Wrong Turn Hits Theaters

"Free America, gunfights every day!"

Since transmigrating, Zucker had been keeping a low profile—or rather, he had been trying to—yet in just two short months, he had already witnessed two street shootouts.

The first shootout occurred while Zucker was accompanying Martha on the way back from California Standard Bank. They ran into three police cars chasing a group of fleeing criminals, and the two sides started firing at each other right on the highway, with the gunfight taking place less than 150 meters away from Zucker.

Experiencing such an event for the first time, Zucker couldn't help but curse internally.

"Goddamn Americans!"

The second shootout was even more absurd.

It was actually a school shooting!

"Damn it, James and I were just using our break time to play some basketball on campus, and we actually ran into this heinous incident."

The cause of the shooting, as he learned afterward, was nothing more than school bullying.

Peter Cech, a Black high school student who had been bullied for years, bought a common shotgun for less than 300 dollars in a fit of despair and went on a rampage at school. He not only blew the head off the person who had bullied him for years but also took down several of his cronies who were standing nearby.

"Free America, gunfights every day."

The netizens were right!

Encountering two shootouts in such a short time made Zucker realize a reality.

Money is precious, but one's life is the most important!

Consequently, Zucker bit the bullet and hired bodyguards—two of them at once.

Sun Lei!

Zhao Wushuang!

That's right, these two were authentic Chinese, both former special forces soldiers and comrades-in-arms. After retiring from the military, the two worked as mercenaries in Africa before immigrating to America to work as bodyguards for a security firm.

Sun Lei was the older one, 35 years old this year, currently at the peak of his physical condition and possessing rich combat experience;

Zhao Wushuang was younger, though he was already 30, right in his prime;

Compared to soldiers from America, Zucker found it psychologically easier to accept elite soldiers from China.

Of course, the cost of hiring them was not low!

But for the sake of his own life, Zucker was more than willing to spend this "life-saving" money.

Recently, Zucker had been very busy.

The movie Wrong Turn 1 was about to be released!

"Boss, there are only two days left until the scheduled release date of our movie Wrong Turn on October 11. Our promotional budget is limited to only 1 million dollars, so we have concentrated our marketing efforts on these few days, and the results so far have been quite good."

Victor said.

Zucker nodded and smiled: "As long as the results are good, that's fine. After all, our movie is a low-budget production, so there's no need to spend too much on promotion. Besides, spending a massive amount of money isn't conducive to the healthy development of Wald Pictures."

Today, Wald Pictures already belonged to the third-tier of Hollywood companies and had grown significantly.

To say nothing else, just in terms of film distribution, Wald Pictures was already capable of covering five states on the American West Coast—California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Oregon—as well as Kansas in the central region.

Having established a distribution network across six states in North America in one fell swoop, Wald Pictures, while still a third-tier film company, possessed a burgeoning strength that surpassed many similar companies.

"Being able to secure 820 screens on the opening day of Wrong Turn is already a remarkable achievement."

Zucker couldn't help but give Victor a thumbs up!

For a moment, Zucker had reason to believe that, relying on the appeal of Wrong Turn itself, combined with a sufficient number of screens, it would be enough for the film to achieve a decent box office during the Halloween season.

"The movie Wrong Turn? Judging by the description on the promotional poster, is it a hardcore slasher film?"

In an ordinary household in California, Schmidt, who had just started college, inadvertently saw the promotional poster for Wrong Turn online.

He looked at the abandoned car on the poster, the blood-stained barbed wire, the eerie abandoned cabin, the axes, the iron forks...

Wait!

For a moment, Schmidt felt his blood boiling.

As a thrill-seeking American youth, Schmidt loved this kind of hardcore slasher film, and clearly, Wrong Turn hit the spot for him.

"Looks pretty good. When it's released, I can go to the theater and check it out."

Kansas.

A certain horror movie fan group.

"Wrong Turn?"

"Wald Pictures, I think I've heard of them?"

"Haha! George, of course you've heard of them. Have you forgotten about Hard Candy that we watched in the theater two months ago? It was a movie produced and distributed by Wald Pictures."

"Damn it, Little John, can you not bring that up?!"

"Of course I have to bring it up. I clearly remember when we were watching Hard Candy, especially the scene where Hailey castrated Jeff, you jumped right out of your seat and almost pissed yourself."

"Fine, fine. As long as you stop bringing that up, I'll treat you to see Wrong Turn. How about that?"

"No problem. We can call up Sally, Jenny, and Teh to join us when the time comes."

It must be said that although the film Hard Candy, released in the late July summer slot, didn't achieve a particularly remarkable box office performance—earning a pitiful 5 million-plus dollars—its unique plot of Little Red Riding Hood turning the tables on the Big Bad Wolf, especially the castration scene, truly attracted a niche group of film enthusiasts.

They would become powerful advocates for the early word-of-mouth of Wrong Turn!

Zucker was quite satisfied with the premiere date of October 11th for the film Wrong Turn.

"For this year's entire Halloween season, aside from The Sleeper, which grossed over 50 million dollars at the North American box office, who else does this old man have to fear?" Zucker began to feel emboldened.

And in fact, that was indeed the case.

In previous years during the Halloween season, sequels to well-known horror films like Halloween and Scream were usually released. However, due to various reasons this year, these two famous horror sequel series were not released at all.

How could Zucker not be happy?

Soon.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye!

On the premiere day of Wrong Turn, although Wald Pictures did not hold a premiere ceremony as they usually did, they still rented out a screening hall in Los Angeles and invited the main cast and crew of Wrong Turn to watch the film's release.

As the future lead actor of Joker 2019 and the winner of the 2020 Oscars Best Actor award, Joaquin Phoenix, currently serving as the lead actor of Wrong Turn, naturally attended the film's premiere.

Adriana Lima, who played the female lead in the film and was also Zucker's nominal little girlfriend, naturally would not be absent.

The film's director, M. Night Shyamalan, was even warmly received by Zucker on the day of the premiere.

Of course I have to be warm to him; after all, I'm counting on him to direct the 1999 North American box office runner-up, The Sixth Sense.

If he, the director and screenwriter of The Sixth Sense from the original timeline, doesn't film it, am I supposed to rely on a half-baked director like myself to do it?

With these wild thoughts in mind, the first installment of the Wrong Turn film series was finally released!