Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 414 Released on the first day

   "GirlJustWanttoHaveFun!" On the TV, MTV is still broadcasting its own MV and the trailer of "Night of the Comet". The Cindy Lauper single also hit the top ten on the charts.

  Portrait Records are very satisfied with this result, which is a surprise for their small record company. Seeing that the single has the hope of rushing into the top three, Portrait Records began to increase the release of the single on MTV. Even the trailer of "Night of the Comet" was added many times.

   Ronald turned off the TV, put on comfortable clothes and trousers, and put on his sunglasses, ready to go to the cinema to see his second work as a director.

   The shabby production and marketing budget resulted in no premieres and few press interviews for the film. Ronald also had to pay for his own tickets to a nearby movie theater.

   He picked the Sherman Oaks movie theater again. Two of my own movies were shot here, and it was really good to see the official screening of "Night of the Comet" on the big screen for the first time.

  The first game of the evening was selected at the ticket window. Ronald went to the pizza shop where Jennifer Jason Lee worked as a part-timer to buy a pizza and ate it with Pepsi.

The movie theater opposite    was approaching. Ronald noticed that many of the people who went in to watch the movie were couples, but there were also many singles or a couple of boys, and many of the singles came with glasses.

   The time for watching the screening had passed, and the audience had completely entered the screening room before Ronald got up to check the tickets.

   "The screening hall is in the second room from the left, and the restroom is upstairs." The ticket inspector said mechanically, ripping off a corner from Ronald's movie ticket.

   "Ronald." A woman's voice came from behind.

   Ronald looked back and saw that it was Catherine Mary Stuart, the heroine of "Night of the Comet".

   She also wore a pair of sunglasses, and the style of clothes was completely different from that in the movie, so the ticket inspector next to her didn't recognize her for a while.

   "Ha, are you coming to see too?" Ronald knew that Catherine was also afraid that others would recognize him, so he entered the arena while it was already open.

  The two happened to go in together, and Ronald went to buy a big bucket of popcorn, like a couple on a date.

After    entered the arena, Ronald and Catherine approached the aisle on the edge of the back row and found a place where no one was sitting. Ronald also wanted to watch the audience's reaction.

   And Katherine is a mixture of anticipation and worry. This is the first time she has seen a complete movie on the screen, and she is both looking forward to her performance and worrying about the audience's disapproval.

   Soon the commercials and trailers passed, and "Night of the Comet" was officially played on the screen.

  A comet flew towards the earth, emitting a dark red light, and a special effect font "Night of the Comet" appeared in the center of the screen.

   starring, producing, and finally subtitles from the director. Ronald sat upright, the plot was rapidly approaching, the audience seemed to be more engaged in the beginning, and Ronald let down half of his heart.

"Oh," seeing the stepmother slap Regina's sister Samantha on the face, the audience let out a burst of cries, it's not very common to watch two beauties fight each other on the screen, the real slap makes them start to get excited .

   Then came the intense red lightning caused by the comet, and all the crowd standing outside watching the spectacle covered their eyes with their hands.

  The audience is also very satisfied, this lightning effect is good. Only Ronald still felt it wasn't bright enough.

  The camera cuts to the next morning, the sky turns blood red, and the sun rises in the skyline of high-rise buildings. The place was deserted, and the crowd watching the comet yesterday was just clothes and shoes that had fallen on the ground, plus some red powder.

   "Oh oh!" Several audience members exclaimed excitedly, the comet turned out to be so annihilated, so cool, it is finally about to enter the horror plot, it seems that it is a horror movie lover.

  Regina's pirated boyfriend who was a projectionist in the movie theater woke up first, put on his clothes and went out. As soon as he opened the door, he was hit on the head with a wrench by a very tall and stout zombie, and then dragged out through the back door of the movie theater.

   "Ah ah...!" The sudden violent scene lifted the audience's spirits, and the sound of consuming popcorn and Coke quietly sounded.

   "Don't you hate pirated movies?" Katherine Marie Stewart whispered beside Ronald.

"Ha ha……"

   The next Regina woke up, played a few more games on the video game console, and knocked the DMK who had destroyed her high score record formation completely off the leaderboard.

   He found that the back door of his boyfriend was blocked. She pushed the back door of the old movie "Red Dust" twice and didn't open it, so she took a detour to the front door. There were a lot of clothes and shoes on the street, accompanied by this red dust, Regina didn't know why.

   went around to the back door and found that the door had been blocked, Regina kicked angrily, and then found a **** wrench on the ground.

   She began to feel that something was wrong, and the background music also changed from cheerful to thrilling, as if a zombie would jump out at any time.

  The audience was also moved by this emotion, and even the voice with popcorn was less.

  Regina picked up her boyfriend's motorcycle keys from the ground, and now she also confirmed that something was wrong, walked to the motorcycle on the other side, and passed a wooden box...

   A zombie appeared!

   "Ah!" Although the audience had already had a hunch, they were also taken aback.

  Regina looked at this zombie and still didn't understand, "Are you pretending to be a Halloween ghost? Do you make trouble if you don't give money?"

  Zombie shouting "Come on, come on"

   "Fuck you, I tell you, I have been trained to protect myself since I was a child, and I have learned self-defense. I don't want to hurt you."

  The zombie is still approaching step by step, and the audience sees the terrifying gray skin and red scars on his face close-up, and some bloodstains.

  "OhShxt", Regina's palm hits the bridge of the zombie's nose with one blow, and then both feet are facing the crotch.

   She turned to drive the motorcycle, but was hugged by the zombie and was thrown to the ground. Regina picked up a wooden stick, hit the zombie's head with one hand, and kicked it in the head. The zombie was hit on the head with the nail on the stick and fell to the ground.

  Regina picked up the motorcycle keys, ran to the motorcycle, and quickly started driving away.

   The audience has not made any sound, and it has clearly entered the rhythm of the plot.

   "Oh, I didn't expect me to be quite heroic on the screen, I thought you made me a tomboy."

  Katherine Mary Stuart told Ronald that Samantha wears skirts more, and Katherine was a little worried that her character Regina had been wearing pants.

   "Your dressing show in the mall was pretty good."

Hector, played by Kevin Costner, escaped from his home and returned to the radio station. Together with his two sisters, he fought against the villains and zombies that came, and was finally rescued by the soldiers sent by the Biological Research Institute in the bunker. They all boarded the helicopter.

  The audience breathed a sigh of relief, but I didn't expect that strange things would still happen in the bunker. Those biological experts seem to be hiding something. There are also places inside that neither Regina nor Samantha, who survived, can go to.

  Scientist Audrey (played by Mary Voronoff) is tasked with "dealing with" the two sisters. She also discovered that the bunker had its vents open when the comet passed, and that all the people in the bunker were contaminated and were gradually zombifying.

  Ronald noticed that the audience's breathing was starting to become heavy again, and they sat and stared at the screen, some of them writhing in their seats, making the seats creaky. No one wants to go to the bathroom and miss the plot, so it's hard to hold back.

  The hopeless scientist Audrey injected the poison originally used by the two sisters into herself and another colleague, and committed suicide to prevent herself from becoming a zombie.

Regina became suspicious, and she went to explore the inaccessible area of ​​the bunker alone, and found that all the survivors were raised as artificial blood by experts who had been attacked by toxins, and their serum could be used to cleanse their own bodies. Toxins that suspend the process of zombification.

  Regina kills the zombified bunker, saves two children, and escapes from the bunker. The scientists and soldiers in the bunker chased after them. Samantha and Hector, who just arrived, had explosives to solve the pursuit, and the group and a few children drove away from the bunker.

   The next day, they returned to downtown Los Angeles. The rain washed away the red dust and cleared the sky. Regina is paired with Hector, who play the role of parents with the children.

   Eventually a sports car drives in and Nicolas Cage's Danny Mason Keener, a survivor, picks up Samantha for a date. The movie ends with the license plate footage of this sports car DMK.

  Ronald took the lead, occupied the bathroom, and hid inside to listen to the audience's feedback. A male audience filed in.

   "The real movie is really exciting, watch it well."

   "You said that Samantha is really **** in a cheerleading uniform."

   "I think the zombies are very realistic, not worse than 'Dawn of the Living Dead', especially the one that killed Regina's boyfriend with a wrench cleanly."

   "Hahaha, you didn't see that this director is someone who hates piracy and deliberately arranged a tragic ending for him."

   "You said, is there really a comet that returns to Earth every 60 million years and wipes out most living things?"

   "I don't know, but there is a possibility that the extinction of the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period, and the previous mass extinctions, both had a vague cycle, exactly more than 60 million years."

   "Are you kidding me? So aren't we?"

   "It's not that accurate either. I heard from a man who claimed to be a Ph.D. in paleontology and geology."

   "How do you know so many great people?"

   "Hey, I didn't know it through..."

   Ronald didn't catch what the man said, thinking it might be a high school student's science club.

   Anyway, these audiences are still discussing the plot and performance for a long time after watching it, which is a very good phenomenon.

   (end of this chapter)