Hollywood Road

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Standing opposite the young director, Jones-Butler found that she had indeed underestimated him. The progress of the other party was not only obvious, but also amazing. Before the end of the film, she just thought it was very good, but after watching the end, That amazing feeling can't get away with anything.

The beginning and end of a film are very important. In Hollywood's extremely mature commercial system, the beginning and end can even occupy more than 60% of the attention of the entire film. Her boss Harvey Weinstein once said that the film If there is an echoing and brilliant beginning and end, the middle content can be added at will, as long as it is not too bad, the audience will buy it.

The beginning of this film is not bad, and the end can't be described as stunning. Not only is the content in the middle not bad, it can also be said to be quite brilliant.

Jones Butler took a deep breath. What market value would this film have if it was handed over to Miramax?

She can't estimate for the time being, it's definitely much higher than "Fruit Hard Candy".

"A wonderful movie, Director Stanton." Jones Butler reached out and shook Murphy's hand and glanced at his watch. "It's getting late. I have something to do. It's time to go."

Murphy stood in front of the theater, not holding back, "Goodbye."

Watching Jones Butler drive away, Murphy looked back at the theater door. The place was empty. The people invited by him and Bill Rossis seemed to be in desperate need of one by one, and hit him casually. All the greetings left with a fleeing speed, as if the director of his film was a jigsaw.

"This is a good thing." Bill Rossis came from behind and stood beside Murphy. "According to my observations, this film completely exceeded their expectations. Several people privately gave it extremely high ratings. They should be back to the company."

Murphy nodded. He has been in this circle for a while. He has some understanding of the operation of film companies. Unless there are very few top big names, any project involving millions of dollars or even hundreds of thousands of dollars is not a casual filming. The forehead can decide.

From the attitudes of Milton Johnson, Tony Guzman and Jones Butler who left after leaving, he can also see that these people are very interested in "Chain Saw".

Issuing companies occupy the upper level of the industry chain, and projects with enough selling points can enable them to fully realize their own market value.

Paul Wilson, Seth Logan, and Jonah Hill brought the copies out at this time. Murphy waved to them, "Go to the security company and save the copies. Let's have lunch."

During the screening, he also saw the reactions of everyone. Although it is far from the time to celebrate, he can relax a little with a drink.

Just as Murphy saved the copy, called James Franco, and when a few people walked into the restaurant, Lionsgate was located in Santa Monica’s company, and many people in the marketing and distribution departments were all He hurried to the conference room.

The meeting room was quiet, with a dozen people sitting around, with Milton Johnson standing at the front of the conference table. "Do any of you know Stanton Studio and the director Murphy Stanton?"

Everyone looked at each other, where are the small companies and new directors that jumped out? Never heard of it.

Milton Johnson opened the chair and sat down, tapping the table with two fingers, "From now on, you will immediately look for information about him and establish a complete director's profile."

Upon hearing this, many people looked at Milton-Johnson in surprise. The directors who can be established by Lionsgate Films are all potential partners. Most of them have a bit of reputation in the circle. Such completely unfamiliar directors are also potential partners. It's not that there is no, but the number is very small.

"Jamie..." Milton-Johnson looked at a middle-aged man, waited for the female assistant to hand over a business card, and said, "This is Murphy Stanton's contact information, you can contact him as soon as possible, at the latest In no more than three days, you must all see his new film."

"His new movie?" Jamie Winster was a little weird, but still said, "I'll do it after the meeting."

"Everyone here!" Milton Johnson said very solemnly, "After Jamie contacted Stanton Studios for the preview, I ask you to temporarily put down all your work, go to see that movie, and evaluate that movie. , The marketing department and the distribution department should give me a complete report as soon as possible."

Thinking that he might not be able to take this film, he added, "Let the editors participate."

Milton Johnson said so, and they couldn't help but not pay attention to them, and they started to get busy after the meeting.

Just after the meeting broke up, the female assistant answered a phone call and walked to Milton Johnson. "I asked a friend to inquire about Murphy Stanton. He was in jail and had some entanglements with the Los Angeles Police Department. Convicted Summer Redstone..."

"Um..." Milton Johnson just nodded, but didn't care at all. "These are things that gossip media should care about, and they have nothing to do with us."

As for Summer Redstone, Lionsgate is not a company under Viacom, so he doesn't care. With such a film that seems to have market potential in front of him, who will care if the director is offended or not? Past Summer Redstone.

In an office building near the Fox Tower in Century City, Tony Guzman was standing in front of a conference room anxiously walking back and forth, checking his watch from time to time. The executives of the Fox searchlight were having a meeting inside, and it should be time to calculate the time. It's time to end the meeting.

The door of the conference room suddenly opened from the inside, and executives with serious expressions walked out of it. Seeing his immediate boss, Godin Clyde, approached, Tony Guzman hurriedly greeted him.

"What are you doing?" The boss's words were a bit hard, obviously in a bad mood.

He followed his boss into a secluded hallway, "I just watched a movie. In a small production cost under five million dollars, I think it is totally worth five stars."

"What?" The boss turned his head. He knew that Tony Guzman was a veteran in the company. He was always cautious and rarely commented on a film like this. "Aren't you kidding me?"

Tony Guzman said very seriously, "When did I make a joke about work?"

The boss nodded, "Can you contact the other party to arrange another filming session?"

Fox Searchlight, especially the first quarter of the distribution department’s performance is too poor, there is no film that can be obtained, the head office has put tremendous pressure on them, at the meeting just now, several executives on the board of directors have become angry. Up.

He bears the brunt of the distribution director.

Tony Guzman took out his phone, "I will do it now."

Jones-Butler returned to the hotel he was staying in, sat in the living room of the suite and recalled the film he had just watched. He opened the notebook and read it again. After thinking about it for a period of time, he thought of the achievements of "Fruit Hard Candy". Finally made up my mind.

She took her phone, pressed a few numbers, and waited for the connection there, and said, "BOSS, I have a movie here. If you have time, you'd better come over and watch it."