SFS Chapter 41:
Chapter 41:
Chapter 41:
“How much did you say?”
Will’s voice shuttered as he took in the number that George had just said. He was expecting a good enough box office amount, but it was still too much.
-Yeah, I was shocked too, Haha. It’s around 17 million for the first week. Will, you don’t realise, but we are doing way better than most movies on the box office currently.”
“That means we already recovered the costs and even made a big profit.”
-Yeah, and it’s just the first week! Will, you and your movie are a wonder! A gift from Jesus!
One could clearly feel George’s excitement from his voice, and even Will couldn’t stop himself from laughing out loud.
17 million dollars in the first week was no joke!
And it should be noted that this was just the first week and the occupancy rate in cinemas was just increasing day by day, especially the midnight shows that would give the real scare to the viewers.
Many self proclaimed strong people watched it just to see if they would be scared and ended up scared shitless.
At the same time, 17 million meant that the [The Blair Witch Project] had ranked 4th in the North American Weekly Box Office Rankings!
The movie above at the 3rd rank was [The World of the Dead]. Although the movie was bad, the marketing cost has been too much, and it has barely crossed [The Blair Witch Project] because of this.
It was hard to say if this Lauren Studios movie would at least break even, especially with the hype of [The Blair Witch Project], a movie in the same genre.
Will was sure that his movie would cross it pretty soon.
Aside from that, the other two movies were [The Knight’ Prince], a mediaeval fantasy headed by Frank Joe, one of the oldest actors in Hollywood, and the other one was [Love me, Zinon], a rom-com produced by one of the top six studios in Hollywood.
Both of these movies were running for weeks and were slowing down.
Will felt like from next week, [The Blair Witch Project] would surely occupy the 1st rank and would make his way into the history of cinema.
As the hype around the movie was just increasing, even the media started paying close attention to it, and some of the reporters even went to the Wheel Works studios office and interviewed George.
In the interview, he let out that the director of the movie was a 21-year-old EUC dropout, and it was made on a budget of fewer than 100k dollars.
Just this one sentence spread like wildfire, and suddenly, the media started advertising the fact.
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As the craze of [The Blair Witch Project] was starting to settle in the hearts of the crowd, the media in the United States especially can’t let go of such a chance.
Famous news channels sent their reporters on literal man-hunts as at least 1-2 reporters were stationed around every medium to large-sized theatres for the sole purpose of taking interviews of people who have just watched the movie.
The female lead, June Roberts, was an actor who had never played any role apart from being extra, bringing about the rage of people as they thought that other directors hadn’t done justice to her talents, as her performance in [The Blair Witch Project] was too awe-inducing.
The other two leads, Marcus and Zach, were also low time actors without any particular movies or fame to back them up, yet they came out with such amazing performances.
The most incredible of the bunch was the director himself. Will Evans, a 21-year-old EUC dropout without any backing or earlier achievements, seemed to have come out of nowhere as he started his trip to Hollywood.
Not only was he the director of this stir-causing movie, but he was also the screenwriter and producer. How he got the funding to make the movie was another question altogether when people learnt about his run-down rented apartment.
His history was nothing spectacular, and he was never too bright of a person from whom people would expect a future star.
But here he was, coming out with such a risky yet genius movie. People’s interest and attention were piqued, and ‘Will Evans’, this name became the centre of attention between the youth and old alike.
There were many unanswered questions about him, so the media dug out and interviewed his ex-classmates to his current landlord.
They found out that Will was a guy who recently became an orphan, and after losing his dad, his attitude changed, and he started working on [The Blair Witch Project].
There were many made-up juicy stories related to his past, and the media used the fact that he was someone who recently became an orphan to gather more sympathy from the viewers and audiences.
On the other hand, several famous critics also finally found time to watch and give a review of the horror movie that has started a craze.
Erwin Marshal, an old critic, called the movie “A fresh breath of air with a unique way to capture the story.”
Lisa Hudson gave the movie three and a half stars out of five and called it, “The biggest dark horse of the year.”
Suraj Kumar, a movie reviewer from Los Angeles Daily, called it “Something unprecedented that has managed to charm the viewers and rightly so!”
It wasn’t like there were only positive reviews. Many critics said that the movie was a documentary and not a real movie with a bland storyline.
A famous reviewer with a personal blog, username Zayn F called the movie “A bland storyline and something which didn’t give me a single scare. Don’t waste your time on it!”
Even with the negative and positive reviews, the movie worked spectacularly, and everyone involved was pretty happy.
Will, the cause of all this stir, had finally decided to buy a car. He bought a car that resembled a Hyundai Equus from his past life, the silver-coloured one.
June was finally coming back from her parent’s place, and Will decided to pick her up from the airport.
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