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On September 27th, in a screening room of Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, when the gloomy drumming music was matched with the jigsaw reversal, everyone watching the film gave enthusiastic applause.

In the screening room, in addition to the main creators of Lehman, Wen Ziren, and Ray Navor, there are also the distribution manager of Paramount Pictures and his subordinates.

After the film was shown, several people exchanged views on the film.

"There is certain commercial value, the story is very compact, and the look and feel is smooth."

The first person who spoke was a middle-aged white man who was also the person who led the release of the film. His name was David Andrew.

Another person also took the topic and said: "I think so too. This film should be very expensive for certain cult film fans. After all, these delicate killing agencies and jigsaws want to punish people who ignore life. Ideas will be attractive."

"But the audience of the film is still not too wide, and our publicity costs cannot be too high." Another person suggested.

After discussing it for a while, generally speaking, these Paramount distributors agreed that the film had a certain value, but they did not hold much hope.

As for why?

The new director without successful experience, coupled with the less charismatic actors, is shooting a film with the main horror theme. Apart from Lyman, it is really impossible to let others have much confidence in it.

Even Wen Ziren is still nervous at this time.

He himself was a little afraid of failure.The movie is like this. Before it is actually shown, everyone just predicts whether it will succeed. Who knows what the market will be like?

In the previous life, the filming cost of "Chain Saw" was so low, and because Lionsgate didn't pay much attention to the film, and did not even do much publicity, it was put into the cinema. The number of theaters was even poorer, only 200. Multiple.

At the same time as "Chain Saw Fright", Bowei Pictures' "Fire and Sea Pride" and Universal's "Weekend Midnight Bright" (which tells the story of the football team) have advantages.

But the result was shocking. The three movies were in the same ring, and the ticket sales and market response were not favored by "Chainsaw".

In the end, he received more than 50 million U.S. dollars and a global box office of 100 million, which allowed Lionsgate to make a fortune. At the same time, it decided to continue to explore the production of the sequel of this movie.

In this case, can you say that the Lionsgate is looking away.

But at the beginning of the show, few people were optimistic.

Lehman certainly has the confidence. Now that the film has a sufficient shooting budget, it is not only better produced, the lens is more colorful, and the picture is more prominent in the visual experience. Besides, there is publicity and no publicity. Nor can it be compared, at least, it is more brilliant than the original.

However, he can't completely pack the ticket.There are many factors that affect the box office of a movie. The quality of the movie, the schedule, the schedule of the movie theater, and the rivals in the same period, any change in any one of these points are likely to cause fluctuations.I can only say, do everything, look at God's will.

"Thank you so much to develop a complete publicity plan," Lehman said.

"Well, don't worry, Director Lyman, we will be prepared for this." Compared to Wen Ziren, David Andrew must respect Lyman's opinion more.

The fact is true. He continued to politely said: "For the movie, we plan to release it on October 10th. I have seen the schedule. There are not a few films that have a strong momentum, and the audiences of the various works do not overlap. , More suitable for us."

"Look at the arrangement." In this regard, David Andrew is obviously the expert.

He nodded and said goodbye: "Then let's go back and contact the manufacturer to customize the movie poster, and find someone to post it near the theater for publicity."

"Thanks for your hard work."

"This is our business."

Another polite sentence, after watching the other party take the copy out, Lehman smiled at the two new movie stars on the side: "Okay, now it’s up to Paramount’s arrangement. Then, what will the film do? I can only hope that the audience can accept it."

Wen Ziren seemed to be a little bit worried about gains and losses at this time, just like when Lehmann shot the first film "Buried Alive", for fear that failure will ruin his future directorship. Hearing this, he smiled unnaturally. a bit.

......

Two days later, the publicity of "Chain Saw" started quite smoothly.

Offline promotion, advertising push, poster posting, online momentum...

Since there is only a publicity fee of 4 million U.S. dollars, after doing this, it will be gone.

At the same time, Paramount Pictures used its own channel contacts to let Wen Ziren take a few creators to participate in the recording of several TV stations, accept interviews from several media reporters, and speculate in some tabloids that it was produced by Lehman. The work is a new work directed by the associate director of "Bad Guy".As well as "this October's most thrilling movie", "I don't see it scared you count me lose" and other soft articles are constantly output.

Unfortunately, these tabloids are of little weight.

The gimmicks given can not be hyped. I can only say that it is barely better than the previous life. At least, there will always be a group of viewers who can notice that such a film will be released, which is not particularly unknown.

Of course, even so, it was better than Lyman at the beginning.

His second work, "Three Fools Haunted Bollywood" is almost the same, didn't he also get a good result with the audience's reputation.

After all, the final competition is the hard power of the film.No matter how well you blow it, you can understand what it is after recognizing the essence.

It's like a fortress, madly touching porcelain balls, talking about science fiction masterpieces, and respecting the original work.

Bah, it's just a silly love story, what science fiction is blowing, and honestly, there won't be so many people spraying it.The key is to fool the audience like a fool, and it is worthy to end up in a sad exit.

As for a certain deer... forget it, let alone him.

I want to complain about the hairstyle, let alone the performance.

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On October 9, Wen Ziren finally led the team to end the week-long tour.

Perhaps the advertisment has an effect, or the title of the deputy director of "Bad Guy" is enough to bluff, or the title of the producer of Lehman (this point is also specially marked on the poster) is still a bit appealing, anyway. That evening, at the premiere held by Paramount Pictures, some of the movie tickets that were released in advance were sold clean.

The Chinese Grand Theater, the venue of the event, was well arranged early.

Wen Ziren waited for the release of his directorial debut with a nervous and expectant mood.