Hollywood Road

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The police moved very quickly. Several people on the beach were under control without exception. The reporter with the DV camera saw the police pushing the person into the police car, turning off the DV camera, and hurried to his car.

Everything that should be shot has already been shot, and the rest is of little value.

When he came to a seven-seater commercial car, the door was pulled open from the inside. The black man showed his head and beckoned, "Hurry up!"

The reporter with the DV camera hurriedly got into the car and sat next to the black man.

"Drive, go back to the studio!"

The black man first ordered the driver, then took the DV camera, turned on the screen and looked at it. After the commercial vehicle left the highway near the sea, he looked up and said, "Okay! Very good! Great shot!"

Several people in the car were in a good mood, and at this moment they laughed.

"Go back and edit it first." The black man is confident, "Then I will contact CAA."

"Isn't it sold to TV stations or video sites?" The reporter who had previously held the DV asked puzzledly, "What can I do to contact CAA?"

"Idiot!" The black man curled his fingers and gave him a thud. "CAA is Murphy Stanton's agency."

Another person understood immediately, and couldn't help holding out a thumbs up, "Boss wants to sell to Murphy Stanton and the media at the same time to make two money?"

The black nodded and said to the man, "I contact CAA and contact Murphy Stanton; you will contact the TV station that we cooperate with later."

The man nodded, "Don't worry, boss, don't worry if you leave it to me."

"Also!" The black man finally exhorted, "We don't know each other, and the content sold to both sides was shot by different people."

"I see!"

These people quickly arrived at their rented office and got busy.

In Century City, a black Bentley car rushed in front of the Death Star Building. The car had just stopped, and before the doorman stepped forward, the rear door was pushed open from the inside. He was wearing a dark lady suit. Duo quickly got off the car and quickly walked towards the main entrance of the Death Star Building.

With obvious anxiety on her face, she almost walked as fast as her feet. In just a few minutes, she took the elevator to the top floor of the Death Star Building where the CAA partner's office was located.

"Miss Gadot..."

An oncoming assistant greeted Gal Gadot politely. Gal Gadot nodded to him without saying anything. He walked quickly to the door of Bill Rossis’ office and raised his hand. Knocked on the door twice, then pushed the door directly and walked in.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Murphy sitting on the sofa drinking tea. Seeing that Murphy was safe and sound, she breathed a sigh of relief, her tight face looked much better.

Murphy saw Gal Gadot who was coming in a hurry, stood up and took her to sit down, poured her a cup of tea, and comforted, "Honey, I'm fine."

Gal Gadot took the teacup, took a sip, then looked at Murphy, "I regret it now!"

"Huh?" Murphy didn't understand what she meant.

"Regret for not stopping you from making that movie!" Gal Gadot was not joking at all. "Regret for agreeing to take religion as part of the plan!"

Her face tightened again, "Murphy..."

"I'm sorry, my dear." Murphy walked over, bent over and hugged her gently, and said, "I make you worried."

Gal Gadot shook his head, but didn't know what to say. Of course she knew exactly what Murphy was, and she would definitely not change the existing plan because of this kind of thing.

"You must pay attention to your safety in the future." Gal Gadot could only say with a sense of helplessness. "Don't worry about me as I did today, okay?"

Murphy nodded solemnly, "I promise."

He still cherishes his little life very much.

However, this kind of thing does not scare him. Many directors in Hollywood have faced the storm, but few people will back down.

Besides, if the media reporters publicize it, the benefits to his plan actually far outweigh the disadvantages.

"Where is Bill?"

Gal Gadot had just put his mind on Murphy just now, only then did he realize that the owner of the office was not there, "Why didn't I see him?"

Murphy smiled and said, "I asked him to discuss with Grace how to make the most of this incident."

"You..." Gal Gadot rolled his eyes. "It's really typical of your style of doing things."

"Is this bad?" Murphy spread out his hands innocently. "The bodyguard can't let the rotten egg smash it for nothing, right?"

Although it was not a real rotten egg that was smashed at that time, the egg used to smash someone was a veritable rotten egg in his understanding.

Having said this, Gal Gadot remembered that there was still business, and changed the subject, "By the way, I met Catherine Kennedy this morning."

"What did she ask you for?" Murphy didn't have a deep friendship with the group of people representing Hollywood Jewish power.

He looked at Gal Gadot, his girlfriend was an authentic Jew.

"Test!" Gal Gadot said seriously, "Test your attitude through me."

Murphy frowned slightly, "Does Katherine Kennedy have a project that suits me?"

Katherine Kennedy is best known as a producer, and she is one of the very few female gold medal producers in Hollywood.

"Walt Disney has basically negotiated with George Lucas on the acquisition of Lucasfilm, and the rest are details."

It is well known news that George Lucas will sell Lucasfilm to Disney. Gal Gadot didn’t explain much, and said, “Katherine Kennedy is George Lucas and Disney. At the same time, the candidate for the new chief officer, she told me that Disney is going to restart the "Star Wars" series, and Disney's senior management intends to invite you to be the director."

Walt Disney acquired Lucasfilm, one for Industrial Light and Magic, and the other for "Star Wars". Everyone knows that this series will inevitably be promoted to theaters by Disney again.

"Me?" Murphy shook his head directly, "Next time you meet Catherine Kennedy, tell her directly that I am not interested."

Even if he wants to shoot a sequel movie, he has to shoot a sequel to his own movies, not to take over the "Star Wars" series.

Frankly speaking, there are too many sequels in Hollywood, and he hasn't finished filming his own, of course, he will not go to other companies to blend.

However, he is also very clear that the "Star Wars" series is indeed very easy for a director to succeed.

"Star Wars 7..." Gal Gadot shook his head, then glanced at Murphy again. "It's all a sequel movie."

Murphy shrugged. "It's normal."

In the market research department of CAA, he has seen such a set of data showing that the sequel model is popular in Hollywood: In 2011, except for his "City of Chaos", among the top ten movies at the North American box office, only "Bridesmaids" were considered original and only Ranked tenth, the other "Harry Potter" and "Transformers" are basically sequels, even if they are not sequels, they also come from adaptations; judging from the top 50 box office in North America, the sequel movies and adaptations The proportion of the box office has soared from less than 10% in 1998 to more than 70% today.

Even Murphy has to admit that Hollywood, which once represented the highest level of movies, is now on the road to rely on sequel blockbusters.

Hollywood has always been a business circle. In this situation, major companies are not so much relying on sequel development as they are always led by the market.

In order to reduce business risks, when they choose the protagonist, they will inevitably give priority to the role of "Captain America" ​​and "Wolverine" with market recognition.

After the initial golden age, the real value of the film industry today is not how much the film itself brings in box office, but whether it can provide more opportunities for other fields.

Murphy has a clear understanding of this, and computer games, theme parks, and interactive entertainment all fall into this category.

For example, there was a time when Walt Disney invested a lot of money to build a Star Wars theme park near Disneyland in California. In order to maintain the popularity of the park, it also needed to continuously supply the "Star Wars" series of films.

In fact, as a representative of fan culture, the "Star Wars" series has always been known for its loyal fans and derivative consumption of comics, text, and peripheral products. Since the first film of the series was launched in 1977, the consumption of peripheral products has approached 300 Billion US dollars, far exceeding the box office revenue of the series.

Regardless of the movie box office, Hollywood's greater revenue comes from surrounding derivative products.

The office door was pushed open from the outside, Bill Roses walked in hastily, Murphy glanced at him, and before he could ask how the discussion was going, Bill Roses said, "St. Monnie Something happened to Card."

Murphy and Gal Gadot stared at him at the same time.

Bill Rossis said as concisely as possible, "The Catholic believer who attacked you, after leaving Santa Monica Commercial Plaza, didn’t know what happened, but was stopped by a few fans led by Daisy of the IMDB discussion group. , And was beaten up!"

"Good fight!" Gal Gadot blurted out. After speaking, she shrugged. "That's what I think."

"Someone called the police." Bill Rossis continued. "Daisy was arrested by the police. Robert's friend at the police station called me."

Murphy stood up, frowned and walked a few steps, and said, "That way, Bill, you can find out the details as soon as possible."

Fans, especially those like Daisy, are easy to be contacted by others. Murphy knows this very well, and said, "You call Robert again and ask him to try his best to contact Daisy’s people. Released on bail."

"Yeah." Bill Rossis immediately thought of another layer, "Once such news spreads, fans will recognize you more."

Just now, when Bill Rossis's phone rang, he answered and said a few words, his face suddenly gloomy.

"The scene of Daisy and their beating was taken." He hung up the phone and said to Murphy. "The other party wants to talk to us."