Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 129 Box Office
Compared to the relatively objective reviews above, the other 90% of the reviews about this movie are negative, very negative.

In its review, The New York Times bluntly said that this was a pretentious movie with no viewing value at all, and it was not worth spending eight or nine dollars and more than eighty minutes to watch in the theater.

The Chicago Tribune reviewed the film and called it a complete fraud.

The film distribution company hyped up the topic of "The Blair Witch Project" to arouse people's curiosity, and curiosity drove the audience to the theater to watch a very boring movie, and then "The Blair Witch Project" became a big hit.

Payne Booker, a special commentator for the Chicago Tribune, called on the audience in a fierce tone, asking them not to go to the cinema to watch "The Blair Witch Project" and that those who watched the movie would become fools.

Renowned film critic Justin Zhang wrote in the Los Angeles Times that this film refreshed his understanding of the film industry and also broke the record for the highest box office for the worst film in film history.

Justin Zhang said that when he first watched "Paranormal Activity", he felt that it was very bad and should not have received such high box office revenue.

After the release of "The Blair Witch Project", this perception was refreshed.

Although "Paranormal Activity" has many problems, the movie is scary enough and the plot is relatively complete, making it an interesting new film.

"The Blair Witch Project" is a complete follow-up. Not only is there nothing new in its filming techniques, but its film promotion also completely plagiarized the model of "Paranormal Activity".

There is not a single redeeming quality to this movie.

Justin Zhang's comments were recognized by many movie fans.

When people watched "Paranormal Activity" before, they thought the movie was very ordinary and didn't have many advantages except that it was scary.

After watching "The Blair Witch Project", everyone suddenly felt that "Paranormal Activity" didn't seem so bad.

At least Paranormal Activity is scary and can scare people to death.

And The Blair Witch Project is a hoax.

In addition to the above newspapers, many other media outlets have published articles criticizing "The Blair Witch Project" as a bad movie.

In the article, Variety magazine said in a joking tone that in the past, when American media encountered hot social news, they liked to argue and it was difficult to reach a consensus. However, in criticizing "The Blair Witch Project", all media reached a high degree of consensus, which is rare.

"The Blair Witch Project" was criticized by many media after its release, but its box office performance remained strong, with a box office of 4528 million US dollars in the first week and an estimated North American box office of more than million US dollars.

The media were very helpless when seeing this data. They had previously been promoting "The Blair Witch Project" as a bad movie and a scam by the distribution company, asking people not to go to the cinema to watch it, but many people still couldn't help but go and watch it out of curiosity.

The media could not criticize the audience, so they had to point the finger at the film distribution company Triangle Entertainment and the film director Ed Merrick, accusing them of using such means to defraud the box office and breaking the rules of the film industry.

Some media advised Triangle Entertainment President Joe Fillemy to be careful and not go too far. Making money in this way would damage the reputation of Triangle Entertainment, and no one would support the movies released by Triangle Entertainment in the future.

"Haha, they must be jealous of us. If this movie is their company's production, they are more greedy than me."

Joe Fillemey smiled as he looked at the newspaper.

Link smiled. After the release of "The Blair Witch Project", many media outlets criticized the film, devaluing a film that scored six or seven points to a zero-point film.

The reason for this is that, on the one hand, the quality of this film is indeed not high, but its box office performance is frighteningly high, which has also led to an imbalance among many peers. On the other hand, the huge sales of "The Blair Witch Project" will inevitably affect the box office of other film companies.

Some of these movies are from the seven major film studios, such as Warner Bros. Pictures, the distributor of City Heroes, Universal Pictures, the distributor of Mad Dog and Glory, Paramount Pictures, and Miramax Films, the distributor of Alien: The Last Airbender. Seeing the huge success of The Blair Witch Movie released at the same time, it is hard for them not to feel jealous and use the media under their own company or other media to attack the movie and keep throwing dirty water on The Blair Witch Movie, hoping to reduce the popularity of The Blair Witch Movie and get the audience to watch their movies.

"Boss, you are amazing, whether it's making a movie or promoting a movie, you are very good. When I go to Guess Pictures in the future, please give me more guidance."

Joe Fillem said with admiration in his eyes.

"No problem. Let's work together in the future to make more hit movies and strive to grow the company to the level of the Big Seven Studios."

"Haha, boss, if someone else said this I would doubt it, but since you are the one saying this, I have no doubt about it because I believe you can do it."

Joe Fellermey laughed.

"The Blair Witch Project" continues to be released, and Triangle Entertainment and Guess What Films continue to promote it, constantly hyping up "The Blair Witch Project", the missing persons, the film director, and even Link.

The method to hype Link is very simple. Some media published news questioning whether Link is the director of "The Blair Witch Project".

The reason is that "Paranormal Activity" and "The Blair Witch Project" are too similar. Whether it is the shooting techniques, lens design, or publicity and hype strategies, the two films are exactly the same.

In addition, the "Blair Witch Incident" first broke out in June and July last year, before the release of "Paranormal Activity".

Everyone knows that before the release of "Paranormal Activity", Link and Guess What Films spread a lot of supernatural events through the media, and the Blair Witch incident was one of the more popular supernatural events that appeared during that time.

From this point of view, they were promoting The Blair Witch Movie at that time, most likely to be paving the way for the third movie.

There is also a strong possibility that Link is the director of Blair Witch.

Some media outlets have refuted this claim, claiming that Link has been holding book signing sessions since the end of last year.

From the United States to Canada, from North America to Europe, Asia, and Australia, the journey covered millions of kilometers, with almost no rest time except for Christmas. It is impossible that this was a movie he shot.

The media believes that the reason for this statement is that Triangle Entertainment, the distributor of "The Blair Witch Project", is using Link's fame to hype the film and attract Link's fans to the cinema to watch it, which is a very unethical practice.

Some media also interviewed Link and Guess What Pictures about this incident. Neither Link nor the company has responded to this so far.

In the second week of the film's release, it earned $2312 million in 3767 theaters in North America, bringing the film's cumulative box office to $8295 million, making it the first film this year to gross more than $ million in North America.

It also retained the weekly box office championship.

The second-ranked film was "Something Like That," starring Richard Gere and Jodie Foster, with a weekly box office of $810.4 million, slightly lower than expected.

In third place was "City Heroes," starring Michael Douglas, which took in $762 million this week.

In fourth place was "Mad Dog and Gloria," which took in just $210 million in its second week.

According to statistics, the total box office of the second to ninth highest-grossing movies is not as high as that of "The Blair Witch Project". This number makes many people feel desperate and even curse.

(End of this chapter)