America gains both fame and fortune

Chapter 185 The industry is getting more and more complicated
As soon as the video was leaked, Martin and Anne immediately held a press conference. The latter's assistant Laura burst into tears in front of the camera, saying that she accidentally lost the USB drive and hoped that the person who found it would return it.

The temporary spokesperson hired by the two called on all media outlets not to broadcast such private videos of ill-gotten gains and reserved the right to prosecute relevant parties.

Martin also posted on his blog, asking the media not to let personal privacy occupy public resources.

Keep your posture correct.

A large number of netizens flocked to his blog area and left various comments.

No matter whether it is black or red, it attracts countless attention.

Martin's blog was so crowded that it crashed.

How could the entertainment media possibly listen to the call? The louder the call, the more willing they are to spread it.

In just over a day, Martin and Anne's selfie shot to the top of Google's search results.

People have an inexplicable desire to know about taboo things.

Especially celebrity privacy.

Many people who didn’t know Martin before also got to know him through the “gate incident” and the movie “The Hills Have Eyes” which is currently in theaters.

Martin and Anne have many die-hard supporters, and some of them "spontaneously" organized themselves to protest in front of the media company that repeatedly played the selfie video.

Correspondingly, there is another wave of news and traffic.

A large number of passers-by walked into the cinema and donated generously to "The Hills Have Eyes".

In a short period of time, Martin's attention was comparable to that of a Hollywood star's new film.

As long as a small part of it is converted into box office revenue, all the beneficiaries, including him, will be able to smile.

Martin subsequently gave interviews to several TV stations, calling for the protection of celebrity privacy, which was responded to by many stars.

The marketing investment of the selfie gate was limited, but the effect was amazing.

This event could even change the industry.

After Paris Hilton, it further proved that there is another way to become famous.

A small number of celebrities with particularly keen sense of smell have also noticed this.

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On holidays like Halloween and Valentine's Day, celebrities and even politicians will come out to show off, attract attention and demonstrate their presence.

Although showing off affection quickly leads to death, there are always a large number of stars who are eager to show off.

"Rivals" is scheduled to be released on Valentine's Day. The male lead Will Smith also sent a gift to his wife Jada, and asked the crew to film it and send it to various entertainment media, hoping to grab the entertainment headlines and gain some popularity before the release.

But there were very few followers, and all the attention of the onlookers was attracted by the so-called selfie gate video.

In terms of fame, Martin and Anne are far behind Will Smith and his wife.

But it can't stop the public's enthusiasm for gossip and strong desire to pry into the privacy of celebrities.

In the living room of the mansion, Jada Smith changed several entertainment channels in succession, feeling quite helpless: "All of them are reporting on the shitty things about Martin Davis and Anne Hathaway."

She looked at Will Smith on the other side: "Two little stars stole our limelight."

Will shook his two protruding ears: "It's not us, they stole the limelight from everyone on Valentine's Day."

Jada is not an open-minded person and couldn't help but say, "Why wasn't the ML video exposed?"

Will is a very smart black man, and he has been working in the industry for many years, so it is not difficult for him to see the problem: "It is very likely that it was released intentionally. Martin's movie The Hills Have Eyes is currently being shown."

Jada was surprised: "Did they let him out on purpose? They have no shame at all! What a pair of bastards!"

She took the laptop next to her and opened the web browser. Martin and Annie's selfie scandal was ranked first on Google's hot search keywords. She could see the related video by clicking on it.

After watching it carefully again, Jada thought her husband was right: "There were no nude scenes, and they were all talking about The Hills Have Eyes, using the guise of a secret relationship to gain popularity..."

Thinking about the news that his company released at the same time, but was stolen by this little guy, Will Smith cursed: "They are all crazy! It's getting harder and harder to survive in this industry. These newcomers dare to use any lousy tricks!"

As he spoke, he looked at Jada unconsciously. When his popularity could no longer be maintained, should he...

Jada and he had an unexplainable tacit understanding, and she stood up: "Asshole, don't even think about it!"

But Will Smith knows that no one can stay popular forever, and there will always be a day when bad luck comes.

By then, I will definitely have to find another way to attract attention.

Jada is disgusted by the tape?
Will suddenly came up with an idea, what about an open marriage with Jada? Imagine that the two of them sat in a talk show, and even without a host, they talked "frankly" about open marriage life and their respective creations. The media and the public would definitely go crazy.

As a celebrity, face and other things are not important.

Look at what this little guy Martin Davis has done. As an old man in the circle, even Will Smith admires him a little.

This year's Valentine's Day is different from previous years. In addition to traditional romance films, many people choose to watch the horror action film "The Hills Have Eyes".

Will Smith's appeal is unquestionable, and these days, the King of Smith is synonymous with box office. "Rivals" earned $4314 million in North American box office over the three-day Valentine's Day weekend, with a high A rating from the CS live audience and a North American box office estimate of $1.7 million.

While winning the box office championship, it fully proved one thing.

Your Emperor Shi is infinitely rampant!
"The Hills Have Eyes" unsurprisingly slipped to second place on the box office charts, but due to the strong stimulation of the midweek selfie scandal, it did not experience the big drop in the second week that horror films usually experience. The decline in the second weekend was controlled within 1810%, and it spent Valentine's Day with million US dollars.

Including the previous four working days, the North American box office totaled 5911 million US dollars.

Warner Bros. immediately negotiated a new distribution agreement with theaters, requesting that the theatrical screening time of The Hills Have Eyes be extended so that the North American box office could pass the $1 million mark over time.

Such a screening strategy will not bring more box office revenue to distributors and producers.

However, films with box office revenues of over 100 million in North America are treated completely differently in the television and DVD markets.

In this era, the distribution companies at the top of the Hollywood industry chain do not just take a cut of the box office revenue when distributing films, but take a cut of the entire copyright.

In addition, it takes some time for the producer to get the payment back from the distributor.

"The return of payment is related to the preparation of Wanted." Martin stood on the top floor of the North Hollywood apartment, admiring the view downstairs like watching a big show, and said to Louise on the phone: "Please hurry up."

Louise said, "Don't worry. With the investment agreement, we can use the return as collateral to apply for a bank loan." She added, "My people have communicated with Sophia and Vincent."

Martin is far behind Louise in real project planning: "You think more comprehensively than I do."

Louise asked, "So, my Valentine's Day present is a stone clown carving based on you? That's very thoughtful of you!"

Martin recently said, "That's the work of the master sculptor Lily Carter. It's a masterpiece of art!"

"Great!" Louise couldn't help but laugh: "Lily Carter, a high school student from Marietta, Atlanta, do you want me to bring her to Los Angeles? Ah?"

Martin then remembered that Louise and Kelly had mailed a return gift to Lily.

There's no way. I've sent out too many gifts and letters, and my memory is always confused.

Martin felt that he needed to learn a new course - time management.

Louise said a few more words and then hung up the phone.

Martin saw Bruce looking through the telescope and asked, "Any new discoveries?"

These two shameless scumbags observed the paparazzi surrounding the apartment as if they were watching a show, finding amusement in it.

Old Bu pointed to the parking lot and said: "There are two paparazzi, one male and one female. They may have got some information and started doing it in the car while exchanging information. It just ended now."

Martin picked up the telescope and could only see the men and women coming out of the car sorting their clothes. He regretted missing out on several hundred million and said, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

He suggested: "Should we install surveillance cameras in the parking lot? There are a lot of paparazzi these days, and the belts of those working in this field are about the same as those of actors."

Bruce was helpless: "Are you addicted to taking secret photos?"

Martin deliberately said: "It's actually very interesting, you can try it with Jin."

Bruce didn't want to mention Kim, mainly because when it came to Kim's sister, the scumbag Martin was full of shit, thinking that he was a civilized man, why would he do such shitty things.

He turned to Martin and asked, "Aren't you going to give Anne a test of love?"

"Can you please have some humanity?" Martin sneered at Bruce's inhumane words and deeds: "It's just after Valentine's Day, and you want me to sing a song about happy breakup with others? Where are your morals? Where are your qualities?"

Bruce was too lazy to refute. Judging from his years of experience, Anne would not pass the test. He said, "Tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars worth of jadeite in exchange for a box of 99 US dollars of chocolate."

"I'll give it to you if you want." Martin still had some magnanimity: "Should I go and get it back?"

All the gifts he gave out were real.

For example, crocodile tooth pendants, ox horn carvings and stone carvings, there are never any fakes.

After the first week's box office results of The Hills Have Eyes were released, in order to show his sincerity, Wu Maoting directly sent a lot of jadeite by air transportation, and half sold and half gave it to Martin.

Martin didn't hesitate and took it directly.

The jade pendant given to Anne Hathaway was one of the pretty good ones.

Martin asked Bruce: "Take two pieces and give them to Kim and her sister."

"I'm giving it to Jin." Bruce emphasized, "As for who Jin is given to, I don't care."

Martin's phone rang at this time. He took it out and found that it was Angelina Jolie calling.

"Hi, Angie." He answered the phone: "Why did you suddenly think of calling me?"

Julie said: "I have officially signed a contract with the crew of Wanted. You are the initiator of the project. I would like to invite you to dinner to express my gratitude."

Martin was curious about why Julie suddenly asked him out. He replied, "No problem."

Bruce said, "You hook up with Julie and dump Annie, perfect."

Martin gave him a middle finger: "It won't be me who betrays this love."

(End of this chapter)