Due to the impact of the leak, Washimine Entertainment consulted with Marvel and directly canceled the last preview in July.
The purpose of a preview is to promote the film through word of mouth.
Judging from the current situation, there is no need to hold any more previews.
In the following days, the "Thor" leak incident intensified.
At first, only those who followed entertainment news were concerned about this matter.
But with the media's follow-up reports, more and more people have begun to join the ranks of paying attention to this matter.
Especially after several actions by the FBI, the "Thor" leak incident almost became the focus of attention of everyone in the United States in July.
The FBI's involvement in the investigation was faster than expected, thanks to Washimine's public relations in recent years.
In such a large-scale public event, the first to suffer are definitely those with shallow roots, such as those movie piracy websites and groups.
A key member of Septic, the most famous piracy organization on the European and American Internet, was directly controlled by the FBI.
At the same time, the pirated website and server were forcibly shut down, and the 120TB video warehouse was directly declared destroyed.
At the same time, FBI agents raided a data center in Dallas and seized servers belonging to Core IP Networks.
According to company employees, FBI agents unplugged all servers, seized all equipment belonging to the company's customers, and threatened to arrest customers who tried to retrieve their equipment.
The FBI's brutal behavior naturally caused dissatisfaction among some people.
The company's CEO made the statement without hesitation: "If you run a data center in our great country, be careful.
"Because the FBI can come and take anything they want at any time without any reason."
Although anyone with common sense knows that in this "Thor" leak incident, the piracy organization was simply the one who caused the disaster.
The companies and websites investigated by the FBI may not really be related to this incident.
But the reason why the FBI chose them was that these people had shallow roots and had indeed committed crimes.
More importantly, it's because the traditional forces in Hollywood have long been unhappy with these pirates.
When these people saw that the incident was about to become the focus, they took the initiative to push it from behind, in order to crack down on the piracy groups that were damaging their interests.
In addition, shutting down these piracy groups will cause a lot of noise and will easily produce results.
So the FBI naturally targeted these guys first.
For Washimine and Marvel, it doesn't matter who the FBI targets first.
As long as the topic of "Thor" can be hyped up, the FBI will eventually catch the criminal who leaked "Thor".
Apparently, the FBI succeeded in at least the former.
Because the FBI hasn't made such a big fuss in several years.
This naturally attracted many groups who originally didn't pay much attention to movies.
These people usually don't take the initiative to watch movies, but if a movie becomes a social hot spot, these people will go to watch it out of their curiosity.
Just like when "Goblins Slayer" was endorsed by the then-President for some political reasons;
Or maybe "Captain America" was linked to the Obama election at the time.
This kind of out-of-circle publicity method is very effective and can achieve very good results.
Generally speaking, if a film company wants to get someone to become an audience member of its movie, it needs to go through two steps.
One is to let the audience know about their own movies; the other is to make the audience interested in the movies and spend money to buy tickets.
Out-of-circle publicity can allow more people to meet the first condition, and these people usually do not have much resistance to social hot spots.
If people around you are talking about this movie, they will watch it out of curiosity.
Even afterwards they might complain that the movie was terrible and a complete waste of their time.
In less than a week, the leak of Thor's source material has become a hot topic of concern throughout North America and even the Western world.
The FBI assured Washimine that they would catch and announce the culprit before the film was released.
Please note that the culprit should be announced, not the final culprit behind the scenes.
To be honest, Nanaya really has no interest in who released the video.
But what he wanted to know more now was who were those people who were staring at his house all day long!
Nanaya asked someone to help secretly investigate these guys.
According to Serra's investigation report, these people were disguised as telephone company employees.
But Nanaya was sure that they were not real employees, and these people were clearly targeting him.
This made Nanaya even more annoyed, and he was also convinced that these people were really related to the "Thor" leak incident.
However, in order to play the long game and catch the big fish, Nanaya chose to endure for the time being.
On the other hand, Nanaya has had a lot of work to do recently and has no time to take care of them.
Nanaya not only has to direct the promotion and publicity of "Thor", but also has to remotely ensure the post-production of "Madoka Magica".
As for the guy hanging around outside his villa, Nanaya could only choose to turn a blind eye.
But Nanaya still felt unhappy. Even though he had returned to North America, he could only interact with Shion and the others for work purposes.
Although Ryan was with her, Nanaya didn't dare to get intimate with her.
Even though the inside of the villa was very safe, Nanaya felt uneasy at the thought of someone standing on the street and spying on his house.
Fortunately, although Nanaya's love life was not going smoothly, he made great progress at work.
Although "Thor" is unlikely to develop into a nationwide movie-watching craze like "Titanic", there are undoubtedly more people who know about and are interested in "Thor".
After spending a lot of effort to find the leaked version of the movie, these people were simply not satisfied with this movie without special effects.
So these people can only turn their attention to the movies that are about to be released.
However, more people chose to go directly to the cinema to watch the movie "Thor" after hearing about it.
This audience is older. They don't understand computers and are too lazy to use them.
So it is better to choose a safer approach.
As for those die-hard Marvel fans, Nanaya has prepared an irresistible temptation for them in the "Thor" movie.
"According to the news released at the San Diego Comic-Con, Thor, which will be released in August, will have a trailer for The Avengers."
"This makes me so upset! Why can't it be announced at Comic-Con?"
After Lily finished reading the message on the phone screen, she looked up at Nanaya.
"Brother-in-law, look. Many Marvel fans on the Internet have protested."
Lily said with a grin.
Nanaya shrugged and said, "These people are the representatives of those who say one thing and do another. No matter how much they curse, they will still go to watch it for the preview."
Nanaya was once one of them, so he certainly knows what Marvel fans think.
"Tsk, boring."
Lily curled her lips. She thought she could see Nanaya's panicked expression.
Because of the messages on the Internet, Nanaya's guess was very accurate.
After learning that the movie would include the "Avengers" trailer, these mainstream Marvel fans' expectations for "Thor" not only did not decrease, but increased a lot.
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This result made Lily very happy.
You know, when the movie was leaked before, she was really worried that the movie would fail.
Now it seems that under the wise and brave command of his brother-in-law, "Thor" will be as successful as Nanaya's other movies.
"I asked Gareth to ask her classmates yesterday..."
"Gareth?"
"She's my intern assistant. She's still in college and is here for a summer internship at the agency."
Lily turned off the screen of her mobile phone and leaned against Nanaya's back intimately.
"Hello~"
Nanaya wanted Lily to stop being so close to her, but Lily hugged Nanaya's shoulders even tighter.
"According to Gareth's feedback, many of her classmates and friends are talking about Thor. It seems our strategy is really effective."
"…"
Even though Lily is the main cast member of Washimine, she certainly had no problem using the word "we".
But Nanaya always felt that she was not saying this from Washimine's perspective.
"It will always have some effect."
Nanaya handed a glass of water to the girl with blonde hair and a ponytail.
He himself adjusted his sitting position on the sofa.
"Brother-in-law personally poured me some water~"
Lily picked up the cup excitedly and treated it like a treasure.
While drinking water, Lily looked at Nanaya's frowning brows and asked with concern: "Brother-in-law, you still look a little worried. Doesn't that mean that Lily, this super beautiful girl, can't impress you?!"
"Ahem! Who on earth did you learn this from?!"
Nanaya glared at Lily fiercely.
"I'm self-taught~"
Lily stuck out her tongue. She would never tell Nanaya that she learned it from a comic book.
"Sure enough, brother-in-law, are you still worried about the people outside?"
Lily looked toward the window, and she also looked a little worried.
Ryan naturally told her about the strangers around the villa recently.
Nanaya nodded: "Yeah, these guys are always fiddling with the signal base station in the villa. I rarely make calls in the villa anymore."
After discovering that those people had attacked the signal base stations around the villa, Nanaya asked Sera to take countermeasures as soon as possible.
But it will take some time to get the corresponding equipment.
Therefore, Nanaya could only try to reduce the number of times he used the phone in the villa recently.
Even if he really called, Nanaya wouldn't say anything important.
This certainly caused some trouble, but it also provided Nanaya with more basis.
Usually an industry has its own rules.
People think that directly monitoring phone calls is something that only agents or the government would do.
But Nanaya will never forget some of the things he heard in his previous life.
For those crazy guys, the degree of their cruelty is definitely beyond anyone's imagination.
Perhaps these people did not expect that their act of stealing the phone would help Nanaya confirm their identities.
"The paparazzi of News Corporation...they are really a bunch of annoying hyenas."
Nanaya muttered gloomily.