Hollywood Road

The iron door outside was closed with a bang, and the independent visitor room was quiet again. Murphy took out a pack of cigarettes and took one from it. Rose was still in shackles on his hand, and he simply stuffed it directly into Rose’s mouth. Inside, he took out the lighter from his pocket again, and helped Rose put the cigarette on the cigarette. A wisp of smoke immediately rose to the top along Rose's face.

Rose took a deep breath, exhaled smoke, looked at the cigarettes and lighters on the table in front of him, and said, "Learn to smoke? I remember you never smoked."

"No." Murphy shook his head. "This is the top cigarettes that Downey asked me to bring to you."

"Not bad." Rose wrinkled his nose. "It just tastes a little bit weaker."

Murphy stood up and stuffed the smoke into Rose's clothes in the past, "I've got people to get through the relationship, and I will send you a batch in a while."

Rose shook his head, "Forget it, you can't get it in my hands."

Murphy thought for a while, knowing that this situation is likely to happen, so he didn't insist, and asked, "How are you doing?"

"It's very comfortable." Rose stretched out and looked very comfortable. "You and Downey turned the boys here. I am now No. 1 here. No one dares to provoke me. "

The prison gangs in the United States are rampant. Murphy knows this firsthand, so it took a lot of effort to get all of Rose's subordinates who were scattered in other prisons to the state prison to ensure that Rose will at least not pass it. It's uncomfortable. Although Rose was once a hegemon here, the age is far away after all.

"You stay at ease for now." Murphy lowered his voice slightly, "I'm getting people to operate and try to reduce your sentence."

Rose shook his head again, "Stop doing this. Even if a severely sentenced prisoner like me is commuted out, he will be over seventy years old and he can't keep up with the times. What are you going to do?"

"Remember what you said when we were in jail together last time?" Murphy reminded, "You said you wanted to be the godfather for my child."

"The question is do you have faith?" Rose said deliberately.

Murphy stretched out his hands helplessly, "I am a believer of Satan just like you."

"Okay, let's not laugh." Rose asked seriously, "Even if I want to be the godfather of your child, you have to get married first. Will you get married?"

Although he knows that Murphy has a fixed girlfriend by his side, he still clearly remembers that Murphy called to sleep all the beautiful female stars in Hollywood, but now he has such a capital.

"I'm engaged." Murphy said lightly.

Rose asked curiously, "With Gail Gadot?"

"Yeah." Murphy nodded, "I haven't had time to tell you what happened last month."

"Congratulations." Rose touched his hands back and forth several times, and said embarrassingly, "I don't have anything, so I won't give you a gift."

Murphy leaned back on the chair, folded her hands on her chest, and said, "If you don't give it away, you can't do it. I'll wait for you to send it to my house in the future to make up!"

"You..." Rose shook his head slightly, "Murphy, there are some things, let's go with the flow."

Murphy also shook his head, "If things went their way, I might have died in this prison more than ten years ago."

At that time, he was not as strong as he is now. It was this year of training that made his character tough.

There are some things that Rose can go with the flow, but Murphy will not. No matter what Rose says, he will do it. He simply changed the subject.

"Did you get the MP4 you sent in?" he asked.

Before Christmas, he asked Robert to pass in a digital copy of "Diego Rose" through the relationship.

"Well, I watched the movie, and the copy was deleted after I watched it." Rose gave Murphy a thumbs up directly, "It was very good, and the accuracy is more than 80%!"

Murphy smiled and said, "It's fine if you can recognize it."

Films like this based on real characters will inevitably undergo a certain degree of artistic processing for theatrical tension, even if his narrative in the film "Diego-Ros" is relatively gentle, not as intense as traditional Hollywood movies. It’s a turning point, but there are also some places where it is appropriately exaggerated.

However, as Rose said, the whole film is based entirely on Rose's real experience.

"The day before yesterday, the nomination list was announced for the new Academy Awards."

Such news will of course tell Rose, "Our biopic has won ten Oscar nominations, including best actor, best director and best picture."

Hearing this, Rose immediately became interested, "Ten nominations?"

Even if he doesn't know much about Hollywood, as a native of Los Angeles, he still knows that ten Oscar nominations are a great thing.

Rose thought for a moment and asked, "How likely is it to win?"

"It's not that difficult to get a technical award." Murphy told the truth, "The three important awards I just mentioned, no one can guarantee that you can get it."

"Yeah." Rose nodded, "Your movie is my last wish."

As I said to Murphy at the beginning, he didn't want to die in jail in obscurity. Even if he was notorious, he wanted to let the world know that there was a man named Diego Rose who walked through this world.

There was a knock on the door outside, and then a reminder from the guards came, "Time is up!"

Murphy glanced at his watch, stood up and said, "Downey and I are working on this film to hit the Oscars. Wait for our good news."

After speaking, he turned and walked outside. After leaving the heavily guarded reception area, he joined his bodyguards and left the state prison.

In the next few days, Stanton Studios and Twentieth Century Fox made frequent articles in the media. Various reports boasting about the film "Diego Rose" emerged one after another. I probably really liked this slow-paced, long-shot. Very artistic film, Roger Albert, who is as far away as Chicago, published an article in his column in the Chicago Tribune, saying if Oscar ignored Murphy Stanton and his films this time , Is definitely a big scandal!

The media's public opinion and the situation created by Catholicism are very beneficial to "Diego-Ros".

As a result, on the weekend when the Oscar nominations were announced, Twentieth Century Fox once again expanded the scale of screenings, and the North American screening theaters of "Diego Rose" directly more than tripled to nearly 1,600.

With the bonus of Oscar-nominated halo, the film also performed better than the previous spot-screening and small-scale screening. In the three days of the weekend, it collected more than 19 million US dollars from the North American market, plus the previous more than 20 million US dollars. Box office cumulative, the North American box office of this film smoothly exceeded the production cost line of 35 million U.S. dollars, reaching 41.56 million U.S. dollars!

The market effect of Oscar and the previous series of publicity plans is quite obvious.

Even, 20th Century Fox believes internally that if the film can win two of the best actor, best director and best film awards, the North American box office can completely hit the $100 million mark.

Although "The Artist" is more in line with the tastes of the old college guys, there are still nearly 20 days before the final Oscar voting deadline is on schedule. Everything is possible.

Even if the situation is favorable for "Diego Rose", Murphy has not relaxed at all. Although the college stipulates that no more public relations can be conducted with the judges at this time period, it does not stipulate the director or the film to self-promote.

In addition to 20th Century Fox, CAA and Bill Rossis also developed a series of self-promotion plans for Murphy to win the favor and support of the college judges, including lectures and donations to the North American Film Academy. The academy affiliated to the American Film Institute has had many famous film practitioners and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, such as David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Edward Ziwei K, Janus-Kaminsky, Karl-Franklin and so on.

In terms of the number of well-known filmmakers alone, this institution even surpasses the USC Film Academy.

The so-called public relations is not just lobbying the judges and publicizing in the media, it can be described as various ways.

Murphy is stuck in a very busy stage. He has to catch different announcements every day. Maybe he was in Los Angeles in the morning to participate in a program recording, and he appeared in New York's promotional activities in the afternoon, almost completely turning into a trapeze.

He is very clear about the truth. Working hard may not guarantee that the film "Diego Rose" will get a heavyweight award. The chances of winning the award without working hard are undoubtedly very low.

At the same time, the Internet and the media under the 20th Century Fox are still holding on to Catholicism, especially the Catholic believer who once attacked Murphy in Santa Monica Commercial Plaza, will jump out and stand in Catholicism from time to time. It’s hard for Hollywood to ignore Catholicism.

Under this circumstance, when many people in the circle mention "Diego Rose", they can't help but think of Catholicism's aggressiveness towards Hollywood...

Catholicism is disgusting, and by the way it will have a more or less favorable impression of "Diego-Ros". No one can underestimate this or not much favorable impression, and it can often directly determine the voting choice of an academy member.

In less than a week after the announcement of the nominations for the 84th Oscars, "Diego-Ros" was very popular. It has the momentum of those films that have swept many heavyweight awards at the Oscars, and attracted many people. Look sideways.

Murphy plans to maintain the popularity of "Diego Rose" until the final voting date.

But what he didn't expect was that a pair of strange sisters and brothers jumped out and stole a lot of the limelight just after "Diego Rose" became popular.