Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 73 The Theater is Full
The company has already booked time slots in advance and paid millions of dollars in advertising fees to broadcast movie highlights on CBS, FOX and TNT's movie and entertainment channels.

After Daniel DeVito handed the videotape to three TV stations, they began broadcasting it at noon the next day.

"Haha, Quentin, is this you? How could you be so scared? Haha, this is so funny."

In the apartment, Roger Avary, the screenwriter of "Reservoir Dogs" and Quentin's partner, was watching on TV. Quentin was so scared that he jumped into Lawrence Bender's arms and couldn't help laughing.

"Shut up! Stop laughing!"

Quentin Tarantino shouted with a dark face.

After agreeing to contribute his video footage to Link, he secretly made a lot of mental preparations, thinking that he could calmly accept the fact that he had made a fool of himself on TV.

But when he actually saw this scene on TV, he couldn't help but feel his face getting hot and he felt extremely embarrassed.

If I had known it would be so embarrassing, I shouldn't have agreed to Link in the first place.

"It doesn't matter. The footage plays very quickly, only two or three seconds per person. Most people won't recognize it as you."

Lawrence Bender comforts him and asks Roger Avary to stop provoking Quentin.

Quentin looked at the fast-playing footage and thought that it made sense. With such a fast playback speed, perhaps few people would be able to recognize it.

Jingle bells ~ jingle bells ~
Quentin picked up the phone and answered the call. The person calling was his mother, Ms. Connie.

Ms. Connie said she was so scared when she saw him in a movie on TV that she jumped up and asked if that person was him?

"Mom, did you see that too?"

Quentin asked helplessly, scratching his face.

"Just saw it on FOX Entertainment Channel. It's quite interesting."

"FOX channel too?"

Quentin glanced at the TV. It was the TNT movie channel, which meant that this movie highlights were not only broadcast on one TV station, but on many.

It also means that this movie viewing summary will be seen by many people.

Quentin now deeply regrets agreeing to Link to publicly show his clips on TV. It's so embarrassing.

"Quentin, do you have a girlfriend?"

"Ah? No, Mom, why do you suddenly ask this question?"

"There's none?"

Ms. Connie hesitated for a few seconds on the phone, "So do you like girls?"

"what?"

"Quentin, your father and I are both very open-minded people, not that conservative. If you don't like girls and like boys, we will support you. You don't have to worry about what we think. Mom and Dad love you."

"What?! Mom, what are you talking about? When did I stop liking girls?"

"I saw you watching a movie with a boy, and you got scared and jumped into his arms. What is your relationship?"

"Friends! Yes, friends! Mom, don't get me wrong, my sexual orientation is normal."

Quentin explained to Ms. Connie with a dark face that the man was Lawrence Bender, a friend and colleague, and the producer of "Reservoir Dogs".

He also said that they were both straight men and they went to the bar together last night to pick up girls, not just one, but two.

Quentin calls himself 100% straight.

It took a long time of explanation to convince Ms. Connie that his sexual orientation was normal and that Lawrence Bender was not his boyfriend.

After hanging up the phone, Quentin leaned weakly on the sofa, cursing Link as a bastard in his heart. He decided to come up with a harsh request and ask Link to do it, otherwise there would be no way to resolve the embarrassment he encountered today.

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"Haha, this promo is really funny. Compared to Quentin's performance, my performance is not that exaggerated."

Compared to Quentin, another person selected for the highlights didn't care so much.

This man is Jim Carrey.

After watching the movie, Jim Carrey was approached by a staff member, who talked about the movie highlights and asked for his opinion.

Jim Carrey found it very interesting and agreed without much hesitation.

I saw the trailer for "Paranormal Activity" on TV today. I felt embarrassed at first, but considering that I am a comedian and often make funny faces in TV and movies, this kind of scene is nothing to me.

It would be very interesting if I were recognized by fans.

After watching the trailer, Jim Carrey called Link and told him that the trailer was very interesting and that the box office of "Paranormal Activity" would be very good, and asked him to play basketball when he was free.

——"Haha, Matt, look at that guy, he jumped into someone's lap out of fear, and that guy jumped into his girlfriend's arms out of fear. It's so funny. If we had known it would be so funny, we should have agreed to it that day, and we could have seen our footage today."

In the villa, Ben Affleck clapped and laughed while watching TV.

"When you watched Paranormal Activity, you were so scared that you screamed and covered your face, not daring to watch it. You are even more timid than girls. Do you dare to publicly show such a shameful video?"

Matt Damon said, flipping through the script.

"Why would I be afraid? I'm not the only one who was scared. Many people were scared. This shows that the movie is very scary. It's normal for me to be scared."

Ben Affleck said.

Matt Damon shook his head and continued to look through the movie script.

As people of the same age, the better Link's movies are, the more pressure he feels. He must hurry up to catch up, otherwise in a few years they will have to look up to Link.

While Jim Carrey, Quentin, Ben Affleck and others saw the movie highlights, Link and many viewers across the United States saw this very alternative movie promotional video on TV.

Everyone couldn't help laughing when they saw those people being scared and making many funny movements while watching the movie.

At the same time, I also became curious about this movie.

Is this movie called "Paranormal Activity" really that scary?

Are these people's performances real or fake?

Has anyone really captured ghost sightings on camera?

This movie is Link's new work. Will it be as interesting as "Buried Alive"?

Many people walked into the cinema with curiosity and bought a ticket for "Paranormal Activity".

"Boss, good news. 14 cinemas called and said that all the venues were packed over the weekend, with an attendance rate of over 3%. Some venues were completely full. As of 14pm, all 12 cinemas had screened the movie more than times, and the scheduling rate was the highest during the same period."

Jon Gordon shouted excitedly when he saw Link in the aisle.

clap clap clap!
When the employees in the office heard the news, they put down their work and applauded and cheered.

"Not bad, I hope the results will be better next week."

Link laughed.

"Boss, AMC Theaters called and said the movie's preview performance exceeded expectations and proposed expanding the scale of the release next week."

Michael Rison also shouted while holding the phone.

“How many theaters are they planning to put Paranormal Activity in?”

"347 family!"

"Too few. Contact other theaters and tell them about the box office performance of Paranormal Activity. This is a movie project that cannot be missed. Ask them to arrange more than 1000 theaters for Paranormal Activity."

"Okay, I'll contact you right away."

Michael Rison left in a hurry.

There are currently four major cinema chains in North America.

The first is Regal Cinemas, also translated as Regal Cinemas, which has 564 theaters with a total of 7307 screens across the United States and Canada.

The second largest multi-screen cinema chain, AMC, has 379 theaters with a total of 5260 screens, and it can be found in almost all major cities in the United States.

The third is Cinema Chain, which has 341 theaters with a total of 4582 screens.

Fourth, Carmike Cinemas Chain has 275 theaters with a total of 2942 screens.

There are still hundreds of small theater chains left, including Alamo Cinemas, United Cinemas, General Cinemas, Loews Cineplex Entertainment Theaters, etc.

The big cinema chains own hundreds of cinemas, while the small ones only have one.

The large cinema has more than ten theaters and the small one has only one screen.

According to Variety magazine, there are currently 7744 theaters in the United States, with a total of 27805 screens.

Cinema chains with more than 100 theaters are considered mainstream cinema chains.

It is also a partner of film distribution companies.

Cinemas are also profit-making institutions. As long as a movie has great box office potential and can increase attendance, no cinema chain will turn away a movie that can make money.

This is also the reason why Link dared to ask for 1000 cinemas.

(End of this chapter)