Chapter 560： Niche movies that are not valued by the mainstream

"Hey, Drew, Chen, Darren..."

Walking alone on the short red carpet, Ryan came to the theater and greeted Drew, Chen Jiazheng, Darren Bousman and others one by one, "Hello everyone."

Everyone and the actors of the crew stood in a row in front of the huge poster, letting the few reporters take pictures.

"Of these reporters, I don't know how many are directed at Ryan." They are all old friends, and Darren Bousman is also welcome.

"Don't forget, there is also Drew." Ryan waved to the audience around the red carpet and walked into the theater with the crew.

This is just a not-so-large theater in Los Angeles. The investment and genre of the film are all placed here, and it is impossible to have a large-scale premiere.

Like all small-cost movies that sell well, the cost of this movie on publicity far exceeds the cost of production. As of today, the cost of the movie on publicity and distribution has reached 15 million U.S. dollars. .

How can it be possible that a small-cost movie that has no celebrities to join wants to sell, and does not spend a lot of effort on publicity?

Not many people came to the premiere. Most of them were friends invited by Drew. The premiere was somewhat deserted, but for a niche movie, this is normal.

"I didn't expect our first movie in the real sense..."

When David looked at Chen Jiazheng, he seemed to sigh with emotion, "This is the last cooperation."

After a simple socializing with the people who came to join in, Ryan and the others greeted them and walked into the main hall together. Compared with the premieres of those blockbuster films, it was indeed simpler.

"Perhaps you will cooperate internationally in the future."

There was still a while before the movie started. After sitting down, Ryan continued with David's previous topic, "making a new type of horror film combining China and the United States."

"I heard Chen said that he is still a long way from being in charge of a movie." Darren Bousman seemed a little pity for his friends, "Chen. You really should stay in Hollywood."

"Chen has his own ideals." Ryan patted him on the shoulder and whispered, "It's like your ideal is to shoot the most disgusting plasma film."

"Hey, Ryan." Darren Bousman waved his hand in protest, "This is also a kind of art, and most importantly, this type of movie can make money."

"So you have confidence in the box office?" Chen Jiazheng looked over with a smile.

"Of course." Darren Bossman nodded his head, "We are... well, I'm afraid the film genius group of four."

"It should be..." Drew, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly leaned over, "Isn't it a dumb quartet?"

"Miss Barrymore..."

Reese put on a serious gentleman appearance. "You should prepare our dividend check in advance."

Several people laughed. Although it was a niche movie and it looked ordinary, it was destined to be not an ordinary niche movie at the end.

At the end, the proposal comes from Ryan, and the other plot changes are conceived by Darren Bousman and others. Compared with the previous life with the same name, there has been a huge change in plot.

The location of the two protagonists is not a toilet, but a small closed warehouse in an abandoned factory, which contains the killing organs and methods. Most of them come from Darren Bosman, a crazy plasma film enthusiast. Although they are different from their previous lives, they have not changed the essence of traditional American horror films, which is just killing shows.

In the movie. No matter how many reasons the protagonist has for killing, he still can't change the nature of being just a perverted murderer.

In fact, although the first half of the movie is suspenseful, it is definitely not outstanding. The mere investment of millions of dollars is there, and it is inevitable that there is a deficiency in the processing of the graphics and some props.

The first half is completely attracted by **** and terrifying scenes. It's about the distance from California to New Jersey, and it looks like a retro b-grade movie that resembles Hollywood's heavy taste in the 1970s.

Like "Bodyguard", a classic lens can save a vulgar movie.

When the actor chooses to amputate his leg, and the corpse lying in the middle stands up with dripping blood, the movie is instantly elevated to a higher level, and can even become a classic picture in an American horror film.

Similarly, in the silent theater, many viewers made a low voice of surprise.

This modest sound of surprise is enough for such a movie, and it cannot become a popular movie. Even in North America, the taste of the movie is too heavy, although it will be praised by people who like it.

However, those who can come to watch this kind of movie are lovers of heavy tastes. Judging from the warm applause at the end, this movie will at least not lack an audience in this particular movie-watching group.

Such a genre film will naturally not be well received by the critics.

Perhaps Ryan's name was hung in the producer's column, and many well-known film critics even made relevant comments for the first time.

Roger Albert only gave this movie five points, on the grounds that-although the movie has reached the effect of a thriller, exciting and creepy, it is absolutely not worth it to endure these disgusting tortures.

He is a little better. Peter Travers from "Rolling Stone" magazine only gave the shortest comment-extremely disgusting!

At the same time, gave the movie a poor four points.

These are nothing. Rene Rodriguez, the film critic of the "Miami Herald", only gave the movie three points, saying, ‘movies have no demonic evil, only idiots like radiation. ’

Of course, there is even lower than this, a critic from Chicago who has recently been hailed by the film critics. The younger Janathon Jones only gave the movie one point.

"In addition to sadism, the movie is full of absurdity. One point is only given to the movie's slightly new ending. Such a perverted movie is purely disgusting and disgusting."

This is his comment.

Although many criticisms are excessive, it is a situation that this type of film will inevitably encounter. A niche genre film is a niche genre film, and it is too difficult to get the mainstream recognition.

Similarly, the group that likes this type of movie is also very fixed, and this time of year is their carnival time.

Among the genre films released this season, "Chain Saw" is obviously more attractive than other films, only the ending. It is enough to attract audiences who like this type into the theater.

It is obviously impossible for "Chain Saw" to win a wide range of theaters without testing the waters. As the distributor, Flower Pictures has done a lot of work, and only got close to the film in the first week. 2300 theaters.

Even for these 2,300 theaters, the audience attendance rate is not particularly high.

The film won a North American box office of 19.24 million US dollars in the first weekend, and the single hall score was less than 8,000 US dollars.

But this result also surpassed the expectations of Darren Bosman and Drew Barrymore. In the following second weekend, more than 100 theaters were added, but the box office fell to 12.11 million US dollars.

For a horror film, durability is always the biggest problem it faces.

In the following period of time. The box office of the movie plummeted like a roller coaster that surpassed the apex. It never got a box office score of more than $10 million in a single week, and after only 8 weeks in the theater, it had to be because the attendance rate was too low. Completely withdrew from the North American theaters.

There is nothing unexpected about these. Most horror movies are like this. Ryan vaguely remembers that the work of the same name in the previous life did not last long in the theater. The same goes down because of the lack of audiences.

Although the movie is a veritable small production, the total cost after the downgrade is as high as 20 million U.S. dollars. Fortunately, this film took away more than 58 million U.S. dollars from North America. Coupled with the copyright of the TV and DVD video tapes sold after the negotiation, profitability is not a problem.

In overseas markets, Flower Pictures chose to sell the screening rights and sold the overseas copyright of the film to Paramount Pictures for US$15 million. After all, this film has too many discomfort and disgusting shots for most viewers, and it takes a lot of work to enter certain overseas markets.

Of course, Disney will not release this kind of movie. Even its subsidiary Bowei Pictures will not release this type of film, for a company like Disney, it is simply a smashing sign.

This has nothing to do with the quality of the movie, but the type of movie is not suitable.

So far, excluding other subsidiaries, Disney Pictures itself has not released any movies that exceed the pg level.

After North America went down, including the jigsaw dolls sold, plus various peripheral copyrights, there was probably more than 20 million U.S. dollars in pre-tax profit. Darren Bousman and others got a large share. He has also become a highly anticipated genre film director.

"How much did you get?"

At the oak dining table, while eating breakfast, Nicole asked Ryan on the opposite side, "It looks like you invested a lot of money in this movie, right?"

"About one-third." Ryan drank a cup of hot milk, wiped his mouth, and put down the spoon. "There will be more later, and the discs and video tapes will be divided."

"I heard that Drew is planning to shoot the second episode?"

Probably not very busy recently Nicole is also more concerned about these things, "I met her when I went to a party the day before yesterday."

"These types of films are the easiest to fix the audience." Ryan stood up and packed his tableware. "Since I can make money, I will definitely shoot a sequel."

"I'll just clean up."

Nicole also finished breakfast, took the porcelain plate in Ryan's hand, and walked toward the kitchen, "You go and prepare, don't forget that we are going to the hospital next."

Hearing the hospital, Ryan couldn't help but stop, "That... Nicole, can I get another day?".

"Why not today?" Nicole also stopped, her golden-red eyebrows gradually frowned, her light blue eyes staring at Ryan, "I remember when I called the other day, you said that there is no work to deal with today. , I have made an appointment with someone."

"Okay." Ryan sighed softly.

Anyway, I went to the private hospital of my family doctor. I invited experts who had signed a strict confidentiality contract. There was nothing to worry about. (To be continued...) ()