Chapter 132 Death is beside me
In a middle-class community in Dallas, Texas, Kyle was riding a bicycle and galloping on the road. There was a pile of divided newspapers in the small basket in front of the car.
Although the family is in good condition, it doesn’t have much pocket money. If you want more pocket money, you can only earn it yourself.
When passing by the door of a large convenience store in the community, Kyle subconsciously turned his head and looked at it. There was a huge poster on the billboard on the convenience store. The poster picture was a bit terrifying, and it said "The God of Death is Coming".
Kyle knew this was a horror movie. When he went to watch "Black Sun Crisis" some time ago, he watched the advertisement for this movie in the video.
After looking at the electronic watch on his wrist, Kyle accelerated and had to finish delivering the newspaper quickly, otherwise he would be late for learning.
"Hi, Kyle!" Someone greeted the roadside: "My newspaper!"
Kyle slowed down slightly, took out a stack of newspapers and threw them to the man: "Eddie, your newspaper!"
The newspaper fell on the lawn, Eddie went over and picked it up, and saw Kyle riding his car all the way away, shook his head and returned home.
My mother had already prepared breakfast and sat at the dining table. Eddie divided the newspaper into two parts, put the social current affairs version on his father's side, and found the entertainment and sports version and started reading it.
First read the latest news about Dallas cowboys, and then flipped to the entertainment page.
"The real case of "The God of Death is Coming"!"
Eddie picked up the sandwich and took a big bite, and continued to read: "Death is always hunting down those who avoid their own destiny. There are many cases around you in reality!"
After eating the sandwich, Eddie wiped his hands and continued to look down.
"In real life, many people have escaped some huge disasters, but the lucky survivors have been facing the pursuit of death and died in various bizarre ways."
"In January 1993, Jessica Lima, 21, helped organize a party for college students at Santa Maria Kiss nightclub in southern Brazil, and also helped sell tickets. But when she was about to go out to the nightclub, her sick boyfriend called and asked her to stay at home to take care of him."
"Although most of the friends were playing at the party at the time, Jessica Lima stayed at home following her boyfriend's plea. Hours later, the party band members lit fireworks on the stage, igniting the club's foam roof. Many died from inhaling toxic gases, while others died of trampling or being trapped in the fire during the escape, with deaths of 238 that night."
"Five days later, Jessica Lima and her boyfriend went to another town to play. When they drove back, they collided head-on with a big truck. Jessica Lima died on the spot, and her boyfriend also died in the hospital without any rescue efforts."
Eddie scratched his head. Is there really a death-taking God? There are several cases behind it, including Canadian, Mexican, American, and even a shooting in Texas four years ago.
The time, place, name, and specific process are very clear. It is impossible to write mainstream newspapers like the Dallas Morning News.
Then, Eddie saw the end of the article: "The Death is Coming", which was officially released on December 3, is said to be a film adapted from a real air crash. In the 1970s, several students were driven off the plane because of a quarrel on a flight and escaped an air crash. However, in the following two months, these people who escaped the air crash died in various accidents..."
Is there really a god of death? Or is fate unchanged?
Seeing this, Eddie suddenly became interested in the movie "The God of Death".
December 3rd? The weekend after Thanksgiving.
Eddie remembered this time in his heart.
In Brooklyn, New York, Twenty-two-year-old Tom returned home and turned on his computer and prepared to surf the Internet.
I opened Yahoo homepage, logged into the forum, and found that there was a popular post that had a lot of replies.
Tom quickly opened the browsing, and this was an interview video. After playing, it was found that several people were discussing the accidental death of one of their relatives.
First, a beautiful red-haired woman with a smile appeared in the video, followed by a picture of a red-haired corpse. Although the corpse was mosaiced, the blood and scars on the corpse were vaguely visible, which was shocking.
"This is my cousin, Sasha Reed, a Texas 5 announcer who died in a shooting two years ago."
The person who spoke was a girl in her early twenties: "My cousin's death brought endless sadness and endless fear to our family."
A microphone was exposed: "Why?"
The middle-aged woman next to the girl replied: "Because Sasha had just escaped a shooting and died in another shooting a week later."
The man sitting in the middle interrupted: "You should have heard of the shooting in Eaton Mall in Texas two years ago, right? Sasha was at the scene. She had just bought a burger from a burger restaurant and was attacked by a gunman. Someone knocked her down. Sasha was lucky enough to dodge the bullet, but the hamburger bag she was carrying was broken by the bullet."
There were many photos and newspapers in the video. Tom looked carefully. The photos should be the scene of the shooting. There was a report about the shooting in the newspaper, and there was also a newspaper with a title like "Lucky Girl Sasha Reed".
Tom believed without reservation that this was a real event.
"Death did not let Sasha go. After the shooting, Death came and was next to Sasha!" The man's words were creepy: "Just a week later, Sasha encountered a robber on the street and was shot and killed by a robber."
The man suddenly felt hysterical: "Death will pursue everyone who escapes the fate of death! Until they take their lives away!"
After watching the video, Tom found that in the first post reply, someone listed other similar cases.
A girl survived a nightclub fire but died in a car accident. Some were blown away by a tornado and survived a rabies bite. Some survived an air crash and died in another air crash soon.
The fate of these people seemed to be destined to be taken away by the god of death. If they can't die once, there will be another accident waiting for them.
Is there any movie adapted from similar events?
Tom quickly read the relevant information: "In the 1970s, several students were driven off the plane because of a quarrel on a flight and escaped an air crash, but in the following two months, these people who escaped the air crash died in various accidents. James Huang, the famous horror film director who once directed the "Human Purge Plan", adapted a horror film "The God of Death" based on this incident. This film will be released on December 3, and Death is by his side!"
After Thanksgiving, the number of reports on various accidents suddenly increased on newspapers, magazines, TV stations and the Internet, as if the whole of the United States was shrouded in the clouds of various accidents. Moreover, some famous accidents in the past many years have been frequently mentioned in the old and new media.
Everything is telling the masses that life is very fragile and death is right next to you.
The promotion of "The God of Death" is far from causing the sensational effect in "The Witch Blair", but it has attracted a lot of attention. The movie website specially established by the Embassy Film Corporation for "The God of Death" has accumulated a large number of cases of escaping accidents and dying from accidents again, which is extremely eye-catching.
Although water is inevitably mixed in the middle, and there are many cases of propaganda fraud, the credibility has increased greatly in many real cases.
In early December, the total number of visits to the movie "Death is Coming" exceeded 8 million.
Ronan asked someone to analyze the IP address of the website they visited, and these audiences were scattered across the United States and were not concentrated.
This also shows that huge publicity and marketing has pushed "The God of Death" to many people across the United States.
Today, when the film market across the Pacific has never risen, the United States is the world's largest film producer and the largest film consumer. Together with the EU, it constitutes the vast majority of the world's film market.
Videos that can seize the markets in these two places will undoubtedly be successful.
How to push "The God of Death" to potential audiences is the focus of publicity and marketing.
That is to say, you need to find the right audience.
Ronan has never stopped investigating and understanding the market in the past two years. Even in these economically developed regions, one-third of adults never visit cinemas. The core of cinema audiences is that of the film enthusiasts. They watch at least one movie a week, which can account for 40% of the ticket sales.
In addition to the first-tier movie enthusiasts, the second-tier movies watch about once a month, and the number accounts for about 40%.
After a new movie is released, the first echelon really determines its destiny.
These people will pay attention to new movies released every week, find out one of them, and then purchase tickets on the weekend to enter the theater, contributing to the first week of box office for the movie.
The promotion of "The God of Death is Coming" is enough to ensure that the video information is pushed to the first-tier crowd.
As long as the first-tier crowd can help "The God of Death" get a beautiful first-week box office data, it will be easier to attract the attention of the second-tier crowd.
The schedule of "Death is Coming" is not good. In the next week of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the Thanksgiving holiday will undoubtedly release the desire of many movie fans to watch, causing the market to fall in the following weekend.
But this weekend is also beneficial, and there are no strong competitors in the videos that open the paintings.
There is only one movie that started to be painted on a large scale on the same weekend as "Death is Coming", and "Black Sin" released by Universal Pictures. Although the film is starring Denzel Washington, the style of a serious literary style does not have much market competitiveness.
In contrast, the films released on weekends are much stronger.
The previous weekend included "Doomsday" and "Toy Story 2", the next weekend included "Silly Dance Man" and "Green Miracle", and later "Elf Mouse".
Thank you for being a Christmas holiday season as busy and crowded as the summer season.
Chapter completed!