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The female reporter found a tall college student, pointed the microphone at him and asked with a smile: "Hi, hello, are you here to watch Paranormal Activity?"
The college student smiled and hugged his girlfriend and said, "Of course, what else would we come to see?"
"How did you know about this movie?"
"It was my roommate who first discovered this 'paranormal murder' on the Internet. Later, all my friends saw it. It's the coolest topic this year. I spent a lot of effort to buy prime-time tickets to watch it with Honey." After saying this, the college student turned to his girlfriend as if to take credit, and the blonde girlfriend smiled and patted him.
Then the female reporter turned the camera to another group of high school boys, "Hello, are you from the same school? Are you also here to watch Paranormal Activity?"
"Yeah, we're all from the rugby club," said a short-haired boy who looked like the captain.
"Then why do you want to watch Paranormal Activity?"
"You must be brave enough to join the club."
"A test of courage?"
"For our rookie selection this year, only those who have watched Paranormal Activity and didn't piss themselves to death can join." The rather muscular captain of the high school football team said with a smirk.
With the mainstream media reporting on it, the long-awaited publicity effect of "Paranormal Activity" was completely ignited, and the long-fermented viral publicity exploded with huge energy. On the eve of the dawn of Internet communication in 1998, a perfect movie and a perfect topic completely ignited the enthusiasm of netizens across the United States and even the world.
Many people who didn't know about this matter originally, after reading the introduction in the news, logged on to the Internet out of curiosity and were immediately attracted by this "American paranormal murder case", allowing this craze to continue to spread.
Before long, young people not only in the United States, but also in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Europe, South America, and even Asia began to talk about this "paranormal murder" movie on online forums. It can be said that up to now, "Paranormal Activity" has not only affected the United States, but has become a paranormal storm sweeping the world!
On the other hand, mainstream media outlets have sneered at the title "Supernatural Murder Case" on Strak Pictures official website. They said sarcastically in the program: "A real supernatural movie? Don't be ridiculous, only science and education documentaries are real."
The media outlets have been investigating this so-called "paranormal murder case" in various ways, but the pseudo-documentary promotion of "Paranormal Activity" could not hide the truth, after all, this is a regular film that has passed the review of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
So the Los Angeles Times quickly went directly to the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and anonymously interviewed the relevant staff responsible for reviewing and rating movies. The staff of the Film Association confirmed that "Paranormal Activity" was indeed a formally registered and rated film, and not a "supernatural murder documentary."
Official proof, irrefutable evidence. Once the Los Angeles Times report came out, all the supernatural rumors were dispelled.
But Stark Pictures generously admitted according to the previous plan at this time, and at the same time turned the direction of publicity to "unprecedented DV movie", "the most realistic horror movie", "look at these scared audiences, do you dare to come and see it?" Using extremely attractive publicity, it took over the "shocking" triggered by the "pretending to be mysterious" pseudo-documentary publicity method.
At the same time, $10 million in post-production publicity expenses were spent on media public relations, asking them to follow the publicity direction of Stark Pictures.
At the same time, Stark Pictures also released the basic information of the movie, with a production cost of $10,000 and a current box office of over 90 million! ! This made everyone even more curious, what exactly is a DV movie? What magic does it have that caused such a sensation and created such a terrifying box office record?
Almost everyone was talking about it more enthusiastically. No young people would miss such a grand event. Whether to watch "Paranormal Activity" had become one of the most important things in early 1998. It was not about being cool or not, but about keeping up with the trend.
Although news reports have been heavily critical of "Paranormal Activity," professional media related to the entertainment industry have been full of praise for it.
Variety, the most professional weekly magazine in the industry, said that horror movie fans who value credibility over creepiness will welcome this movie, and praised the director's unforgettable interpretation of "what you see is not what you get" in the film.
The Los Angeles Times said that at certain moments in the film, if the dizzying handheld shaky camera was removed, the film was very much like Hitchcock's work, and the suspense and horror atmosphere in the film was undoubtedly rendered very successfully.
Los Angeles Weekly said that although most of the film's scenes took place in one scene and the actors were all unknown, it was the scariest movie of the year.
Entertainment Weekly said it was the most innovative and exciting film of its kind since A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The HSD Post said that this was a surprisingly popular film and that audiences who had seen it would be so frightened that they would never be able to sleep again.
In the end, even Time magazine had to say in its magazine that in addition to its ingenious and viral marketing operations, the best thing about the film was not just its thrillers, but also the inspiring artistic experience it brought to the audience.
And naturally, amidst the overwhelming praise, there are also some harsh negative comments.
James Evan, a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter, wrote in a sharp review in the magazine: "Paranormal Activity is nothing more than a child's game that imitates an orthodox movie. The whole film is full of poor acting skills of amateur actors and arbitrary and random plots. It makes me feel sick."
Although the cover of the "murder case" was exposed and many people learned the truth through the news media, the box office of "Paranormal Activity" did not plummet as some malicious people hoped.
By the first week of April, although the movie's box office had shrunk in its fifth week, it still earned 10 million US dollars and ranked second on the North American box office list.
As a result, the box office of "Paranormal Activity" officially exceeded 100 million yuan. By the time it was removed from the theaters the total American box office of the movie was $170 million. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Stark Pictures announced the main creative information of "Paranormal Activity".
Starring: Naomi Watts (Katie), John Hamn (Mika), Collins (psychic), Sarah (friend)
The information about the leading actor did not cause much response from everyone, as he is indeed a complete new actor.
But when the director's information was released online, everyone was shocked.
Director: James Wan , 21 years old.
21 years old, was a surprise but the bugger surprise was the writer of the movie.
Writer: Rowan Stark, 18 years old
What the F—! Is today April Fools' Day?
Who doesn't know that who Rowan Stark is in America?
He first came into light when he stopped two bank robbers last year when he was just 17 years old, later it was found that he was getting his double degrees in Mathematics and Biology. Then it was later revealed that he is already an actor starring alongside big stars like Nicolas Cage and John Travolta in Face Off, Everyone loved his action scenes and praised as the next big action star later but than he went on to film movies like "Taxi" and "It's a beautiful life". He also became the male lead of Mask of Zorro whose producer was Steven Spielberg.
If it wasn't enough than it was revealed that he is also an author of best selling books such as 'Kung fu Panda', 'Despicable me' and sold the rights of his next 10 books at once for $140 million becoming a multi-millionair in one full swoop.
His first feature length film won Grand Jury Prize at the age of 18 becoming the youngest recipient to win an award like that.
It was natural that it was him who got the most attention.
But Rowan was too busy to care about that was thanks to Elizabeth the companies he was eyeing have decided to sell.