Hollywood Road

Ask for monthly and recommended tickets!

Since "City of Chaos" will be launched in overseas markets on a large scale this weekend, according to the publicity plan developed by 20th Century Fox, Murphy needs to take the main members of the crew to Europe, in important cities in countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and Spain. , Participate in some publicity and promotion activities.

Twentieth Century Fox provided a private business jet specifically for the crew, which carried the crew to and fro in Europe.

On Tuesday morning, Gal Gadot drove Murphy to the private tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport.

"If you have something that can't be solved, remember to call me."

When Murphy got out of the car, he kissed Gal Gadot's lips hard, and Gael Gadot nodded gently, "I will."

She will not participate in the overseas promotion of the crew, but is going to return to Israel again to see her mother's situation in Tel Aviv.

Waved goodbye to Gal Gadot. As soon as Murphy boarded the plane, the phone rang.

I picked up the phone and heard a stranger voice in the earpiece. The voice said a few words very politely and introduced himself. Murphy understood his origins. The new co-chairman and co-chair of 20th Century Fox CEO James Murdoch, the youngest son of media giant Rupert Murdoch, was a high school classmate of Carla Faith.

A long time ago, he heard from Carla Faith that she and James Murdoch were high school classmates, and they also received support from each other when they entered the 20th century Fox. And the reason why James Murdoch supported her was to support her. Twentieth Century Fox cultivates its own team, and in the future can smoothly control 20th Century Fox.

Even though Murphy doesn’t know much about the news media industry, he also knows that the paper media is gradually declining. I also heard Carla Firth mention that Rupert Murdoch has been trying to split News Corporation into Fox and Paper in recent years. The quality of the media has two parts, so as not to slow down the development of the former by the latter.

Within any large family, the struggle for inheritance rights is probably very fierce. Since James Murdoch is recognized by the outside world as the most suitable successor to Rupert Murdoch, he must have a certain ability. It is not difficult to see that by Twentieth Century Fox, composed of high-quality assets such as online media, Fox Television Network, and film and television production department, is more valuable.

If Murphy is in the position of James Murdoch and engages in such a battle for assets, he will first consider winning the 20th Century Fox, and then plot the rest of News Corp.

However, according to normal circumstances, shouldn't James Murdoch be in the UK? Then until the ‘Eavesdropping Gate’ scandal took the blame and resigned...

"Have a party some time later?" His head went wild, but Murphy didn't stop. "Of course, I will definitely go to it."

James Murdoch personally called and invited him to attend a party held some time ago. The other party is the new co-chairman and CEO of Twentieth Century Fox. Murphy certainly has no reason to refuse.

Hanging up, under the guidance of the flight attendant, he came to his seat and sat down. Murphy was still considering James Murdoch.

Rupert Murdoch’s youngest son does things a lot like Carla Faith. He often does whatever he can to achieve his goals. Many of the British “eavesdropping gates” may have come from his personal instruction, like eavesdropping on Prince William and the United Kingdom. Such matters as the royal family cannot be the self-assertion of the following reporters, and there must be support from the highest level of News Corporation.

Murphy does not reject such a person, but James Murdoch is not Carla Faith after all, and he must stay in contact with him.

Why is he returning to North America from the UK now?

This is where Murphy was curious, but after thinking about it for a while, I thought it might be because of the influence of James Murdoch through Carla Faith.

After all, he vaguely remembered that there was a time when James Murdoch was forced to resign due to the ‘eavesdropping door’ and then dormant for several years before he took charge of 20th Century Fox.

Murphy shook his head slightly. Who knows how these things changed? After all, the world is constantly moving forward.

"Hi, Murphy."

The greeting sounded, Murphy raised his eyes to see Margot Robbie sitting opposite, nodded to her, and said, "Are you infatuated with a suit?"

I vaguely remember that since the filming of Jay Rachel, Margot Robbie rarely wore skirts. Like Jay Rachel, he always wore a well-fitting lady's suit and looked very smart and capable. .

"Tell you good news." Margot Robbie winked at Murphy on purpose. "I met Natalie Portman yesterday."

Without even thinking about it, Murphy asked, "Did you provoke?"

He knew Margot Robbie ten years ago. After she came to Hollywood, she was basically the same as David Robbie. Her career basically revolved around Stanton Studios, plus she was a bestie with Gal Gadot. , So Murphy still knows her better.

Now Margot Robbie looks like a beautiful, generous, shrewd, and capable girl, but in fact still retains the wildness of the Australian cowgirl when she was a child.

She has an outgoing personality, unlike Gal Gadot, who is somewhat restrained. Now that she has met Natalie Portman, she still has a certain amount of capital, it would be strange not to jump out to find something.

"It's not a provocation!" Margot Robbie said in a low voice, "I'm just discussing the gap between Thor and the City of Chaos with her, and telling her the gap between her and you."

Murphy rolled his eyes. "You are boring enough."

"Hey!" Margot Robbie widened his eyes. "Aren't we bad guys? How can bad guys not do bad things?"

As soon as these words came out, Murphy was speechless, too lazy to talk to her again.

Just in time, the flight attendants came over and reminded them to fasten their seat belts and the plane was about to take off.

After the plane entered a stable flight state, Henry Cavill suddenly came over.

"Is there anything, Henry?" Murphy asked, looking at him.

Henry Cavill scratched his head and said with a smile, "Nothing special, I just want to say thank you."

"You are welcome." Murphy shook his head, "You deserve it."

"Really, Murphy." Henry Cavill said sincerely, "I thank you very much for choosing me."

In the face of such smiling faces, Murphy was also quite polite, "You also proved that I didn't choose the wrong person."

Henry Cavill chuckled twice, then made a courteous sentence with Murphy, and returned to his seat.

Margot Robbie looked at Henry Cavill, then at Murphy, and said, "Do I have to thank you specifically?"

"No need," Murphy said directly, "We are friends, don't need to say such kind of polite remarks."

After chatting with Margot Robbie, Murphy took the information that he carried with him to check the latest developments in the film, and at the same time, he could kill the boring journey.

Yesterday’s Monday, "City of Chaos" ushered in the first working day after its release in North America. Thanks to the previous topical hype and good reputation, the film’s decline was ideal, with a single-day harvest of 9.5 million US dollars, although it fell. It's less than 10 million US dollars, but it's a good result.

"Thor" does not have such a steady trend. Affected by its poor reputation, the single-day box office of this film on Monday plunged more than 70% from last Sunday, and only received more than 3.4 million US dollars.

Many box office forecasting agencies have also released the latest box office forecasts, and most believe that the final box office of Thor in North America is difficult to exceed 150 million US dollars.

At the same time, these agencies predict that as long as the box office of "City of Chaos" does not see a sharp decline this weekend, it is not difficult for the North American box office to eventually exceed $200 million, and it may even hit the $250 million mark.

Murphy knows very well that the second weekend in North America is quite critical. Nowadays, "Thor" will basically not threaten "City of Chaos" in the second weekend. "Fast and Furious 5" has never caused much trouble. It is really possible. It is the new movie released this weekend that threatens "City of Chaos".

Under normal circumstances, the first week of the summer file will consume a lot of the heat accumulated by fans. The second weekend of the summer file is not a good schedule, just like "City of Chaos" would rather choose the first week of the summer file, Hollywood Few super masterpieces will be released on the second weekend.

However, according to the information Murphy saw, a film still attracted his attention. "The Hottest Bridesmaid" released by Universal Pictures will be released this weekend. This is a standard summer vulgar comedy. As long as the quality of such films is acceptable, there has always been no shortage of market, and the producer of the film is Judd-Apatou.

That is, the boss of the Apato Party, another organization that fights in a team in Hollywood.

In Hollywood today, it is recognized that there are three organizations that are more united and like to fight in groups. They are Murphy’s own Stanton party, the Apato party headed by Judd Apato, and the rotten party centered on Ben Stiller. Zaibang.

The films produced by these three groups have always had good commercial results.

"The Hottest Bridesmaid" is also the only movie that Murphy saw in the new release this weekend that has a real chance of getting good box office results.

However, this film is completely different from the audience of "City of Chaos", and there will not be too direct competition between the two games.

Compared with "Best Brides", Murphy pays more attention to the performance of "City of Chaos" in overseas markets. After all, his film overseas performance has not been particularly good.

The plane arrived in London smoothly. As soon as Murphy and his party walked out of the airport, they were surrounded by a large group of crazy British journalists. These guys were far crazier than their American counterparts. Even a large group of security personnel could not separate them.

"Director Stanton..."

Most British journalists don't care about movies at all, and are focused on the lace of celebrities, "Are you really **** with James Franco?"

Another reporter saw Margot Robbie walking next to Murphy, and immediately moved his mind to both of them.