Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 162 The day of release (6k)

Lionsgate's intentions are like the sun in the dog days of summer, bright and even dazzling.

They just want to get the maximum profit at the minimum cost. After all, the stingy Lions Gate is probably the only one who can do this by using the issuance-sharing agreement against the gambling equity.

But Tang De needs this kind of agreement, or why not take the money he picked up for free?
One percent of a movie's box office profit amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now he needs money to expand his company, and he won't miss any amount of money.

So since Lionsgate is confident that they want to make a big bet, Tang De will of course satisfy them.

But he couldn't just agree.

"I think your agreement is too much." Tang De refused seriously.

"Yes, what the hell, you are going to bet on our company's shares for 10% of the issuance share? Do you think this equation is valid?" Jimmy did not agree with this betting agreement at all.

"I think this is fair, because this condition is relatively easy to achieve. Wouldn't it be a success if you watch "Saw" this time?" Although the movie will not be released for another day, Lionsgate has already estimated its box office internally. At least more than ten million.

Therefore, Lionsgate has lost the original gambling agreement, which is one of the reasons why they initiated a second gambling agreement.

"Fifty million, Moriah." Tang De said rudely: "It means we have to get at least 8000 million at the box office. Do you think a small-cost film production company like Norton Eyes can get that for every film?" Eighty million dollars at the box office?”

Seeing this scene, Pucci, the four-eyed boy, felt a little lonely, but fortunately, he brought the puppet Billy. The appearance of this little guy caused a burst of exclamation from everyone around him.

While queuing up, he could hear everyone's voices buying tickets. "Saw" is basically the main theme now, and few people go to see "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

The camera slowly pulls back from his pupils. The man struggles to get out of the water, then stands up and leaves the bathtub. The screen slowly moves to the back of his head following his perspective. A beautiful long lens shows the depression of the entire space. .

Pucci turned around and saw that he was a round-headed guy. The only thing they had in common was that they wore glasses.

Of course, Tang De also received the news. He and several of the main creators were sitting in the office of the largest theater in New York, waiting to see the box office of the first "Saw" and the first-day box office.

"Okay, you're so stingy." The blonde girl turned back.

"I want to see Saw, one."

Then in the pitch-black environment with a hint of blue, there was a sudden sound of water, and then someone woke up from the bathtub filled with water.

What's more important is that they want the IP and promotion talents of "Saw".

The person next to him suddenly replied in a familiar voice: "Of course, buddy."

Pucci wanted to give himself a slap. He actually just didn't want to say that he picked it up, but he didn't expect that he would tell him not to tell.

It was in this mood that he bought a ticket for the "Saw" movie and sat in the theater.

The two said their names in an unusually tacit understanding, and then turned to look at the big screen.

Moria shrugged and didn't answer.

"Pucci."

Pucci held his breath, feeling very immersed.

"Please give me two copies of Saw."

This data shocked the theaters and the media. Despite such a widely circulated story and such a large number of screens, the box office did not exceed 10 million on the first day. This completely slapped all forecasters in the face. !
It also made more people focus on "Saw"!
Is it because everyone is waiting for the release of this movie, so they choose to wait and see?
That night, some media wrote some short messages on their websites to announce the news.

It wasn't until the girl showed a confused expression that he said, "Uh... I won't tell you."

"How cool! This little guy looks scary! I have to buy one."

"Is this movie so popular?" Pucci shrugged and said to himself.

"Honey, I want it so much! Look at it! It can still move!"

It is under such a reputation that after 12 o'clock in the morning, the first-day box office of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was newly released, with 3128 screens, and a total of 998 million US dollars.

Because the movie started.

Lionsgate's top management keenly sensed the shadow of a sequel in this movie. As long as the first one is successful, the follow-up will be a cash cow. Coupled with the well-known Jigsaw, getting the IP will definitely make a profit. Buy and sell.

When the screen lit up to play commercials, Pu Qi came back to his senses, looked around, and found that the theater was full of people. Everyone was holding popcorn and Coke, waiting for the movie to start.

"Tick tock, tick tock..." The sound of water sounded, coupled with the silent atmosphere, suddenly made all the audience feel the emotion called uneasiness.

"So you should discuss it carefully and let's go." Tang De didn't stay any longer, but he didn't say anything to death either. Instead, he took Jimmy and Carl and left Lionsgate Pictures.

"Look! That's Billy! So cool!"

Faced with such questioning, the four-eyed boy Pucci suddenly became stuck. He seemed to have lost his usual ability to speak eloquently, and he stumbled and couldn't say a word.

At the same time, the first few viewers who watched "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" also walked out of the theater. In interviews with the Hollywood media, they said that the film was of average quality and had no surprises beyond expectations, except for the good camera work. Other than that, there are only the same old stories and blood.

"Gulchi."

"Three copies of "Chainsaw", thank you."

Seeing the way the blonde girl looked at him while talking to her sisters, Pucci was heartbroken and felt like he had missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Moreover, people who buy "Saw" are often in pairs, either couples or buddies. They are teasing who is the coward and who cannot run away during the movie, while eating popcorn and waiting for the tickets to be sold. .

Downstairs in the cinema, Pucci was queuing at the counter.

"This shot is great." As a senior horror movie fan, Gulch immediately noticed the difference between "Saw" and other movies from this shot.

Of course, the heroine is still very good-looking.

There was even a blonde girl wearing short sleeves and choppy waves who came over and asked Pucci: "Hello, where did you buy this?"

That is the gap in lens language. Many horror films like messy editing, but ignore the creation of atmosphere and sense of substitution.

And this long opening shot in this movie is an excellent tool to create a sense of substitution.

"Oscar's Best Cinematographer, of course it's amazing." Pucci explained and continued watching.

Soon, they saw the lights turn on, but there was more than one person in the cramped bathroom space, and there was another man whose ankles were also chained, located in the opposite corner.

And there was a horrific bloody corpse lying in the middle of the tiles.

"WTF, what happened?" Pucci already felt a little scared and couldn't help but hug the puppet Billy tightly.

Gurchi watched it with great interest, and even thought about the plot in a low voice: "Two people were locked up, are they the ones being tortured? But it seems that he didn't see any horrible torture instruments."

Although there are no torture devices, the suspense at the beginning is already full. The audience watched the two men go from being strangers to introducing each other, and then both of them discovered the envelope in their pockets.

Inside the envelope they found a miniature audio tape.

After a while of checking, they found a tape recorder on the body's hand.

So after a lot of trouble, the two finally got the tape recorder. After putting the tape in, a hoarse voice sounded.

"Adam, get up... You may be thinking about where this is, let me tell you. This may be your burial place. In the past, you have been hiding in the dark and peeking at other people's lives... So you are going to Watch yourself die, or try to stop it."

"It's Jigsaw!" Gurchi suddenly became excited, just like the other young people in the cinema.

From this tone, they noticed that the tone was consistent with the message on the web page, and they also noticed the meaning of judgment, and they instantly became excited.

As the second audio tape was played, this excitement turned into excitement.

"Dr. Gordon, let me wake you up. Your job every day is to tell others that they are dying, and now you will be the cause of death. Your goal is to kill Adam, and the time limit is before 6 o'clock..." After a cough , Jigsaw continued: "The way to victory is hidden around you... If you fail, your wife and daughter will face death, so let the game begin."

Gulqi couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wow! That's what it smells like! Killing each other, what a good show."

Other audiences in the theater were also aroused by the plot and stared at the big screen, waiting for more exciting developments.

But then Dr. Gordon seemed to guess the identity of the person behind the scenes, and chatted with Adam about this serial murderer who had not been caught by the police.

As Dr. Gordon spoke, the scene slowly shifted to the police perspective.

The audience also sees the first death.

He was imprisoned in a wire cage and tried to escape but eventually died of hemorrhage.

"Damn!" After seeing the horrific injuries on the man's body, Pucci covered his eyes and felt his heart pounding.

"Ah!" Some timid spectators also shouted in fright.

But this scene made Gulci very happy. When watching R-rated movies, this kind of bloody scene is enough.

Especially when the scene shows a man's naked body crawling little by little from a cage covered with iron thorns, the miserable scream makes people's hair stand on end.

And this was just the beginning. The next victim was burned to death by fire. He was injected with chronic poison and his body was covered with flammable substances. In order to survive, he must walk back and forth on the ground covered with broken glass, find the code on the wall, and open the safe to obtain the antidote.

Unfortunately, when the police saw him, all that was left was a charred body.

After investigation, the police found that one of the two victims had tried to commit suicide, and the other had lied about being seriously ill. The cause of death was that they killed themselves, so they speculated on the habits of the serial murderer.

He tried to test human nature, test people's survival instincts, and spy on their every move to gain satisfaction.

But apart from those who died, there were also those who survived.

Her name is Amentan, and she is put on a jaw-splitting device, and the way to be rescued is to kill a man and get the key from his body.

Although Armentan was only a woman, she was mentally tougher than a man, so she succeeded.

When watching this scene, Gulch and Pucci didn't dare to breathe during the entire scene. Unlike the previous version of Saw, Tang De abandoned the dizzying rotating shot. Instead, it uses multi-camera editing with countdown sounds. The speed is not fast, but it is full of urgency and makes the mouth dry.

After finally seeing Amantan successfully unlock the jaw splitter, everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief when they heard the sound of "squeaking" coming again.

The puppet Billy appeared in front of Amantine on his children's bicycle and said the most classic words. "Congratulations, you are still alive. Most people are ungrateful when they are alive, but you will not be grateful anymore."

Then the camera slowly zoomed in, focusing on Billy's blood-colored pupils hidden in the darkness.

Gulqi felt his scalp numb, and a complex emotion emerged in his heart.

Jigsaw insisted on fairness and did not go back on his word. When he let Armantan go, everyone seemed to understand the principles that the serial murderer adhered to.

After that, the plot continued to progress. The police worked hard and finally found the location of Jigsaw, and drew a gun and pointed it at him during his execution. However, the plot here has also changed compared to the original version.

Firstly, the body twisting machine replaced the original machine, and secondly, the police were no longer killed by Jigsaw. Instead, Jigsaw kept warning them not to approach, but they didn't listen.

Finally died under the mechanism.

This behavior well complements Jigsaw's philosophy and persistence, and also makes the audience feel more immersed in it.

"Jigsaw did the right thing." Pucci muttered to himself: "They insisted on arresting him."

"Yes, Jigsaw has reminded me many times."

"Yeah, if the police would have stopped, he wouldn't be dead."

After the death of the police, the plot returns to Dr. Gordon and Adam.

Obviously, they are the two victims after Amantan.

After chatting and understanding, the relationship between the two became closer. At the same time, Dr. Gordon also learned that Adam had been hired to secretly photograph himself.

After careful questioning, he found out that the person who hired Adam was called Sepp, a cleaner at the hospital. Combining his profession and hiring Adam to take secret photos, they suddenly understood.

He usually hides in the hospital, can obtain everyone's medical information, and has contact with the prisoners. Saipu fully meets these conditions!
He is clearly Jigsaw! The guy behind Jigsaw and everything.

It was at this time that they found a mobile phone that could only answer calls.

Dr. Gordon received an urging call from Jigsaw Sepp on his mobile phone, asking him to kill Adam as soon as possible, otherwise he would kill his wife and daughter.

Although Dr. Gordon couldn't bear to kill Adam, he had no choice at this time.

But in order to get the pistol used to commit suicide in the corpse's hand, he had to pick up the hacksaw he had found in the room, bit the clothes into his mouth, endured the pain and started sawing off his legs!
"what!"

"do not want!"

"Oh my God!"

"WTF!" Both men and women were shocked by this bloody scene, and screams broke out in the theater.

Pucci covered Billy's face, not daring to look, and even blocked his ears, because the painful wails coming from the screen were terrifying.

Only Gulqi, with a ferocious and excited expression on his face, bit his lip and muttered in a low voice: "It's so happy, so happy!"

It wasn't until Dr. Gordon successfully sawed off the leg that the audience calmed down.

"He should be alive!"

"He's already made it this far, so he should be fine!"

"But I don't want him to kill Adam!"

"Adam didn't deserve to die."

However, the next moment, the audience saw Gordon pick up a pistol and shoot Adam as he begged.

"Adam died... God, he didn't deserve to die."

"But Gordon had no choice. He had to save his wife and daughter."

The audience's emotions were ups and downs with the plot, and they were also looking forward to Dr. Gordon's escape.

But something unexpected happened. Jigsaw Sepp, who kidnapped Gordon's wife and daughter, opened the bathroom door from the outside and rushed in!

When he pointed the gun at Dr. Gordon and wanted to kill him, everyone held their breath, shook their heads slightly, and silently prayed that Dr. Gordon would not be killed by him.

Perhaps the prayer had an effect, but Adam, who was originally "dead", hugged Jigsaw's legs, threw him to the ground, and killed him with a stone slab.

"He's not dead! Adam's not dead!"

"I knew Gordon wouldn't kill him!"

Most of the audience cheered happily, rejoicing that Adam was alive.

"But how could Jigsaw die! Damn it!" There were also a few people who expressed dissatisfaction with this, such as Gulch.

But he didn't leave, he wanted to know what the ending was, so he chose to continue watching.

After seeing two people kill Jigsaw, Gordon comforted Adam and decided to crawl out of the bathroom to find someone to save him.

After he left the bathroom pale with a broken leg and blood stains, Adam fell into anxiety. He tried to find the key to the chain from Jigsaw, but suddenly found a familiar tape recorder on Jigsaw.

At this moment, the look of surprise on his face was the same as the look of the audience in front of the screen.

Adam pressed the recorder, and the hoarse and deep voice sounded again.

"Sep, I want you to make a choice. There is a chronic poison in your body, and I have the antidote. Will you kill a mother and daughter to save yourself? If so, the rules are as follows..."

All these words are the same as what Adam heard when he woke up. What does this mean?
This means that Sepp is not Jigsaw at all, he is just a person who has also been played.

"So where is Jigsaw?" The audience was also confused. They thought Jigsaw was dead, but now it seems that Jigsaw has thought of everything!
He is actually able to control so many things at the same time, all linked together! It's amazing!
"Don't he like to observe the survival of the tortured people at close range?" Pucci was puzzled: "Where can he hide?"

Gurchi clenched his fists: "Yes, he's not dead. Where is the jigsaw?"

The movie is about to end, and everyone can vaguely realize that Jigsaw will inevitably appear within these few minutes, bringing the story to an end.

But no one could have imagined, just like Adam in the story, that after the clock reached six o'clock, the suicide corpse lying on the floor in the middle of the bathroom would actually come back to life!

Paired with the exciting music, all the audience's eyes widened as they watched the corpse get up from the ground little by little, and then laboriously tore off the blood stains on its head.

That's not a wound at all, it's just a realistic injury-like prop!
The audience felt like their breathing had stopped. They were so surprised that they could not speak at all. They could only show the same shocked expression as Adam on the screen.

This is followed by a series of flashbacks containing all the inferences about Jigsaw, ending with the tape recorder.

"The key is actually in the bathtub." Jigsaw looked at Adam and told the answer.

It also reminded Adam of the drain pipe in the bathtub, which was the only thing he hadn't noticed!

Adam tried his best to break free from the chains, but unfortunately, it was too late.

Jigsaw walked to the door: "People are always ungrateful when they are alive, but you won't be anymore."

After saying that, he turned off the lights in the bathroom, walked out of the door, and paused for a moment amid Adam's wails.

"game over."

"Bang!" The bathroom door closed in the blink of an eye, and Adam's face returned to darkness, just like at the beginning of the film.

The theater also fell into boundless darkness at this moment. There was no redemption, no survival, and only Adam's painful and regretful voice echoed in everyone's ears.

Then the music starts and the movie ends.

"OMG!" Everyone around Pucci couldn't help shouting.

"Awesome! The ending is so shocking! I never thought Jigsaw would appear there!"

"I have goosebumps! This movie is so good. I must recommend it to others!"

"Damn, game over, that's so cool! Jigsaw is so awesome."

"Yes, and those torture instruments, I feel like I will dream about them."

"Full marks! Full marks! Great shots! Great music! Great torture devices! Great ending! And Billy, it's the best!"

Pucci listened to everyone's conversation, looked at Gurchi, and found that his face was also filled with uncontrollable excitement.

"what do you think?"

"I have to recommend everyone on the forum to watch Jigsaw. Jigsaw is really cool! I love him so much!" Gulch waved his fist and turned to look at Pucci: "What do you think?"

"It's very good! Those cowards who didn't dare to come missed the best R-rated movie this year!" Although Pucci was still a little scared, he also thought the movie was very good. At least he was in a state of shock throughout the whole process, reacting one after another. The turn is simply dizzying.

And when Pucci followed the crowd out of the theater, he could hear various discussions along the way, all about Saw.

At the same time, Tang De also received the first batch of data.

"All theaters have now finished showing the first show, and the current box office is... 195 million US dollars."

This number excited Jimmy and Carl as well as James Wan, because this was only the first scene of the movie. You must know that the first box office of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was only 86 US dollars.

If nothing else happens, there will be no problem with the movie’s box office exceeding 10 million today!
"Very good." Tang De nodded and felt a lot more stable: "Now we will see tomorrow's official box office and the two-day box office on the weekend."

"Of course, reputation from film critics and audience reputation are also very important. Have the arrangements for the Film Critics Hall been completed?" Tang De invited some film critics to watch the movie.

"It's arranged for tomorrow morning, don't worry." Jimmy said everything is going on in an orderly manner.

"That's good, just wait and see, this movie will surprise everyone." Tang De smiled, then picked up the orange and slowly tore off the orange strips on it.

(End of this chapter)