Compared with the last "Human Purge Plan", the preview of "The God of Death" was very smooth. After the trial, the Embassy Film Company had almost no talk and won more than 500 theaters from major theater companies in North America. Together with the previously confirmed 2,000 theaters, "The God of Death" will open paintings in North America with a super-large scale of more than 2,500 theaters.

In addition, many chain theater companies have guaranteed that the daily screening rate of opening paintings will not be less than 15%.

North America is the most mature commercial film market in the world. Major theater companies have long formulated standards for measuring the quality of screenings. Even if they are not a horror film enthusiast, they still have a deep understanding of the creepy feeling of "The God of Death".

If "Blair the Witch" wins purely with promotional marketing with a "deception" nature, then the horror film "Here is Death" is of sufficient quality to attract audiences in addition to marketing.

After confirming the screening theater, Ronan signed a loan agreement, and the large amount of funds from Relativity Entertainment were transferred to the Embassy Film Company again, preparing to print 3,500 copies at one time.

"Ace Agent" and "The God of Death" will be released one after another, and the post-screening promotion of the two films has also reached the most critical stage.

The former has limited capital investment, and outdoor advertising can only be seen near minority communities. Almost all media advertising is placed on newspapers and TV stations with minority as their audience.

The film takes the Arab male lead as the core, bringing together positive supporting roles such as Africans, Asians and Latinos to defeat white terrorists together.

Although it is extremely politically correct, its main audience is definitely minority.

In today's era, there are not many minority stars like Will Smith who have market appeal.

In another ten years, Ronan dares to invest in making black movies continuously, and the risk is much smaller than using white people as the male lead.

The pre-screening promotion budget for "Ace Agents" is only $2 million. With the release expenses, Ronan plans to keep the promotional distribution cost of this film within $5 million.

In terms of "The God of Death", the media and theaters received excellent responses. Ronan temporarily increased the total publicity budget to US$10 million.

With a large amount of money, the publicity momentum before the screening was very strong. On newspapers, magazines, radio, TV stations and outdoor billboards, the posters and advertisements of "The God of Death" can be easily found. Two different trailers also entered the evening advertising period of NBC/abc and several popular cable TV stations.

For stores such as PepsiCo and Walmart, which sell disc and video tapes, posters were posted in conspicuous places early.

The advertising effect is completely proportional to the investment. Even the opportunistic publicity method of "Blair the Witch" has caused a sensational effect with tens of millions of dollars.

The trial effect is good and the investment is high. If this is not an R-level film, but a PG or PG-13 rating, the Embassy Film Industry may seek more opening theaters.

Since the editing was completed by Jessica Felton, the film was also influenced by Ronan, the most typical example is that the scale of blood is increased. If measured by Ronan's standards, it is probably the same as the bloody level of "Death Comes 3".

This is taken into account the needs of mainstream audiences of North American horror films.

It is only the late 1990s, and horror films that do not have enough plasma are not scary enough in the eyes of many traditional horror film audiences.

After the release of "007: The Black Sun Crisis", the film advertisement "Ace Agent" received mediocre responses. Perhaps most viewers are not used to an Arab face frequently appearing in front of the camera.

On the contrary, "The God of Death" has attracted widespread attention.

The media comments at the preview have been suppressed by the Embassy Film Industry. Now that the time has come, media that have participated in the preview have released related comments, and the media generally have a good reputation.

"The highlight of "The God of Death is Here" lies in its creativity, the inescapable fate of death, the ubiquitous crisis of death, the novel and weird way of death, the exquisite but close to daily life's death layout, many plot designs seem wonderful. The progression of the story makes the viewer's curiosity always move to a height, and the tension of this high-pitched mood runs through the entire film."

"Premiere" magazine gave this horror film excellent review.

The influential entertainment magazine "Variety Show" also gave very good preview reviews, with a full five-star score of four stars.

"The story of "The God of Death is Coming" is simple. The title is enough to explain the entire plot of the movie, but it is so different than traditional horror films. There are no monsters that roar out in this movie, nor are there any sudden evil spirits and ghosts. There are only the death fear that the group of students escaped by accident. This kind of fear originating from death is not terrible. What is terrible is the unknown fear of waiting for death. It has become the best conception of the movie. The horror created by this can be so exciting and hold your breath."

In the office, Ronan put down the newspaper, found another statistical report and started reading it.

This is a survey conducted by Embassy Film Corporation specifically employed by third-party market research companies to target the Internet and ordinary movie fans. It can also be regarded as a market barometer so that the promotion of the film can be adjusted in a timely manner according to actual conditions.

In the data of the report, the social attention caused by "The God of Death" is far worse than that of "The Witch Blair".

The streets randomly consulted young people under the age of 25. Less than 20% of people who have heard of the name of "The God of Death" and nearly 50% of them were before the screening of "Blair the Witch".

As for the discussion that the two videos can cause on the Internet, it is not at the same level.

Based on these data, Ronan made an estimate that the North American box office of "The God of Death" cannot be comparable to "The Witch Blair".

How many box offices did "The God of Death" win in his previous life? He has no relevant memories, but he can be sure that it was successful, otherwise he would not have filmed so many sequels in succession.

It is not easy to be a god of death. It requires continuous reaping of lives on the screen to create profits for film companies.

The knock on the door sounded, and Ronan said to ask for it. Mary pushed the door and walked in, pulled out the chair and sat opposite him.

She put a document in front of Ronan and said, "Sony Columbia Pictures purchased the 50 million US dollars of overseas copyright of "Blair the Witch" and has arrived. You said you would reserve 20% as a reserve for the Embassy Pictures to build overseas distribution channels. I signed an agreement with them in the form of a commission from the middleman. This is a contract, and you need to sign it on it."

Ronan looked through it and signed the name on it.

Mary handed over two more contracts: "This is the latest loan agreement for the two projects "Ace Agent" and "The God of Death is Coming", and you also need to sign it."

Ronan read it once and after signing it, he said, "The accounts must be made well, and the accounts of these two projects must be sent to Abu Dhabi."

"We're still going to Abu Dhabi?" asked Mary.

Ronan said: "I won't go there for the time being. I will invite relevant personnel to come to Los Angeles. If they don't want to come, let the acting accountant go to settle the settlement."

For some reason, since I saw that Semir last time, Ronan has become increasingly uneasy about Abu Dhabi.

It has been two years since he came to Los Angeles. How much has he paid from his impending bankruptcy to the current situation? His busy work, learning to recharge without relaxing for a moment, etc., which resulted in him almost never sleeping before twelve o'clock in the evening.

Strictly speaking, it means going to bed a little earlier in the dark nights with Carmen Keshu.

After putting in so much effort, the career has finally started, but someone is eyeing him. How can you feel at ease?

Ronan used the investment of the Abu Dhabi Investment Bureau to create a good situation today. The Abu Dhabi Investment Bureau is not stupid, and Mansour has had ideas for a long time.

But if you do it again, Ronan will go to Abu Dhabi to raise funds.

It's too difficult to solve the funding problem when filming the first movie.

If Ronan is really a good friend of the "Arab people", the Abu Dhabi Investment Bureau has a demand and will definitely respond. With the wealth of the Arabs, it will definitely be satisfied in terms of funds, but he knows that he is not. There is only one channel to connect friendship with the Arabs - funds!

If the UAE has no money, he will go to Abu Dhabi?

Friendship with Arab brothers can only be measured by money.

Marie didn't want to go to Abu Dhabi anymore. Although Abu Dhabi looked prosperous, even though she had been there a few times, in her inherent impression, the Arab country was still barbaric, ignorant and backward.

Hearing Ronan said she would not need her financial director to go to Abu Dhabi to settle the future income of the two films, Mary also changed the topic and said, "Isn't "The God of Death" going to be a premiere in early December? Can I bring a few friends to attend?"

"Yes." Ronan responded: "Welcome to support them."

Since there are no celebrity actors, James Huang is just famous, and Ronan is a little worried that the premiere will be unsuccessful.

He even said hello to Robert in advance and specially found some "movie fans" to come over.

Mary smiled and said, "I can bring four or five people to support you."

Ronan reminded: "You call Robert, he is responsible for the premiere."

The premiere was specially designed by a company outside the company, and Robert was the head of the Embassy Films.

Mary said "yes", ready to say goodbye and leave. Suddenly she remembered that there was a document in her hand and handed it to Ronan, saying, "Some time ago, you asked me to send a recruitment notice to recruit professional gunmen. Ten people submitted their resumes. I screened it. These are the resumes of three people who meet the requirements."

Ronan took it and looked it briefly, and said, "Yes, I'll ask them to arrange an interview."

After Mary left, Ronan called Eva, the front desk of the Embassy Films, handed her resume, asked her to call the applicants and asked them to come for an interview tomorrow.

All three of them are under forty years old and have published novels in newspapers and magazines before. One of them is a screenwriter who is a low-level Hollywood screenwriter, all of whom are experienced people.
Chapter completed!