Cowboy" movie theater, there are now more than 100 young people standing and sitting everywhere, ranging from teenagers of 16 or 7 to young college students in their twenties, some of them are drinking Coke and eating popcorn, some are holding mobile phones and texting, and some are blowing bubble gum and farting together......

"Look at them...... Their parents must be scolding you. Hathaway and Yi Feiyang stood in one of the ticket halls, she looked at the young people crowded in the entire ticket hall, and couldn't help but shake her head and smile bitterly: "I really don't understand, are they doing this, are they going to watch a movie, or are they here to camp?" Could it be that your play really has that much magic? ”

"Wrong!" Yi Feiyang corrected Hathaway's words, "It's not my play, it's ours!" Don't forget, you're the heroine of this play! ”

"Me?" Hathaway realized that her identity was really special, and she still didn't have the slightest awareness of being an "actor", and she still looked at things like an outsider and liked to stay out of it.

"You're right, I'm the heroine of this play, and it looks like I'm your accomplice...... Oh my God, but I don't want to see these kids go to school and stay here waiting to see some kind of movie! I swear if they were my little brothers, I would have unceremoniously plucked their ears! ”

"Alas!" Yi Feiyang sighed, "If the heroine of every play thinks like you and makes such a selfless oath, then my box office results will definitely be very bleak!" ”

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Just when Yi Feiyang and Hathaway were arguing, a freckled little fat man walked past the two of them, and muttered in his mouth: "Damn, why is there so little film schedule for "Ghost"? I've changed five movie theaters and I can't buy tickets for all of them! Could it be that when I go back to school tomorrow, I'm going to see Kane's hateful face again? It's like he's the only one who has seen the new movie in the whole world......"

The freckled fat man grunted as he looked around with his small eyes to see if he could spend a little more money and buy a high-priced ticket, of course, only if someone was willing to give it up.

When the freckled fat man saw Yi Feiyang and Hathaway, he was stunned for a moment, to be precise, his eyes were stunned on Hathaway, and then, a pair of small eyes brushed with a thief light......

"Excuse me," the freckled fat man pretended to be bold and walked in front of Hathaway, "Why do I see you so familiar, you are ......" The fat man touched his head and thought for a long time, obviously remembering that it was a star, but why couldn't he remember?

"I'm sorry, my friend is nothing, we came to see the movie, we couldn't buy tickets, and now we're leaving!" Without saying anything, Yi Feiyang picked up Hathaway and left.

The freckled fat man behind him was still confused, "No, I really think she looks familiar......"

Inadvertently, the freckled fat man's eyes swept not far away, and the poster of "Ghost Shadow" posted on the wall......

On the poster, the heroine played by Anne Hathaway is staring at him with wide frightened eyes.

"Oh God, damn it! I know who she is! The freckled fat man knocked his head and stomped his feet again, and was annoyed.

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As time went on, in the second week, the box office results were finally freshly released.

The North American box office charts are as follows:

No. 1: Miramax, Inc., "Scream 2", box office this week, $15.5 million.

Second place: BIM Film Company, "Ghost Baby Returns to the Soul 4", box office this week, $9.8 million.

Third place: Dream Pictures, Inc., "Ghost Shadow", box office $8.3 million this week.

No. 4, Lionsgate, "Blair the Witch 2", box office this week, $5.5 million.

No. 5: New Line Films, "Flying Demon in the Night", box office $2.8 million this week.

Sixth place: Dimen Pictures, "Moonlight Panic 7", box office 2.5 million US dollars this week,......

As can be seen from this week's rankings, although "Scream 2" produced and released by Miramax Company still occupies the top spot at the box office, the box office has not advanced but retreated, falling by a full 2 million US dollars, which can't help but surprise the production company.

"Ghost Baby 4" produced and released by BIM Film Company followed closely and still occupied the runner-up position on the list, but the box office performance was the same as the champion "Scream 2", which did not advance but retreated, falling by about $1 million.

However, the box office of these two dramas fell collectively, and it was not the most surprising to everyone, the most surprising was the horror film "Ghost Shadow" created by Dream Pictures.

In just one week, this drama directly staged a shocking reversal, and jumped from a light-year box office gap to the third place at the box office, with a box office income of $8.3 million this week.

The original weekly box office of 960,000 US dollars suddenly became 8.3 million!

Nearly tenfold turnaround!

directly shocked the entire film industry!

There are ups and downs, and this time the ranking fell collectively from Lionsgate Films' "Witches 2" and "Moonlight 7" from Emperor Pictures.

As expected by the lion Gusta, Lionsgate was directly trampled on the head by Dream Pictures!

His prophecy has come true!

The box office and word-of-mouth of "Witch 2" were thrown out of the street by "Ghost", and it is natural that the box office performance will fall.

The box office decline of "Moonlight 7" is because Paramount temporarily pumped the theater of this drama to "Ghost"; Of course, this drama was filmed badly enough, and the poor reputation is also one of the reasons. In short, "Moonlight", a series that was originally regarded by Paramount as a precious flower, has directly become an abandoned remnant of the willow......

Summing up this week's North American Halloween movie list, the original top ten box office almost collectively fell, and only "Ghost" soared to the sky and broke into the top three against the current!

It can be said: there are surprises, joys, and sorrows!

Afterwards, a well-known Hollywood critic claimed, "If the drama "Ghost Shadow" continues to exert its strength and the number of films scheduled continues to increase, then there is no doubt that the box office champion next week will definitely be in its pocket!" ”

Yes, is this drama against the sky, can it really write a legend?

Can that mysterious China Yi transform into a magician and create miracles again?

All of North America is waiting to see what happens! (To be continued......)

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