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    Attending the "premiere" of "The Exorcism Video"?

    Kevin Custer had no interest at first. After all, he was the film critic in charge of thrillers and horror films in the Los Angeles Times, and "The Exorcism Video" was just a low-cost pseudo-documentary with "unknown origins" and it was not a real film.  The film critics set up a screening and just agreed on a time to go to the theater to watch it together.

    Christopher Orr and Frank Schick were also offended. Are you kidding? They have better viewing options and will not lose their status.

    So the three of them rejected Grande and Potko's invitation.  But the two Grandes did not give up. They did a lot of invitation work and begged almost every day, not just to the three of them, but to many film critics. Custer was the first to be moved and changed his mind, and then Orr and Sher.  gram.

    The Landmark Cinema is bustling and lively at night, one of the only screening locations of TPT.

    "Gentlemen, welcome." Grande and the two were greeting the film critics in the ticket hall with smiling faces. They all arrived on time, both early and late.

    After shaking hands and chatting, everyone walked to the TPT screening room. Of course, the three film critics did not need to spend money to buy tickets. The tickets were issued by Cliff Films.  In front of the two Grandes, they were both a little arrogant. Shirk deliberately asked: "Is Culler, the director of the film, here?"

    When it came to this question, they were curious. When they received the invitation, they naturally asked about the film. Who is the director Yunik Kuhler?  But I can only get extremely simple and vague information. Male, newcomer, film creator, will not be attending today.

    "Cule cannot attend due to personal reasons." Grande said with a smile.  Potko helped: "Kule is not very good at attending such occasions, he is a weird genius." Grande coughed and said that geniuses are easily reminiscent of Ye Wei, and quickly said: "He asked us to express our gratitude to you.  , this is not a normal premiere, but it is the best premiere we can give.¡±

    ¡°The most important thing is the movie itself,¡± Custer said.  Shek asked again half-jokingly: "Cule, isn't it you?" Al made an intriguing sound.

    They know the background of these two people. "Puzzle" and "Mail Order Bride" are just barely made movies. The two people have a very bad reputation. Maybe they use it to prevent others from having a bad impression of TPT.  This pseudonym?  Or is it to bring out such a non-existent person for the sake of the mystery of the pseudo-documentary?

    "Actually, you can just say that when we evaluate a movie, we don't care who filmed it." Custer shook his head slightly, and you could see that the expressions on the two people's faces were very unnatural, and we were basically sure that this was a fact.  Does that doubt their professionalism?  Only unprofessional film critics will criticize people and not watch the film. Polanski will still be praised for making a good film.

    Shek and Alton also looked unhappy.

    "Kule is really not us." Grande didn't know how to say it well. "To be honest, we haven't been able to shoot an exorcism video yet." Potko nodded and said, "Wait until you see it.  The movie will not feel like it was made by us.¡±

    The three film critics did not continue to study further and all became dull. Just listen to what they said.

    Anyway, I came here tonight just because of their invitation. I didn¡¯t expect to see a good movie.  Will Grande and Potko transform into a pseudo-documentary horror film?  The three of them really don't expect it, it would be great if they can pass.

    When they walked into the medium-sized screening room, which was not too busy, the five of them walked all the way to the front row and sat down. They were surrounded by the crew and relatives and friends, and there was a happy atmosphere.

    And in a place at the back of the middle row, Lev, Bader, Chen Nuo, Kerwin, and Chen Jay sat furtively next to each other. They also carefully dressed up in disguise, or put on wigs, or  Wearing a ball cap, glasses, headband

    "We shouldn't be recognized by others, right?" Bud was nervous from time to time.

    "Everyone, everyone is terrible, those two people over there are staring at me." He suddenly said in surprise, looking at a young man and woman not far to the right, "They seem to recognize me, I should go there  Warn them?" Lev said urgently: "Don't be impulsive."

    Kerwin said calmly: "No one recognizes you, they don't know who we are."

    "We guest-starred in "Wedding Day is Coming"" Bard almost roared, the fat on his face trembling, "My intuition told me that they recognized me. I am big and easy to recognize." Lev immediately relaxed.  , everyone was relieved. Outside of food, Bud's intuition was never accurate.

    At this time, the young man and woman stood up, left their seats and walked towards the empty seats two rows in front.

    "Gesta and Debbie felt really baffled. They were stared at by the fat man for a while, and it became more and more weird. They didn't want to cause trouble, so they had to change their seats.

    The two of them are reading "6UARShao Couple" and discovered the exorcism video online a few days ago.

    First, Debbie accidentally saw a shocking?The video "Devil Girl's Extreme Body Contortion" shocked her. The girl twisted so exaggeratedly that even a professional gymnast could probably do it, but the gloomy scenes and depressing music in the video were disturbing to watch.  Chills.  Debbie read it several times, then logged on to the TPT official website, and was attracted by the mystery, suspense, and pseudo-reality.

    She wanted to watch the movie and shared the discovery with her friends. After being attracted, Gersta also shared it.  Some of them are interested, and some are not interested. They have all experienced the era of "Blair Witch". At that time, they were teenagers and believed the Blair incident to be true. Later, they were angry and said that they would never be fooled again, but now TPT is still a hook.  aroused their interest.

    This time I am not fooled, I am willing. There is a special atmosphere when watching this kind of movie. You know it is fake, but you can feel that it is a true story.

    So on the first day of the release, the two of them made a special trip to watch it, looking forward to an unforgettable movie-watching experience.

    At this time, the movie trailer is playing on the big screen. There are still about five minutes left until the opening. Any audience in the hall can tell that the attendance rate is very average. Except for the front row, the 150 seats are almost full.  The area was empty, and less than half of the people were seated. This was prime movie viewing time in the evening.

    "There's no improvement. It seems like that's it." Kern, Lionsgate's successor investigator, looked at the attendance situation at the entrance of the screening room and recorded it in the investigation file in his hand. The data showed that from the midnight show to now, the attendance throughout the day  The rate was not good, and we couldn¡¯t even do a few off-site surveys.

    ¡°This is what the company expected. What else can a pseudo-documentary horror film do? It¡¯s enough for the audience to be fooled once.

    ¡°And with such a meager distribution fee, regular horror films won¡¯t work.

    Let¡¯s just say that on the poster wall in the ticket office, the poster for ¡°Exorcism Video¡± was posted in a very inconspicuous position, not in the middle or at the edge, but close to the edge.  Even if customers look at it at first glance, they will quickly look away. There is no star or familiar name on the poster.

    Let¡¯s take a look at the movies around us: ¡°The Interpreter¡± starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, and ¡°We Met¡± starring Ashton Coetzee and Amanda Peet, which is more popular among young people.  , black audiences will naturally turn to the black film "King's Ransom", and this week Asian audiences and kung fu fans will turn to Asian superstar Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu".

    If you want to watch a scary horror movie, you should try "The Amityville Horror", starring Ryan Reynolds and others, with a production cost of 1.96 million, high-investment distribution, and 332 theaters. Even though the film has a bad reputation from critics, there are still a large number of viewers who will be attracted by it because of its publicity.  Buy a ticket.  It's just that compared to TPT, the six preview films that opened this week with single-digit theater numbers, they are not at the same level at all.

    There are many other types of videos

    "Two tickets for "The Amityville Horror"."

    "Five tickets for "Brave Daddy", thank you."

    In front of a ticket counter in the bright ticket hall, customers were queuing up to buy tickets. After the female conductor gave the five tickets to the family, she heard the name of the movie that she had not heard much about today: "Please give me two exorcism videos."  "votes."

    The female conductor was not as flexible as before when she started to book tickets, and almost asked them, "Are you sure?"

    There were two girls buying tickets, one tall and one short. The taller one was older, wearing a neutral T-shirt and casual pants, with long brown hair and a fierce face; the short one had blond hair and wore a feminine T-shirt.  She was wearing jeans and didn't look happy either. She felt that this short girl looked familiar, but she couldn't remember why.

    The two girls took the tickets, paid and left. The next male customer who bought tickets came up and said: "Two copies of "Sahara Troopers"."

    "How did he do it? It's too difficult to make a movie in 18 days"

    ¡°Not only is it too difficult, it is simply not something people do. There is no rehearsal during the entire shooting period. When filming, we have to think about how to edit, and the shots are arranged early"

    Gia would not have come so late originally. She had wanted to come before school in the afternoon, but she received a call from Emma. The little girl also received a notification from the genius bastard, and wondered if this was some late fool.  It was a joke and then the two made an appointment to watch the "premiere" that night.

    As she strode forward, she gritted her teeth and said, "The director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and soundtrack are all the same. How could he have such a terrible guy? Is he trying to push me to a dead end? Thank you, blow."  Gia¡¯s Master¡±

    "It's amazing." Emma sighed. The more she thought about it, the more unbelievable it became. The more she muttered, she didn't know much about exploitation films, but could a good movie really be made at this speed, and with zero rehearsals?  That Nina is not even an actress. With zero rehearsal, how can she perform

    She doesn¡¯t know what she¡¯s thinking, and is very conflicted. She doesn¡¯t want VIY to fail, but she also vaguely doesn¡¯t want Nina to make a big splash in this area. Movies are her advantage But things don¡¯t just work out what she thinks, no.However, Wei has been her boyfriend for a long time.

    Emma raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you think this is possible?" "The Cool Girl from a Girls' School" must have taken more than 18 working days.

    "Who knows" Gia slumped her shoulders in frustration, "There are exploitation films that are faster than his, but I can't think of any good ones. Who knows"

    "Could this movie be made by VIY to coax his girlfriend?" Emma felt that its distribution was made with her own money, and she really couldn't think of any other reasonable possibility.  Spending so much money and effort just to make your girlfriend happy, like a movie star so romantic.

    "I don't hope so." When she walked into the screening room, Gia became serious, looking at the big screen in front of her, her eyes flickering, "Movies are not a tool to make girls happy, movies are movies If  It¡¯s not impossible for him to make movies with a casual attitude, but I would be very disappointed.¡±

    Emma glanced at her, a trace of doubt flashed in her eyes, and sighed: "If he treats the movie like this, I will be very disappointed." Unless the person he is coaxing is me

    "The attendance rate seems" She noticed something, there were so many empty seats, you could almost sit anywhere you wanted.

    "No" Gia frowned. The situation in front of her was really shabby compared to the packed house when "Wedding Day is Coming" first opened.

    Does this mean "The Exorcism Video" is a bad movie?  Emma's heart skipped a beat, because she was worried about him, but also a little bit happy that the God of Movies asked you to mess around with girls just to pick up girls. Give him a lesson, don't be too harsh, just make him understand

    ¡ù¡ù

    A few hours ago, Toronto, Scarborough, Odeo Cinemas.

    A new screening in TPT Cinema is about to begin, and of course it will be a "cold opening". The 180-capacity auditorium is filled with scattered audiences. The front row is occupied by the crew, relatives and friends who arrived early.  Constantine and his wife were also sitting there, while Ye Wei and Nina were sitting on the edge of the hidden middle row.

    This was just to deceive others, but looking at it now, it seems that there is no need at all With such a miserable audience, no one could recognize him. The real audience in the audience was about twenty or thirty people, and they all looked young.  People, I don¡¯t know if it is a viral audience due to viral marketing or a random audience attracted by the poster in the ticket office.

    "Why are there so few people" Nina looked around. She was not as full as she had imagined before, and felt a little uncomfortable.  Yunik next to her didn't speak. She looked at him. He was thinking about something, "Yonic?"

    "Oh?" Ye Wei came back to his senses, "What?"

    Nina frowned, "I said there seemed to be very few viewers"

    Ye Wei nodded and said: "Yes, Lions Gate has done very little publicity for us, so it's already good." Nina was dubious: "Isn't this good?"

    In fact, he was not sure about anything, but he was confident that this was a good movie and that it would shine brightly. He encouraged: "Don't worry, this is just the first day. The first week of screenings has just begun. Things will be different after word of mouth spreads."  As long as we win word of mouth, it will definitely shock the world.¡±

    At this time, the show time was up, the dimly lit theater became quiet, and the opening animation of Lionsgate Pictures appeared on the big screen.

    Every member of the crew was very excited, and Nina was also very excited. She held his right hand tightly, stared at her eyes, and murmured: "It's begun, it's begun"

    "SH-TINP." Ye Wei once again felt the tranquility under the excitement, clearly leaving this world and handing himself over to the big screen, the movie world created by himself.

    ? 18 days of hard work and immeasurable hard work, this is the premiere that the entire crew has been waiting for, a premiere that belongs to Nina, a premiere that belongs to Younick, and a thriller that belongs to the audience

    This night, terror strikes
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