Hollywood Director 1992

In contrast to the relatively objective reviews above, the other 90% of reviews for this movie were negative, very negative.

The New York Times bluntly stated in its review that it was a pretentious and worthless film, completely unworthy of spending eight or nine dollars and eighty-odd minutes in the theater to watch.

The Chicago Tribune commented that the movie was a complete scam.

The film distribution company stirred up public curiosity by hyping the 'The Blair Witch Project' topic, driving audiences to watch a very boring movie in theaters, and then 'The Blair Witch Project' sold very well.

Payne Booker, a special commentator for The Chicago Tribune, vehemently urged audiences not to go to the cinema to see 'The Blair Witch Project,' saying that anyone who watched it would become a fool.

The famous film critic Justin Chang wrote in the Los Angeles Times that this movie refreshed his understanding of the film industry and also refreshed the record for the worst movie in film history to achieve the highest box office.

Justin Chang said that when he watched 'Paranormal Activity,' he felt that it was terrible and shouldn't have made so much money.

After 'The Blair Witch Project' was released, this perception was refreshed.

Although 'Paranormal Activity' had many problems, it was scary enough and the plot was relatively complete, making it an interesting new type of film.

However, 'The Blair Witch Project' was completely a copycat, not only lacking originality in its filming techniques but also completely plagiarizing the promotional model of 'Paranormal Activity.'

This movie has no redeeming qualities.

Justin Chang's review was recognized by many movie fans.

Before watching 'The Blair Witch Project,' everyone felt that 'Paranormal Activity' was just average, with not many advantages besides being scary.

After watching 'The Blair Witch Project,' everyone suddenly felt that 'Paranormal Activity' didn't seem so bad after all.

At least 'Paranormal Activity' was scary and could scare people to death.

But 'The Blair Witch Project' is just a scam.

In addition to the above newspapers, many other media outlets published articles criticizing 'The Blair Witch Project' as a terrible movie.

Variety magazine said in a facetious tone that in the past, American media liked to argue about social hot topics, and it was difficult to reach a consensus, but on the matter of criticizing 'The Blair Witch Project,' all media reached a high degree of consensus, which was rare.

After its release, 'The Blair Witch Project' was attacked by many media outlets, but its box office performance remained strong, with a first-week gross of $45.28 million and projected North American box office of over $100 million.

Seeing this data, the media were very helpless. They had constantly promoted 'The Blair Witch Project' as a terrible movie, a scam by the distribution company, and told everyone not to go to the cinema to watch it, but many people couldn't resist their curiosity and went to see it anyway.

The media couldn't criticize the audience, so they had to aim their criticism at the film distribution company, TriStar Entertainment, and the film director, Ed Myrick, accusing them of using such methods to defraud the box office and disrupting the rules of the film industry.

Some media advised Joe Feller, president of TriStar Entertainment, to be careful and not to go too far, saying that making money in this way would ruin the reputation of TriStar Entertainment, and that no one would support the films released by TriStar Entertainment in the future.

"Haha, they must be jealous of us. If this movie were their company's work, they would be even more greedy than me," Joe Feller said with a smile, looking at the newspaper.

Link smiled. After the release of 'The Blair Witch Project,' many media outlets indeed criticized the movie, degrading a movie with a six- or seven-point rating to a zero-point work.

The reason for this was, on the one hand, that the quality of the film was indeed not high, but the box office performance was frighteningly high, which also led to an imbalance among many peers. On the other hand, the success of 'The Blair Witch Project' would inevitably affect the box office of other film companies' movies.

Some of these films came from the seven major film studios, such as Warner Bros. (the distributor of 'City of Angels'), Universal Pictures (the distributor of 'Mad Dog and Glory'), Paramount Pictures (the distributor of 'Fire in the Sky'), and Miramax Films (the distributor of 'Chocolat'), among others.

It was difficult for them not to feel jealous when they saw 'The Blair Witch Project,' which was released at the same time, selling so well. It was also difficult for them not to use their company's media or other media to attack the movie, constantly throwing mud at 'The Blair Witch Project,' hoping to use this method to reduce the film's popularity and get audiences to watch their movies.

"Boss, you're amazing. Whether it's making movies or promoting them, you're very skilled. Please give me more guidance when I go to Guessing Game Pictures in the future," Joe Feller said with admiration in his eyes.

"No problem. Let's work together in the future to make more blockbuster movies and strive to grow the company to the height of the seven major film studios."

"Haha, boss, I would doubt it if someone else said that, but since you're the one saying it, I have no doubt, because I believe you can do it," Joe Feller said with a smile.

'The Blair Witch Project' continued to be released, and TriStar Entertainment and Guessing Game Pictures continued to exert their efforts in promotion, constantly hyping 'The Blair Witch Project,' hyping the missing persons, hyping the film director, and even hyping Link.

The method of hyping Link was very simple. Some media published news questioning whether Link was the director of 'The Blair Witch Project.'

The reason was that 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Blair Witch Project' were too similar. Whether it was the filming technique, the lens design, or the promotional strategies, the two movies were completely the same model.

In addition, the 'Blair Witch incident' was first revealed in June or July of last year, before the release of 'Paranormal Activity.'

Everyone knew that before the release of 'Paranormal Activity,' Link and Guessing Game Pictures used the media to spread a large number of supernatural events, and the Blair Witch incident was one of the more popular supernatural events that appeared during that time.

From this point of view, their promotion of the Blair Witch at that time was very likely to be laying the groundwork for a third movie.

Link was also very likely to be the director of 'The Blair Witch Project.'

Some media refuted this claim, saying that Link had been holding autograph sessions since the end of last year.

From the United States to Canada, from North America to Europe, Asia, and Australia, traveling millions of kilometers, with almost no rest time except for Christmas, it was impossible for him to have made the movie.

The media believed that the reason for this claim was that TriStar Entertainment, the distributor of 'The Blair Witch Project,' was using Link's fame to hype the movie and attract Link's fans to watch it in theaters, which was a very unethical practice.

Some media also interviewed Link and Guessing Game Pictures about this matter. Neither Link nor the company has responded to this matter so far.

In its second week of release, the film grossed $37.67 million in 2,312 theaters in North America, bringing the film's cumulative box office to $82.95 million, making it the first film this year to exceed $80 million in North America.

It also topped the weekly box office chart for the second consecutive week.

The film ranked second was 'Autumn in New York,' starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder, with a weekly box office of $8.104 million, which was lower than expected.

Ranked third was 'Falling Down,' starring Michael Douglas, with a weekly box office of $7.62 million.

Ranked fourth was 'Mad Dog and Glory,' with a second-week box office of only $2.1 million.

According to statistics, the sum of the box office from the second to ninth-ranked movies was not as good as 'The Blair Witch Project.' This figure made many people feel desperate, to the point of swearing.