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Mid-December. Murphy, Quentin Tarantino, Twentieth Century Fox, and Weinstein Pictures also received subpoenas from the California District Court, and a so-called well-known writer who came out of unknown place also sued them at the same time. The court claimed that "Shameless Bastard" used his creativity and ideas more than ten years ago and infringed his copyright, and demanded 10 million U.S. dollars in damages.

When the news reached Murphy, he threw it directly to the agent Bill Rossis and the lawyer Robert to deal with it, and at the same time hung up a phone call to Quentin and the others. The ruffian took a similar approach to him.

As for Twentieth Century Fox and Weinstein Films, they both have departments dedicated to handling such incidents.

In recent years, similar incidents in Hollywood have emerged one after another, and major film companies headed by the Big Six are also formulating targeted measures one after another.

Murphy is also considering whether Stanton Studios should also establish such a department. After all, it is not the first time he has encountered such an incident.

Movies such as comic adaptations and novel adaptations are easy to say, and the copyright ownership is relatively clear, and copyright disputes are generally rarely caused. But original movies are different. Due to the lack of support from other film works before, as long as original movies can sell well, there will always be people who jump out and say that the producer has stolen their creativity.

In recent years, this situation has intensified. There are only a handful of original movies that Hollywood can sell, but almost every one is chased by people for compensation, as if these movies really stole their ideas.

Everyone knows that this kind of person just wants to be famous and make a fortune. This happened as early as the 1950s and 1960s.

But in recent years, the proliferation of this situation has also been directly related to the improper handling of major Hollywood film companies. In the face of these guys who don’t know where to jump out, the production companies headed by the six major companies have tried to avoid excessive Trouble, often settled out of court

. Out-of-court settlement also means paying more or less money to those people. Although this will save a lot of attorney fees and litigation fees, it provides fertile soil for the continued growth of such incidents.

To a certain extent, this is an obstacle to original movies. A film that a director has worked hard to create, but being chased by others yelling plagiarism, must be annoying.

Regardless of how other people react, Murphy does not intend to settle out of court anyway. With Quentin's character, he should not intend to settle either.

A few days later, news came from the Los Angeles County Police Department. They found the originating mailbox of the threatening letter. The mailbox address was located in a public area in the downtown area. It was impossible to find clues about the specific mailer.

The police also took the letter away and conducted a technical survey. There were no fingerprints on it except for the fingerprints of him, Gal Gadot, and the two postmen. The person who sent the letter obviously noticed this aspect.

This matter has a tendency to develop in the direction of a headless case. Murphy has no good way except to strengthen the protective measures around him.

Having said that, he always believed that this was a prank by a boring person. Could it be possible that this incident will evolve into the tragedy of John Lennon, or the next ridiculous incident of John Hinckley and Judy Foster. ?

Of course, if this person can kill the stupid pig sitting in the White House for him, he will applaud vigorously, this is true love!

However, Murphy was still able to listen to the suggestions of people around him and did not participate in the promotional activities and public relations parties of "Inglourious Basterds". Although this will drag down "Inglourious Basterds"'s plan to hit the Oscars, it will not have much impact on the film's box office and market response.

After three weeks of screenings, the film "Inglourious Basterds" has maintained a steady and healthy trend in North American theaters. The box office fell within 50% for two consecutive weekends, and the North American box office exceeded 100 million without any suspense. The 50 million U.S. dollar mark rushed directly to 180 million U.S. dollars, reaching a total of 182.4 million U.S. dollars.

With the popularity of the film in North America, more overseas countries and regions have joined the screening of "Inglourious Basterds", although this film is unlikely to be like "Man of Steel" because of the theme and style, as well as the violent and **** relationship. PG-13 movies generally trigger a frenetic market response, but the cumulative overseas box office has steadily exceeded 150 million US dollars.

Hardly encountered too many obstacles, the global box office of "Inglourious Basterds" exceeded 300 million U.S. dollars, as high as 338.6 million U.S. dollars.

This figure easily reached the expectations of the 20th Century Fox and Weinstein Films, and exceeded the production cost by three times. The remarks clause in Murphy's director's contract will be automatically triggered. The total box office revenue of "Inglourious Basterds" and the total Internet Twenty percent of his income will be his dividend.

At the same time, the reputation of the film is as strong as at the box office.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes in "Shameless Bastard" has been maintained at more than 80%. Although IMDB's score inevitably falls below 9 points, it also has 8.6 points, successfully reaching the top 100 of IMDB's TOP250 rankings. Bit.

In terms of other professional reputation, "Shameless Bastard" is also basically praised.

This is also conducive to the film's plan to hit the Oscar.

Although some Oscar judges think "Inglourious Basterds" is too silly, but there are also many judges who think this is an extremely brilliant World War II movie.

In fact, this situation is also normal. Even the most popular James Cameron film in the world is black, not to mention a stylized director like Murphy.

Moreover, no one can deny that some people's blackness stems from inner jealousy.

With the passage of time, the first important award of the North American film circle awards season-the New York Film Critics Award was officially announced, and the North American awards season from 2008 to 2009 also kicked off.

Since it is called the awards season, in the past few months, film-related awards must be more than the two most well-known American TV and film Golden Globes and Oscars.

In Hollywood, the recognized start of the awards season is December 1. Under normal circumstances, the New York Film Critics Association Award and the Gotham Independent Film Award will be announced on this day.

Subsequently, a large number of awards such as the Golden Satellite Award, the National Critics Award, the Washington Film Critics Association Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the Boston Film Critics Association Award, and the American Film Association Award will be announced or nominations will be announced.

These can be said to be weather vanes, and the truly influential outpost awards are basically after the new year.

Editor’s Manual Award, Producer’s Union Award, Screenwriters’ Guild Award, Photographic Guild of America Award, Costume Designers’ Guild Award, Director’s Guild Award, Visual Effects Guild Award...

These industry union awards, due to the large-scale overlap between the judges and the Oscars, can be regarded as real outpost awards.

Of course, the British Academy of Film Awards, commonly known as the British Oscars, cannot be ignored. Because there are a large number of British judges at the Oscars, this award can also directly affect the final Oscar voting results.

As for the well-known Golden Globe Awards, in addition to increasing the reputation of the winners, it can not bring more practical effects.

In these respects, the Golden Globes, the most well-known "Oscar vane", does not seem to be so veritable. This award organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association itself has nothing to do with the academics. It sounds good. The consensus of the Hollywood Reporters Association is that a group of reporters on the fringe of Hollywood organized a big party in order to have a meal with the stars. It is known as the "Oscar vane" in order to improve accuracy. Rate also divided the awards into two categories: "drama films" and "comedy musicals"; but in fact, the probability of "guessing" the golden man's belonging is not as high as blindfolded.

Of course, if it is used as a collection of Oscar warm-up jokes, it is still very interesting.

The Union Award is truly a "weathervane" award. The reason is simple: the voters of the Union Award are the top industry insiders in all aspects of film production, and their professional opinions on their respective aspects should not be underestimated; and The most important thing is that the voters who participated in the various union awards have different degrees of overlap with the voters of the Oscar awards.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, which has the lowest voting threshold and the most powerful awards, has been “predicted” 57 times since its inception in 1995, and the degree of overlap with the Oscars in the past 10 years has been as high as 90%; The "Best Picture" awarded by the Producer Association Awards has been the same as the judges of the Academy for 8 consecutive years.

As the time is getting closer to Christmas, most of the film critics’ associations have basically announced the results. British director Danny Boyle and his "Slumdog Millionaire" became the biggest winners and won the best of many film critics associations. Director and best film awards.

Although it did not get any important awards from the Film Critics Association, "Inglourious Basterds" basically appeared in the nominations for these Film Critics Association Awards. From the perspective of Murphy's personal goals, this can also be said to be a victory.

The more intense major union awards will have to be announced after the new year. Murphy heard that the college has also made some reforms to the Oscars. It is said that in the next one to two years, the number of nominations for the best picture will be increased to a maximum of nine. So as not to miss those excellent movies.

Murphy stayed at home all the time and could only learn about the situation outside through the phone and the news. Fortunately, Gal Gadot put aside other things and stayed at home with him. The two of them did not end until the weekend before Christmas. After this short life of an otaku, he left Wave Manor and Beverly Hills, and prepared to go to the seaside villa area of ​​Santa Monica to participate in the moving party of James Franco and Lily Collins.

These two people invited many relatives and friends to participate, and Jonah Hill also specially prepared a gift for friends such as James Franco and Murphy.