Chapter 294

Before this, because of worrying about the social influence of the serial murder case, the filming of the movie "Memories of Murder" once fell into a stalemate.

After learning that it could not be released immediately, many actors in the crew became much more depressed.

Fortunately, as the director, Utsumi Takuto was experienced and used participating in Akiwara Yuto's subsequent works as a big pie, which boosted the morale of these actors.

After bumps and bruises, the movie was finally finished at the end of August, which was nearly one-third longer than the previously estimated time.

Besides that, there was another major problem: other investors, after learning that it could not be released immediately, successively proposed to withdraw their capital.

To make them shut up, Akiwara Yuto spent 100 million directly to buy all the remaining equity.

After all, in his view, as long as this movie can be released, it is bound to be a bestseller! Instead of spending energy arguing with these investors, it is better to fully fund it himself!

Now it's good, finally suffering has come to an end, and he has waited for the time when it can be released!

The next morning, Akiwara Yuto immediately made a call and contacted Utsumi Takuto. After a simple conversation, he took a car directly to the venue rented by the crew.

Although the movie has been finished, it still needs to go through post-production to delete redundant or unnecessary parts.

Arriving at the office, Akiwara Yuto saw Utsumi Takuto checking the filming content, so he joined in to watch for a while and asked at the same time: "Is there anything that needs adjustment?"

Utsumi Takuto shook his head: "The actors all performed very well."

After saying this, he flattered him again: "The people you recommended are really different. The acting skills of the students from the Tokyo Women's University Drama Club are really good, which is simply surprising."

Akiwara Yuto nodded, but didn't feel surprised.

Because of the previous short suspension, several actresses playing victims and other roles ran away.

So he directly contacted the Tokyo Women's University Drama Club, which had performed the stage play "Seven Rooms" at the beginning, to request assistance.

He just asked casually at the time, but didn't expect these students to be very excited when they heard there was an opportunity to participate in the movie, and they didn't even plan to want remuneration.

However, although the desire to participate was strong, there were actually not many scenes for them, and most of them were playing "dead bodies."

Speaking of which, what acting skills are needed for this?

Thinking of this, Akiwara Yuto looked at Utsumi Takuto suspiciously.

Utsumi Takuto didn't know that his flattery hit the horse's leg and still said: "Please take a look at the finished film."

Immediately after, he immediately started rewinding and playing the edited film.

Akiwara Yuto watched it very attentively, and at the same time matched it with his past life memories, finding that it was indeed filmed very well.

The actors' acting skills don't need to be mentioned; the main thing is that the two male leads found were both veteran actors, and their acting skills were quite good. As for other supporting roles, they also found suitable personnel one after another.

Besides acting skills, the overall atmosphere of the movie was also rendered very strongly; it can be said to be advancing step by step, giving people a feeling of being unable to breathe.

Two hours passed in a flash, and Akiwara Yuto also finished watching the whole film, showing a satisfied expression.

Up to now, the cost spent is about 180 million, but overall it is worth the money!

Utsumi Takuto saw Akiwara Yuto was satisfied, and his heart also let out a sigh of relief.

"We have already sent the film for review, but for promotion and theater chains, we still need Teacher Akiwara's help here."

Utsumi Takuto showed an embarrassed smile.

Promotion? Theater chains?

Akiwara Yuto asked suspiciously: "Is there any problem?"

Utsumi Takuto replied with a bitter smile: "Promotion is still okay, it's just a matter of funds. But for the theater chain aspect, it was the responsibility of a previous cooperative investor."

Hearing this sentence, Akiwara Yuto immediately reacted.

That investor was kicked out by himself, so this matter is still his own pot.

He thought about it and said: "How about this, I will invest another 50 million into the crew's financial account, but you should first issue a plan for the specific promotion scheme. And for the theater chain side, I will let Miss Asano find someone to talk about it."

Three days later, crew office.

Asano Aiko said in an unnatural tone: "Sorry, Akiwara, there are only 30 cinemas that agreed to screen it..."

Hearing this result, Akiwara Yuto became suspicious.

For cinemas, the reason for whether to arrange screenings is mainly because of whether this movie makes money.

He has invested a lot of promotion funds now; after all, he put his own name on the poster promotion. According to reason, the cinema side should value this point, right?

Asano Aiko glanced at Utsumi Takuto, not knowing whether to say it, while Utsumi Takuto took the initiative to say: "Teacher Akiwara, it should be my reason."

Akiwara Yuto glanced at him, feeling a bit puzzled in his heart.

And Utsumi Takuto continued: "When cinemas arrange screenings, a very important point is to look at the director's achievements, and what I filmed before were all R18 violent themes, the audience number is limited, so the box office..."

Akiwara Yuto pondered for a while and quickly understood his meaning, which is that because of the cinema's distrust of the director, the screenings were reduced.

He patted Utsumi Takuto on the shoulder and said with a smile: "It's okay, I believe in you."

If he blames the other party now, isn't it that his own vision was not good at the beginning?

And he doesn't think this is a big problem.

You must know that at that time, there was a movie in Nihon called "One Cut of the Dead," which only had 2 cinemas at the beginning, but it still achieved a nationwide explosion.

His "Memories of Murder" closely follows current events and hot spots, and the movie quality is not bad, so it may not be impossible to achieve the same point.

He smiled and said seriously: "Don't worry too much, just release it like this!"

Things have reached this point, thinking more is of no avail.

Whether it is a good movie, let the audience judge it!

As long as the movie quality is enough, then other cinemas will come to the door themselves!

Soon, the review results came out.

Although "Memories of Murder" has many sensitive places, Utsumi Takuto summarized the previous experience and did not let it become an R18 movie during the review, just becoming PG-12.

In terms of promotion, Asano Aiko and those 20 cinemas also quickly completed the docking work, and at the same time agreed to release it on September 20.

To maximize the promotion effect, the crew entrusted the remaining 20 million in the account, together with the 50 million newly invested by Akiwara Yuto, to 4 advertising and promotion companies respectively.

Let them place advertisements in the carriages of Shinkansen in major cities.

Not only that, Satake Maki also found a group of water armies to promote this movie on the Internet.

After this series of operations, 2 weeks passed in a flash, and soon it was the day of the release...