Chapter 103 Long Queue

Early on Friday morning, Kirkland drove out, picked up his girlfriend Halle and her best friend Lisa, and went straight to a theater.

Because the theater was a bit far away, Halle complained: "The theater where the screening is so far away? It's close to the black community."

Kirkland changed a lane and said, "There is no way. In our city, there is only one theater to show it. This is not a movie. It would be nice to have a theater to show it."

Lisa, who was sitting in the back row, came over and said, "I don't know what happened to those three people. I hope the video tape can give us the answer."

Both Kirkland and Halle nodded.

The three of them have been concerned about the progress of the Blair Witch incident. They heard that the videotape will be screened in theaters after it is restored, and they made an appointment to watch it together early on.

The car stopped near an old theater, and Lisa suddenly pointed to the theater and said, "Look! Look! There are so many people!"

Harry turned his head to look, the theater hadn't opened yet, but there was a long line in front of the door, there were hundreds of people, some of them were wearing cultural shirts with the words Blair the Witch written on them, and the three college students avatar.

"There are so many people who care about this matter."

Kirkland sighed and urged, "Get out of the car quickly! I checked, this theater is not big, it can only accommodate 200 people, don't miss out on better seats!"

The three of them hurriedly got out of the car and queued up, and the long line stretched far along the sidewalk.

"So many people are paying attention!" Kirkland roughly counted, and there are about 120 people in line.

In just a few minutes, more than a dozen people came behind them.

Among them, standing behind Lisa were a few boys in baggy trousers with pierced ears and noses.

"Don't those three unlucky ones know they're still alive?"

The boys were discussing this: "Is there a witch on the tape?"

"How can there be a witch in this world?"

"Didn't you watch the TV show? The legend of the Blair Witch is true, stories of her have been circulating since 1785..."

"The police in Maryland are a bunch of pigs. It happened in 1994, and they haven't found any clues yet."

As if discussing a real case that is eagerly concerned, the boys are talking about how true this matter is.

There was a long queue, and the twitter chatter was full of discussions. Everyone was very concerned about the fate of the Blair Witch and the three college students.

Downtown Los Angeles, near Old Chinatown.

It was nearly half past eight, and Peter Johnson walked out of the lounge, ready to open for business.

Peter Johnson is the owner of this dual-screen theater. The theater is his home, and he usually lives in the theater. However, in the past two years, the business has not been good, and the staff in the theater has been cut down to five by him.

Several employees had already entered through the back door.

"Will, open the door with me!" Peter Johnson greeted and walked towards the theater door.

Before he came to the closed gate, he heard buzzing voices outside. The sound seemed like countless flies were circling around him, not generally chaotic.

Peter Johnson is a bit strange, what's going on? Anyone waiting in line outside to open the door? "Titanic" is already out.

Will rushed over from behind, opened the glass door first, and then pulled up the metal shutter door.

Wow——

The chaotic voices of discussion rushed over like a huge wave, which caught Peter Johnson off guard for a while. When he stabilized his mind, the crowd had already rumbled into the gate.

There were too many people, even if some came in, Peter Johnson stood by the door and looked out, the long line was still hundreds of feet away.

This is? He's a bit confused, isn't there any popular movie this weekend? Could it be...

Peter - Johnson thought of a possibility, these people are to see Nicole - Kidman bare ass? shouldn't

Nicole Kidman has stripped naked on screen not once or twice.

The theater has two halls, one showing "Eyes Wide Shut" released by Warner Bros., and the other showing "The Blair Witch".

It can't be for "The Blair Witch", can it?

"Will! Hurry up and help!"

There were too many people, Peter Johnson hurriedly reminded Will who was a little dazed.

Anyway, it's a good thing to have so many guests!

"Blair Witch, three tickets!"

"Two tickets! It's not Eyes Wide Shut, it's The Witch!"

"My five tickets to The Blair Witch!"

"The Blair Witch..."

All these messy voices reached Peter Johnson's ears, and he suddenly realized, all these people came to see "The Blair Witch"?

Looking back, I saw that there were still people joining the long queue outside, and some people had the words "Blair Witch" written on their clothes...

A movie theater simply cannot accommodate so many people!

Peter Johnson went to the box office to take a look. Dozens of tickets for "The Blair Witch" had been sold, but none of the tickets for "Eyes Wide Shut" had moved.

After thinking for a while, he entered the back office and observed for a while. No one bought the tickets for "Eyes Wide Shut".

He immediately picked up the phone and dialed a number: "Embassy Pictures? I'm Peter Johnson from the Water Stream Theater in Los Angeles, and I'm asking for an extra copy! Yes! An extra copy! The sooner the better! Preferably this morning." I can deliver it!"

There are only 200 theaters showing "The Blair Witch" in the United States, which is completely unable to meet the needs of the public for two months of discussion. Almost every theater that screens "The Blair Witch" has a long queue at the box office.

Not just in the morning, even in the afternoon, it's still the same!

The public's curiosity and desire to explore, constantly heightened by media propaganda and discussions among themselves, is finally about to explode.

After finishing his work in the video store, Arthur went to a theater on Long Island where "The Blair Witch" was shown, and was also going to watch the legendary video.

"Sorry, sir." The conductor smiled apologetically: "There are no tickets."

Arthur pointed to the electronic screen and asked, "What about the ten o'clock ticket? What about the ten o'clock ticket?"

The conductor smiled professionally again: "Sorry, sir, all the tickets for "The Blair Witch" are sold out tonight!"

Arthur scratched his hair anxiously, and said again: "Tomorrow, I want to buy a ticket for tomorrow!"

Another theater in New York showing "The Blair Witch" is in Brooklyn, which is too far away. Judging from the situation of this theater, even if you go there, there are probably no tickets.

It's frustrating to wait all night!

Arthur bought the tickets for the earliest show tomorrow, and went back tonight to have a good rest, and came over early tomorrow morning.

Burbank, Embassy Pictures Office.

It was already dark, all the offices of the company were brightly lit, and many employees were working overtime.

Ringing ringing ringing ringing ringing ringing ringing ringing ringing ringing

The company's two service phones have been ringing since the afternoon.

"Hello, this is Embassy Pictures." The female operator said in a sweet voice, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Copy! I want a copy! Submit a copy right now, I'm stuck in the office by some viewers, they can't see "The Blair Witch" and won't leave."

The operator wiped his sweat and said, "Please leave your phone number and contact information..."

Another phone rang at this time, and just as the male operator next to him picked up the phone, he heard a voice urgently saying: "This is Christopher, you tell Garcia to send me copies immediately, I want two! All three of my theaters are showing The Blair Witch!"

Dozens of calls asking for copies were answered a day, and the two operators simply summed them up and sent them to President Garcia's office immediately.

"Fortunately, you asked us to prepare 300 copies." Garcia looked at the statistics with obvious excitement on his face: "I'll get someone to contact and release it."

He pressed the intercom, called a supervisor, gave him the list, and asked him to contact them one by one to confirm.

David Villa licked his dry lips and asked with a hoarse voice, "Are we going to succeed?"

Garcia looked at Ronan's calm face, and said, "Judging from today's summary, the test screening should be fine." He asked Ronan, "Do you want to start printing copies?"

Ronan glanced at his watch and said, "This year, the theater system has sped up the data statistics, and today's box office statistics can be obtained after midnight. It is less than an hour now. Let's look at the box office data first, and then determine the number of copies and prints." .”

The others did not object, and waited patiently with Ronan for the box office release on the first day.