This time, Ryan did not attend the cookie-cutter film premiere, but chose to take Charlize Theron to a relatively remote movie theater to prepare for a movie.

Along the way, you can see the promotional posters of "Saw 3" everywhere, which are almost comparable to commercial blockbusters.

But no matter how good the first two "Saw 3" are, it can't change the fact that it is just a horror movie.

Therefore, the importance of the first three days of the first weekend and Halloween can be said to be crucial, and can even determine the final box office of the entire film.

When the two walked into a movie theater in Chinatown, they could clearly see that the hall was plastered with movie posters, full of bloody horrors.

"Even the movie theaters in Chinatown have promotional posters for Saw 3?" Charlize Theron looked a little surprised.

Generally speaking, except for some large-scale commercial films, there are very few films that do this.

Most of the time, some Hong Kong films are being shown in the cinemas of Chinatown, and Hollywood blockbusters will only be shown when they reach important schedules.

"That's the influence of Twentieth Century Fox. Ryan sighed lightly with a complicated face.

The more I know about Hollywood, the more I find that the seven major film companies are terrible, and their tentacles extend to almost every corner of North America.

Ryan didn't say much, went to the box office, bought two tickets for "Saw 3", walked into Screening Hall 10, and did not choose the middle position, but sat in the corner of the last row.

The screening hall is not very large, not the kind of large screening hall that can accommodate hundreds of people, just a very small screening hall, which can accommodate dozens of people even if it is dead.

This is Chinatown, where the Chinese gather, and it's rare to have that kind of big screening room.

"I don't really understand, why are you here?"

Charlize Theron looked at the screening room in front of him, showing a look of doubt, and did not attend the premiere, but ran to the movie theater in Chinatown.

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"The reason is very simple, only here can you observe the most authentic reaction of the audience. Ryan didn't come to watch a movie, he knew every scene of "Saw 3" well, and he watched it more than ten times, and he didn't need to watch it from beginning to end.

"As for the premiere?"

Ryan made a very reluctant move, saying: "Twentieth Century Fox has found a lot of temporary audiences in order to increase the publicity effect of the film. ”

Speaking of which, Ryan was a little speechless, and the temporary fans of the last premiere made Twentieth Century Fox feel incredible.

This time, I communicated directly with Helen and found hundreds of temporary audiences, distributed them in the audience seats at the premiere, ensuring that all the acting skills were excellent at that time, and even he couldn't tell the difference.

"Temporary audience!" Charlize Theron looked puzzled, and the temporary audience said, "Why hadn't she heard of it?"

Ryan coughed lightly, leaned into Charlize Theron's ear, and explained in a whisper, "They are all extras under Helen's company, and occasionally make cameos on fan groups, premiere audiences, or something. ”

"When Truman's World premieres, don't be surprised to find that you have a large fan base. ”

Temporary fan?

Temporary audience?

Charlize Theron's face is different, and his jaw almost didn't fall, can he still play like this?

The three views have been completely subverted.

"What if the media finds out?"

This is what worries her the most, otherwise she will inevitably be a little tempted when she thinks of facing a group of enthusiastic fans at the premiere of "Truman's World".

To put it bluntly, it's a kind of vanity.

"Rest assured, Helen signed a non-disclosure agreement with them, and Paramount will say hello to the media in advance. Ryan wasn't worried.

You don't see, temporary audiences, temporary fans, etc., in the previous life, are everywhere, and there is no media attention at all, which has almost become an unspoken rule in the industry, and no one will deliberately touch it.

Soon there were still a few minutes before the opening ceremony, and Ryan ended the conversation, and began to focus on the screening room, and after a closer look, he saw that there were quite a few people.

Although the promotion of the film is not specifically aimed at ethnic minorities, there are almost no vacant seats in the screening hall at the moment.

Roughly counting, there are about 80 seats, and there are nearly 60 or more spectators, most of them are young men, and the number of female spectators is pitiful.

"Saw 3" is the opposite of "Evil Ghost Invasion", and there are basically no female audiences.

However, with the passage of time, the number of white moviegoers and the number of male moviegoers have been decreasing, but the number of ethnic minorities and women has begun to increase.

The former is easy to explain, as more and more Uncle Black enters the cinema, the number of ethnic minority moviegoers has increased, and the latter is because of the rise of feminism, there are more and more independent women, which has led to an increase in female audiences.

In the past, most Hollywood stars would choose to support women's rights, charity, and environmental protection, and erect a flawless character.

As for blacks?

It is a kind of political correctness, which is purely used by the Americans themselves.

The screening was about to begin, and the lights on the ceiling were gradually extinguished, and the screen was lit up.

At the beginning of the movie, the opening credits belonging to Ryan's studio appear, in the middle of the sea, a mermaid swims slowly, with a golden tail, revealing seductive beauty, and then the abbreviation of Ryan's studio emerges.

Produced by Blue Sky Studio, the technology is obviously becoming more and more mature, at least not in vain to spend a lot of money on the exploration of 3D animation production technology.

Next, there is the opening credits belonging to Twentieth Century Fox.

"Pretty intro, isn't it?" Ryan asked suddenly to himself.

"Not bad. Charlize Theron gave him a strange look, inexplicable question.

Apparently she didn't know the meaning of the title, full of Blue Sky Studios' ambitions for a 3D animated feature film.

The plot of the film is very simple, and it has hardly changed from his previous life, Detective Eric Matthew escapes from the bathroom after crushing his ankle with a water tank lid, and has a heated argument with Amanda, and is finally knocked out by Amanda.

Before Amanda leaves, Matthew leaves behind an angry curse, calling Amanda a "drug trafficker" and saying that she can't be a puzzle murderer, much to her distress.

In other flashbacks, Amanda has been working with John from the beginning, following his orders to kidnap Adam. But in fact, she suffocated Adam to death by euthanasia.

At the same time, the dying jigsaw puzzle murderer orders the kidnapping of two more victims: Lynne Dyeron, a skilled but melancholy physician, and Jeff Reinhardt, a father bent on avenging his dead son.

Amanda attaches a collar around Lane's neck with five loaded bullet launchers that are radio-connected to the jigsaw killer's electrocardiogram.

In the end, one killing game after another appears, the puzzle murderer dies, and Lian dies due to the detonation of the collar, leaving only Jeff screaming for help.

The plot of the whole film almost runs through the first two "Saw Horror", there is no innovation, but the bloody pictures and cruel killing games still make people feel shocked.

The original footage shot by Gregory Hobritt has a narrative of family relationships, emotional dialogues, and so on.

Ryan had to get him to reshoot some of the shots, cut out the boring content, and carry the bloody violence and cruelty through to the end.

A pure horror film, full of bloody violence, can mobilize the audience's hormones on the big screen.

The more I dare not look at it, the more I want to see it.

This is the psychology of most horror movie viewers.

Of course, the investment in the film is not very large, only more than $10 million, there can be no big scenes, and the actors are all ordinary actors who are not famous.

However, in terms of acting, it is not bad, enough to star in a horror movie.

Monica Bellucci refused to continue to play Amanda Young because of the schedule, and the crew could only re-select an actress, Famick Jensen, a name that Ryan is very familiar with.

She also has a film coming up this year, one of the 007 series of GoldenEye, in which she plays a Bond girl.

It's a pity that she is not the heroine of the film, just a supporting actress.

The roles she played in her previous life, the most impressive for Ryan was Dr. Jean-Grey, who had the ability to telepathize in the first "X-Men".

I have to say that the phoenix girl she plays is really good, at least she has reached a goddess aura, which can make people shine.