Four Hundred and Thirteen - the Basic Market Revealing the Tip of the Iceberg

Seeing the Sony Columbia executive turn around and walk away, Wayne and the two women laughed together. There were footsteps and a confused voice behind him again.

"What does he want from you?"

The person coming is Bruce Rosenblum, and it looks like he should have been here for a while. "Sony Columbia didn't have a big production to compete with us in this summer's schedule, so they had almost no small moves."

"He wanted to invite me to be the producer of "Spider-Man", similar to the producer of "The Matrix."" Wayne shook his head gently. "I rejected it."

Bruce Rosenblum joked: "Ha, it seems that you once again rejected the goodwill of a giant."

Then several people shared a tacit smile.

At this moment, the theaters once again let out a loud scream, and several people looked outside at the same time. It turned out that Brad Pitt, one of the leading actors, walked onto the red carpet. There were several cars blocked at one end of the red carpet. Car, it looks like the crew and creators have already arrived.

Several people watched Brad Pitt walk into the media interview area. Bruce Rosenblum suddenly whispered: "The good news is that the media attention here is higher than that of "Ransom Storm" next door. It's much higher, but the influence of Mel Gibson, Gallon Howard, and you can't compare with those three big stars."

"Too much media attention doesn't mean anything."

Wayne looked at the group of media reporters in front of the theater and said calmly: "Who can take the lead this weekend depends on the early admission results after tonight's premiere."

"We will get enough of a lead." Speaking of this, Bruce Rosenblum is more confident than the film director himself.

Relying on Wayne's achievements in the past few years, this time the theater alliance, led by the three major theater companies, not only opened more than 3,200 theaters for "The Departed", but also arranged more than 3,000 theaters for tonight alone. An advance venue.

Compared with the "Ransom Storm" next door, it is a bit worse. He specifically learned before that although "Ransom Storm" also opened advance screenings after its premiere, there were only about 2,200 screenings.

At the beginning of the competition, it can be said that the two sides are not on the same starting line. There is never absolute fairness in this world. The reason why "The Departed" can be opened on such a large scale is that it has opened up so many early screenings. On the one hand, the films released by Warner Bros. have been successful continuously, which has brought great success to the theater alliance. The other aspect of great confidence is that the film is called a Greenberg Production.

The reason is simple. Each of Wayne's works in the past few years has brought countless profits to the theater companies. They believe that this film will still create brilliance as always.

The crew and guests who came to the platform entered the theater one after another with screams, and Wayne also began to greet everyone. At seven o'clock in the evening, guests and the creative team began to enter the theater, waiting for the movie premiere to officially begin.

At the same time, the invited media and ordinary movie fans who were seated relatively far back also lined up and gradually entered the screening hall. In a short period of time, the noise and chatter of the crowd filled the theater, which can accommodate more than 2,000 people. .

The fans who can choose to watch the film at the first time are either supporters of the three leading actors of the film or die-hard fans of Wayne. This base is relatively large. Almost every ordinary fan who is selected is a lucky one.

"Hey, hey, everyone, stop messing around."

At the entrance of the theater, a girl with short blond hair was shouting loudly, and there was a black boy who looked like a bodyguard beside her. The boy was wearing a security uniform that was incompatible with the scene. After realizing that Daisy's voice attracted the attention of many people, He grinned, revealing his big white teeth, with an apologetic smile on his face.

"Don't worry, I've already communicated with Warner Bros., and the two rows of seats reserved for us have been gathered together." The girl's voice continued, loudly urging the moviegoers behind her to come in, and at the same time, she was still helping On-site staff directed the crowd.

"Great job Daisy."

"Hey, team leader, it's all up to you this time."

Almost every movie fan who entered the venue greeted Daisy or gave a thumbs up, and then, under the direction of the staff, walked to the seats reserved for them.

There are a lot of movie fans entering the venue, but the order here is relatively good, because the movie fans lining up at the entrance are all die-hard supporters of Wayne, and they are all members of the Wayne Fans Organization. The theater staff specially gave They made this passage.

Daisy was much busier with the organization work related to the premiere of "The Departed" than before when other films were released. Not only was she personally organizing the film before its release, it was also a rudimentary navy, promoting it crazily on the new platform of the Internet. Afterwards, 400 fans were organized to watch the movie at the premiere.

Just like she said a few years ago, starting from this year, she has really turned the fan organization into her own career. Not only can she get closer to her favorite directors, but she can also get large rewards from it. In terms of income alone, her boyfriend Hector Henry, who has become a new producer at Warner Bros., cannot compare with her in this regard.

"A fan organization with a terrible order."

Seeing that the seats in the middle rows were slowly being filled up by this group of alternative movie fans, George Lucas, who was sitting in the third row and had been observing the movement behind him, softly praised the old man next to him. "To be able to organize this group of people of different skin colors, different races, and different classes in such an orderly manner, that girl can be considered a good manager."

You know, in this land where everything must be aligned with freedom, it is not an easy task to bring order to different groups of people. In this regard, even their army cannot do very well.

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked in the direction of the two rows of seats in front of the curtain. "Steven, who do you think these high-quality movie fans support?"

"It's Wayne's die-hard fan organization." Steven Spielberg didn't show off and gave the answer happily.

"What?"

"Yes, you didn't listen." The good Jewish man retracted his gaze from the back row, turned his head with a strange expression, and continued: "It's incredible, right? When I first learned about it, I also found it incredible. , a director actually has a die-hard fan base that exceeds that of a superstar!

I wouldn't have discovered this huge group if I hadn't worked with Warner Bros. on Twister. They are Wayne's base in North America, and they are also the source of confidence that Warner Bros. dares to invest in his new projects with its eyes closed.

George, according to the information I have learned, they are only an insignificant part of them. After the premiere, more people will flock to the 3,200 advance screenings opened simultaneously across North America. Now, do you still think that a film that is competing for awards is Will the box office be low? "

"It's really surprising." George Lucas's eyes widened, his voice full of disbelief. "I think if the people next door who were watching the premiere at the same time knew that this group of people existed, they would probably fall directly into despair."

Everyone knows that the summer season is the most important time in North America. The reason why major Hollywood companies invest huge sums of money and dare to produce high-cost blockbusters is because this is the time when movie fans are most enthusiastic about watching movies.

At this time, in the eyes of George Lucas, Walt Disney's large investment has already caused a serious loss-making crisis at the very beginning of the competition. Fans will have a herd effect. When everyone around them chooses When they watch "The Departed" for the first time, they will most likely choose to ignore other films.

"Friends, let's show our preparations."

Suddenly, the clear female voice sounded again, attracting countless eyes again. She didn't pay attention to the surprised looks from around her, and took the lead in taking off the T-shirt she was wearing.

The girl's movement was like a start signal. The young people in the two rows behind, both boys and girls, took off their outer clothes together, revealing the T-shirts they were wearing underneath.

"Phew, cool!"

"This is so cool!"

For a moment, the crowd around them was amazed. It turned out that this group of 400 people were all wearing uniform white T-shirts. On the front of the T-shirts, there were two huge letters Kanｓ. And below the letters, there was this one. A pitch-black bat, with a relatively small name appearing under the bat: Wayne-Greenberg!

At certain events or competitions, it is not uncommon for organized groups to wear uniform costumes. However, at a movie premiere, a large number of fans wearing uniform costumes are still quite common in this era. rare.

Even if there are sporadic small groups of movie fans who do this, they are usually supporters of a certain superstar. A large number of die-hard fans come to the scene to support the director, which instantly arouses the amazement of countless people.

The movement behind him attracted the attention of the crew and guests in front of him. Whenever someone saw clearly what those fans represented by their T-shirts, they would involuntarily turn their attention to Wayne. Most of them had complex and difficult questions in their eyes. Ming emotions.

As a large number of movie fans entered the theater, as time passed, the seats in the theater were gradually filled. At the reminder of several staff members, the sound in the theater began to get smaller and smaller. The lights began to go out, and when the light from the projector appeared on the big screen, the crowd completely returned to calm.

More than two thousand people paid attention to the upcoming movie at the same time. This movie was far from giving out enough information in the pre-release publicity like Wayne's other works, but because it has always maintained It creates a sense of mystery and creates deeper expectations among people.

The first thing that appears is always the opening animation of Warner Bros. After the studio opening that represents the historical heritage, the opening of Greenberg Studio flashes quickly, the big screen suddenly goes black, and then the film officially begins to show.