Chapter 27 Box Office and Controversy
The facts are just as Wen Ziren judged.
"The Witch Blair" ended at midnight, and the next day, the Global Team received the first-day box office statistics.
The box office on the first day was 678,000 US dollars.
It can be said that "Blair the Witch" has achieved the repayment requirement that most Hollywood movies have been striving for on the day of its premiere.
And after completing this, every day that follows will be profitable for Blair the Witch.
"Congratulations, Allen, it looks like your promotional strategy for Blair Witch has been successful."
New York, Universal Pictures.
Ron Mayer looked at the box office results of "Blair the Witch" on the first day, and let go of the last bit of worry.
"Congratulations, Mr. Ron, Universal once again won a high box office movie."
Zhao Yuan's performance was calm in this regard.
The box office trend of "Blair the Witch" is within his expectations.
Hearing Zhao Yuan's answer, Ron Mayer's mouth showed an unconcealed smile.
Judging from the box office results on the movie's premiere day, the success of "Blair the Witch" is beyond doubt.
However, even though Ron Mayer knew clearly that "Blair the Witch" would bring a profit to the world, he still did not expect that this profit would be so amazing.
Just one day later, the box office of "Blair the Witch" successfully exceeded the 2 million USD level, and rose directly to 5 million USD on the third day.
What is proportional to the box office is naturally the number of viewers in the theater.
There are 56 cinemas and theaters, and the people attracted by the 'Witch Blair' incident are eager to know the truth.
After watching the content of the movie, they became more and more convinced of the existence of the witch and promoted their views, bringing the people who were not yet aware of the 'Witch Blair' incident closer to the cinema.
Things have developed to this point, and "Blair the Witch" has been destined to leave a strong color in Hollywood's film history. Regardless of whether this color is a beautiful pattern or an ugly graffiti, the amazing profits at the box office of the movie are enough to make any Hollywood capitalist feel moved.
Among them, the first ones to react were the bosses of the theater.
The results of those 56 theaters were enough to make them feel moved. Almost at the moment when "The Witch Blair" was released on the first day, many theater owners had already come to Universal and asked for copies of the movie.
They don't care about the secrets or effects behind the 'Witch Blair' incident.
For theaters, box office is everything.
Soon, in the second week, more than 2,000 theaters across the United States released the movie "Blair the Witch". These theaters are spread across major American cities and greatly spread the influence of the witch effect.
The second day after its massive release, "Blair the Witch" had a box office of more than 21.37 million US dollars, which also amazes the entire Hollywood.
There has never been a movie as profitable as "The Witch Blair" in Hollywood history.
With a cost of less than 200,000 US dollars, a low-quality movie shot in DV actually made a box office of 20 million US dollars in the United States.
Hollywood has fallen to the point where it has lost its most basic ability to appreciate movies?
For a moment, major film critics whine.
They criticized the story of "Blair Witch" and believed that all this was just a scam, a scam that Universal Pictures deceiving the public for the sake of the box office. With the help of the media, suspicious reports of "Blair Witch" quickly appeared in the major media, and rumors spread for a while.
Some people agree with this view. After all, if you carefully explore the so-called "evidence" published in websites and newspapers and magazines, you will find that everything about "Blair Witch" is not worth pondering, especially in terms of time, and the key video tapes, how could it be leaked so easily and was made into a film by a film company and released throughout the United States.
However, some people still firmly believe that "The Witch Blair" is real.
It is believed that the remarks published by the media are just tricks made by the government to cover up the witch's secrets, and the witch really exists.
The debate over all this became even more intense as the box office of "Blair the Witch" exceeded 80 million US dollars.
Faced with increasingly fierce doubts from the outside world, the global public relations team also responded quickly.
They issued a statement that all the backgrounds in the "Blair Witch" incident are nothing more than stories created by the film company for the promotion of the film. The three missing students in the film are just actors, and they are still alive. The entire "Blair Witch" incident is just a fictional movie plot.
There is no doubt that the Global statement has had a certain impact on the box office of "The Witch Blair" at its peak.
However, this is also a helpless solution. After all, as the film is discussed more and more, even the state government in Maryland is preparing to launch an investigation. In order to avoid everything moving towards the worst, Global has to prepare for it.
Fortunately, although the Global statement has hit the "real" incidents that "Witch Blair" have been creating, the popularity of "Witch Blair" has risen after all. Even though the public already knows that the story of "Witch Blair" is just a promotional method of the film company, they can't help but walk into the theater.
Even a group of people, even after Global's public statement, still believed in the existence of witches, believing that Global is just a tool used by the government to cover up the truth.
Amid the controversy, the box office of "Blair the Witch" unexpectedly did not show too obvious decline.
The movie has been released for more than half a month, and has earned about 20 million in the past week, successfully cumulatively earning hundreds of millions of dollars in box office revenue.
Don't forget that "Blair the Witch" is just a DV movie that costs only $150,000.
However, compared to the amazing performance of the movie in the box office.
"Blair the Witch" is also lazy to the bottom in terms of reputation.
Many critics have started to slander the movie, claiming that it is the worst movie they have ever seen since the movie appeared.
Roger Albert, a veteran film critic who had previously given four-star praise in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", even gave the worst reviews directly in "The Witch Blair".
Commenting on "Blair the Witch" is just a sensational big movie.
He even named the screenwriter and director of this movie, Zhao Yuan, who believed that he would not make movies at all.
Chapter completed!