Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 190 The outcome is decided
In the 12th week after Final Destination was released, negative media news about the film, Link and Joaquin Phoenix reached its peak.

Many media outlets accused Link of being shameless for using the "accidental death of River" to hype up the movie.

He scolded Joaquin for killing his brother River and still helping Link make money, calling him a cold-blooded and heartless person.

He also called "Final Destination" an ominous movie.

People who watch this movie will be targeted by the god of death and some unfortunate things will happen to them.

Many media outlets have linked the recent deaths in accidents to the film, claiming that these people encountered accidents after watching "Final Destination". This film killed 339 people after its release and should be completely banned.

Affected by negative public opinion, the attendance rate of "Final Destination" was greatly affected.

To this end, Guess Pictures and UTA agency jointly took a series of countermeasures.

Sue unscrupulous media and demand an apology and compensation for defamation.

Second, River Phoenix's father announced that he would set up a charity fund in River's name to protect animals and the tropical rainforest that River bought during his lifetime.

The 'Death Band' resumed performances and announced that 100% of the concert ticket revenue and 100% of the album sales share with the singers would be donated to the River Charity Foundation to be used for the public welfare cause that River was most passionate about during his lifetime.

Guess What Pictures announced a donation of 100 million to the Riverfan Charity Foundation.

River's friends Keanu Reeves and Johnny Depp also announced donations of $30 and $20 to charity foundations.

Nicolas Cage donated $10 and Jennifer Connelly announced a donation of $5.

Harry Fordson, Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman and others who have worked with River have announced donations ranging from 5 to 3 US dollars.

After 'Blade' resumed promotion, the reputation of "Final Destination" gradually improved and the box office performance also slowly recovered.

In its 12th week, it earned $905 million, with a cumulative box office of $1.88 million.

There are still three weeks left. According to this trend, "Final Destination" will have been released for 15 weeks and its North American box office will most likely exceed "Failure"'s $2.02 million.

"Damn it! How could this happen, Richard? Tell me why this happened. We invested so much money, why is there no effect at all?"

Robert Downey Jr. was disheveled and looked at Richard Gere with red eyes.

"Robert, don't get excited. There are only three weeks left for Final Destination, and they still need to earn more than 3 million in box office revenue. They may not be able to get that much in the next three weeks."

Li Hakil persuaded.

"How can we not get it? The box office was over 1400 million last week. Even if it drops, it won't fall below million. Not to mention that the Death Band is still touring around to promote the movie. In the next three weeks, the box office of Final Destination will only get higher and higher. How can we not get million?!"

Robert Downey Jr. roared, spitting in Richard Gere's face.

Richard Gere sighed, "Things have developed to this point. I have no way out, and Michael Ovitz has no way out either. We have all tried our best. We can only blame Link for being too cunning. Robert, don't be sad. You only lost more than 1000 million in the bet, while Tom and I lost more than 2000 million. It's all Link's fault. He deserves to die."

"It's over! It's completely over!"

Robert Downey Jr. slumped on the sofa with lifeless eyes. Richard Gere and Tom Cruise are worth tens of millions, and losing 2000 million would at most be a serious injury, but he would lose everything, even Robert Downey Sr.'s pension money.

Kiefer Sutherland also pulled his hair with both hands, with a dull expression. This time he lost nearly 10 million and was burdened with millions of dollars in debt. He once again regretted listening to Robert Jr. and Richard Gere's instigation to participate in this gamble.

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"problem occurs!"

Just when a few people were getting discouraged and waiting to admit defeat, the media reported another big news. Yesterday, a flight from Chicago to the northern Minnesota city of Luders crashed into a hillside not far from the runway due to an aircraft malfunction, killing all 125 people on board.

Originally, this news had little to do with "Final Destination", but when the reporter interviewed, three citizens told the reporter in an excited tone that they had also planned to take this flight to Lourdes, but they had watched "Final Destination" before the flight and were very nervous, so they temporarily gave up their plan to take the plane and took the train instead.

If it weren't for this movie, the three of them would have died in the plane crash.

Although this is a relatively positive news report that Final Destination saved three lives, after the plane crash, many tabloids took the opportunity to hype that Final Destination was an ominous movie. After Final Destination was released worldwide, two plane crashes occurred successively, causing a large number of deaths. This movie should be banned from further screening.

In addition, airlines released their performance results for the past two months. Compared with the period before the release of "Final Destination", the attendance rates of major airlines have declined significantly in the past two months, with the lowest decline of 3% and the highest of 21%. The decline was more obvious in regions where "Final Destination" had high box office performance.

United Airlines released a news release saying that it would consider talking to Guess What Pictures and suggest ending the release of "Final Destination" early.

The release of Final Destination was under tremendous pressure.

However, there are also several large insurance companies in various industries that support the continued release of "Final Destination" and even take the initiative to spend money to help promote it.

According to data released by Metropolitan Life Insurance Services, the number of customers purchasing personal accident insurance has increased significantly in the past two months, up 4.3% from the third quarter and 8.6% from the same period last year. This is a very obvious increase.

It is said that many insurance salesmen will mention the movie "Final Destination" when selling insurance, telling customers that life and death are unpredictable and that buying an accident insurance is very cost-effective.

There are also insurance companies that have partnered with Guess What Pictures to jointly launch the "Final Destination" accident insurance package.

Regardless of criticism or support, "Final Destination" continued to be released in a controversial atmosphere of public opinion. In its 13th week, "Final Destination" earned $1036 million at the box office, $14 million in its 637th week, and $15 million in its 413th week.

"Final Destination" was released in North America for 15 weeks, with a cumulative box office of 2.09 million US dollars, 700 million US dollars more than "Final Destination".

"Lost!"

Robert Downey Jr. lay on the floor with a gray face.

The phone kept ringing and the bank started to collect the debt.

"How could this happen? With so many of us and so much money raised, why did we lose to just Link?"

Kiefer Sutherland looked bleak.

"Link must have cheated. He used despicable means to beat us and caused us to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. This kind of person really deserves to be shot to death."

Richard Gere said angrily.

A hint of murderous intent flashed across Robert Downey Jr.'s face.

"Can we cancel the contract? Get the bet back in some other way?"

Kiefer Sutherland asked expectantly.

Richard Gere spread his hands, "I asked, no. We were worried that Link would go back on his word if he lost, so we prepared a lot of contracts during the negotiations to block all the back roads.

In the end, the notary company will automatically determine which party wins the North American box office. After one party wins, Citibank must transfer the bet money to the winning party's account within 24 hours without any reason to delay.

"Damn it! Damn it Link!"

Robert Downey Jr. roared with a ferocious expression. He picked up the phone and called his agent, asking him to contact a professional killer to go to New York to kill Link.

Link successfully won the bet, and had an extra 1.44 million US dollars in his Citibank account in Hong Kong Island and an extra 3250 million US dollars in the accounts of several gaming companies in Las Vegas.

The bet won more than 1.7 million US dollars, plus the North American box office share of "Final Destination" exceeded 1 million US dollars.

In addition, "Final Destination" was released in overseas regions for more than two months and earned 1.17 million US dollars.

The revenue from movie video distribution is currently about $2300 million, and the revenue from home cable TV copyright, music albums, advertising sponsorship and other peripheral income is about $1800 million.

The film has currently brought him and his company about 3.4 million in profits, and may exceed 5 million US dollars in the future.

Compared with the production cost of 1350 million and the publicity investment of more than 2000 million, it can be said to be a huge profit.

(End of this chapter)