Chapter 47 49. Sharks are flying (please read later)

December 15th is only 10 days away from Christmas, and it is the fiercest time for the Christmas battle.

Even after being released for a month, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is still generating popularity, with daily box office still increasing by millions, which makes people marvel at the appeal of this IP.

In a few days, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" will be released, and on Christmas Day, December 25, Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" will also be released.

Under the attack from these two monsters, other movies are bound to suffer, so no movie wants to be released during this time period unless it is absolutely necessary.

Just as movie fans across North America were looking forward to "The Lord of the Rings", hundreds of theaters in major cities such as Los Angeles, New York, and Houston replaced their billboards.

A brand new poster appeared, showing a towering tornado sweeping across the city. What was puzzling was that several shark heads emerged from the tornado. "Sharknado" was released quietly.

For a movie with an investment of only 1.5 million US dollars, it is impossible to promote it before its release, and the publicity costs are more than that.

One evening in Los Angeles, high school student White brought two of his friends to a movie theater near his home. His sister worked there and they could watch movies for free.

I walked to the front desk and knocked on the window; "Carol, give me three bills."

A curly-haired girl appeared from the back and complained somewhat unhappily: "White, you come too often. I will be discovered if you keep going like this."

"How is that possible? There are so many people coming in and out of the cinema every day. Don't worry, no one will notice. Besides, there are only three tickets."

"No, there aren't many people watching these days, so it's easy to be caught. I don't want to lose my job because of a few bills. If you want to watch it, go ask mom for money!"

White immediately showed a bitter face and quietly pointed to a place not far behind him: "Please, sister, you don't want me to embarrass myself in front of my friends, I have already boasted to them."

"At worst, I can return the pocket money to you. Hurry up while no one is around."

Carol still didn't want to say anything: "But you've already seen all the recent movies. Let's wait until The Lord of the Rings 3 is released."

"No, don't bluff me. I saw the new poster for the movie called Sharknado. Come on, my dear sister."

"Carol, what are you doing?" a shout came from the distance.

"Nothing Mr. Frosta."

"Okay, grab the tickets and get out of here! My boss is coming to check!"

"Wait, there's also popcorn and Coke."

"Here you go, go, go!"

There were only eight or nine people sitting in the cinema. It was an unknown, unpromoted, and unstarred movie, and only Ryan Reynolds was slightly famous among young people.

This configuration can attract eight or nine people, which is already a lot. If it is put in other time slots, there may only be two or three people.

"I have a feeling this will be a disaster movie," White and his friends said.

As a shark logo flew by, the AK Film and Television logo appeared and the film officially began.

A fishing boat was sailing on the vast ocean. The captain was discussing the business of hunting sharks with his partners. After a few minutes, the originally bright sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds. Sharks that looked extremely plastic jumped out of the sea and destroyed the fishing boat.

Just the beginning made the audience frown.

"White, I have a bad feeling. Why is this boat so small? Two people dare to go shark catching? And that shark is too rough."

Then the scene switched to the beach, and the bikini beauties caught the eyes of the young and strong guys. The director is very knowledgeable.

But then a sharknado appeared and began to land on the beach, and a shark swooped into the bar where the protagonists were hiding.

Then a girl with big wavy blonde hair picked up a pool cue and stabbed the shark to death with one shot. The audience was stunned by her terrifying arm strength.

"What the hell!"

"Did you see that? She stabbed the shark to death!"

"You've missed the point. It's the shark that's flying!"

As the movie continues, the sharknado becomes more powerful and begins to attack the city. The amazing 5-cent special effects continue to bombard the audience's brain nerves.

The male protagonist and his men started to escape, sea water poured in from the sky, the car was running on the highway, and at first glance, everything was still the same, but a piece of rubber strip suddenly appeared on the car window.

Puzzled voices suddenly rang out from the audience: "Automatic car wash? Is this the rain effect?"

The sea water brought by the sharknado gradually flooded the city, but in fact it did not even cover the wheels of the car. Even in such a shallow water level, there were still a large number of sharks swimming rapidly in it and attacking pedestrians. The extremely fake blood plasma was unbearable to watch.

Gradually, even the sewers and drainpipes were spraying sharks. Yes, they were spraying them. Even the faucets were pouring out small sharks.

The movie ends with this extremely outrageous plot and special effects.

The movie finally came to an end when Ryan Reynolds raised the chainsaw, jumped more than ten meters high like Kamen Rider and cut the last shark in half.

What an international crappy movie!

At this moment, the few spectators collectively leaned back tactically, took a deep breath, frowned, and narrowed their eyes to relieve their frayed nerves.

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After a moment, the sounds of gasps, breathing, sighs, and curses filled the screening room.

"My eyes! My eyes!"

“Why is this kind of movie on the big screen?”

"Please tell me who the director is, I want to kill him!"

"White, after watching this movie, I felt like I had eaten durian and canned herrings with a pair of stinky socks that hadn't been washed for three months."

Unexpectedly, White's eyes lit up as if he had found a treasure: "I like it!"

"What! Are you crazy?"

"Of course not. I want to recommend this movie to Jennifer, Ben, and Harvest. I want to recommend this movie to everyone. I can't be the only one who is blind!"

The two friends thought it made sense: "I'm going to post it on the forum so that everyone can enjoy this terrible movie together!"

On the first day of its release, Sharknado only earned more than 1 million US dollars at the box office, which was not even as good as Harry Potter.

But at the same time, discussions about it appeared on the Internet.

Eric certainly would not spend a lot of money, but a few hundred thousand dollars would not matter, so Bemahadi had already hired a large number of water armies in advance.

On the first day of a movie’s release, I would post on forums with large daily activity, and also leave comments and recommendations on Yahoo, Movies, BOM, and IMDB.

In this day and age, using online trolls for publicity is still a rare method; television, magazines and newspapers are the mainstream.

In the evening, Eric opened the largest local forum in Los Angeles, scrolled through it casually, and found three pieces of content about "Sharknado" on one interface.

"The best movie of the year is born - Sharknado!"

"I've never seen a movie like this, it shocked me more than Harry Potter!"

“Sharknado, a masterpiece that will go down in film history!”

After clicking on the content and scanning it, Eric couldn't tell whether it was a compliment or criticism. He could only sigh that the Internet army in this era is also very trustworthy and does not copy and paste.

(End of this chapter)