Chapter 28: Fame and media doubts

Although the achievements of 52 cinemas in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Francisco and other cities and regions were not ideal on the premiere of "Blair Witch", it did not affect Xia Shang, Patrick and others' optimism about this film.

In fact, it is also true that on Saturday, April 29, the entire western United States is still sunny and warm and pleasant. With the arrival of the weekend, Pinfeng Entertainment Company's vigorous promotion of "Blair the Witch", more and more fans are beginning to know, understand the film, and gradually move towards the ticketing point of the film, to buy a movie ticket for the film "Blair the Witch".

At the same time, the 52 cinemas released simultaneously have the first prime time, with cinemas full and full. This situation not only makes the cinema owners who have introduced this film feel a little incredible, but also makes Xia Shang and Dingfeng Entertainment very happy.

On Saturday, the number of cinemas screening the film "Blair Witch" grew from the original 52 to 65, and this number continued to rise. Until the end of this weekend, there were more than 100 cinemas screening the film "Blair Witch" across the United States.

More and more movie fans are beginning to know the film "Blair Witch", and more and more cinemas are beginning to screen the film, and more and more news media, magazines, and newspapers are also beginning to pay attention to the film. The most obvious convenience is Dingfeng Entertainment Company, a small and unknown film company, suddenly became the other party for many reporters to pay attention to. At the gate of Dingfeng Entertainment Company, several reporters holding cameras are always standing. They hope to meet one or two staff members of Dingfeng Entertainment Company, and then carefully learn more behind-the-scenes footage of the film "Blair Witch".

But this is just the beginning. When the movie box office statistics in the second week were recorded, it completely shocked some news media, magazines, and newspapers. Looking at the series of numbers, it was incredible. In the second week, the number of cinemas screened in the United States, from 105 at the beginning of this week, suddenly increased to 1,350. And this number was still rising. These cinemas continued to copy this film, which not only made Tingfeng Entertainment feel extremely busy, but also the copy company was busy.

When the second week ended, although Xia Shang, Patrick, Bob and others from Tingfeng Entertainment had long been surprised by this week, when they actually got the box office data for the new week, everyone's face showed an ecstatic smile. The $18.5 million movie box office, this figure not only allowed Tingfeng Entertainment to collect all the investments, but also started to make profits. How could this not make people happy?

However, Patrick and others did not forget that all this was attributed to Xia Shang. Without Xia Shang's strong recommendation and Xia Shang's advice, they would not have achieved such gains. In this way, not only will Patrick and his people's views on Xia Shang have changed again; at the same time, several people have to sigh that with the popularity of "The Witch Blair", Xia Shang will definitely become a bare-handed character. By the way, there are also several starring actors in this film, Angelina Jolie, Joshua Leonard, Michelle C. Williams, and several people will also spread throughout the United States overnight.

"It's hard to believe that a student film that costs only $50,000 has actually earned $20 million in box office. Is this a miracle or an accident?" - The Hollywood Reporter

"Who would have thought that Xia Shang, the director of "Blair Witch", would be a person who was still a few months away from being twenty-one years old, and when did the Southern California Film Academy graduates become so powerful?" - The Los Angeles Times

"A fresh graduate student, plus three unknown actors, filmed a student film, which actually attracted countless movie fans to follow. This is really a glorious scene this year. Has the aesthetic view of the people changed? Although I admit that the female lead in the film is beautiful, charming, sexy and charming, and the male lead is young and handsome, I still cannot accept it. This is a fact." - "Entertainment Weekly"

"Surprising Peak Entertainment, Surprising Director Xia Shang, Surprising Movie Box Office." - USA Today

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With the rise of the film "Blair Witch" like a dark horse, more and more behind-the-scenes information has been learned by reporters from various news media, newspapers and magazines that reports about this film, about Peak Entertainment, about Xia Shang, and even about Angelina Jolie, Joshuwa Leonard, Michelle C. Williams have been constantly appearing, including praise, derogatory, and suspicious, but in any case, Peak Entertainment, Xia Shang, Angelina Jolie, and Blair Witch...these words seem to have become the target of widespread attention overnight.

Hollywood film critics, among the same industry, became a little surprised and fascinated when they received reports about this video and Tingfeng Entertainment from the beginning.

Of course, in addition to these parties, some people were a little happy, that is, the crew of the film "Hacker", especially the director and producer of the film. The investor of this film is Warner Bros., but it was not very popular at the beginning; but now, no one expected that a sudden film would actually make Angelina Jolie, the heroine of the film, famous. It is conceivable that if the huge popularity brought to Angelina by "Blair the Witch" was used to promote "Hacker", it would inevitably be unexpected.

Some people are happy and some are worried. When Angelina Jolie, director, producer and others are very happy in the entire crew, the male protagonist Johnny Lee Miller of the film is very depressed. When he first met Angelina, he felt ambiguous in his heart, but later he was fucked by Xia Shang, which made him very angry and led Xia Shang as his rival in love. When Johnny knew that Xia Shang was an unknown person, he was very disdainful of Xia Shang, and at the same time he was also very happy in his heart, thinking that Angelina would not be able to be moved by an unknown boy, but now, Xia Shang became famous overnight, which made him feel very depressed.

Without mentioning what everyone thought, Xia Shang actually felt very unhappy at this moment. Until then, he finally realized the trouble of becoming a celebrity. As long as he appeared in some public occasions, it would not take long, and one or two reporters would follow him, making him feel that there was no privacy at all.

"Xia, you have become a celebrity now. Look, there are so many media every day, and reporters are following you." Inside Dingfeng Entertainment, looking at Xia Shang with a little depressed look on his face, Patrick Wattsberg couldn't help but joke.

After listening to Patrick Wattsberg's words, Xia Shang suddenly smiled bitterly: "E, to be honest, I can't be happy at all. When I eat or sleep, there may be reporters watching me. During this period, I am like a transparent person."

Patrick laughed, then patted Xia Shang on the shoulder: "Okay, Xia, I'm getting used to it slowly."

Patrick paused for a moment and continued, "By the way, Xia, look, is the overseas promotion of "Blair the Witch" about to begin?"

After hearing Patrick talk about the serious matter, Xia Shang immediately put away his depressed mood. He couldn't help but ponder for a moment, and then replied: "Mr. Patrick, I can actually come up with ideas. You should do whatever you want to arrange it."
Chapter completed!