Hollywood Road

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Participating in this Cannes Film Festival screening, Miramax is to create momentum for the film promotion in order to sell better prices.

Although the evaluation by the French local media is extremely general, the ratings of "Planet of Horror" in the media near France, such as the UK, Spain, and Germany, are basically positive. The following small-scale auditions for the audience have also received good results. The audience’s reputation, and the film’s structure is simple, the rhythm is compact, and the selling point is clear. It is definitely a dish for audiences who like heavy tastes.

Therefore, apart from the major markets such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy that Miramax distributes by itself, as well as Australia where agreements have been reached, distribution companies from many regions such as New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines are all closely related to Mi Lamax signed a distribution agreement for "Planet of Horror."

These agreements are mainly sold out, such as $500,000 from New Zealand, $1 million from South Korea, $1.3 million from Japan, $400,000 from the Philippines, $300,000 from Indonesia, $400,000 from Norway...

With the addition of Australia's 3 million U.S. dollars, Miramax has already received nearly 10 million U.S. dollars in income from overseas markets in nearly 30 countries and regions at this Cannes Film Festival!

Just overseas copyright, not only allowed Miramax to recover all the costs invested, but also realized profit.

And after Murphy and Bill Rossis withdrew from the negotiations due to fatigue, Harvey Weinstein and Erica Steinberg's negotiations with other overseas distributors continue, and these negotiations will continue until the end of the film festival. "Planet of Horror" is very likely to add millions of dollars to the account number.

Since the agreement signed by Murphy does not involve the overseas market of the film, these revenues do not seem to have much to do with him, but Murphy is very clear that the higher the number of "Planet of Horror" accounts, the better his future in Hollywood. smoothly.

This is a very simple truth. The director who can create profits is the director that Hollywood really likes.

Moreover, these incomes have completely put Murphy's heart back in his stomach, and the film cannot lose money, which also means that he continues to climb toward his goals.

Of course, there are many distribution companies that are not interested in "Planet of Horror", such as the one from Vietnam, who bluntly said that no one would watch such a film appear in the Vietnamese market, and a representative of a Venezuelan company also rejected such a large-scale one. film.

The negotiations between Miramax and other companies are still going on. Murphy and other members of the crew have basically completed their work and can go around in Cannes and enjoy the atmosphere of the current film festival.

Unlike Robert Downey Jr. and Jessica Chastain, who deliberately visited the coastal avenue where paparazzi reporters gathered for publicity needs, and Jessica Chastain, Murphy is more like James Franco, Jonah Hill, and Seth. -The three of Logan haunted the streets and went to a movie theater to watch a Danish film, but after they came out, they were a little bit confused. I really didn't understand what the director wanted to express.

On the way back to the hotel, Murphy was surprised to find that a paparazzi had followed them, and one of them ran in front of the four people to take pictures.

"Should we celebrate?"

When he walked to the door of the hotel, Jonah Hill looked very excited, "There was a paparazzi following me! And the paparazzi on Fleet Street knew my name was Jonah Hill!"

James Franco lifted his chin. "That's because you are walking next to me."

"No!" Seth Rogen shook his head, "I think they might have been attracted to Murphy."

Murphy pushed open the glass turnstile, "What does it have to do with me?"

The other three people all got in. The four people squeezed in a small space with the glass turnstile. They were awkward at every look. They finally managed to squeeze out. Seth Rogen replied, "Planet of Horror was created at the festival. With more than $10 million in transaction figures, how could the media fail to notice you as its director?"

"That's the truth!" Jonah Hill nodded first, and then pushed James Franco. "Have you heard, it has nothing to do with you!"

Several people entered the hotel lobby, just about to walk towards the elevator, when a person suddenly appeared on the left and stopped in front of Murphy.

"Hello, Director Stanton,"

The other party's English is not particularly fluent, but the words are clear, "Remember me? I attended the premiere of your film a few days ago."

Murphy only took a look and recognized it, and proactively stretched out his right hand, "Are you director Uvi Bauer?"

The strange looks of the German director can still leave a deep impression on people.

"Uvi! Just call me Uvi!" He changed the briefcase in his right hand to his left, squeezed it firmly in Murphy's hand, looked at the three James Franco next to Murphy, and proposed , "Can we talk alone?"

Although he didn't know what he was going to do, it was not a bad thing to think about it. Murphy said to the side, "You go back first, don't wait for me."

The three of James Franco nodded and walked towards the elevator. Murphy followed Uvi Bauer and went to the rest area of ​​the hotel lobby. They found two opposite single sofas and sat down. Down.

"Uvi," Murphy asked directly, "what's the matter with you?"

"A few days ago, didn't you promise to help me look at the script?" Uvi-Bauer reminded, "I wrote a horror movie script, and added some zombie elements to it these days."

While talking, he opened the briefcase, took out a script from it, and handed it to Murphy.

The other party handed over the crew, and Murphy took it. He opened it and looked at it. It was not German, but handwritten English, which should have been written by the director.

Murphy looked at it seriously. This is a typical Western-style horror movie script, haunted house, killing, death, blood, and zombies...

He browsed extremely fast, and after about twenty minutes, he closed the script.

Uvi-Bauer looked at Murphy, as if waiting for him to comment.

The German director seemed to be a newcomer, and found himself so sincere. Murphy also said pertinently, "In my personal opinion, there are many attractive elements such as haunted houses and killings in the script, but They are all separated, if you can't combine these together during shooting and post-production..."

"Really?" Uvi-Bauer scratched his head. "I have always felt that there is a problem with the script, but I can't tell where the problem is."

Murphy shook his head, "Uvi, this is just my personal opinion."

"Thank you, Murphy." Uvi-Bauer seemed to appreciate Murphy. "You showed me the problem."

He sighed, "Actually I know that horror movies are not the type that I am very good at, but horror movies are low in cost, and they are the easiest to recover costs and attract investment.

Murphy did not speak.

Uvi-Bauer looked a little frustrated, "I have been a director for several years, and I still haven't found a film type that suits me."

Seeing Uvi Bauer in front of him, Murphy couldn't help but think of himself when he was just starting out. He knew how difficult it was for a director to start, and how many detours he might make.

Probably a bit of compassion, Murphy thought for a while, and slowly said, "Uvi, have you considered directing some relatively unpopular movies?"

Because he had studied Murphy’s directorship from scratch, Uvi-Bauer specifically approached him. Hearing what Murphy said, he immediately became interested and asked, "What kind of genre? More than a plasma horror film. rare?"

Murphy returned the script to Uvi-Bauer and said, "A movie adapted from a game!"

"Uh..." Uvi-Bauer scratched his hair. "Can the game be adapted into a movie?"

"Of course." Murphy nodded, "For example, Super Mario Bros. was put on the big screen by Hollywood in the early nineties, but the effect of the adaptation was not very good."

He thought for a while and said, "I think some magical games are more suitable for adaptation into movies."

Uvi-Bauer came interested, "Tell me?"

"For example, Dungeons and Dragons, which was popular in the 1970s," Murphy recalled several games he had seen last year. "Dungeon Siege, which was just released last fall, and Blizzard’s Diablo. And "Warcraft", I think filming is very promising."

Although vaguely remembered that the films adapted by the German director ruined one game after another, he was able to attract investment and continue to shoot, at least one thing proved that these adapted films are relatively successful in the market and business. .

"That's it..." Uvi-Bauer put away the script, stood up, and said impatiently, "I'll go back and look at the games you mentioned."

Murphy nodded and watched Uvi-Bauer leave the hotel.

After correcting this very individual director and embarking on his own path, Murphy went straight upstairs and waited for the end of the Cannes Film Festival.

Different from the opening ceremony, Murphy and several main actors participated in the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival for publicity purposes. Just as Murphy remembers, "The Pianist" and Roman Polanski became the biggest of this festival. The winner easily defeated all opponents and took away the Palme d'Or, which represents the highest honor of the Cannes Film Festival.

And Murphy can only be a bystander.

Later, news came out that "The Pianist" and Roman Polanski will participate in the Oscar competition during the North American awards season.

This type of film will naturally have an advantage at the Oscars.

With the end of the Cannes Film Festival, Murphy returned to Los Angeles. Because the film’s premiere in Cannes gained a good reputation in the media, he began to cooperate with Miramax’s plan and frequently participated in various promotional activities for "Planet of Horror." The North American screening is about to start waving the flag.

The film will be available in North American theaters in early June, and it is not a way to click on.