Entertainment: God-level director

“Brayden, what’s the matter?”

After answering the phone, Lin Ran asked

“BOSS, let me tell you some good news. After the trailer was released, it caused a lot of discussion among netizens. In just one week, our movie ranked fourth on the social media hot list.”

Braden’s voice was full of excitement.

The social media popularity list is a very important indicator for Hollywood to measure whether a movie is popular.

It counts the popularity on major news websites, streaming websites, and social media, which is comparable to domestic A list jointly launched by Weibo Zhihu and major news websites

“good.”

Lin Ran nodded with satisfaction.

After hanging up the call from Braden to ask for credit, Lin Ran immediately called Ronald Meier from Universal Pictures.

“Ronald, I heard that”The Return of the Clown” has been very well discussed. Should we increase publicity?”

“Haha, Lin, you don’t need to remind us, our publicity team will make adjustments based on market response.”

Ronald Meier said with a smile.

Lin Ran nodded and said no more.

Although there was some unpleasantness before, Lin Ran believed that Universal Pictures would not deliberately suppress it.

After all, as the main distributor ,”The Return of the Clown” is a hit, and Universal Pictures will also make a lot of money.

In fact, seeing that”The Return of the Clown” has received a good response and is likely to be a hit, Universal Pictures has gradually increased its promotional efforts..

In the blink of an eye, May 20th,”The Return of the Clown” started pre-sales, showing a very strong trend.

A well-known Hollywood analysis company even predicted that this R-rated horror film is expected to achieve an opening of US$50 million. The box office performance is even expected to break the record of 53 million set by the currently being released”Deadpool 2″.

Universal Pictures’ publicity department also immediately linked up with”Deadpool 2″ to promote hype

《”Deadpool 2″ was only released on the 18th, which is when the popularity is at its peak. Due to the hype from Universal Pictures, it became a hot topic on social media and attracted more attention from netizens.

At the same time, Universal Pictures has contacted the managers of major theaters, hoping to increase their film schedule. If they want to break the opening record of R-rated movies, the film schedule must keep up.

Seeing that the market response was so good, theater chains naturally did not struggle with money and increased their film schedules. The number of theaters open on the first day of”The Return of the Clown” also increased to 3,750.

Being in 3,500 stores is already the treatment of a blockbuster film.

But compared to the first-day opening numbers of those blockbuster movies that are really highly anticipated by the market, they are still a little behind.

For example,”Deadpool 2″, a sequel movie owned by Marvel, opened to 4,349 theaters on the first day, which is 600 more than”The Return of the Clown”.

However, for an R-rated movie that is not a sequel, it is already very good to reach an opening number of 3,750.

This is also due to the fact that the three films”Uncensored”,”Upgrade” and”Action Time” in the same period are not competitive, otherwise the film schedule would be much less

“Lin, the premiere of”The Return of the Clown” will be held the day after tomorrow. You can come to the United States. You will be needed as a director for the subsequent promotion.”

Ronald Meier called Lin Ran and said

“OK”

Lin Ran agreed and flew to the United States that day.

“BOSS，《The success of”The Return of the Clown” is a foregone conclusion, you are so awesome!”

Braden, who came to pick up the plane, flattered Lin when he saw him.

Lin Ran smiled and was not too proud.

After settling in the hotel, Lin Ran came to Fantasy Pictures and summoned everyone The staff held a meeting

“My first project after taking over the company will be released soon. I believe everyone has seen the response in the market. Not surprisingly, this project is very successful.

Everyone has worked hard during this period, so I am announcing a salary increase of 10% for all employees.%！”

“Long live the boss!”

When they heard about the salary increase, all the employees immediately cheered, and they were all overjoyed.

“Now is not the time to relax. When this project is over, I will give everyone a holiday, and everyone will continue to work hard during this period.”

Lin Ran pressed his hands and said after the employees calmed down.

“Don’t worry, BOSS, I’m willing to work overtime every day!”

Braden was the first to respond.

Immediately afterwards, other employees also responded in the same way.

Lin Ran nodded with satisfaction.

The next day,”The Return of the Clown” held its premiere at the TCL Tianchao Theater in Los Angeles.

Due to the market The response was so good that this premiere was particularly grand. Universal Pictures invited many stars to attend, such as model model Jessica Chastain, Dwayne Johnson and other stars.

Lin Ran also invited Elle Fanning and Will Smith, starring Bill Skarsgård also invited his two brothers Alexander and Gusta, which made the movie star-studded for a while. At two o’clock in the afternoon, after some procedures, the movie was officially watched.

What is different from China is that there are many people in the cinema who write and draw in their notebooks while watching movies.

They are the group of film critics.

In China, the role of film critics is very small and they have almost no influence. The direction of a movie, but in Hollywood, film critics play a huge role.

Because they often have their own columns in many mainstream media, they are particularly influential.

Even in today’s Internet age, they still affect countless audiences.

Andrews is a very well-known critic of horror movies, so he was naturally invited to this premiere. After the movie was officially screened, he watched it carefully and took notes from time to time.

“The acting is very good and the kids have great chemistry.”

“The fear atmosphere is realistic enough and creepy”

“A wonderful balance of fear and humor”

“……”

Andrews kept writing and drawing in his little notebook, and the screening was finished before he knew it.

As the lights in the cinema came on, all the audience let out a long breath, and some even wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads. bang bang bang~~~

After a few seconds of silence, the audience burst into warm applause.