America gains both fame and fortune

Chapter 147 Hollywood's No. Macho Man
Early on Saturday morning, the pictures published in American gossip newspapers such as Rumors were even more exaggerated. Kardashian seemed to be a fan girl and wanted to eat Martin.

The caption reads: "The person Kim Kardashian admires the most."

There are other gossip newspapers: "Hollywood rising star Martin Davis, Kim Kardashian's secret crush!"

Martin created a new genre by creating himself a hot figure and then taking advantage of the popularity.

Bruce, this uncultured bastard, even suggested that Kardashian and Martin go to the same hotel one after another that night.

Fortunately, Martin was of higher character than Old Bull and did not agree.

In this day and age, even the best work needs publicity to gain enough fame.

Even so-called art-house stars like Daniel Day-Lewis and Meryl Streep try their best to create news when their works are released.

The crew also released news that during the filming of the film, Martin and the director subdued a giant kangaroo.

When it comes to movie promotion and marketing, just hype it up as much as you can.

As soon as the report came out, the North Hollywood apartment was immediately targeted by paparazzi and the door was guarded.

The cost of being a wild paparazzi is very low. Many practitioners do not have any industry certificates. They can enter the industry with just a camera and a broken motorcycle. Los Angeles is full of celebrities of all sizes, and if they can take valuable photos, they can sell them to gossip newspapers in exchange for income.

Antonio wanted to sit outside the door to bask in the sun every day, but before he could move his chair out, the sound of camera shutters rang out, and two small recorders were put in front of his face.

"Are you the landlord here? Who did Martin Davis spend the night with last night?"

Antonio subconsciously wanted to say something about a jerk named Bruce, but thinking of how Bruce was always staring at him with ill intentions, he shouted, "Get out of here, don't get in the way, this is private property!"

The female dog Jodi sneaked into the apartment building.

Antonio patted his coat and said, "If anyone dares to break into my house, I will let her know what the gun of friendship is."

Hearing the gunshot, Jody quickly stopped.

When the colleagues around him realized that they couldn't get any information out of him, they dispersed and waited patiently.

Jody came to Antonio and whispered, "Let's talk about business?"

Antonio asked, "What business?"

Jody pulled out a roll of dollars and said, "Let me in so I can take some pictures of Martin's place."

Antonio looked down and saw that the roll was full of bills, but only had 10-dollar notes.

The millionaire didn't care about this at all: "Warning you, I will call the police."

Jody was not discouraged and took out two more rolls: "These are all yours, as long as you help me install surveillance at the door of Martin Davis."

Antonio calculated the loss of rent and other risks after the news broke, and said directly: "Fifty thousand dollars, whatever you want."

Jody was stunned for a while, she had 5 US dollars, why was she doing such hard work?
But she didn't give up. She raised her hand and unbuttoned two buttons of her shirt, revealing a large area of ​​skin: "I'll stay with you for one night."

Antonio originally just looked down on this little money, but after hearing what she said, he immediately became alert: "What do you want to do? Are you trying to take my property?"

Jody discovered that the fat man's thinking was completely different from hers.

Antonio suddenly heard a familiar voice above his head.

"Landlord, you're not going to talk to the paparazzi about selling me out, are you?" Martin stood on the roof of the apartment building, looking at Fatty and Jody, and reminded them loudly: "Your house is full of actors. Once your reputation gets ruined, who will rent your house? Where are you going to collect the $5 in rent every month? You'll go bankrupt by paying property taxes!"

Three more tenants poked their heads out, holding beers.

Antonio warned Jordi: "See? If you dare to go in, they will beat you out."

Jody left the place, but stared at the tenants coming in and out.

Naturally, some tenants would be interviewed and reveal relevant information about Martin, but Martin had been on the crew most of the time in the past few months, and part of the time at Louise's place, and he did not have much interaction with other tenants.

On the rooftop of the apartment building, Bruce put away his binoculars and said to Martin, "I saw five paparazzi, and the most courageous one was that woman."

Martin picked up the telescope and took a quick look. "The wild paparazzi and the general gossip newspapers can't afford the price that Antonio is interested in. One of the reasons why I chose this apartment was that Antonio has certain assets and a good reputation."

"It's not that the paparazzi and gossip media can't afford it, but that you're not worth that much." Bruce reveals the cruel truth.

Martin was helpless: "Why did I find a piece of stinky shit like you as my manager?"

Bruce said to himself: "Antonio is not tempted by these small amounts of money, but other tenants may not be."

Martin was prepared: "The most valuable ones, of course, have to be sold by ourselves!"

Bruce was not surprised by this because Martin had done this more than once or twice.

Martin waved towards the round table on the rooftop, and Emily and Jessica, who were drinking beer under a parasol, immediately ran over.

"Continue to post good reviews on the website?" Emily was very positive: "We will go back now."

Martin waved his hand: "You have helped me a lot in the past two days."

Jessica said first: "You bought us beer." Martin was generous and said: "I'll give you a little reward."

Emily said before Jessica: "No, really, I can help you..."

"Listen to me." Martin raised his hand to interrupt her: "I haven't actually lived in the apartment for a long time. What could have attracted the attention of paparazzi and gossip magazines?"

While Emily was still thinking, Jessica had already reacted: "He often brings one or two women back home, making the whole building unable to sleep well at night."

Martin waved his hand and said, "Go downstairs and sell this news to the paparazzi. No matter how much they sell, it's yours."

He asked in passing: "Do you know how to say it?"

Jessica nodded: "I know, you are very powerful, and several women are no match for you..."

"Very good." Martin urged: "Go quickly, don't let anyone take away your business."

Jessica pulled Emily downstairs, as if they were going out shopping, and soon attracted Jodie.

"Martin, he's our neighbor." Jessica is younger than Emily, but her mind is more active: "He chats with us occasionally."

Jody asked, "Can you tell me more about what he talked about and what outrageous things he did?"

Jessica stared at the paparazzi: "It's okay to talk about it..."

Jody understood and took out two $10 bills and handed them over: "These are yours."

Emily subconsciously wanted to answer, but Jessica quietly pulled her back: "It's very explosive news, it's related to a woman. We are his neighbors, so we know about it."

Jody took out two more sheets of paper. Seeing that the girl, whose white skin was so white that it reflected light, was still not satisfied, he simply gave her all the remaining sheets of the roll: "This is what the news about Martin Davis is worth."

In her eyes, the news about Martin Davis is worth at most $100, and that’s because “House of Wax” received a warm response upon its release, and Kim Kardashian’s popularity effect was added last night.

Jessica collected the money and said, "Martin often brings a few women back home. I don't know who they are, but no matter how many they are, Martin always makes them sing all night. The apartment is not very soundproof, and the noise makes people unable to sleep. The landlord almost blew open Martin's door with a gun several times."

Jody's interest piqued. "Are any of those women famous? Like the Kardashians? Elisha Cuthbert?"

Jessica shook her head: “Not sure, I don’t know.”

With no more valuable information, Jody gave up on Jessica and Emily.

Looking back at the two people's backs, she suddenly thought of an idea and picked up the camera to take a photo of them with the North Hollywood apartment as their backs.

Compared to many of his later colleagues, Jody had a bit of professionalism, at least he was prepared to look at the pictures and write the text.

She quickly sketched out the news story in her mind: the young actor who won the Saturn Award for Best Newcomer began to indulge himself, bringing women home every night to party, and sometimes even asked two beautiful neighbors to join in. Because he was too powerful and the noise caused dissatisfaction among the surrounding residents, the landlord shot him...

Jodi mainly works in the field of online entertainment news and knows the importance of headlines.

The framework was outlined and the title automatically appeared: Shocking, the most powerful man in Hollywood turns out to be him!

Jessica and Emily drove out for a spin and soon returned to the apartment building.

Emily said, "We split the money in half?"

Jessica said as she went upstairs, “We’ll talk about it later.”

She was young but had the right ideas. She went up to the roof of the apartment building and placed 10 dollars on the table in front of Martin.

Of course Martin would not take it: "I said, this is your reward, take it."

Jessica picked them up, counted out five and gave them to Emily, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Martin, what do you want to eat for lunch? It's my treat."

Martin didn't refuse and pointed down: "There are too many paparazzi, so Old Bull and I won't go out. It's still early, you can go buy some fried chicken and burgers at 11 o'clock."

When a movie becomes popular, it always brings about a series of news and creates new stars.

On its first day of release in North America, House of Wax grossed $723 million, beating out American Soldier and Step Up, two films released during the same period, to become the box office champion of the day.

It continued to top the North American box office chart on Saturday and Sunday.

Three days after its opening weekend, including advance box office revenue, House of Wax earned $2013 million on its first weekend, higher than the $1500 million box office expectations of Warner Bros. and the North American Theater Alliance.

As a traditional North American slasher horror film, its reputation is naturally mediocre. The IMDB audience score is only 6.3, and the Cinema Score, which best reflects the market response, was rated B by the audience on the spot, which is acceptable.

Cinema Score officially predicts that the film's North American box office will be around 5000 million US dollars.

For similar American horror films, the overseas box office is often not much different from the North American box office, which means that House of Wax is expected to hit $1 million at the global box office.

The film's public production cost is an outrageous $4000 million, with most of the funds coming from various compilations.

Martin was not stupid enough to ask how much the actual investment was, but the director Zomi had mentioned a few things in a drunken state, estimating that the production, publicity and distribution of the wax museum would cost less than $4000 million in total.

Since Louise, who plays the platter game, is around, Martin is not surprised. The straw hat is worth 7000 yuan, so it must be leftovers from the game.

The incident that caused a lot of controversy for Leonardo DiCaprio in his previous life is not an isolated case in Hollywood.

(End of this chapter)