America: Starting with the acquisition of MGM

Chapter 49 Shark is Flying (please follow up)

December 15th, with only 10 days left before Christmas, is the moment when the Christmas war is intense.

Even though it has been released for a month, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is still exerting its residual heat, and the daily box office is still rising by millions, which makes people marvel at the appeal of this IP.

In a few days, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" will be released, and on Christmas Day, December 25, Spielberg's "Cat and Mouse" will also be released.

Under the attack of these two monsters, other movies are bound to suffer, so unless forced, no movie wants to be released during this time period.

Just as movie fans across North America are looking forward to "The Lord of the Rings", hundreds of theaters in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York, and Houston have changed their promotional boards.

A brand new poster appeared, showing a soaring tornado sweeping through the city. What is puzzling is that several shark heads emerged from the tornado. "Sharknado" was released quietly.

For a movie with an investment of only 1.5 million US dollars, it is impossible to promote it before the release, and the publicity expenses will exceed this amount.

In the evening in Los Angeles, high school student White took his two buddies to a movie theater near his home. His sister worked here and could watch movies for free.

He walked to the front desk and knocked on the window; "Carol, give me three tickets."

A girl with curly hair appeared from behind and complained with some dissatisfaction: "White, you came here too quickly. If you keep doing this, I will be discovered."

"How is it possible? There are so many people coming in and out of the cinema every day, don't worry, no one will notice, and it's only three pictures.

"No, there aren't many people watching these days. It's easy to be found. I don't want to lose my job because of a few bills. If you want to watch, just go to your mother and ask for money!"

White suddenly showed a bitter face and quietly pointed not far behind him: "Please, sister, you don't want me to embarrass myself in front of my friends. I've already boasted to them."

"At worst, I'll just give it back to you once I get the pocket money. Come on, hurry up while there's no one around now."

Carol was still reluctant: "But you have already seen the recent movies, so let's wait until "Lord of the Rings 3" is released."

"No, don't fool me. I saw a new poster for a movie called "Sharknado." Come on, my dear sister."

"Carol, what are you doing?" A voice shouted in the distance.

"Nothing Mr. Frosta."

"Okay, take the ticket and get out, my boss is coming to check!"

"Wait, there's popcorn and Coke."

"Here you go, go quickly, go quickly!"

In the cinema, only eight or nine people were in attendance. The film was not famous and was not promoted to a big name. Only Ryan Reynolds was slightly famous among young people.

This kind of configuration can attract eight or nine people, which is quite a lot. In other schedules, it may only attract two or three people.

"I have a feeling this is going to be a disaster movie," White and his friends said.

As a shark LOGO flew by, the AK Film and Television logo appeared, and the film officially started.

On the vast sea, a fishing boat was sailing, and the captain was discussing the business of hunting sharks with his partners. Within a few minutes, the originally bright sky suddenly became covered with dark clouds, and sharks with extremely plastic looks jumped out of the sea, overwhelming the fishing boat. destruction.

Just the beginning made the audience frown.

"White, I have a bad feeling. Why is this boat so small? How dare two people catch sharks? And that shark is too rough."

Then the scene switched to the beach, and the beauties in bikinis dazzled the eyes of a group of young and strong men. The director knew it very well.

But then Sharknado appeared and began to log in from the beach. A shark suddenly rushed into the bar where the protagonists were hiding.

Then I saw a blond wave pick up a pool cue and kill the shark with one stroke. The audience was stunned for a moment by the terrifying arm strength.

"What the hell!"

"Did you see it? She stabbed the shark to death!"

"You've missed the point, it's the shark flying!"

As the movie continues, the sharknado becomes more powerful and begins to attack the city. The astonishing special effects continue to bombard the brains of the audience.

The hero and others started to run away, seawater poured in from the sky, and the car was speeding on the highway. At first glance, it was still the same thing, and a rubber strip suddenly appeared on the car window.

Confused voices suddenly rang out from the audience: "Automatic car wash? Is this a rain special effect?"

The sea water brought by the Sharknado gradually flooded the city, but in fact it did not even cover the wheels. Even in such a shallow water level, there were still a large number of sharks swimming rapidly in it and attacking pedestrians. The extremely fake blood was unbearable. See.

Gradually, even the sewers and drainage pipes were spraying sharks out, yes, they were sprayed, and even small sharks were flowing out of the faucets.

The movie ended with this extremely outrageous plot and special effects.

The movie finally came to an end when Ryan Reynolds held the chainsaw high and jumped more than ten meters high like Masked Superman to split the last shark in two.

What an international bad movie!

At this moment, the few spectators collectively leaned back, took a deep breath, frowned, and narrowed their eyes slightly to relieve their tortured nerves.

After a while, gasps, breaths, sighs, and curses filled the screening hall.

"My eyes! My eyes!"

“Why does this kind of movie appear on the big screen?”

"Please tell me who the director is, I'm going to kill him!"

"Whitey, after watching this movie, I felt like eating durian and canned herring with a smelly sock that hasn't been washed in three months next to it."

Unexpectedly, White's eyes lit up as if he had found a treasure: "I like it!"

"What! Are you crazy?"

"Of course not. I want to recommend this movie to Jennifer, I recommend it to Ben, I recommend it to Harveys, I want to recommend it to everyone, I can't be the only one who is blind!"

The two friends made sense when they heard it: "I'm going to post it on the forum so that everyone can enjoy this bad movie together!"

On the first day of its release, Sharknado only took in just over 1 million US dollars at the box office, which could not even touch the butt of Harry Potter.

But at the same time, discussions about it appeared on the Internet.

Eric would definitely not spend the big money, but hundreds of thousands of small dollars didn't matter, so Bemahadi had already hired a large number of sailors in advance.

On the first day of the movie's release, I posted on forums with relatively large daily activity, and also posted comments and recommendations on Yahoo, Movies, BOM, and IMDB.

In this era, using Internet trolls for propaganda is still a rare method, and television, magazines and newspapers are the mainstream.

In the evening, Eric opened the largest local forum in Los Angeles, scrolled around, and found three pieces of content about "Sharknado" on one interface.

"The best movie of the year is born - "Sharknado"!"

"I have never seen a movie like this. It shocked me more than Harry Potter!"

"Sharknado, a masterpiece worthy of being recorded in film history!"

After clicking on the content and scanning it, Eric couldn't tell whether it was a compliment or a disservice. He could only lament that in this era, the navy is also very trustworthy and does not copy and paste.