Entertainment 1998

Chapter 543 542, 911
In Hollywood, actors generally don't need to do a roadshow when a film is released.

All you need to do is cooperate with the film producers and distributors, accept interviews from a few well-known programs, or participate in a few influential talk shows.

Of course, this does not apply if there are special notes in the contract.

For example, in the contract signed between Lionsgate, the producer of "Seeing the Ghost", and Jessica Alba, it is specifically stated that the actor must cooperate with the producer for one week of promotion.

Jessica Alba has no idea about this.

The reason is simple: Jiang Feng gave a lot of money!
Before starring in "Paranormal Activity", Jessica Alba's market value in Hollywood was 50 to 75 US dollars, but Jiang Feng insisted on giving her a salary of 150 million US dollars.

Inspired by the money, Jessica Alba naturally signed the contract happily, but when the movie "Seeing the Ghost" was released across the United States, Jessica Alba regretted it.

In her understanding, roadshow means traveling all over the country during the release of a movie, visiting box office heavyweights like Chicago, New York, Washington, San Francisco, and at least 3 to 5 cinemas in each city.

In the cinema's screening room, actors and fans chat about their creative experiences!

But in fact, the roadshow marked by Jiang Feng was a real roadshow. Well, it was to let the actors stand on the side of the road and give out free movie tickets to passers-by.

"Hi, handsome guy, I'm the actress Jessica Alba, I invite you to the cinema to watch my movie, okay?

This is a movie ticket, given to you for free.

Of course, if you come tomorrow, you will get a free movie ticket and $10 in change, which is for you to buy popcorn..."

On September 2001, 9, standing at the foot of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, Jessica Alba gave free movie tickets to employees in the building.

With the help of Lionsgate sales staff, Jessica Alba spent three hours distributing 1000 movie tickets.

For this reason, the New York Times reported the incident the next day, saying that Jiang Feng, a Chinese film director who created a box office miracle in the United States, had run out of ideas.

After the first Hollywood movie "Paranormal Activity" achieved a box office of 2 million US dollars, the box office of "Seeing the Ghost", which is also a thriller, was a flop. Its star Jessica Alba stood downstairs of the World Trade Center and gave free movie tickets to passers-by.

When Jessica Alba saw the report in the newspaper, she immediately understood Director Jiang Feng's intention:

I, Jiang Feng, am using different publicity methods to attract media attention.

So, on September 9, Jessica Alba worked even harder as she stood at the foot of One World Trade Center in New York.

Not only did they give away movie tickets and $10 in pocket money, but they also chatted about the movie "Seeing the Hell" with leisurely passers-by and white-collar workers working in the Twin Towers.

"The movie 'Seeing Ghosts' is amazing. The plot is that the heroine can see souls after having her cornea replaced.

This special ability of hers was given to her by the original owner of her cornea. The original owner of her cornea was very amazing. She had a premonition that a building in front of her was about to catch fire, so she ran into the building and said, "Run quickly, don't stay here, because the building is about to catch fire."

Many people will be burned to death.

But those people just looked at her like fools..."

Jessica Alba is worthy of being an actress.

The story was told vividly and in a very organized manner. It took three hours to give away 3 movie tickets yesterday, but today the task was completed in 1000 hours.

Moreover, more than a dozen white-collar workers who were about to work in the World Trade Center even skipped work to go to the cinema to watch this movie.

With the success of September 9th.

On September 9, Jessica Alba was even more excited when she told the story. She even used the World Trade Center Building 10 as an analogy. "Let's take this building as an example. You are about to go to work in the building, but I stop you downstairs and tell you not to go in because I have super powers and I can see that the building will collapse in an hour.

You will all die in there.

What do you think I am?
Am I a psychopath?

But in the movie "Seeing Ghost", the story is like this: no one believes that the original owner of the cornea can see souls.

Not only did he not believe her, but he also wanted to beat her..."

An immersive speech is indeed much more exciting than a fabricated story. Today, Jessica Alba spoke for only two hours, and 1000 movie tickets and 2 US dollars in change were all given away.

There were even more white-collar workers who skipped work to watch movies in the World Trade Center.

Only a dozen people skipped work yesterday, but today almost 100 people called their supervisor and asked for leave to go to the movies.

why?
Because the story is wonderful!
Jessica Alba paid special attention to the newspapers in the past two days. Regarding the reports on the movie "Seeing the Ghost", not only did 76% of the critics give positive reviews, but netizens also gave the movie high scores.

For example, on the Rotten Tomatoes website, the freshness of this movie has exceeded 65%.

With high news popularity and high movie reviews, the box office is naturally good. On September 9, the first day of the release of the movie "Seeing the Ghost", the box office was 8 million US dollars.

On September 9, the second day after the movie "Seeing the Ghost" was released, the box office was 9 million US dollars.

On September 9th, the third day of the movie "Seeing the Ghost"'s release, the box office was 10 million US dollars.

So, at 2001:9 in the morning on September 11, 7, Jessica Alba came to the plaza downstairs of Building 30 of the World Trade Center in New York and started her roadshow.

I don't know if it's because there were too many employees skipping work in Building 1 of the World Trade Center in the past two days, but there are a few burly security guards standing here today. They no longer allow Jessica Alba to stand downstairs for promotion.

Including Lionsgate staff, Jessica Alba herself, and even many white-collar workers working in the building, all discussed with the security guards, hoping that they would show leniency.

Jessica Alba is a very good actress and she tells the story very well and vividly.

But these security guards refused to agree and kept driving people from the front of the building to the parking lot, and then from the parking lot to the roadside.

"Jessica Alba, the roadside is not our World Trade Center's territory. If you, Lionsgate, want to hold a roadshow, please do it on the roadside."

roadside…

How is this possible?

Jessica Alba, who had a bad temper, started arguing with them on the spot. During the argument, she not only blocked the south exit of Building 1, but also blocked the road.

Seeing that the situation was not good, several security guards called the police on the spot, and one security guard even reached out and grabbed the neck of a Lionsgate Films staff member.

Before the police arrived, when the crowd was pushing and shoving, someone at the scene exclaimed:
"Look, look up in the sky, what is that?"

"Oh my God, what do I see?"

"Ah..., a plane crashed directly into this building."

(End of this chapter)