The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 161 The World's Jokes (Two in One)

"Our film has been sued for 'infringement' in North America!" Wang Chuanqi suddenly said with a serious expression.

"What!" Wang Wei also opened his mouth wide, this is an answer he never expected.

——At the beginning of the project approval of this movie, the script was filed with Hollywood, how could it still infringe?

Who knows, the latter answer is even more unexpected to him!

"The ones suing us for copyright infringement are a real-life ogre and a real-life skinning maniac in North America!"

Lao Wang's serious expression began to collapse, and he said the news that he had just obtained in a sleepy tone: "After watching the movie, they ran to the local police station to surrender one after another. The purpose was...to sue us that this movie violated them image rights!"

"To be precise, they think the movie discredits the image of ogres and skinners!"

Wang Wei's expression froze, and then cracked: "...Is this fucking a joke!?"

Lao Wang also thought it was a joke, but the news was sent back by Dunhuang staff stationed in North America at the first time, so it was definitely not a joke.

"Also, there are teen imitators in North America!"

Wang Wei was even more surprised, and heard Lao Wang continue to say in a sleepy tone: "It's just that the imitator doesn't have the courage to imitate the protagonist to kill people, and not only does the imitator have the courage to play with the police like the protagonist, but he is very big!"

"It is said that a false police report was made, swearing that the neighbor couple were murderers!"

Wang Wei felt slightly relieved, and twitched the corners of his mouth at the same time.

However, Lao Wang continued to be in a state of bewilderment, and seemed to be talking in his sleep the whole time: "It's outrageous that the police who received the report believed it and sent the police!"

"What's even more outrageous is that it was later discovered that the pair of neighbors were really murderers, and they were also the robbers of a huge bank robbery!"

"..."

Wang Wei was completely stunned!

"How can this be?" He was so dazed that his face was distorted.

"Yeah, how can it be like this." Lao Wang was also so confused that his face was a little distorted.

——The criminal was called to surrender after watching the movie, which sounds outrageous enough!
——Running to surrender because he felt that he was "infringed on the right of image" !

——And a pair of male and female thieves, obviously didn't go to the movies, but because the neighbor had a "imitator", and then... "surrendered", they grew wings outrageously, and went to the sky outrageously! ! !

Moreover, how long has it been since the movie was released, and four murderers have been arrested in North America? !
The whole of East Asia, more than a week, can add up to only this number.

"North America, the folk customs are really simple!" Wang Wei, who was overwhelmed by the North American criminals' showmanship, expressed his conviction.

"North America is really simple and honest!" Lao Wang, who even thought the retelling was outrageous, was convinced.

Other than that, it seems that I really can't feel too much.

……

And these two people are just one of the thousands of melon-eating people who have been shocked.

In fact, the North American counterparts who knew more details couldn't even get their jaws back!

"My God, my God!"

Ever since the fat white Frank received the news of the first "surrender incident" in North America, only "God" remained on his lips.

How could he have imagined that he was just praying casually, and it turned out to be a prophecy-the murderers really "lined up" to "surrender themselves"!

Well, while the news broke almost simultaneously, the events didn't actually happen at the same time and in the same place.

The first one was the "Skinning Maniac" in California. I heard that there was also a "Skinning Maniac" in "The Silence of the Lambs". Out of curiosity, I drove hundreds of miles to see this movie.

After watching it, his first reaction was to rush into the police station, clamoring to sue the film for infringing on his image of a "skinning madman" - he skinned not for "becoming a woman", but for " Create art"!
At first, the police thought he was a patient who had escaped from a mental hospital, but when they visited his farm, they were stunned!
They came to this remote, gloomy and gloomy farm, as if they were in a "human leather workshop"!
—the walls were lined with skull fragments;

—A few smooth-looking chairs made of human skin are placed against the wall;
- a mask made from the skin of a human face;
There are also belts, lampshades, coasters...all made of human skin!
The part-time "skinning maniac" farmer, even in handcuffs, is still proudly introducing his "masterpiece of art"!
This flaying madman, who had killed countless innocent lives, fell into the French Open in a jaw-dropping manner!

The real-life ogre was caught in New York.

He thinks that the film damages the image of the "ogre" is that it is better that he can "eat"!
That's the creepiest thing ever - this demon has opened his own diner selling burritos from... including the occasional homeless man he "hunts" off the street!
It is said that when the police searched the house, they found more than one bowl made of skulls in the kitchen, and some leftover "fresh ingredients" in the refrigerator... All the police officers vomited on the spot.

This case was so sensational that the police did not announce it to the public at all, but they couldn't hide it from the powerful media reporters in North America.

On the day Frank received the news, he just ate a burrito in the morning. Even though he had digested it long ago, he still retched.

—He thinks he'll never be able to look straight at a burrito again!It is conceivable that the sales of this food in North America will plummet for a long time!
——And the number of vegetarians in New York will inevitably increase unprecedentedly!
As for the "unlucky" male and female thieves, they were caught in Canada.

——When Frank first learned that there were "imitators" in North America, his heart sank.

For any thriller and crime work, the most feared thing is the emergence of imitators, especially imitators who cause great harm to society, which is a fatal blow to its expansion of sales.

Unexpectedly, this "imitation crime" incident had a god-like turning point——

Two robbers ransacked a bank in Texas with masked guns in broad daylight, shot and killed several security guards, and then fled. The police thought they fled to South American countries;
However, he (she) who are brave and bold, lived in seclusion in Canada, and everything was perfect-until they were arrested because of a clumsy fake alarm call!
Afterwards, it is said that the little brother who reported the false alarm was almost scared to pee!
Just, outrageous!

It is estimated that this pair of male and female thieves will also vomit blood after learning the ins and outs!

Frank was stunned anyway, and was so shocked by the "unexpected" one after another that he couldn't speak!
Benjamin, on the other hand, was ecstatic, jumping three feet high—Frank could swear, it was really three feet high.

"God, we're going!" There was a trill in his voice.

"Frank, you're right, you're right, this movie is really evil, it's really... so evil!" Benjamin opened his mouth and laughed.

According to Frank's visual inspection, the hair on the guy's two big hairy legs, which were tucked into his trousers, was about to waltz.

The reason why he didn't waltz directly is because this guy soon didn't even have time to sigh——

Before the public opinion was completely detonated, the president of Universal Pictures personally called the distribution department and yelled loudly: "I don't care what method you use, and put all the resources you can invest into this oriental movie..."

All the well-informed theaters also called immediately to make copies, obviously wanting to take the initiative to increase the number of films.

After all, even a fool can see that when the public opinion is completely detonated, this movie is going to be a hit, a big hit!
It is said that capitalists do not scatter hawks when they see rabbits, but on the other hand, when they see rabbits, capitalists scatter hawks so quickly that it is beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Don't have to wait too long. In North America, the news that several murderers were arrested one after another because of the same movie, like a super tsunami, swept across the United States and even the whole world in just a few hours!

At this time, the most "annoying" thing about the North American media is that there are not enough headlines on the front page!
The "art" of the skinner?Ogre's "Share"?The "unlucky" of male and female thieves?Or is it the magic of the movie "The Silence of the Lambs"?

Each one of these is worthy of the headlines!
"Sometimes, having too many hot spots is not a good thing." The North American media in the carnival said with emotion.

And no matter which one is chosen as the headline, it is inseparable from the "initiator" movie.

So, as if overnight, the popularity of "The Silence of the Lambs" in North America, or in the entire western world, skyrocketed like a rocket!
Movie fans' enthusiasm for watching movies is no longer limited to horror movie audiences, but spread to the whole people, erupting like a volcanic eruption.

Among them, it is worth mentioning New York fans.

It is said that all theaters in New York that show this movie have to prepare a vomit bag for each seat. After watching a movie, the smell in the theater is full of... ecstasy!
However, the enthusiasm of moviegoers in New York is the highest in the United States.

I vomited after watching it, and even gave a thumbs up to this movie after I vomited... This has become a wonderful landscape of this movie in North America.

And such influence, of course, was immediately fed back to the box office.

On Monday, the first working day after the weekend holiday, the rumors were limited to some well-informed people. The box office trend of "The Silence of the Lambs" was roughly in line with the box office forecasting agencies, with a drop of more than 60%, and the single-day box office was less than 500 million US dollars .

On Tuesday, public opinion began to explode, and the single-day box office of the film rose against the market without any suspense, doubling and earning more than 900 million US dollars.

On Wednesday, public opinion continued to ferment, and the single-day box office continued to soar, hitting 1200 million US dollars, and surpassed Disney's live-action movie in one fell swoop, becoming the daily box office leader!
Hollywood filmmakers and box office agencies just watched in amazement as this movie was being discussed all over the United States, and watched its box office skyrocket like this, completing the overtaking of the big production that Disney had invested a huge amount of money in!

The point is, with the movie's current momentum, this turnaround is probably a foregone conclusion!

The worst thing is Disney - not only is the big production with high hopes suppressed, but the "folk customs" theory of its own vice president is also on the verge of being ruined by the media.

"That idiot has become the laughing stock of the whole world!" Benjamin, who finally had time to catch his breath, could only gloat over Disney's misfortune.

——There are still queues of superpowers. The news of the four murderers in North America "queuing up to report" has also become a hot topic of discussion among people all over the world in a very short period of time.

The ferocity of North American criminals and the ups and downs of the story naturally stunned people all over the world!
And in this topic, the so-called "the theory of simple folk customs" by the vice president of Disney has also been mentioned again and again, and it has become the laughing stock of people all over the world!
Well, even if there is no incident of the murderer "surrendering", the saying "North American people are simple and honest" is ridiculous enough.

Now is not the time when there is only one superpower in the world, and the media is full of its "talks from one family".

At least, the media in the East like to report violent incidents in which everyone in North America is armed with guns and multi-talented, smashing and looting in the streets. Similar incidents have happened again and again in the history of North America, and they have also been played in Hollywood movies. Again, reality continues to happen...

Under such circumstances, North America has become the "hardest-hit area" for criminals to surrender, which is just another proof of the fact.

Even the local media in North America sneered: "America has never been a country known for its good law and order, especially in developed countries; it is hard to imagine that the vice president of Disney has the courage to say that our law and order level Far beyond the East..."

——Well, this is actually a media owned by Universal Pictures.

——It's not a "discovery of conscience", it's purely... Maybe he was arrogant before, maybe I "whipped the corpse" afterwards, right?

"Where did he get the courage? It's very simple. Disney came from an animation background. It's normal to be naive." Benjamin laughed, and continued to "whip the corpse" with his own media.

On the contrary, Frank, who was not angry before, did not follow along with the ridicule, but pointed out sharply,
"Laughing at him can't hide the regret of our publishing department."

The laughter stopped abruptly.

Benjamin let out a sigh of relief, and said helplessly: "You are right, the publishing department regrets not listening to your publicity suggestion."

"The Silence of the Lambs" is now doing well at the single-day box office in North America, but Universal still thinks it's not enough.

Because, the screening screen of this movie is only in the early [-]s now.

There is no way around this, although the theaters are willing to cooperate with increasing the film schedule, but it takes time to make copies, and it also takes time to adjust and schedule the films. pressure, the latter cannot be absolutely ignored.

In short, the distribution department most regrets that it did not strive for more than 1500 opening screens at the beginning. Otherwise, after further increasing the film schedule, the box office on weekdays might not have broken through [-] million US dollars long ago.

——Although in the last weekend, the film had a North American box office estimate of 6000 million US dollars, which has basically satisfied the distributor's Universal Pictures.

——After all, according to the account sharing agreement with Dunhuang, not only can they properly recover the 1000 million publicity costs, but they can even make a lot of money.

As for now, 6000 million?I'm afraid it's not a fraction of the final box office!
Frank agrees with that.

The reason is simple - North American people are going crazy for the ogre in the movie!
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　Changed and changed, it should be... not out of line~~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)