Chapter 845 "The Truman Show" Is Released!

USA.

The subway was crowded with people during the rush hour of commuting to work.

Many people were looking down at their mobile phones, some were communicating with each other, and most of the people sitting were closing their eyes and concentrating.

One of the sleepy young men was holding a backpack, yawning constantly and with heavy dark circles under his eyes.

His name is O'Neal Allen.

After returning home from get off work yesterday, he played the long-awaited new game. He didn't even eat dinner until about three o'clock in the morning before he reluctantly lay down in bed and fell asleep. If he didn't have to go to work early in the morning, he would play all night long.

Avoiding sitting or standing, he held on to the last bit of consciousness and looked around, preventing himself from falling asleep.

But he had been riding the subway for nearly a year, and he was very familiar with everything around him. There was really nothing that could cheer him up.

Then the small TV on the subway caught his attention, and it was the first time he saw the advertisement on it.

A short film full of science fiction elements began to play.

The short film uses a ray of starlight as a guide to open up a space similar to the metaverse, combined with the elements of live broadcast.

The virtual character introduced:

"If you could completely live in a world where live broadcasts were being broadcast all the time, whether you were eating, sleeping, or whatever you were doing would be broadcast live, would you be willing?"

O'Neill Allen shook his head subconsciously and muttered in his heart: "Of course not."

Thinking that everything about you will be exposed in front of the camera, there will be no privacy in this life.

But the next sentence on the TV suddenly made O'Neill Allen change his mind.

"If everything, including life, work, love and even your wife, were arranged for you, would you want to live in such an arranged world?"

"Even if there is no privacy, I am willing." Anyway, it has been arranged, and O'Neill Allen thought that he would not have to go to work and play games at home every day.

In the short film, a group of virtual characters sit in front of the TV and watch the live broadcast.

At this time, a virtual character said: "If you could only live in such a small place and were not allowed to leave, would you still be willing?"

The trailer attracted a lot of attention, and everyone had a different idea.

A white-collar worker standing next to O'Neill Allen lamented to his companion: "Aren't we living in a pre-arranged world now? Apart from work every day, there is no other time to see the outside world."

He has always thought about waiting for him to earn enough money to travel around the world, but it is just an idea.

At the end of the short film, it is introduced: "On May 1st, the movie "The Truman Show" will take you to understand such a different world."

Only then did everyone realize that this short film was a soft advertisement for a movie.

But O'Neill Allen is much better. He wants to go to the cinema to see what kind of world this person will live in? More importantly, he wanted to know how the movie would end?

The white-collar workers standing next to O'Neill Allen also had the urge to watch this movie.

She thought that if she lived in such a world, she would definitely try her best to escape and live freely in the outside world.

This kind of propaganda was played repeatedly in subway stations in major cities in the United States, attracting the attention of many people.

Unconsciously, "The Truman Show" has left an impression on their minds.

London.

As one of the famous tourist attractions in the UK, Buckingham Palace is visited by a large number of tourists every day. The handover ceremony of the Guards is also a major spectacle of royal culture.

The square in front of Buckingham Palace is crowded with people traveling from all over the world, and many British people also choose to spend leisurely weekends here.

Suddenly a group of people dressed in a particular style attracted the crowd's attention.

"What do they do?"

"It should be someone doing promotional activities, or maybe a show performer."

The crowd was talking quietly, wondering what the group of people in front of them were going to do?

People who like to hang out here can often see this kind of performance at this place.

One of them put aside a vertical poster with "The Truman Show" written on it and started their performance.

There were already many people around with their mobile phones taking videos.

Drama is a performance method that the British prefer.

Therefore, the way "The Truman Show" is promoted in the UK is through drama performances.

A few people performed a small part of the plot of the movie. On the one hand, they let the audience know the story the movie was going to tell. On the other hand, they wanted to arouse the expectations of the onlookers so that they could finally enter the cinema.

When performing a drama in an open-air environment, the actors can only express what they want to say through body movements as much as possible.

Therefore, some of the actions looked extremely exaggerated and funny, causing everyone to burst into laughter.

"This guy is so interesting."

“It’s my first time coming to this place and I can see such a performance. It’s very interesting!”

Amid the surrounding discussions, a group of actors took off their hats and took a final bow.

One person put the "The Truman Show" poster at the front and said loudly: "What we performed is part of the movie called "The Truman Show". If you like it, please give it to me on May 1st Go to the cinema and watch it. The movie is more interesting than our performance, thank you for watching.”

"It turns out that it is really a promotion. The drama is quite interesting. I wonder what this movie called "The Truman Show" will be like?"

"Not sure. The poster says it is a Chinese movie. I heard that the quality of movies in this country is not very high."

"The drama is quite interesting. I think I can wait until May 1st to go to the cinema to watch it."

"It is really good to just watch the drama. Let's see when the time comes."

As the drama performers left, everyone started to stroll around again.

People who like to share their lives on social software have posted this scene on the Internet.

And such a scene is being staged in many places in the UK.

As more and more people shared the video, this incident became a hot news in the UK for a while, triggering many reports from the British media.

This also promoted "The Truman Show" in disguise, and made the British pay attention to this Chinese movie.

In fact, most of them subconsciously think that Chinese movies are not very good, but the content of the drama performance aroused their curiosity and wanted to go to the cinema to find out.

The promotion of "The Truman Show" in the UK has achieved good results.

Similar publicity methods were launched in countries around the world with the arrival of Wu Gong, and more and more foreign audiences noticed this Chinese movie.

Beijing.

Brilliant Entertainment Company, President's Office.

When Tan Yue was processing documents, he received an email message reminder. Seeing that it was an email from Wu Gong, he temporarily put down his work.

Every time Wu Gong completed the publicity of a country, he would make a summary and send it by email.

Because there are many countries to visit in Northern Europe, the publicity effect has not been sent for some time.

"Not bad."

Tan Yue looked at the publicity effect and showed a satisfied smile on his face.

The email not only contained the reactions of netizens from various countries, but also some news reports, from which we can see the thoughts that Wu Gong spent on publicity strategy.

A Chinese movie can attract such a lot of attention in the local area, and it is impossible to have such a reaction just by ordinary publicity.

Tan Yue picked up the cup at hand, took a sip, and continued to browse the email.

Half an hour later, Tan Yue finished reading the content of the email and then replied to Wu Gong.

"Director Wu, this overseas promotion plan is very well done. Thank you for your hard work. I will welcome you back when you come back.

I have seen the promotion results you sent me, and I am very satisfied.

Continue to promote according to the plan we agreed before. Don't worry about the funds. As long as the effect can be achieved, it is worth spending any amount of money."

In order to better promote in each country and let more people know about the existence of "The Truman Show", the funds used for promotion have reached a very terrifying number so far.

But for Tan Yue, it is all worth it.

He wants "The Truman Show" to become a world-class classic movie just like it is on Earth.

Tianjing Entertainment Company.

Pakho Cheung sipped tea and looked out the window in a trance, his mind was obviously elsewhere.

The overseas box office of "Around the World" was still a big blow to him. He never thought that the box office of a movie that was originally full of confidence would be so bleak.

Recently, Pakho Cheung has also been paying attention to the latest developments of "The Truman Show".

After all, this is the second Chinese movie to be released simultaneously around the world, and it will inevitably be compared with "Around the World" by netizens.

The box office performance of "World Travel" in the global film market is not ideal. He wants to see what kind of performance "The Truman Show" will eventually achieve?

As one of the top directors in China, Tan Yue's first movie to be released simultaneously around the world naturally received widespread attention in China.

'Ding Dong'.

The message reminder on the mobile phone interrupted Zhang Baihao's thoughts. It was sent by a friend abroad.

"Such a big deal?"

The video is a promotional video of "The Truman Show" made abroad.

In the past few days, he has received a lot of publicity for "The Truman Show" abroad, and the publicity methods in each country are different. He was very moved for a while. It must be the Brilliant Entertainment Company!

After making movies for so many years, Zhang Baihao can certainly imagine how much money is needed.

At the same time, his heart is full of envy.

At the beginning, "World Travel" had already received the company's highest standard of publicity fees, but it seemed very stretched to promote it all over the world.

Now compared with "The Truman Show", it feels that the publicity fees of "World Travel" are too little.

Beijing, the General Administration of Culture building.

On the top floor, in the director's office.

Today, Brilliant Entertainment Company released another trailer for "The Truman Show". Ye Wen watched it online after learning about it.

She had high hopes for Tan Yue's film.

Among the first batch of directors, Tan Yue was the one Ye Wen valued the most. His films always seemed to capture the hearts of the audience, trigger a wave of movie-watching, and create miracles in the history of film.

"I hope that this movie released simultaneously around the world can also have such an effect."

After watching the latest trailer, Ye Wen thought it was a very good movie.

The failure of "Around the World" made her see clearly the audience situation of Chinese films abroad. It is not easy to get a good box office.

Seeing "The Truman Show" getting closer and closer to its simultaneous global release, Ye Wen became increasingly nervous.

She was worried that the movie would be like "Around the World."

In a blink of an eye, it’s the end of April.

The Internet immediately became lively, and the topic of "The Truman Show" was once again the top trending topic on Weibo.

"I'm so excited. I've been waiting for this movie for so long and I can finally watch it tomorrow."

"Brothers, the movie tickets are ready. The first show is tomorrow. Is there anyone who hasn't bought a ticket?"

"Brother upstairs, you should be lucky that there is no way to find you along the network cable, otherwise you would have become a piece of cake now!"

"I have been in front of my phone to buy this movie ticket. Fortunately, I can go to the cinema to watch it tomorrow."

"Have you ever teamed up to watch it together? Watching a movie alone is too boring. It's best to be with a girl."

"I didn't expect that I have been following "The Truman Show" for a year. I have been following it since the opening ceremony. I must support Mr. Tan Yue's film."

The next day.

May 1st.

Wang Letian climbed out of bed early in the morning, his face full of excitement. He would go to the cinema to watch "The Truman Show" soon.

As a professional film critic, he has been waiting for the ticket sales of "The Truman Show" to appear on the ticketing software since the past two days, and then grab tickets.

After a brief wash, I put on clean clothes and went straight to the breakfast shop downstairs.

If you get a gastrointestinal attack while watching a movie, things will be delayed.

I bought a few meat buns and a cup of soy milk, and hurried to the underground parking lot.

Today is the first day of May, and it is also a holiday. There will be a lot of people in the cinema, and you will have to queue up to get tickets.

To avoid missing the wonderful scenes, Wang Letian had to leave for the cinema an hour in advance.

He left home relatively early and there were still very few vehicles on the road, so he drove while eating steamed buns.

More than twenty minutes later, Wang Letian arrived at the cinema.

As he expected, there were already long queues in front of the four automatic ticket machines.

Wang Letian found a relatively short queue and lined up.

Many people around are discussing "The Truman Show."

"You can see it soon, it's great."

"There are too many people in the cinema. I wonder how many of them came to watch Mr. Tan Yue's new movie?"

"I don't know. Anyway, I came to watch "The Truman Show."

"Uh, I guess they are all, right?"

Wang Letian listened to the discussions around him and realized that almost everyone came to watch "The Truman Show". He shook his head and sighed in his heart, feeling very sympathetic to the other movies released at the same time. The comparison was so miserable!