Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

A big news suddenly broke out before the release of Steven's new movie "Kidnapped".

Pre-sales for "Kidnapped" have reached $52 million, breaking pre-sale box office records.

In just one day, this news swept the front pages of major entertainment headlines.

The new movie "Kidnapping" is adapted from a real case.

And the parties involved in this real case are none other than Steven, the film's director, and Rasfa, one of the investors.

At that time, this incident had swept across the United States and even the world.

After all, Steven's fame and influence are too great.

And "Kidnapping" has always used the real case at the time as a promotional selling point.

It is claimed that in "Kidnapping", more inside stories that were not exposed by the police at the time will be revealed.

As one of the parties involved, Steven naturally has the absolute right to speak.

With the news of breaking the pre-sale box office record, the producers and distributors of "Kidnapping" once again hyped up the case at that time.

On the day of the premiere, pre-sale box office sales had reached 80 million US dollars.

This gives all the movies released at the same time a feeling of crying wolf.

Because Steven's new movie is released, it means that their box office will be robbed.

Even movies with different audiences have been greatly affected.

For example, the horror movie "Death Prediction" released last week is completely different from Steven's new movie "Kidnapping", and the audience is completely different.

However, "Death Prediction", which had a box office of US$4.5 million on the working day the day before yesterday, had dropped 70% yesterday, closing at US$1.35 million.

The magnitude of the decline is so frightening that it’s like jumping off a building.

Among the original six major companies, two small and medium-budget films were produced to target "Kidnapping".

But within a day, the news about these two movies was completely lost.

It is said that the distribution companies of those two movies plan to temporarily change the schedule to avoid "Kidnapping".

Because they were also frightened by the momentum of "Kidnapped".

Before tonight's premiere, the pre-sales of "Kidnapping" are likely to exceed 100 million.

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Although Portia is now on the crew, she is inevitably bombarded with information about "Kidnapping."

Because everyone in the crew is also discussing "Kidnapping".

Whether it is the actors or the crew, they are all discussing it.

Portia couldn't help but fantasize about when she could participate in Steven's movie.

Of course, Portia also knew that this was almost impossible.

Even though she is now starring in James' movie as one of the main characters.

But the gap between James and Steven is still very big.

Steven used an astonishing pre-sale result to defend his dignity as the world's number one director.

Portia held her mobile phone and flipped through entertainment news.

Almost all of them are news about "Kidnapping", or the real events at that time.

"Portia, it's your turn, put your phone away." At this moment, the crew came over to inform.

"It's so unprofessional. I really don't understand what Mr. James thinks." Anlisa said jealously.

Of course, her voice would only be heard by Portia.

She hasn't left the set today because there are still scenes of her.

Although Anlisa's scenes were much less than Portia's, the shooting time was one day longer than Portia's.

As long as Anlisa's shots are scattered, there are more people acting with her.

The filming method of the film crew is that the scenes of a scene will be shot together.

It's possible that the opening and closing credits were actually shot on the first day.

After two shots, Portia exhaled.

As a pure newcomer, it is still very difficult to play an important role.

Her two scenes were filmed more than twenty times.

But because she was hand-picked by James to join the crew.

So no one made things difficult for her.

Only Anlisa kept looking at Portia with jealous eyes.

Just then, Portia gets a call.

Portia picked up the phone and saw that it was Gaia's call.

"Hey, Portia, are you free tonight?"

"Tonight...I'm afraid I don't have time."

Because Portia has a night scene with the same scene tonight, which will also be shot today.

So Portia couldn't leave the set at all.

"Is there a problem?"

"The crew I worked on before asked me to attend the premiere, and I wanted to find a female companion." Gaia remembered that Portia was interested in Hollywood, so she planned to take Portia with her on the red carpet.

"Female companion? You are a female yourself." Portia was speechless.

"It would be more troublesome if I find a male companion." With Gaia's temperament, it would be really eye-catching if she walked the red carpet with a young lady.

There are quite a few men in the gym who want to follow Gaia on the red carpet.

But Gaia didn't take any notice of it.

"I don't have time. I have a very important job tonight and I can't get away from it," Portia said.

"Since I don't have time, forget it." Gaia doesn't necessarily want Portia. Anyway, her assistant Ola can also be her female companion.

After saying two words of blessing, Portia hung up the phone.

He also joined the filming of the crew.

Portia was busy until about eight o'clock in the evening.

It was already after nine o'clock in the evening when I got home.

This is the first time Portia feels tired from filming.

She is only a marginal character, but she is already under so much pressure from filming.

For those real protagonists, the number of shots would be more than ten times more than hers.

How much pressure should they have?

Portia turned on the TV again, then tuned to entertainment news.

The premiere of "Kidnapped" is being broadcast in the entertainment news.

Portia became more and more envious, wondering when she could be like those stars.

That night, how many people, like Portia, were young people with dreams of Hollywood stars and fell asleep with full of fantasies.

The next day, Portia woke up early in the morning and was once again flooded with the news of "Kidnapping".

It's all about "Kidnapped" once again breaking the advance box office record, topping out at $81 million.

Advance sales and pre-sales are not the same thing, and the $81 million in advance sales directly doubled the original record.

You can imagine how this movie will ravage big screens around the world in the next three or four weeks.

"Go watch this movie sometime."

Portia was talking to herself, but she suddenly thought of Gaia.

"By the way, the movie Gaia participated in seemed to have been released yesterday. I should support Gaia's movie."

Portia thought again that she didn't seem to know what movie Gaia was participating in.

Is Gaia too embarrassed to tell herself? That's right. After participating in a movie that was a complete failure, I was really embarrassed to say that I had better stop causing trouble to her.