screenwriter mystery

Chapter 27 Box Office and Controversy

The facts are just as Wen Ziren judged.

The midnight show of "The Blair Witch" ended, and Universal got the box office statistics for the first day the next day.

The box office on the first day was 67.8 US dollars.

It can be said that on the day of its premiere, "The Blair Witch" has achieved the cost-return requirement that most Hollywood movies are struggling to pursue.

And after completing this point, every day that follows is money for "The Blair Witch".

"Congratulations, Alan, it looks like your publicity strategy for "The Blair Witch" has been successful."

New York, Universal Pictures.

Ron Mayer looked at the first-day box office results of "The Blair Witch", and let go of the last worry in his heart.

"Congratulations too, Mr. Ron, Universal has once again won a high-grossing movie."

In this regard, Zhao Yuan's performance was calm.

The box office trend of "The Blair Witch" was already within his expectation.

Hearing Zhao Yuan's answer, Ron Meyer showed a smile that he couldn't hide.

Judging from the box office results on the film's premiere day, the success of "The Blair Witch" is beyond doubt.

However, even though Ron Meyer knew clearly that "The Blair Witch" would bring Universal a profit, he still did not expect that such a profit would be so astonishing.

Just one day later, the box office of "The Blair Witch" successfully broke through the $200 million barrier, and it rose directly to $500 million on the third day.

What is directly proportional to the box office is naturally the number of moviegoers in theaters.

The 56 theaters were full, and the people attracted by the "Blair Witch" incident were eager to know the truth.

After watching the content of the movie, they believed in the existence of witches more and more, and publicized their views, bringing those people who were not aware of the 'Blair Witch' incident into the movie theater.

Things have developed to this point, "The Blair Witch" is destined to leave a strong color in the history of Hollywood movies, no matter whether this color is a beautiful pattern or an ugly graffiti, the amazing revenue of the movie box office is enough to make any Hollywood Capitalists are thrilled.

Among them, the bosses of the theaters were the first to respond.

The results of those 56 theaters were enough to make them feel excited. Almost as soon as "The Blair Witch" was released at the box office on the first day, the bosses of many theaters had already approached Universal and asked for a copy of the movie.

They don't care about the mystery behind the 'Blair Witch' incident, or the implications.

For theaters, the box office is everything.

Soon, the movie "The Blair Witch" was screened in more than [-] theaters across the United States in the second week. These theaters spread across major cities in the United States, and greatly spread the influence of the witch effect.

On the second day of its large-scale release, the box office of "The Blair Witch" exceeded 2137 million US dollars, which also amazed the entire Hollywood.

In the history of Hollywood, there has never been a movie as profitable as "The Blair Witch".

With a cost of less than 20 U.S. dollars, a low-quality movie shot on DV has grossed 2000 million U.S. dollars at the box office across the United States.

Has Hollywood fallen to the point where it doesn't even have the most basic ability to appreciate movies?

All of a sudden, the major film critics wailed.

They blasted the "Blair Witch" story as nothing more than a hoax, a hoax that Universal had pulled off for the box office.Fueled by the media, suspicious reports on "The Blair Witch" quickly appeared on the pages of major media, and rumors spread everywhere for a while.

Some people agree with this point of view. After all, as long as you carefully search the so-called "evidence" published on the website and newspapers and magazines, you will find that everything in "The Blair Witch" is not worth scrutiny, especially in terms of time, and the key video tape , How could it be leaked so easily, and it was also made into a film by a film company, which was released all over the United States.

However, some people still firmly believe that "The Blair Witch" is real.

He believes that the remarks published by the media are just a cover-up made by the government to cover up the secrets of witches, and that witches really exist.

All these debates became more intense as the box office of "The Blair Witch" exceeded 8000 million US dollars.

Facing the growing doubts from the outside world, Universal's public relations team quickly responded.

They issued a statement that all the background of the "Blair Witch" incident is just a story fabricated 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 and well. The whole "Blair Witch" 'Events are nothing more than fictional movie plots.

Undoubtedly, Universal's statement had a certain impact on the box office success of "The Blair Witch".

However, this is also a helpless solution. After all, as the discussion of the movie increases, even the state government of Maryland is preparing to launch an investigation. In order to prevent everything from developing into the worst situation, Universal has no choice but to prepare for it. .

Fortunately, although Universal's statement has dealt a blow to the "real" events that "The Blair Witch" has been creating, the popularity of "The Blair Witch" has risen after all, even if the public already knows that the story of "The Blair Witch" is just The film company's propaganda method, but I couldn't hold back my curiosity and walked into the theater.

There is even a group of people who, even after Universal's public statement, still believe in the existence of witches, believing that Universal is just a tool used by the government to cover up the truth.

Amidst the controversy, the box office of "The Blair Witch" unexpectedly did not show a significant decline.

The film has been in theaters for more than half a month, and in the last week it has earned about 2000 million at the box office, successfully accumulating hundreds of millions of dollars in box office revenue.

Don't forget, "The Blair Witch" is just a DV movie that costs only $15.

However, compared to the film's amazing performance at the box office.

"The Blair Witch" is similarly rotten in terms of word-of-mouth.

Many film critics blasted this movie, declaring that it was the worst movie they had seen since the movie came out.

Roger Ebert, a veteran film critic who gave four-star praise in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" before, even gave the worst evaluation in "The Blair Witch".

To criticize "The Blair Witch" is just a big bad movie for grandstanding.

He even named the screenwriter and director of this movie, Zhao Yuan, thinking that he would never make a movie.

(End of this chapter)